In all my experiences, whenever Sung Jichan made such an expression, things went strangely wrong.
‘As expected, this won’t work. Let’s just run away!’
I lifted my foot to leave the rooftop.
At that moment, Sung Jichan put his arm around my shoulder and said, “She’s my new girl.fri.end.”
Instantly, chills ran down my entire body.
“What did you say?”
Han Yewon’s face twisted.
I was frozen in shock.
With a nonchalant expression, Sung Jichan, who had detonated a nuclear bomb, continued his words without caring about our reactions.
“To be honest, we’ve been dating for a while. We kept it a secret and hid it.”
How much of a secret can it be if even I didn’t know about it, you idiot?
In an instant, I became the scapegoat of the gang leader, receiving a deep shock, and my mind became dizzy.
‘W-What is this crazy guy saying right now?’
Belatedly regaining my senses, I hastily pushed away Sung Jichan’s arm and shouted like a fool.
“Ah, no, no, no!”
Me, an absurd female lead! No way!
However, Sung Jichan didn’t yield and smoothly said, “Ah, our Jueun has a lot of shyness. She’s pretending it’s not true. Cute.”
This [expletive]!
I rebelled with all my might, but Sung Jichan boldly held my hand and shamelessly continued, “Anyway, that’s how it is. Now that I have a master, I can’t talk with random girls for long. So, if you have nothing to say, leave, Hanyeowon.”
Han Yewon bit her lips in anger, and her eyes seemed to be on the verge of shedding tears.
I was shocked, signaling to Sung Jichan to calm down by stepping on his foot, but he forcefully subdued me.
Hey!
“Lies.”
“No?”
“Don’t lie! A girlfriend? Impossible.”
While Han Yewon scattered tears, she shouted, “You love me!”
I felt like dying while hearing such lines.
‘Why… Why do I have to go through this between these two…?’
I thought solving the duel would be enough, but an unexpected minefield awaited me.
‘Please kill me…’
I shouldn’t have come to the rooftop after all. They say curiosity kills the cat… well, this curiosity killed Lee Jueun.
‘Why isn’t the one who wrote me the letter coming?’
Please come quickly and resolve this atmosphere somehow.
At this point, I thought it might be better to just have a duel.
‘Let’s just fight once and get it over with.’
I desperately looked at the rooftop door.
‘Please, anyone, come in.’
I was confident that I would love anyone who came in.
Sung Jichan, with an impudent face, said to Han Yewon, “How can I believe you?”
“…What?”
“How can I believe that you believe we’re dating?”
What is he trying to do?
Instinctively, I shrank my body in response to the primal anxiety.
“Ah, should I tell you directly?”
No, don’t!
I urgently looked up.
However, before I could block his mouth, Sung Jichan, word by word, said confidently.
“I, Sung Jichan, am in love. With. Lee. Jueun.”
What is this crazy guy really saying!
Each word he chose seemed like a jewel, especially considering I might become an absurd male lead.
“Can’t you hear? Say it louder?”
Sung Jichan shouted out loud.
“I, Sung Jichan, love Lee Jueun!”
Aaaargh!
I writhed in agony.
‘He’s really going to kill me.’
While it was probably meant to hurt Han Yewon, I received a greater blow.
I burst into a bitter laughter in a state close to collapse.
‘Hehe… Darn.’
Me… a scapegoat of the gang…? Really?
Of course, I knew it wasn’t true, but just the words alone dealt a tremendous blow to my psyche.
Han Yewon, looking deeply shocked, remained silent for a while. Then, as if she couldn’t believe it, she finally opened her mouth.
“Can you really take responsibility for what you just said?”
It was then.
Kki-Ik.
The rooftop door that had been closed opened.
At that moment, our gazes simultaneously turned towards the door.
‘Who is it?’
Could it be the person who sent me to the duel? If that was the case, they must have been a threat to me, but at this moment, they seemed like a savior coming to rescue me.
‘Please save me.’
With hope in my heart, I looked at the person who opened the door.
And surprisingly.
That person was none other than Yuhuina.
…Huh?
‘Why is she appearing now?’
My brain came to a complete stop with the unexpected appearance of someone.
I stared blankly at Yuhuina.
Yuhuina’s face was filled with confusion.
“Uh… so… Did I really hear it correctly just now?”
No one answered.
Yuhuina hesitated as she continued speaking.
“That… what Jaean said… Is that really true?”
“…….”
Though our mouths were there, no one had anything to say.
No one could speak, and we just exchanged glances with each other.
Sensing that something strange was happening, Yuhuina’s face gradually stiffened.
Finally losing patience, Yuhuina shouted.
“Say it! Is it true?”
A profound silence swept through the rooftop.
Sweating coldly, I thought to myself.
‘Oh, I’m really in trouble.’
…That’s what I thought.
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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