Secret Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 4
Tae Kyung went straight to the office as soon as he returned to Seoul.
Then, he personally prepared a program proposal.
Tae Kyung desperately wanted to get into Onnuri Kindergarten, so he paid extra attention and tailored the proposal specifically for Onnuri Kindergarten.
After finishing the proposal, he let out a long sigh.
Closing his eyes, he saw Seo Ha’s smiling face as she held a child.
And right behind her—a man. Shaking his head vigorously to dispel the sickening feeling in his gut.
[I’ve sent the proposal file to your email. Please contact the kindergarten first thing tomorrow and send it over.]After sending both an email and a text message to Kyu Won, Tae Kyung shut down his computer.
He felt he wouldn’t be able to fall asleep easily even if he went straight home.
Instinctively, he headed toward his usual bar.
“You’re here? The usual?”
“Yeah. Thanks.”
Without even greeting, Tae Kyung slumped onto a barstool. Jung Hoo, the bar owner and Tae Kyung’s longtime friend, placed in front of him the bottle of amber whiskey Tae Kyung kept stored there.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he poured the amber whiskey straight into a glass and downed it in one gulp.
There had been many nights when even sleeping pills couldn’t help him fall asleep, but ever since meeting Seo Ha again, things had gotten unbearably worse.
Maybe getting drunk would finally let him sleep.
He downed several glasses in quick succession until the alcohol flushed his face red.
Even when he did fall asleep, it wasn’t really sleep.
No matter how hard exhaustion pulled at him, he couldn’t drift off easily. Or rather, he was afraid to sleep.
Because even in his dreams, Seo Ha holding the child appeared vividly before his eyes, and watching that scene tormented him so intensely he writhed in anguish.
“How could she do this? How could you forget me and marry another man?”
Tae Kyung couldn’t believe it.
Just as he’d been unable to forget her, he’d wanted to believe she, too, had disappeared helplessly—still holding onto her feelings for him. But she had shattered that hope completely.
Jung Hoo clicked his tongue and placed a glass of ice water and some fruit in front of Tae Kyung.
“Did you hear Seo Ha got married?”
“She even had a child. The kid’s pretty grown already.”
“You saw Seo Ha? A child? Is it yours, Tae Kyung?”
Tae Kyung answered seriously to Jung Hoo’s offhand question. Jung Hoo’s eyes widened in shock, and he quickly sat down next to Tae Kyung.
Completely drunk, Tae Kyung dropped his forehead onto the table and collapsed.
Jung Hoo shook him, but Tae Kyung only panted heavily without responding.
“Hey! Han Tae Kyung! Did you find Seo Ha or what? Get a grip and talk to me!”
“How could Kim Seo Ha do this to me?”
“Ugh, man, you really aren’t okay, are you? I get that you’re thirsty for booze, but—no, just drink. I know exactly how you’ve been.”
Jung Hoo had watched them from the very beginning—since the day Tae Kyung first met Seo Ha and began chasing after her. He was practically a living witness to their entire relationship.
He couldn’t take sides—neither for Seo Ha nor for Tae Kyung—but he knew exactly how hard Tae Kyung had struggled. That’s why he couldn’t scold him either.
After all, Tae Kyung was probably suffering the most right now.
“I wonder if this guy can even make it home like this.”
“I can. Don’t worry. Just call me a cab.”
Tae Kyung spoke without even lifting his head.
Jung Hoo let out a long sigh and called a taxi.
A moment later, when the cab arrived, Tae Kyung swung his long limbs awkwardly as he stepped forward. Jung Hoo helped him into the taxi.
“Sir, please take him to Hannam-dong. I’d really appreciate it.”
Jung Hoo anxiously watched Tae Kyung and gave the driver a firm request.
Tae Kyung sat silently in the back seat with his eyes closed.
As the driver started the car, Tae Kyung spoke in a low voice.
“Sir, not Hannam-dong—please take me to Yangpyeong.”
Cutting through the pre-dawn darkness, the taxi drove for a long time and finally arrived at Onnuri Kindergarten, where Seo Ha worked.
Ever since meeting Seo Ha again, Tae Kyung’s nerves had been stretched taut—but now, thanks to the alcohol, they finally relaxed, and he fell asleep inside the taxi.
He seemed to be having a nightmare, his face twisted in distress as he groaned softly.
“Sir, we’ve arrived.”
The driver shook Tae Kyung awake. Tae Kyung slowly opened his eyes, struggling to regain focus.
“Sir, are you alright? But it’s closed right now.”
“Ah… Where is this?”
“This is Onnuri Kindergarten. You asked to come here, didn’t you?”
“Onnuri Kindergarten?”
Tae Kyung quickly sat up. Though still drunk and dizzy, the scenery before him wasn’t unfamiliar.
No—it was precisely the sight he’d both dreaded and longed to see again.
“Sir, is this really the place you meant to go? Try to clear your head a bit.”
“Thank you for your trouble.”
With unfocused eyes, Tae Kyung pulled out some bills from his wallet without looking and handed them to the driver.
He stumbled out of the taxi and walked toward the kindergarten.
Though uneasy, the driver got back in the car since he’d already received the fare.
Tae Kyung leaned his back against the kindergarten’s firmly shut gate and sank onto the ground. He didn’t care that his suit was getting covered in dirt.
There was one person he both dreaded and deeply longed to see.
Since meeting Seo Ha again, all he’d managed to find out was that she worked at Onnuri Kindergarten.
