Before attending the meeting, Hyojin, who came to Sangrimwon with Seungyul, sat on the bed and neatly tied Seungyul’s tie, who had changed into a suit.
“Teacher, every time Dad had an important event, you used to tie the tie for him, right? He was always happy, saying that you secured a contract. Seungyul will surely have good things happen.”
Hyojin put wrinkles in the center of the tie with sincerity and completed the tie.
“Now, shall we go to Grandmother?”
“Madam, Master Doyeon is ready.”
Jahyun, who came out of the hospital room where Gyohee was lying down, had tears in her eyes.
“……!”
Hyojin, who faced the messed-up face soaked with tears, was bewildered and bit her lips.
If I knew this would happen, I should have waited outside without saying anything.
“Am I ridiculous to you? A person called a mother who can’t even distinguish between dung and soybean paste.”
“Am I ridiculous to you? A person called a mother who can’t even distinguish between dung and soybean paste.”
Even she felt pathetic thinking about herself, but Jahyun didn’t need to see how pathetic she was in her eyes.
“Why don’t you apologize to me?”
“What?”
Hyojin, who had been waiting for Jahyun to pass by, keeping her gaze fixed on the floor, looked up in confusion, wondering why Jahyun didn’t ask her to apologize.
“Why don’t you tell me to apologize? I misunderstood.”
“Ah…”
Unexpectedly, since Jahyun came out like this, Hyojin was more embarrassed, biting her lips.
“It’s all for Father, right?”
Because she’s Mom. Naturally, she could have doubted when she heard such a story.
“I’m the same.”
Even though she might not like someone like me.
Hyojin knew that her feelings for Gyohee and Seungyul were the same as Jahyun’s.
“Please take care of our Gyohee.”
“What?”
As if asking when Jahyun ever cried, she looked at Hyojin with a face that had wiped away the traces of tears, dry as usual.
“I’m asking you to take care of our Gyohee. I have to go to work with Yool.”
“Oh, yes.”
Hyojin watched Jahyun, who walked down the long corridor with Seungyul, receiving the team leader’s favor, and Seungyul.
Although she didn’t directly apologize for being sorry, Hyojin, feeling that Jahyun’s gaze toward her softened a bit, greeted her late, hiding in the elevator.
“Goodbye, Madam!”
As the elevator door closed, and while looking at Gyohee lying on the bed through the transparent window, Hyojin gathered courage, pressed the button for the automatic door, and took a step into his space.
Beep beep beep beep. Along with the regular breathing sounds, the warm air seemed to wrap around her.
“Father, I’m here.”
Instead of an answer, the skin scent she liked so much was emitted from his scattered breath.
“I’m sorry. I told you to forget everything, but I can’t forget and come to you like this.”
Seeing him up close, Hyojin’s heart collapsed more than when she saw him from a distance.
“Father, have you been having a hard time because of me all this time?”
That’s why she tried not to come in. She had something to say to him.
“Sorry. I know you told me to forget, but I was greedy.”
Even though I can’t forget.
“I won’t like you from now on.”
I promise to forget everything as you told me to, even until I die.
“So, for Seungyul’s sake, please get up. That’s all I ask for Father.”
Hyojin’s vision blurred with tears as she lifted his hand on the bed and placed her pinky finger on it.
As the swollen tears fell onto their clasped hands, she felt a faint pressure between the fingers.
“Father?”
Hyojin watched as his fingers, adorned with teary, tangled eyelashes, twitched with the added saturation of oxygen.
“Father!”
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
