Soo-rin protested, clutching the card more tightly behind her.
“Hand it over. Choi Soo-rin.”
“…Sister, that’s… It’s not your card. Mom gave it to us. She said we could use it.”
“Choi Soo-rin, don’t make me ask twice.”
Arin’s voice was calm but carried an undeniable authority.
“Do I have to take it by force?”
Soo-rin hesitated for a long time before placing the black card in Arin’s hand. Her face clearly showed her reluctance.
Arin flipped the card over. Seeing Jae-hyuk’s signature, her face instantly darkened.
“Ha.”
She sighed deeply, clenching her fist around the card.
“Should I ask? Or will you tell me everything you know first?”
As the siblings remained silent, Arin continued.
“Don’t want to talk? Then I guess I have to ask Mother directly when I get home.”
“Wait, just a minute.”
Seo-rin grabbed Arin’s wrist as she was about to head home.
“Sister, Mom’s not at home right now.”
“Where is she?”
“That’s…”
Seo-rin hesitated and looked down. Soo-rin did the same. Arin was frustrated with her siblings’ evasive and unclear responses.
“Where did she go? I’m asking you.”
Under Arin’s persistent questioning, Seo-rin finally spoke in a faint, timid voice.
“Brother-in-law came…”
“Who?”
“Brother-in-law!”
After a pause, Seo-rin looked up and continued.
“Brother-in-law came, so Mom went to the store…”
“Brother-in-law?”
Arin’s face crumpled like a crushed can.
She tried hard not to show her emotions, but her composure completely shattered.
“…And to the store?”
‘To the store too? Ha.’
Fighting the urge to explode with anger, Arin bit her lower lip hard.
“And who is this brother-in-law?”
“Sister.”
“Where?”
“Sister…”
“Tell me where!”
On the taxi ride over, Arin had tried to understand.
Though she couldn’t make sense of everything, she thought there might be some reason.
She had tried to convince herself that there might be some circumstances with her parents.
It was the last chance she gave to the people she thought were her family.
‘I thought they might feel a bit sorry since I even divorced… But people never change.’
Perhaps she knew it was futile to expect change, yet she hoped and was disappointed again, seeking change in a hollow family.
“Actually, we had a hard time after you left. We had no money, barely ate anything.”
“…”
“Honestly, it must have been better for you, but we suffered because of our selfish sister.”
Seeing her family’s resentment at her most vulnerable, Arin was filled with disillusionment.
Following Soo-rin, Seo-rin also began to blame Arin.
“Soo-rin is right. Honestly, sister, you were too selfish.”
They were immature and, like Kyung-sook, blamed their poverty on Arin’s actions.
‘From the beginning, I was never part of the family.’
‘What have I been doing all this time? I tried so hard for these people…’
Family?
These people were no longer her family.
It was just an illusion she alone held onto.
Arin realized the harsh truth of ignoring the consistent reality and harboring pointless expectations. She bit the inside of her mouth. Swallowing the surging emotions, Arin said,
“Where’s the store? I don’t want to argue with you.”
“Sister.”
“Don’t call me sister anymore!”
Shocked by Arin’s outburst, Soo-rin visibly flinched.
“…Over there.”
After a silence, Seo-rin pointed towards a location.
“See the entrance? Across the street, there’s a yellow sign that says ‘House of Quilts.’ That’s the place.”
As Arin was about to leave, Seo-rin blocked her.
“Wait… sister, just a moment, the card…”
Seo-rin tried to stop her, but Arin was determined. However, the mention of the ‘card’ made Arin even more furious, and Seo-rin had to retract her words.
Arin left the siblings and headed to the store.
“We’re doomed.”
The siblings blankly stared at Arin’s retreating figure.
“How did sister know to come here?”
“I don’t know. Mom said she’d never find out.”
“Now what do we do? The card was taken, and surely they won’t kick us out of this house, right?”
“Hey, come on, we’re family. They wouldn’t do that.”
Seo-rin and Soo-rin’s conversation lacked any concern for Arin.
Preoccupied with securing their own well-being, the notion of ‘family’ to them was nothing more than a faded fragment of a memory.
Arin stood in front of ‘House of Quilts,’ as directed by her siblings. Through the half-concealed glass door, she saw Jae-hyuk and Kyung-sook sitting opposite each other.
Facing the reality she didn’t want to believe until her arrival, something surged up from the depths of Arin’s heart.
“They all deceived me. Treated me like a fool. Everyone…”
Anger surged like a raging wave, quickly filling her large eyes with tears.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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