Heading to the meeting place with Yong-hoon after getting off the subway station, Hyo-jin covered her eyes from the sunlight and looked at Kang Hanna on the billboard.
I wonder how it feels to broadcast the crime of my parents on the news.
Do I sympathize with my parents for the crime they committed?
Or do I still resent my father, who pushed himself to the edge of the cliff?
Then there’s really no answer.
“Hyo-jin.”
“Huh? Professor!”
Hyo-jin, who spotted Yong-hoon, lowered her hand covering the sunlight and greeted him with a faint smile.
“How about your grandmother?”
“I don’t think she’s emotionally ready yet.”
Given that she asked me to come alone.
“It must be tough.”
When there’s only one son who has been unfairly accused and died.
“Let’s go. We only need to walk a bit from here.”
The firefighter who taught Yong-hoon that it was not himself but the driver who caused the accident and saved his daughter and the baby in her womb at that time had retired and was now running a tonkatsu restaurant.
“Hello. I’ve heard a lot from Professor.”
Hyo-jin thanked him in place of her father, handing him a cold bottled drink after he finished his delivery.
“Was there anything particularly memorable while rescuing my dad?”
Since he was the one who saw her father’s last moments.
“Oh, when I asked for his name to confirm his identity in the ambulance, he had inhaled so much gas that even though I put an oxygen mask on him, he found it difficult to speak.”
The firefighter, who had half-emptied the vitamin drink brought by Hyo-jin in one breath, caught his breath and opened his mouth again.
“So I waited for him to feel comfortable and speak when he could. But…”
But…
Unknowingly, Hyo-jin held her breath and waited for the next words.
“…Hyo-jin.”
Dad called her by her name instead of his own.
As if her daughter’s name could be his own.
“So at first, when I asked for his name to confirm it in the ambulance, I thought it was Hyo-jin, and I looked for it for a long time. Later, I found out it was his daughter’s name.”
“I see.”
Like a fool.
He didn’t say the car was wrong. He didn’t say it wasn’t my fault that the accident happened.
Until he took his last breath, thinking of her father who called her name, Hyo-jin’s eyes reddened with tears.
“Maybe your dad waited for you to reveal the truth when you grew up.”
“No, I haven’t done anything.”
It’s just what Dad did.
Feeling more sorry because she had done nothing for her father, who knew only himself until he died.
“Sein, I’m here.”
After convening an emergency management committee at the company and pledging to do his best for the normalization of management, Exchange visited his wife’s memorial park.
“Sorry. Was I too late? Without knowing that you died so unfairly.”
Exchange, who placed a bouquet of chrysanthemums in front of his wife’s photo and stroked the gravestone with her name written on it with his palm.
“Sorry, but it seems I won’t be able to come here again.”
I have to go to that person.
I made you wait for me for so long because of me. I’m really sorry.
In the throbbing pain of cutting off his emotions, Exchange closed his wet eyes slowly and opened them again.
“Oh, yes. Please don’t come again. I’m tired too, now.”
Sein? At the voice brushing against his ear, Exchange slowly closed and opened his wet eyes.
“Why are you here again? Dad told you not to come again. Do you know how hard it was for me to listen to his complaints all this time? Even if I want to leave, I can’t go anywhere because I’m worried you might come again.”
Despite the grumbling tone, the gaze looking at Exchange was infinitely affectionate and warm.
“Now go to that person. You like that person too. Yul also likes that person.”
But what if you keep coming back here?
“Thank you so much for not forgetting me and coming to see me until now. I really appreciate it. Truly.”
Don’t apologize anymore. I’m okay.
“Now, I hope you stop suffering and be happy. You know how much you’ve suffered because of me.”
Could you possibly wish for my child to grow up without knowing a mother’s love and lonely?
Before leaving on a long journey, Sein urged Exchange one last time.
“Take good care of our Seungyul.”
In my place.
“Don’t suffer anymore. It’s not that you left me; I left you.”
I’m dead.
For our Seungyul.
