Euna’s husband, Liam Lewis, was an American man who shared the same pain as her. Liam lost his wife and child in an accident.

Both having experienced the same pain, they deeply empathized with each other. What started as a friendship transformed into love, and after much consideration, they remarried.

Euna’s husband Liam was the CEO of L&M. L&M, based in New York, was the largest investment company in the United States and the world’s largest asset management firm with offices in 27 countries worldwide.

L&M was also a major shareholder in major domestic banks, and through this connection, Liam visited Korea once every two years.

This visit by Liam was one of those times.

“I hoped you were living well… I thought not appearing in front of you was for Arin’s sake…”

Euna regretted the past days.

If she had followed her husband Liam when he went on a business trip to Korea even once, would Arin be struggling like this now?

Euna didn’t accompany Liam on his business trip. She thought that if she went to Korea and expressed her desire to see her daughter, it might cause confusion for Arin. She didn’t want to shake Arin, who was living well.

“Divorce… How much did those wicked people harass you.”

Thinking she was living well, she wanted to rush to her immediately upon hearing the news of the divorce.

But she couldn’t appear in front of Arin anyway.

She would just have to believe that Arin was living well.

She must be living well.

With that in mind, she watched.

Euna revealed to her husband before marriage that she had a daughter. He empathized deeply with Euna’s pain and shared the grief.

What changed Euna’s heart was Liam’s words during his recent business trip to Korea.

“Arin? What about her?”

“Oh, I heard strange rumors. Stories about Arin’s married life after divorcing Vice Chairman Ban Jaehyuk. Even though people knew that the woman was extremely demanding, they still hushed it up. Moreover, there’s that man Arin raised. I checked, and it seems like Arin cut off contact with him. He’s in the hospital with a recurrence of cancer, but Arin has never visited once.] Liam knew that Arin was Euna’s daughter and had an interest in her, but he didn’t actively inquire about Arin from the beginning. He thought it wasn’t right to secretly investigate Arin without Euna’s knowledge.

Liam officially started looking into Arin after the divorce between Jaehyuk and Arin was finalized. This was prompted by the rumors he heard about Arin at a social party.

Liam spoke to the confused Euna, offering his full support.

“I’m on Honey’s side. Don’t apologize to me. You don’t need to be discreet around me. If she’s Honey’s daughter, she’s as good as mine. So, I want Honey to do as she pleases.”

With Liam’s wholehearted support, Euna began to investigate in earnest. As money and power got involved, the truth started coming to light faster than expected.

Euna’s head throbbed.

At that moment, her phone vibrated on the desk.

Darling.

True to his word, it was Liam, her husband.

The next morning.

For some time now, the two had been living together in the same house.

In the early morning when Arin was still asleep, Jaehyuk got up alone and stood in the kitchen. It was the first time in his life that he had thought about preparing breakfast.

American black coffee.

Grilling ciabatta bread, placing sunny-side-up eggs beside it, mixing olive oil and balsamic sauce in a small bowl, and finally, putting hot water in store-bought soup powder seemed easy.

After deciding on the menu, he looked up the recipe on the internet and familiarized himself with it. He was confident after even simulating the process.

Certainly, until a moment ago.

“Is this supposed to be this difficult?”

In front of Jaehyuk was an unidentifiable brownish egg fried into an indistinguishable shape.

“It seemed easy to look at, but it’s not working well.”

Jaehyuk discarded the egg that had turned into something unrecognizable and cleaned the frying pan.

“Why isn’t this working?”

Accustomed to having someone do things for him without doing them himself, he was unfamiliar with doing things with his own hands. He had never even boiled ramen.

Until now, he could delegate things to someone else, but Arin said she was reluctant to let someone into this house. Jaehyuk agreed.

‘Mother might do something unpredictable.’

His birth mother was proficient in manipulating people.

However, the busy couple couldn’t do everything themselves. They compromised on hiring someone, except for the person who came to clean twice a week, and agreed to handle everything else on their own.

Jaehyuk cracked an egg taken from the refrigerator. The shell completely crumbled, and the egg fell onto the frying pan with a soft plop.

“Ha.”

He let out a bitter laugh. A ominous feeling came over him.

It seemed simple when eating,

When he went on business trips, he used to solve breakfast easily, opting for a simple dish. But now, he found his past self resentful.

He failed several times after that. No, judging by the amount of eggshells piled up inside the sink, he had at least cracked a whole batch of eggs.

“Is making one toast also this difficult? The bread burned again.”
Focusing on making sunny-side-up eggs, he forgot about the bread in the oven.

“Ha.”

Looking at the charcoal-blackened ciabatta, he let out a deep sigh.