“Is that so?”
“…….”
Speechless with shock, Ji Seung Hee was reminded of a conversation she had long ago with her husband.
“Did you know? Earlier, Director Lim of Kang Sun Art Center called our Yu Ri Tae Seo’s fiancée. What’s going on?”
“…It seems that father had made a promise with the late Chairman Kang Sun Il.”
“How could father, who passed away even before Yu Ri was born, know to arrange an engagement…”
The news of Chairman Jo Seong Hwan’s sudden death came around the time when Seung Hee had just started seeing Dae Hoon, introduced through a cousin. Two months later, she was pregnant with Yu Ri, and they hastily got married.
Shock dawned on Seung Hee’s face as she recollected her past memories.
“Don’t tell me you…”
“I knew Yoon Se Na met with father before she went to America… But I had no idea that father made such a promise concerning a child not even born yet.”
“Yoon Se Na, it’s not her, right?”
She could not forget the betrayal. She had thought that, being a successful man, he wouldn’t have lacked for passing relationships.
The problem was that her cold and distant husband’s only scandal involved Yoon Se Na, an actress who had been dominating the film and TV industries at the time.
Seung Hee knew Yoon Se Na well. They had met repeatedly at the Korean dance competitions during their high school years.
Yoon Se Na, with her pretty looks and excellent skills, monopolized the judges’ admiration and made Seung Hee, who had been delicately raised in a wealthy family, feel frustrated. No matter how much money and effort she put in, people’s attention always went to Se Na, who was two years her junior.
Then, right before university admission, Se Na suddenly shot a TV commercial. It became the stepping stone for her acting career, and she left dance for the entertainment industry.
That’s why Seung Hee hated her even more. Yoon Se Na had given up on Korean dance, which Seung Hee had clung to so desperately, without a second thought.
As if to say, “This trivial thing, you can have it.”
“You said it was a false rumor that Yoon Se Na ran off to America with your child! Was that rumor true?”
“It doesn’t matter. It happened before I met you, and after all, you’re the lady of Hyunyang Construction.”
“Do you really have a child? What are you going to do about the child!”
“With Yoon Se Na’s character, she won’t come forward using a child as leverage. Don’t worry. More importantly, make sure to properly educate Yu Ri. Do you think becoming in-laws with Kang Sun is something trivial? Make sure Yu Ri doesn’t mix with strange crowds.”
Afterward, Seung Hee raised Yu Ri with gritted teeth. Though she had never seen Yoon Se Na’s daughter, who must be living somewhere, she was determined to raise her own child better in every way.
She provided the best environment to ensure Yu Ri received the highest praise, giving her daughter everything good. The reason she raised her without any shortcomings was clear.
It was because everything felt like a disgrace to Seung Hee: winning the dance competition Yoon Se Na had left, having a child with the man Se Na had been seeing.
That’s why she hoped her daughter would not live like her. She had to shine brighter than Yoon Se Na’s daughter, no matter what.
She did everything to ensure that her daughter did not just take Yoon Se Na’s daughter’s place as the daughter-in-law of Kang Sun Group. No one should dare to think that.
One day, her husband brought home Yoon Jae In, a girl who was the spitting image of her mother. The shock of that moment.
“Why? Why should I take care of this child! Do you want to play the father now, after all this time? Aren’t you ashamed in front of our Yu Ri?”
“It’s not like that. Her mother’s sick and she’s asking for hospital expenses!”
“That money, just give it to those beggars! Why bring the child here!”
“What do you think they’ll do with that money? It’s a headache if they start meeting with reporters or something. Just keep her at the foundation, teach her this and that until her mother’s treatment is over. We’ve already made her an orphan.”
The child had only ever taken ballet classes in kindergarten. But when tested, she blossomed in Korean dance, attracting people like a flower.
That’s why she wasn’t given a separate annex but made to stay under the stairs in a storage room to prevent contact with others. For the seven years Yoon Se Na’s daughter was in Korea, she was always under Seung Hee’s watch.
Except for the day of the car accident.
Even after being hidden so thoroughly, she still managed to enchant men, just like her mother. And now, having come to Korea, it seems she has charmed Kang Tae Seo too.
Her daughter Yu Ri’s only desired match. That Kang Tae Seo was in front of Yoon Jae In’s house. And he’s been visiting, it wasn’t just her daughter’s baseless worries.
“…Tae Seo?”
Seung Hee looked at the man who had captured her daughter’s heart while swallowing her rage. She trembled with humiliation but managed to bite back the display of her feelings.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
