“Keep the promise.”
As his breath was felt on my back, the tears that had been welling up seeped into the pillow.
In response to my persistent inquiries, my mom finally revealed all the facts to me. The stories my mom told were truly shocking.
My dad, who had been remembered as an irresponsible man who ran away leaving behind huge debts, wife, and daughter, suddenly transformed into a criminal involved in an attempted child abduction case.
Although the exact personal information was unknown, the similarities in gender and age range of the victimized child, as well as the circumstance where the driver of the car the sleeping child was in took advantage of the momentary absence, matched Sunwoo’s stories heard at the rabbit hole garden. As each detail fell into place, the faint hope I had clung to turned into despair.
“He used to be someone who would shoo away even a single bug that entered the house. How could he do such a thing? You know, Dad was really a good person.”
“He said he repented, and Mom even went to visit him during the visitation hours. Why won’t Dad admit to the acknowledged crime? Just because Mom knows it doesn’t change the fact that Dad is a criminal?”
My mom said she went to great lengths to prove Dad’s innocence.
She even hired a competent lawyer despite having no household belongings. However, the reply came back that, for some reason, Dad, who had staunchly denied the crime before, now admitted to the guilt.
My mom found that part very strange.
In the end, with Dad turning around and leaving with a last word asking my mom to take care of me, my mom, from his expression and gaze, had to believe in Dad once again.
Though it couldn’t be expressed in words, being a married couple was like that. There were things you could know just by looking at the expression, just by looking into the eyes.
“So, Mom can’t believe it, no, refuses to believe it. Even if everyone else gives up, Mom won’t give up on your dad.”
“If Mom doesn’t give up, what can we do? I hate Dad so much that I want to die, for tormenting us like this until I die.”
“…”
“I’d rather Dad had abandoned us and run away. That a person who committed such a terrible thing is our dad… It gives me chills.”
Pouring out all the words she couldn’t say to Mom, I burst into a bitter laugh at my inability to say anything in front of this person.
I’m really a bad daughter. I understand Mom’s feelings but I don’t want to understand.
In fact, I want to stop hating Dad. I want Dad not to be that kind of person. That’s all, I wish it was just a dream that disappears when I open my eyes.
“If you break the promise, what will you do?”
Eunjae blinked slowly and asked again about what Sunwoo had said earlier.
“Why are you curious about that?”
“Just, just.”
“There’s no ‘just.’ There won’t be such a thing.”
What could be a thing that won’t happen? Does that mean I won’t break the promise?
The answer Eunjae gave seemed a bit strange and out of context. Thinking that, when I fell silent again in response to his answer, he covered me with the comforter that flowed down to his shoulders.
“You said you want to fix me. If you promised, you have to fix me. Ever seen a doctor who runs away leaving a patient?”
Then, tightly embracing my waist and burying his face into my back, he whispered again.
“You take responsibility and fix it.”
“…”
“In my opinion, it might take a hundred years.”
Eventually, unable to endure it, a faint laughter escaped from Eunjae’s lips. Laughing, crying. Happy, sad. In such a situation, I just laughed innocently, hating myself for doing so.
“If it’s going to take that long, the medical bills will be astronomical, patient.”
“I’ll give whatever it takes. So, fix me until everything is better, Doctor.”
Smiling again, I thought it might be considered insane by someone looking at us. And then, I laughed again at his touch that turned me around, and I laughed again at the warmth of his lips overlapping mine.
Yoon Sunwoo was such a presence for me. A person who could make me laugh so quickly after I cried.
As much as you made me laugh, my heart will be stained with more tears.
Thinking that, I couldn’t help but laugh again.
That night, I had a dream.
“You know it too.”
“W-What… What are you talking about?”
“That your father, when he was young, was the criminal who kidnapped me!”
In the dream where he warmly looked at me, his eyes instantly turned cold.
“…Did you know? H-How?”
“What does it matter now? How could you deceive me? Not someone else, but you!”
“It’s not like that. Please listen to my side of the story.”
“I don’t want to hear it.”
In the dream, he turned away coldly, and I desperately grabbed onto his sleeve.
“I wasn’t trying to deceive you. I found out yesterday, too. It’s true.”
“Leave, I want to be alone.”
With a face I had never seen before, with a contemptuous expression, in the dream, he pushed me away, desperately clinging to his sleeve.
“Please…”
Please trust me. Uttering the words with difficulty, Eunjae woke up from sleep.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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