Brother, You're Mistaken (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 49

Pop, pop.

Smoke curled up lazily from behind the rooftop septic tank, where no one else was around. It was the cigarette smoke Ruby had lit after parting ways with Bo Seok.

“Ugh, this is so damn frustrating…”

It had clearly been an unwanted encounter. It was she herself who’d stormed out of the house on her own two feet, and she herself who’d cut off contact with her family.

Yet, watching her dad limp away, turning his back to her, made her chest ache in a way she couldn’t understand.

“I wonder if Dad got home okay. Seriously, at his age, what’s with these blind dates? Ugh…”

Ruby exhaled her final puff and let out a long sigh.

Lee Ru Bi—Bo Seok’s precious daughter, president of Tae Yang Foods.

There wasn’t a soul on Sinwol Island who didn’t know this fact. The story was still going around that when Bo Seok, overjoyed at having a late-in-life child after fifty, had slaughtered no fewer than five cows—making it crystal clear just how deeply he doted on his daughter, even without seeing it firsthand.

She had a kind father and three much older brothers. By any measure, hers was a home where love was inevitable. After her mother passed away in elementary school, her family bond only grew tighter, and in that warmth, Ruby thrived.

As a child, she’d been the family’s little sweetheart; later, she became the mood-maker who always played her part perfectly—until everything changed around puberty.

‘Ugh, I’m suffocating. When the hell am I finally getting out of this backwater?’

The moment she realized this island—once her entire world—was so obscure that half the people in Korea didn’t even know its name.

The moment she learned there were countless people far wealthier than her dad, whom the village considered its richest man.

The moment she saw a city sparkling past midnight with dazzling lights.

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