It was just a gift intended for Eun Jo.

Feeling sorry for her sister who didn’t have even one of those fancy designer bags that everyone else seemed to carry, she had driven as her substitute.

The sophisticated black that would definitely suit the cold Eun Jo. The logo in gold and the chain strap were incredibly luxurious.

“Damn Chanel!”
Min Ah pounded on the innocent dryer with her fist.

[What are you going to do if you have an accident because you keep going out? Don’t you know the world is dangerous? Staying home is helping.] [I’ve done so much substitute driving work, I’m a worrywart.] [Take better care of Da On, make him tasty snacks. There’s so much to do at home. Clean the veranda or something!] [Why do you keep saying to clean the clean veranda? Is someone going to lick it? Anyway, sister is… ugh a nag.]

Beepbeep beepbeep

Although the notification sound indicating the end of the drying cycle rang, Min Ah stood blankly staring at the interior of the veranda for a while. It was spotlessly clean.

A newborn baby adopted only a month after being born, Min Ah.

So, all her memories of parents were about her adoptive parents who had adopted her.

They treated her like cold rice after their own child was born, but… it was all in the past and it was okay.

She wondered how her biological mother, who had already been raising Eun Jo, ended up having her as well.

“She should’ve just not given birth. If she had taken good care of sister, that would have been better.”
Min Ah, who opened the lid of the dryer, was resenting the mother she had never even seen.

She remembered that Eun Jo had a lot of time alone because their mother was working day and night.

And that she suddenly took a lot of pills.

She roughly guessed the situation.

But still, Min Ah was simply thankful for the fact that she had met a sister as good as any biological parent.

She met Eun Jo as if by miracle when she was barely two weeks away from her due date.

Could it have been because she kept her lips firmly sealed about the baby’s father? Min Ah had to watch Eun Jo drench the long days with silent tears.

At first, she thought it was because the situation of her younger sister was hard and frustrating.

She only heard the reason for those silent tears that wrung her heart, after living together for three years.

That was three years after Min Ah, who had firmly said no, was persuaded and coaxed, and put Da On in her legal custody.

And that was just to a very slight degree. She had liked someone a lot. It was terribly painful. She had forgotten it all.

If it was that area, there should be no one who knows better than Min Ah. After all, she had even given birth to a child.

That was… not something that could be explained in a few lines.

Even Min Ah, who had an ultrapositive personality, particularly could not accept the part about ‘having forgotten it all.’ Especially if it was something said while avoiding eyes.

How could one forget something that had been terribly painful? It would take a terribly long time just to become numb.

Anyway, since then, Eun Jo had neither cried nor frowned.

For exactly one day when Da On was born, she looked somewhat like a mad person, but… after that, she was nothing but cheerful as if something was so enjoyable.

“Sisters are a pair of complete fools, huh!”
She was neither surprised nor flustered at most things, as if she had raised a child before.

She was quite sturdy, even while wearing the label of an unmarried mother instead of Min Ah.

[There’s nothing to be sad or painful about. Looking back, it seems like I cried when I had spare time.]

While neatly folding the welldried laundry, Min Ah suddenly brought that name to her lips.

“…Kwon Jae Ha.”
It was, as expected, a name she had never heard before. Home, office, home, office there was no daily life of Eun Jo that Min Ah did not know about.

He was clearly a man from the past…

Eun Jo, who had run out of the police station, was standing with a man who looked quite tall even from afar.

Despite her distracted state, her sister’s face, which had turned bright red from crying, was vivid. Forcing a smile with those eyes.

Slowly now, it was becoming a concern that her sister didn’t cry, no, couldn’t cry.

“Did something break somewhere?”
Min Ah, who had been sitting with her legs crossed, frowned. It was because the hand that had been feeling her right thigh rose.

She should have got out of the car right away when the drunk thug sat in the passenger seat, not in the back seat.

Avoiding his eyes from the front was momentary. The moment she shook off the disgusting hand that had stuck to her, she discovered the shadow that had stepped into the road.

Even thinking about it again, it couldn’t be anything but a chilling scene.

[The lawyer said it was okay, but it will cost money, right?] [It would be a relief if it ended by giving some money. If it affects your employment, I can’t live. Don’t worry, sister will solve it.]