“I’m coming.”
That night, when he received a call long after the end of working hours, Nam, the team leader, had a hunch that it was bad news.
“Well, it has finally arrived.”
He thought he would give a long scolding, but as he let out a sigh, Gyo Hwan tensed up.
“Why aren’t you saying anything?”
Has he gone crazy? He thought he would give a speech as the chief secretary about the negative impact that the upcoming breakup would bring.
“You know everything, don’t you?”
Even though it was to settle the grudge between his deceased father and grandfather, he never expected his own child to receive such treatment and push for a marriage, even after witnessing it with his own eyes.
Since the day he saw the video of Isabel causing a scene at the cafe, Nam, who hadn’t had a child of his own, had already anticipated this.
Gyo Hwan himself would never admit it, but Nam, who had spent a considerable amount of time with him since their military days, had been keenly aware of his changes after meeting Teacher Bong.
Ten years ago, Nam went to welcome Gyo Hwan, who had just taken office as a new prosecutor, riding in a military vehicle.
While other prosecutors were captivated by their sense of privilege, thinking they would soon become judges after completing their military service, Nam never spoke arrogantly or disrespectfully to his subordinates.
Coming from a military family where serving in the military was considered natural, he had joined the law firm without hesitation when he received Gyo Hwan’s request.
“We need someone we can trust.”
When he worked as a military prosecutor, Nam thought of Gyo Hwan as just a smart young man who passed the judicial examination at a young age.
It was after he lived an ordinary life as a judge in the Civil Affairs Department that he discovered the bloodline of the only top 100 law firm in the country, after his wife’s funeral when he was visited by himself.
It wasn’t until his mother, Lady Min Jahyun, left for Singapore with Yul and he lived alone with his grandmother, Lady Bang Mihee, at Sangrimwon that Gyo Hwan found out about what had been happening without his knowledge until the day he received a sudden call saying that his grandmother had collapsed.
After waking up from a weeklong coma, his grandmother couldn’t remember anything, and the medical team diagnosed her with dementia due to brain damage.
Gyo Hwan was shocked when he checked his grandmother’s bank transaction records and call logs before she collapsed.
For some reason, his grandmother had secretly hired someone to investigate Lawyer Kang Jaeik.
Judging by the call records and text messages on her cell phone, it seemed like she had received the investigation results from the person in charge of the investigation, but nothing was found among her belongings when she was brought in by the ambulance.
Gyo Hwan traced the pawnshop his grandmother had investigated based on her transaction records, but her whereabouts became mysterious after she collapsed, as if she had received someone’s fortunetelling.
If Kang Jaeik had obtained the investigation results that were stolen when his grandmother collapsed, there was a high possibility that all the evidence that could have been disadvantageous to him would have been destroyed by the time the investigation began.
To prevent any evidence destruction later on, Gyo Hwan calmly paid a visit to Kang Jaeik, not showing any sign of suspicion.
He thought that the reason he didn’t tell himself or his mother, Jahyeon, during his grandmother’s investigation was probably not because he didn’t trust himself, but to protect himself from Kang Jaeik.
Now that Gyo Hwan had just joined the law firm, it would have been difficult for him to confront Kang Jaeik with his expertise or political power.
A strategic marriage was the most effective strategy to put Kang Jaeik off guard.
Gyo Hwan recruited a team leader to continue his grandmother’s investigation and secretly started investigating Kang Jaeik.
From major tax evasion and overseas fund concealment to daily activities and meetings with various people.
Not only Kang Jaeik but also the private lives of his wife, Isabelle, known as a dancer, and their illegitimate daughter, Kang Hanna.
He collected all the information that could become bullets when he eventually waged war against Kang Jaeik.
The team leader was concerned that if the reason for their breakup became known as their relationship with Teacher Bong, he would lose the support and trust of the staff. However, fortunately, thanks to Isabelle’s positive image, Gyo Hwan expected that the accusation of adultery would not be easily raised by Kang Jaeik’s side.
If the employees saw the video of Isabelle causing a scene in the cafe, Kang Jaeik would also not be free from criticism.
Since the two individuals’ domains were strictly separated due to the nature of the law firm, Gyo Hwan’s influence in the company would remain unchanged.
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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