Whispers of Autumn Wind (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
Ga Eul sensed that her Grandmother was about to say something important, so she pressed further.
“Did Chairman Oh ever give us something, only to take it back later?”
“No… back during your father’s time… it wasn’t exactly that he gave it and then took it back…”
“So something similar did happen, then?”
Ga Eul had already guessed what her Grandmother was about to say—most likely the story of how Chairman Oh had planned to invest in her father’s company, only to change his mind.
“When your father’s business was struggling, Chairman Oh summoned him. After asking thoroughly about the situation, he said he’d acquire your father’s company, allowing him to remain as CEO and continue growing it. I’ll never forget how delighted your father looked as he heard that.”
Up to that point, Ga Eul already knew the story. Still, she pretended ignorance and asked,
“And then? What happened after that?”
“People from Pyeongan Group came to inspect your father’s company thoroughly, claiming they were proceeding with the acquisition. But a few months later, they contacted him saying it was all off. Chairman Oh even called your father a con artist and hurled all sorts of harsh insults, telling him never to show his face again.”
Even after all this time, it remained a painful memory. Eventually, Grandmother broke into tears.
“After that, your father sank into alcoholism—and passed away not long after.”
Though Ga Eul regretted bringing up her father, she couldn’t suppress her curiosity. Someone else had just emerged to condemn him—barely any time had passed since she’d proven that her father hadn’t lied to CEO Ki Dae Woong’s father.
She’d thought the path to CEO Ki was finally opening, now that her father’s innocence was proven—but apparently, it was a dead end. She’d have to turn back again. How much farther would she have to go before she could confidently stand before him?
Anxiously, Ga Eul asked,
“What exactly did my father do wrong?”
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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