That Night's Circumstance (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 3
Top Star Seo In Ho and Shin Yoo Ri—Is There a Pink Spark?
This must be what In Ho meant this morning when he mentioned an article.
The headline was so huge it completely blocked the photo underneath.
But Soo Yeon didn’t bother picking up her tablet to check it properly.
Instead, she instinctively bent at the waist first.
“…I’m sorry.”
The words slipped out as naturally as a habit.
She didn’t even know what she was apologizing for.
But bowing her head and saying she was wrong had always been the only way—even if it only slightly—lessened the torrent of harsh words about to come her way.
“This is exactly why you need to know your place, tsk tsk tsk.”
Soo Yeon froze before she could even straighten her back.
Her eyes darted anxiously, and she bit down hard on her lower lip.
There was nothing surprising about it.
After all, she’d grown all too familiar—even sick to her stomach—with Young Sun’s verbal abuse.
Yet today, for some reason, it felt harder than ever to endure.
“How pathetic must you be for some married man—famous across the whole country as such—to have girls clinging to him like that?”
“…”
“Didn’t I tell you over and over to just have a child already?”
The moment the word “child” left her mother-in-law’s lips, Soo Yeon’s chest grew so heavy and tight she felt as if she might suffocate right then and there.
It was the same refrain she’d been forced to hear every time she visited this house under the guise of “instruction.”
“When exactly do you plan to get pregnant?”
“It was a marriage that deceived the whole family—so at the very least, you’d better have a healthy child.”
“Don’t tell me there’s something wrong with you? That you can’t even get pregnant and hid that too?”
She’d lost count.
There were too many variations of these remarks—listing them all would overwhelm her mind to the point she couldn’t recall a single one.
Her mother-in-law hadn’t always been this cruel.
“Our new daughter-in-law peels fruit so beautifully.”
“Here, my dear—try this. I bought it because I thought it would suit you well.”
“Soo Yeon, whether I eat something delicious or see something lovely, you’re always the first person I think of and want to share it with—that’s why I keep coming to visit. But if my visits ever make you uncomfortable, please tell me right away. I’m not just saying this—I truly don’t wish to impose on you just to satisfy my own selfishness. So if it’s ever a burden, you must speak up. Understand?”
At first, Young Sun had genuinely been a wonderful mother-in-law—the warmest elder she could have asked for.
But everything changed the moment Young Sun discovered that Soo Yeon wasn’t Chairman Tae Shin’s biological daughter, but merely adopted.
Through her marriage to In Ho, Soo Yeon had come to realize two truths she’d never known before.
One was how truly happy it felt to live without constantly watching her every move.
The other—that perhaps life before marrying In Ho had actually been the more bearable time of her life.
Though their marriage was based on mutual convenience, In Ho had been a good husband, and both of her in-laws had always treated her with warmth.
That realization had made her tear up each night before bed—not from sadness, but from an overwhelming sense of happiness.
She no longer had to endure her adoptive parents’ nightly pressure to marry, nor tolerate the unjust situations caused by her blood-unrelated younger sister’s torment.
To spend an entire day without walking on eggshells—it had felt like a dream.
That was why she’d wanted so badly to do well.
For In Ho, and for her in-laws.
But after Young Sun uncovered the truth of her adoption, Soo Yeon learned, in the most brutal way possible, that there existed a hell far worse than any she’d known before.
“Are the two of you even properly intimate? Don’t tell me In Ho’s stepping out behind your back?”
“No, nothing like that is happening at all, Mother.”
“Ugh, my head—there isn’t a single day I don’t get a migraine because of you!”
Young Sun wrinkled her brow in disgust.
Her tone was sharply different from her usual refined composure, yet Soo Yeon simply took a quiet breath.
But something felt odd today.
Strangely, breathing felt effortless.
Normally, she’d feel instantly suffocated.
Her chest should’ve felt like it was packed with stones—so heavy she couldn’t draw a proper breath.
Yet today, each inhale came smoothly, without struggle.
It didn’t take her long to understand why.
“If In Ho steps out on you, that’s entirely your fault! With you acting like a clumsy bear, how else is he not going to stray?”
The moment Young Sun’s string of barbed remarks hit her, Soo Yeon finally understood why she felt strangely unaffected today.
It was as if she’d reached the very edge of a real cliff.
She’d finally arrived at the absolute end—the point of no return.
And realizing that, she felt no horror at all.
Instead, a profound sense of relief washed over her.
Because she knew—she had absolutely nothing left to cling to.
And because the perfect moment she’d waited for so long seemed, at last, to be just within reach.
“Ugh, fine. Go now. Just looking at you gives me a headache. Leave.”
So Soo Yeon bowed her head calmly toward Young Sun—her expression untouched by hurt.
“I’m sorry, Mother.”
She repeated the same flat, routine farewell she always offered when leaving this house.
But today, she didn’t stop there.
“And… thank you, truly, for everything until now.”
“What?”
Young Sun’s eyes narrowed sharply—clearly thrown off by this unusual, lengthened goodbye.
