“You surely aren’t suggesting that our Hyuk Joo is having an affair just because of this?”
“What, what are you!”
Ju Hwan’s face turned red as he watched Young Ran openly talk about his faults.
The fact that Ju Hwan had a mistress was a public secret. Everyone knew, but it was pointless to expose it, so it was covered up.
It was a point of contention. Therefore, Young Ran had never mentioned it.
But he, the person in question, was digging his own grave.
It was amusing to see him making a fuss, totally clueless while she knew his underside.
“Do you find it funny to talk about an affair just because of a few photos of them meeting like this?”
“……”
“If you’re going to talk about an affair, show me a photo of them rolling in bed. Isn’t that right, Chairman Oh?”
Young Ran quickly changed the title she used to call him.
Ju Hwan turned red even to his ears. Looking at him, Young Ran gave a mocking glance and continued her words.
“It’s because of old affection that I just helped him. It’s a fact I know too.”
“You just helped him?”
Ju Hwan let out a hollow laugh.
He thought she would guess what photo he would present next.
Shamelessly.
Ju Hwan bit back his angry words internally.
“The child is in a difficult situation.”
“You can’t cover the sky with your palm.”
“What did you just say, Chairman Oh?”
“You still insist that you just helped?”
Finally, Ju Hwan presented a photo of Seo Yeon Ji standing in front of an obstetrics and gynecology clinic. On top of that, he overlaid a photo of her waiting in the waiting room.
“……”
“With her doing this outside, is there any possibility that our Eun Soo will get pregnant?”
Ju Hwan repeatedly spat out a bitter laugh.
Young Ran seemed oblivious to the fact that the woman Hyuk Joo was meeting had a child.
Ju Hwan asked, looking at Young Ran who had narrowed her brows.
“What will you do if this rumor spreads?”
“……When was this taken?”
“It’s been a while. About two, or three weeks ago.”
Young Ran got up from her seat. She went to the desk and picked up the phone.
“Call Director Jung Gi Seob and tell him to come to me immediately.”
After putting down the phone, Young Ran turned her head to look at Ju Hwan.
“Let’s talk again tomorrow.”
“Well, okay.”
Ju Hwan stood up from his seat.
The word “tomorrow” implied a lot. After he left here, Director Moon Young Ran would figure out how to handle this woman’s issue by tomorrow.
If asked what he was planning to do after confirming the facts, Ju Hwan intended to answer that Eun Soo could raise the child as if granting indulgence.
While setting the condition of moving him to a core subsidiary, not a sports team.
“You know how good our Eun Soo is, right? Please make sure that my daughter doesn’t get hurt.”
“Does Eun Soo know?”
“……She doesn’t. Well, there’s nothing good about her finding out.”
“Understood.”
Young Ran said in a subdued voice. She watched Ju Hwan’s back as he left the office with a cold gaze.
Of all the people.
Young Ran let out a long sigh.
Oh Ju Hwan was a man with a strong desire for success. And he wasn’t a moral person. When people wondered why she had to be inlaws with Oh Ju Hwan, Young Ran had answered that she only considered Eun Soo.
It was not a lie.
Young Ran only looked at Eun Soo’s wellbeing.
While doing so, she secretly made plans.
When the time came, she intended to confront Oh Ju Hwan with his past misdeeds and make him live as if he were nonexistent.
But now, a weakness had been revealed.
With a troubled look, Young Ran tightly shut her confused eyes and opened them. She tried to calm herself by taking deep breaths, but it didn’t work as she intended.
“Ha…….”
A knock sounded as she clenched her fist in frustration.
As Jung Gi Seob entered, Young Ran asked in a fatiguefilled voice,
“Why didn’t you tell me Seo Yeon Ji had a child?”
“Huh?”
Looking as if this was news to him, Jung Gi Seob blinked. Young Ran, who had moved to a new location, showed him the photo on the coffee table.
“This.”
“Ah, I didn’t report it because I didn’t think it was a big deal.”
“It’s not a big deal?”
Young Ran’s voice was fierce in reply.
She couldn’t understand Jung Gi Seob’s behavior, acting indifferent to the news that Seo Yeon Ji had a child.
“Director.”
“Speak.”
“I had already visited the obstetrician in the picture.”
“Here?”
“Yes. According to the doctor, she came that day and again a week before just for consultation.”
“What?”
“About several aspects of pregnancy. According to the doctor, she asked the kind of questions women usually ask when planning a pregnancy.”
“Ah…….”
Only then did Young Ran feel relieved.
She had been worried about what she would do if Seo Yeon Ji had a child. Her path had seemed blocked.
When the stone blocking her path was removed, Young Ran remembered what she had to do.
“Go to Cheongdamdong right now.”
“Okay. I’ll prepare.”
Young Ran pushed her disheveled hair back behind her ears. In no time, her gaze had grown cold enough to appear steely.
Eun Soo had scheduled the email to be sent the day after Hyuk Joo returned from his business trip.
On the divorce mediation application, she wrote ‘irreconcilable differences’.
She planned to tell her fatherinlaw and motherinlaw the next day.
Although it was hard for them, they would have some idea of what was happening between the couple if she told them it was something she just couldn’t accept.
Perhaps they already knew about Seo Yeon Ji’s existence.
“It’s right for me to quit.”
Eun Soo muttered calmly.
She closed her laptop and picked up her bag. She intended to sort out her mother’s things which she had been putting off.
On the way to the hospital, Eun Soo thought about the following.
She couldn’t give birth and raise a child alone in Korea.
If her motherinlaw or Hyuk Joo happened to find out about it…
The face of Seo Yeon Ji, who pretended to be hurt and looked at her, came to mind for a moment.
“No.”
Eun Soo bit her lip hard.
She didn’t know if that woman would end up raising her child.
Such a thing should never happen.
Was it because of her dreadful imagination?
Her shoulders shrunk, and her body shivered.
Eun Soo looked at the goosebumps on her wrist with scared eyes.
It was then that her mobile phone rang.
It was her father’s call. Eun Soo pressed the reject button with a disinterested look. He called several times, but each time Eun Soo rejected her father’s call.
Now that she had thoroughly sided with the other party, there was nothing more to divide or say.
“I’ve talked to Director Moon. If he asks anything, pretend you don’t know anything and say you’ll raise the child.”
Ha, who the hell are you.
Eun Soo started to write a response, but gave up and shoved her mobile phone back into her bag.
Regardless of what she said, the man called her father would only repeat the same words like a broken record.
It was better to ignore him.
Eun Soo tightly closed her eyes.
Within the darkening field of her view, she completely erased the existence of her father.
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
*
After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
