“There’s a woman looking for her son in the United States,” Taeha brought up Sooyeon’s story.
“Oh, really? Who is it?”
“Do you know that Sihyun grew up in a foster family’s house because she doesn’t have parents? When she was young, there was a foster family at that place…”
Taeha briefly explained about Sooyeon.
“Her son is a half-American like me. I don’t know the details, but apparently, the child was taken to the United States by the biological father shortly after birth and they haven’t met since. I don’t know where he lives now, or even his name.”
“How old is the child?”
“He’s the same age as me.”
“Oh no!”
Leon quickly put on a pained expression as if it were his own business.
“I lived without even knowing you existed, but she clearly knows and hasn’t met her child for so long. How heartbreaking it must be.”
Even just hearing the story made it feel like an extraordinary situation.
“Yes. Seeing her miss her son made me feel very sad too.”
Last night, when she saw Sooyeon, who mistook her for her son due to alcohol, Taeha couldn’t help but feel sad. She thought about how nice it would be if she were actually the son.
So, suggesting to help her meet her real son was a crazy idea.
“If possible, I hope Father can help her find him.”
Leon responded confidently.
“She’s someone whom our Sihyun has treated so well. Of course, I should help.”
Taeha breathed a sigh of relief at his confident answer. The Kennedy family had a significant influence in politics and business for generations. If it were her father, he could find him.
“Try to gather as much information as possible. I’ll check right away.”
“Thank you, Father.”
Taeha picked up the whiskey bottle, filled her father’s empty glass with both hands. That Taeha, Leon looked at with a pleased expression.
After pouring the drinks, Taeha asked.
“If my mother were still alive, she would have loved me so much, right?”
“Of course.”
For a moment, a lonely expression flickered on her father’s face, and Taeha quickly regretted bringing up her mother’s story. He tried to change the subject.
“By the way, what happened to that woman?”
“Huh? Who?”
Leon made an expression as if wondering what she was talking about.
“Wasn’t there someone you liked?”
They had shared drinks over a video call before, and her father had clearly said so.
[Cheer up and wait. Both you and me.]So, Taeha suspected that her father had someone he liked, but Leon flatly stated, “There’s only your mother for me. Before, now, and in the future.”
It hurt Taeha’s heart. Even though so many years had passed since her mother’s passing, her father still…
With a plaintive tone, she said, “Now, forget about her and meet a good person. Doesn’t Father have a life for himself too?”
Instead of answering, Leon smiled bitterly. Taeha quickly drank the whiskey she had poured, and he turned his gaze to the night view outside the window.
As if among those numerous lights, there was someone he missed.
“…If I could see her again just once, I’d be willing to die right now.”
[Star icon]Sihyun returned home in the limousine provided by Leon.
“Please drop me off here.”
She deliberately got out a little earlier than her home. She was planning to visit Sooyeon’s store. The events of last night worried her.
Last night, Sooyeon, who came intoxicated, mistook Taeha for her son and cried sorrowfully.
“Aunt, I’m here.”
Sooyeon, who was doing the dishes in the kitchen, rushed out as soon as she saw Sihyun. Wet hands and all, she embraced Sihyun tightly.
“Sihyun!”
“Aunt?”
Sihyun was surprised. Worried that she might be drunk again, she thought, but this time there was no smell of alcohol.
“How on earth can I repay this kindness?”
Hugging Sihyun tightly, Sooyeon spoke with a choked voice.
“What?”
Because of the incident with the store deposit, she wondered if something happened again, so Sihyun deliberately smiled lightly to comfort Sooyeon.
Because of the incident with the store deposit that she covered, Sihyun deliberately smiled lightly, trying to comfort Sooyeon.
“Oh, what’s that? Just pay it back slowly.”
“No. Even if I pay back until I die, it won’t be enough. If it weren’t for you…!”
Sooyeon didn’t let go of Sihyun for a long time. Finally calming her down and soothing her, Sooyeon, wiping her wet eyes, asked,
“How’s Taeha?”
“I moved to a hotel today. It’s called the Grand Hotel, and Father is staying there.”
Sooyeon swallowed her saliva.
“By the way, didn’t you say Taeha found Father when she was in high school?”
“Yes. Until then, he didn’t even know he had a son.”
Sooyeon looked at Sihyun with surprise.
“He didn’t know?”
“I don’t know the details, but that’s what she said. As soon as he found out, he came to see her, hugged Taeha, and apologized a lot.”
“I see.”
Sooyeon nodded her head as if lost in deep thought.
“He didn’t know. …Yeah, he didn’t know.”
Such Sooyeon seemed to appear both sad and strangely relieved. Sihyun only thought it was because of Sooyeon’s longing for her son.
“Aunt, don’t you want to meet your son?”
“Huh?”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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