Acts We Shouldn't Do (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 20

Right now you’re throwing a fit saying you have no intention of getting married, but there’s no way she’d leave her well-groomed son—all too desirable in Ahbeom’s eyes—to live alone.

Ahbeom would carefully calculate and choose a woman who’d bring multiple benefits to Kang Seon, and since Tae Seo wouldn’t care who his partner was, he’d inevitably end up marrying that woman.

“I know you well enough, you rascal.”

Hong Jin didn’t want Tae Seo to enter into a marriage of convenience like Ahbeom, settle into domesticity unhappily, and end up stringing along one woman after another.

But if he was truly that indifferent and emotionally detached toward women—well, if that was the case, then following through with her late husband’s dying wish wouldn’t be such a bad idea after all.

Though Hyun Yang Construction had fallen on hard times, to Hong Jin, Tae Seo wasn’t the sort of incompetent man who needed someone else’s support. If Chairwoman Jo of Hyun Yang Construction had raised her daughter so delicately, then as long as that girl could simply accept and support Tae Seo wholeheartedly, Hong Jin would have nothing left to wish for.

“…If you really have someone you love, bring her here right away. I’ll give my blessing without a second thought. I’ll roll up my sleeves and personally overturn the engagement with Hyun Yang.”

“…”

Love. It was a word that hardly suited him at all. Yet at the mention of “love,” Tae Seo briefly thought of Yoon Jae In.

He was interested, his eyes kept drifting toward her—and his heart followed too. That was all it was. It just so happened that Yoon Jae In was the only person he’d ever felt this way about, but it still felt absurd to call it “love.”

It was strange, admittedly, that his heart pounded whenever he thought of Yoon Jae In—but surely that wasn’t the kind of all-consuming love people claimed they’d die without. It was just a simple attraction, nothing more.

Moreover, the only love between a man and woman he truly knew was one singular example. Remembering how his mother’s love for his father had ended made him deeply skeptical of the very word “love.”

“Do you really want me to spend every moment until my death worrying only about you?”

“Grandma…”

“I’m not asking for anything else. What right do I have to expect anything more from you? I just want to see you settle down somewhere, with your heart at peace—so I can die knowing I did my part as your grandmother.”

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