“Sorry? Do you think that’s enough after ruining the life of our perfectly fine Jinyook?!”
Aeran screamed, crumpling the papers in her hand.
“Did you bring this…… Did you ruin Jinyook too because of you?!”
“Mother…… Jinyook is…….”
“Don’t call me mother!”
The furrowed face of Aeran bore down fiercely.
“Why would I be your mother? I never accepted a fraud like you as my daughter-in-law!!”
“…….”
“Stamp the divorce papers and get out of this house.”
“…….”
“Right now!!”
At that moment, Aeran suddenly clutched her forehead and staggered.
“Ah…… my head…….”
She seemed dizzy, likely from too much excitement raising her blood pressure.
A shocked Yeonju quickly leaned down to support her.
“Mother, are you okay? Just a moment, I’ll take you to the……”
“Enough!”
Aeran roughly shook off Yeonju’s hand.
Aeran bowed her head, holding it, and began to cry out loud.
“It’s my fault…….”
“…….”
“It’s all my fault…….”
Her voice, laden with regret, echoed pitifully.
“I shouldn’t have let someone like you into our family…….”
“…….”
“I should have stopped it when you said you were getting married…….”
Aeran continued to weep with a mix of lament.
“Sob…… Poor Jinyook…….”
“…….”
“It’s all my fault…… I should have been more sensible…….”
As Yeonju watched those sorrowful tears, she found herself unable to say or do anything more.
Yeonju, now outside, looked up at the sky.
Clouds had gathered, making it dark as if it were about to rain.
Her mind felt numb, just like the cloud-covered sky.
With every cold breeze hitting her face, the swollen cheek stung.
But it didn’t hurt. It was her heart that hurt more than the puffy cheek.
‘I shouldn’t have let someone like you into our family…….’
The sound of Aeran’s crying still echoed in Yeonju’s ears.
There were no tears.
No, she tried not to cry.
There would be greater pain than this in the future, so she couldn’t start crying now.
What should she do now?
Looking up at the sky, Yeonju took out her phone. She searched for Jinyook’s phone number and pressed it.
After pressing the call button, she brought the phone to her ear. Only the ringing sound continued, without his voice. After a long ring, a mechanical voice was heard.
[The customer you are calling is unable to answer. You will be connected to the voicemail after the beep. Charges will apply after the beep.]“…….”
[Beep.]“…….”
Yeonju spoke to the silent other end.
“It’s me.”
It was the first voicemail she had ever left for him.
She never contacted him at work before.
“I urgently…… have something to tell you.”
“Please call me back as soon as you hear this.”
Each word spoken made the tender flesh in her mouth sting. It seemed one side of her mouth was torn when Aeran hit her.
“I’ll be waiting.”
After leaving the voice message, she put down the phone.
When Jinyook called, she would explain what had just happened and ask what would be best to do next.
And she would follow whatever opinion he had, even though there was likely only one decision Jinyook could make, now that Aeran knew.
Yeonju headed towards the car parked in front of the house. She opened the door and sat in the backseat. She picked up the lunch bag she had left on one side. The remaining warmth melted her cold hands. It was warm.
“Mr. Park.”
She was about to ask him to go to the hospital.
“Rrrrrrr, Rrrrrr.”
Her phone rang. Had Jinyook already checked the voicemail?
Checking the phone, an unknown number appeared on the screen. Yeonju answered the call, slightly puzzled.
“Hello?”
[Are you Ms. Shin Mihyeon’s guardian?]“Yes, that’s my mother, what’s the matter…….”
[This is the ICU of the hospital. Your mother’s condition is critical, and we are currently performing CPR.]The urgent voice continued.
[Family members are requested to come to the ICU immediately.]Yeonju’s face turned pale. A fear like her breath would stop engulfed her.
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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