There had been two calls from Si-yoon—one in the morning and another an hour ago. Mi-joo tried to pass over the situation with the excuse that it was just two calls.
“I called twice.”
Although there was a time when she had eagerly awaited Si-yoon’s calls, she now felt her emotions fluctuating in front of him.
“I didn’t know. I really didn’t think Kim Si-yoon would be the one to call urgently.”
Checking the list of groceries with her phone, Mi-joo pretended to choose items again, avoiding eye contact.
The eyes and hands were directed towards the items, but concentration was elusive, making it impossible to decide what to choose.
However, at this moment, Mi-joo had to pretend to be working to avoid Si-yoon’s piercing gaze.
Si-yoon turned Mi-joo around once again.
“I told you to stay at home. Didn’t you hear me?”
“My home is in Sunsetga.”
Si-yoon looked up at the ceiling, expressing his frustration.
Seeing Si-yoon frustrated might seem like nothing special, but in Mi-joo’s view, it felt like an ant biting an elephant’s leg.
“Let’s go first.”
Si-yoon grabbed Mi-joo’s wrist and started walking. Mi-joo could feel his gentle and warm touch, and she followed him hesitantly.
Suddenly, Mi-joo shook off the hand that held hers.
“I’m working right now.”
Si-yoon stood still, looking at Mi-joo without a word. No emotion could be read from Si-yoon’s expression. Indeed, dealing with Mi-joo was not an easy task.
Once again, as if letting go of a thorn, Mi-joo spat out bitter words.
“Is Mr. Kim Si-yoon’s work the only important thing, and my work is nothing?”
“I told you to stop this kind of thing.”
“What kind of thing is this?”
Si-yoon wasn’t bothered by Mi-joo’s work; he just didn’t want to see her struggling and feeling overwhelmed. However, Mi-joo failed to understand his feelings.
“Our lives and directions are different, so let’s not interfere with each other’s work.”
Even to herself, Mi-joo felt proud as she spoke in a determined manner. However, Si-yoon was quite irritated by her words.
“Why do you keep saying things are different? It’s not that I dislike a girl I like working hard. It’s the same sentiment everyone else has. What’s so different?”
‘A girl I like!’
With just that one phrase, Mi-joo lost her words to respond.
‘A girl I like!’
She shouldn’t let her heart melt here, but already, it seemed like half of Mi-joo’s frozen heart was melting away.
“Let’s go.”
Once again, Si-yoon took Mi-joo’s hand and led her.
As they arrived at the grocery store parking lot, Denny’s figure appeared in the distance. It seemed like Denny had spotted Si-yoon, as he approached joyfully, looking as happy and excited as a dog recognizing its owner.
“Denny, can I ask you for one more thing?”
“Of course, anything.”
“Mi-joo was doing something, please finish it for her. Also, move Mi-joo’s car.”
In place of the classic car, Si-yoon’s car was visible in a corner. Even though Mi-joo could enjoy all the benefits Si-yoon offered, she couldn’t understand why she kept insisting on her own way.
Unaware of this, Denny looked happy just to see Si-yoon.
“Give the customer’s order to Denny.”
Mi-joo was staring straight ahead with an innocent-looking face for no reason.
“You’re not going to let the customer eat? You said it was important.”
Only then did Mi-joo find her phone in the crossbag, and with one hand, she pressed the keyboard. Afraid the phone might fall every time her thumb moved, Si-yoon reluctantly released Mi-joo’s wrist.
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The place where the two were heading in Si-yoon’s car was Si-yoon’s house.
Inside the car, everyone remained silent.
Mi-joo had resolved to face Si-yoon boldly, but from the moment she saw him, every moment felt like a crisis.
Si-yoon’s heart also tightened the moment he saw Mi-joo. No, ever since the moment Si-yoon had to leave for LA, leaving Mi-joo in the suite, his heart had been tingling because of her.
‘I wanted to finish work quickly and come back.’
He couldn’t help but endure it because the moment he heard her voice, it felt like he would be drawn towards her.
He managed to return after hastily resolving the work, and knowing that Mi-joo was disappointed by his sudden departure, he wanted to meet her as soon as possible and comfort her.
And the moment Si-yoon saw Mi-joo, his whole body tingled. Mi-joo was the only one who could give Si-yoon such a strong stimulus.
He wanted to cast away emotions like reason, intelligence, and composure and just hold Mi-joo.
When the traffic light turned red, Si-yoon turned to look at Mi-joo. She had both hands folded neatly and her eyes closed. She was making an effort to build a barrier to protect herself from Si-yoon.
Her fluttering eyelashes proved that she was not asleep, and Si-yoon wondered why her cute resistance was so tender.
Si-yoon raised his hand and gently swept his thumb over Mi-joo’s cheek. Mi-joo flinched and opened her eyes.
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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