The official stance of the VAN Group was as follows.
VAN Group will transparently and honestly ensure that Ms. Jung Hyo-eun pays the price for her sins. We will cooperate to make Ms. Jung Hyo-eun pay the price for her sins like an ordinary person, without any special privileges.
Madam Jung will have to pay for her sins throughout her life. She might spend her remaining years in prison.
“I understand what you wanted, but I will show you that your choice was wrong. I will be happy and joyful to my heart’s content. I will create a true family and find happiness. So, suffer from the fact that you can’t do anything there.”
Remembering the ruthless mother would end today, he thought.
Amidst the chaos, the 15th Economic Person of the Year Awards took place.
Jaehyuk had initially declined to attend due to a series of reasons, but he accepted the invitation due to the persistent persuasion from the organizers.
As they were attending as a couple, Arin arrived at the LW Hotel with Jaehyuk. When they arrived at the hotel, flashes from reporters who had been waiting for them went off everywhere.
“Are you okay?”
Seeing Arin squinting from the flashes, Jaehyuk asked with a worried look.
“Oh, I’m fine. It’s just too bright.”
Jaehyuk covered her eyes with his hand.
“This might look strange.”
“It’s better than being dazzled.”
For some reason, Arin’s heart fluttered.
The 15th Economic Person of the Year Awards was attended by a large number of people leading the business community in South Korea.
“…Long time no see, Oppa.”
The venue was the LW Hotel. Jaehyuk thought they might meet Ha-yeon, but he didn’t know if Yoo Hyeon would attend this event.
Come to think of it, he might have been able to anticipate that Yoo Hyeon, who fluctuated up and down in gossip articles as Ha-yeon’s fiancé, could come…….
As Arin realized that she didn’t even have the luxury to care about Yoo Hyeon, she somehow felt bitter.
No one was around Yoo Hyeon.
Approaching and speaking to him, Arin looked down at him, but instead of responding to her greeting, Yoo Hyeon offered a different remark.
“Are you not bothered at all? Even if I’m with that woman.”
When the chilly voice returned, Arin’s heart twitched.
“Not bothered at all.”
“…What?”
Yoo Hyeon’s voice shook.
“I hope Oppa and Min Sang-mu get along sincerely. It’s not my business, but don’t use Min Sang-mu. I don’t care what Oppa does.”
“Choi Arin, you.”
“Oppa.”
Arin raised her head to look at Yoo Hyeon.
“I’ve never thought of Oppa as a man even once.”
She knew well that she had a reason for Yoo Hyeon to be upset.
“So, don’t act weak, Oppa.”
Yoo Hyeon’s face twisted.
“You’re really cruel.”
He hit the wall with his fist.
“Choi Arin, you’re really too much.”
Suppressing the rising anger, Arin tightly clenched her fist.
“Love for me is only for Jaehyuk Oppa.”
“Stop it. I warned you, right? Even if you hurt me, I won’t let you go. What kind of things can I do if you come back?”
Having finished speaking, Yoo Hyeon passed by Arin. She made eye contact with Ha-yeon, who was walking towards her from the opposite side.
Seeing Arin, Ha-yeon lowered her head with an awkward expression. She followed him, turning her body.
A few days later.
“Sister, please.”
“Sister, don’t do this. Mom and Dad might die because of this.”
Arin’s siblings, who were once cherished and dreadful to her, were not anymore.
Arin looked coldly at Seorin and Surin, remaining silent.
“It’s a misunderstanding. Mom wouldn’t kidnap her sister. You just need to testify that sister didn’t do such a thing.”
“Right, that’s it. Sister, just say that you made a mistake. Or, tell those men that you were kidnapped along with Mom. Please, sister.”
With a pleading expression that Arin’s siblings had never seen before, Seorin and Surin stood in front of Arin.
A few days after the arrest due to the kidnapping, Kyung-sook was still in custody. It was expected since an arrest warrant had been issued.
Arin’s siblings came to plead for Kyung-sook’s release. It was an unfeasible request.
Arin had no intention of forgiving Kyung-sook or Mrs. Choi. No, even if she forgave herself, she believed that the law would not forgive the two.
“A misunderstanding?”
“Yeah. That’s right. A misunderstanding.”
When Arin finally spoke after the silence, Seorin chimed in as if to support her.
“It’s a misunderstanding. Absolutely. Mom really loved sister a lot, you know.”
“Loved me?”
A bitter laugh burst out.
Loved?
When?
Exactly when?
What she received from begging for love was only neglect and exploitation.
“You.”
Arin looked down at Jaehyuk with eyes colder than the Siberian tundra.
“Do you really think your mother sincerely loved me?”
“Sister.”
“Sister.”
They had given up everything and sacrificed everything.
What was returning was an added demand.
“I could only eat after the family finished eating. Do you know? Since elementary school, I washed dishes and cleaned the bathroom. It was something you never did because you said it gave you hand eczema.”
“……Sister.”
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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