“What’s going on here?” The one who threw me a pointed question as soon as we came out of the meeting room was Se-a. Since the last time I saw her at the engagement ceremony with Min-kyung, it felt like it had been over a year and a half since I saw her face. Min-woo, having finished his term, spent three months living like a recluse, only recently regaining his sanity. Upon regaining his senses, the first thing he did was to visit Jeong Se-a. Not out of curiosity but to inquire about the baby born between her and him.
“Why did you come to see me? We’ve parted ways, right? After seeing all the chaos. Oh, right. You’re a complete mess, right? Your story often appears in the news, and I know it well. Why, after spending a year in there, did you suddenly think of me?”
With a mocking tone and twisted words, Se-a, who had changed a lot over the past year and a half, was sneering. Her previous appearance was nowhere to be found, and there was a version of her that I had never seen before. In the meantime, she gained a lot of weight, her face became very wrinkled, and at first glance, she looked like a different person. Moreover, even when she was still, she seemed angry, and the wrinkles between her eyes were deeper. It looked like it had been more than ten years.
“Oh, right. While you’re at it, give me some pocket money. You know, you need a lot of money to live here. Our father is having a hard time because the situation isn’t good, so he only gives me a little bit, just a pittance.”
Se-a’s annoyed tone made the wrinkles between her eyebrows even more pronounced. Se-a’s mother was shocked by the news of her, and she collapsed, hospitalized. In addition, her father, struggling with the situation, sought a lawyer to reduce Se-a’s sentence, appealed, only to lose, and lost the lawyer’s fees. They sold the small orchard they were running to cover those costs, and her father worked hard every day to pay the remaining hospital bills and sent a small allowance to Se-a every month. Se-a knew all that but was just dissatisfied.
“Where is the child?”
“Child? Ah… Our child. The child isn’t here.”
“What?”
As far as I know, as long as the mother wants, there was support for living together in prison for a certain period and various support. But she said it so casually that the child wasn’t here.
“From shortly after the child was born, she has been in and out of the hospital frequently due to illness. She’s still in the hospital.”
“Hospital? Which hospital? What illness?”
With Se-a’s indifferent attitude, Min-woo was annoyed unintentionally.
“What? It’s your child! Why aren’t you interested now that you’re a mother?”
“My child? Did I make a child alone? You’re the child, too. What were you doing until now? You came out a few months ago, but instead of looking for her right away, where are you venting your anger, huh?”
At Se-a’s piercing words, Min-woo couldn’t say anything. She was right. She was too late.
“So… what are you going to do about the child?”
“She’s been sick since shortly after she was born, so she often goes to the hospital. She’s still in the hospital now.”
“Hospital? Which hospital? What illness?”
“It’s called XX Hospital, but I don’t know the details. She had difficulty breathing a few days ago.”
Min-woo couldn’t help feeling irritated at Se-a’s indifferent demeanor as she spoke.
“What? It’s your child! Why aren’t you interested now that you’re a mother?”
“My child? Did I make a child alone? You’re the child, too. What were you doing until now? You came out a few months ago, but instead of looking for her right away, where are you venting your anger, huh?”
Min-woo couldn’t say anything in response to Se-a’s piercing words.
She was right. He was too late.
“So… what are you going to do about the child?”
“I don’t know. I’m here, struggling to take care of myself. How can I worry about a child? You take her with you.”
Turning her head as if annoyed, Se-a soon stood up from her seat.
“I still have to live here for a few more years. And even if I go out, I don’t know how to live. It’s just frustrating! So, you should take responsibility for the child, too. Don’t just abandon her after helping to create her.”
No words came out.
In fact, he hadn’t thought about what to do with the child.
During the few months he lived like a recluse, he despaired at the fact that there was no trustworthy family in this world.
In the midst of despair, at that time… he thought of his child.
His own bloodline.
The child with Jeong Se-a, the only bloodline left to him.
It was just impulsively searching for Se-a out of curiosity about the child.
“Do you have the confidence not to regret it? Is it okay to let go of the child so easily?”
An unexpected question popped out of Min-woo’s mouth.
“How would I know? Whether I’ll regret it or not. But you know, while I’m in here, I can’t do anything for the child.”
Answering without much thought, she seemed like a person without concern or love for the child.
“You take her with you. I don’t have the confidence to take care of that child.”
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
