I arrived at work and changed into my uniform, entering the station.
“Hello.”
While greeting, a nurse who had been watching Narim closely as she sat down approached her with a meaningful smile. Placing bread and coffee on Narim’s desk, she whispered.
“Narim, who was that man who came to see you yesterday?”
“Ah…”
So you saw that… Narim gritted her teeth at the nurse’s words. Things were getting more complicated.
“A guy you’re meeting these days?”
“No.”
“Well, it’s not like you’re in a relationship, but why did you buy cake and coffee? Thanks to you, we ate well.”
“Huh?”
She hadn’t heard that story. Narim pointed to the coffee and bread the nurse had brought and asked.
“Is this it, by any chance?”
“No, this was bought by Professor Yoon.”
“What? Professor Yoon?”
It seems the dating course introduced by Jung the nurse was quite nice. Another nurse replied, chuckling.
“He seemed really cool. Good luck.”
“It’s really not like that. I’ll go to the pharmacy for a moment.”
Thinking that the questions might continue, Narim quickly left her seat.
Yesterday was her day off.
Tired, reluctant to go out, and lazing around at home, she received a call from that man.
According to her mom’s wishes, she had arranged to meet him as if she were scheduling a lunch date.
Originally, she was supposed to meet him last week. Excusing herself once for not feeling well and twice for her schedule, she had kept postponing, but the man suddenly came to the hospital.
Saying let’s meet next time since it was a day off, he still requested her to spare 30 minutes for him, even though he had come all the way here.
Her house was close by. If he hadn’t suggested, “Should I go near your place?” she probably wouldn’t have gone.
After talking for just 30 minutes and saying let’s part, the man didn’t keep his promise. An hour had passed exchanging trivial and tedious stories.
In the uncomfortable and boring time, Narim, who barely responded to his words, finally opened her lips after keeping them closed for 40 minutes past the promised time.
“I think I should go in now.”
It was the first time she spoke about herself rather than answering his questions. Unlike Narim, the man’s face, who was looking down at the watch, showed regret.
“Time has flown like this. Were you surprised that I came suddenly?”
Yeah, it was awkward, this guy.
I really wish he hadn’t come to the hospital like this, Narim wanted to say politely. That was how she truly felt.
“Yes. A bit.”
“If I didn’t come like this, I felt like we wouldn’t be able to meet. Thank you for accepting this sudden meeting. I didn’t even know it was your day off. I’ve caused you a lot of inconvenience today in many ways.”
If this man wasn’t the son of Representative Sim, if his father hadn’t been nominated as a candidate for the city council, I might have actually said those words.
If I marry someone like this, will I be able to say and live as I want throughout my life?
“No. I apologize for postponing our meeting until now.”
“It was a short time, but I enjoyed it. Narim.”
In the brief time observed, the man had manners ingrained in his body like a habit. He had a cheerful personality, a way of speaking that adults would appreciate—a man like that.
Narim knows another man like that.
Yoon Taegyu.
But no longer smiling in front of me, Yoon Taegyu.
“Next time, I’d like to treat you to a meal… Since we’re on the subject, should we make another appointment?”
“My schedule hasn’t come out yet.”
When Narim’s words flowed without a moment’s hesitation, the man laughed.
“Narim, do you happen to dislike me?”
Did it show on her face? She tried her best not to appear that way. If you felt it, please just let me go.
When Narim couldn’t answer, the man who was smiling brightly spoke.
“I really like Narim. Narim asked her mom to introduce me. I saw Narim for the first time at last year’s S Group anniversary. We had a few words then. Don’t you remember, Narim?”
“Ah…”
The man laughed warmly, and suddenly, Taegyu’s image appeared in him. A smile like the sunlight that beautifully closed his eyes.
How did that person treat me? You’re quite good at fooling, Na Narim.
“Let’s meet once. He might be a better guy than you think.”
Even in this situation, Na Narim, who is like a fool, only thinks of Taegyu.
Returning to the examination room, Hyeji let out a heavy sigh.
“Dr. Joo Hyeji.”
“Enough, get ready for the examination.”
It was the saddest words she heard from him. With that one word, an unerasable line was drawn on the perfect boundary we had kept for 13 years.
No, perhaps now it’s an insurmountable wall that can’t be crossed or destroyed.
Memories that I had cherished for 13 years, and my feelings toward him, seemed to fall into the abyss in an instant.
With trembling hands, Hyeji grasped Sunwoo’s wedding invitation. Inside the opened invitation was Sunwoo’s smiling face.
“Did you see Sun again?”
“Yeah. He made it look nice.”
A relationship where we could share personal matters,
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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