“Ugh… you’re strong. Just who are you?”
Then, one of the delinquents who attacked Seol Yuhwa asked. Hearing this, Seol Yuhwa turned around to look at him.
“Me?”
Thud, thud. Step by step, Seol Yuhwa approached the guy and said, “I’m ranked 0th in the world.”
It was a statement full of dignity, as if there were rays of light shining from behind. The guy widened his eyes in surprise.
After leaving behind such a brilliant saying, Seol Yuhwa said to me, “Let’s go. We’re done here.”
“Huh? Uh, yeah…”
I hurriedly followed Seol Yuhwa, who was leading the way.
‘…Is this okay?’
She did show an overwhelming presence as she said, but… it’s not like Hae Sung High School would give up and surrender just because of that. If they were the type to give up that easily, they wouldn’t have caused so much trouble in the first place.
‘I wonder if I’ve stirred up more trouble.’
I glanced back one last time before leaving the abandoned building.
I locked eyes with a man who had fallen to the ground. I pretended not to notice and quickly went outside.
After Lee Joo-eun and Seol Yuhwa left.
“Ugh…”
The men who had fallen began to get up one by one.
“What was that just now…?”
They were just gathered in the abandoned building as usual. However, their peace was shattered by the crazy woman who suddenly appeared like a storm. A man leaning against the wall mumbled.
“Of all times, she attacks when Focus isn’t around…”
If there had been Focus or at least the action leader, Choi Yoo-han, they wouldn’t have been helpless like this.
Most of the people here were at the bottom, flashy but lacking in fighting skills.
Even so, a single woman against so many men?
In ordinary circumstances, it would have been an impossible feat. They sensed that something unusual was happening.
One of the relatively higher-ranked guys gathered the other delinquents.
“…This needs to be reported to Focus.”
Other guys nodded in agreement.
“Tell what you know.”
Then, a man raised his hand.
He was the guy who had tried to attack Seol Yuhwa with a wooden stick at the end.
“I heard it clearly. That woman called herself ‘Ranked 0th in the world.'”
Other guys murmured.
“Ranked 0th in the world?”
“No way.”
“Did I hear it wrong?”
They couldn’t easily accept that statement. The existence of someone ‘Ranked 0th in the world’ was unrealistic and absurd.
Someone else spoke up.
“Come to think of it, I’ve heard such a rumor before.”
“What rumor?”
“That the person ranked 0th in the world attends Jiyeol High School!”
The murmurs grew louder.
Someone else said, “Could it be that the one who attacked our school is the person spreading that baseless rumor?”
“Wasn’t that just a lie from Jiyeol High School?”
“Maybe that rumor is true!”
Suddenly, the delinquents from Hae Sung High School divided into two groups and started arguing.
Really. I heard it. It’s real. No, it’s a baseless rumor. Who would believe such nonsense…
“Enough!”
Finally, the higher-ranked guy couldn’t take it anymore and shouted.
“Focus will make the judgment! We just need to say what we know.”
The quarreling subsided.
The guy smoothed his voice and said with a serious expression, “Does anyone else have information?”
This time, a guy who seemed to be the most injured raised his hand unsteadily.
“Uh, I have something to say.”
“Speak up.”
After hesitating for a moment, the man opened his mouth.
“I think I saw that woman’s face.”
The crowd began to murmur again.
“Saw her face?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Wiping the blood from his forehead, the man continued, “But I’m not sure which one I saw. They were wearing the same clothes…”
“There were two of them?”
“At the end, another woman came in from outside.”
Upon hearing this, other men asked each other. Did you see her? No, I didn’t see her because I was lying down. I think I saw her too. She shouted something. Something like that.
“She shouted a name? Does anyone remember what it was?”
The audience fell silent.
“Then, who saw her face?”
Only the man who had spoken earlier raised his hand.
“One of them took off the mask, so I saw her face.”
The rest didn’t speak as if they hadn’t seen it properly. After a moment of contemplation, the man in the center opened his mouth.
“All right, this could be a very important clue.”
The man took out his phone.
“Then, you go with me to Focus. You tell him directly.”
The man who witnessed Lee Joo-eun nodded.
Thus, the incident of Seol Yuhwa’s attack on Hae Sung High School came to an end.
On the way back home in a taxi with Seol Yuhwa.
“Oh, right. My mask.”
I belatedly touched my face.
I think I took off the mask when I entered the abandoned building earlier. Did I make eye contact with anyone?
‘Um…’
Will it be okay?
Yeah, it’ll be fine. Everyone was lying down, and no one probably saw my face. Even if someone saw, they won’t remember. And even if they remember, what can they do? Will they come looking for me?
With that reassuring thought, I leaned my head against the car window.
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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