“Let’s get rid of it…”
“N-no, I didn’t mean we should really eliminate her! Min Seowon is perfectly fine right now. Right?”
Trembling all over, Heo Young-joo desperately continued her defense.
“I just gave her money, and she handled all the important matters! A-anyway, I didn’t even receive any money! Sara… Baek Sara said she would persuade Min Seowon to pretend to be dead and leave. So… I just told her to do that!”
“…”
“It’s true! Chaeha. Can’t you trust your mother? I mean, really, I didn’t actually kill someone I bought… Why did you do this?”
Interrupting Heo Young-joo’s enraged tone, Chaeha’s stern question settled.
The silent rage burning in his eyes seemed as if it could tear everything apart in the room at any moment.
Even if it were his own mother.
“That… Actually…”
Unable to overcome her son’s intense hostility, Heo Young-joo tearfully confessed.
“I strongly warned her not to get pregnant, but she got pregnant, and it made me so angry that I just stopped…”
“Ha!”
Chaeha’s brow twitched at the unexpected and absurd reason.
In response, Heo Young-joo desperately defended herself, waving her hands in the air.
“I, I regret it now! I deeply regret it! Our Uju… Uju is the most beautiful in the world! I must have gone crazy. Huuung. I’m sorry. Chaeha. I didn’t know such a beautiful child would come out…”
“I’m not the one you should apologize to. Mother.”
“…”
“Whether in the past or now, it seems you’re greatly mistaken. Mother, you haven’t changed at all. Not even a bit.”
“Uh… Uhuhuhuk!”
Eventually, as if something were about to burst from Heo Young-joo’s throat, she suddenly collapsed to the floor, crying loudly.
Observing her almost wailing, Chaeha regarded her with an infinitely cold gaze.
She told her not to get pregnant…
Since Seowon and I were in a contractual relationship anyway, there was no need for my mother to worry about such things.
But just how far did she try to control her child’s life? It was staggering.
She had used Seowon as a shield, but now she was like someone standing on a battlefield without any armor, taking bullets.
The thought of it was unbearable.
“One last question.”
“…Huk! Chaeha. I’ve said everything. I really don’t have anything more to say…”
“Does this have anything to do with your mother-in-law’s death?”
Heo Young-joo’s pupils momentarily trembled.
Soon, she vehemently shook her head with a strong denial.
It was truly a desperate struggle.
“I really don’t know! I was fooled too! Baek Sara… Yeah. Sara, she might know something! If I can just find that out, I can prove I’m innocent. So, Chaeha…”
She was the one who, after warning Seowon not to get pregnant, occasionally sent people to watch her when she went to the hospital, and even demanded reports of her menstrual cycle. It was she who accidentally discovered Seowon coming out of the obstetrics and gynecology department and thoroughly searched the room to find the maternity record. The one who handed it over to Baek Sara, expressing her hope that there would be no such vulgar daughter-in-law anymore… was none other than Heo Young-joo herself.
Gulping down dry saliva, Heo Young-joo mumbled, “I… I…”
“Enough. There’s nothing more to hear from you now.”
Leaving her on the floor, Chaeha turned away coldly.
As if it were a back that would never return, Heo Young-joo just stared blankly at that figure, looking and looking again.
Though waves of regret pounded her chest like a fierce storm, it was already too late for everything.
At that moment.
Seowon was facing an unexpected person.
“I apologize for coming without notice. Actually, the Vice Chairman secretly asked for this favor, and I think it’s better for the little daughter-in-law to know about it.”
“Dr. Shim. What on earth happened that you came so suddenly like this…”
The evening visitor, who was fading into the darkness, was none other than Chaeha’s attending physician, Director Shim.
The benefactor who treated Seowon’s mother to the end.
Today, he stood in front of Seowon with an extremely serious expression.
He had hurriedly come, and his white doctor’s gown was still intact.
Soon, an unbelievable story flowed from Director Shim’s mouth.
“Your mother’s words. Suddenly, she became critically ill, and we were also very surprised at that time. In fact, her condition had been quite stable for several years. However, it suddenly deteriorated to the point where she lost consciousness in an instant.”
“…Yes. That’s right.”
Perhaps because of that, Seowon completely lost her reason and readily accepted Baek Sara’s proposal.
Nodding her head laboriously, Seowon stared at Director Shim.
“Anyway, I thought the timing was very bad. In the end, she left the world like that. Besides, it was difficult for me to have a conversation with the Vice Chairman because of what happened to the little daughter-in-law.”
“I see…”
Taking a deep breath, Director Shim stared intently into Seowon’s eyes.
After lingering for a moment in his gaze as if in hesitation, he decided and continued speaking.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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