“If Taeha’s mother doesn’t like me, please help me, okay?”
When Suyeon didn’t know what to do, Taeha approached, hugged Sihyun’s shoulders, and smiled brightly.
“Mother, she’s my girlfriend. Isn’t she pretty?”
[Star icon]“…….”
Even after hearing the explanation from both of them, Sihyun remained speechless for a while.
Suyeon, Taeha’s stepmother?
“I’m sorry for not telling you the truth earlier.”
Seeing Sihyun struggling to overcome the shock, Suyeon didn’t know what to do.
“But I haven’t known for long either. I really didn’t know at first.”
After a long time, Sihyun finally regained some composure and asked.
“When did you find out?”
“When Sihyun mentioned Taeha’s father’s name, that’s when I knew.”
So it was a recent development. Sihyun remembers when she asked Suyeon about Wujin’s full name out of curiosity, and Suyeon told her. No wonder Aunt seemed lost for words back then…
“Then, Taeha, when did you find out?”
“Last night.”
Taeha explained.
“It seemed like Father didn’t notice anything strange. Come to think of it, Mother came to the hotel that day. So I thought about it, just in case.”
Looking at Suyeon with a smile, Taeha gazed at her affectionately.
Taeha looking at someone with such eyes was a first, except for herself. It was only then that Sihyun realized that the two were truly a couple.
[Sorry, Mom. I’m really sorry…….]Thinking about Suyeon who came drunk, holding Taeha and crying not long ago, Sihyun’s heart swelled with emotion. So that’s what happened.
Sihyun glanced at them again.
“Aunt. If I meet Taeha, is that okay with you?”
“What are you talking about?”
Suyeon looked serious. She held Sihyun’s hand with both of her hands, seemingly comforting her.
“I’ve never been called ‘Mom’ by you. Meeting Taeha again is thanks to Sihyun, so why would I dislike it.”
Holding Sihyun’s roughened hand, Suyeon patted it gently as if with regret.
“Yesterday, Taeha explained it to me in detail. Sihyun, while raising Taeha, couldn’t even go out with friends during college. At the prime age when she should be pretty, she couldn’t buy a new outfit, couldn’t go on a date, and worked part-time every day.”
As she spoke, Suyeon choked up.
“I’m really sorry. I didn’t know that someone else was suffering so much instead of me as a mother……!”
Seeing Suyeon shedding tears, Sihyun’s eyes also became warm.
“Do you remember how Aunt treated me when I was young?”
Suyeon entered the small family as a housemaid when Sihyun was in the third grade of elementary school.
“When the little mother told me to do the dishes, Aunt did them secretly for me. If I was scolded for something Ahhyun did wrong, Aunt defended me, saying it wasn’t Ahhyun’s fault. When I first had my period in the first year of middle school and cried because I was scared, the person who hugged me and said it was okay, that I was becoming an adult, was Aunt. If it weren’t for Aunt, I couldn’t have endured it in that house.”
From then until she was kicked out, Suyeon was like a mother to Sihyun for seven years. Thanks to Suyeon, she could withstand that hellish house.
“When I saw Taeha, I thought of Aunt. Just as Aunt gave me love instead of my mother, I wanted to be that person for Taeha.”
“Sihyun…….”
The feeling of looking down on a helpless child. The heart that can unconditionally give love to someone irrelevant. She learned everything from Suyeon.
“I just returned the love I received from Aunt.”
In the end, even Sihyun shed tears. While the two were holding hands and crying, Taeha quietly looked out the glass wall.
“Now, stop crying.”
After a while, Taeha took out tissues for both women and said affectionately.
“Mother too. If you knew Mother made you cry, Father would have killed him.”
Sihyun couldn’t help but burst into laughter when Leon’s story came up, but as soon as Suyeon mentioned him, her expression quickly stiffened.
“Have you talked to Mr. Leon? He mentioned being kicked out.”
Wiping away tears with the tissues Taeha handed her, Suyeon avoided eye contact.
“There’s nothing to talk about, especially now.”
“Why is there nothing to talk about?”
Sihyun spoke cautiously.
“Even during the time we were apart, it seemed like he continued to miss Aunt.”
There was a momentary flicker in Suyeon’s expression, but she quickly returned to a firm expression.
“Too much time has passed.”
She muttered to herself.
“I am Taeha’s mother. He is Taeha’s father. …That’s all.”
[Star icon]Walking out of Suyeon’s store and heading home, Taeha suddenly murmured.
“You are the most precious person in the world to me.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“Even if I found my father and now found my mother, that won’t change.”
Understanding the meaning behind his words, Sihyun finally smiled. Perhaps he thought she would feel a sense of alienation after finding her parents. Parents, in this case, being Leon and Suyeon; it was an absurd statement.
Suddenly, mischief arose in Sihyun, and she asked.
“If Aunt Suyeon and I were to fight, whose side would you take?”
“Of course, I’d take your side.”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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