Dark green twopiece suit, fishnet stockings, bright yellow scarf, bright red lips, and glaring eyeshadow.
It seemed as though she was putting on a clown’s performance.
Jung Hyuk, who had been staring at the colorfully dressed woman, ignored her and moved towards his office.
“Oh my, Jung Hyuk!”
Seeing her son, the mother pushed aside the secretaries and followed Jung Hyuk.
“Why are you only arriving now, my son? Do you know how long your mother has been waiting?”
“Why did you come.”
“Why? I brought something delicious for my son.”
The mother, who had taken over the middle of the plush sofa, began to lay out the dishes like stirfried vegetables and sushi, which were packed in a pink cloth and a lunchbox.
“And my son, do I need a reason to see you?”
Jung Hyuk’s brows noticeably furrowed.
“Mother? Are you really my mother?”
Sung Ja squirmed uncomfortably at the accusation in his tone.
“Oh dear, Jung Hyuk. I gave birth to you in pain.”
“Just because you gave birth to me, does it make you my mother?”
“Oh dear. Just look at the way this child talks.”
Sung Ja, who had been at a loss for words, suddenly began to whimper. She clutched the scarf around her neck and dabbed her teary eyes.
“I endured ten months of pain to give birth to you and now I have to see you like this. Sob….”
Jung Hyuk didn’t bother hiding his sigh. It was unbearable.
Ten months. Yes, ten months. Less than a year. The woman in front of him, who claimed to have given birth to him, barely played the role of a mother.
While some women worriedly redden their eyes, fearful of turning their children into brats, others only saw their sons as tools to provide them with pocket money.
“I should just die. I don’t even get treated like a mother by my own son, sob!”
While Sung Ja blurted out her grievances, Jung Hyuk rested his forehead on his hand and tightly closed his eyes.
“All of this is because of your father, that man!”
At the mention of his father, Jung Hyuk’s eyes bulged.
“Don’t bring my father into this. How dare you mention my father?”
“If it weren’t for your father, why would I have to abandon a child like you and leave home?”
He couldn’t help but scoff at the absurdity. This repertoire had been repeated to the point of becoming stale.
His father.
The man named Cha Jae Sung was a poor poet.
The pure young man who loved literature and poetry so much, followed his passion by being a teacher by day and a poet by night, never thinking about his future.
The woman who gave birth to Jung Hyuk was a student who had a crush on the teacher trainee, his father. After graduating, she became even more aggressive.
She used to come and go freely at his father’s boarding house, and one day, she barged in and settled down. And then, suddenly, she claimed she was carrying Jung Hyuk.
At this point, Jung Hyuk couldn’t help but laugh. The origin story of that human was unbearably tacky.
Anyway, even though it was an unintentional relationship, his father seemed to have been sincere. The numerous poems he left behind were evidence of this.
Jung Hyuk still couldn’t understand. The woman described in the poems was usually compared to a blooming, ethereal flower.
But what about the woman in front of him? It was too hard to believe they were the same person.
The unexpected wife and child ruined his father. He was crushed under the responsibility of taking care of his family, and his dreams were trampled.
It must have been extremely hard and burdensome for him, a free spirit. But until the end, he did his best as a father. However, the woman who gave birth to Jung Hyuk did not.
Tired of their poor living conditions, she left her husband and son for an old classmate and left the house. It was only three months after Jung Hyuk was born.
When Jung Hyuk turned four.
The father took Jung Hyuk’s hand and sought out the rundown house. Looking at the dignified middleaged woman, the father patted his toddler son’s back as he toddled along.
‘Jung Hyuk, you must say hello to grandmother, right?’
The grandmother scrutinized the young Jung Hyuk’s face with a heavy expression.
‘Is this your son? I thought you couldn’t even steal a seed.’
He vividly remembered the distasteful gaze at that time.
‘So he abandoned his child and ran away? What did I tell you? Now you understand the feelings of a mother who was torn and about to die?’
The father, with his visibly sick face, just kept silent. After a while, he finally managed to open his mouth.
‘Mother, please raise Jung Hyuk.’
‘Why should I raise your son? After saying you don’t like it and leaving?’
‘I may have disappointed you, but this child will never disappoint you.’
The grandmother sat up straight with a stern expression. Then, with a more generous tone, she spoke.
‘If you only come back, I’ll forgive everything. I will acknowledge your son as my grandson. Then everything will find its place.’
‘I am in the final stages of lung cancer. There’s not much time left.’
The grandmother, who couldn’t speak for a moment, collapsed and wept, beating the father’s back.
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!!!
