Because if a child was born between them, it would be troublesome for him.
Right now, Hyuk Joo had the woman he loved so much, Seo Yeon Ji.
If a child was born, there was a high chance of a conflict arising with that woman in some way.
There wouldn’t be a woman in the world who would gladly accept that the man she loves is having a child with another woman.
Could it be that woman suggested this?
“Why do you want to postpone it? I want to know the reason.”
“……”
“It’s strange because the person who said they wanted a child a few days ago is suddenly saying to postpone.”
“I just want to do that. Just… because I want to. Do I have to have a reason?”
Eun Soo stuttered out her difficult words.
She couldn’t bring herself to say that she wanted to do so because she felt she wouldn’t be able to be a child who received an abundance of love from her mom and dad.
“It’s strange that your thoughts have suddenly changed.”
“…I just want to.”
“Do as you wish.”
“Th, thank you.”
Eun Soo responded and subtly glanced at Hyuk Joo’s face.
Whether he had fallen into some other thought, his expression was even more rigid than before.
For a moment, Eun Soo recalled her aunt’s anger.
She too must have been having the same concerns. Eun Soo smiled and told Hyuk Joo not to worry too much.
“I will tell aunt myself.”
“Are you going to say that we’re trying?”
“……”
“We should try, I guess. I don’t know what the outcome will be.”
Eun Soo pulled up her chin and stared at Hyuk Joo’s face. It was a very serious expression.
Hyuk Joo might have thought that his aunt’s anger would subside if he said he was going to the hospital. But maybe he was nervous about the pressure to have a child coming to him because I refused that suggestion.
Eun Soo watched his face and then spoke.
“I’m not saying to use contraception.”
“……”
“I don’t want to go to the hospital and get procedures or anything like that. I’m honestly scared because they say it hurts a lot.”
“Do as you want.”
Hyuk Joo casually replied in a voice almost like a whisper.
Lifting his head, he looked at Eun Soo’s face and asked.
“How do you know Hwang In Woo?”
“We knew each other when we were young.”
“When you were young?”
“…Yes.”
Eun Soo was taken aback by Hyuk Joo’s sudden question about how she knew Hwang In Woo. Thinking about what to explain, Eun Soo slowly spoke.
“We spent about 3 years in the neighborhood where my grandparents’ house was when we were young. That’s when we knew each other.”
“I’ve never heard this story before.”
“It was before I started school….”
“I see.”
“We were as close as siblings, so that’s why we spoke so casually earlier. If it was uncomfortable for you, Hyuk Joo, I’ll be careful next time.”
“I didn’t say it was uncomfortable.”
“……”
“I was just curious because it was interesting. It was a different side of Eun Soo that I knew.”
After finishing his words, Hyuk Joo got up from his seat and went straight to the bedroom.
The sound of the door closing was louder than usual.
Wondering if the door had closed hard unintentionally due to a sudden gust of wind, Eun Soo turned her head to check the window. But the window was firmly closed.
“Even if it’s cured, there could be side effects when you grow up.”
The doctor flipped through Eun Soo’s medical records, wearing a serious expression.
There were no problems in the premarriage examination. However, Eun Soo couldn’t help but get nervous when the doctor mentioned side effects.
“Hmm…”
The doctor moved his mouse and focused on the monitor.
As he looked at the data that could be confirmed on the screen, the doctor’s expression gradually relaxed.
“Eun Soo, you don’t have any sequelae yet.”
“…Yes.”
Swallowing dryly at the word “yet”, Eun Soo wondered if she had swallowed too hard.
Her throat hurt as if it was stinging from swallowing saliva.
“There are reports that most patients develop at least one sequelae over 20 years after the treatment.”
She already knew this.
However, since such symptoms had never appeared, Eun Soo believed it would not happen to her.
“Heart, kidney, or central nervous system abnormalities may occur, and symptoms vary depending on the type of anticancer drug and treatment. The infertility I mentioned earlier is one of those symptoms.”
As the doctor brought up infertility, Eun Soo clenched her fist tightly.
The fact that symptoms had not appeared yet meant they could appear in the future.
“You’ve been married for about 2 years now, right?”
“Yes.”
“It’s too early to determine infertility in two years. So, I recommend you to have followup examinations with peace of mind. It seems you haven’t had any since you became an adult.”
“I thought I was fine. Since I’m an adult, I thought there wouldn’t be any problem……”
“You still need to take them. If sequelae occur, they can be addressed early.”
Eun Soo slowly nodded her head.
She had stopped having followup examinations after her mother collapsed.
When Eun Soo once mentioned an examination, her father got angry, asking why she kept examining an already healed disease, leaving strange records.
Having a health checkup once a year should be enough.
That’s what Eun Soo thought. Then suddenly, Eun Soo felt a sense of fear.
“Excuse me, doctor.”
She cautiously spoke to the doctor.
“If I were to have a child.”
“Yes.”
“……It won’t be inherited to the child, right?”
“That’s really difficult to say.”
At the doctor’s troubled words, Eun Soo swallowed hard for a moment.
“The cause of pediatric cancer is not yet clear whether it’s genetic or environmental.”
At the doctor’s factual words, Eun Soo felt a prick at the tip of her nose.
She lifted her head slowly, having wrapped her face with her hand and then removed it.
She couldn’t afford to have groundless greed based on words like it’s not clear, it’s less likely, it’s not certain.
Eun Soo found it hard to speak.
“Doctor……”
“Yes, Eun Soo.”
“I’m really scared.”
“Are you scared that, like you, the child might also get sick?”
“Yes.”
Eun Soo cast her gaze downward.
She didn’t want to cause the same pain she had experienced. Even if the probability was almost none, if it happened to her child, it would be a one hundred percent probability.
“……Are there people who give up on having a child for the same reason as me?”
Eun Soo asked cautiously.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
