“Oh, yes. He’s my former student.”
Feeling delighted, Hyojin pulled Seungyul towards her and examined his face.
“Seungyul, how have you been?”
“I’m not a student; I’m her son.”
Seungyul raised one eyebrow and glared at the man.
“Son? Not a student?”
“Who are you to be with my mom?”
Thinking that Seungyul might have mistaken Hyojin for his mom, the man, more surprised, looked at Hyojin.
“Oh, yes. He’s my student.”
“Haha, Seungyul. What nonsense, calling me your son.”
Are there a lot of lime in English water? Is that why he got confused after drinking it?
“When did you come to Korea? Weren’t you in England?”
“Where would I go? I left my mom here.”
“What?”
The man, who had been respectful to Hyojin, had his pupils enlarged even more.
“Seungyul, why are you like this? People might misunderstand.”
Now even people around were looking at Hyojin strangely.
“It’s more of a problem if you keep talking like this with my mom. My dad might misunderstand.”
“What?”
“Because my dad said he misses my mom and came here.”
Seungyul narrowed his eyebrow with his finger, imitating Gyohwan’s expression.
“But what if Mom keeps seeing someone like this? How narrow-minded can Dad be?”
What is he talking about?
“Dad, what are you doing there? Come quickly. Mom is waiting.”
“Seungyul, what are you saying…!”
Hyojin, who turned her head, was speechless.
In front of her, the person she had longed for even in her dreams was standing.
Although she knew he had awakened, she had never thought he would come looking for her like this, causing her entire body to vibrate to the point where her heart was trembling.
“Hello.”
Huh?
Behind Hyojin, who was doubting her own ears, the man stood up, scraping his chair against the floor.
“Oh, excuse me. Investigator.”
“Investigator?”
“Yes.”
Didn’t he say he was an investigator?
Hyojin rolled her eyes at the uncomfortable man.
“I think the relationship between the three of you is just as I thought, judging by your appearance here without even knowing my name.”
“No, no!”
Now an embarrassment victim who came out to see a gun and the sun, Hyojin turned crimson, and her face seemed about to burst.
“Dad, what on earth are you doing?”
Hyojin, who came out of the coffee shop in embarrassment, was followed by Gyohwan and Seungyul, like sausages lined up.
Okay, for the child. But Dad too.
He said there could be a lingering effect like Madame Bang Mi-hee when the doctor woke up. Did he get amnesia?
“Well, it’s because of what Seungyul asked for.”
Gyohwan shot a look at the excuse-making Gyohwan as if to say he was absurd.
“Dad, just look at me for a moment.”
It wasn’t like I liked Dad, who was a poor actor.
However, Seungyul, who couldn’t humiliate his father’s dignity in front of the teacher, took Gyohwan to the corner.
“Why are you blaming my excuse?”
When Dad says to follow as he says, it’s when, really.
“Son, that’s…”
Soon, Hyojin would find out why her father had returned.
Gyohwan was in a dilemma because he couldn’t reveal the terrible details of the accident even to his son.
“Go tell the teacher right now. I don’t like the teacher showing her face. The teacher is my woman! Speak up confidently!”
Like I said I’m the mom in front of the teacher!
“Hah!”
Watching the strategy meeting from afar, Hyojin was even more flabbergasted.
“Dad, have you been in the hospital for a long time, and did your head go weird?”
Seungyul, who used to be stricter than anyone else, couldn’t move like a cat in front of a mouse.
“It won’t work. Let’s go to the hospital.”
Hyojin tried to leave, but Gyohwan, between Seungyul’s fingers, clenched his fist.
Oh.
Trapped by his firm grip, Hyojin, unable to move, widened her eyes.
Why are you doing this? When were you going to tell me to forget you, like when you asked me to do it?
“Why didn’t you wait until I woke up at the hospital?”
“What?”
“You said I had to get up for Seungyul even if I had to think about him.”
“Why didn’t you wait until I woke up at the hospital?”
“For you, Seungyul.”
The confused Gyohwan, who was conscious of Seungyul watching, put more strength into his eyes.
“Oh, do you really remember everything?”
That I was with Seungyul and Dad?
“Why didn’t Dad say anything to me?”
“…What?”
Hyojin, who was surprised thinking he didn’t remember anything, was relieved but also angry.
“You didn’t tell me when Grandma was sick. Why did you lie?”
Then, there wouldn’t have been a need to come out like this.
“Oh, that’s because Grandma told me not to say anything…”
Pierced by remorse, Gyohwan, who was blurring the end of his words, once again met eyes with Seungyul and confidently faced Hyojin.
“Anyway, since there are many onlookers here, let’s talk outside.”
“Where are you going?”
Hyojin, who was turning away thinking there would be no such thing, suddenly straightened up.
“Oh my, oh my, oh my!”
Without a chance to resist, Hyojin, who was hugged by him like a fitted puzzle piece, slipped snugly into Exchange’s broad chest.
“Dad, let go of this. I’m going to scream.”
Seungyul, as if to dispel suspicions around, picked up Hyojin’s fallen shoe, followed Dad’s back, and walked pitter-patter.
“Dad, Mom! Let’s go together.”
The place Seungyul forced out first after leaving the coffee shop was the country club.
The place where the three of them had traveled together last winter.
The snow-covered mountains, now melting and preparing to change into new clothes, were warm under the sunlight.
“Dad, look at me for a moment.”
Exchange, who entered the bedroom with Hyojin alone after check-in, raised his head slightly, as if he had expected it.
“I’m really sorry. Because of Seungyul.”
Although he had explained the situation on the way here, it was difficult to have a deep conversation now that Seungyul was awake.
“I’ll explain when we’re alone later.”
Politely asking for understanding, when they came out, Hyojin turned away as if she wouldn’t press him further.
“Don’t say anything until I sort out my thoughts.”
Because my head is too complicated right now and it feels like it’s going to burst.
Even if Seungyul couldn’t speak because of Seungyul.
Even if he couldn’t understand.
Why did Dad suddenly come out like this?
When were you going to tell me to forget you?
How hard I tried to forget.
Behind Hyojin, who stared blankly out the window, Seungyul opened the door and peeked out.
“Teacher, are you fighting with Dad now?”
Thinking there might be something to say alone, he had moved away, but now that Seungyul was awake, it was difficult to have a deep conversation.
“Oh, no. No one fought.”
Trying not to appear upset in front of the child, Hyojin made an effort to show a smile.
“Then, hold hands with Dad. Promise to get along well from now on.”
Stepping into the room, Seungyul, who had retreated to the window, brought Exchange’s arm to Hyojin and placed it on her hand.
“Hold hands with Dad and promise to get along well.”
Like this. In front of me.
Hyojin felt that even holding hands again would make the efforts to forget the past days seem in vain. Blushing, she tried to let go of his hand.
“Well, is it okay now?”
“No.”
In consideration of the embarrassed Hyojin, Exchange, who let go of her hand first, received a firm command as if to say it wasn’t over yet.
“Let’s sleep with the teacher!”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
