Yet, her brightfutured daughter was now pregnant with a fatherless child.
She thought her daughter couldn’t visit due to her busy job. When she took the time to deliver some homecooked meals, she found her daughter already heavily pregnant.
She was outraged. Promising to not let whoever did this go, she had fiercely confronted the child’s father.
How dare he impregnate her daughter after just one night without even knowing who he was? She was devastated.
She tried to drag her daughter to the hospital immediately, but her daughter resisted vehemently.
Chiding her about whether she wanted to live like her mother, she didn’t hesitate to physically force her.
Beating her fullbellied daughter, she wished the baby would miscarry even if it was due to physical abuse.
She unleashed cruel curses, wishing the child would die in the womb rather than ruin her daughter’s life.
Yet, the stubborn child somehow managed to survive until the due date. Both the fingers and toes were perfectly formed, ten each.
Whenever she saw her grandson’s face, she was amazed. She didn’t know whose seed was stolen, but the baby was undeniably handsome.
That’s why she didn’t like looking at her grandson’s face. Whenever she did, the face of the man who fathered the child would surface, and she would burn with anger inside.
As a mother, that’s how it was. As a mother, she couldn’t bear to see the seed of the man who ruined her daughter’s life being so beautiful.
When she harshly pushed away the gently held fernlike hand, the startled Shiwoo looked around in fear. At that moment, Dajeong felt her stomach turn.
“Mom, if you were going to act like this, why did you come!”
“Ah, you didn’t say not to come!”
“If you’re here, at least hide your feelings. Can’t you see everyone is uncomfortable because of you?”
As the uproar continued, Shi Woo burst into giggles. Despite his tearstreaked face suggesting otherwise, Shi Woo approached his grandmother once again.
“Grandmother… Please don’t be angry.”
“Stay away from me!”
Jeong Ae, with a heavy heart, pushed Shi Woo away. The once pouting Shi Woo couldn’t hold back his tears anymore and rushed into his mother’s arms.
Seeing her sobbing son, Da Jung felt a lump in her throat.
“Mom! Are we really doing this? What does Shi Woo know? Why are you doing this to him, too?”
“He’s my child! He’s more important! He ruined my child’s future!”
Pale Da Jung hastily covered Shi Woo’s ears and held him even closer in her arms.
“Mom! Shi Woo is here, please watch your words…!”
Da Jung clenched her eyes shut. Every time her mother acted like this, she felt like she would lose her mind.
“Are you upset about losing an ‘SUniversity’ graduate X? Why are you even living?”
Da Jung knew it too well. She knew how proud she had made her mother. But now, to her mother, Da Jung had become the most shameful embarrassment.
“How did I raise you like this! Oh my!”
Seeing her mother hitting her chest in despair, Da Jung looked at her with resentful eyes.
“How did you raise me? Don’t you know? All I saw was you getting beaten all the time.”
This was why she didn’t want to get married. Her mother had endured for her children, but Da Jung did not want to live like her mother, even for her children.
“If you didn’t want to live like your mother, you should’ve said so!”
“What do you want! Shi Woo is already five years old! How long will this go on?”
“Oh, dear. Are you proud of having a child out of wedlock? Are you proud of being pregnant without even being married? Now what will you do? Who would look at an X with a child!”
Jeong Ae vented her pentup anger.
When she left her family home, Da Jung was happier than anyone else.
She was just happy that her mother no longer had to live like a slave.
But soon, her mother remarried a man of similar circumstances. He was a wounded man raising a son five years older than Da Jung.
The reason for her mother’s remarriage was just one: she couldn’t raise Da Jung as a fatherless child.
Wearing her school uniform and crouching at the front door, covering her ears was her daily routine. Almost every day, the sounds of things breaking and curses flew over the fence.
She could hear her mother’s screams and pleas, but she couldn’t even go in to stop it. If she did, in order to stop her husband from hitting Da Jung, her mother would end up getting hit more.
Her mother’s second husband came home drunk every day and beat her. On those days, Da Jung invariably had to take refuge at Sol’s house.
It wasn’t always like this with her mother’s second husband.
He wooed her mother with sweet promises of good living and treated Da Jung as if he was the most caring father. However, like they had made a promise, they showed their true colors.
It couldn’t all be the same. There surely existed men like Sol’s father, who, for 40 years, affectionately called his wife by the pet name “Flower Powder”.
But most of the examples that Da Jung saw firsthand were contrary to this.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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