Heading towards the hotel where her father was waiting, Eun Soo made a resolution.
She had to wake up her father, who, like her, was dreaming a futile dream.
She had to tell him about her decision to divorce and that he should find his own way.
Upon arriving at the hotel, she took the elevator. She thought they would be going to a Korean restaurant, but the chauffeur pressed the floor with the guest rooms.
“Is he in the room?”
“Yes. He’s waiting in the room.”
A room, for whatever important talk.
Eun Soo sighed softly.
Should she be grateful that he was aware of the embarrassment of requesting a personnel transfer?
“You can go in.”
Standing in front of the room, the chauffeur took out a key and opened the door.
Eun Soo went straight in.
Her father, who had been sitting on the living room sofa, looked up.
“Sit down.”
Without a word, Eun Soo took a seat. As soon as she did, Oh Ju Hwan tossed a bag that had been beside him onto the table.
“What’s this?”
“Open it and see.”
“……”
Eun Soo picked up the bag and opened the entrance. Inside were several photos.
She flipped through the photos one by one with a blank expression.
Even the photos showing Moon Hyuk Joo meeting with Seo Yeon Ji did not cause the slightest ripple in her eyes.
It was all a fact she already knew.
Therefore, there was no shock or surprise.
She was only slightly taken aback because it was not the Moon Hyuk Joo she had imagined.
She thought Moon Hyuk Joo, being with the woman he loved, would be different. But the man in the photos was exactly the same face Eun Soo always encountered.
With an insensible gaze that showed no emotion, he was looking at Seo Yeon Ji.
If she hadn’t known that the two were once, no, even now, passionately in love with each other, she would have believed that Moon Hyuk Joo’s face was as serene as if they had just met.
He must have been born with the ability not to reveal his emotions outwardly.
Eun Soo stared at Hyuk Joo’s face in the photo.
“Heard he’s running a flower shop.”
Oh Ju Hwan took a drink.
He was flushed up to his neck with drunkenness, indicating he had had several drinks before Eun Soo arrived.
Eun Soo sighed softly at his disregard for it being working hours.
At the sound of her sigh, Oh Ju Hwan briefly examined Eun Soo’s face. He tried to guess her inner thoughts. However, he couldn’t tell what his daughter, who resembled her mother to a tee, was thinking.
Looking at her impassive face, it seemed like she was aware of the situation, yet her slightly trembling gaze also seemed like she was shocked.
Oh Ju Hwan picked one photo from those on the table and extended it towards Eun Soo.
It was a picture of a flower shop run by a woman named Seo Yeon Ji.
“Is this the building under Moon’s name?”
“Yes.”
“You didn’t know about it, did you?”
“Yes. I knew.”
“You knew?”
“Yes.”
Eun Soo tilted her head as if to ask what the problem was, looking at her father.
Her father was the one who had pushed her into the position of Moon Hyuk Joo’s wife, knowing full well that he harbored feelings for another woman.
But now, she couldn’t understand why he was acting as if he had just discovered a tremendous fact.
“You knew and didn’t tell me?”
“Would anything have changed if I had spoken?”
“What?”
“What would you have said if I had told you?”
Leaning back against the sofa, Oh Ju Hwan scratched the back of his head in response to Eun Soo’s question. Eun Soo, who had been quietly observing him, asked again.
“Would you have told me to divorce him?”
“……”
“No, you wouldn’t have. It wasn’t a marriage we entered unknowingly, so you would have likely told me off for making a fuss.”
Eun Soo sighed as she spoke.
What would other fathers have done?
They would have slapped their soninlaw. And holding their daughter’s hand, they would have cried, telling her not to live with such a man.
If they were other fathers…….
But Eun Soo’s father was far from that type.
He was a man who valued his own face and safety more than his daughter’s happiness.
“It’s easier to talk when you take it so indifferently.”
“Are you doing this to make some absurd point?”
“Absurd! All this is for us to live well.”
Oh Ju Hwan rubbed his chin, wondering whether he realized that what he had just said sounded frivolous. He was silent for a while, unsure of what to say.
As the silence lengthened, Eun Soo suddenly felt anxious.
Her father was the type to blurt out anything without considering others’ feelings. If he was being considerate now, it meant that he was about to say something unusual.
Eun Soo fiddled with the tips of her clasped fingers, waiting for him to speak.
Thunk.
Another envelope was placed in front of her.
It was the same kind of envelope as before.
That meant the contents were likely photos as well.
What photos could they be that he was showing them to me with such a time gap? Eun Soo calmly looked down at the envelope.
She didn’t want to open it.
The thought of not wanting to see the photo inside struck her mind instantly.
“Look.”
“……”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
