“I didn’t know until recently. Arin found out about it when she was 14 years old during the summer.”
“How, but how could that happen?”
“You know, Arin is such a warm-hearted person. Despite that, she considered her family and embraced them, whether connected by blood or not. Whether it continued or not, to Arin, even parents without qualifications were still considered parents.”
Sobbing
In the end, Euna burst into tears. Liam pulled his wife’s shoulders.
“How could such a small child…”
Euna couldn’t continue her words. Emotions surged up from deep within her heart.
How much must the young child have cried in front of an enormous truth?
How hard must she have tried not to be abandoned?
Without knowing anything, did she just stand by like a spectator, thinking of herself as an unqualified mother?
“If you ask me for something, my answer is one. Please become a true family to Arin.”
Euna raised her head roughly at Jaehyuk’s words.
“H-How can I do that? It’s the same as abandoning Arin. She won’t resent me and won’t accept me.”
“Rachel.”
Jaehyuk stood up. Before Liam could intervene, he approached Euna.
“If you honestly tell Arin, she will understand.”
“…”
“…Oppa?”
Jaehyuk snapped out of his reverie at Arin’s calling voice.
Looking at Arin’s eyes, which were shaking with anxiety, Jaehyuk took her hand.
‘Because we can’t express ourselves too much. Both you and Rachel.’
Jaehyuk knew that Arin and Euna missed each other.
He was also Arin’s family, and Euna was her family too. Jaehyuk wanted to create a family together with Arin.
‘Our child, and your mother. I will push you forward, and I will push her forward. So, have courage. Arin.’
As he organized his thoughts, the shaking emotions settled like a lie.
“Arin, I know who your mother is.”
Jaehyuk’s conclusion after much contemplation was this. He wanted to help the woman he loved find her real parents.
The reason was simple. Even without expressing it in words, she wanted to meet her real parents.
“…What did you say?”
Arin’s large eyes widened even more.
“The person who gave birth to you is close to you.”
Let’s create a true family together. Arin.
Holding her hand tighter, Jaehyuk continued speaking.
“…The one who gave birth to me?”
Arin couldn’t believe Jaehyuk’s words. She had thought about wanting to meet them before.
‘What if they don’t want to see me and feel troubled? Even though they already have a well-established family and are living well, wouldn’t it be awkward for them if I appeared?’
After much contemplation, Arin let go of her feelings for her birth mother.
When she was very young and found out that Kyung-sook was not her real mother, she resented her a lot.
‘Why did she abandon me…? Why did I have to be abandoned?’
If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t be living so miserably.
In my young heart, I even harbored resentment towards the mom I couldn’t remember. However, as time passed, Arin came to understand her adoptive mother as a fellow woman.
However, at Jaehyuk’s words, Arin’s emotions, which she had tightly suppressed deep within her heart, exploded.
“Oppa, do you know who my adoptive mother is?”
She understood, but that didn’t mean she didn’t want to see her.
Before dying, she wanted to meet her “real mom.”
Even from a distance, just once…
‘Pretending to understand my adoptive mother, I’ve just been suppressing and pretending all along. I want to meet her. I want to see her; that’s all I’ve been enduring.’
Arin spoke with a trembling voice.
“Does Oppa know the person I know?”
Her heart pounded.
He nodded quietly at her words.
The thought of meeting her adoptive mother lifted her spirits, and her eyes grew warm.
On the other hand, she was afraid.
‘What if she doesn’t welcome me?’
“Does she know that she has a daughter?”
Her throat tightened.
Why did she get so emotional at the word “mom”?
Jaehyuk held Arin’s hand and nodded again.
“She also wants to see you, Arin. But she was afraid you might resent her, so she couldn’t come forward.”
“Resentment? Do I resent her?”
“Yeah, she said she lived her whole life with guilt for not taking care of you.”
“Ah.”
She sighed softly.
Before she knew it, hot tears flowed down her cheeks.
Jaehyuk reached out and gently wiped Arin’s teary eyes. The amount of tears on his fingertips gradually increased.
“If you’re okay with it, she wants to appear in front of you… What do you think, Arin?”
“…”
She had longed for her mother even in her dreams. She wanted to meet her, touch her, just once.
“I want to meet you, Oppa.”
Arin said, nestled in Jaehyuk’s embrace, shedding tears.
“In reality, I also want to meet my mom. I want to know who she is.”
Jaehyuk hugged Arin and slowly swept her back.
“Then let’s go meet her. She’s waiting for you.”
“Now?”
Although she expressed the desire to meet, she didn’t expect it to be now. Surprised, Arin pulled away from Jaehyuk’s embrace and raised her head.
“Yeah. She said she’s waiting for you as long as you’re ready.”
Arin hadn’t heard from Jaehyuk who her adoptive mother was. However,
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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