Taken aback by such feedback for the first time, Sunwoo felt perplexed. He hadn’t had anyone to point this out before.
“I’ll try to work on it.”
Green smiled again at his response.
“It’s good that you’re willing to try, but it won’t be easy. It’s probably been a habit for over 30 years.”
“True.”
“Instead, like today, if I misunderstand, correct me right away. Don’t just let it be.”
“Alright, I’ll do that.”
Silence fell again between Sunwoo and Green, this time comfortably.
“I’ll turn off the light.”
Sunwoo reached out and turned off the reading light, plunging the bedroom back into darkness.
Tension made their breathing sound louder, and as they focused on each other’s breaths, sleep seemed to drift further away.
After a while, Green turned to face Sunwoo, who was lying straight. Though her eyes were closed, Sunwoo could feel her gaze on his face.
“Can’t you sleep?”
Giving up on sleep, Sunwoo turned to face her, sensing that she had something more to say.
Even in the dark, he could clearly see her plump lips hesitating nervously.
“You said earlier, when I’m feeling really tired and scared, you’d want to hold me…”
“Yes.”
“So, would you hold me now?”
Startled by her unexpected request, Sunwoo slightly propped himself up, wondering if Green was genuinely scared or testing his promise to withstand any advances with a silver teeth guard.
He hoped she wasn’t the kind of person to test him in such a situation.
“Are you very scared?”
“Yes, every time I close my eyes to sleep, I keep recalling the way Grandfather Park Chan-wook stared at me. It’s really scary.”
Green’s voice was slightly tremulous with fear. Indeed, even the seasoned executives of K1 Construction, who had faced all manner of challenges, admitted feeling a chill down their spine when faced with Park Chan-wook’s piercing gaze.
Considering Green’s innocence and trust in people, it was easy to imagine how frightened she must have been when she directly confronted the harsh face of the Chairman of K1 Construction.
Observing her quietly, Sunwoo slowly opened his arms. Without any hesitation, Green nestled into his embrace.
As Sunwoo tightened his arms around her, Green’s trembling shoulders gradually calmed down. Her fear wasn’t unfounded.
“Don’t worry too much. Whatever big challenge comes our way, we’ll face it together.”
Green nodded vigorously and smiled brightly, her smile shining even in the darkness.
Sunwoo, tightening his embrace again, buried his face in her hair. Her sweet scent seemed to calm his own anxieties as well. It appeared that his nerves had been on edge without him realizing.
The two of them fell asleep, holding onto each other for support.
On Monday morning, Shilla Newspaper, a competitor of Goryeo Daily, published an exclusive front-page article:
“K1 Construction’s Executive Director Jin Sunwoo Revealed as Illegitimate Child of Former Congressman Jin Young-cheol.”
“K1 Construction’s Succession Plans Shrouded in Uncertainty.”
“Netizens Praise Vice President Park In-young as a ‘Living Bodhisattva’.”
Missing out on the scoop, various TV broadcasters and online news outlets repeatedly released articles citing Shilla Newspaper. Journalists began frantically calling Sunwoo for follow-up reports.
Green’s phone was no exception. Somehow, journalists had caught wind that she was Sunwoo’s wife and were attempting to contact her.
“Sunwoo, what is all this about?”
Green was shocked to hear that Sunwoo was Jin Young-cheol’s illegitimate child.
She had always thought Sunwoo resembled his mother, Park In-young, more than his father, Jin Young-cheol. But to think In-young wasn’t his biological mother!
“I mentioned it before, didn’t I? The day before our family meeting. I said I would never inherit K1 Construction.”
“Ah!”
Green suddenly realized the significance of his words.
Her father, Han Moon-taek, had been expecting that Sunwoo, being In-young’s only son, would naturally inherit K1 Construction.
However, if Sunwoo was the result of Jin Young-cheol’s affair, then to Park Chan-wook and Park In-young, he was nothing more than a stranger, unrelated by blood. Even to Green, it seemed unlikely that such Sunwoo would inherit K1 Construction.
Realizing the implication of Sunwoo’s words, Green asked again.
“So, is all this true?”
“Yes, it’s true.”
“Unbelievable!”
In hindsight, Sunwoo always referred to his mother and grandfather as ‘Vice President’ and ‘Chairman,’ respectively – a peculiar form of address that she had simply accepted without question.
Feeling foolish for not realizing the oddity, Green looked at their ringing phones. Sunwoo silently turned off both his and Green’s phones.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang.
“Who could it be at this early hour? Could it be the journalists?”
“If they were journalists, the apartment security team wouldn’t have let them through.”
Upon checking the security camera, Green was stunned to see an entirely unexpected person at the door.
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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