The wind brushing against the cheeks was gentle, and the white shining sandy beach, the sky meeting the sea, were beautiful. Taeseo had set only one goal for this vacation.
To be lazy about everything except Yoon Jaein.
And he was faithfully carrying out his planned intentions.
He kept his phone away and checked it only once a day when he woke up. He didn’t even take out his tablet or laptop from the bag. He concentrated all his time on Yoon Jaein.
But today, Taeseo, who woke up late, checked the missed call list on his phone and got up when he saw Director Jang’s name.
“Hello, Director.”
For some time now, Director Jang had started calling Taeseo “representative,” even when he temporarily took over as the acting chairman of Kangseon Group. It might be because he understood the heart of a superior who wanted to sever ties with Kangseon Group.
“What’s the matter?”
“It’s about Mr. Jung Jaehoon’s death.”
“…….”
Jung Jaehoon, who was found rolling down from a discarded mountain after a severe beating, was conscious but unable to move, and his fingers couldn’t even twitch.
After completing treatment at the hospital, he had been living in a nursing hospital overlooking the sea for a year.
He couldn’t move his body, but there was no harm to his life. When Taeseo visited, he confirmed his well-being by shouting. But his death was unexpected.
“What was the cause of death?”
“It was an accident.”
“An accident…?”
“For the past few months, he had been relying on rehabilitation. And recently, he regained the ability to move his fingers and exert strength in his arms.”
“That means…”
“Twice a week, there was a time when caregivers took patients out in wheelchairs for a walk. Mr. Jung Jaehoon asked for water, so the caregiver left, and in the meantime, Mr. Jung Jaehoon fell off the wheelchair on a steep slope and hit his head on a rock, causing excessive bleeding. That’s the direct cause of death.”
Listening to the details of the accident, Taeseo painted a picture of the day he visited Jung Jaehoon, who had become a wreck a year ago in the hospital.
At that time, Taeseo calmly told Jung Jaehoon about his miserable future.
“You will breathe in some nursing home in the countryside, and one day, even the act of breathing will become dreadful. The more you dwell on what you didn’t have, what you achieved, and the past when you trampled on people, the more pitiful you’ll become.”
“Driven by a desperate desire to live like a person again or fueled by a pathetic desire for revenge, you might go through rehabilitation as if possessed and miraculously end up sitting again. Truly miraculous.”
“Here’s some relatively good news. From now on, you’ll have to rely on injections until you die.”
“Congratulations. You’ve become a legal drug addict.”
Filling the eyes with resentment and desire for the subject that couldn’t be avoided, Taeseo stepped on it carefully, making sure it would be etched into the chest, whispered it as if chewing each word. And before leaving the hospital room, the last words he spat out, like spitting out resentment…….
“Hope you have the strength to bite your tongue.”
It was a mockery, suggesting that choosing death on one’s own would be better than living like this.
According to reports, Jung Jaehoon’s mother and the cousin who made Jung Jaehoon reach that state visited the hospital only three times after he moved to the nursing hospital. There was no record of Jung Jaehoon meeting outsiders from the hospital.
“Suicide.”
“Excuse me?”
Taeseo, muttering the word that naturally came to mind, fell silent. Was the rock on the steep slope he rolled down on a bane for Jung Jaehoon, or was it salvation?
He didn’t even know if he really engraved my last words on his chest. Taeseo felt like he knew why Jung Jaehoon strengthened his hands and arms to the point of death.
As he thought about Jung Jaehoon, who finally chose to roll down the slope in a wheelchair, Taeseo’s eyes deepened.
Taeseo did not mourn Jung Jaehoon’s death. It wasn’t as if he felt good either. It wasn’t because he was kind enough to welcome someone’s death.
One year was too short. Jung Jaehoon should have suffered longer.
Until the moment he died, that person longed for and wanted Yoon Jaein. It wasn’t that he repented and chose death; it was that he chose death because he couldn’t stand the pain of not having it.
“People don’t change easily.”
“…….”
Jang Director didn’t respond to Taeseo’s soliloquy. How much time passed? Taeseo, who opened his eyes, looked at the leisurely and peaceful scenery and closed his eyes again. In the closed eyelids, fragments of light remained, shimmering.
“The funeral seems to be held on a grand scale. Seeing that we received the news of the bereavement directly, what should we do?”
“Um…….”
“Should we send flowers?”
If the deceased Jung Jaehoon saw the flower arrangement sent by Taeseo, it would have been another mockery. Taeseo didn’t feel the need to do that.
A few days ago, Jaein often woke up from nightmares or was haunted by night terrors.
My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
