No matter how deeply she burrowed into her mother’s chest, no matter how deep she buried her face, she could not hear her mother’s heartbeat.
Although she could feel the warmth wrapping around her body, she could not hear her mother’s heartbeat no matter what.
The intuition that this was the last time strongly brushed her mind.
Tears flowed incessantly, soaking her face. Even though her mother told her not to cry, she could not stop crying.
Eun Soo.
No, mom. I don’t want to respond.
Eun Soo.
Mom…
Tears streamed out between her tightly clenched lips.
The feeling of despair was like seeing countless stars scattered across the night sky suddenly all falling at once, and Eun Soo could only shed hot tears.
I’m sorry, mom. Please be born as my daughter again next time.
Mom…
Then I’ll make sure you’re healthy, without pain.
Eun Soo desperately avoided her mother’s hand that was touching her face.
At her mother’s words that seemed like a farewell, Eun Soo pulled back her body and strongly rejected them.
It felt like she was stuck in a terrible sleep paralysis, unable to escape. How was she supposed to wake up from sleep paralysis?
Eun Soo exerted strength into her fingertips. She strained with all her might to move her fingers. Then, Eun Soo sighed lowly.
If she escaped from the sleep paralysis, she would also wake up from the dream.
She didn’t want to wake up from the dream where she was with her mom. But, if she didn’t wake up from this dream, she felt like she would be facing the situation of having to let go of her mom abruptly.
No.
Eun Soo stopped her will to move her fingers.
It felt like the warmth of a gentle spring sunlight touched her cheeks.
Her mom’s soft face was touching her own.
Our Eun Soo will be a good mom. Even better than me.
At the touch of a hand stroking her hair, Eun Soo closed her eyes tightly.
She wanted to scream, telling her not to say such things. But instead of a shout, what came out piercing her throat was a sob.
Eun Soo.
Mom.
Now, our Eun Soo is a mom. A mom shouldn’t cry like a child.
At her mother’s gently scolding voice, Eun Soo raised her head. Behind her mother’s back, a light was shining so brightly that it was blinding.
Eun Soo tightly grabbed onto her mother’s hem.
If she held on so tightly, her mother had no choice but to stay by her side.
To make sure that her mom couldn’t leave her side, Eun Soo put all her strength into the grip that was holding her mom’s skirt.
But.
Like sand slipping through clenched fingers, her mother’s hem slipped away from Eun Soo’s hand.
Her mother, who had been hugging her just a moment ago, was suddenly standing far away.
Mom!
Even though she definitely shouted loudly for her mom, no sound came out.
Mom, mom, mom!
Eun Soo called out for her mom desperately. However, either her cries weren’t reaching her mom, or she had lost her voice, no sound came out.
It was as if time and space had stopped.
Her mom looked at her and smiled.
Mom…
Eun Soo raised her hand and waved as if she was entranced by something at that moment.
Goodbye.
Tears were falling incessantly from her eyes.
Every time the tears flowed, her eyelashes trembled. As the vibration of the trembling eyelashes grew, the world in front of her eyes disappeared instantly.
She thought that when the world disappeared it would be darkness, but it wasn’t. Lights of white color began to fall slowly as if snow was falling gently.
Moon Hyuk Joo’s brow furrowed as he sat in the back seat of the car.
It felt like he had returned to that day.
The day he was going to meet his mother, who had said it was nothing serious, that she wasn’t seriously ill, she was just resting and recuperating.
Why was he now captured by the same feelings as back then?
Recalling the past, Hyuk Joo slowly turned his head to look out the car window.
It was a warm spring day.
The cloudless sky was as blue as if it had been painted with clear watercolor.
It was good weather.
However, contrary to the clear sky, Hyuk Joo felt as if he was being consumed by darkness.
His heart was in turmoil, as if sleet was about to pour down.
Hyuk Joo squinted his eyes slightly.
He felt an inexplicable unease. He had the sense that something was going wrong.
“Sigh…”
His breath was blocked as if his neck was strangled. He loosened his tie, tossed it onto the passenger seat carelessly, and leaned back fully against the seat.
Nothing would be wrong.
It must be his mood.
He let out a soft sigh with that thought in mind.
Seeing the hospital building, Hyuk Joo picked up the tie he had thrown in the back seat and put it around his neck again.
He thought it would be inappropriate to enter the ward in a disheveled state.
In front of the VIP ward, a group of doctors was already standing. It seemed that Director Song had announced his arrival.
“I told them not to do that.”
Muttering under his breath, Hyuk Joo got out of the car.
The first few times, the hospital director used to greet him personally as he did today.
Hyuk Joo was accustomed to such situations and didn’t find them strange. But when Eun Soo showed discomfort, he conveyed to the hospital through Director Song that they should not do so in the future.
After that, the hospital director had deliberately not shown his face when Hyuk Joo visited the hospital.
But why, today.
As if the anxiety that filled his body wasn’t enough, fear now began to weigh down his shoulders.
“What’s the matter?”
“Well…”
The hospital director mumbled like a child unable to speak properly. Hyuk Joo’s brow furrowed at the sight.
A heavy sigh naturally escaped him.
Instead of waiting for the hospital director’s response, Hyuk Joo headed straight to the elevator. Only after he got into the elevator did the hospital director open his mouth again.
“The situation is now…”
Turning his head, Hyuk Joo gave him a glance.
Faced with a look full of silent discomfort, a plea for silence, the hospital director shut his mouth tightly.
Hyuk Joo had a hunch about the story the hospital director had tried to explain but stopped.
It had been anticipated for months.
Eun Soo’s mother had shown signs of a cold, which, in a longterm hospital patient, had worsened into the most dreaded pneumonia.
Fortunately, the pneumonia was treated, but not long ago, her lung condition began to deteriorate again.
The attending physician had sent the CT scan results a few days ago through the secretariat. The lungs were already damaged to the point of difficult recovery. It was almost impossible to breathe on her own without a ventilator.
They had increased the oxygen level that morning when the oxygen saturation level dropped.
Although he could receive reports through the attending physician, as Director Song had said, the reason he came directly to the hospital was because of this.
As the elevator doors opened and he stepped out onto the floor where the ward was located, he saw several doctors and nurses running urgently.
He couldn’t see who they were, but in the direction they were running, was Eun Soo’s mother’s ward.
Hyuk Joo clenched his fist tightly.
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Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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