“I need you.”
Seo Ah’s heart trembled violently.
It was nice to be seen as an attractive woman, but being needed was something entirely different.
How much effort had she put in for the past 6 years to become such a person?
She didn’t expect to hear it directly from his mouth so soon, probably because she felt like she hadn’t yet properly shown her charm as she had promised.
When he, whom she met after 6 years, hastened to get married, she was proud to feel like she was accepted by him, but a bitter feeling still lingered in her heart.
She thought she might never hear those words, and she was grateful enough to be seen as an attractive woman…!
“Wwhat do you mean? You don’t need medicine……”
Seo Ah wanted to verify it again because it was unbelievable. She wondered if she understood it correctly.
“I’ve been sleeping well without medicine since I slept with you.”
At his decisive words, Seo Ah’s eyes trembled fiercely.
How could that be possible? She thought it was serious when she saw him having difficulty breathing after drinking wine and medicine together on the first night they slept together. Was it something that could be fixed so easily?
It felt like a dream that Seo Ah had become such an entity for Ha Joon.
Soon, Seo Ah’s body was lifted into the air.
Ha Joon sat her on a table.
And he approached closely, making her wrap her arms around his neck, and hugged her waist tightly.
Then Seo Ah averted her gaze. It would be better if he kissed her straight away, but it was embarrassing because they were making eye contact with their lips about to touch.
Before she knew it, she saw his bare upper body and considered closing her eyes, but she buried her face in his shoulder for fear that he would tease her asking for another kiss.
She shuddered at his hot, firm bare body, but it seemed better than him observing her expression.
But her action stimulated Ha Joon even more. Her soft, squishy cheeks and tickling breath touched his firm body.
Ha Joon roughly swallowed her lips.
Seo Ah again unknowingly held her breath, then slowly let it out. It was a kiss they had done countless times over a few days, but why did her breath get stuck each time?
As she breathed, his unique scent strongly hit her, making her head spin.
His hot, moist breath came flooding in, cutting off her breath before she could pull herself together.
One of his hands that was holding her waist went up along her back, gently encircling her neck.
His touch was tender, but his breath filling her mouth was not.
Feeling dizzy, she felt like she needed to hold on to something, so she tightly gripped the arm around his neck.
Doing so made it seem like she was hugging him tighter, making Ha Joon’s mind spin as well.
The more Ha Joon swallowed her breath, the thirstier he got, as if he had eaten sweet, stimulating food.
He hated sweet things for sure, but her breath was so sweet that it made him dizzy, yet he kept craving for it.
It was an addiction he couldn’t quit.
At the same time, Ha Joon’s hands moved quickly. The sight of her squirming at his touch was also addictive.
Soon, Ha Joon’s lips moved towards her ear.
Seo Ah involuntarily shrunk back when his moist warmth spread hotly to her ear.
As his lips gradually moved down, Seo Ah, who suddenly remembered something, pushed him away with all her might.
Startled, Ha Joon pulled his lips away.
It was the first time Seo Ah pushed him away so hard since they confirmed their feelings for each other, so he snapped back to his senses.
Regret flooded him thinking he had pushed her too hard.
He had been trying to stop without hesitation if she showed even a slight dislike, and he was sure she wouldn’t feel that way, but why did it hurt so much?
An intense silence filled the bedroom, and the two looked at each other at a distance where their lips could touch.
As Ha Joon’s heart pounded crazily with anxiety, worried that she might say she didn’t like it.
“I don’t……”
“That……”
The two broke the stifling silence at the same time.
Ha Joon was about to ask if she didn’t like it, and Seo Ah was about to sigh and say ‘that’s…’.
“No! It’s not that I don’t like it…….”
Startled, Seo Ah opened her eyes wide, leaned her upper body a little back as she spoke, and Ha Joon let out a sigh of relief inside.
“No, it’s… I need to wear a dress… if there are marks……”
Even as Seo Ah leaned back, she could not properly look at his face still too close, and she stuttered with her lips moving restlessly.
“Sigh.”
At this, Ha Joon lowered his head and snorted in laughter. For a moment, his own image seemed baffling.
He found it unbelievable how his mood fluctuated at each of her actions, each of her words.
Seeing his reaction, Seo Ah floundered helplessly, seeking her words.
“I didn’t even shower….”
Before Seo Ah could finish her sentence, Ha Joon quickly picked her up and headed for the bathroom.
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Ha Joon gently laid Seo Ah on the pristine white quilt.
Seeing her curled up with embarrassment and eyes tightly shut, his mind was bewildered.
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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