Barely holding back a chuckle, Eun Soo responded calmly.
“That’s okay. We can always eat when you come back.”
“Still……”
“Visiting Dr. Hwang is as important to me as your business trip. I feel sorry for continuously delaying what should have been done sooner.”
“…Then, do it your way.”
“Thank you.”
Eun Soo turned her head and started walking again.
The notion of having dinner together the night before he left on a business trip with his lover.
Wasn’t it almost like trying to get a pardon before committing a bad act?
Eun Soo no longer wanted to be manipulated by this game.
How long would the business trip take?
A week, or even more?
She was torn between ending this awkward relationship before he left, or after his business trip.
Overwhelmed for a moment, Eun Soo was about to bring up the topic, but then she shook her head.
Divorcing Hyuk Joo wasn’t a simple matter.
It wouldn’t end just by stamping the divorce papers.
She had to somehow detach her father, who was more sincere about her marriage to Hyuk Joo than anyone else. And she also had to ask Hyuk Joo to resolve her mother’s hospital issue.
Divorcing him wasn’t something to impulsively throw away in the heat of the moment.
She had to think in advance about how to deal with the issues that would arise from the divorce.
But… giving a little hint wouldn’t be so bad.
“Mr. Hyuk Joo.”
He turned his head and looked at Eun Soo.
“Sometimes, I regret.”
“What?”
“Marrying you.”
At her unexpected words, Hyuk Joo stood as if to block Eun Soo’s path.
“I thought it would be easy to live as Moon Hyuk Joo’s wife.”
“……”
“If I could, I’d like to go back. To working on translations while sleeping in my mom’s hospital room… Although it was really tough back then, my heart was more at ease than it is now.”
Eun Soo bit her lip tightly, then opened her mouth again.
“So sometimes, I wonder what it would’ve been like if I had refused when you called in the early morning to propose. I regret it occasionally.”
“What’s so hard that you’d regret?”
“…….”
“You have to tell me so I can solve it.”
“This isn’t something you can solve, Mr. Hyuk Joo.”
“What exactly is it?”
Was it because she said it was something he couldn’t solve in front of Moon Hyuk Joo?
Hyuk Joo’s face was strangely contorted.
Looking at his face, which seemed to be questioning what he couldn’t solve, Eun Soo said in a subdued voice,
“It’s a matter of the heart.”
“What does that mean?”
“Just… it’s my problem.”
Maybe because she drew a line, saying it was her own problem.
Hyuk Joo didn’t ask any further.
When she lifted her head, the water mist that had been obscuring her view was slowly disappearing under the rising morning sun.
Looking at the clear air, Eun Soo hoped for the day when her heavy heart would also clear up like that.
She was planning to break up with him as soon as Hyuk Joo returned from his business trip.
He would be taken aback when she brought up the divorce, but he would accept it soon after.
As a condition of the divorce, Eun Soo planned to ask him to continue her mother’s treatment.
It wouldn’t be a difficult request for him.
He might even be grateful for her request.
He might see it as an opportunity to alleviate his guilt.
“Mom.”
Eun Soo gently held her mom’s hand.
“I’m going to try to be happy now.”
Looking down at her sleeping mother’s face, she cupped her chin with her other hand.
“I don’t know if I’ll be happy, but…….”
Was it because she had taken a walk at dawn when she was at the villa with Hyuk Joo?
She was shivering, as if she had caught a cold from the chilly morning air.
Knock, knock, knock.
At the knock, Eun Soo lifted her head. The door opened, and Hwang In Woo came in.
“It’s been a while.”
“Ah, brother.”
Eun Soo rose from her seat.
Moon Hyuk Joo’s words about changing the attending physician to Professor Kim Won Jin next month suddenly came to mind.
Did In Woo get notified?
He began recording my mother’s condition on the chart without any change in his expression. Eun Soo stood next to him, silently watching.
Maybe because of the slight fever, a faint, raspy sound came out every time she breathed.
Hearing that sound, In Woo’s eyebrows furrowed as he lifted his head.
“Do you hurt anywhere?”
“……It seems like I caught a cold.”
“Cold?”
In Woo quietly looked at Eun Soo’s pale face, then suddenly asked again as a thought crossed his mind.
