Kim Yoon-hee asked Da-hyun with a worried expression as she didn’t seem to want Min-hyuk to leave. She often saw him loving Da-hyun and being affectionate, unable to hide his affection.
Indeed, was fate already predetermined?
“Han Da-hyun.”
“Yes.”
“Are you okay?”
Actually, she wasn’t overly worried, but she hoped that whatever worries Da-hyun had, they would ease a bit.
“To my eyes, it doesn’t look okay at all.”
“It’s not okay.”
There’s no way it would be okay. How could it be okay when Soo-cheol, who she thought was her real father, turned out to be someone completely unrelated? Da-hyun swallowed the rest of her words. But she didn’t hide her feelings from Kim Yoon-hee’s question. Instead, she hoped that Kim Yoon-hee would acknowledge that she wasn’t okay.
There was nothing good in hiding it. Da-hyun chuckled bitterly.
Although she didn’t want to be entangled with Kim Yoon-hee again, when things exploded, she needed her. She had asked her to come today because only she could do what she wanted.
Kim Yoon-hee was the only one who could listen to what she wanted. Yesterday’s enemy had to become today’s ally.
“Indeed, it wouldn’t feel good even for someone completely unrelated to be known as the father who confined the first lady. Even if it were me, I wouldn’t feel good. Even knowing that our father is truly subhuman, hearing others curse him makes me feel dirty.”
Kim Yoon-hee naturally comforted herself, thinking that Soo-cheol was Da-hyun’s biological father. She made an effort not to appear resentful to Da-hyun anymore.
Because she would shamelessly ask Da-hyun to support her child’s medical expenses if Da-hyun forgave her.
Da-hyun agreed with the words that it felt dirty. Yes, that’s how she felt. It felt dirty when she realized that Soo-cheol wasn’t her biological father, a repulsive feeling arose.
“‘It feels dirty.’ Yes, it really was like that.”
Without Da-hyun saying much, seizing every opportunity when she did, Kim Yoon-hee subtly spoke.
If there was a reason Min-hyuk sought her out, there was only one. Something related to Da-hyun. So, Da-hyun must be in a difficult situation right now, and she would need her.
“Anyway, it seems like you might need my help. I’ll do my best to help within the limits of what I can do.”
Kim Yoon-hee cut in before Da-hyun could bring up the topic herself.
“If there’s anything I can help with, please feel free to tell me.”
Da-hyun silently stared at Kim Yoon-hee, who was winking with one eye. Kim Yoon-hee herself clearly intended to step forward and help. But Da-hyun couldn’t refuse. Kim Yoon-hee’s words were correct. Right now, Da-hyun needed Kim Yoon-hee.
There was no one else who could make a shortcut to achieving her goal like Kim Yoon-hee.
Da-hyun, who used to be a good daughter to Soo-cheol, would no longer exist. Even if she wasn’t a biological daughter, if Soo-cheol had loved her like Ji-yeon, she might have still considered him as a real father even after knowing the truth.
But Soo-cheol had already crossed an irreversible river.
“Then I’ll ask for a favor. Even if Kim Yoon-hee kneels and apologizes to me, honestly, I have no intention of forgiving Kim Yoon-hee. I wavered for a moment. I thought about whether I should forgive you. But in the end, I couldn’t forgive. We may have our own perspectives, but I’ve really been through a lot.”
Da-hyun poured out her feelings to Kim Yoon-hee without reservation. In truth, after knowing the truth, she had thought about whether she could forgive Kim Yoon-hee given her difficult circumstances.
However, she still couldn’t forgive. The accumulated resentment and the years spent hating Min-hyuk due to misunderstandings, along with the consuming sadness of her emotions, were too great. It was also a significant mental blow.
If it weren’t for Kim Yoon-hee, Min-hyuk and she might have spent meaningless time loving each other.
Her life was truly full of ups and downs.
She couldn’t live a flat life from a young age, and even now, it remained that way.
Kim Yoon-hee seemed to understand without disappointment, as if she had expected it.
Seeing that Da-hyun didn’t say she would forgive her even after Soo-cheol knelt and apologized at his house, Kim Yoon-hee thought that although Da-hyun understood her situation, she wouldn’t easily let it pass.
“I know. I caused a significant wound to Ms. Dahyun with what I did. I won’t brazenly ask for forgiveness just because I apologized. I’m truly sorry, and that’s why I want to sincerely help Ms. Dahyun. That way, my child can look at Ms. Dahyun’s face without shame.”
Dahyun had no intention of rejecting Kim Yoon-hee’s proposal. However, it did not imply forgiveness.
Even though Kim Yoon-hee was bad, she felt that it was time to stop talking about what she had done, feeling genuine in her treatment toward her child.
In hindsight, there was also her fault for not trusting him.
“I made a mistake in believing only Kim Yoon-hee’s words and arbitrarily judging the relationship between Min-hyuk and Kim Yoon-hee. In the end, I couldn’t trust him and ended up running away because knowing the truth alone was frightening.”
“That’s really not a good thing, you know? Sulking only makes your insides rot. Honestly, I thought it was unexpected that Ms. Dahyun believed in the fake evidence so naively. Looking back now, there were too many sloppy parts, but I was deceived.”
Kim Yoon-hee criticized Dahyun’s personality like a machine gun, and Dahyun didn’t particularly counter it.
The real reason she called Kim Yoon-hee today was to make a deal for each other.
If Kim Yoon-hee would grant what she wanted, Dahyun was willing to fulfill what Kim Yoon-hee so desperately desired.
She didn’t want her child to see Soo-cheol as a grandfather. She didn’t want her child to come into the world in a way that Soo-cheol could hold his head high.
Dahyun, after contemplating, checked the video stored on the USB Chang-jung had given her. The contents of the video were very shocking. This time, she became determined to bring Soo-cheol down herself.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
