(Latest Chapter) Read The Temperature Difference with Him - Chapter 173

As Danwoo entered the hospital room and focused his blurred eyes, the blood vessels in his temples swelled.

Danwoo wanted to show Hyeso the grown-up appearance of his son, but his determination faded as his mother’s figure filled his view.

After the time spent chest-beating and venting frustration passed, he had lived by suppressing his emotions.

After numerous instances of suppressing sudden bursts of frustration with deep breaths, he finally met his mother, who had only existed in his memories.

With each step, the dismal times diminished, and his mother’s face, which had only been in his memories, gradually drew closer.

Danwoo’s voice, filled with longing, scattered tenderly in the air.

“Mother.”

Hyeso gradually approached Danwoo, looking at him with absent-minded eyes.

Despite her efforts to recall and visualize her son’s fading figure in her fluctuating vision, it became increasingly blurry.

“Mother, I am Danwoo.”

Danwoo’s consecutive voices finally brought Hyeso back to the present tense. After Danwoo hugged her tightly, long-suppressed warm tears flowed down.

She embraced her son as if embracing the whole world. While smiling, tears continued to stream incessantly.

The guilt of not protecting her son had grown over time, becoming a massive lump pressing heavily on her chest.

Ten years ago.

Hyeso, who had fallen asleep for a moment in preparation for dinner, woke up to find her house engulfed in flames.

In that moment, when Danwoo, who should not have been in the house, appeared, she quickly gestured him to go out.

No matter how much she thought, she couldn’t understand why the house was on fire.

However, her questions were short-lived. When she regained consciousness after losing consciousness in the ambulance, Hyeso found herself trapped in a hospital room, unable to open the door.

When Woosungho occasionally came to receive signatures for documents, he showed Danwoo’s picture like a bitter pill.

But one day, someone else appeared in the photo instead of Danwoo. Hyeso couldn’t bring herself to say anything different when facing Woosungho, who firmly believed it was Danwoo.

With suspicions that filled her heart like fog, she endured the past ten years.

During that time, Hyeso hoped Danwoo would prioritize her safety over everything else. She wished he would live for the future rather than dwelling on the past.

However, when she left the blue nursing home and heard about everything from Taeyun, Hyeso could only burst into tears.

The harsh years of surgeries and being driven out to the United States without knowing the reason made her want to turn back time, even if it meant cutting out her own heart.

The time Danwoo spent enduring everything alone instead of his helpless mother was unbearable.

As the three letters ‘Mother’ conveyed Danwoo’s sense of relief, tears spread and spread whitely in Hyeso’s eyes.
“Mother, I am Danwoo. I am truly Danwoo.”

“Danwoo.”

Apologizing for his foolishness, Danwoo knelt down, and tears fell to the floor.

Hyesu, who blamed herself for everything, couldn’t stop crying either.

After embracing and crying with Danwoo for a while, Hyesu, when her tears subsided, smiled lightly like watercolor paint spreading on a canvas.

Then, as tears flowed now and then, she wiped her eyes with a handkerchief.

Holding Danwoo’s hand tightly, she touched his face with her other hand.

Even though he was over twenty, in her eyes, he was still like a child.

But the son she met again after more than ten years had become an adult with calmness and strength reflected in his eyes.

“Danwoo, are you okay? Is there anywhere that hurts?”

Considering how much he must have suffered.

It was regrettable that he couldn’t be born and raised in the same environment as others. Hyesu felt endlessly sorry for her son, whose life had become so heavy because of her.

“I’ve been well. It wasn’t as difficult as you might think.”

“It wasn’t your fault.”

“Mother.”

“Enough. This is enough.”

Considering the uncertain times in the past, this was sufficient. Hyesu, pushing away negative thoughts, wiped away Danwoo’s tears.

Danwoo looked at the wall clock and realized that a considerable amount of time had passed. He belatedly remembered Jian, who had been completely forgotten.

“Mother, I have someone to introduce.”

Relieving Hyesu’s surprise by raising his eyebrows, Danwoo walked towards the entrance.

When he opened the door of the hospital room, Jian and Taeyun sitting on the waiting room chairs came into view.

“Sorry. I made you wait for so long.”

“No.”

Because Hyesu’s sobbing sounds were clearly audible beyond the hospital room door, Jian felt a lump in her chest. Her eyes and nose, which had repeated crying and stopping, were red.

“Let’s go in.”