Do Han looked at his father, who was too shocked to respond, with an unfeeling gaze.
“It’s you who’s shameless, not me. Isn’t that what your eyes are saying?”
Kyeong Cheol, after being stunned, finally spoke.
“So, you abandoned Hye Ri because you felt sorry for my mom next to me?”
According to him, the thirteen-year-old Do Han had cried for a long time, saying that Hye Ri had gone into shock when she was told that her little sister was terminally ill.
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If the passing car hadn’t stopped and taken her to the police station, she might have gone missing forever.
When Hye Ri safely returned home, she showed signs of anxiety and developed panic disorder.
Worried about his daughter’s well-being, Kyeong Cheol pressured Do Han, a college student, to drop out of school.
He wanted him to attend the same university as Hye Ri and take care of her.
To repay the sin of abandoning his younger sister.
“No, I wanted to make you unhappy just like you made me.”
As Kyeong Cheol’s face stiffened, Do Han spoke.
“So it would be fair.”
After he had expressed all the words he had buried deep in his heart, he felt a sense of relief.
He had thought he shouldn’t be honest.
He had lived thinking he was a person who didn’t even have the right to do so.
But it was such an easy thing to do.
Yet he hadn’t done it.
“Find out the hospital where Hye Ri will have surgery. I’ll go with you to the hospital.”
Do Han remembered the words his stepmother had spoken to him before she died, as she held his hand.
“I’m sorry, Do Han. I’m really sorry. But please think of Hye Ri as your real sister. Don’t let go of her. Please…”
Back then, when he was in high school, Do Han hadn’t responded to his dying stepmother.
He hadn’t said that he understood or apologized.
He couldn’t give her a short answer that would allow her to close her eyes comfortably, even though he knew it wouldn’t be easy for her to forgive him, considering the situation.
But even so, she had loved his father all her life.
Because her mother, who had never received love in her life, had passed away so pitifully.
Do Han thought he should at least stand by his mother’s side and turn away from his stepmother.
But his stepmother’s last request had haunted him all this time.
Even now, it bothered him to the point that it occasionally appeared in his dreams.
He offered his condolences to Kyeong Cheol, who was still standing motionless, by bowing his head.
As he was about to get into the car and leave, Hye Ri followed him.
“Oppa, this is a belated birthday present.”
Do Han looked down at the gift that Hye Ri extended to him, and in the midst of this, he burst into laughter at her absurdity.
She had received a cancer diagnosis, yet she appeared perfectly healthy.
He thought it might be better to scream at her, saying it was all her fault, just like Kyeong Cheol did.
Hye Ri forcibly handed him the gift as she approached him.
“I can finish the first semester, right? I only need to take the final exams next month, so it would be a waste to drop out now.”
“Is that the issue right now?”
Do Han replied incredulously, and she chuckled.
“I never wanted to go to school in the first place, but suddenly, I have a desire to attend classes. Maybe it’s because I suddenly feel like I might die soon.”
“Study as much as you want after the surgery.”
“Even if the surgery goes well, I still have to undergo cancer treatment. When can I return to school? And if there’s a relapse, I’ll have to drop out again. Our mom also said that the surgery was successful, but she eventually relapsed and passed away.”
“Not everyone dies just because they have cancer.”
Do Han didn’t know what to say to offer comfort.
Their relationship wasn’t affectionate like that of loving siblings, and he wasn’t known for his caring nature. So, he chose silence.
Hye Ri, who had been looking at Do Han, let out a small sigh.
“To be honest, I’m a bit scared, Oppa.”
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Until now, she had acted like it was someone else’s business, but for the first time, she expressed her true feelings. Do Han’s eyes widened slightly.
“I’m only twenty years old now. It would feel unfair to die at this point.”
Hye Ri, who had kept her gaze fixed on the floor, slowly raised her head to look at Do Han.
“Oppa, will you really go to the hospital with me?”
“Yes.”
Tears welled up in Hye Ri’s eyes at his response.
“Even during the surgery, and when I receive cancer treatment?”
As her voice trembled faintly, Do Han nodded.
“Yes, I will.”
Do Han wanted to repay the kindness his stepmother had shown by doing so and seek forgiveness from Hye Ri, even if it meant doing this.
The day he had abandoned his sister still haunted him as a dreadful memory.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
