“It was a stress shock. You might need to stay hospitalized a little longer.”
The still pallid complexion and weak pulse made Sound uneasy.
“I don’t want to stay here.”
“No. You can stay. Professor Seo Hyunwoo will take care of everything. It’s true.”
“Professor Seo?”
“Yes.”
Watching the strained voice of Soohyang, Sound’s eyes welled up with tears.
Trying to suppress her emotions, Sound laid out words mixed with rebuke.
“I should control my temper, too. Because you’re so mean, this happened.”
In response to Sound’s rebuke, Soohyang closed her eyes and chuckled softly.
Observing this, Kangwoo quietly decided to leave the scene. Perhaps his face was not a welcome sight to Soohyang.
“Sound.”
“Yes?”
“There’s something I want to tell you…”
“What is it?”
“…Regardless of what kind of life parents lived or what kind of people they were, it doesn’t matter to the children. Do you know what I mean?”
“I don’t know. What’s the sudden talk about?”
With closed eyes, Soohyang moved her arm laboriously and tightly held Sound’s hand.
Sound looked down at her frail mother’s hand.
“Parents can’t be perfect. You’re an adult, so you can understand, right?”
“I got it, so don’t say anything. Overthinking only gives you a headache. Mom.”
Soohyang lowered her head slightly. With each word from Soohyang, Sound’s heart seemed to thump.
“Parents’ lives are their own. Don’t try too hard.”
…Ah. Was that all?
“Don’t think about you and Professor Seo. Just think about each other. That’s Mom’s only wish right now.”
“…What’s this? Don’t ruin the atmosphere. Annoying.”
With a teary voice expressing annoyance, Sound released her mother’s hand and stood up from her seat.
As Sound, who was about to leave the room, turned around, halfway facing away, she glanced at Soohyang and said,
“Isn’t it the wrong time for such words?”
She had just fainted briefly, and now everything was chaotic with Sound trying to get a grip.
“Weaken more. Really, Mom won’t just stand by.”
Even if said lightly, the surge of worry choked her.
“Nothing will happen to us.”
Tears flowed down Soohyang’s eyes, following the edges of her eyes. Seeing this, tears eventually welled up in Sound’s eyes as well.
“And I can’t be without Mom.”
After saying that, Sound opened the hospital room door with a bang, and Han Sungjae happened to be standing there.
Sound, unable to say anything with a choked throat, lowered her head and walked past Sungjae without a word.
Slowly moving his steps, Sungjae closed the hospital room door behind him with a click.
Living a life without ever setting foot in a hospital, he slowly looked around the unfamiliar space.
And his gaze froze at the bed where Soohyang, dressed in a patient gown, was lying.
As Hyunwoo had said, Soohyang didn’t look particularly well.
Moving heavily, Sungjae sat down on the stool next to Soohyang.
“Now that I’m here, I think I should greet you and leave.”
Sound, unable to say anything, raised her eyelids as if surprised by the unexpected voice. Following Sound’s soft sigh, a long and gentle breath from Soohyang continued.
“We’re getting our due punishment, Han Sungjae.”
“…I will spend my whole life atoning.”
It might not make up for the sins he turned away from.
“I can’t say you’re Dad to Sound. You don’t need to. I didn’t come for that.”
“But I’m sorry. To Sound… I don’t know how… what to do.”
In the sobbing voice, Sungjae’s chest felt heavy.
Seeing Soohyang turning her head to hide her wet face, Sungjae continued speaking.
“I’ll tell you an excuse I didn’t say back then. As I said back then, I have no intention of denying that I was wrong. Just… bear with it once.”
“…”
Having decided not to talk about it, Sungjae decided to bring up the story.
“I heard that we said our greetings and parted ways according to my duty on the day I called Inhye. The problem was exchanging contact information secretly.”
He was the man who would bring material prosperity to the impoverished Inhye. It didn’t take long for her to fall in love.
“That’s right. I knew very well what kind of people they were. On the day Inhye’s casting, which had clashed with opposition, was resolved, and on the first day of filming. Even if calls from those old men came due to resentment, I strongly advised not to meet them. It was obvious that it would only cause pain.”
“…”
“This project is very important. Your success will be my success. So, you have to take care of your mindset and body.”
Despite saying that, I thought she understood my words.
However, after the shoot, at the last dinner gathering, Inhye, drunk on alcohol, said she wanted that man’s child.
Fortunately, no one heard her inebriated words. Sungjae took the heavily intoxicated Inhye out that way.
Although he scolded her not to speak recklessly like that, she had an indifferent face that did not hear.
Thinking it would be useless to say anything that day, he sent her off in a taxi.
The next day, he called Inhye separately and spoke harshly and cruelly. On the spot, Inhye vowed not to meet him again.
But he didn’t know that it would be such a significant wound. She already knew that she was pregnant with that man’s child.
She didn’t know that her words would reach Soohyang and tear apart their relationship irreversibly.
Looking back, the advice at the beginning of the shoot and the warning the day after the last dinner were all words of concern, worried that her love would return as my failure. He was unfairly upset, claiming that two warnings were enough, and he was not at fault.
After that day, Inhye, who had disappeared from sight, suddenly came to Sungjae after a long time. She was already heavily pregnant.
“I’ve already been fired by the agency, and I couldn’t get paid for the breach of contract. They say I have to vomit up the contract fee again, but I don’t have the money. I met you because of me. Take responsibility for me.”
At that time, Sungjae thought she didn’t listen to him and came to a difficult place to make trouble.
The situation was tense. He, a poor director, had no sharp way to solve it.
When asked what help she needed, she asked him to pay for the hospital expenses for giving birth to the child. He gave her all the money he had.
A while after giving birth, Inhye, who came back again, made Sungjae uncomfortable.
She wanted to go to the man with the child.
“I told her to do whatever she wanted. However, she is the child’s father no matter what. Inhye was already financially poor, and there was no other solution.”
He sighed deeply.
That movie was a failure.
The person he cherished died, and the lover he loved abandoned him.
And from then on, he walked alone on a long, dark road like a tunnel for a long time.
This desperately painful failure, leaving only scars, was a past that even he couldn’t dig up.
“The reason I brought up all this story again is.”
“…”
“I hope, even if just a little, you can feel comfortable. If you can discard the feeling of contempt for me, you might find some ease.”
While I cannot deny every path that has returned, if you can understand my heart even a little bit.
Perhaps, not me, but both your daughter and you could find some comfort.
“You don’t have to forgive. I know I don’t have that right.”
“…”
“In order for you and your daughter to find comfort, I will live the remaining days trying my best from behind.”
“…”
“Please take care of your health.”
That was the path of atonement Sungjae chose.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
