“Should I cut it for you?”
Only after he had thrown out those words of excessive politeness, which wouldn’t be appreciated under the current circumstances, did Hyun Seo look at him with a pointed gaze.
“No, I can eat it myself.”
With no other option, Hyun Seo picked up the fork and knife. Seeing this, a satisfied smile brushed past Do Ha’s face.
For a while, Hyun Seo focused on eating her food as if to show off.
The quicker she finished, the sooner she could go home.
But as she chewed her food in silence, she suddenly wondered what she was doing.
“But why do you always try to feed me every time we meet, Vice President Chae?”
“Every time we met, you were always hanging around. We never ate just the two of us.”
“So you do this much because of that?”
“Yes. So don’t be so harsh, Hyun Seo.”
Hyun Seo was at a loss for words. It was even more so when she thought about the past.
When he barely showed his face at home. When most of her meal times were without a husband.
“It’s just eating a meal together.”
“But who was the one who didn’t want to eat even one meal with me.”
As she suddenly brought up the past, the atmosphere dropped in an instant.
“……”
Do Ha, with a troubled expression, was silent for a moment.
“……I’m sorry.”
Then he apologized too easily.
Hyun Seo was quite surprised at this side of Do Ha.
He was always someone who put his own affairs first and therefore always had his own reasons, but now he simply acquiesced to her words.
He was originally someone who rarely bowed down in front of others. This was the case even before he became the true crown prince. As if it was his natural disposition.
Even from his childhood, when he grew up solely under the care of Young Suk, who had nothing, he was always dignified, never paying attention to the eyes of those around him.
Even though she had known him for over 20 years, this was the first time she had seen this side of her husband.
“Of course, I didn’t do it because I didn’t like you. There’s no way that could be the case.”
He looked uncomfortable even as he apologized.
“But it was me who made you think that way.”
Hyun Seo paused for a moment, staring blankly at her exhusband.
“So I’m sorry to you for that.”
At least his face really looked like he was sorry to her.
“I’m glad that I can at least apologize to you now. I wanted to meet you again that much. I waited for you.”
It was an uncharacteristic thing for a man named Do Ha to say.
“When I look back, there was never a time when our time together wasn’t precious.”
Upon hearing that, there was a spark in Hyun Seo’s eyes.
“Yes, I really had no choice but to reflect. I thought a lot.”
He emphasized his words as if to underline them.
“If I could go back, I would live differently. I would put your happiness before anything else… Even though it’s foolish, I spent time thinking like that. During the time without you.”
At his words, Hyun Seo squeezed her eyes shut, feeling the corners getting hot, and then opened them.
However, Hyun Seo was not sure how much of his words to believe, and how to believe them.
“Actually, this cosmetics business too…”
Suddenly, Do Ha brought up the business topic to her, who was engulfed in confusion.
“…I started it thinking of you.”
At the even more unbelievable story, Hyun Seo widened her eyes and looked at him.
“…What?”
It was an unexpected story. She was utterly flabbergasted.
“That’s… a ridiculous thing to say.”
If there was one thing he had rarely been able to give despite investing a lot of resources for his family, it was his time.
Of course, he was busy with work. His wife was always secondary, not a priority.
But, his work itself was for his wife? Was she supposed to believe that?
“Really. It’s a company I made to give to you when I meet you again someday.”
“You want me to believe that?”
“It’s true.”
It was unbelievable, but oddly enough, there was a high possibility that it was true, just as he said.
Sadly, he wasn’t the type to tell such lies. He had no such bluffs or pretense.
“In fact, at the time, it wasn’t the right time to embark on a cosmetics business, so there was a lot of talk.”
Hyun Seo could have guessed that. She knew well what Jin Sung was focusing on around the time she left.
She knew that it was not the right situation to jump into the cosmetics business, so she had understood why her thenhusband did not respond enthusiastically, even though it was the field she wished for.
“It’s a business I wouldn’t have started if it wasn’t for you.”
“……”
Of course, it wasn’t an area her husband was usually interested in.
But he started that work purely to linger around his divorced exwife? That Do Ha? Despite the opposition of the company?
“No, so, why? Why because of me……”
“You… you wanted it.”
Hyun Seo didn’t know what to say.
“I wanted to fulfill your dream when I meet you again, it’s a company I made because I wanted to work with you.”
It was difficult. Looking at Do Ha’s face, she felt as if she could believe him, and that was difficult.
“Why now… why on earth…”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
