Ms. Oh’s proposal echoed in my head like a reverberation.

The way she looked straight at me, her gaze didn’t change a bit, making it unclear if she was serious or not.

Her aged eyes occasionally flickered, as if trying to dig into my innermost thoughts.

‘Get rid of Chae Seo Rin from Ji Han’s side. Is she serious?’

A heavy silence fell between her and me.

Ms. Oh didn’t take her eyes off me until I put down the glass of water I was holding.

“Are you saying you’ll get rid of that woman?”

“Yes, Yeo Jin. If you want, I can even send her abroad so she won’t be able to approach Representative Seo.”

I was so astounded, I couldn’t even laugh. How ridiculous must she think I am to make such an absurd suggestion.

Surely she must have considered me a young woman of twentynine.

Therefore, she must have arrived at a onedimensional thought that everything would be fine if only Seo Rin, the root cause of all issues, was gone.

‘She must have been quite desperate.’

Ms. Oh must have known that Chairman Seo cherished me like his own granddaughter.

That’s why she must have felt that Ji Han’s position, who divorced me, would become uncertain.

With Jae Ha, the eldest son, the position of the successor was already unstable, so she must have been more anxious.

But what was she thinking revealing her thoughts so transparently?

A faint smile crossed my face as I thought, it was a typical proposal from Ms. Oh.

She must have thought my smile was a positive signal, as her expression noticeably brightened.

“Even though you said she’s pregnant, it’s not certain that it’s Ji Han’s child, right?”

“Don’t tell me, she would have played such a clumsy trick on Ho Jin.”

“Well, we won’t know until the cards are revealed. Even if it’s Ji Han’s child, don’t worry.”

At the mention that the child might not be Ji Han’s, my eyebrows twitched involuntarily.

How could she entertain such a lowly thought?

Ms. Oh looked at me with a strange expression.

She filled her wine glass with a more relaxed face, perhaps thinking that she was getting through to me.

“You won’t have to raise that child with your own hands, so you can trust me. I consider you as precious as my own daughter.”

I was so stunned that I clamped my mouth shut.

I almost burst into cynical laughter, thanks to her friendly tone.

‘She thinks of me as precious?’

In my previous life, how many times had we faced each other in the span of five years?

I still couldn’t forget the disdainful gaze of Ms. Oh when she looked at me before my divorce from Ji Han.

To them, I was just a tool for success and a potential source of money.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt a cynical laugh threatening to escape, so I bowed my head.

“I can’t accept that caster. I don’t know where such a rootless woman clung to my son, wanting to marry him.”

“……”

“I’ll take care of it. So, you should come back now.”

I composed my expression and raised my head again.

Ms. Oh’s gaze, staring through me, flickered like a beast with its prey in front of it.

“Haven’t the two of you shared a lot of affection? Think about the time you spent together. It’s all in the past.”

She was saying I should come back because we must have grown fond of each other.

Had there been such affectionate and warm emotional interactions between Ji Han and me to be called affection?

I put down the fork that had been swirling around in the inedible food.

“I didn’t know that you cared so much about me, mother.”

I placed the used napkin on the table.

I continued speaking towards Ms. Oh, who reacted excessively to my addressing her as ‘mother’.

“But it seems that your offer is too late.”

“What, why? What’s late?”

“Well, because my husband has changed. Haven’t you heard the news, madam?”

Even though she had been in the United States, she must have heard about my marriage to Jae Ha.

At the mention of a change in husbands, Ms. Oh’s face contorted uncontrollably.

“You…! Ha, have you been mocking me all this time? Then why did you come here!”

“Mocking? You’ve become Jae Ha’s mother too. I thought you called me to meet your eldest son’s future daughterinlaw.”

Her eyes trembled as I smiled brightly with a relaxed face.

Living as a member of the Hojin family, I had never seen her lose her composure like this.

Her hand, gripping the stem of the wine glass, trembled as if she realized she had been made a fool by me.

‘Look at that. Your true feelings are showing too much.’

Despite knowing that she was furious from head to toe, I continued my speech without a care.

“We plan to skip all the complex procedures and formalities and proceed directly with the ceremony.”

“……”

“Madam, you’ve raised Jae Ha well.”

Although Ms. Oh didn’t raise Jae Ha with her own hands.

Considering the temperament she showed to me, it was amazing to think how upright Jae Ha had grown.

‘Even in the short encounter, it was so exhausting. How could we have lived together?’

She seemed like a hyena that would snap at my neck in an instant if I gave her the slightest opening.