“Weren’t you supposed to have a lunch appointment on Thursday?”
“……”
Hyuk Joo mentioned Eun Soo’s schedule.
She had a lunch appointment with a few wives of the subsidiary company’s presidents. It was a gathering centered around Eun Soo, the wife of Moon Hyuk Joo, the future successor leading the group.
Although it was an important gathering, Eun Soo told Hyuk Joo, who was speaking with a heavy face as if to remind her that she couldn’t miss it,
“I’ll go after having lunch.”
“Gangwon Province?”
“Yes.”
In response to Hyuk Joo, who was asking with a furrowed brow, Eun Soo briefly replied and scooped rice and soup into the bowl. After preparing all the meals on the table, she looked at Hyuk Joo.
It was her way of indicating him to sit down quickly. However, Hyuk Joo had one hand on his waist and was massaging his stiff forehead with the other.
“I’ll be back before it gets too late.”
“That’s not the problem.”
“Then what’s the problem? Are you upset because I don’t want to only have lunch at that gathering and leave?”
The gathering usually ended with a late afternoon tea after lunch.
Eun Soo always felt burdened by that gathering.
Being called a madam by people who were about twenty years older than her, and using words close to extreme honorifics made her uncomfortable.
While Hyuk Joo might think it’s natural, Eun Soo found it hard to adapt even after more than two years.
It was a gathering where nobody thought of Eun Soo comfortably, even when she said to speak casually. It was a gathering where everyone was watching her. The only reason she attended without missing the gathering was for Hyuk Joo.
To maintain friendly relations with those who would support Hyuk Joo, who would lead the group in the future, she couldn’t ignore the influence of their wives either.
“Eun Soo.”
“……I wish I could skip the gathering.”
Eun Soo stared straight at Hyuk Joo’s face, who was calling her, and spoke again.
“Just for one day.”
“Go with me on another day.”
“You’re a busy person, Hyuk Joo.”
“Even if I’m busy, I can make time if it’s about visiting someone you appreciate so much.”
“You don’t have to.”
“Oh Eun Soo.”
Eun Soo glanced at Hyuk Joo, who was looking at her with a bewildered face.
The words that pretended to be for her felt disgusting.
Anyone listening would think he was a husband who thought highly of his wife.
Unable to express her annoyance outwardly, Eun Soo vented it inwardly. Lowering her gaze, she saw the seaweed soup. Looking at the white broth, her emotions surged again.
She felt like a fool for teaching her husband how to make someone feel insignificant by cooking seaweed soup for another woman’s birthday.
She wanted to pour all the seaweed soup into the sink. However, all Eun Soo could do was throw away the seaweed soup she had put in her bowl.
As Eun Soo poured the seaweed soup from the bowl into the sink, Hyuk Joo’s forehead crinkled relentlessly.
“I lost my appetite smelling the soup while it was cooking. Eat alone, Hyuk Joo.”
Hyuk Joo stood as if to block Eun Soo’s way as she tried to walk out of the kitchen.
Eun Soo took a deep breath, closed her eyes tightly, and then opened them. Then, she spoke to Hyuk Joo in a voice louder than her usual tone, as if she had made up her mind.
“Neither of us is comfortable with each other.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m uncomfortable with you, Hyuk Joo. Because of my mom’s hospital bills, because of my mom’s treatment, I feel like I’m leeching off you, I have no choice but to be cautious of you, I feel suffocated just being with you like this.”
“……”
“You’re uncomfortable with me too, aren’t you, Hyuk Joo?”
“Who said that?”
“……”
“So, is Hwang In Woo comfortable?”
Eun Soo was stunned, as if she had been hit on the head by something, as Hyuk Joo unexpectedly mentioned In Woo’s name.
“From next month, Professor Kim Won Jin will take over as the primary doctor again.”
“In Woo was supposed to continue overseeing it.”
“A capable person should take charge. That’s only natural.”
When the original primary doctor, Professor Kim Won Jin, went to a conference in the United States, In Woo temporarily became her mother’s primary doctor for a month.
However, at Eun Soo’s request, Hyuk Joo had asked the hospital to let In Woo continue to be the primary doctor.
Eun Soo was dumbfounded when Hyuk Joo suddenly revoked that decision. She stared at his face as if she were shooting it.
Only then did she notice the slight reddish tinge in Hyuk Joo’s eyes, as if he were angry.
His hardened face seemed angry, and he was biting his lower lip relentlessly.
Trying to figure out what emotion Hyuk Joo was holding, Eun Soo struggled to swallow the almost bursting hollow laugh.
Astonishingly, and absurdly, her husband was now exhibiting jealousy.
Because of her words about going to Gangwon Province on Thursday.
He couldn’t accept the situation where she and In Woo were going to Gangwon Province together. So, he was saying he would change the primary doctor back to Professor Kim Won Jin.
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