No matter what anyone said, the woman sat sprawled out on the street and wailed for quite a while.
The woman who was crying as if the world had ended, dusted herself off after not too long and got up. Then, as if nothing had happened, she casually sat on a platform and slid her foot into the discarded slipper.
Only then did the eyes of the sobbing woman turn towards the spectators.
“What are you looking at! Is the show over?!”
The woman who was shouting at the people, her eyes suddenly widened.
“My goodness! Who is this?”
The woman, spotting a tidy young man, kicked off the platform and rushed towards him.
“Are you here to see your mother? Oh, my child!”
Avoiding the woman who was approaching him with a mixture of surprise and joy on her face, Jung Hyuk stepped back.
“Oh, my! You’ve grown even more handsome since I last saw you.”
Despite my open display of disdain, Seongja remained undeterred, following me and reaching out to caress my cheek.
I grimaced. The damp touch of her palm on my face felt unpleasant.
This vulgar and repulsive woman was supposedly the very embodiment of my biological mother.
Inexorably irritated, I harshly shook off her hand which was continuously stroking my cheek.
“Stop touching me.”
Despite my spatout warning, Seongja didn’t back down.
“This kid. Why are you so cold to your mother? What did I do to you? Didn’t I say you would feel the call of blood too?”
Blood ties? I scoffed. I didn’t feel it was worth responding.
Rebuffed by her son, Seongja twitched and wet her lips nervously before she sat back down and threw a tantrum.
“If it weren’t for that man, your father, why would I be living like this, unable to even see my child’s face? It’s heartbreaking!”
A chill brushed past my face in that moment.
“Whom are you bringing up in your speech? You do know it’s my father’s memorial day today, right?”
Seongja, who had been rolling her eyes, defiantly pouted.
“My throat is parched right now and you’re going on about a memorial day. Do you know why I am in this condition?”
“Is it my father’s fault again? Don’t you feel sorry for him? Did you ever love him?”
Even as I asked these questions, I was filled with selfcontempt, wondering what I was expecting from this woman.
“You wouldn’t understand. Love also needs money!”
Seongja shouted defiantly. Exhausted, I pulled out all the cheques from my wallet and squeezed them in my hand.
“Just money, money! If you love it so much, then pick it all up!”
With my booming yell, the crumpled cheques were flung into the air.
The scattered cheques fluttered around like pollen. At this scene, Seongja, who had been glued to the couch, jumped up with a start.
“Mother! All my money is flying away. If you were going to give it to me, you should have done it nicely. It’s mine! Don’t anyone pick it up! It’s all mine!”
Seongja was as busy as a bug, scrambling on the ground, frantic not to miss a single bill. She was a woman without a shred of conscience or a hint of shame.
As I watched her with contempt, I swallowed my anger and turned away.
Blood ties. If I could, I wanted to sever them.
Getting into the car, I roughly pulled my tie and gasped for breath. Min, my secretary, who had been observant, asked carefully.
“Director, where should I take you?”
I paused for a moment, considering, and then checked the time. It was almost that hour.
The car rumbled to life and slowly moved forward.
“We’ve arrived. Would you like to get out?”
“No, just wait a moment.”
I fixed my gaze at one spot outside the car window.
A moment later, as expected, children started pouring out from the entrance. As always, one child stood out, and I identified him in an instant.
A child with an innocent face was spinning around, then spotted someone and smiled brightly. He toddled with his cute little legs towards the woman who was waving at him, and eagerly flung himself into her arms.
Yoo Da Jung. That woman was not her. The woman who had her long hair tied back was the woman the child called Auntie.
As the woman walked away holding the child’s hand, Jung Hyuk could not turn his gaze away until they completely disappeared from his view.
Suddenly, a hollow laugh slipped out.
It was ridiculous. He didn’t even know why he was at a kindergarten, let alone why he had come to this place in the first place.
He thought of the child’s face and felt an indistinct desire to see him.
Blood ties. Did he really come here because of a blood connection?
The strange thing was, even as he thought of the child, his mind was filled with Yoo Da Jung, that woman.
The woman was not someone he could trust, a fact he had painfully realized seeing his birth mother.
Because of that, he had easily decided to marry Hyun Ah. After all, it didn’t matter who it was if he couldn’t trust them.
If he were to confess to himself, the events of five years ago were certainly unusual for Jung Hyuk.
He didn’t hate it. He was attracted, he wanted it, he liked it.
He was probably irritable and nervous about the woman’s disappearance because of that.
Yoo Da Jung. What would have happened if that woman had not disappeared like that?
The tip of his carefully raised hand gently brushed his finely arched eyebrows.
She was certainly not a woman he disliked. But what would happen if there was also a child?
Vibrating briefly, a message appeared on the screen of the mobile phone.
After checking the content, Da Jung sighed and entered a response with a light laugh.
「Don’t worry and enjoy the fresh air♥」
After sending the message and checking the time, Da Jung hurriedly backed up the work she was working on to her personal USB.
“Senior. I finished the field work today. I’ll do the rest at home.”
While carefully assembling the complex building model, Do Jun chuckled.
“Nothing new.”
The tone implied, when have you ever not done as you pleased? Feeling embarrassed, Da Jung poked her tongue out and laughed.
Do Jun did not fuss over Da Jung’s frequent early departures. There was no need to discuss it as she was perfectly doing her share of the work.
If she had to watch out for the eyes of a strict office boss, it would have been absolutely impossible for Da Jung to raise a child alone.
“Is something up with Siwoo?”
“No. I have to pick him up from kindergarten because Sol is busy.”
Do Jun, raising his gaze, let out a surprised tut.
“If you have so many customers, don’t you need to hire more parttime workers?”
“No, it’s not the café, her personal life is busy.”
“Personal life?”
Do Jun’s eyes shone with curiosity as if there was an interesting story. Da Jung narrowed her eyes and whispered softly.
“She’s been dating recently. With a very flamboyant man.”
Sol’s confident plan to showcase her charm while exercising had been a success. Thus, for the past few days, Sol had been in a passionate romance with that destroyer of balance.
「Mr. Doojung wants to drive to Yangpyeong, and I don’t want to refuse ㅠㅠ」
The message was filled with a desperate desire to go on a drive with her new boyfriend at all costs!
It was not desirable to miss a date while taking care of a friend’s son at the best of times.
As Da Jung got up from her seat, Do Jun, who was finishing his work, also stood up.
“Let’s go together. I’ve wanted to see Siwoo for a while.”
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An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
