“Right. Haha, she could. It’s not surprising. Look……you look…well, quite fine on the surface.”
Cha Woong glanced at Tae Min Hyuk up and down and agreed. His appearance was second to none. Cha Woong conceded this point without question.
“Ha, it’s possible. Yes, it’s entirely possible. There’s more than one or two people who like that appearance of yours. It’s not surprising.”
Then his eyes turned sad.
“Miss Eun Seo Woo is too naive about the world. If she picks up a beautiful flower and gets pricked by the thorns, then what? So, you’re saying, because Eun Seo Woo likes you, you’re going to ‘go out with her’. That’s your idea of a winwin.”
“You could say that.”
“That’s not okay, then it’s even worse.”
Cha Woong empathized deeply with Eun Seo Woo as if he was possessed by her. He felt pain in his chest picturing her getting hurt.
“Brother, you shouldn’t use people’s feelings. That’s not right. You can’t toy with feelings when you don’t even like them. Brother, you’re in big trouble.”
“Big trouble, you say.”
“It’s like frost falling in May.”
Tae Min Hyuk let out a long sigh. Despite Cha Woong’s threat, which was akin to a curse, he seemed to have no intention of changing his plans.
Time ticked away. Tae Min Hyuk opened his mouth again, his voice seemed even heavier.
“You know it’s not a joke. I’m putting my life on the line.”
Cha Woong covered his face with his hands as if he couldn’t stop Tae Min Hyuk any further. Cha Woong knew his circumstances all too well. That’s why they had stuck together so far.
Cha Woong took a deep sigh and lifted his head. His face looked like it had aged 10 years. Although he understood Tae Min Hyuk, he felt terrible thinking about what he couldn’t do to Eun Seo Woo.
“Did you plan to go this far when you found Kim Min Ju?”
“Would I have prepared for this if I wasn’t ready to get married?”
He said that, but in reality, Tae Min Hyuk had never thought about dating or marriage from the beginning.
There would have been many variables depending on Kim Min Ju’s actual situation and location, but he had absolutely no plan to treat her as a woman.
He had considered a position akin to a likable sponsor. That alone should have been enough.
But if he extended his hand to her and became her lover, there would be no more assured way in the world to make her his ally. It was the fastest shortcut and the easiest path.
He didn’t know at the time.
He didn’t realize that an emotion deeply rooted within him, unbeknownst even to himself, was moving him that day.
He thought he was just chasing after a profit, but in fact, that wasn’t the case.
“Brother……. You have to treat Miss Eun Seo Woo right. You have to treat her with real decency, without hurting her, really well till the end. Don’t let anything about David Kim or whatever get discovered. Make her happy as if she’s truly loved. Ha…… I don’t know if what I’m saying makes sense.”
His advice, despite sounding as absurd as asking someone to steal with care, was the best Cha Woong could give.
“As if she’s truly loved, happily.”
As if it was a simple matter, Tae Min Hyuk moved his eyebrows and gave a faint smile. His contemplative tone was utterly dry.
And so, he became a butterfly and plunged into fate.
Unaware that Eun Seo Woo would end up being the woman who would make me cry desperately.
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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