For another reason, it was to put maximum pressure on me. They must have believed that anxiety would increase as time passed.
The executive picked up the contract and put it in his briefcase. At that moment.
“Why is this executive here?”
Kang Woo’s dry voice fell low. The executive awkwardly rose from his seat.
“On my way for a cup of tea, I gave a few words of consolation to the madam.”
Se Ah didn’t know what kind of expression she should make. However, it was clear that she had to give no hint to Kang Woo.
“Why is this executive offering consolation to my wife?”
What right do you have, Kang Woo added. It was a bleak voice that seemed to suffocate. Se Ah stood up from her seat and looked at Kang Woo.
“I just had a brief chat on my way.”
At Se Ah’s words, Kang Woo’s eyes, which had been tense, relaxed slightly. But soon, his eyes were caught in the teacup that Se Ah was drinking.
“Looks like you’ve already finished your tea, executive.”
“Huh?”
The executive, who looked calm, was disturbed by Kang Woo’s words. It was a face trying to quickly understand what he meant.
“You said you came out for tea. Didn’t you say that?”
At the probing tone, the executive belatedly nodded his head.
“It must have been hot. You drank it quickly.”
Kang Woo, who was twisting his lips, looked at Se Ah’s teacup which still had heat left. He soon raised his wrist to check the time.
“My wife has been away for 15 minutes. To my recollection, the executive has also been away for about that time.”
When he stubbornly dug in, the executive responded with silent acquiescence.
It was a touch and go situation. A tense atmosphere could be felt. Between the one trying to open his mouth and the one trying to close it.
“Kang Woo.”
Se Ah put her hand on Kang Woo’s arm. She was worried that he, who was agile, would catch on right away. Regardless of the cause, she had also conspired to deceive him.
Kang Woo signaled to the executive. It was as if he was telling him to disappear. The executive bowed and turned around.
Kang Woo sat opposite Se Ah, lowering his raised eyebrows. Then he tapped the table lightly.
“Sit down for a bit. My neck hurts from looking up.”
The same man who had been shouting in a cold voice just before. He looked at me with a somewhat mischievous look in his eyes. I had seen it a few times recently, but it was still an unusual expression.
“Why did you come out? How is my mother doing?”
Se Ah sat down, letting out a small sigh.
“Father is there.”
“Yes.”
Se Ah was about to get up from her seat because she felt suffocated, but Kang Woo grabbed her wrist.
“I have something to say, so sit down for a while.”
“I have nothing more.”
“Do you not want to agree? If you keep delaying like this.”
Se Ah blankly watched his slowly moving lips.
“I’m grateful.”
Her mind stopped. There was no way to truly understand Kang Woo’s heart. Why was he acting like this to her now?
“Exactly what I am”
“You were probably going to say that you don’t know why Kang Woo is acting like this.”
Kang Woo, with a leisurely hand, picked up the teacup that Se Ah had been drinking. He curled his lips, looking at Se Ah, who was blinking her eyes.
“You’re already too sweet, to the point of addiction.”
After taking a sip of tea, he put the cup down.
“This emotional exhaustion, wasn’t it what Kang Woo disliked the most?”
“Right.”
Se Ah’s face looked more confused than before.
“But I’m going to try it once.”
“Why on earth? It’s a loss for someone who likes to weigh pros and cons.”
“You provoked me.”
Exactly, what provoked him, what made him so persistent. Se Ah closed her lips, about to ask. The situation was already confusing, and she didn’t want to make it worse.
“Se Ah, look at me.”
Se Ah obediently looked at Kang Woo. Then, his long eyelashes seemed to flutter down slightly.
“I’ll agree to the divorce.”
Her heart skipped a beat at the words she both desired and feared. Se Ah tried hard to hide her bitter smile as she nodded. Kang Woo’s face, watching her, seemed somehow lonely.
“I fully agree with your opinion that I was not faithful to our marriage.”
Her tone was plain, devoid of emotion. She scoffed internally, having misunderstood his complex expression from before.
He simply wanted to end this marriage rationally. He married because he had a reason to be responsible, and the separation must also follow a reasonable procedure.
“But there’s a condition.”
Her slightly curved lips revealed this. That the situation would once again become complicated. That he wouldn’t give up easily.
Whether she was relieved or worried at that moment, she couldn’t tell.
“What is the condition?”
“Let’s break up after a year.”
“Kang Woo.”
“If you can’t agree, I can’t either.”
Instead of answering, Se Ah let out a hollow sigh.
“You may have suffered internally or gritted your teeth while marking the calendar days I came in.”
Kang Woo, who was deeply pressed against the back of the chair, leaned towards Se Ah.
“If that’s the entire reason for divorce, I’m willing to try. It’s unfair to break up without giving a chance.”
She couldn’t think of a counterargument.
“Unless there’s another woman in my life, or, if I haven’t fulfilled my duty as a man.”
For a moment, Kang Woo’s gaze intensified. Se Ah recognized his intent and avoided his gaze.
“Or if I didn’t provide a living expense. Typically, couples break up for such reasons. If you can’t provide a reasonable cause for divorce, you have to follow my condition.”
“What if there’s no reason to meet the divorce conditions you’re talking about after a year?”
After a moment of silence, Kang Woo’s lips moved.
“As I said, then I’ll agree, no matter what.”
His reason for enduring now became clear. Simply put, it sounded like he meant to give his all until the breakup.
His relentless and persistent nature was limited to his business. Outside of that, he did just enough as needed and didn’t linger on the results.
Human emotions wouldn’t deepen overnight. Yet she wondered if she might have become that way towards him.
A momentary expectation pricked her, it was funny and she felt a sting.
When a wrinkle formed on Se Ah’s forehead, Kang Woo smirked as if he had misunderstood something.
“It’s just a year. You can endure that long.”
Kang Woo raised his downcast eyes and looked deeply at Se Ah. Her eyes welled up under his heavy gaze. She bit the inside of her mouth to hold back tears when suddenly, Kang Woo’s phone vibrated.
It seemed like Hyun Suk’s caregiver had arrived. Kang Woo stood up from his seat.
“I’ll take it as an agreement and prepare the contract.”
Kang Woo sealed his lips, wiping off his slightly darkened complexion. Se Ah looked up at Kang Woo, desolate in the flow of the conversation she had lost control over in no time.
“Try to be tougher if you really want to get divorced.”
“Kang Woo…”
“Push me away ruthlessly. To the point where I can’t bear it.”
His towering body leaned towards her, his handsome face blurred in front of her. The strong gaze, the faintly exuding heavy musk awakened her to the reality of who Cha Kang Woo was. A longstanding unrequited love she had watched for eight years, her first love.
“I’m going to endure. Even if I have to give up my whole body for it.”
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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