Gyo Hwan was taken aback, his hand stopped halfway while covering the bed sheet, and he looked into the tearfilled, transparent black eyes.
“Why? Do you want to study with the teacher again?”
Even though you dislike me.
“If that’s the case, that would be really good.”
Seeing the corners of the mouth, which had been sulking, softly curl upwards, Gyo Hwan finally had to respond helplessly.
“Okay. I’ll meet the teacher once.”
The next morning.
“Madam, there’s a big problem!”
Ja Hyeon, who woke up wearing a blindfold in the bedroom, groped around in the air as she couldn’t see anything.
“What’s wrong, what happened?”
The butler Pyo who took off her blindfold said.
“Young Master is missing.”
“What?”
Ja Hyeon wore the slippers placed under her bed and came downstairs.
“Did you go to Yul’s room?”
He might be asleep in the closet like last time.
“I thought so too, and searched everywhere, but he’s nowhere to be found.”
“Oh my, what’s going on? Where did he go in the middle of the night? I’m sure I saw him sleeping when I left.”
In the reception room where the servants were gathered, Ja Hyeon’s voice echoed loudly.
“There are so many adults in this house, can’t we look after one child? Last time, he was grabbed like a rat while I went to the hospital with my motherinlaw. How can I trust you with the household in this state?”
“I am deeply sorry, Madam.”
“Yul is in my room, so don’t say anything to Butler Pyo.”
Ja Hyeon, who had finished getting ready for work, stared at Gyo Hwan, who was descending the spiral staircase.
“What? He’s in your room? When? Why?”
Did he get scolded again?
“Don’t wake him up because he fell asleep late at night after talking to me.”
“What? Conversation? Not just a random chatter?”
“How dare you say I was chattering…!”
Gyo Hwan, who was about to retort, seemed too tired to explain and turned his back to leave.
“Where are you going? You haven’t even eaten breakfast.”
Ja Hyeon called from behind him.
“From today, I’m returning to the morning meetings.”
“Did you find a new tutor?”
She said she’d take care of it until a new tutor was found.
“We’ll find one soon, so tell him not to go to school today and rest at home.”
“Huh, what’s with him? When does he ever tell him to skip school and take it easy?”
Ja Hyeon was more irritated than when she heard Yul was missing.
Team Leader Nam, who had been waiting in front of the car, handed Gyo Hwan the tablet with the morning meeting documents and opened the back door.
Gyo Hwan, who was supposed to get in the car, suddenly stopped and looked back.
“Why are you doing that?”
Through the yellowtinted ginkgo trees, he could see Hyo Jin’s room with white lace curtains drawn.
“Don’t you have to apologize to the teacher as well? Because she was driven away because of me.”
The child’s clear voice made Gyo Hwan, standing looking at the window, feel even more uncomfortable.
“Did Driver Seo pack and take the teacher’s belongings to her house?”
Gyo Hwan, who had got in the car, looked at Team Leader Nam getting into the driver’s seat.
“Yes.”
“When?”
“We delivered them right away that day?”
Thinking Gyo Hwan might be asking if they forgot to clean up, Team Leader Nam responded sharply.
“Oh, by the way, the headhunter called to check the reference for Teacher Bong Hyo Jin.”
“From the headhunter?”
“They didn’t specify which household, but since they’re verifying a career from Sangrim Garden, it seems like it’s a competitor.”
Oh dear, he was trying to understand Seung Yul’s feelings. Meanwhile, had she applied to another household? And a competitor, at that?
Gyo Hwan felt repugnant, but he was rather relieved that he didn’t have to meet her using this excuse.
Since the teacher was working in another house, Seung Yul wouldn’t be able to blame his dad.
“But that child apparently goes to the same school as Seung Yul?”
“Really?”
Wouldn’t this get more complicated if left alone?
At school, they knew Teacher Bong as his mother.
“Grandma, try some of this.”
Hyo Jin cut a freshly boiled packet of herbal medicine and offered it to Soon Hye, who was sitting at the table.
“Ah, I’m fine. You eat it.”
Soon Hye, who had a noisy stomach, pushed it away without even looking.
“Grandma. You almost spilled it on your clothes.”
If you don’t want to eat, just say so. Do you know how expensive these clothes are?
“Why are you wearing a suit from the morning, sister? Like you’re going for an interview.”
Her younger brother, Hwang Sae, who had slept in, asked without any tact.
“Hey, is there a rule that says you can only wear a suit when going for an interview? I usually dress like this, why?”
Soon Hye looked at Hyo Jin, who was washing her fingers stained with herbal medicine under the sink.
“When exactly are you going to work?”
“Ah, I told you, my vacation isn’t over yet.”
Hyo Jin, who had dried her wet hands with a kitchen towel, slipped on her high heels as if to escape, grabbing the handbag on the sofa.
“Tell me honestly. You got fired, didn’t you?”
“Oh, please, fired…”
Hyo Jin felt a pang of guilt and tightened her throat.
“Where on earth would your granddaughter get fired? Every time I quit my parttime job, the bosses would cry and beg, saying that they couldn’t even make it ten li without me.”
“But what kind of vacation involves packing up and leaving? They’re not kicking you out, are they?”
Ah, Hwang Sae. If only I could just…
“Well, it’s a longterm vacation, so that’s why. I’m going to study abroad, so it will take a little longer.”
“You always lie. You went and got a perfectly good teaching position.”
Ever since Hyo Jin came home in the middle of the night with a bundle, Soon Hye had been more than worried.
To avoid her grandmother’s interrogation, Hyo Jin arrived at the hotel earlier than the scheduled time and checked her attire reflected in the floortoceiling window before entering the coffee shop.
Today’s meeting place happened to be the hotel coffee shop where she was introduced by the announcer Kang Hanna.
Ah, this feels ominous.
Should I spit at a tree and say no to the bad luck before entering?
“Oh, Seung Yul’s mother?”
“Yes?”
Damn. I had a bad feeling when they said it was the same hotel.
As soon as she entered the coffee shop, a woman sitting by the window stood up with a happy greeting.
“I’m Sung Joon’s mother. What brings you here…?”
“You’re Sung Joon’s mother?”
Could it be? The person I came to interview with isn’t the representative of this management committee, is it?
“I’m here for an interview with Sung Joon’s new tutor today.”
Why do bad premonitions never fail?
The person who said they would hire me was Sung Joon’s mother.
Unable to believe the reality before her eyes, Hyo Jin could only let out an awkward chuckle through her lips.
“What brings Seung Yul’s mother here?”
“Oh, I am…”
Sung Joon’s mother, whose eyes were sharp, sparkled with interest.
“Were you here?”
At the sound of the man’s voice, which emitted a soft skin scent, Hyo Jin felt faint.
No, why is this gentleman here again?
“It seems a bit noisy here, let’s go to a quieter place.”
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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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