― Yes, it is. What on earth happened while I was in America? Your mom is in the hospital right now, isn’t she? Oh, I met some friends at lunch today and I just couldn’t believe it. No, let’s meet and talk.
Aunt Yoo Seon, who had been pouring out words like a machine gun, let out a sigh.
“I can’t right now, but how about in about an hour?”
― It doesn’t matter. Wherever you feel comfortable, just tell me. I’ll come there.
Eun Soo mentioned the name of a nearby cafe.
To her offer to send the address, Aunt Yoo Seon kept repeating how such a thing could happen, right up to the point she ended the call.
Aunt Yoo Seon was one of her mother’s best friends.
Since Eun Soo was young, they had lived together in the same apartment complex, and Aunt Yoo Seon left for America when her son entered middle school.
After that, she heard that she had been in touch with her mother sporadically, and then at some point, the news stopped. She seemed to have just heard about her mother’s situation through other friends.
It would naturally be shocking to hear that someone who was fine when they parted had been lying in a hospital for several years.
Eun Soo stopped a passing gallery staff member.
“Please tell the gallery owner that I have to leave early due to another appointment.”
“Yes, madam.”
Eun Soo, leaving the gallery, told her driver the address of the cafe where she was to meet Aunt Yoo Seon.
They were supposed to meet an hour later, but Aunt Yoo Seon had already arrived. Seeing Eun Soo enter the cafe, she immediately stood up from her seat.
Aunt Yoo Seon hugged Eun Soo tightly and stroked her back.
“My goodness, you must have had such a hard time on your own. While I was having a hard time living and lost contact… oh dear, what should we do?”
“It’s okay.”
Eun Soo forced a smile, watching Aunt Yoo Seon wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Perhaps because of her words that she had been having a hard time living, Aunt Yoo Seon, who had always been dazzling in Eun Soo’s memory, looked much more downtoearth.
“How’s your mom?”
“She’s just soso.”
“Is what I heard true?”
“Pardon?”
Eun Soo wondered what Aunt Yoo Seon had heard from her other friends.
“Talking about that damned Go Joo Kyung and your father.”
“……”
“Is it true? Is it really true? Are they living together now?”
Eun Soo slowly nodded her head.
She had suspected that the rumor had already spread among her mother’s friends.
After all, her mother wasn’t the only one who had seen her father’s affair with Go Joo Kyung that day.
If she had seen it alone, wouldn’t her mother’s shock have been less? She had thought so.
Having witnessed a friend’s husband having an affair with another friend, the shock would have been greater.
“Mikyung said even after seeing your mother fall, those two didn’t even bat an eye. Mikyung said, they are people who would have let your mother die right there if it wasn’t for her. I got goosebumps, really!”
Aunt Yoo Seon gulped down the juice she had been drinking.
“I heard your husband is a very influential person. Tell him to ruin those two thoroughly!”
“……”
“They are the ones who made your mother like this. How shameless can they be? They started living together as soon as your mother collapsed?”
Eun Soo didn’t say a word.
Suddenly, she felt sorry for her mother.
How sad would she be if she knew that her secret was being treated like a celebrity gossip among her friends?
At first, her mother’s friends were as sad about her mother’s misfortune as if it were their own. But as her mother’s time in bed grew longer, they gradually reduced their visits, and even their contact with Eun Soo was cut off.
Then, upon hearing somewhere that Eun Soo was getting married to Moon Hyuk Joo, the heir of Myungjin Group, her mother’s friends all simultaneously got in touch again. Their visits to her mother’s hospital room also increased.
It was all due to the power held by Moon Hyuk Joo.
To Eun Soo, they all seemed like a flock of hyenas circling her mother, hoping for something to fall. Therefore, she asked Hyuk Joo to make sure that no one except those allowed could enter her mother’s hospital room.
“Eun Soo.”
“Yes.”
“You can’t just let those people be, okay?”
Eun Soo quietly looked down at the hand of Aunt Yoo Seon, who was tightly holding her own.
Aunt Yoo Seon’s eyes filled with tears, and she continued to speak.
“No matter how much your mother tried to stop me, I should have ended their relationship sooner…”
“What do you mean?”
Eun Soo asked with surprised eyes.
Aunt Yoo Seon’s words implied that her mother had known about the affair between her father and Go Joo Kyung.
“Those two had been like that even before your mother gave birth to you. Your mother knew about it and wanted to get a divorce, but, sigh…”
Eun Soo was so surprised by the unheard words that she covered her mouth with her hand.
“I told her to get a divorce right away since we can somehow make a living, but she couldn’t because you were sick. To afford the hospital bills, she had no choice but to rely on your father.”
“……”
“For nearly 20 years, she had to pretend not to know that her trusted friend and husband were having an affair. She thought she could live as long as she was the only one pretending not to know, but having seen it with Mikyung, how much would your mother’s pride have collapsed?”
She was speechless.
Eun Soo was at a loss for words at the reality that was so different from the story she had known about her mother so far.
The affair between her father and Go Joo Kyung had been going on for a very long time, and her mother, who had been planning to divorce, could not because of her own medical bills.
‘Daughters take after their mothers.’
She recalled the words casually spoken by a domestic worker who once helped with the household chores.
Her mother, because of her own medical bills, and she, because of her mother’s medical bills, could not leave a husband who had another woman by his side.
Both endured the situation where they felt like their insides were rotting away.
Eun Soo bit her lip hard, trying to hold back the tears welling up.
“…Aunt. I have another appointment today.”
“Is that so? Okay. I want to see your mother’s face, so if you’re okay with it, let me know later. Understand?”
“Yes.”
“You must be busy, go ahead. I’ll be in Korea until the end of this month.”
“I’ll contact you again soon.”
Eun Soo left the café and got into the car waiting at the entrance. When the driver asked for the destination, she told him her father’s company.
“Please take me to Myungjin Apparel.”
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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