The Young Boss (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 180

“Oh dear, my knee…”

Jeong Im entered her desolate house with a groan after returning from the market. Despite tomorrow being Seollal (Lunar New Year’s Day), the house was as silent as a grave.

She vividly recalled the scenes once so familiar: her daughters-in-law working in the kitchen, her husband and sons chatting in the living room, and her grandchildren running wildly from room to room, filling the house with joyful noise.

[“Mother, please come check the broth!”]

[“Mom, when’s dinner ready? I’m starving!”]

[“Grandma, a horde of zombies has appeared! We have to run!”]

Everything that once seemed eternal had vanished, one by one, as if by magic, over the past few years.

The family’s decline truly began when her youngest son, Woo Jin, ruined the arranged marriage between Han Young Group and their newspaper.

Due to pressure from Han Young Group on the building owner, Jeong Im’s husband had been forced to close his eyewear shop, which he’d run for over twenty years.

Her second son, who’d worked at an electronics store under the Han Young Group, also lost his job overnight. In his despair, he drowned himself in alcohol and eventually divorced his wife.

After the second daughter-in-law left, the eldest daughter-in-law alone had to manage all family affairs. Truthfully, if Jeong Im had shown a bit more consideration back then, things might have turned out fine—but Jeong Im was simply used to bossing her daughters-in-law around.

She’d treated not only Si Hyeon, who hadn’t even completed the formal wedding ceremony yet, but even A Hyeon, the only daughter of a wealthy family, the same way—so there was no chance such habits would disappear overnight.

[“Just how long do I have to suffer like a lowly daughter-in-law in this godforsaken house?”]

In the end, the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law led even her eldest son’s marriage to end in divorce.

But the misfortunes didn’t end there. Woo Jin, her youngest son, caused a terrible incident after two broken engagements and was sentenced to prison for attempted murder. Her husband, shocked by the ordeal, collapsed from a heart attack and passed away less than a year later while hospitalized.

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