Constrained to Start (8 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 25

Sincerity, not acting.

Raw, unfiltered emotion poured out at Prosecutor Kang Ji Ho’s single sentence.

The childhood memories she vaguely recalled. Her parents’ discord, which began with trivial quarrels, repeatedly halted and resumed on its way to the final destination of divorce.

It had been so long and tedious that Ra Jin learned to suppress her emotions amid her parents’ icy psychological warfare.

She tried hard to pretend everything was fine and to act as if she understood the adults. She always wanted to be the good daughter—because somehow she felt her parents’ divorce was all her fault.

Ra Jin grew up visiting her mother, who had built a happy new family, while staying by her despairing father’s side.

Then came her father’s death and a brand-new family.

She suddenly recalled the chaotic struggle she’d gone through, always trying to be the good daughter even in unfamiliar places.

Reality had been thrown into disarray by her mother’s car accident. Ra Jin had only blamed herself and resigned to it—yet at just one sentence from him, everything came crumbling down.

Wanting to offer some kind of excuse, Ra Jin opened her mouth, but only loud sobs came out.

“It’s okay.”

Like a child who breaks down even more when comforted, the emotions she’d tightly held back burst forth. She couldn’t believe she was acting so messily—it was absurd. Yet she couldn’t stop the tears streaming down her face.

“It’s not your fault, Ra Jin.”

The misfortune that had stubbornly clung to her since childhood—

he had just declared her innocent of it. In that moment, when her absolute blamelessness was affirmed, Ra Jin tightly gripped his back.

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