It was despairing enough that Dad died, and Hyojin couldn’t even bring herself to meet Dad’s body lying in the funeral home.
“I was scared of money.”
People die when they die. But debts don’t die; they remain.
“Crimes can be forgiven, but debts cannot be forgiven.”
Although the suspect, Dad, died, and the responsibility for causing the accident was concluded as non-prosecution, the debt still remained and tormented the surviving family.
“Aren’t you resentful of Dad?”
If your father hadn’t caused an accident, my child wouldn’t have lost his mother, and you wouldn’t have spent such a cold winter.
“Still, I don’t resent Dad. Dad also tried hard to live, but things turned out that way.”
Hyojin shrugged, smiling with lips stained with red wine.
“However, I find heaven a bit resentful. Mom also passed away early, and now Dad has gone away so emptily.”
Staring at the empty glass, Hyojin’s eyes filled with tears.
“Thinking that if I collapse, I might not be able to protect the remaining family, I lived, constantly saying money, money.”
Grandma, who raised me instead of my mom, and my annoying little brother, Hwang Sae.
“Without my dad and mom, I felt like I needed money to protect myself.”
“…”
“Then, I realized that after coming to Sangrimwon because of money.”
Just like your dad meeting Seungyul.
“I, too, have lived losing something precious.”
Tears streamed down Hyojin’s cheeks from her eyes as she looked up.
“I understand. You don’t have to say anything more.”
Having already known all the circumstances, the exchange cut off the conversation and filled the painful inside with vodka.
Can we continue living as if we don’t know, just like before?
Your grandma and me.
If only the two of us pretend not to know, everyone could live happily. Anyway, your father has been pretending not to know from the beginning.
But, our Seungyul…
If the woman who eventually takes the place of the mother turns out to be the daughter of the perpetrator…
Gripping the glass until it almost breaks, the exchange keenly felt the weight of being a father.
He had tried hard to be a good dad, but it seemed like facing the most challenging hurdle.
“I’m sorry. I couldn’t honestly tell you until now.”
Thinking that Hyojin would remain silent because she was disappointed, the exchange bowed his head and apologized.
“I’m sorry. I should have told you from the beginning.”
Looking at Hyojin with tear-filled eyes, the exchange opened his lips like a sigh.
“Okay, stop now.”
There’s nothing to gain from hearing it.
“I really, really like your dad.”
His voice, piercing through his heart, made his eyes, as calm as the night sea, ripple like rough waves.
“Seungyul is the same.”
I never dreamed of liking a man with a child.
“Now, I can’t imagine life without your dad and Seungyul.”
Even though I felt that way seeing them every day, being separated made me realize their preciousness even more.
“So, I couldn’t say anything.”
Not because I didn’t trust your dad, but because I didn’t want to disappoint him.
“I understand, so stop now.”
The exchange sternly spoke in a cold tone to keep his emotions from shaking, but seeing Hyojin, who closed her eyes and stayed silent, he couldn’t help but laugh, feeling empty.
When defending Seungyul, she confronted the situation confidently, as if she were someone who had committed a grave mistake.
What crime does she have?
I’m just a fool who was shaken without knowing anything.
In a trivial spring breeze.
‘Actually, I like the teacher too.’
Feeling self-loathing, the exchange couldn’t bring himself to say the words that were on his mind and had to swallow them along with the alcohol.
‘I think I’m crazy about the teacher too.’
To you who brought a warm spring to me in the cold winter.
To you who healed my wounded self.
To you who made me smile again.
Not knowing that you are the daughter of the man who killed my child’s mother.
It was a night when I loved you so much that I felt like I was going crazy.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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