Although angry and resentful toward her, he was also quietly glad just to have learned that single fact.
When she’d first disappeared, worry had consumed him—what if something terrible had happened to her? He would’ve been relieved just to know her parents’ home, but he hadn’t known even that.
All he’d known back then was her empty rental room and the shameless face of her biological mother, who occasionally showed up demanding money.
As days passed, he grew more and more resentful that Seo Ha had vanished without a single word to him.
Was he really that insignificant to her? His worry for her had turned to disappointment and resentment, which then morphed into bitterness and hatred.
Now, he even doubted whether he’d truly loved her at all.
But what he knew for certain was this: whenever Min Seob standing beside Seo Ha flashed through his mind, a boiling rage surged inside him, impossible to control.
He wanted to grab Seo Ha by the wrist right that moment and lock her away where only he could find her.
He’d thought his feelings for her had cooled—but the creeping anger and resentment only made him suffer more.
He feared she might find him painful to remember, that she might never want to see him again.
The thought of Seo Ha—not the warm Kim Seo Ha he’d known, but the cold, distant one now—made his chest ache.
He wanted to inflict his pain back onto her, yet he knew he himself would suffer just as deeply.
Why was Seo Ha the one angry, when he was the one who should be furious?
Logically, he told himself he didn’t want to see Seo Ha—but his heart kept racing toward her anyway.
He loathed himself for still harboring such feelings for her.
A long sigh escaped Tae Kyung, thick with the stench of alcohol. He raised one knee and buried his face in it.
Having spent the night outside the kindergarten, Tae Kyung sensed the sky slowly brightening.
Yet, he didn’t want to get up. He just wanted to see Seo Ha—even once more.
He wanted to tell her how much he missed her, how desperately he’d longed for her.
Words he knew he could never truly deliver.
A long shadow fell over his head.
“Oh dear, hey now. Why are you sitting here like this?”
A gentle, kind voice reached his ears. Tae Kyung slowly lifted his head and saw a middle-aged woman looking at him with concern. Her face seemed familiar somehow.
“Oh my, you reek of alcohol. Don’t tell me you’ve been here all night?”
She shook him gently, but Tae Kyung couldn’t lift his head—his head throbbed painfully.
“Ughhh…”
“But you can’t stay here like this. Come inside the building first. I’m worried you’ll catch a cold.”
Tae Kyung didn’t mind her kindness.
“I’m the principal of this kindergarten. For some reason, I felt like coming in early today. Your suit’s expensive but completely ruined. Let’s go to my office—you’re frozen stiff. We need to warm you up first.”
Tae Kyung couldn’t understand why this woman, who called herself the principal, was being so kind to him.
She must have seen yesterday’s argument between him and Min Seob.
Without resistance, Tae Kyung quietly followed Yoon Hee, the principal, into the kindergarten.
Colorful, cute posters covered the walls. Yoon Hee led Tae Kyung to her office and seated him on the sofa.
“Wait here a moment. I’ll make you some warm honey water.”
“Thank… you…”
“What on earth is so hard on a young person like you that you end up like this?”
Yoon Hee pulled out a mug with a pitying expression and filled the coffee pot with water.
Tae Kyung kept his head bowed in silence. Though mostly sober, a hazy drowsiness still lingered.
“Here, drink some honey water and settle your stomach. It’s hot, so be careful.”
“Thank you…”
The warmth of the mug gradually thawed Tae Kyung’s frozen fingers.
Yoon Hee casually made herself coffee, sat at her desk, put on her glasses, and began reading through a stack of documents—
as if Tae Kyung weren’t even there.
Tae Kyung watched her quietly for a while, then cautiously spoke.
“Principal.”
“Yes? Do you need something?”
“Why are you being so kind to me?”
“What do you mean?”
Yoon Hee slightly lowered her glasses and looked at Tae Kyung over the lenses, meeting his gaze directly.
“Didn’t you see everything yesterday?”
“Oh—that fight between you and Teacher Kwak? Is the spot where he hit you okay? Well, judging by your face, it seems fine.”
“Yes.”
“Both Teacher Kim and you must have your reasons.”
Tae Kyung introduced himself in a raspy voice.
“My name is Han Tae Kyung.”
“I see. Mr. Tae Kyung—in all honesty, thinking of Teacher Kim, I don’t exactly see you in a positive light. But it seems to me your connection isn’t just coincidence. And since you spent the whole night out here, I assume you’ve got quite a story with Teacher Kim.”
“…”
Yoon Hee spoke calmly, whether Tae Kyung listened or not—
as if she already knew everything.
“When you get older, sometimes you start seeing tangled relationships clearly. The kind that could move on but instead choose to deceive themselves, building walls and lashing out—to themselves and to others. Let’s just say I feel sorry for her. For Teacher Kim’s sake, it’d be best if your relationship with her reached proper closure.”
“Closure?”
“Yes. Closure. Things that need closing should be closed.”
Yoon Hee shrugged and looked at Tae Kyung with piercing clarity.
She added, almost casually,
“Not in this disheveled state—resolve it properly. For Teacher Kim’s sake, and for Min Jun’s as well.”
At the mention of “Min Jun,” Tae Kyung’s heart clenched painfully.
But he couldn’t suppress his curiosity about the child.
What kind of child was he? Had Seo Ha abandoned him because of the child?
“How old is the child?”
“Min Jun? He’s five. He’s grown quite a bit—sometimes people even think he’s seven.”
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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