So Myung hesitated for a moment, then let out an awkward laugh and spoke.
“I’m … I’m on a business trip.”
“Ah, is that so? What can I get you?”
“A bottle of soju, please.”
“Soju?”
The female boss made a surprised face for a moment, then quickly gave a small smile and brought a bottle of soju.
So Myung ordered some simple snacks and opened the cap of the soju.
Despite trying to compose herself, she felt agitated as she couldn’t keep her thoughts in check. The man named Ji Sung kept spinning in her head.
“What are you trying to do, you?”
For the first time, So Myung was sitting alone in a bar. Even she thought this was an unusual sight.
She looked around. The place wasn’t crowded, but everyone there seemed to be enjoying themselves with their friends or lovers.
She was the only one alone there. There was nobody around her.
Finally, she felt the reality of the situation. She had been brutally trampled on and betrayed by her husband.
So Myung, who couldn’t even handle her drink, paid her bill and left, her steps kept veering to the side.
‘If Ji Sung was here at this time, he would have helped me. Or he might have run to the pharmacy to buy a hangover cure. Stop it. Why would you care for the one who ran away even when you didn’t like it?’
So Myung was staggering towards home. During this time, she stopped at a convenience store inside Cha Do Ha’s apartment building. She saw a woman staggering towards her from a distance.
The woman seemed to be very drunk. But for some reason, she looked familiar to Do Ha.
‘Oh no! It’s the woman next door. Great.’
Do Ha felt extremely awkward. This was already their second encounter of the day. He had a feeling that something was definitely going on with this woman. At that moment, she was alone and seemed very unstable.
Almost at the apartment, she suddenly felt tired and sat down on a bench, lowering her head to rest.
Perhaps due to the effect of alcohol, she felt a spinning dizziness, as if her head was going round and round.
Cha Do Ha, with a blank expression, pretended not to see her and turned away. After walking about five steps, he couldn’t resist, grimaced, and looked back. She was still sitting there.
“Ah. Really. Hm.”
He walked back to So Myung with a scowl. He looked her up and down, then he was taken aback, a spark of surprise in his eyes.
The soles of her feet were entirely bloody. What on earth had happened to this woman? How could she walk around with feet like this?
“Phew.”
A sigh unconsciously slipped from his mouth. Cha Do Ha went back to the convenience store, bought disinfectant and ointment, and returned.
Even while he was going to the convenience store and back, So Myung sat on the bench with her head hung low. Cha Do Ha looked at her and spoke.
“Excuse me.”
Cha Do Ha called out to So Myung. As she lifted her face from where it had been hanging, her face was smeared all over with tears.
“Why are you doing this?”
Cha Do Ha asked with a worried voice.
“Just go.”
So Myung looked at Cha Do Ha and spoke coldly. Or she tried to speak coldly, but her tongue twisted, and she ended up looking rather ridiculous.
“Where have you been walking with those feet?”
So Myung found this man, who spoke in a scolding tone, really annoying and bothersome.
“Just go…plea…se. Mind your…own business.”
“No, how can I just leave it like this.”
Cha Do Ha sat down next to So Myung on the ground, applied the disinfectant to her foot, and spread the ointment on it, finally attaching a large bandage.
“What are you…doing…? Stop it.”
Looking at Cha Do Ha, So Myung frowned deeply.
“Your foot is all bloody.”
Cha Do Ha silently attached the bandage to So Myung’s foot. Looking at Cha Do Ha, So Myung let out a shrill scream.
“Get lost. Just…go away. You know nothing.”
“Haah. Let’s go. Come.”
Cha Do Ha turned his back to So Myung.
“What are you doing?”
“I’ll carry you. We’re neighbors, so I’ll take you home. Or call your husband.”
“I can…go by myself. Mister, just go.”
“It would be better if you called your husband. It was shortsighted of me to offer to carry you.”
“I don’t have a husband, just go, I’ll go by myself.”
So Myung staggered to her feet. She couldn’t walk far before she collapsed back to the ground.
Cha Do Ha sat down in front of her and pulled her arm, lifting her up.
He thought it was fortunate that the distance between the convenience store and home was relatively close.
“Don’t let go!”
“Just go.”
Cha Do Ha spoke gently to So Myung.
He carried the limp So Myung and got into the elevator. So Myung was so drunk that she didn’t resist and stayed still.
But his back kept feeling warm, and before he knew it, it had become damp.
A woman he didn’t know was crying on his back. Cha Do Ha felt pitiful for her.
What had hurt her so much? She was so pitiful.
When they arrived in front of her house, he put her down. She nodded slightly at him with her smudged face and entered her password.
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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