“Our mother was like a flower. To such a mother… why did you do that?”
A flat, monotonous voice. However, the underlying meaning chillingly threatened Chairman Cho.
Lowering the phone he was holding, he pressed the end call button. A momentary look of confusion crossed his face, but he quickly regained composure with a practiced expression.
Indeed, Chairman Cho was a completely different person from his son Minhyung.
Much more seasoned, much more dangerous.
“I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”
His voice didn’t even tremble.
It felt like facing a proper opponent after dealing with a small fry like Jominhyung.
But Seorin couldn’t back down.
The person who had plunged her life, her deceased father’s life, into a living hell for the past 20 years.
And yet, the one who had hidden skillfully behind a giant shadow and gradually expanded in the darkness.
I cannot forgive you.
My mother and sister, who were like flowers, and even my benefactor, the ray of light in this hellish life, all taken away by you—I can never forgive that.
“I just want to know the reason. Why our mother of all people. Really… sincerely… I can’t understand.”
“Look, Baek Executive. I have no idea what you’re talking about…”
“Can’t you understand? Fine. Then let me kindly explain. Twenty years ago, our mother got into a car accident she wasn’t responsible for. You know, right? In that accident, our mother and sister died, and I was the only one who survived.”
“I knew. And I heard that the person who caused the accident also faced consequences.”
“I thought so. So, for the past 20 years, it was hell for me. On that day, I persuaded her to take a route she usually didn’t. If I hadn’t coerced her, if we had taken the usual route, could we have avoided that accident? Would our mother and sister still be alive? If they were alive… what would they look like now…”
Emotions broke through, causing a cracked voice.
She wasn’t crying, but the voice, mixed with restrained emotions, echoed and spread from a deep place.
“For the past 20 years, I’ve lived imagining such things. I couldn’t even cry. I thought I was a sinner. But… that wasn’t it. There was a different culprit. Regardless of the path we took, we couldn’t have avoided that accident.”
“…”
“Because it was an accident you arranged.”
Seorin’s black pupils, which had moved away from the painful past, now stared fiercely at Chairman Cho. And the trembling voice gained strength.
“What I want to know is why on earth you killed our mother like that. Not someone else, but our mother!”
“…”
“And my nanny, who found out about that fact… you killed her too. Even then, you shamelessly faced me and my father. So audaciously!”
Words turned into sharp knives, piercing Chairman Cho’s eardrums. Though he faced Seorin with apparent nonchalance, her voice felt like it could draw blood from his ears. Moreover, the hands resting on her knees were tightly clenched, bones visible as if emphasizing tension.
This was not an aura an ordinary woman could possess.
If faced with such intensity, Minhyung would have crumbled.
But Chairman Cho was different.
The unyielding years had turned him into an even sturdier, colossal predator.
Despite the tension that turned his whole body into a coil, he calmly opened his mouth, still masking his composure.
“You speak harshly, Executive Baek. You’ve watched too many dramas. I admit, I ended up here because of that wretched son of mine, but I don’t think I’ve lived so wrong as to endure such humiliation from someone who’s becoming my daughter-in-law.”
Indeed, he was still Chairman Cho.
Fundamentally different from the cowardly Minhyung.
“I didn’t expect you to admit it easily. But facing this shamelessness is not pleasant.”
“I came here today to talk about my son. But it seems you have no intention of doing that.”
Even against Seorin’s fiery charisma, he remained calm.
Her hand, holding the liquor glass, tightened noticeably.
Right now, she wanted to smash that glass against Chairman Cho’s head.
So, if she could have satisfying revenge for the deaths of those she loved 20 years ago, she would have.
But ending it that way would be too heavy a punishment for his sins.
Seorin released the tension from her white-knuckled grip.
Then, she calmed the explosive rage by refilling her empty glass.
“I should be going. Let’s consider today’s conversation unheard.”
He buttoned up his suit and stood up, but Seorin didn’t bother to stop him.
“But I’ll endure only for today. Never speak such nonsense again. Even if you’re you, it might not be forgivable.”
It was a warning, not just a warning.
However, Seorin, far from getting angry at the warning, returned an even more severe one.
“Forgiveness? Forgiveness from you? How amusing. The word ‘forgiveness’ coming out of your mouth.”
“…”
“Listen carefully. You’ve been cutting tails so well until now. But this time, you won’t be able to.”
“…”
“I will, personally, tear your throat apart.”
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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