The Bad Husband - Chapter 26
Woo Jin, who was directly behind the wheel, headed to Daehan Hospital. Daehan Hospital was where Jang Won’s attending physician was located, and security was thoroughly maintained. Moreover, it was the perfect place to control every situation as Jang Won’s massive donations were flowing in.
On the way, he also contacted Director Park. He also picked up his cell phone to send a message to Tae Eun. She might be surprised to wake up and find him gone. But he was at a loss for what message to leave.
He didn’t want to lie, and he didn’t want to reveal the existence of Park Seo Woo. She was a relationship that had already ended as lovers, so it would only make her unnecessarily worried.
What should he send?
Hesitating, the signal changed and finally hearing the sound of a car horn from behind, Woo Jin stepped on the accelerator without even being able to send a message.
He never thought things would turn out this way. Was it because he avoided Seo Woo’s persistent calls before the wedding?
“Damn it! Are you taking the medicine again?”
He only rejected the calls to give her no room, but to bring about such an extreme result. While he was fed up with this tiresome relationship, he also felt sorry for Seo Woo. Then, the face of Seo Jin, who looked just like her, passed through his mind again.
Guilt weighs on his chest. At the thought that if Seo Jin had been alive, Seo Woo wouldn’t have clung to him like this either.
A relationship that should never have been. Nevertheless, a relationship that became a bond and now cannot be severed. It was as if everything was his fault.
Arriving at the hospital, he immediately went up to the VIP room. Then, he sees Jung Keun standing in front of the elevator with an anxious face.
“Uh, Senior Manager!”
“Which room is Seo Woo in now?”
“Well, about that……”
“How is her condition? How is she?”
First, he asked about her condition. Then Jung Keun bows his head deeply, unable to answer. Thinking her condition was serious, his brow furrowed even more.
“Is it serious?”
“No. That’s not it……”
“……”
“I was mistaken. I went to pick up Seo Woo early today for a location shoot, and I found her collapsed in the bathroom. There was a medicine bottle rolling next to her. So I thought she had taken the medicine again like last time and called you… But it wasn’t that medicine.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, it turned out to be stomach medicine. Seo Woo has a sensitive stomach, you know. The bottle was all in English, so I misunderstood. Like they say, once bitten, twice shy. I thought that nightmare from a few years ago was repeating itself……”
“……”
“You were very surprised. I’m really sorry. It’s my fault.”
Jung Keun bowed his head and apologized deeply. Woo Jin looked around for a moment with a dazed look, as if he didn’t know where to direct his anger.
“So Seo Woo is okay?”
“Yes. It wasn’t medicine she took to die, but medicine she took to live. But her stomach acted up again, so she looks very haggard.”
Jung Keun said, looking at Woo Jin with half apology and half resentment.
In fact, if it weren’t for Woo Jin, Seo Woo’s stomach wouldn’t have acted up, he thought. As Jung Keun, who had directly watched Seo Woo agonizing over Woo Jin’s wedding news, it was natural for him to think so. Of course, it was also largely Seo Woo’s fault for not being able to let go of her lingering feelings for Woo Jin.
However, Woo Jin didn’t care about Jung Keun’s resentment at all. Knowing that Seo Woo was safe, all he had to do now was return to Tae Eun.
As he turned to leave, Jung Keun grabbed him from behind.
“Senior Manager, are you just going to leave like this?”
Woo Jin’s dark eyes looked down at Jung Keun’s steadfast hand holding his arm.
“Seo Woo…… go see her once before you leave. You should have told her the news of your marriage directly, not through an article. Or at least answered her calls.”
“Why should I listen to Jung Keun say such things?”
“That’s because…… I’m one of the people who watches Seo Woo most closely.”
“……”
“She had a really hard time. If left alone, next time she might really take medicine to die. How desperate do you think I was to immediately think that when I saw the medicine bottle? As a precaution…… can’t you console her a bit?”
In the end, those words persuaded Woo Jin. Because he, who rushed over without a hint of doubt at the word that she had taken medicine, and Jung Keun, who thought without a hint of doubt that she had taken medicine to die upon seeing the bottle, felt the same way.
