Kang Hae Sun stared at the wall with unfocused eyes. To others, it was just a plain white wall, but in Hae Sun’s view, there was a vivid screen playing on the wall, like a movie theater.
The couple met at an orphanage and went together to Dongdaemun. Hae Sun worked in a clothing factory, and Tae Chul worked sixteen hours a day at a wholesale market to open a small store.
They grew that store and made a name for it. Kang Hae Sun and Yoon Tae Chul’s company, Kang Yoon Company.
A newborn baby with puffy, red skin cried loudly. Tae Chul cried even louder while holding his baby and wife, only to be hit on the back by Hae Sun.
For the first time, the baby latched onto her breast. The baby stopped crying and eagerly sucked. Hae Sun thought she could die for this baby.
They named the baby Seo Ha and planted a pine tree in the garden, wishing her to grow strong and longlasting, even if she may bend in storms.
Kang Hae Sun and Yoon Tae Chul worked even harder. They took turns holding Seo Ha, working and sleeping in shifts.
Even when it was so hard that it felt like their bodies were breaking, Seo Ha’s laughter filled their hearts with happiness.
Seo Ha stood up on her own. With her short legs, she took three steps and tightly hugged Hae Sun. She smelled sweet and savory, like a baby.
Seo Ha said ‘dad’ before ‘mom’. Tae Chul bragged about it at least five times whenever he met someone.
Seo Ha, who had attended kindergarten, proudly pulled something out of her bag. Below a drawing resembling a matchstick on a circle, it was crookedly written, “I love you, mom and dad.”
Hae Sun put the letter in a treasure box. In the box were Seo Ha’s umbilical cord, first cut fingernails and toenails, and things like fallen leaves Seo Ha had picked up and given to Hae Sun.
The treasure box was burned, along with Tae Chul’s coffin.
After her husband’s funeral, Hae Sun changed into a suit and put on dress shoes at the columbarium. Instead of wailing and mourning, she rushed to the company and gathered the executives. She had to become stronger to protect her daughter and the company.
Seo Ha grew up quickly. As a college student, she bought thermal underwear for Hae Sun with her first tutoring money. Hae Sun put that underwear in a new treasure box.
Seo Ha held her wedding. With her daughter in a white wedding dress, Hae Sun shed tears she couldn’t shed even when her husband died. Seo Ha cried too. She cried and smiled.
A phone call came. As always, they exchanged trivial stories. Before hanging up, Seo Ha told Hae Sun,
“Mom, I love you.”
The movie ended there. As the screen gradually darkened and eventually turned off completely, the surroundings brightened. It was then that Hae Sun’s vacant pupils finally moved.
“Seo Ha.”
Hae Sun looked around. Where was this? Where did our daughter go?
An orange sunset stretched across the white sheets through the window. A water dropshaped humidifier spewed cold steam. Seo Ha was not there. Hae Sun abruptly got up.
“Baby. Where did our baby go?”
There was no one outside to watch over her.
“She must have gone to the playground again. I need to feed her dinner.”
Hae Sun walked with a brisk pace, searching for young Seo Ha. At the end of the hallway, someone shouted.
“Mom!”
“Seo Ha?”
It wasn’t Seo Ha. Hae Sun stared blankly at the unfamiliar woman who was running towards her.
“Mom, why did you come out alone? Where’s the caregiver? The bodyguard?”
Ji Soo firmly held Hae Sun’s hand and tried to return to the hospital room.
“I have to find my daughter. Miss, have you seen our baby? She’s about this tall, has round eyes, and has a yellow bead in her hair.”
Ji Soo sighed deeply and linked arms with Hae Sun.
“Do you want to go out? Let’s take a walk together, Mom.”
Hae Sun followed without any resistance. Until then, Ji Soo just intended to pretend to take a walk and call her “Mom” a little more.
“Let’s go around that way, Mom.”
Hae Sun was the owner of that palacelike house. Ji Soo couldn’t count how many times she had wished that the elegant and sophisticated company president was her own mother, instead of Yoon Seo Ha.
“Oh, my? Seo Ha!”
While walking, Hae Sun suddenly let go of Ji Soo’s arm and ran towards a three or fouryearold girl. The surprised child’s mother quickly picked her up.
“Mom!”
Ji Soo rushed over and grabbed Hae Sun.
“Mom, what if you suddenly run like that?”
“… Who are you?”
Nothing went as planned.
Ji Soo spotted a bench far away, dragged Hae Sun to it, and collapsed onto it.
Lee Seung Oh helped Jo Seo Ha up. It was the same look in his eyes as when he had helped her up in the kitchen of that palacelike house a few years ago.
He said he liked Jo Seo Ha’s design. He had just ordered that a design by a newcomer who had recently removed her intern label be sent to the evaluation meeting.
Everything was so ominous. The thought made her jaw tremble.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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