Especially your presence. Do you really want to keep getting rides in that guy’s car, that ‘So’ senior, even though you’re not dating?
Woojin’s glaring eyes were misinterpreted by Sooyoung.
“If you leave anything out of place again, long-term work contract or not, it’s over.”
Terrified by his intense gaze, Sooyoung timidly asked in a shrunken voice.
“You just got a small injury and wrapped it all up in bandages, right? That’s it?”
But Woojin’s response was cold and dismissive.
“My hand’s like this, so no walk today.”
“What? Why can’t we walk just because your hand is injured?”
“Do you know how much I need to pay attention when I go out? And all that focus is now in my hand. How am I supposed to walk properly?”
His excuse seemed far-fetched. After just two days of walking, Woojin was already giving up, and Sooyoung’s guilt evaporated.
“Then I’m going home too.”
Woojin’s eyes flashed at her sudden declaration.
“What?”
“I came here to walk with you. If you’re not going, then there’s no reason for me to stay.”
“You…!”
Purposefully stomping, Sooyoung headed towards the entrance.
“Hey!”
Woojin called out harshly, but Sooyoung didn’t turn back and left through the front door.
As she waited for the elevator, a heavy presence suddenly draped over her shoulder, and Woojin’s ragged breathing could be felt atop her head.
Whether she was pulled back or stepped back on her own, Sooyoung moved a couple of steps backward.
“You… fox-like…”
Even though Woojin was panting, he couldn’t hide his annoyance.
“You think you’re a raccoon…”
Sooyoung, thankful that he had come out and caught her, chuckled in response.
“Since you’re out, let’s go out for a bit and then come back, okay?”
“You’re not going to go, right?”
“If we walk.”
“You really, I won’t let you off easily.”
Yet, with his bandaged hand, he fumbled to press the elevator button. It opened immediately since no one else was using it.
Held by Woojin, Sooyoung carefully stepped onto the elevator.
As soon as they stepped out of the building, Woojin frantically searched for his phone.
“I didn’t set the alarm.”
But his phone wasn’t in his pocket. In his haste to leave, he must have left it behind.
With one arm, he seemed to be holding Sooyoung’s shoulder as if to prevent her from escaping, while with the other, he frantically searched his body. Sooyoung, seeing this, wrapped her arm around his waist with more strength.
“Let’s just walk ten steps. Just ten.”
Whether it was her words or the firm grip of her arm around his waist, Woojin wordlessly began to follow the direction Sooyoung stepped in.
Soon, Sooyoung’s soft, deep voice counted from below.
“One… Two… Three… Four… Five… Six…”
At that moment, the sound of a yellow kindergarten bus stopping and the jingling voices of children could be heard.
“Mom!”
“I’m back!”
“Grandma!”
“Did our puppy come back well?”
Startled by the noise and the voices of the children and adults, Woojin stopped in his tracks. Knowing his sensitivity to sounds, Sooyoung didn’t push him and quietly stood still beside him.
Once the bus left and the crowd dispersed, quietness returned.
Sooyoung quietly looked up at Woojin, who stood still as a statue. Unexpectedly, he was looking up at the sky.
The sight of the clear blue sky above, his sharp jawline, and his long neck somehow stung her eyes.
A cool autumn breeze gently ruffled Sooyoung’s black bob hair and Woojin’s light brown hair.
Soon, Woojin’s face, which had been looking up, slowly lowered.
Noticing the moisture in his large golden eyes, Sooyoung momentarily lost her words. His already sparkling large eyes shone like jewels in the light.
Tears also welled up in Sooyoung’s eyes as she gazed into his.
“Shall we go back home now?”
As Sooyoung asked softly, Woojin quietly nodded. Just a few steps away from the entrance, the two, still holding each other, turned back.
Naeun, watching them from a distance, had a grimace on her face.
The list of bookstores that would stock the braille children’s books to be published this month wasn’t very long. While pondering how to market the braille books effectively, the door to Ji-hyun’s office suddenly burst open without a knock.
“Hey, you can’t just walk in like that…”
Ignoring the following employee, Naeun clacked her way to Ji-hyun’s desk.
Ji-hyun, surprised, gestured to the employee that it was okay and stood up from his chair.
“Naeun, what brings you here without notice?”
“Brother. Does Woojin have a girlfriend?”
Seeing Naeun’s trembling pupils, Ji-hyun silently observed her before asking calmly.
“Why?”
“I thought Woojin still couldn’t go outside. That’s why we had a big fight when we met after 8 years. But today, I saw him hugging some young woman and coming out. Who is she?”
“Woojin came out? Out of the building?”
Ji-hyun asked with even more surprise than when Naeun entered. He knew about the walking condition, but he didn’t expect it to become a reality.
“Yes, he did. Who is that woman? Is she his support worker?”
“No, she’s a housekeeper.”
“A housekeeper? Why would Woojin need a housekeeper? Especially a young woman?”
“It’s because they’re of a similar age and got along.”
Naeun responded with disbelief.
“Brother! Are you sane? You should have assigned him a support worker, not a housekeeper. Especially a young woman?”
Ji-hyun was both disappointed and relieved that Woojin hadn’t been going outside for the past 8 years, but at the same time, he was happy to hear that Woojin had finally stepped outside.
“I always thought you were the only one for him. The one to save him. The one to help him.”
But in just a few days, Woojin, who I thought couldn’t go outside, was out. And with some girl.
“Originally, someone else was working as the housekeeper, but she injured her back, so her niece has been filling in.”
As Ji-hyun spoke, he wondered if this simple explanation was enough, but seeing Naeun’s expression, he realized he couldn’t say more.
“But, what’s with that posture?”
Ji-hyun didn’t know the exact posture they were in when they came out, but recalling them sleeping in each other’s arms on the sofa, he had an idea.
Naeun, trembling, asked, “Are… are they… dating?”
“Not yet.”
“Not yet?”
“Naeun.”
“Does that girl know about Woojin? As much as I do? How can you let such a person stay in his house, thinking she can do something for Woojin?”
Ji-hyun couldn’t say anything, even though just bringing Woojin outside was something nobody else had managed to do. He couldn’t bear to hurt the girl who had returned after being hurt and still unable to forget Woojin.
To calm Naeun down, Ji-hyun slowly picked up the telephone receiver from his desk.
“Sorry, can you bring two cups of tea here? Thank you.”
“Brother!”
As Naeun cried out in protest, Ji-hyun extended his hand, signaling her to sit, with his usual kind expression.
It would take a long time to calm down someone as hot-tempered as Woojin.
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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