The three people who got off on the 23rd floor headed towards the reserved restaurant along the long corridor. Perhaps the long corridor was meant to calm the mind while walking. Hye-yoon suppressed her excited heart with whimsical thoughts and bouncing steps.
Following the staff’s guidance, they reached the private room. The three exchanged determined glances. Dad with firmness, Mom with composure. Both parents reassured Hye-yoon in their own ways.
Knock [dash].
And finally, the moment the private room opened. The urban landscape with the setting sun filled the view. In the center, a long table with three people sitting side by side.
There was no bird to be amazed by the grandeur of nature. Instead, a man emitted a beautiful charm like an orphaned beauty, rising from his seat in the midst of it.
Jiho, who stood up, politely bowed his head.
“Hello. I apologize for the delayed greetings.”
As Jiho’s family also began to rise, just when they could suppress their admiration. What could be held back was Hye-yoon’s familiarly beautiful appearance.
“Wow…….”
“Wow…….”
Even the worried dad and the confident mom. In the end, both of them burst into admiration facing Jiho up close. Hye-yoon lowered her head slightly.
In just one second, the first resolution was completely ruined.
Hye-yoon seemed to know what the best advantage of a course meal was. It wasn’t the order that stimulates the appetite, or the pinnacle of taste intended by the chef. It was the waiter who appeared when the air seemed heavy, a new atmosphere more welcome than new food. Truly appreciated.
Several pieces of food on white plates like works of art. Even though I thought the portions were small, how would Jiho react? The more he thought about it, the more a smile bloomed on his face.
Between the conversations of adults, the eyes of the two met. Hye-yoon’s eyes, pointing at the food, turned back to Jiho. The eyes gently curved into a silent conversation.
‘It’s delicious. But Jiho, will you be full after eating this?’
‘No.’
Smiling with lips pressed together, their expressions were strikingly similar. Faces that shared subtle thoughts, calming awkwardness. Jiho’s mom was watching Hye-yoon like that.
“Your daughter is really beautiful.”
And finally, she couldn’t hold back her sincere feelings. Hye-yoon could read affection and apology in her eyes.
That gaze would probably be the same when looking at Jiho. When the tender feelings spread, Jiho’s stepfather also interrupted.
“I don’t know how many times he said this. How many times he rewound the drama…….”
“Wow, thank you.”
“We are grateful. Because Jiho has met such a beautiful partner… We really like it.”
It was the opposite of my family, pouring emotions at every moment. Subtle and cautious emotions flowed like mist. When one person finished speaking, the eye contact between the three exchanged glances.
Cautious hearts are also love.
Hye-yoon imitated the smiles of the three people for a moment. Jiho also captured the affectionate expression on her small face. Whenever their gazes intertwined, the two discreetly continued their eye conversation.
“Jiho, your mother is so beautiful.”
“Hye-yoon, isn’t my dad so cute?”
A clear gesture of pointing at someone with raised eyebrows was vividly read under the slightly raised eyebrows. Hye-yoon bit her lower lip tightly. Because mischief was flowing in Jiho’s eyes.
Jiho averted his gaze for a moment. He knew well that warm interest in his face came every few minutes. There was a man with brown eyes pouring fervent affection.
Glittering with curiosity, when their gazes met, awkwardly lowering their eyes when they overlapped. Then, after 3 seconds, brave eyes turned back towards this side. Lowering his head in greeting, even the rising corners of his mouth.
Jiho clenched his fist under the table. It was quite challenging to suppress laughter. Hye-yoon was essentially Jiho in terms of age and gender, not just a resemblance.
The second resolution, exchanged more than 100 times between the two women, was also a failure. Unaware of this fact, Hye-yoon raised her head in amazement at the food that suited her taste. Jiho’s family’s food was not so bland.
“It seems a bit bland. Is it okay for you?”
“Yes. My food tends to be on the salty side, but I’ve been liking the plain taste lately.”
“…You can speak more casually.”
“It’s a bit awkward in a place like this. …Next time.”
Hye-yoon nodded slightly. Although she received enough sincerity, Jiho’s mom added a shy word.
“…Next time, for sure.”
The affectionate hope for the next time was filled with the word ‘for sure.’ Because of that, Hye-yoon could summon a similar courage.
“Yes, for sure.”
In just one letter, such a sentiment could be conveyed. The two shared the same surprise.
When the subtle eye contact went back and forth in the short line of sight, the sparkling eye contact continued with a slightly longer line of sight. Jiho, swallowing his laughter, stared at that twinkle. His voice was mixed with a pleasant courtesy.
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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