On Monday morning,
Upon arriving at the office, Ho Jin heard an unsettling piece of news.
“Say that again. Where did Jae Oh go?”
“He reportedly went to Chae Yoon’s house over the weekend.”
Listening to such incredulous information, Ho Jin was momentarily at a loss for words.
Then, his secretary added some more details.
“However, he didn’t go alone. Chairman Han went with him. They left together, but they returned separately.”
Despite the secretary’s clarification, Ho Jin still seemed disoriented.
“Team Leader.”
Jolted by the call, Ho Jin let out a deep sigh and said,
“I understand. You can go now.”
With an added hint of irritation in his gesture, the secretary respectfully bowed her head slightly and exited Ho Jin’s office.
Left alone, Ho Jin rested his head on the headrest and drifted into his thoughts.
A month ago,
Witnessing Jae Oh’s desperate attempt to not let Chae Yoon leave the house, Ho Jin had surmised the depth of feelings Jae Oh harbored for Chae Yoon.
Otherwise, there was no reason for the impassive Han Jae Oh to hold onto Song Chae Yoon, especially when another man was in the picture.
That’s why Ho Jin used Kyung Hee to prevent their meetings and sent a man who could potentially sway Chae Yoon’s heart.
Although Lim Hyun Min was a decoy, he hoped that Chae Yoon would genuinely fall for him.
‘I wish she would fall for him…’
Ho Jin ardently hoped that the man he sent would win over Chae Yoon’s heart.
Truthfully, it was more difficult for Ho Jin to fathom Chae Yoon’s feelings than Jae Oh’s. While it was clear that Jae Oh was in a loveless marriage, he couldn’t comprehend why this young woman had agreed to a marriage of convenience.
Other than being treated as a cherished granddaughter by Ji Pil, there wasn’t much information to gauge her intentions. But, observing that she hadn’t dated anyone for 3 years, he speculated.
‘Does she have feelings for Jae Oh?’
It wasn’t impossible. That’s why he wanted her to be involved with another man even more, but the outcome was disappointing.
Seeing the photo of Jae Oh leaving a restaurant holding Chae Yoon, Ho Jin was horrified.
“How did this happen?”
The man explained the situation he had experienced.
[…So when I asked if they were going to divorce, he glared at me as if he wanted to kill me. Then the woman calmed him down, and he left holding her, just like in the photo I sent you.]
[Didn’t he mention how he got there?]
[No, he didn’t say anything about that.]
Kyung Hee had clearly told Chae Yoon not to inform Jae Oh about their meeting.
But how did Jae Oh find out and get there?
The question drove Ho Yeon crazy, but without directly asking Jae Oh, there was no way to find out.
On top of that, the thought that Jae Oh and Chae Yoon might reconcile and change their minds about the divorce kept haunting Ho Yeon. Since then, he hadn’t been able to sleep properly, boiling with rage.
In the midst of this, some good news arrived.
[Yes, she says she’s leaving right away.]If Chae Yoon was leaving Ji Pil’s house, it meant Jae Oh had given his consent. The timing of her departure was sooner than Ho Yeon expected, which calmed his distraught heart.
‘That makes sense.’
Ho Yeon consoled himself, thinking that Jae Oh’s strange reaction was just a temporary confusion. All that remained was to stamp the divorce papers.
However, as if mocking the fact that the end was near, Jae Oh did not stamp the divorce papers.
It drove Ho Yeon to despair.
‘Why is he dragging this out so much?’
If he didn’t delay in deciding to let Chae Yoon go, why was he taking so much time with the paperwork?
Jae Oh’s slow processing speed pushed Ho Yeon to the brink.
‘I can’t just confront him thoughtlessly…’
While Jae Oh’s coldness played a part in Ho Yeon’s restraint, the major reason, accounting for 80%, was his mother Ye Sul’s stubbornness.
Three years ago, when Ye Sul accidentally found out about Ho Yeon’s feelings, she was furious.
[Did I introduce you to the vice president’s son for this, thinking you’d try to steal a married man? Have you gone mad?] [Mom, Jae Oh didn’t marry her because he loved her.] [Whatever it is, it can’t happen. End it. Understand?]After that, Ho Yeon was continuously dragged to matchmaking meetings set up by Ye Sul.
However, none of the men she met on these arranged dates appealed to her. Instead, she found herself yearning more for Jae Oh, unable to clear her mind.
The longing for what she couldn’t have only intensified.
Feeling that she probably couldn’t let go of Jae Oh, Ho Yeon spent a year trying to change her mother Ye Sul’s mind, and finally, Ye Sul surrendered.
[I don’t want to hear people say that my daughter married a man she snatched from his wife or had an affair. So, make sure things are settled properly.]Ye Sul’s condition for complying with Ho Yeon’s wishes was a clean break between Jae Oh and Chae Yoon.
Because of this, Ho Yeon eagerly awaited their divorce.
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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