Su Yeon’s eyes widened in surprise.
What the old woman handed her was a black bag.
Su Yeon took the bag and checked what was inside.
“This is……”
“It’s incense.”
“Why this……”
Su Yeon looked at the old woman with a perplexed expression.
Then, the old woman answered with a gentle smile.
“There are many basic things that people need to satisfy in order to live. Even if it means just surviving the day by breathing. One of them is a good night’s sleep.”
Su Yeon’s eyes, looking at the old woman, flickered more fiercely.
It was fascinating.
Whenever she had sleepless nights, she often lit incense.
Due to her significant background as the successor with no meaning to her, she couldn’t even dream of sleep treatments.
“On nights when it’s too hard to fall asleep. Try lighting this incense. You will experience the magic of falling asleep in the blink of an eye.”
Su Yeon couldn’t take her eyes off the old woman.
It was the same with the old woman’s voice.
She had lit countless incense before, and it was just one of many things she tried to overcome insomnia.
Yet, insomnia that she could not overcome.
But oddly, she wanted to light it once.
Just as the old woman said, she wanted to check if she could fall asleep in the blink of an eye.
“Anyway, you’re planning to die, you won’t lose anything by living a few more days? Pretend you’re deceived and listen to me.”
At the old woman’s words, Su Yeon looked at the incense in the bag again.
Only after confirming that, did the old woman resume her steps.
Su Yeon remained still for a while.
When she came to her senses late, the old woman was nowhere to be found.
Su Yeon blankly stared at the black bag in her hand.
Why would she replace her moment of choice for death with such a trivial thing?
And who knows when such an opportunity will come again.
“Even so……”
Even so, Su Yeon wanted to live tonight.
If she could sleep peacefully after lighting this incense, as the old woman said.
She desperately wanted to confirm that.
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Late at night.
Su Yeon, who had entered the entrance with slow steps, hastily took off her shoes.
Then she felt an unexpected presence.
Startled, Su Yeon raised her head with a jerk of her shoulders.
“Where have you been so late?”
It was In Ho.
“Ah……”
Su Yeon let out a confused sigh.
In an instant, her mind went blank.
“So, that is……”
When she didn’t answer immediately, In Ho frowned.
It seemed like he was waiting for an answer.
She could just say she was visiting his house, but she couldn’t say it easily.
In Ho did not know that she had been going to her motherinlaw’s house every morning.
“I see now, there’s not one or two things I should teach you.”
It was the first thing her motherinlaw said when she found out about her adoption.
Upon hearing that, Su Yeon couldn’t utter a word as if a peach seed was stuck in her throat.
“I wish you came home every day. Even if you grew up in the Tae Group, you brought a woman who doesn’t even know whose stomach she came from into our house as our daughterinlaw. We can’t just watch knowing her deficiencies. I’m going to teach you one by one from now on.”
At that moment, Su Yeon felt like she was going to burst into tears.
She had to answer that she would do as her motherinlaw said, but she couldn’t say “yes” because her throat was blocked.
Breathing was too burdensome and difficult for Su Yeon.
She was familiar with the tag ‘adopted child’ that persistently followed her life.
The disregard and neglect that came with it were no different.
However, the reason why her chest hurt terribly at that moment was because the person who had adored her more than anyone else.
No, the motherinlaw she thought had adored her was able to change so drastically in an instant, and she had to accept that fact.
The motherinlaw always looked at her with warm eyes, and said that everything she did was cute.
Even if it was the trivial act of picking up visible garbage, she was always complimented for her meticulousness.
Every time this happened, Su Yeon was swept up in a familiar yet unfamiliar sensation.
It reminded her of the days she spent with her foster parents since she was four years old, after being adopted into the Taeshin Group.
It felt as though she was receiving the same love she’d once been given, this time from her motherinlaw after her marriage.
She was viewed with such affection, every action she took was warmly supported.
However, the moment it was discovered that Choi Su Yeon, the daughterinlaw of the TK Group, was not the biological daughter of the Taeshin Group but an adoptee, everything disappeared as if it were a mirage.
Just like when Su Jin was born.
“Ah, surely you’re not planning on going to In Ho and telling him everything that’s been happening right now? Even if your background is humble, I believe you’ve learned at least that much tact in the Taeshin Group.”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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