Moreover, the crazy guy who was with us, Ban Ha-min, and Sunwoo-jin, seemed to have disappeared or been sold off somewhere. They didn’t appear in the picture!
“This is a scam!”
I didn’t know who it was, but the person who took this picture was undoubtedly determined to expose me.
And they even sent it to Yoo Hee-na.
It overflowed with malice, to the point that it was almost unbearable.
What did I do so wrong!
“What did you talk about with Ji-chan? What’s going on between you two? When did this happen? Ji-chan didn’t tell me anything? Do you really have nothing to say to me?”
Yoo Hee-na persistently questioned me, sensing the truth and feeling frustrated.
I looked at Yoo Hee-na with a powerless expression.
So, she thought something had happened between me and Seong Ji-chan and brought me all the way here… like she did with the other girls…?
In short, I was currently experiencing the role of the heroine.
And it was forced.
“This is insane!”
At this point, it was true that I had been abandoned by the heavens.
Otherwise, I couldn’t have had such bad luck.
I reflected on what had happened today.
Starting with that crazy guy, then Ban Ha-min, meeting Seong Ji-chan, and now facing Yoo Hee-na. I had seen all the people I had tried hard to avoid all day in one go.
“It’s okay, you don’t have to say anything more. It’s probably not that special of a relationship. Many people have gone this far before.”
I hadn’t gone that far…
I never wanted this kind of relationship in the first place, but I felt a little unjust.
I hadn’t even gone that far…
Originally, I hadn’t wanted this kind of relationship, but I felt a little unjust.
“Besides, you’re just one of many. So don’t attach too much meaning to what happened today.”
Hey, sorry, but could you please not rush ahead like that? I’m not mentally prepared yet!
Even as I said that, Yoo Hee-na was bustling around on her own, talking excitedly.
“Yeah, right. I’m not curious anymore. You’re probably going to say the same things as the others. I’m different from the others. I’m going to be Ji-chan’s last one. Well, that’s it. But you know that, right? How many of those others have I met until now? But in the end, what happened?… That’s enough. I don’t need to say more. Just one last thing I’ll ask. What did you talk about with them?”
After a long soliloquy, Yoo Hee-na finally asked.
I carefully thought about the events that had happened today.
First, that crazy guy grabbed my arm, and a little later, Ban Ha-min came and separated him from me.
Seong Ji-chan and Sunwoo-jin arrived a little later. After they arrived, Seong Ji-chan scolded the man and then…
When my thoughts reached that point, my words were suddenly cut off.
“…I didn’t talk to Ji-chan.”
That’s right. I had never talked to Seong Ji-chan even once!
I was sure of it. I had only spoken to Ban Ha-min the whole time.
Even when I thanked Seong Ji-chan, he didn’t react!
…Now that I think about it, that’s kind of annoying. Can’t you at least accept a greeting?
“Don’t lie!”
As expected, Yoo Hee-na didn’t believe my words.
“You think I should believe you when even a picture like this exists?”
But it actually happened…
I felt unfairly treated. I was really telling the truth.
Would you like me to explain this in more detail?
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But if I did that, I was afraid the endless questions like, ‘Why did Ji-chan help you? Who are you? You helped, but why didn’t you say a word to each other? Aren’t you lying to me?’ would continue.
… Still, I had to say something to end this crazy act. Where should I start talking?
I felt like my head was overloaded from thinking too much.
That’s when it happened.
“I can’t do it.”
Yoo Hee-na suddenly gestured to my friends on either side of me.
They nodded and took the luggage from my hands, then went outside.
What’s going on?
“You should come out too.”
Yoo Hee-na grabbed me, bewildered.
The street had become dark by now.
Neon signs in the busy street were flickering.
Yoo Hee-na took a few more steps and then casually left me on the street, saying arrogantly,
“It seems like this will take a while. We need to change locations. Wait here for a moment until the others come back.”
What the heck?
I briefly worried if she was taking me to a bar or something, but I soon relaxed.
Right now, Yoo Hee-na looked like a middle school student at most.
Minors in the underworld could get into any bar or club, but even so, it didn’t seem like they would let her through.
As if to support my guess, Yoo Hee-na said,
“We’ll go to a quiet cafe. Somewhere where no one else can eavesdrop. It might take some time to find such a place, but they’ll come looking for you when we’re gone. I’ll order you an Americano when we get there.”
“……. ”
I was speechless.
No… Even though you’re an evil character, isn’t this a bit too childish?
As I was making such a remark in my head, Yoo Hee-na glanced at me with a surprised expression, then quickly turned her head away.
No matter how much she tried to act arrogant on this topic…
I suddenly realized Yoo Hee-na’s true nature.
“She’s just a kid!”
Yoo Hee-na wasn’t just young on the outside; she was just as young on the inside. Now that I thought about it, it seemed like she was even younger on the inside. I seriously doubted Yoo Hee-na’s mental age.
“Now I can kind of understand Seong Ji-chan…”
Yeah, it would have been a bit much to say something to a kid like her.
Moreover, if they had been close since childhood, it would have been like having a little sister.
At the same time, I felt like I understood why Seong Ji-chan couldn’t love Yoo Hee-na. It’s a pity.
“Anyway.”
Despite Yoo Hee-na’s frequent wanderings, there weren’t many people around, but now I understood why.
“But why did they go to such lengths in the original story?”
The ‘Yoo Hee-na’ I remembered from the original was sloppy, but there was no shortage of people calling her an ‘evil character.’
For a person to change so much in a short period of time, what could have happened during that time?
Something did happen. The heroine appeared.
… Is it the power of love after all?
That’s when it happened.
“Hey! Over there!”
A man’s shout echoed through the street, and everyone in the busy street turned to look in that direction at the same time.
Then, a crowd of men rushed towards us, shouting something as they approached.
“We finally found her!”
“Hurry, go get her!”
“Don’t let her get away!”
Their fingers pointed in the direction where Yoo Hee-na and I were.
What the heck, did someone dine and dash without paying?… I didn’t know, but it seemed like a serious mistake had been made.
“What did they do to deserve this?”
I looked around, searching for the target.
And then, I suddenly realized.
Everyone on the street was looking at Yoo Hee-na and me.
“… Huh?”
Three seconds later, I grasped the situation.
“Us?”
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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