A word, a word that means nothing to him, has become a sharp knife and has already stabbed me dozens of times.
“I’ll make time within this month.”
“Really? Can you promise?”
“Yes.”
He wouldn’t know that the promises he couldn’t keep have frustrated me hundreds of times.
He wouldn’t know that I had lost the value of my daily existence to the point of choosing to break up with Kang Hyun, who was my everything.
“Ah!”
Kang Hyun, who had been staring into space, got up at the loud scream.
Upon opening the bedroom door, Jian was just about to stand up from the hallway floor where she had been sprawling out.
“Go, good morning, Executive Director. Don’t worry about me. I’m not hurt at all!”
Jian, who had been clumsily dragging her slippers and had tripped over the folded front part, lightly smiled and tapped her sore elbow.
She had seen Tae Kang Hyun’s face in her dreams, as a result of thinking about him until just before she fell asleep.
The dream was quite long and became blurred as soon as she opened her eyes, not allowing her to remember it, but the last word remained clear, ringing in her ears.
“How could I let you go.”
She thought it was because she had seen him, who could not let go of his lover who had died four years ago.
Even though she tried to shake off the lingering voice, her mind became blank and she fell down in a ridiculous manner.
“Are you going to have a meal? The lady probably prepared it, so today I will heat it up……”
Jian, who followed quickly behind the retreating figure of Kang Hyun, found a dining table that looked no different from yesterday and was momentarily at a loss for words.
Sitting opposite Kang Hyun again, she felt as if she had returned to that time yesterday.
“I also like seaweed soup, mother’s seaweed soup. My mom is really good at cooking.”
“About the genetic test.”
“They say we’re not twins. I am the natural daughter that my mom gave birth to after more than 12 hours of labor.”
Jian awkwardly shook her head.
She acted calmly in front of her parents, but in fact, she was as disturbed as when she woke up with lost memory and a blank state.
She desperately denied that they were just lookalikes, but a part of her heart kept raising questions.
It was because of faces that looked so alike that everyone she met would say they were twins.
It’s unlikely that doppelgangers exist like in movies, but once confirmed as twins, she was afraid that the past four years that she had painstakingly built up would be completely messed up.
Even if they were truly twins, she didn’t want to disrupt her current daily life for a blood relative she had lived without knowing about her whole life.
“Is it an unreasonable request.”
“Do you believe we are twins?”
“There’s no other way.”
“If it’s true, it means my parents adopted me.”
“Your biological parents could have only raised one.”
“No. They are not the kind of people who could abandon one.”
“They must be good people.”
“Yes. Every day in the hospital……. Anyway, they really love me a lot. Because they only know me.”
Jian, who thought of her parents who were always worried about her, let out a deep sigh.
If mom was lying, there must be a reason.
She had the thought that agreeing to a genetic test would be a betrayal to her parents. Her heart felt stuffy, as if she had swallowed a whole dry and crusty loaf of bread.
“Seo Yoon was brought by my father from the orphanage. With the intention to treat me, who couldn’t impersonate people. He isolated me to know only me, look at only me, and love only me. But he didn’t truly love me.”
The spoon swirled meaninglessly, clinking as it hit the bowl.
It was just like the voice heard in the dream.
Bland yet heartwrenchingly painful.
“Yoon never used the titles mom and dad even once.”
Kang Hyun mumbled, his gaze fixed downwards. He couldn’t directly look at Ji An.
“She lived with strangers all her life until death.”
He did try to investigate her family at Seo Yoon’s request, but it wasn’t easy to find a blood relative abandoned at different orphanages right after birth.
Even though they were so close that they could meet by chance.
The things he couldn’t give to Seo Yoon pour down like a harsh shower, drenching his entire body every day.
“But……”
“Financial compensation is more than enough. Don’t feel too bad, because I have difficulty appealing to emotions like ordinary people.”
I’ve done enough so far!
Ji An blinked rapidly, clearing her blurry vision.
The fact that she never used common titles like mom and dad was so pitiful that tears were already welling up.
“I think I can manage to kneel and beg.”
“What, what did you say?”
“If you keep refusing, I’m considering that.”
I must have heard wrong.
Seeing Kang Hyun eating as if nothing happened after saying that, Ji An slightly blamed her friend Seon Kyung.
If Jang Yeon Joo hadn’t seen me at the cafe, this wouldn’t have happened.
Being so sensitive to cry a lot even when watching dramas, she couldn’t refuse if she had to kneel and beg.
What should I do, what should I do.
Tap tap, Ji An’s slender finger knocked on the island table.
The pitchblack pupils that had been wholly cast downwards until then moved following the familiar sound.
Tap tap tap, followed by three more echoes.
Having made five dots, Ji An connected them.
It was a habit that unconsciously came out when thinking deep.
When the tip of Ji An’s index finger finally drew a star, the area of the shaking pupil suddenly widened.
With a distorted face that was heartless, Kang Hyun stood up like a lost person, flinging the table.
Crash, clang. The dishes that were knocked down by the trembling hand noisily shattered on the floor.
“What are you doing, you.”
“What are you doing, sir! Are you okay?”
Surprised, Ji An who was blinking her eyes stood frozen, then held Kang Hyun who was coming towards her stepping on the broken pieces.
The trifocused eyes met at close range quivered desperately. The bare face of concealed pain vividly revealed its identity.
“What is it, you?”
“Why are you acting so suddenly? Come over here first, there’s glass shards over there.”
“Do you know Seo Yoon?”
His trembling hands grabbed Ji An’s shoulders and shook her.
At this moment, he seemed truly like a madman who had completely changed.
“What do you mean, know!”
“Executive Director!”
Coming quickly, Do Seok Won separated the deranged Kang Hyun from Ji An.
“What are you doing! Ji An, are you okay?”
“Yes, I’m fine, but it seems the Executive Director got hurt.”
“I’m sorry, I’ll apologize on his behalf.”
Following behind, Yeon Ju comforted the startled Ji An.
Ji An gently pressed near her heart, which was beating wildly as if it would burst.
While she couldn’t understand what she had done wrong, his pain was vividly conveyed, making her throat hot as if she had lost someone she loved.
It felt as if she would burst into tears if anyone even touched her lightly.
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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