Today, at the Yu Rim Hotel’s Yu Seong Hall, Kang Hyun and Yun had their engagement ceremony.
Yun was dragged out from the early morning breeze to get her hair and makeup done at the salon, and then she sat blankly in the dressing room wearing the dress Seo Jeong had chosen for her.
The blushcolored chiffon dress, made of silk, matched the innocent concept of an engaged woman. The draping done by hand, taking care of even small details, gave it a lovely yet luxurious feel.
Her hair was styled in halfup waves with a ribbon as a point of interest, which accentuated her innocent charm even more.
“Argh! If I knew it was Kang Hyun, I would have done it. Me!”
Yu Jin’s volcanic eruptions of frustration continued throughout the day.
“Don’t you know Kang Hyun? He’s disrespectful and a playboy. You wouldn’t be able to handle him.”
Kyung Jin, Yu Jin’s younger sister, clicked her tongue as she looked at her like that.
“I don’t care. Can’t I do it now? It doesn’t have to be him anyway!”
Yu Jin, who couldn’t let go of her regrets, continued to pester.
“Kyung Jin, take her away. She’ll cause a scene today.”
Hyun Jin, Yu Jin’s older sister, said.
“What’s this? Why is she marrying Kang Hyun? I’m really going crazy.”
Yu Jin, who was already a mess, was tearing at her hair more as she yelled.
“You wouldn’t have been able to do it anyway. Do you think Kang Hyun would have agreed if you had stepped forward for the marriage? He would rather die than marry his own sister. He stepped in because they were going to marry him to a child born out of wedlock.”
“I don’t care. Then I’ll say I’m a child born out of wedlock too.”
“What?”
The two, looking at Yu Jin who seemed to be not only lacking in sense but also aging in reverse, were taken aback, sighed, and looked at each other.
“Hey! You’re lucky you’re a child born out of wedlock.”
But suddenly, Yu Jin turned her gaze to Yun and glared at her as if she wanted to kill her. At that, Yun flinched. Even after 10 years, facing Yu Jin made her body freeze automatically.
“What’s with this luck? Hey, take off that dress! I’m going to wear it. Argh!”
Then, Yu Jin suddenly rushed at Yun. At that, Kyung Jin and Hyun Jin quickly held Yu Jin back, barely preventing a disaster.
Yun just closed her eyes and shivered.
“Didn’t she take her medication earlier?”
Hyun Jin shook her head.
“She must have.”
“Take her away. She might tear Yun’s dress like that. After all, we need to get through the engagement ceremony smoothly.”
Eventually, Kyung Jin dragged Yu Jin by the arm.
“Good grief, what did she eat to…”
Kyung Jin, barely managing to drag Yu Jin who was considerably larger than herself, went outside.
Yun, having undergone full makeup and wearing an uncomfortable, billowy, princesslike dress, had been shivering in fear while listening to all of Yu Jin’s complaints and venting. As soon as Yu Jin left, she let out a sigh of relief.
“Hey!”
But this time, Hyun Jin crossed her arms and glared fiercely at Yun.
“Yes?”
“Don’t you know who Kang Hyun despises most in this world?”
Yun could only think it was a relief that Yu Jin had disappeared, regardless of who Kang Hyun despised.
“It’s children born out of wedlock. He hates them with a passion. So do your best from now on. Humph!”
Hyun Jin scoffed at Yun and then left.
“Phew….”
Yun sighed. Only then could Yun lean back comfortably in the chair. She had been on edge the whole time, worried that Yu Jin would grab her by the collar and shake her.
Yun still found it pathetic that her body involuntarily shivered whenever she saw Yu Jin.
‘You’re an adult now. How long are you going to be like this? Please stop shaking.’
Yun comforted herself, wishing the engagement ceremony or whatever it was would end quickly.
Above all, it was a burden to keep facing them. The thought of having to be connected with people she never wanted to see again made her skin crawl.
Moreover, the current situation felt like watching a boring and tedious movie. It didn’t feel like her engagement ceremony. She just wanted to throw everything away and go home to rest.
“Why did Kang Hyun, not Cha Sang Moo, suddenly appear in the substitute position without any discussion?”
Seo Jeong didn’t care whether it was Yu Hyun or Kang Hyun, but she was annoyed that they did whatever they wanted.
“Well, we suddenly switched to Yun without any discussion. We’re not in a position to complain.”
However, Ji Man thought that Kang Hyun might be better. He heard that Kang Hyun’s fandom was enormous, and he calculated that he could use Kang Hyun in next year’s election.
“Kang Hyun even wants to keep the wedding private. He does whatever he wants.”
Seo Jeong was very dissatisfied, and her tone of voice was irritated. She couldn’t believe such a brat was doing whatever he wanted without discussing it with the adults.
Although she wasn’t close to Kyung Ho and didn’t see him often, whenever she did see him, she couldn’t understand why he was so brash, even when he was young.
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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