Arin couldn’t understand why her emotions surged like this when Jaehyuk, who had nothing to do with her, was hit.
‘It seemed like their relationship with the madam wasn’t that bad.’
After the divorce, Arin tried not to think about Jaehyuk. Thinking about him hurt too much, to the point where she couldn’t breathe. It felt like she couldn’t remove Jaehyuk’s presence, firmly embedded in her heart. She thought erasing him might be impossible.
Ban Jaehyuk and Choi Arin were ‘ill-fated,’ and she believed that bond should be severed after the divorce.
Arin decisively began to erase Jaehyuk from her life. Instead, she filled the void he left with memories and other things.
Did Arin’s efforts pay off?
As her difficult feelings gradually found peace, Arin reached the point where she thought she had completely erased Jaehyuk.
However… why was her heart pounding like this now?
Sometimes, recalling Jaehyuk didn’t hurt as much as before. She thought of him vaguely, wishing he was doing well, considering their ‘ill-fated’ past.
At some point, Jaehyuk didn’t come to mind anymore.
So naturally, Arin believed that her feelings for Jaehyuk were no longer the same.
But,
‘My name was mentioned. Why… still about me?’
‘I thought my brother felt the same. I thought he had erased me too.’
Jaehyuk was the head of VAN Group and responsible for the group. Arin thought Jaehyuk would eventually welcome a wife. She thought that the existence of Choi Arin in Ban Jaehyuk’s life would disappear as time passed and his presence faded within her.
After all, he never truly loved her!
Arin regarded Jaehyuk’s love as nothing more than an attachment to losing her.
‘But does he still love me? Why…’
Arin felt lost in a swamp of confusion.
Arin couldn’t think of anything in front of Jaehyuk, and she didn’t know what to say to him.
Arin moved towards Jaehyuk. No, it would be more accurate to say her feet moved on their own.
Upon closer inspection, Jaehyuk’s cheek was swollen and red, and the spot where the ring had grazed was a deeper wound than she had thought.
‘How can a son hit his father like this? No matter how dreadful it is, shouldn’t a mother not hit her child?’
Arin resented Jung Yeo-sa even more. She hastily took out a handkerchief from her bag and offered it to him.
“You’re bleeding.”
“…”
“Wipe it, quickly.”
Arin wondered if what she saw earlier was a misunderstanding.
The eyes that were shaking a little while ago were now unexpectedly calm.
Jaehyuk silently looked at the handkerchief Arin handed him.
“Don’t worry. There was only me here. Since there was no one else, it should be fine. For now, wipe it with this.”
As Jaehyuk seemed unwilling to take it, Arin extended the handkerchief once again. Eventually, Arin forcibly placed the handkerchief in Jaehyuk’s hand.
Arin’s heart sank as she felt Jaehyuk’s warmth for a moment. However, the heat that had touched her so passionately vanished instantly.
“It’s okay. I made you worry over nothing.”
Taking the handkerchief, Jaehyuk spoke with an indifferent tone, as if nothing had happened.
“…No.”
Arin felt her heart flutter at Jaehyuk’s seemingly indifferent demeanor.
Jaehyuk wiped his face with the handkerchief, and the blood droplets on his face had disappeared. Looking down at the blood-stained handkerchief, he said,
“The handkerchief has blood on it. If it’s okay, I can send it through Manager Han. Of course, if you don’t want it, I won’t do it.”
Holding the handkerchief Arin handed him tightly, Jaehyuk said,
“The problem isn’t the handkerchief.”
“…Then.”
Arin was curious.
Why was her name still coming up even a year after the divorce?
No, to be precise, it had been six years since she mentioned the divorce.
‘Is this feeling discomfort? Or…’
Arin was confused by the emotions overwhelming her.
“I heard Mr. Ban Jaehyuk talking with madam. My name came up.”
Arin looked up at Jaehyuk as she asked. It was to gauge his expression. However, Jaehyuk listened to Arin’s words with an emotionless gaze.
Arin felt even more uncertain about Jaehyuk’s emotions.
“It’s a misunderstanding. I’m not getting married.”
“Really?”
Was this feeling disappointment? Was Arin relieved because it wasn’t as bad as she expected?
Arin thought she had completely forgotten Jaehyuk. She believed she had erased him entirely and that he didn’t cross her mind anymore.
‘But why do I feel like this when I face Jaehyuk? Why is my heart pounding like this?’
Arin bit down hard on the thin flesh inside her mouth.
Jaehyuk, who had been looking down at Arin indifferently, spoke.
“Yeah. I won’t harm you or cause trouble like before. So, don’t worry.”
Although she should feel relieved, Arin, instead, felt uneasy at Jaehyuk’s firm voice.
‘Somehow, this doesn’t feel good…’
Arin had to painfully realize how arrogant her thoughts had been.
She had thought of him as someone she detested, someone she hated, someone she disliked!
Arin couldn’t look at Jaehyuk. Arin, with her head lowered, spoke in a very soft voice.
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.”
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
