The barbecue place they frequently visited for company dinners was already filled with people who had arrived. The smoky restaurant was noisy with chatter.
Ji Na and Ji Hye intentionally sat at the very end. It was a spot far away from Manager Jeong and Do Jin.
“Since it’s come to this, I’m going to burn through the company’s money.”
At Ji Hye’s voice, firm with a stern face, intern Jo chuckled.
“Deputy Ji Hye seems to be really fun.”
“Me?”
As Ji Hye asked with wide eyes in disbelief, intern Jo shook her head.
“That’s not my usual character.”
Even her serious statement with a bitter face seemed funny as she covered her mouth and chuckled.
“Well, today’s main characters, eat a lot.”
Manager Jeong, who sat at the head of the table, spoke in a hearty voice.
“You are being fed so that you work hard.”
The attention was poured onto the interns dozing off, and by extension, onto Ji Na, who sat next to them.
“Yes.”
Jin Woo’s satisfying smile, lifting the corner of his mouth, was met with a pleased laugh from Manager Jeong.
“Intern Seo Jin Woo, we look forward to your good work.”
Manager Jeong’s seemingly flattering words were amusing.
Why is he like that all of a sudden. Seeing Ji Hye cussing at Manager Jeong with her eyes, it seemed like the others were also surprised.
“Well, anyway, let’s eat a bellyful of beef today and work harder on marketing to increase sales.”
Do Jin sat beside Manager Jeong, and Heo, who sat across, came into view. Seeing Heo Yun Joo, who was brightly smiling at Do Jin, made her feel uncomfortable.
Soon after, a grill was brought to the table where Ji Na sat. The delectable red hue of the raw meat placed on top cooked with a sizzling sound.
As the meat cooked, people’s chopstick movements quickened. Ji Na drank soju more frequently than eating meat.
“Oh, did Deputy Ji Na come to drink today?”
Ji Hye, who was next to her, spoke as if surprised, but it went unheard. One shot, two shots, the sharp liquor traveled down the esophagus. She liked the bitterness that seemed to burn off the complexity inside.
“Please eat some meat now.”
While eating the meat, Ji Hye put away the liquor bottle in front of Ji Na with a sigh.
“Just one more shot.”
“You. You want to get drunk quickly and go home, don’t you?”
At Ji Hye’s words, Ji Na weakly smiled.
“Caught me. Hehe……”
“Eat some meat. It melts in your mouth.”
Ji Hye put a piece of meat into Ji Na’s mouth with her chopsticks.
“Hmm, it’s delicious.”
Ji Na chewed as if savoring it, and subtly reached for the soju bottle next to her.
“Indeed, Korean beef with soju!”
Click. The soju bottle didn’t come. When she turned her gaze, she saw another hand holding the soju bottle.
“Stop drinking.”
A man whose long and straight fingers were dizzyingly attractive. It was Seo Jin Woo.
“Why. I want to drink more.”
Ji Na’s hand, which held the mouth of the liquor bottle, was slightly twitching under Jin Woo’s hand. He seemed to be holding back his anger somewhere.
“You’re drunk, Deputy Ji Na.”
The worried voice of Jin Woo tickled her ear. Ji Na laughed without realizing it.
“I don’t get drunk easily. I’m Ji Na Lee. The ace of the marketing department, Ji Na Lee.”
“……”
“Deputy Ji Na started out alone from the beginning and got drunk.”
Ji Hye picked up a piece of Korean beef from the grill.
“But you still have to eat the meat, Deputy Ji Na.”
Just as Ji Hye was about to put the meat into Ji Na’s mouth,
“Come on, let’s pour a shot each. Deputy Ji Na!”
The voice of Director Jung looking for Deputy Lee was unexpectedly heard. Ji Hye grumbled in complaint.
“Here it starts again. Ugh.”
As Intern Jo widened his eyes, Ji Hye shook her head.
“Just bear with it. Director Jung is a heavy drinker.”
Then, Ji Na suddenly got up.
“Ji Na?”
Ignoring Ji Hye’s surprised voice, Ji Na staggered towards the director.
“Directoor, let me pour you a drink……”
Ji Na, whose face was flushed and tongue was twisted, bowed her head.
“Who got her drunk? She’s completely drunk. Drunk. Good grief.”
Director Jung spoke with a baffled face as he looked at Ji Na.
“It’s okay. I can handle it.”
Perhaps due to the alcohol, the energy of enthusiasm surged throughout her body.
“Someone take her away. Look at the smell of alcohol.”
Director Jung frowned as he gestured with his hand.
“Deputy Lee, go back to your seat.”
Do Jin, unable to watch anymore, finally opened his mouth.
“Huh?”
Ji Na widened her eyes as if she just noticed Do Jin and bowed her head as if she was going to prostrate.
“Manager, let me pour you a drink……”
“Deputy Lee.”
The prickling pain in her heart increased at Do Jin’s exhausted voice.
His face and voice, expressing more irritation than worry, seemed to show that our relationship was no longer the same as before.
Even though she was drunk, she still felt the pain. Perhaps it was because she kept denying the reality she already knew.
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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