[Oh, well, I guess I’ll go in a few days!]

“Hey!! You said the same thing the day before yesterday! If you don’t come in right now, I’ll just…”

While talking to her son Sangyun on the phone, Ihyejeong glanced at the stairs leading to the second floor and lowered her voice.

[Just what is “right now”?]

“Oh, why did I give birth to someone like you… calling me a daughter-in-law, how ridiculous.”

Nana, who barely endured Sangyun’s habit of oversleeping and lazing around every day, only did so because of her son.

After running away from the funeral, making a fool of her parents, she later found out that he was playing freely in Hawaii, not knowing where the money was coming from.

Just when she was about to give up on this arrogant son-in-law and son, she received a message that Sangyun had returned home and her daughter-in-law would also enter the house.

Although she could never understand how this damn marriage worked, Ihyejeong’s greatest concern was solely about carrying the burden of the DL Group on her back.

The fact that she dared to hold the position of the Lady of the house (令夫人) deeply in her heart is known only to her husband Chadaeseong.

[Mom, for now, why don’t you try making Nana somewhat human-like? Then I’ll go in right away. Oh, I can’t even think about going into a house that has you…]

“Hey, you son of a bitch!! Don’t casually say I have a torn mouth! Me, having that? Right, you said it well. That thing! Uh, me, sleeping naked on the second floor! Do you know how much she scratches people’s insides?”

[Sometimes you jump around whenever you want. You even applauded, saying, “What’s the matter with DL’s illegitimate daughter.”]

“Who knew!! Who would have thought that I would fall so low and be thought of as a baseborn!?”

[I told you to be prepared, as much as you know. You only look at the parts you want to see, as much as you know.]

“No, she seems to have made up her mind to turn my life upside down from the first day. She even ordered me to change clothes and personally managed my expensive hanbok, well… Oh, it’s a headache. She just does things without learning or growing up anywhere.”

[The same story is starting again. Sigh…]

Although Sangyun let out a deep sigh as if the ground was about to collapse, Ihyejeong paid no attention.

“A thug like a thunderbolt is doing what she used to do at my house. If she wants to sleep, she sleeps, eats when she wants to eat, and there’s no top or bottom… Hmph.”

Startled, Hyejeong dropped the phone she was holding.

Nana, dressed in pajamas, had been listening from the stairs.

“Hey, if your father is here, what are you going to do? [Dash] No, even if your father isn’t here, with that attire…”

“So, that’s why I got up just now. Ugh. My. Mother. After my father goes to work and then…”

Nana, who spoke with strength as if spitting out the word ‘mother,’ came down the stairs.

“Where’s Chasangyun? Sangsu-dong? Hapjeong-dong? I know he’s at the house of that broadcasting girl. What’s with the badmouthing?”

“What? Chasangyun? What an insolent thing to say?”

“Then, should I call you a son of a bitch too? My. Mother? Hm~.”
With a prolonged yawn, Nana, who slumped onto the sofa, sought out her mother-in-law.

“Madam!! The delivery will come soon. Please receive it and bring it to the second floor.”

“…You again?”

“Yes, I told you. I don’t like the food in this house. I want to eat a sandwich and drink coffee. It’s nothing special; just relax your face.”

“….”

Ihyejeong, looking at her daughter-in-law, who responded promptly with a composed face, took a deep breath and exhaled.

Nana didn’t hide the disdainful look in her eyes towards Ihyejeong. She still thought she looked like a proper lady dressed in hanbok.

“Chasangyun is impressive. How did he survive in a place like this?”

She felt a bit sorry for him, and, to some extent, she could understand.

“Oh, I’m hungry.”

“Hey, child. I was going to tell you this later. Don’t tell me in advance.”

Ihyejeong, glancing toward the kitchen, covered her mouth with her hand, indicating it might be a secret.

“What? In advance?”

Whatever it was, even before it started, Nana raised the pitch of her voice, expressing her unwillingness to hear.

“Am I deliberately bothering you? Why would I? For what reason?”

“Huh.”

“That darn ‘huh’!”

Unintentionally raising her voice, Ihyejeong gritted her teeth.

“Shut up and listen. Your father is going to run in the next presidential election!”

“What? Where?”

This time, Nana genuinely raised her voice in surprise.

“Yeah, surprising, right? Think about it carefully, then consider what I’ll become and what you’ll become.”

“Ma. Dam. Sa.”

“What?”

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stared at each other with the same look.

‘Crazy.’

‘Crazy woman.’

Eunjo rarely thought of herself as lucky in her life.

High grades, good schools, scholarships, and jobs were mostly the results of her firm determination and hard work not to fall behind.