“When did you last get tested?”
“What kind of test?”
“A followup test.”
“I just had a health checkup. They said there’s nothing wrong. They said I’m healthy.”
“Eun Soo.”
“I’m really fine.”
Eun Soo said with a smile. However, In Woo’s furrowed brows did not loosen.
After a moment of thought, he seized Eun Soo’s arm.
“Let’s get a blood test at least.”
“There’s no need to go that far.”
“I would feel at ease only after hearing that there’s nothing wrong.”
“…….”
“Eun Soo.”
Eun Soo hesitated.
If she got any test at the hospital, the fact would soon be known to her auntinlaw. Moreover, this was a hospital affiliated with the Myungjin Group.
If there was even a hint of suspicion about why she got tested and why the pediatric and tumor departments looked closely at the test, it would be a big problem.
No.
What problem could there be when she had already decided to break up with Moon Hyuk Joo?
Thinking like that, Eun Soo came to the conclusion that she wanted to get to the divorce as quietly as possible.
“I’ll get tested next time.”
“I’ll do it anonymously.”
“…….”
“Do it that way. There’s no need for them to know it’s you. You can just say it’s for a paper.”
In Woo was considering her situation, where she was hiding her medical history from her inlaws. Unable to refuse his kindness any further, Eun Soo finally nodded.
When she returned from drawing blood, her father’s chauffeur was waiting in front of the floor where her mother’s ward was located.
Since no unauthorized person was allowed to arbitrarily enter her mother’s ward, her father had sent his chauffeur to notify her of his presence at the hospital.
Seeing Eun Soo, the chauffeur bowed and spoke.
“The Chairman asked me to pick you up.”
“I’ll get my bag and come out.”
“Yes, I’ll wait.”
Eun Soo entered the ward and came out with her bag. When she arrived at the hospital parking lot, she tilted her head at the sight of her father’s car parked on one side.
She had thought her father would be in the car, but the seat was empty.
“He asked me to take you to the hotel.”
“The hotel?”
“He said he has something to discuss in private.”
“……Okay.”
Eun Soo got into the back seat.
It wasn’t hard to guess what he wanted to discuss in private.
The regular personnel announcement of the Myungjin Group was scheduled to be made soon. Her father, who wanted her to move to a larger affiliate, seemed to have a favor to ask her.
All while unaware that her marriage with Hyuk Joo was coming to an end.
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My Ex-Girlfriend Is The Regent In The Female-dominant World (Male lead transmigrates to the matriarchal world)
Two years ago, Gu Sui picked up a homeless woman in ancient costume from the street.
Apart from occasionally claiming to be a princess from a female-dominant country due to illness, her figure, appearance, intelligence, and martial arts skills were impeccable.
Naturally evolving from roommates to girlfriends, as time went on, Gu Sui found it increasingly difficult to tolerate her queen syndrome.
“Mu Jiulu, can you stop controlling me inside and out? Let’s break up.”
Gu Sui made a breakup call, and since then, he couldn’t find any trace of her.
A year later, Gu Sui, who was planning to move, woke up the next day and found himself in a different place.
“Young Master, today is the day you choose your Wife-master through martial arts competition at Jade Dew Pavilion. Please get up quickly.”
Gu Sui: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
As the only son of a general’s mansion in a female-dominant dynasty, the young empress personally issued a decree allowing Gu Sui to select his Wife-master through martial arts competition. Whoever could defeat him could marry him.
Gu Sui: “……”
He didn’t inherit the original owner’s martial prowess, so anyone could defeat him! And what the hell is a Wife-master?
Forced to come to Jade Dew Pavilion, the densely packed women below made Gu Sui’s agoraphobia act up, and his face was full of resistance.
Until he saw the Regent sitting on the second floor, with a smile on the corner of her lips, her eyes wicked and nonchalant.
Hmm… she looked a little familiar.
It turned out that the Regent also found him a little familiar.
Mu Jiulu fiddled with her bone clasp, her deep gaze locked on the man who was out of place in this world.
“Finally, I found you.”
Male transmigrates into female-dominant world
One-sentence summary: What goes around comes around, taking turns in the crematorium