The desire for Park Seo Woo to be safe.
Woo Jin turned and looked at the hospital room Jung Keun pointed out, then picked up his cell phone. It was almost six o’clock now. Since he had to go straight to work instead of the hotel after meeting Seo Woo, he had to send a message to Tae Eun.
[I left early because something came up. You can stay at the hotel longer, or I’ll tell Director Park and you can go home. I’ll call you at lunchtime.]A heavy sigh escaped his mouth as he pressed the send button. His conscience pricked for not being able to tell Tae Eun the truth.
“It’s over there.”
Thinking he was hesitating because he couldn’t easily take a step, Jung Keun gestured to indicate Seo Woo’s room. Only then did Woo Jin slowly move his feet and approach the room.
Opening the sliding door, he sees a small figure lying on the large hospital bed. The back wearing a hospital gown looked small and young.
“Please stop going back and forth. I said I’m fine, oppa.”
Seo Woo spoke in a cranky voice. She seemed to think it was Jung Keun.
“Sigh…… really. My stomach has settled a lot and I’m really fine. So you should go and rest too……”
As Woo Jin approached without a word, Seo Woo sat up in annoyance and turned around. Then, upon seeing his face, her expression became blank as if she were dreaming. It was evident that she was blinking her large eyes to check if he was real.
“Woo Jin…… oppa?”
“……”
“How did you come here……”
Seo Woo’s eyes welled up with tears after confirming it was him. Seeing this, Woo Jin pulled a chair and sat in front of her. It had been months since he had seen her face.
“Jung Keun called me. He said you took medicine again.”
“Oh…… sorry. Jung Keun oppa misunderstood the stomach medicine.”
“Yeah. He told me that.”
“But how did you come here? You got married yesterday.”
“I was busy so I couldn’t go on a honeymoon. Then I got a call from Jung Keun.”
His voice explaining the situation was extremely businesslike. No emotion should leak out. Because even the slightest emotion he showed could be a torturous hope for Seo Woo.
“I’m glad it wasn’t that kind of medicine. Take good care of your health. I came to tell you that.”
But at Woo Jin’s heartless response, Seo Woo finally shed the tears that had been welling up in her eyes as if overwhelmed with sorrow.
“It’s the first time seeing you in months, and that’s all you have to say?”
“Then. What do you expect.”
“Can’t you treat me a little more warmly? I found out about your wedding through an article too. How do you think I felt? Am I worth that little to you? Not even answering my calls……”
Seo Woo spoke as if she were making a cute complaint. Currently the top actress in Korea, so any other man would have simply melted at such a complaint from Seo Woo.
But Woo Jin was different. He had sorted out his feelings a year ago, but wasn’t it because of Seo Woo persistently clinging to him that it had come to this? He couldn’t let it go on any longer. Moreover, he was now a married man. He had to cut ties with Seo Woo for Tae Eun’s sake, not hers.
“Is there a reason I should answer your calls? And we’re not close enough to personally share news of our marriages.”
“Not that kind of relationship? We’ve been together for 15 years! Even if we ended as lovers, you said it yourself. That I’ll always be like a little sister to you! But why did you not only ignore my calls but also let me hear about your wedding that way?”
Seo Woo asked sharply. At this, Woo Jin’s dark eyes sank even deeper. Having to repeat the words he had said countless times, this situation was now sickening.
“Yeah. Even if our love as lovers ended, you’re always someone I have to take care of. Why? Because you’re Seo Jin’s little sister. But you’re not, are you? Your unresolved feelings for me will eventually become poison to us.”
“Oppa!”
“Don’t forget. I’m married now. I’m a married man. You have one more very clear reason to sort out your feelings for me.”
At his low but definite manner of speaking, Seo Woo bit her lip, suddenly reminded of the pure white bride she had seen yesterday. She was intensely shaken by Tae Eun’s appearance, which had a completely different aura from her own.
And now, hearing the unwanted truth through Woo Jin’s mouth made her feel like she was enduring this moment only because she couldn’t die.
“Don’t be sick. Take good care of your health.”
