“Just because he’s a son doesn’t mean he has to apologize for slapping that girl’s skirt. Why are you comforting a person who wouldn’t feel refreshed even if you beat him to death?”

What’s so pretty about embracing a person who, even though he knows everything, does that?

“Thanks to you telling me, at least. If it weren’t for you, what would have happened to our Yul? If he had gone into that girl’s hands and Yul had gone wrong, what would have happened? Thank you, Hanna. I will never forget this favor in the future.”

Holding Hanna’s hand with both hands, Jehyun stared blankly at Hanna’s face that was not listening.

“Hanna, are you listening?”

Still getting no response, he shook her hand in front of her eyes.

“Hey!”

Ah, only now did Hanna come to her senses, and she forced a forced smile.

“Oh, I was surprised too. But by the way, this is a big deal. Even if Oppa thinks about Yul, he should quickly come to his senses.”

Choi Gyo-hwan. Crazy, right? Saying that he knew even though.

If she were Sein’s sister, she would have died and lived.

Outwardly smiling consciously because of Jehyun, but inside, Hanna felt like her intestines were paralyzed.

Really crazy. Is that woman so good?

“Surely he’s not going to marry that woman for real, is he?”

Hanna looked at Jehyun with an anxious expression.

“Who’s going to get married on their own? Even if they like it so much, we have Yul. Even if Yul likes Bong teacher, do you think he’ll just stay still when he knows this? My mom died because of who. There’s no way this marriage will happen!”

Jehyun asserted that it would never happen.

That evening.

The car carrying Exchange slid to a stop in front of Sunhye’s store, where the lights were on, and Sunhye, wearing an apron and a headscarf, came out and handed the delivery bag of side dishes to the delivery motorcycle driver.

Zing.

Focusing his gaze outside the window, Exchange received a call from the team leader.

“What does Mother say about the hospital?”

[Dash] She seems to need absolute stability, so she’s been hospitalized for a few days. Kang Hanna, the announcer, came to visit her, saying she came for a hospital visit.

While watching out for Hyojin to come out, Exchange, who was focusing on the window, sharply raised his eyebrows at the sound of the team leader’s voice.

“Kang Hanna?”

[Dash] Yes. When I asked Miss Pyo, it seems that she met Announcer Kang Hanna at the department store.

Damn it. Hanna, you’re dead to me now.

Exchange bit down on his teeth until they were broken.
“Understood.”

After ending the call with the team leader, Exchange looked at the cheerful face of Hyojin on his phone screen.

A photo sent by Kang Hanna, who saw the line.

Even though he knew it was a picture of her clearly smiling at another man, he couldn’t bring himself to delete it.

Now, it will be a smile he can no longer see in front of him.

As Exchange, feeling bitter, stared at the photo saved on his phone, he heard a sound of tapping on the window.

Tap, tap.

Who is it?

Sunhye, who was examining the heavily tinted car, opened the car door from inside and looked up at Exchange getting out of the car.

“What are you doing here? Did our Hyojin come to meet you?”

“Oh, I was curious how Ms. Bom is doing.”

Dressed neatly in a jacket, Exchange looked around, making sure Hyojin wasn’t watching.

“Our Hyojin will handle it well, so don’t worry. Even when her parents suddenly passed away, she has been bravely enduring it until now, so she will definitely overcome it.”

So don’t worry at all.

Even though he thought he wouldn’t see her again after they broke up.

Why did he come all the way here worrying about something else?

In Sunhye’s eyes, Exchange, who seemed more miserable than Hyojin, was more pitiful than Hyojin, who was squeezing out tears and mucus as if the world had ended.

Hyojin used to make harsh remarks whenever Exchange’s story came up, but it was not because she hated or resented him.

How could she feel that way?

For the person who lost the mother of his wife and child.

“Is Daddy okay?”

Even if he looks fine on the outside, how much is he suffering inside?

“I understand. I’m glad he’s doing well. I’ll leave now.”

Avoiding the worried and affectionate gaze, Exchange bowed politely and turned away.

“Since you came all the way here, let’s have a meal before you go.”

“It’s okay.”

“Oh, have a meal! Before you contact Hyojin.”

No, why are you talking so loud…!

“I’m sorry, but there’s nothing else I can do, so I said I’d do this.”

“…….”

“Professor Kim Yong-hoon is like that, and even Daddy. They all learn and have more than I do, so I, an old man, can only do this. Cooking.”

Following Sunhye reluctantly, Exchange, who entered the side dish store, stopped abruptly.

When he came to greet Hyojin at the entrance, the broken pottery was still there.

The broken flowerpot was wrapped with transparent tape and a paper towel as if stitching up a wound.

“It’s not me, it’s Hyojin who did that. She said Daddy bought it. She said it shouldn’t be thrown away.”

“Ms. Bom did that?”

Even though she told me not to contact her and not to visit, why does she keep something like this and hesitate about it?

“She wanted to feed Daddy warm food given by Grandma. But since Grandma became a grandmother, she asked her granddaughter-in-law to do that for her.”

Sunhye’s nose, which was answering brusquely, turned red.

“So, let’s have a meal.”

To make sure Hyojin doesn’t feel bad later about not being able to do that.

“Even if she said it was the food I made, it’s less painful for our Hyojin if she hears that Daddy ate it and sent her off, right?”

Seeing Exchange who couldn’t easily leave at those words, Sunhye felt even more sorry for him.

Even though they broke up, he is not just a person to be treated lightly.

He might be hesitating and holding onto it in his heart because he sees himself as someone no different from others.

“Does Daddy also like our Hyojin a lot?”

So, worrying and knowing who it is, he might not be able to let go and came all the way here.

“Why didn’t you say it was because of me?”

If he had said that, Hyojin wouldn’t have had to bear resentment.

“Because it’s not because of Grandma, but because of me. Please don’t worry about it.”

Since they have to break up anyway. Expressing self-blame might help Hyojin sort out her feelings.
“Our Hyojin’s words are right. She said if I meet Dad, my feelings will change.”

Parting with such a good person because of my father.

I wonder how shattered Hyojin’s heart is right now, like that flowerpot.

It was difficult for Sunhye to gauge.

But what can we do? It’s not like we can tape it back together like that broken flowerpot.

“Our Hyojin will endure it well, so don’t worry.”

That was all Sunhye could say for Exchange.

Otherwise, he might continue to worry and visit because of concern.