Sunwoo wiped away the sweat and tidied Eunjae’s disheveled hair, then handed her a tissue. Eunjae, still catching her breath, was exhaling rapidly.
“Tomorrow, I’ll contact Kwon Seungchul and tell him to give you the money. Don’t worry; I’ll be right here with you.”
“Why suddenly money?”
“Weren’t you being threatened? It’s obvious. If you didn’t want it to be revealed, you had to bring money.”
The guy’s actions were predictable; he did the same to me. Sunwoo clicked his tongue as expected.
“Oh, you knew… We met, two weeks ago.”
As Eunjae spoke, Sunwoo abruptly sat up from his lying position.
“We met? Why bother meeting that guy if he’s being pushy?”
“We met at the cafe inside the hospital during the daytime. He said he would give me money. Showed me the real estate you had shown him and told me to wait since I have a lot of money.”
“Did you plan to sell it and give it to him? I doubt that’s what he wanted.”
Eunjae, pulling the blanket up to her chest, sat up. Meeting Sunwoo’s eyes, she took a deep breath.
“I never intended to give it to him. It was just bait. As you said, once you start yielding to those kinds of people, it won’t stop. So, I said I would sell it, and if he came back, I’d tell him it hadn’t sold yet and ask him to wait. I planned to buy time that way.”
“That’s a dangerously risky move. Who knows what that guy might do.”
“I thought it was the best revenge I could take within my limits. His desire for something that isn’t his will grow, and the futile desire he can’t fulfill in front of him will eventually make him sick.”
Though Eunjae spoke quite seriously, Sunwoo’s mocking laughter made her frown deeply.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Something. It just went faster than I expected.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Yeah, it’s right, but it’s also right.”
Sunwoo, continually bringing up unclear stories, deepened Eunjae’s furrowed brow.
“Everything is going smoothly as I thought. Just one thing, except for you.”
Sunwoo smiled, lightly touched Eunjae’s cheek, and reached into the bedside table.
“Kwon Seungchul will leave for the Philippines next week.”
“Oh, right. He said he’s going abroad. How did you know, Sunwoo?”
I don’t know anything. Sunwoo responded with a nonchalant expression and took out an item from the bedside table.
“If he goes like that, you can never catch that guy forever.”
“Catch him? Catch what? Kwon Seungchul?”
Then, handing the item taken from the bedside table to Eunjae, Sunwoo answered her question. Looking at the rabbit doll in her hand, with widened eyes, Eunjae asked Sunwoo.
“This… where did it come from?”
“I thought you might be tired, so I was going to tell you tomorrow.”
“This, it’s our dad’s keychain, right? Why does Sunwoo have this?”
“Promise me, cry only for today.”
Sunwoo held Eunjae tightly in his arms and recounted everything that had happened so far.
Although he couldn’t play the recorded contents that would be used as evidence, Sunwoo memorized all the stories and conveyed them to Eunjae.
Father-in-law is truly a warm person, just as I told you back then.
“How…?”
“I’m sorry.”
If I hadn’t cowardly died, if I had gathered the courage and endured the police investigation until the end, if this evidence had been used effectively at that time, your family would probably be happy by now.
Listening to Sunwoo’s sincere confession, Eunjae, who had been staring at him in silence, carefully wiped his reddened eyes.
“No, why should Sunwoo feel sorry? You’ve been through a lot too. You know, I saw everything. I saw it all.”
Sunwoo read many emotions from Eunjae’s eyes. As much as I hated you, you must be hurting a lot too. Even now, you’re only thinking about me.
Eunjae, who was wiping Sunwoo’s eyes, tightly embraced him. Endless tears that had fallen scattered over Sunwoo’s shoulders.
“This is enough for me. Now, we don’t have to part ways. Now, I can stay with Sunwoo. That’s good, right? It’s settled, isn’t it?”
Despite the overwhelming tears, Eunjae choked back her emotions, conveying her feelings firmly.
“Eunjae, look at me.”
Sunwoo, detaching Eunjae from his arms, wiped away the tears pooling in her eyes.
“Would you like to visit Father-in-law’s grave?”
“…”
“You’ve never been there, right?”
“How can I… see my dad? I lived hating my dad for a lifetime without knowing that. How can I see my dad…”
“It’s okay; you didn’t know. They’ll understand everything.”
“I… I…”
With a lowered head, Eunjae shed thick teardrops.
“You want to see, don’t you?”
“…”
“Let’s go.”
Sleep didn’t come.
Miran stared at the pouring rain outside, sweeping away the cooled forearm. Touching the surface of the white peach in her hand, she took a crisp bite.
On days like this with heavy rain, I think of you a lot. The day I last saw you, it rained heavily that day too.
“Why do you look like that? Does something hurt?”
“Yesterday, I saw Eunjae on her way home from school. Being a high school senior seems tough; she looked exhausted. Besides that… didn’t the rumor spread in the neighborhood?”
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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