“Woojoo, come to the teacher. We need to check if you’re hurt.”
“Ye…s.”
Seeming like there was no other option, the Rabbit Class teacher swiftly took Woojoo into the kindergarten.
Externally, there seemed to be no trauma, but it was urgent to confirm the condition.
Meanwhile, other teachers discreetly guided the children who were in the car.
Now, tension hung tightly between Jaeyoon and Chaeha, the only two left.
“Did you say I’m not qualified?”
With an endlessly indifferent face, Chaeha opened his mouth again.
“Yes. Choi Jaeyoon. Let it out clearly this time. I was curious too. What exactly did my wife go through?”
“…”
“Why, does it feel difficult to say it out loud now?”
“Kwon Chaeha. You really don’t know anything. If you knew, you wouldn’t dare to have the audacity to stay by Seolwon’s side!”
At Jaeyoon’s words, Chaeha’s eyebrows raised.
Audacity. Perhaps he hadn’t thought of it that way.
That’s why he wanted to know even more. Exactly what kind of pain Seolwon had endured.
“Okay. I’ll tell you everything. Let’s see if you can be so confident after hearing everything.”
Perhaps this time Jaeyoon had unsheathed her sword, as she laid out everything in detail.
From the moment Seolwon, battered and bruised, appeared on the island to the point of leaving.
Five years ago, on the outskirts of spring, Jaeyoon encountered Seolwon, who came to the island.
The expression “came to find” might not be appropriate; she looked almost as if she had been chased away.
She was truly in a state described as ‘battered and bruised.’
After finding Seolwon, who seemed to be half-collapsed in front of Jaeyoon’s house, she slept for three days.
Only after opening her eyes did Jaeyoon learn that Seolwon was the daughter of a firefighter who had once saved Jaeyoon’s mother.
That she was in a state of having a child, and therefore, came here with great difficulty.
Probably because Jaeyoon’s mother had once worked as a midwife and a nurse in the obstetrics and gynecology department.
Quite literally, she chose Jaeyoon’s family to ‘live.’
Though she didn’t go into detail, it seemed like Seolwon had to hide and survive.
She couldn’t go to the hospital despite having a child, and, considering the long journey, she had almost no belongings.
However, Jaeyoon’s family didn’t ask about anything she didn’t want to tell.
What was important to them was only repaying the debt to Seolwon’s father.
Thus, Seolwon started to live on the island under the protection of Jaeyoon’s parents.
Most islanders were elderly, and they weren’t particularly interested in external affairs.
So, they accepted her as a member of the island without questioning who she was or where she came from.
However, inevitably, difficulties followed due to her state of having no status.
Trivial matters could be handled using Jaeyoon’s family name, but there were certainly limits.
While she could substitute for regular check-ups and examinations with Jaeyoon’s mother’s simple examination, she didn’t go into details.
If the pregnancy period went smoothly, the same couldn’t be said for the childbirth.
Jaeyoon’s mother, who had quit being a nurse a long time ago, couldn’t handle such a big task alone.
So, they made a somewhat risky choice.
Jaeyoon’s mother decided to receive an informal examination from a doctor with whom she had a connection from when she worked at a hospital outside the island.
Knowing that receiving treatment without records could be a legal issue, it couldn’t be as important as the life of the baby about to be born.
Although they worried about her weakened physical condition, fortunately, Woojoo was safely born.
Woojoo was such an admirable child that Jaeyoon’s entire family considered him a blessing even before birth.
However, Jaeyoon couldn’t forget the gaze Seolwon had while looking at the child she gave birth to.
The expression of having everything in the world and the expression of losing everything in the world coexisted on one person’s face. That day, Jaeyoon learned for the first time that such expressions could exist simultaneously.
“It took a long time just to recover. Since Seolwon flatly refused to come to my parents’ house to live together, she didn’t receive sufficient postpartum care.”
“…”
“Moreover, in the small island without proper facilities, she raised the young baby alone. Someone like you can’t even imagine how difficult it was.”
“…”
“For the past five years, when Seolwon was struggling, Mr. Kwon Chaeha, you weren’t by her side! And now you call yourself a husband? A father? Don’t make me laugh!
There was no way to refute.
He, too, went through hardship and searched for Min Seolwon like a madman for five years.
He couldn’t even make excuses.
He just chewed on his lips endlessly, filled with self-disgust against the overwhelming sense of powerlessness.
Seolwon’s sorrow, immeasurable longing, pain.
Does she know that she was experiencing the same things during that time?
But feeling unqualified to say such things, Chaeha swallowed his current emotions deep into his heart.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
