Fatigue-filled eyes stung as Taegyu took off his gown. His touch paused momentarily.
“That day, nothing happened between us at the hotel.”
It was because suddenly the last words Na-rim spoke at the cafe crossed his mind.
“Who said what?”
The unexpected words from Na-rim momentarily halted his thoughts. It was due to the confused emotions directed towards Na-rim or perhaps something he had momentarily forgotten.
But that wasn’t the point.
His heart felt heavy with the thought that he had deceived her all this time. Na-rim’s emotions were vividly revealed in her trembling voice and stiff expression.
Even after Na-rim got up first at the cafe, Taegyu couldn’t leave his seat for a while.
He didn’t know what he had done wrong.
He honestly said he was bothered. Everywhere he looked, he saw you. The brown-haired woman said she saw everyone as Na-rim.
“What else can I do beyond this?”
Then he tried to rewind the conversation.
“What did I say back then…”
He said he didn’t like brown hair. Ah! He also said he didn’t like a woman who, despite being rejected once, still stuck around…
“Ah, unnecessarily…”
Taegyu, who was messing up his hair, put the gown in the cabinet and couldn’t stand it, slamming the door shut.
“Did I go too far just now?”
⭐⭐⭐
“Oh my goodness! What’s going on?”
Sung-san, who was filling the side dishes in the fridge, saw Eun-jae and Sun-woo, who arrived at the annex like drowned rats, and ran over, surprised. Even though it rained all morning, you forgot your umbrella again?
Ah, you must be catching a cold again. Even though you suffer so much. While speaking to Eun-jae, Sung-san’s gaze was directed at Sun-woo.
“No… in the backyard.”
Unable to finish his sentence, Sun-woo scratched his forehead.
“Ah, do children like the rain that much? How about a meal?”
“Eun-jae hasn’t eaten yet. Please bring the clothes I’ll change into.”
“As for the meal, you won’t eat?”
“I will get something at the hospital. Just take care of Eun-jae, please.”
See you later, take your medicine well. Sun-woo, who stroked Eun-jae’s head and quietly spoke, pushed open the front door and left.
Since Sun-woo left, Sung-san, who poured out her worries in a full voice, kept staring at Eun-jae, who had been looking into space without saying a word.
“Is there… something wrong? No, get a grip on yourself. Stay here for a moment. I’ll bring a towel quickly.”
After a while, Sung-san, who brought out a large towel, wrapped it around Eun-jae’s shoulders.
His lips, which were already trembling, were turning pale blue. Eun-jae, with trembling lips, asked.
“Auntie, may I ask you for one favor?”
“Of course.”
“I, the sea urchin seaweed soup you made that day… I really want to eat it.”
First, go wash up. You shouldn’t walk around in the rain with that body. Sung-san, once again giving a lecture, lightly pushed Eun-jae toward the stairs leading to the annex.
“I have some ingredients left frozen. I’ll quickly make it for you, so wash up and come down.”
Thud, thud, thud.
Eun-jae climbed the stairs with very slow steps. Wet footprints were quickly drawn and then disappeared on the wooden stairs.
After a while, Eun-jae, who arrived at the third-floor annex, headed straight for the bedroom. On the opposite side of the bed, he picked up the eco-bag he had placed on the desk.
He tightly gripped the bear-shaped keychain attached to the eco-bag handle.
Taking a deep breath, he pressed hard on the bear’s belly. No sound came out. Following the instructions he had been given, he inserted his fingers deeply and pressed again.
Then, his father’s voice flowed from the bear keychain.
[Eun-jae, it’s Dad. Happy birthday to our Eun-jae.]Once.
[Eun-jae, it’s Dad. Our Eun-jae―]Again.
[Eun-jae, it’s Dad. Hap―]No, Dad, Dad wouldn’t say that. Something must be wrong, right? Is that it?
[Eun-jae, it’s Dad. Happy birthday to our Eun-jae.]Is Kwon Seung-chul lying? Is Mom lying?
“No, Dad didn’t do that. Please… tell me he didn’t.”
His father’s voice echoing in the bedroom was so affectionate that tears welled up. Eun-jae, with his mouth covered, sat on the floor and cried out loud.
It seems that person knows everything. It feels like everything has been revealed.
“You know, Dad. Even without that person, I thought I could live, you know? It seemed possible?”
I hoped you wouldn’t know. Even if you find out, after I leave, after a very long time, by then, I thought it would be okay.
“But it doesn’t seem that way. It doesn’t seem possible without that person. Just thinking I won’t see her anymore, I feel like I’m suffocating, like I’m going to die.”
With his face buried in the floor, Eun-jae sobbed, holding his breath in case his voice might escape.
“Dad, can you please save me?”
I want to be happy now too.
My guess was correct. He knew all along but didn’t ask me anything, didn’t say anything.
No, I thought so. Just a while ago, I thought I knew you very well.
“How about having a child?”
“So, stay by my side. No matter what happens.”
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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