Soo Yeon met her gaze and gently lifted the corners of her lips into a quiet smile.
She knew it would provoke her mother-in-law.
But she didn’t care.
It might be the last time, after all.
“I’ll be going now. Please take care.”
Without another word, Soo Yeon turned and walked away.
Young Sun’s sharp words stabbed into her back, burrowing deep—but Soo Yeon never slowed her step.
When she got into the car her birth family had provided, the driver started moving without even asking for her destination.
As if it were perfectly obvious she’d be heading straight back to her newlywed home in Cheongdam-dong.
Soo Yeon silently pressed her eyes against the window, soaking in every passing glimpse of Seoul.
She had once hoped that one day she, too, might smile and enjoy simple, ordinary moments—just like the people out there…
Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes.
Yet, strangely, the faint smile she’d worn right before leaving Seongbuk-dong refused to fade—no matter how hard she tried.
The only sound that broke Soo Yeon’s silence came just as her car approached the bridge leading into Gangnam.
“Driver Yoon, please stop here.”
“Ma’am?”
She could feel him glancing at her through the rearview mirror.
But the car showed no sign of stopping.
He must have dismissed her request as nonsense.
So Soo Yeon spoke more firmly.
“Driver Yoon. I asked you to stop the car.”
“We’re almost at your place.”
“I know. But what does that have to do with me asking you to stop?”
“…If you don’t go home, I’ll have no choice but to inform the Chairman.”
“That’s fine. Just stop the car.”
She was resolute.
Startled by this side of her he’d never seen before, Driver Yoon hesitated—the car’s speed fluctuating before it finally pulled over at a bus stop near the entrance of the bridge.
The moment Soo Yeon stepped out, she strode off without looking back.
She could sense the driver behind her, utterly bewildered and unsure whether to follow or not—but she paid him no mind.
There was no time to waste.
The bus stop was right at the bridge entrance—he couldn’t possibly linger there long.
Soon, he’d get back into the car, cross the bridge, find a place to park, and report her little act of defiance to Chairman Choi.
That’s why Soo Yeon quickened her pace even more.
She had to vanish completely—before Chairman Choi could find her.
They’d never suspect she’d chosen death.
And that was exactly what she wanted—to make them fret and scramble in anxious search.
Just imagining the sweat on her employers’ brows as they frantically looked for her—and Chairman Choi and his wife growing increasingly distraught from lack of news—sent an inexplicable surge of satisfaction through her.
Soo Yeon pictured their twisted, frantic faces in her mind and walked faster.
It didn’t take long before she stopped—right at the midpoint of the Han River bridge connecting Gangbuk and Gangnam.
She gazed out at the open expanse of the Han River.
Cars roared past behind her, but her senses were already starting to dull.
Soon, she couldn’t hear the engines anymore—or even the wind slicing through the river.
Everything in her field of vision slowed, and the scenes of every moment she’d endured up to now began replaying before her eyes.
“Soo Yeon! Look over here! Mommy’s right here! Honey, look at our Soo Yeon! How can she possibly smile so beautifully?”
The first face to surface was that of her adoptive mother—who’d taken her in with nothing but love as a child.
It truly had begun with love.
A love so overwhelming that even now, just recalling it brought tears to her eyes.
Soo Yeon had grown up nourished by the affection of the parents she met at age four.
Then, when she turned seven, the couple—who’d been diagnosed infertile—welcomed a biological child of their own.
A little sister who shared not a single feature with her,
but bore an uncanny resemblance to her mother—the very same mother who’d once showered Soo Yeon with boundless affection.
From the moment Soo Jin was born, she claimed not only their mother’s love but also their father’s attention.
Yet, not once had Soo Yeon ever hated her little sister.
She’d felt hurt, yes—but believed it was wrong to feel jealous.
After all, she’d grown up in an orphanage, and it was her angelic parents who’d pulled her out of that hell.
And Soo Jin was still just a baby who needed their care.
Once she grew a little older, they’d look at me again.
They’d pay attention to me again.
Mom always said I was smart and pretty—if I brought home a perfect test score, she’d surely pat my head this time.
She’d praise me, saying I’d done well.
Back then, just an elementary schooler, Soo Yeon had cycled endlessly between soaring hope and crushing disappointment—day after day.
Her wishes had never been grand.
She just wanted her parents’ attention, their love—and like any ordinary child her age, a normal life.
But from the moment she was born, normal had never been an option for Soo Yeon.
Abandoned by her birth parents, then adopted by a childless couple who later miraculously had their own biological daughter.
Though she’d lacked for nothing materially, she couldn’t escape her clever younger sister’s torment—and her parents, blinded by blood ties, had long since begun viewing their adopted daughter merely as a tool.
Soo Yeon had to become a flawless woman—someone who’d never tarnish the family name.
And once she came of age, she had to wear the mask of a perfectly raised, demure lady—and stake her life on a marriage arranged solely for the benefit of two powerful families.
She’d lived twenty-nine years,
yet in all her memories, the only truly happy time was those mere three years—between her adoption and just before Soo Jin’s birth.
Sadly, those three years were all she’d ever had.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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