The moment she heard those words, Hyun Seo’s eyes shone with surprise. Her eyes began to moisten quickly.
“I wanted to do anything I could for you and Seo Ha while you were gone. It seemed like the only way I could live.”
Do Ha had yet to tell Hyun Seo about the name SH of the nowownerless company, which he had intended to gift.
However, through this chance encounter, on the day of Seo Ha’s anniversary, he wanted to take this opportunity to tell her.
To express how much he had thought of only Hyun Seo and Seo Ha. Even if the company had nothing to do with her in the future.
“It’s something I started to survive. I thought about what I could do to capture you and Seo Ha.”
Hyun Seo, stunned by his shocking words, silently stared at Do Ha.
It was the initials of Seo Ha’s name.
Now she seemed to understand why he had so much affection for that company. As if she could have done the same.
She imagined his heart, investing effort into a business while remembering Seo Ha’s name. Thinking about what his feelings must have been like, her heart seemed to painfully squeeze.
Especially today, was it not the day Seo Ha left?
“So it was…”
However, there was no way Seo Ha could return. There was nothing that could be done for a child who had already left this world.
She couldn’t go back to him either. His belated feelings were pitiful, but their relationship had already ended. The situation demanded it.
She couldn’t appear in front of Young Suk again, bringing Do Hyeon along.
Hyun Seo wiped away her tears and gave a small nod.
“…I will cheer you on.”
So, Hyun Seo had nothing else to say.
“Given it was Seo Ha’s name… SH must continue to do well.”
Do Ha looked at Hyun Seo’s face, filled with sorrow. Even though they shared the grief of Seo Ha, the distance between them remained.
She said she would cheer him on. Just like a story of someone else.
“You’re getting colder, Hyun Seo…….”
Even though she knew the story behind his name, shared the same feelings of pain, and understood his heart, she drew a line when it came to his affairs. To her, his matters were certainly those of others, nothing more, nothing less.
“I feel a cold wind blowing at me.”
Hyun Seo stared at Do Ha with a face that had become slightly calm at his words.
“Of course. Several years have passed…….”
“So much distance has grown in these few years?”
To Do Ha’s regretful question, Hyun Seo replied in an even colder voice.
“Is it just about distance? If we didn’t see each other for that long, it means we have fallen apart.”
For a moment, Do Ha’s eyes wavered. Hyun Seo could tell from his gaze that he had been hurt.
She thought that Do Ha had also grown distant from her over time.
However, he had created a company for Hyun Seo’s dream, named it after Seo Ha’s initials. Far from forgetting, he was trying to get closer to her than before by constantly thinking about her.
So, she felt she needed to run away from him more desperately.
Having a second child, and leaving for the child, she could never accept him again. No matter what kind of desperate effort he showed now, and even if it made her feel pitiful.
“You’re harsh, Hyun Seo.”
Do Ha let out a sigh.
“Was it always like this, or did I make you this way?”
“I don’t want to hurt you anymore. So, please stop coming closer.”
“No. I’ll just start over from the beginning, whatever.”
“Excuse me?”
“I think I might be able to do this after all.”
Hyun Seo, who had been wearing a troubled expression while looking at Do Ha who didn’t give up even with a hurt face, cautiously asked.
“What are you referring to?”
“Loving Hyun Seo unrequitedly.”
Surprisingly unfamiliar feelings made Hyun Seo’s lips part.
Unrequited love? Love?
It was the first time she heard the word ‘love’ from his mouth. And it was about unrequited love.
Unrequited love was Hyun Seo’s specialty. She had liked him so much that it was unbearable.
So, she honestly thought that he could be clinging like this now, relying on that. Because she was an easy woman who once liked him.
But despite me saying that I no longer have feelings for him, now what? Unrequited love?
“Unrequited love? From someone like you?”
She was taken aback. Not only by the mention of unrequited love, but also by the fact that he was a man who could say such a thing.
This Do Ha, who was revealing so many inner thoughts.
Even though he was a man who had been her husband, Hyun Seo found it difficult to adapt to this side of him.
Once Do Ha began to be faithful to his feelings, he was truly shameless.
“Don’t be surprised when you see later. How determined I am.”
With a lonely face, he put on a faint smile and said something that didn’t match. Hyun Seo’s heart fluttered in various ways at his words.
Determined?
“Even if you ignore me for the rest of your life, I will love you unrequitedly forever.”
Her fluttering heart soon began to race as if it was about to burst.
She realized she had forgotten. That Do Ha was someone who wouldn’t act without feelings, but once he made up his mind, he would do it somehow.
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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