“Sein…”
Exchange looked up at his wife, who was smiling at him, without even blinking his eyes.
But when he closed and opened his eyes again, his wife was no longer there.
Perhaps she would never be there again.
“What are you going to do from now on?”
After having dinner with Yong-hoon at the tonkatsu restaurant, Hyo-jin walked to the subway station to take a bus.
“I’m going to start preparing for the law school exam. It’s in July.”
Maybe because the weather was warming up, despite it being a weekday evening, many couples and families were out by the brightly lit Cheonggyecheon.
“Not you. I mean with Mr. Choi.”
“….!”
“Are you trying to break up with Mr. Choi?”
“Ah… honestly, I don’t know.”
What to do from now on.
“I told you. If you give up, it’s like killing Yul twice.”
Who would have known that the words Professor said at that time had that meaning?
“Can I really do that?”
If the accident hadn’t happened and Yul’s mom hadn’t died, there wouldn’t have been a chance for Dad and me to meet.
“But if the two hadn’t met, they would never have known that Yul’s mom and your dad died unfairly.”
They could reveal the truth because the two met and loved each other.
“Perhaps Sein and Dad who passed away would think the same way. I feel the same way too.”
As if boosting her strength, Yong-hoon patted her shoulder, pointing to the bus that had arrived at the bus stop.
Hyo-jin, who boarded the bus, sat by the window and stared blankly at the procession of the illuminated cars even though it was a weekday evening.
What is Dad thinking right now? Is Dad also thinking about our future like me?
I could have called and asked or visited, but Hyo-jin couldn’t do anything in the end.
Because she was afraid of being rejected again.
Pressing the stop button and getting off at the bus stop in front of her house, Hyo-jin stood still.
At the alley corner leading to her house, Exchange stood with his emergency blinkers on.
“Where did you go, and now you come? I’ve been waiting for a long time.”
The wind, imbued with his scent, passed by like comforting Hyo-jin’s stiff cheek.
“Why is Dad here all of a sudden?”
Hyo-jin looked at him with a pounding heart as he approached slowly.
“I want to start again with Teacher Bom.”
Exchange, with neatly exposed teeth, smiled, and his hair gently fluttered in the wind.
“Can we go back to the way we used to be?”
Male lead is a clingy little husband
One-line summary: The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
Introduction:
One day, Lu Yuner’s soul transmigrates into a female-dominant world. She enters the Imperial Academy and takes up the position of a doctoral instructor, teaching classes and grading schoolwork.
One day, she encounters the young prince Su Qingwan secretly skipping class from the male academy.
As a result, Su Qingwan is punished.
From then on, Su Qingwan sees Lu Yuner as a “thorn in his side”.
But before long, this “thorn” becomes the person he cherishes most, and he goes to great lengths to win Lu Yuner’s affection.
Mini scene 1:
One day, the sun is high in the sky but Su Qingwan still hasn’t gotten up for class.
Servant Xiaoyuan: “Young prince, it’s time for class. You’ll be late otherwise.”
Su Qingwan says arrogantly: “I’m not going. I am the esteemed prince, my status is so noble, why should I suffer this hardship? Besides, isn’t learning all this just to please women? Hmph, they’re not worthy!”
Mini scene 2:
After Su Qingwan falls for someone, he completely changes. He no longer skips class and diligently learns how to be a good husband and father. But he discovers that Sister Yuner is always surrounded by admirers.
Drunk and overcome with jealousy one day, he clings to Lu Yuner, crying beautifully like a pear blossom in the rain.
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan likes Sister Yuner.”
Lu Yuner: “Young prince, you’re drunk.”
Su Qingwan: “Qingwan isn’t drunk. Qingwan likes Sister Yuner, likes you so much, likes you to bits…” Before he can finish, Lu Yuner’s eyes flash with emotion and she leans in closer.
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead is gentle, gracious, humble and polite but not weak. The male lead is initially an arrogant, noble, love-deprived brat, later a cute, clingy, scheming little jealous one.
2. 1v1, a bit torturous in the beginning but definitely sweet later on.
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