The filming proceeded smoothly until the afternoon. With the energetic Woo Joon who didn’t get tired, even lunchtime was lively. Whenever Woo Joon’s eyes met Hye Yoon’s, whose eyes were heavy from postprandial fatigue, he would sometimes wake her up from a distance by mouthing words.
“You look ugly right now.”
Hye Yoon, fixing her hair, saw Ji Ho and Min Woo standing behind the camera. Ji Ho, having finished a short conversation, was walking back to the set. When his eyes met hers up close, he smiled faintly.
“They suggested making some changes to the scene we’ll be filming the day after tomorrow.”
“Oh……”
Reading the curiosity in her eyes easily, Ji Ho answered a question she hadn’t asked.
“I said it’s okay. You can go and ask the director later.”
“If Ji Ho is okay with it, then I’m fine too.”
“Do you know what scene it is?”
His teasing tone was rich and when she looked up at him, the corners of his mouth were subtly lifted. Just as she thought that he indeed was a man who shone more when he smiled, suddenly his two hands were placed on top of Hye Yoon’s head.
One large palm supported the back of her head, and the other gently tugged at the hair tie she had done up.
“I think you tied it a bit looser earlier.”
“……”
While Hye Yoon’s body froze at the unexpected touch, Ji Ho’s soft touch left her. Then, he casually lowered his head and looked at her face as if inspecting it.
“Yes, it seems it was like this.”
Given that such a person who could notice even the smallest details had agreed, surely she just had to trust and follow him. Hye Yoon slowly nodded her head.
Ji Ho, who had been capturing her movements, slowly followed her nod. For a while, due to the brief touch on her small head, his hand felt warm.
“By the way, writer. Do you happen to have the next work written already?”
Ji Ho brought up the topic of the next project as naturally as asking for the time. It wasn’t a sudden thought; he had been waiting for the opportunity all afternoon. A time when she could answer comfortably without any guard.
“The next work?”
“Yes. Not the cute stuff you usually write.”
There were no people around after a quick scan, but he did not include the word ‘fairy tale’. Still, Hye Yoon flinched slightly. Of course, she was able to smile easily when she met Ji Ho’s eyes.
Because he too was smiling at her.
“No. This is the end.”
“Hmm, planning to prepare slowly?”
“No. This is the end.”
Perhaps feeling relieved, Hye Yoon gave a clean and clear answer without hesitation. It was so firm that Ji Ho was slightly taken aback.
“End? You’re not going to write more?”
“For now. It’s an area I’ve never thought about.”
“……I see.”
Ji Ho nodded along with the answer. It was an easy situation for him to manage if it was this way. Because all he had to do was accept it.
But his heart wasn’t entirely comfortable. The question of ‘why on earth?’ started to creep up. It was also unexpected that she said it’s an area of no interest. He thought she had wanted to write a new story, but perhaps his thought was totally wrong.
The script that had seen through him and stirred his heart. When he thought that maybe for her it was just meaningless paper and letters, he had a hard time keeping his expression in check.
“So…… I guess it wasn’t something you really wanted to do. Why did you end up writing this work?”
Ji Ho, who rarely hesitated in speaking, connected his sentences hesitantly. Why did the most primal question occur to him just now? The belated regret created deep wrinkles on Ji Ho’s brow.
“Well, actually, I’ve thought about this many times too? How a small imaginary story grew like this. All situations have grown incredibly.”
Contrary to Ji Ho who looked serious, Hye Yoon had a light expression. Just like her words, it seemed that she knew the answer since she had thought about it several times. At her refreshing tone, Ji Ho looked at her deeply.
“So, you found the answer?”
“Yes. Maybe… I think I wrote to meet Ji Ho.”
Eyes filled with moist moisture looked up at Ji Ho. The usual calm playful spirit was nowhere to be seen. The conviction that filled her brown eyes completely.
Ji Ho’s lips slightly parted at her face. This woman seemed to be clueless about the meaning of her words. How beautiful her clear eyes, her finely upturned nose, and her small lips that closed again after speaking were.
Ji Ho clenched his fist without realizing it.
“Ah… it’s too direct.”
“Huh?”
“It’s hard to hold back.”
“Oh! No! That’s not what I meant!”
She was confident as it was an answer she had arrived at after long thought, but she hadn’t thought about how the other person would take it. Hye Yoon quickly waved her hands, realizing that her words could be a burden to Ji Ho.
“What do you mean? Which one?”
While she was busy hiding her embarrassment, she couldn’t even notice the affection swelling in Ji Ho’s eyes at the moment.
“Uhuh, stop teasing. So, why did Ji Ho do this work?”
“Me?”
“That’s right. Honestly, there must have been much better scenarios than this…..”
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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