He said a few words as if in a final greeting and got up from his seat. His decisive personality suggested that once he left this room, she might never see him again unless she died.
She became desperate. All she could think about was somehow holding on to Woo Jin. So Seo Woo reached out to Woo Jin, who was getting up, and grabbed his hand.
“Oppa! How can you leave like this? Do people’s hearts work that way?”
His gaze slowly fell on Seo Woo’s hand, which was holding on to him so desperately. Even though her heart was being crushed by those eyes that couldn’t feel any emotion, Seo Woo couldn’t let go of the hand she was holding.
That’s how much she loved him. From the moment she first saw him in middle school until now, there was not a single moment she didn’t love him.
To her, he was a presence she loved as much as her dead twin brother, Seo Jin. That’s why she had no choice but to hold on to this hand for dear life. Because now that Seo Jin was gone, all she had left was Woo Jin.
“Give me time. Time to sort out my feelings. If you cut me off unilaterally like this, what am I supposed to do?”
“I gave you enough time. It’s already been a year since we broke up.”
“Not already, it’s only been a year! We dated for 2 years, but we were together for a whole 15 years. But how can my heart be sorted out in that measly year? To me…… it feels like it was just yesterday that we were together! Please…… give me a little more time. Don’t be so heartless…… okay?”
She wanted to buy time somehow. Time for him to come back to her arms. So if he just came back, she could wait holding her breath for years. If she could make this man hers in her life, she could give up everything she had.
But Woo Jin was truly cold.
“Sort it out. It’s not just about you and me anymore, someone else’s life is involved now too.”
He shook off her hand and left the hospital room. Left alone in the room, Seo Woo clenched both fists and trembled. Because she knew all too well who that someone else he mentioned meant.
That’s how Tae Eun was becoming like a great sin in Seo Woo’s life.
Truly unintentionally.
* * *
In the end, Woo Jin never returned. A message did come, but Tae Eun knew all too well that it wasn’t the truth.
−What about Seo Woo.
The voice she heard while holding her cell phone and talking in the early morning was vividly imprinted.
Park Seo Woo.
Woo Jin had left her alone on their first night as newlyweds and rushed to Park Seo Woo. Perhaps it was something foreseen from the moment Park Seo Woo appeared at the wedding hall. So even though she had tried so hard to steady her shaking heart, reality was more cruel than she thought.
She felt empty, as if a huge hole had been made in one side of her chest. Through it, a cold wind passed, clawing at her heart. She had to tremble at that chill.
Tae Eun had a premonition.
Perhaps the existence of Park Seo Woo might have a much greater impact on her life than she had thought.
It was the beginning of a tiresome love triangle.
Cold Male Lead Became My Clingy Husband (Female-Dominant)
Feng Bai Su transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, becoming the sister of the female protagonist and the Seventh Princess of the Feng Ling Kingdom.
After working herself to death in her previous life, finally reincarnating as a princess, she only wanted to be a lazy fish who could eat, sleep, and play.
Until she met the male protagonist from the book, Wei Jing Mo, and he took a liking to her!
Wei Jing Mo is the top young man in Feng Ling City, talented in both appearance and ability, from a prestigious family, with a cold and otherworldly appearance, a figure like the bright moon in the hearts of noble ladies. It was thought that only the most powerful and talented noble lady in Feng Ling City would be worthy of such a brilliant young man. Who knew that this young gentleman would secretly admire the infamous Seventh Princess?
Short scene 1:
Feng Bai Su looked at the young man crying like a pear blossom in the rain before her, and couldn’t help but doubt her life.
Wasn’t the male lead described as a cold and otherworldly figure in the book?
Then who was this poor little thing crying with swollen red eyes and tear-stained face?
Short scene 2:
Wei Jing Mo stared intently at Feng Bai Su who was about to go out, wanting to say, “Be careful on the road.”
Before he could speak, Feng Bai Su suddenly bent down and bit his cheek.
Her peach blossom eyes were full of disdain: “Tsk! You’re so clingy!”
Wei Jing Mo: “…”
A talented fox spirit female lead with a flirtatious appearance but actually abstinent VS A cold-looking but actually naive and clingy little jealous male lead
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