Alone in the park, Arin felt bewildered.
He… knew the truth?
Then why didn’t he tell me?
She recalled the words she had spoken when demanding a divorce.
“Mr. Ban Jaehyuk knows nothing! Arin…”
“You lived comfortably! You have no idea how much pain I’ve endured for three years. You know nothing about what I’ve been through and how I’ve lived emotionally.”
“…”
“Please. Don’t appear in front of me again. Just seeing Mr. Ban Jaehyuk makes me feel so miserable, so please let me breathe. Please…”
At that moment, he seemed tormented. Arin thought Jaehyuk’s expression at that time was just a pretense, a facade to deceive her.
However,
“You knew everything? About the child between us… about how I lived after losing that child… You knew everything?”
But why…!
Why didn’t he say anything to me?
“What feelings did my brother have when he looked at me? When his lips were about to confess, was he trying to say that he understood my pain?”
Arin felt trapped in a dark maze. She couldn’t know anything.
Her stomach churned, and her head spun.
Eventually, with a deep sigh, she covered her face with her hands and bowed her head.
Director Han, who had been watching Arin from a distance, hurried over.
“Are you okay?”
It was not okay at all.
What she wanted right now was one thing.
“Mr. Ban Jaehyuk… no, please call my brother.”
She desperately wanted to see him.
⭐⭐⭐
“So you’re alone now?”
[Yes.]“What happened?”
[Well…]“Director Han.”
[She wanted to be alone, so I brought her to the hotel.]Jaehyuk received Arin’s call and quickly wrapped up his schedule. On the way to the hotel, he contacted Director Han.
Anxiety grew within him with Director Han’s silence.
“Director Han.”
[It’s probably better for you to hear directly.]He nudged Director Han, but there was no response. Frustrated, Jaehyuk loosened his tie.
‘I don’t want to think about the worst…’
An uneasy feeling settled in.
⭐⭐⭐
Jaehyuk stood in front of the door next to the room where Arin stayed.
“Ha.”
He should knock, but his hand wouldn’t move. Taking a deep breath, he tousled his hair.
With a creak, the door opened.
“When were you planning to come in?”
Arin was standing behind the slightly opened door. His heart throbbed at the sight of her swollen eyes.
How much had she cried? Jaehyuk’s heart squeezed at the swollen eyes of Arin.
“What happened? Did something happen in Korea? Did Mother contact you again?”
She didn’t say anything.
He carefully examined her face. Her round, almond-shaped eyes were as red as a white rabbit’s, and her eyelids were swollen. The tip of her nose was red, and her face was flushed.
“Who made you cry again?”
Jaehyuk felt anger and guilt rushing in, knowing that Arin had been hurt in a place he didn’t see.
“Come in for now.”
Arin sat across from Jaehyuk.
Until he arrived, there were so many things she wanted to say, so many questions she wanted to ask, but seeing his face, she couldn’t say anything.
Just looking at his face made it seem like tears would flow.
It felt like her eyes would react faster than her mouth if she tried to ask something.
She tried to suppress the emotions welling up, biting her lower lip hard, but it was futile.
“Arin, what happened? Can you tell me honestly? Is it your mother? Or is it…”
“It’s not that.”
“Then who made you cry?”
In his eyes, Arin saw anger, apology, and concern for her.
“Fool! It’s because of my brother! Why can’t you think that everything is your fault?”
People are strange, she thought.
She had thought she could never forgive Jaehyuk in her life.
She thought she would never meet him again.
Throughout their marriage, he never looked back at her.
When she mentioned divorce, he regretted, saying he loved her and asked to come back.
Arin belatedly found Jaehyuk, who dared to regret and express remorse.
Jaehyuk, who chose to do what she hated, turned her life upside down. He helped those people in the name of helping her, making her more miserable.
“Not accepting my brother wasn’t because I thought it wasn’t sincere.”
Thinking efficiency was the most important, he thought he wasn’t heartless.
Always hurt by his clumsy and self-centered actions, it was herself.
Ban Jaehyuk was a bad guy, and being with him felt like throwing her life into hell.
‘But… How…’
In the end, Arin couldn’t hold back the tears she had been holding in and burst into tears.
“Arin!”
Surprised, Jaehyuk ran to her and wiped away her tears.
Arin looked at Jaehyuk without wiping away the tears that overflowed from her eyes.
‘When I asked you to look at me like that, you didn’t, but from behind… from behind, you were doing that? Fool? Stupid! What if I hadn’t known all my life.’
No matter how much Jaehyuk wiped away, tears in Arin’s eyes flowed uncontrollably, streaming down her cheeks.
“Arin…”
“This fool.”
“…Arin.”
“This idiot, why!”
Arin pulled away from Jaehyuk’s hand. The surprised him looked at her with a bewildered expression.
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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