“Mrs. Jung, if you keep coming to me like this, even if I forget, I keep thinking of Jaehyuk. Do you know that? When people tell you not to do something, you want to do it even more.”

“Choi Arin!”

“So I’m telling you. Since you told me not to meet, I think of Jaehyuk even more….”

Arin couldn’t finish her words. Mrs. Jung, whose eyes rolled back, rushed at her and grabbed her hair.

Mrs. Jung began shaking Arin’s head with strong force. The hand pulling the hair was cruel.

“Let go of this.”

“I can’t. Since you can’t understand through words, I have to control you like this.”
In the past, Mrs. Jung had laid hands on Arin several times. When Arin received a slap from Mrs. Jung, her fair cheek would swell and turn red, and she used ice secretly brought from an empty place to cool her swollen skin.

The sorrow at that time was beyond description.

“Cancel what you just said now!”

Mrs. Jung, supported by anger, shouted without caring about the eyes around her.

The more Mrs. Jung behaved arrogantly, the more Arin felt resentment.

Until recently, even though she wavered, she had no intention of doing anything with Jaehyuk. The reason she hesitated about his proposal was not due to lingering feelings.

If Arin hadn’t seen Mrs. Jung hitting Jaehyuk, she might have been able to refuse more decisively than now.

‘I never intended to do anything with my brother first! Why does she keep bothering only me?’

Arin developed a rebellious spirit against Mrs. Jung, who put an ultimatum on not meeting with Jaehyuk.

“Let go, let go!”

Arin used all her strength to grab Mrs. Jung’s hand and pull it away. She had never imagined that she would fight like this.

Mrs. Jung grabbed Arin’s hair with strong force, as if the scalp would be torn off.

It was bewildering. Mrs. Jung always behaved as if she were above everything in front of her. But today, she was completely different from the person Arin had known.

And above all,

‘It hurts, it hurts!’

It hurt too much. Mrs. Jung grabbed Arin’s hair with all her might and shook her head. It felt like the snail gland would break. Her stomach was churning, and her vision was spinning. Severe pain overlapped with the intense pain as if her scalp was being torn off. She couldn’t think at all.

At that moment, neither Arin nor Mrs. Jung noticed that someone had entered the store.

The sound of high heels approaching rapidly was accompanied by a woman’s scream.

“Let go of that hand!”

The one who entered the store was Hayeon.

Hayeon used all her strength to pull Mrs. Jung’s hand away, but her strength was insufficient against the force grabbing her hair.

“Snap out of it. Mrs. Jung, why on earth are you doing this?”

Hayeon’s words didn’t reach Mrs. Jung. Mrs. Jung’s attention was entirely focused on Arin.

Mrs. Jung glared at Arin with venomous eyes. She wanted to pull out all of Arin’s hair so that she could never stand in front of Jaehyuk again.

“My son is in danger of being taken away now, and you’re telling me to back off? Don’t stop me. I know who I’m doing this for right now, it’s Min Sangmu’s sister!”

“Still, this is not the way; the vice-chairman will dislike it if he finds out.”

“If the son is going the wrong way, it’s natural for the parents to stop him.”

“I understand, I know how you feel, but please, let go of this hand and talk.”

Although Mrs. Jung responded to Hayeon’s words, she sincerely did not think that the person next to her was Hayeon.
Usually, Mrs. Jung was extremely conscious of others’ gaze, but not now. She had completely lost her composure and had no intention of listening to what others had to say.

That was the moment.

With a crashing sound, Mrs. Jung’s hand, which had been grabbing Arin’s hair, suddenly let go and fell away.

“What are you doing now!”

In the abrupt situation, Hayeon stared blankly at the man standing in front of Arin.

“Are you crazy? This is a public place, not a scene for your unruly behavior!”

With a contemptuous gaze, Yuhyun looked down at Mrs. Jung. He had come upstairs due to the disturbance from the underground workshop.

Yuhyun’s face was consumed by anger. After hiding Arin behind him, he faced Mrs. Jung’s hostile gaze.

Mrs. Jung regained consciousness from the pain she felt in her buttocks. She glared fiercely at Yuhyun.

“Do you know who I am, daring to touch my body?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know who you are.”

“You ignorant fools!”

Mrs. Jung ground her teeth while glaring at Yuhyun.

“This is our store. You’re the one behaving ignorantly in someone else’s store.”

Yuhyun’s angry gaze fixed on Mrs. Jung.

“Get out right now. Get out before I call the police!”

“W-what is this.”

Yuhyun’s gaze shifted to Hayeon.

“Min Hayeon, take her away.”

At Yuhyun’s cold voice, Hayeon’s face turned pale.

Feeling desperate in the unexpected situation, she headed towards Memorya, thinking that she must convey the words she couldn’t say today. When an unexpected catastrophe occurred, Hayeon felt truly desperate.

“Yuhyun… I…”

“Get out of here right now!”

She sensed an unavoidable situation. Hayeon, who was about to say that she couldn’t stay here, closed her mouth at Yuhyun’s resolute gaze.

“Fine, I got it.”

Hayeon thought that she didn’t know when the opportunity would come again. So, she couldn’t step back any further. But Yuhyun seemed unlikely to listen no matter what she said.

Hayeon resigned herself. She helped Mrs. Jung stand up.

“Go. Madam.”

“Let go of this hand.”

As soon as Mrs. Jung stood up, she shook off Hayeon’s hand.

“If you want to go, you go first. I haven’t finished talking to her.”

When Mrs. Jung glared, Yuhyun pulled her even closer to prevent her from seeing Arin.

In a desperate attempt to protect Arin, Yuhyun’s resolute figure made Hayeon feel deeply despondent.