“Did you… Did you really not mention it already? You know the chairman’s personality. If he finds out about this incident, he won’t stay silent.”
Her voice became desperate.
“I haven’t mentioned it.”
“Hah…”
Myeongok heaved a deep sigh, releasing the tension in her shoulders.
However, for a moment, she stood up like someone struck by lightning.
“Please… please keep it a secret, okay? I’m, I’m begging you.”
Myeongok, standing in front of Taesang, spoke while clasping her hands together. Desperation overflowed from her distorted eyes.
Taesang silently stared back with indifferent eyes.
No sympathy, no wavering gaze.
Myeongok knelt on the floor, clasping the hem of Taesang’s jacket with both hands.
“But we’ve spent time together, haven’t we? If you let this slide just once, I’ll do really well. I’ll live as if I were dead from now on. Huh? Please.”
Taesang turned his head, furrowing his brows. His expression was one of disgust, as if he couldn’t stand it any longer. He cleanly brushed off her hand with a swift movement.
“You already knew before I said anything.”
“……. ”
With just that remark, Taesang slowly turned away.
“Visit without delay. I’ve been waiting already.”
“You… you… Cha Taesang, you…!”
Bang! A scream and curses erupted through the tightly closed door.
In the peaceful afternoon sunlight, Chairman Cha spun a black stone in his hand.
With a creaking sound and a sigh, he carefully made his next move.
“……. ”
Already twenty minutes without a word.
Chairman Cha sat alone on the living room sofa, playing Baduk for a long 20 minutes. Myeongok, sitting in a proper posture, watching him, felt her blood drying up.
There’s something obvious to say, but he says nothing. If she tries to make excuses, he’ll sternly point his index finger.
In the endless silence, Myeongok’s mind was already filled with the worst imaginings.
Unknowingly clenching her fists, Chairman Cha broke the long silence and spoke.
“Baduk is just like life.”
“What?”
When he finally opened his mouth, a cracked voice came out. With water right in front of her, she couldn’t bring herself to drink, and Myeongok swallowed her dry saliva.
“Baduk is a game where even if you have more than half the pieces, you can win. But you always try to break into someone else’s house. Then you lose what’s mine and regret it.”
“……. ”
“Don’t you think so?”
“Dad, you’re misunderstanding. I don’t even know what Secretary Song looks like. Surely, he received a bad proposal somewhere and acted unilaterally…”
Unable to endure any longer, Myeongok quickly poured out her words. Then the old man sent her a stern gaze and closed his cunning mouth.
“Myeongok.”
“…Yes, Dad.”
“I’ve given you and Subin a lot.”
“……. ”
“Yet Taesang’s thing is what tempted you?”
“……. ”
Even after making a flat vow more than a million times, her lips trembled at Chairman Cha’s words, which risked everything for Subin.
Compared to Taesang, Subin had nothing. Not company shares, real estate, or even connections. Chairman Cha always gave everything to Taesang.
As that thought crossed her mind, a boiling anger surged. The unfairness she had endured for Subin erupted like a volcano in an instant.
“Dad, you’re really too much. How could you say that to me? Huh? You say Subin and Taesang have the same thing. How can you say such a thing to me?”
“Myeongok.”
A dignified voice filled the spacious living room.
“Do you think I really don’t know?”
Chairman Cha’s low voice settled heavily in the living room.
Sensing something unusual, Myeongok suddenly lifted her head. At that moment, her gaze met the distant old man’s eyes.
“I mean… I still couldn’t abandon that brat.”
“W-who are you talking about?”
“My grandson, who doesn’t share my blood.”
“….!”
Myeongok widened her eyes. The black pupils were tightly contracted in fear. She stiffly moved her frozen lips.
“Ah, Father… W-what is that…”
“Just don’t be too greedy, just that.”
“….”
“After you called for the boat, the day you greeted my son’s mourners, I vowed to protect you and your child until the day you die.”
Chairman Cha exhaled a deep sigh as he spoke.
“…without knowing that the bloodline inside was from another family.”
With distant eyes, he looked back at the time that had passed. In his face, dulled by pain and sorrow, only a faint longing for the departed remained.
“D-did you know everything? W-why until now if you knew…”
Myeongok intermittently raised her head like a trembling willow tree. Her erratic gestures, like a broken wooden puppet, seemed to deny the reality she faced.
“I thought young lovers wrote that on bean pod shells, not this.”
Chairman Cha sighed with a mix of self-pity.
“I thought it was because of a different appearance, being an outsider, and growing up without a father, so he turned out to be so docile… It took a long time for Subin to peel off that stubborn shell.”
“….”
“I was foolish. I was naive. But when I faced reality, it was already too late. I was attached, and I couldn’t bear to cast him away.”
“Father… I’m s-sorry. I was going to tell you. I swear…”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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