“My mother then thought, she realized that there was no way to escape from my father like that. So, she started earning money. She knew that money was the only way to disappear without a trace. That’s how she started to work as a livein nanny in your house. Of course, there was the risk of being left alone with my father, but the income was good, and that income was the only means to control my father.”
She didn’t know. She didn’t know that he had such an unfortunate childhood.
It was even more shocking for her, who only knew that both of his parents had passed away.
She never met the young Tae Joon, but her heart ached for his childhood self. What would the fear of a child with a violent father have been like?
“Didn’t your father hit you when your mother wasn’t around?”
“No. He couldn’t. My mother warned him that if he so much as touched me, she would divorce him immediately, regardless of money. My father, who was messing around, had no choice but to listen because the money my mother earned was his only income.”
“Why didn’t she divorce?”
“It’s not that she didn’t, she couldn’t. Even if she divorced, my father would find my mother and me. Divorce had no meaning.”
“Then how did my father meet you?”
“He came to find me after my mother died. And then he warned my father. He said that if he lashed out at me, he would use all his power to make him pay. And I think he might have given some money to my father.”
“My… father?”
She couldn’t dare to imagine. He was so cruel to his own daughter who had developed aphasia after an accident, yet he took such care of the son of a housemaid.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
“I know. The image of Chairman Baek you know is different from the one I know. But still, to me, Chairman Baek was… a benefactor. The benefactor who saved me from that hellish life.”
“Then your father, Tae Joon…”
“Two years after my mom passed away, he passed away in a car accident. After that, Chairman Baek came to find me, sent me to the United States, and even took on the role of my guardian.”
“I can’t believe it. My father never showed such warmth to me even once after losing my mother in an accident.”
“I know. I know how you feel. But do you know this? Sometimes… it’s harder to express poignant emotions to those close to you.”
“……”
“He probably wanted to express them. He just didn’t know how. Because the Chairman Baek I know was a complete fool for his daughter.”
A small laugh escaped from Seo Rin’s mouth at his words. She didn’t understand why everyone she met remembered her father, who was so cold to her, as a complete fool for his daughter.
Her father, who had never once been warm to her.
Why, just why…
“How do you think I met you?”
“……”
“Before you came to study in America, Chairman Baek asked me. He said you were very lonely in Korea, and how lonely you would be in a foreign land with no one. He asked if I couldn’t just give you a kind word from time to time.”
That’s how it was. That’s how Tae Joon met Seo Rin.
The little girl whose late mother had always mentioned from some point like a habit.
And the daughter of Chairman Baek, who had been endlessly grateful to him.
Could that have been the reason?
The moment he first met her, he fell in love.
Seo Rin, sitting by the cafe window, bathing in the warm sunlight as she read her book, was imprinted onto his heart as if by fate. As though he had finally found the love he had been searching for, for a long time.
“But I betrayed the chairman. He only asked me to keep you company, but I… I ended up falling in love with you.”
“Did my father know? About our relationship?”
“No. I couldn’t say it. How could I dare… How could I tell him that I fell in love with his daughter.”
To Tae Joon, Chairman Baek was an entity as high as the sky. That’s why his guilt was even greater. But he couldn’t stop his feelings.
Controlling feelings of love with rationality was impossible.
That’s how they ended up meeting.
Seo Rin was captivated by his familiar name.
He was captivated by her familiar image.
They fell for each other as if they had known each other a long time ago.
Perhaps, it really was destiny.
A meticulously set, unavoidable destiny from a very long time ago.
“The reason Chairman Baek kept my existence a secret was because he didn’t want to remind you of those painful memories. You were… the first witness to your mother’s death.”
As soon as Tae Joon finished speaking, those terrible memories rushed back. But at the same time, the happy memories she had with his mother also seeped in.
“I don’t only have painful memories of your mother, Tae Joon. I have happy memories too. After the accident, she was the first to extend a warm hand to me, who couldn’t speak.”
“Thank you for saying that. Honestly, I was worried. Worried that seeing my face would bring back painful final memories.”
His voice, spoken in a low murmur, trembled slightly. One could tell how careful each word he uttered to her was.
“But my father would never understand. That you did so much for me. The father I know… was a man who was indifferent even to me who had lost my mother in an accident.”
“It wasn’t indifference. The chairman was just overcoming his own pain, just like you.”
For a moment, Seo Rin felt as if she had been strongly struck on the head with a hammer.
It was because Tae Joon’s voice, which represented the perspective of her father, whom she hadn’t considered due to her own pain, resonated deeply in her heart.
“The pain of loss… isn’t it the same pain for both children and adults? Children hurt as much as they are young, and adults suffer as much as they are mature. The chairman I met was such a person. A person with the same pain as me.”
His words seeped into her heart.
She felt the pain of her father, which she had never thought about, for the first time.
Why, why… didn’t she know?
That she wasn’t the only one who had lost a loved one.
The death of her mother, with whom he had been particularly close, must have been a great shock to her father as well.
Yes, maybe that’s why. That’s why he couldn’t bear to look at her, who had survived that accident alone.
“The reason Chairman couldn’t just pass by me… was probably because of you. He saw you in me, who had suddenly lost my mother.”
“……”
“And the chairman called me before he passed away. I never thought that it would be our last call.”
“Just as I protected you, can you now… protect our Seo Rin?”
Did Chairman Baek have a premonition of his death? He couldn’t forget his desperate last request.
“He asked me. He asked me to protect you, just as you protected me. That was the last testament the chairman left for me.”
“……”
“So, in fact, even if you hadn’t decided to go through with this marriage, I would have had no choice but to protect you.”
Suddenly, Seo Rin remembered what her father had said before he died.
“Seo Rin, you don’t have to worry at all. My precious daughter… you should only walk on a flower path.”
She thought it was nonsense. It seemed even more absurd since Chairman Baek had often lost his wits in the last week before his death.
But now she understood. Her father, who never lost his wits, even amidst the pain of oscillating between heaven and hell.
Her father had been speaking sincerely.
She bit her lip to avoid crying. Despite this, she couldn’t breathe due to the frustration that surged up her throat.
Sometimes, the truth strangles one’s breath with an unbearable weight.
“Baek Seo Rin, don’t doubt the love you’ve received.”
Eventually, the tears burst out.
“No matter what anyone says, your father loved you.”
This was the weight of the truth she had to bear.
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Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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