Seeing her husband sitting on the bed reading a book after coming home early for the first time in a while, Yeon Seo burst into a small laugh.

His expression was endlessly serious, but he was actually holding the book upside down.

“Honey. Is the book interesting?”

When she asked casually, Ji Hyun looked up startled.

“Huh? What did you say?”

“I asked if the book is interesting.”

“Of course. It’s written by Woo Jin.”

“Is it so interesting that you can read it well even upside down?”

“Huh?”

Only then coming to his senses, Ji Hyun smiled sheepishly and held the book upright. Yeon Seo patted her face with lotion and sat down next to Ji Hyun, asking.

“Do you have something on your mind? Did something happen at work?”

“No, nothing happened.”

“You do have something on your mind. What is it?”

Ji Hyun placed the book face down on his lap and gazed at his wife. Her oval face with a prominent forehead and lively eyes looked at him with a bright smile.

A relaxed smile spread across Ji Hyun’s face.

“Actually, you know how Woo Jin’s housekeeper injured her back?”

“Yes. I heard her niece is coming to work in her place?”

“Yeah. But it seems Woo Jin likes that niece.”

“Really? How do you know?”

“He eats meals with that niece. They drink coffee together too.”

“The young master? Really?”

Yeon Seo’s cat-like eyes with upturned corners widened.

“Yeah.”

“Wow! It’s true love!”

Ji Hyun couldn’t help but chuckle at his simple wife who shouted it was true love just because they ate together.

“Eating together means it’s true love?”

“Have you seen the young master eat with anyone other than himself since the accident?”

“No.”

“That’s why! But it’s strange. That niece, hasn’t she only been here for a short time?”

“It’s been about a week.”

“In that time? Is she pretty? No, the young master doesn’t care about looks. Then, does she have a nice voice?”

“Yeah. Her voice is nice. She has an attractive low tone.”

“Oh my, how wonderful! I support the young master’s love, I support it!”

Yeon Seo clapped excitedly, genuinely happy. Ji Hyun held her hands tightly to calm her excitement and said calmly.

“Calm down, and don’t say anything like this to Woo Jin. Okay?”

“Of course. Do you think I’m that simple-minded?”

The simple woman doesn’t know she’s simple. Ji Hyun, who usually thinks a lot, fell for her simplicity which was the opposite of himself, and married her just two months after their first meeting.

With this simplicity as her charm, she quickly became close with Woo Jin who is extremely wary of strangers, and now even brings side dishes for him directly.

“If they eat together, will they eat my side dishes too? I hope there won’t be any spoiling and throwing away this time. But is that what you’re worried about? That the young master is in love?”

“Ah, no, it’s not that. In two weeks, that housekeeper will come back, right? Then that niece won’t come anymore… I’m wondering what Woo Jin will do then…”

“Ah, but you know…”

Her head tilted slightly to the side. Finding her face cute, Ji Hyun unconsciously kissed her cheek lightly. Blushing at her husband’s kiss, she asked carefully.

“Does that niece like the young master too?”

“Huh?”

“I’m asking if that young lady seems to like the young master too.”

“I don’t know that. But, they do eat together.”

“That could just be because he’s the employer. Not because she likes him.”

Hearing his wife’s words, he remembered that he had asked Woo Jin to have lunch together. So it could be just that. Quite possibly.

“If it’s just one-sided love from the young master…”

As her eyes suddenly became sad, Ji Hyun hurriedly said.

“I’m not sure about Woo Jin either. It’s just my guess, a guess.”

“The young master is for real. You said they eat together, right? But that young lady… Should I go ask her?”

“Ask what?”

“If she likes our young master.”

“What! Honey. Please don’t make any rash moves. This is an issue we need to approach carefully. Woo Jin isn’t an ordinary person…”

As Ji Hyun calmed his wife, Yeon Seo blanked out for a moment before nodding.

No matter how handsome the young master is, there probably aren’t many women who could easily date someone with a disability.

However, his looks have a charm that can captivate women regardless of his disability.

Although she loves her husband Ji Hyun very much, she couldn’t deny that even he looks like a big squid next to the young master.

“Then we need to make sure that niece keeps coming to the young master’s house now, right? Hmm… Then… should we ask that housekeeper to come to our house?”

“We already have Mrs. Oh at our house.”

“Mrs. Oh was sent by grandfather. It feels like everything we do gets reported to grandfather’s ears. I got scolded for not taking medicine.”

Even though it had been 2 years since they married, with still no news of a great-grandchild, Chairman Seol showed his devotion by personally preparing medicine and sending it to his grandson’s house.

The problem was that he frequently called to check if they were taking the medicine consistently.

Even though she had said they were taking it consistently, somehow he found out and called to scold them for not taking it. The culprit could only be Mrs. Oh.

