Leon smiled warmly at his son.
“Our good son is here, huh?”
Seeing Leon emerge from the closet, Taeha and Sihyun didn’t know what to do.
“…….,”
As Sooyeon froze, unable to say anything, Taeha awkwardly spoke.
“I’m sorry for interrupting.”
With a smile, Leon replied,
“If you knew, you should have taken Sihyun out quickly. I’ll take her to the lawyer, so don’t worry.”
“Yes, Father.”
Unable to endure it any longer, Sooyeon rushed out of the room. Hastily opening the shop door and hiding in the kitchen, she crouched down, feeling completely disoriented.
If possible, she wanted to disappear from the world. What a disgrace it was in front of her children!
After a while, a cautious voice was heard nearby.
“Aunt.”
Sooyeon, with her face buried in her knees, choked up.
“Don’t think about it that way. Tell Taeha that nothing happened, okay?”
Sihyun gently placed her hand on Sooyeon’s shoulder.
“He’s your son-in-law in front of Taeha and Father. Why are you so embarrassed?”
It was embarrassing to still feel fluttery at this age.
Taeha, who had an agonizing childhood because of her worthless parents, had suffered so much. It was embarrassing that she couldn’t put those feelings behind her.
It was embarrassing to be a woman in front of him.
It was all just embarrassing.
Quietly consoling Sooyeon’s stiffened back, Sihyun asked carefully,
“Aunt, do you dislike Mr. Leon?”
“…Not really.”
Sooyeon genuinely expressed herself for the first time.
“Then why don’t you accept his feelings?”
“I’m scared.”
Ironically, it was easier for Sihyun, who was like a daughter, rather than her own children, to confide in.
“Now we’ve become people from completely different worlds. I feel like I shouldn’t meet someone like him. I’m afraid I’ll get hurt again, liking him for no reason. It’s scary.”
“Aunt, I understand your feelings. I was also very scared when I started dating Taeha.”
Sihyun sighed softly.
“In fact, I still am. Taeha says he wants to marry me, but…”
Sooyeon’s ears perked up, and she finally raised her head.
“So? What did you say to Sihyun?”
“I haven’t answered yet. Taeha is too good for me.”
Smiling bitterly, Sihyun spoke, and Sooyeon felt a deep sympathy.
“Why would you say that? We can’t do without Sihyun. You know that, right?”
“In my opinion, Mr. Leon shouldn’t be anyone other than Aunt.”
As Sooyeon remained silent, unable to speak, Sihyun gently said,
“So, let’s try to gather some courage, Aunt.”
As if talking to herself.
[Star Icon]On Monday morning, when Sihyun arrived at work, she was kidnapped before entering the office and dragged into an empty meeting room.
Regardless of the department, several people gathered, and they all looked at Sihyun with a fierce gaze, ready to interrogate her.
“Manager Kang Sihyun, getting married? Yoon Taeha, the head of the One App Team, said so during the team dinner!”
Sihyun admired it. The team dinner was on Friday night, and the rumor had already spread by Monday morning.
Moreover, Taeha had only mentioned wanting to get married; it seemed like she was behaving as if she already had wedding invitations ready.
Sihyun smiled and played along.
“It just came up. We haven’t been dating for long.”
“Oh, then it must be true!”
As if hearing the news from somewhere else, people clapped their hands, delighted.
“But I’ve been curious for a while. Why did Chief Yoon Taeha’s mother come to the company when you were engaged to someone else? The Chief said you liked him even before meeting your fiance. So when did you actually get to know the Chief?”
Instead of answering, Sihyun awkwardly laughed. Although they were now officially a couple, she didn’t want to reveal that Taeha had known her since childhood.
Even if she said something, people would surely interpret it through colored glasses.
As Sihyun remained silent, people became even more curious.
“Hey, spill the beans, huh?”
“Let’s get to know each other a bit.”
Fortunately, at that moment, her phone rang.
“I’m sorry, I have a call.”
Using the call as an excuse, Sihyun quickly left the meeting room and escaped. The call was from Leon.
“Hey, Uncle!”
Sihyun’s face lit up with joy upon hearing Leon’s voice.
[Dash] Sihyun, do you have any plans for tonight?“No, nothing special.”
[Dash] Great. Can you come to the department store with me later?“Why a department store, though?”
[Dash] I want to buy a gift for Rose. I thought you might know her taste better than me.“Rose?”
[Dash] Yeah.Leon answered a bit awkwardly.
[Dash] I used to call Taeha’s mom that way.Sihyun couldn’t hide her blossoming smile. Whether it was the embarrassed Sooyeon, who couldn’t even look up after being caught together yesterday, or the shy Leon calling her by a nickname, both of them seemed incredibly cute from her perspective.
“Uncle, aren’t you too sweet?”
Teasingly, Sihyun prompted Leon to hastily finish the call.
[Dash] Let’s meet at the department store next to our hotel later. [Star Icon]After work, Sihyun headed to the department store for her promised meeting with Leon.
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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