The year-end rush wasn’t unique to Kwon Seungjoo; Eunseo was also quite busy.
I think I can go home early today. Is there anything you want to eat?
About an hour before the end of work, Eunseo received a message from the landlord and confidently replied.
I’m sorry, but we have a department dinner tonight. Don’t wait for me; go to sleep first.
It felt satisfying to return the same words she often heard herself. There was no more response from him, but she could hear a faint sound like a “hmph” from the other end of the phone, so Eunseo chuckled.
Everything was fine until the dinner party started. However, the dinner party was troublesome.
Eunseo was not good with alcohol. Last time, she barely drank half a bottle of soju and ended up completely losing consciousness. She even clung to Naeun and didn’t cry at all.
Knowing her alcohol tolerance, Eunseo usually tried not to drink much. However, today, with the whole department attending the year-end party, it wasn’t easy. She even had to endure the condescending attitude of the youngest in the team, who volunteered to pour drinks.
Last year, because there were no new recruits in the planning team, Eunseo and Suna, who joined the year before, were still the youngest. Moreover, Suna was currently hospitalized, so Eunseo had to handle everything alone.
It was close to 10 PM when a message arrived. She checked and saw that several missed calls had already been made.
Are you still at the dinner?
Yes
When do you think it will end?
I didn’t think about waking up; don’t know when it will end
Where are you?
At the company’s drinking party
After roughly sending replies as her fingers moved, Eunseo tried to clear her hazy mind.
Kwon Seungjoo suddenly appeared at the restaurant just about 10 minutes ago.
“President!”
Everyone stood up with faces that looked like they had just been sobered up when they saw him.
“I heard the planning team is having a dinner nearby, so I stopped by for a moment.”
For some reason, her heart relaxed the moment she saw his face. So, she became less tense, and because of that, she stood up and stumbled when she tried to get up.
“It seems like you drank a lot.”
Seeing Eunseo sitting on the road like a squashed frog, the president wrinkled his nose.
“It’s better to send her home first. Secretary Choi.”
“Yes, sir.”
Choi, who was standing behind, straightened up and replied.
“Take her home in a taxi.”
That’s how Eunseo, supported by Secretary Choi, escaped from the restaurant. Of course, what she got into was not a taxi but the landlord’s car.
“Drink this.”
Secretary Choi handed her a hangover relief drink. After drinking it and sitting in the back seat, Seungjoo came back and got in beside her. It seemed like he quickly had a drink, settled the dinner bill, and returned.
Leaning against his shoulder while continually tilting her head, he asked, “How much did you drink?”
“Soju… five glasses…”
Eunseo replied with a half-twisted tongue.
Soon the car started moving, and Eunseo’s stomach turned upside down. Still, she hesitated to speak in front of Kwon Seungjoo, feeling embarrassed. After enduring it for a while, she mumbled.
“…I want to get off.”
“Hmm?”
“I feel like I’m going to throw up.”
Secretary Choi panicked and pulled over.
After getting out of the car and sitting on the roadside for a while, her stomach settled a bit, but she couldn’t gather the courage to get back into the car. Eventually, Eunseo extended her hand while crouching.
“You guys go ahead.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll walk.”
Kwon Seungjoo sighed.
“Secretary Choi, drop the car off at home and go in first. I’ll walk with Ms. Yoon Eunseo.”
“Yes? If you walk from here to your place, it will take at least an hour…”
“I said go.”
The secretary and the car left, leaving only the drunken employees and the CEO.
“Get on.”
Alcohol took away conscience but made one obedient to instincts. The back was wide, warm, and comfortable. Moreover, someone else was walking for her, making it incredibly convenient.
Why shouldn’t she be carried?
Without refusing and lightly lifted, Kwon Seungjoo effortlessly stood up and started walking.
Even in the flushed face from the alcohol, the winter wind felt chilly. Burying her face on his back, which smelled faintly of cologne, Eunseo suddenly murmured.
“It’s not fun.”
“Huh?”
“The clothes. Always so plain, gray, and boring.”
She thought of the times they lived together in Yeonsadong. Although casual, he looked charming when he wore casual clothes. Wearing a white sweatshirt and jeans, smiling brightly, it felt like a scene from a soft drink commercial.
Now, his beauty was hidden behind a dull appearance and an even more uninteresting suit.
Come to think of it, there was one day, just one day, when it wasn’t like that.
“That suit was really pretty that day.”
“When?”
“It was when I went up to your room, begged to let me stay for another year.”
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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