“Why don’t we ask Mrs. Oh to work at grandfather’s house again, and have the person who comes to young master Woo Jin’s house come to ours?”

“But that person only worked for two hours at Woo Jin’s house? Mrs. Oh stays all day.”

“Then we could ask for just two hours… No, how can this house be cleaned in two hours. Then, what if we ask for four hours and pay double?”

“But that niece is still young, would she want to continue doing housekeeping part-time?”

“I think I would if it were me. It’s just two hours after all. But what does that young lady do? She’s not a student, is she?”

Come to think of it, he had been so focused on Woo Jin that he hadn’t asked what that niece did.

He vaguely thought she must be either a student or unemployed.

Would Woo Jin know? No, with that guy’s personality, he wouldn’t have asked.

“I wish the young master would get close to that young lady, eat well, sleep well, and go out a bit more. Then my husband’s guilt would lessen a bit…”

Yeon Seo pushed the book that was on his lap to the side and slowly climbed onto her husband’s thighs, saying softly.

“I don’t have that anymore. I’m getting along well with Woo Jin now.”

Ji Hyun naturally put his arm around her waist and smiled.

“It’s faded a bit, but it’s not completely gone, right?”

“It won’t completely disappear. And it shouldn’t.”

“You said you don’t even remember why you fought. The young master not taking the college entrance exam that day isn’t Ji Hyun’s fault. That’s how I see it.”

Yeon Seo said, hugging her husband’s neck and kissing him.

Seol Min Won, Woo Jin’s father and Ji Hyun’s uncle, fell in love with a Russian-Indian mixed-race female student during his studies abroad, dropped out of school, and eloped.

However, after a year of escape, they finally surrendered to his father due to financial difficulties and cultural differences, and he returned to Korea with only young Woo Jin.

Although he had a unique doll-like appearance and was also very intelligent, Woo Jin grew up being looked down upon by relatives and friends for being mixed-race since childhood.

Grandfather was deeply ashamed that his grandson was born from a woman of unknown lineage. So he always took only his eldest grandson to official occasions.

This discrimination from grandfather created a rift between his father and uncle, and also between Ji Hyun and Woo Jin.

On the day both Ji Hyun and Woo Jin were supposed to take the college entrance exam, Woo Jin didn’t go to the exam site and went to an internet cafe instead.

When his uncle, who belatedly learned of this, went to find the child, a fire broke out in the commercial building.

From what he heard later, a security guard mistakenly lowered the emergency exit shutter instead of raising it. That’s why the damage was greater…

Fortunately or unfortunately, when Woo Jin was found, he hadn’t suffered any burns.

His airways and bronchi were severely damaged from inhaling a lot of smoke, but it wasn’t life-threatening.

However, his uncle, who had gone to find Woo Jin, couldn’t escape while wandering the building and died of suffocation.

Woo Jin, who had been unconscious with a respirator for nearly a month, was greatly shocked when he woke up and heard that his father had died while looking for him.

Was it because of that impact? The child who had barely woken up started to have a fever again. The doctors all said it would be better to be prepared this time.

Chairman Seol thought that because he had treated his son and grandson as if they didn’t exist for so long, God was taking his son and now trying to take his grandson too.

At that moment, when he felt it was only natural for God to try to take away a child he had treated as dead for so many years while the child was actually alive, he knelt down and swore before God.

If He would save his grandson somehow, he would not blame anyone for his son’s death.

He would hold memorial services for the victims every year and spare no material support for the victims.

And he bitterly repented before God for having considered his younger grandson a shame all this time.

Whether God accepted that vow and repentance, from then on, Woo Jin’s fever subsided and his twisted body began to find its place again.

However, God took the child’s eyes in exchange for saving his life.

Still, Chairman Seol did not forget his vow.

Just grateful that his grandson was not taken away, he did not hold the shopping center or the security company responsible, and faithfully spared no expense for memorial services and sponsorship every year.

Perhaps thanks to these efforts of Chairman Seol and Seol Ji Hyun, the child who had been like a blind beast began to come alive after being cooped up in his room for two years, starting to learn braille.

Seeing the child come alive as he read and wrote, Ji Hyun persuaded his grandfather to set up a large publishing company himself and open a large bookstore.

He also invested in the web novel content platform business so that as many people as possible could see what Woo Jin wrote.

In addition, he donated to organizations that train braille translators who translate novels into braille, and personally hired braille translators at the publishing company to start publishing braille books in earnest.

These invisible efforts created the Woo Jin of today. Even Chairman Seol, who initially pushed for Ji Hyun to take over the hotel after completing his MBA in the US, now left Ji Hyun to do as he pleased.

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She had forgotten it was the library’s closing day. Standing in front of the firmly closed door, Soo Young quietly looked up at the sky. Ah, really.

