Gyo Hwan’s eyes softened as he took his hand off the doorknob and approached.
“Seung Yul, do you still want to keep a lizard?”
“Ugh, the smell of alcohol.”
Instead of being pleased, the child pinched his nose and stepped back.
“Did things not go well with the teacher?”
Seeing him bringing up the lizard topic that he had been so against.
“I’m sorry. Are you disappointed?”
“No.”
Seung Yul shrugged his shoulders, trying hard to hide his disappointment.
“I didn’t really expect anything from the beginning.”
There has to be expectation to feel disappointment.
“Dad’s work is always like that, isn’t it?”
Despite himself, he had felt a glimmer of hope because he wanted to see his teacher. He felt foolish.
Bang. Seung Yul closed the door as he entered his room.
As if he was closing the door to his heart.
Gyo Hwan stood there for a long time with his eyes slightly closed, fearing that the door might never open again.
The next morning.
“Grandmother. I’ll try to gather 20 million won, so please try to eat.”
“How can you gather 20 million won? You’ve lost your job!”
“Don’t worry, I have abilities! I survived when dad died suddenly, do you think I’ll fall because of something like this?”
“You’re the worst, you wretched girl!”
Soo Hye, instead of feeling relieved, pushed away the bowl of porridge that Hyo Jin offered with a sense of betrayal.
“Why are you only like this to me? You don’t say anything to the rook.”
“Are you and the rook the same?”
He had been prone to accidents since childhood, but Hyo Jin’s expulsion felt as if he had been hit on the foot by the axe he had believed in.
“And then, what? Going for a language study?”
His blood pressure, which had risen when the rook took away 20 million won, shot up again.
“I should have realized it when you quit your job as a public school teacher to make money.”
Soo Hye turned her back as if she no longer wanted to engage in conversation and lay down.
“You have nothing to say to the rook. In my eyes, you two are the same. Blinded by money. Can’t even settle down and get married properly.”
“Grandmother. That money. I will find a way to get it, so please don’t be too hard on my sister.”
Why are they acting like that? It was creepy.
The rook, who had been listening from the next room, came out to protect Hyo Jin, who she claimed to be her little sister.
“If you bring a single father who has a child later…!”
“Rook, didn’t you hear that you need to sell your stocks and bring the money immediately?”
You’re making needless noise when the grandmother, who’s already upset, is lying down.
“Why? I just thought about it because grandma keeps telling my sister to get married.”
Thinking like a cat and mouse.
“I will take care of my worries, so you go sell your stocks quickly.”
“I told you. If I sell it now, it’ll be a complete loss. Rather, I’ll take a loan….”
“A loan? Is the bank a land digging business? Would they lend money to someone like you?”
“It’s the money we saved to raise the security deposit for the lease. If I take a lease security deposit loan from the bank, I can do parttime jobs every month….!”
“You, this wretch! You haven’t been hit enough?!”
Hyo Jin cut him off, stood up, and loosened the stiff muscles in her neck.
He was told to study diligently and prepare for the college entrance exam. Now, what, parttime job?
“Should we go into the room and study life closely, just you and me?”
“Ah, I said I’d earn and pay back! Besides this, do you have any other ways, sister?”
Soo Hye, who had been lying down with a headache, got up and threw a pillow.
“Noisy! If you two want to fight, go outside and fight! I don’t even want to see your faces!”
Hyo Jin, who couldn’t raise her voice because of her grandmother, swallowed a sigh and glared at the rook.
“I will prepare 20 million won right away, so stop your nonsense and think about studying.”
In case you make an excuse about money, if you do parttime work, you die, and I die.
“What? What on earth are you trying to do?”
The rook grumbled, watching Hyo Jin who had just finished her cold warning and was leaving.
That afternoon.
“Here it is.”
Hyo Jin carefully received the pearlcolored twopiece set that she had left at the luxury laundromat.
She thought that after her father’s sudden death and her graduation from university, she wouldn’t have to worry about money.
Her precious memories passed by like a slide show at the fingertips that were slowly touching the tweed jacket adorned with pearls and cubic zirconia.
‘Baby, how do I look?’
The emoticon raising its thumb saying ‘You’re beautiful.’
Shh! The fernlike hand that hid behind the bench to prevent her crying face from being discovered and pressed down on the head popping out like a mole.
When I went to show him, he pretended to be sick to save me.
Hyo Jin, who was wiping the tears that had filled her eyes before she knew it, took pictures with her cell phone after laying down the onepiece neatly stacked in a transparent plastic bag, as if shaking off her lingering attachment.
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.”
