Outside the vinyl house, there was a container box in the back.
There, Ra Jin awkwardly raised a white ribbon.
“You even prepared something like this?”
Following William’s request, she tied a bundle with the ribbon and made a bow.
She had already changed her clothes.
Instead of the light blue blouse she had originally been wearing, she had put on a white V-neck dress, replacing the navy skirt.
After wearing the pearl earrings and necklace from the red velvet box, her appearance had completely transformed from earlier.
“It’s almost like… a wedding dress.”
Her outfit seemed perfect for a small-scale wedding ceremony.
She couldn’t understand why she felt so embarrassed.
For some reason, she decided to sway the fringed hem that reached down to her knees. After adjusting her neck, she put on white high heels and stepped out of the container box.
“Wow.”
Suzy, who had been pacing around with a teddy bear, opened her eyes wide and gasped.
“Unnie, you look pretty!”
“Do I? I feel a bit awkward.”
Suzy nudged her sister playfully.
“No, you’re beautiful! You look like a princess.”
“Thank you, Suzy.”
As Ra Jin smiled and stroked her head, Suzy giggled.
“I want to hold hands with Unnie!”
“Sure. Let’s go in holding hands.”
The two of them entered the vinyl house.
“Oh! It suits you perfectly!”
William clapped his hands as soon as he saw Ra Jin.
“I knew it would be like this. Just as I imagined!”
“Is that so?”
“The size fits perfectly, right?”
“Yes, surprisingly.”
“Grandpa, isn’t unnie pretty?”
“Yes, very beautiful. She looks like a princess from the cartoon we watched with Suzy and Grandpa yesterday.”
“Exactly, unnie is a princess!”
Ra Jin’s cheeks turned red.
It was both embarrassing and fascinating.
It was always Yujin who received such compliments in public.
“Shall we go over there then?”
William grinned and led them to the innermost camellia tree they had seen earlier.
Ra Jin held Suzy’s hand and followed him.
Jae Heon was there as well.
Instead of the dark-colored three-piece suit he had originally been wearing, he had changed into a vertical-striped vest and a dark black suit provided by William.
He was standing there, looking at the camellia flowers when he sensed someone approaching and turned around.
The moment he locked eyes with Ra Jin…
“……. ”
He involuntarily swallowed his breath.
Thoughts surfaced and faded into a pale mist.
Numerous words gathered in the depths of his throat but remained trapped, unable to escape his lips.
He blinked. Once, twice, thrice.
Yet the enchantment lingered.
It was as if a star had appeared above Ra Jin’s head, illuminating her surroundings.
Beneath her feet, it felt like a red carpet had been rolled out as she walked toward him.
Her path seemed like a… Virgin Road.
“Oh my. Director Hwang can’t take his eyes off her,” someone remarked.
Even though William playfully spoke, Jae Heon still couldn’t tear his gaze away from Ra Jin, remaining motionless.
She, feeling embarrassed, lightly touched his arm.
“Director.”
“…Yes?”
“Why are you just standing there like that?”
“Ah… I’m sorry.”
Jae Heon took her hand, an action that flowed out unconsciously.
Startled, Ra Jin tried to pull her hand away, but he held onto it even tighter.
Even with that, it wasn’t enough. He pushed his thick fingers into the slender gaps between her knuckles.
“Director, Director!”
Ra Jin urgently whispered, causing Jae Heon, who had been blinking his eyes absentmindedly, to suddenly come to his senses and lock eyes with her.
“You have to let go!”
“What?”
“My hand, your hand!”
Only then did Jae Heon realize that he had entwined his pinky finger with hers.
“…Ah.”
However, he didn’t want to let go.
To leave like this, wanting to hold her in his arms, yet having to let go.
“Shall we take a picture like this?”
“That sounds good. Haha.”
“Unni and Uncle are holding hands! Looks like you’re happy!”
The adults burst into laughter at Suzy’s words.
With a flushed face, Ra Jin withdrew her hand from Jae Heon as if she were repelling it.
“Oh, no, Suzy. Uncle’s feeling a little dizzy right now…”
“That’s right.”
Ra Jin widened her eyes and looked at Jae Heon.
Locking eyes, he slowly began to speak.
“Uncle likes Unni.”
“Really?”
“Yes, very much.”
With a sly smile, he lowered himself and whispered to Suzy.
“But I don’t know if Unni likes Uncle or not.”
“Oh, really?”
“Can Suzy ask? Unni might tell Suzy.”
Suzy nodded, clutching the teddy bear tightly to her chest, and dashed over to Ra Jin, lifting one of her pigtails.
“Unni.”
Suzy put her hand to her mouth and spoke to Ra Jin.
“Unni, do you dislike Uncle?”
Even though she had said it in her own way, it was loud enough for the people around to hear.
It seemed that Suzy thought that covering her mouth with her hand would make people not hear.
“…No.”
“No? So, do you like him?”
“Huh?”
“The teacher said so. The opposite of ‘dislike’ is ‘like.'”
Blinking rapidly, Suzy looked up at Ra Jin with her big, bright eyes, waiting for Ra Jin’s answer.
“Oh, um…”
Unable to speak. Unable to stay silent.
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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