She was at a loss for where to go. Stopping by the bookstore before going to her part-time job would leave little time to actually look at books due to the travel time, but going straight to work was too early.

She thought about dropping by a cafe to spend some time, but sitting alone with just a drink also felt somewhat awkward.

After looking at her phone for a moment, she turned her feet as if to let things be as they may.

She had arrived 1 hour and 10 minutes early.

Would the sensitive homeowner get upset again? After lingering outside for about 10 minutes, Soo Young finally couldn’t bear it and carefully entered the passcode to go inside.

Thinking it would be quiet as a mouse, she carefully entered the foyer and paused for a moment at the tapping and panting sounds coming from somewhere. What’s that sound…

Without even thinking to put on slippers, she tiptoed towards the small room where the sound was coming from and soon lost herself staring at the sight before her.

Woo Jin was running frantically on the treadmill with his upper body bare.

The body she had vaguely thought would be thin was unexpectedly surrounded by taut muscles, and the beads of sweat between the muscles were as fresh as morning dew on flower petals.

Judging by his sweat-soaked body and rough breathing, he seemed to have been running for quite a long time, but she wondered why he was running so desperately instead of just getting off if it was that hard.

Soo Young, who had zero interest in exercise, wore an expression of incomprehension but didn’t stop her appreciation.

There was no such welfare in the world.

But suddenly the treadmill’s speed began to slow, and as the treadmill came to a complete stop, Woo Jin began to fumble with his watch.

Soon he turned his body and asked, looking straight at Soo Young.

“Do you now come whenever you feel like it?”

Gasp! How did he know I came? I really didn’t make any sound…

“Ah, no, um… I had some extra time.”

Then he got off the treadmill and said coldly.

“Do you think this is the neighborhood senior center? Where people with lots of time and nothing to do come and go?”

She knew she was in the wrong, but being treated like someone with lots of time and nothing to do slightly hurt her pride. Still, she had come to work after all.

“I, I came early to work? To work harder?”

As she spoke shamelessly, Woo Jin approached her. Standing right in front of her face, the smell of sweat wafted over.

At the same time, Soo Young’s gaze fixed on his firm chest and she held her breath.

A contemptuous expression appeared on Woo Jin’s brow, then he lowered his voice and said.

“You don’t need to work hard, just put things back in their place.”

“I… I… put things… in their place well?”

She was merely reacting to his words without realizing what she was saying.

“You left the chair out again yesterday and I bumped into it. Here.”

He suddenly pulled up his sweatpants waistband to show a blue bruise, but all Soo Young could see was the protruding iliac crest.

… It was truly… perfect.

“… Wow, perfect…”

As she mumbled without realizing it, Woo Jin raised an eyebrow and straightened his posture.

“What?”

“Huh? What did I say?”

Soo Young looked up at him, belatedly coming to her senses. Woo Jin let out a long, thin sigh with an expression of giving up.

“I’m going to wash up. You do your job.”

As he brushed past, Soo Young scanned his entire body once more as if to take a picture. She desperately wanted to take a photo and keep it, but she couldn’t become a criminal.

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While showering, Woo Jin chuckled without realizing it. She held her breath again when she saw him.

She probably wasn’t shocked because he was ugly, but rather because he was somewhat fantastic, right? His body from high school, already hazy in his memory, had been perfect.

Especially when playing basketball, he could still hear the cheers of the girls. Since he had been exercising consistently, even if not as good as back then, at least it wouldn’t be strange.

It was a strange thing. If someone else had opened the door and come in before the appointed time to watch him, he would have reported them immediately. That would be the same even if Seol Ji Hyun came.

But with that woman, although slightly unpleasant, he wasn’t that angry.

Rather, he felt good about showing her that he was living diligently, exercising at home, contrary to her treating him like an idler.

But why did she come so early? Is it okay… to come early? Should he tell her to come anytime? … What nonsense! Crazy!

He rinsed his hair distractedly. As he rinsed, he suddenly couldn’t remember if he had used shampoo or not. With his mind elsewhere, his concentration had blurred.

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It was convenient not having to worry about what to buy for lunch thanks to the side dishes his sister-in-law had made.

However, it seemed the side dishes were meant for Woo Jin to eat alone, but as they both ate, they had already diminished significantly.

As Soo Young put the last piece of pan-fried meat in her mouth and chewed, Woo Jin entered the kitchen without being called. What’s going on?

Soo Young spoke in a calm voice as if not surprised at all.

“Sit down. Eat.”

However, due to the meat she hadn’t fully swallowed, her voice choked at the end. As she hurriedly gulped down water, Woo Jin said with a displeased expression.

“Stop eating the pan-fried meat. That’s why you’re gaining weight.”

How did he know I ate the pan-fried meat? This man, his claim about not being able to see is complete nonsense.