Woo-seok was briefly dazed, then pointed to himself with his hand.
“I followed you?”
“Yes, since a while ago.”
“I was on my way to the supermarket.”
When Eun-chae raised an eyebrow, Woo-seok moved the hand in his pocket and casually took out crumpled cash.
“Grandma asked me to buy cola.”
“…….”
Watching Eun-chae look at the banknote stained with grandma’s handprint, she blinked her eyes slowly. Woo-seok, who observed her reaction, brushed back his split hair, chuckled, and said, “You’re pretty, but you’re quite proud.”
Eun-chae, who didn’t even know where the supermarket was, belatedly panicked and covered her left arm with her right hand.
“…Sorry.”
Apologizing with a lowered head and biting her lower lip in embarrassment, Eun-chae abruptly turned and walked away. Woo-seok followed her casually.
“Seems like this happens often.”
Hearing the chuckling and laughing sound from behind, Eun-chae’s ears grew warm, and she absentmindedly touched them as if crumpling them.
“I just kept going because the path seemed the same.”
“Not mocking you. I said it because it seemed plausible.”
“…….”
“Where are you headed?”
“Just taking a walk.”
“Ah.”
In a hurry to disappear from sight, Eun-chae, who had turned all the way down every possible path, stopped walking, confirming that Woo-seok was still following her. She thought she should know the location of the supermarket.
“But where is the supermarket?”
Stopping his steps at the same time, Woo-seok pointed in the opposite direction of the path he just took.
“Over there.”
Looking at his fingertip in confusion, Eun-chae asked, “You’re not following me?”
“Right now, I am following you.”
“…….”
“We just ended up talking.”
Feeling somewhat manipulated, Eun-chae sighed softly and turned her body.
“Well, let’s go to the supermarket. I want to know where it is too.”
Woo-seok looked down at Eun-chae, who had regained her calm face, with the disappearance of her earlier embarrassment.
It was a bit strange that her age wasn’t immediately revealed after asking, especially since it might have been awkward. Moreover, she didn’t seem flustered.
“Speak freely. I’m only two years younger.”
Unconsciously glancing at Woo-seok, who walked beside her, Eun-chae answered right away.
“Sure.”
Huh. Woo-seok let out a hollow laugh.
He seemed surprisingly confident, and considering that she had been confident up until then, it appeared that he had learned well unless opposed.
Thinking so, Woo-seok, observing Eun-chae’s brisk walking like a textbook on proper posture, became curious about where she came from.
“You can speak comfortably too.”
At that moment, Eun-chae looked at Woo-seok again and said, “Fair enough.”
Woo-seok, with a vacant expression, opened the door of the supermarket they arrived at.
Squeak.
Eun-chae looked at the worn-out store from the outside and glanced around the appearance of the supermarket.
It was a shabby hole-in-the-wall that seemed to have been around for at least 50 years. Following Woo-seok inside, there was nothing much to buy.
There were some things to eat, but even those were things that neighborhood grandpas usually bought.
Cheap kimchi, inflated snacks, dried squid, and sweets… there was nothing young people would be interested in. As if accustomed to it, Woo-seok, who pulled out a bottle of cola from the fridge filled only with soju in a small pub, stood in front of the cashier.
“What’s this? The granddaughter of a pansy granny?”
Eun-chae, seeing a slightly gray-haired grandpa coming out of a small room inside the supermarket, lowered her eyes to the chocolate placed on the cashier’s wooden board.
Seeing a wrinkled bag, it seemed to have melted, solidified, and repeated. It was amazing that there was such a dessert, considering the visible age of the grandpa.
Even more surprising was that she now wanted to eat chocolate, which she usually didn’t think about.
“Girlfriend? Tsk, that rotten guy is all show.”
“Why? Are you jealous?”
Ugh, this guy. Grandpa, making a fuss, took out a black plastic bag and put the cola in. At that moment, Woo-seok picked up the chocolate on the wooden board and put it into the bag, saying, “This too, I’ll pay for it.”
Eun-chae followed Woo-seok after finishing the payment. Since her path coincided with the route to Grandma Geum-bun’s house as soon as they passed Woo-seok’s grandmother’s house, they walked together.
She enjoyed the sight of the light beige field, the large silver moon swallowed up by the navy sky, and then lowered her gaze under her feet.
The rhythmic sound of alternating steps was no longer awkward.
Squeak.
When they reached the yellow door house, Woo-seok took out the chocolate from the plastic bag and handed it to her. Looking at Eun-chae, who was holding the chocolate in her delicate hand, he asked, “Isn’t it yours?”
“I can’t stand sweet things.”
“Ah…….”
“It seems like it’ll melt. Why eat something like this? I don’t even eat gum.”
If Kwon Ki-joo, who only eats sweets, heard this, I wonder how she would react.
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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