The Bad Husband (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 74

After reading the article, Tae Eun couldn’t calm herself down. Yet her fingers kept moving, uncontrollably clicking through one chaotic article after another.

Most of the reports focused on their separation, ultimately attributing it to her infertility—the barrier they couldn’t overcome in a chaebol family.

Yet amid all this, Tae Eun felt a small sense of relief.

If the true reason behind their separation were revealed, Woo Jin would suffer the worst blow. Regardless of the truth, conservative Korean society wouldn’t view his relationship with Park Seo Woo kindly, and Chairwoman Jung, whom Tae Eun knew well, adored Woo Jin dearly—but she wasn’t the sort of person who’d tolerate a tarnished image, especially not at the expense of Jangwon. He might lose everything he had.

So she thought it was actually fortunate that the blame was falling on her instead. After all, she didn’t have much left to protect.

But that didn’t mean she wasn’t terrified of the current situation. Now that her private shame had been exposed to the entire world, she dreaded how people would look at her. And that worst-case scenario arrived swiftly.

Her phone rang.

It was her father, Min Kyung Hoon.

Yet Tae Eun just stared fearfully at her vibrating phone. Being thrust suddenly into this situation without any mental preparation filled her with sheer terror.

The phone kept ringing—cutting off, then ringing again. It felt as if the vibration would never stop as long as she didn’t answer.

Eventually, Tae Eun reached out with trembling hands and picked up the call.

“Hello?”

[Where are you right now? Is this article really true? You… can’t have children?]

Min Kyung Hoon didn’t ask once if she was okay in this situation. The first thing he did upon calling was bluntly demand confirmation of the facts. She’d known it was coming and had steeled herself for it—but experiencing it firsthand hurt far more than she’d imagined.

What would an ordinary father have done?

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