The chairman had unnecessarily poked his nose into things. Gaeul frowned. Who wouldn’t know to claim medical expenses from Youngmin’s parents when needed? It’s just that she didn’t have the courage to ask Youngmin’s parents who had helped her in times of need.
The news that Youngmin’s father, who had paid the settlement for the traffic accident that Youngmin caused, decided to cover the hospital expenses made Gaeul feel uneasy. But, there was no other way to pay the hospital bills.
So, Gaeul changed the subject.
“Winter, did I mention that I fainted?”
“You told me not to say anything. You said you were staying overnight at a friend’s house.”
After finishing her words, Grandma hesitated, lips trembling. It seemed like she had more to say.
“Is everything okay at home?”
To make it easier for Grandma to bring up the topic, Gaeul asked.
“Nothing, everything is fine. What could happen overnight?”
The way she ends her words is not neat. There is something on Grandma’s face that shouldn’t be there. Gaeul decided to poke around a bit.
“Yesterday, Mom appeared in my dream. Strange, isn’t it? Did Mom know I was hurt? Even though she wanted to see me so much, she never came once. But yesterday, Mom came in my dream. In my old room.”
Grandma’s hand, which was about to pass a spoon to Gaeul, stopped. The daughter-in-law appeared in her granddaughter’s dream. It meant a lot to Mrs. Yoon Jeong-yeon, Gaeul’s grandmother. It was as strange as Gaeul described.
Appearing at an exquisite time as if she knew, urging herself, as if to quickly confess the secret. So, Mrs. Yoon Jeong-yeon opened her mouth as if possessed.
“Um, but… yesterday afternoon, someone from your maternal family sent a person.”
“Maternal family? Did I have a maternal family?”
Gaeul had no maternal family. She had never seen maternal family members. She heard that her mom became estranged from her family when she married her dad.
Even when her mom passed away, no one came from that side of the family. But suddenly, someone was sent from the maternal family. Not that the maternal family came to visit.
“But why did they send someone from that family? What’s the matter with us?”
“Well…”
Grandma hesitated for a long time before continuing.
“They want to take you and Winter.”
“Me and Winter? Why? Why now?”
There was no maternal family, and yet they wanted to take her and Winter. Gaeul felt nothing about it. Maybe it was because her emotions were too dried up.
“It seems they long for family ties as they get older. You know, when you get older, you miss your family.”
“That’s not it.”
Gaeul cut in. However, she couldn’t help but think that her mom’s appearance in the dream was related to this.
“It’s not people who want to take me and Winter with them because of family ties. People in that family. If they were such people, they would have come to meet me when they heard that my mom was sick. They are people who pretended not to know when my mom passed away.”
Believe that people who disowned their daughter just because of an unhappy marriage now long for family ties? Gaeul would rather believe in the existence of fairies.
“What did Grandma say? Are they going to send us away?”
Grandma avoided Gaeul’s eyes. Grandma bowed her head and nodded as if surrendering herself.
“Well, I mean… your will is important. If you want to go, we can’t stop you.”
“But I still don’t want to go.”
Grandma sighed deeply.
“When I think about our future, it seems right to send you away. Don’t you think so?”
“I can’t just focus on my future… seeing you suffer makes me feel like we should go… but…”
“Grandma, I want to go.”
Gaeul declared without a second thought.
“The way to escape from this tiresome poverty is right in front of you, so why ignore it? Even if people call you materialistic, it’s okay. I’m going. I’ll go and ask if they can help us pay off our debts. If they’re going to take us, who they treated as if we didn’t exist until now, then they should at least do that, shouldn’t they?”
Grandma seemed shocked by Gaeul’s words. Tears welled up in Grandma’s eyes.
“If you want to go, then you should go. How can I stop you? I feel sorry for burdening you with such a big load at your young age. How difficult it must have been for you all this time…”
Grandma probably wanted to say something she couldn’t bring herself to say—something like, “How could you think of leaving us so easily after all the difficulties we’ve been through until now?” Gaeul realized she had made a mistake.
“Don’t worry, Grandma. Even if I go, we won’t go alone. We have to take Grandma with us. I wouldn’t leave Grandma behind, would I?”
Grandma clicked her tongue. It was an expression of sympathy for her granddaughter who was overly indifferent even after knowing about the maternal family, and an expression of relief that her granddaughter wouldn’t abandon her and leave.
“Thank you for the words, but should I say that to them over there?”
“We have to make them say that. If they say no, then we won’t go.”
“Don’t worry about me, and if you want to go, go. When I think about how hard you’ve had it…”
Grandma couldn’t continue her words and wiped away tears with her sleeve.
“Really. Since you can live at Mingho’s place, don’t worry about me.”
“Don’t say things you don’t mean. Why would Grandma live at Dad’s place? I’ll take care of everything. There’s no way Grandma would live in a small house.”
Gaeul said firmly.
“It’s not like they’re drawn to us by family ties. Grandma knows they’re not those kind of people. Maybe they need Winter and me now. So, we have some value to them. That’s why we have to make a deal with them.”
Grandma looked at Gaeul with a puzzled expression. She couldn’t understand why her granddaughter, who was overly composed, was saying such things. She was a granddaughter who was good at covering up her feelings, but still.
“Your maternal family is a tremendous household. People from your maternal family are completely different from the people you’ve encountered so far. So, don’t be too hurt if things don’t go your way there.”
Lady Yoon Jeong-yeon, who worried that her granddaughter would be hurt, spoke cautiously. However, Gaeul rather reassured Grandma.
“Don’t say things you don’t mean. Why would Grandma live at Dad’s place? I’ll take care of everything. There’s no way Grandma would live in a small house.”
Gaeul said firmly.
“They’re just ordinary people like us, no matter how tremendous their household is. Even if they are those people, wouldn’t it hurt less if I know? And what’s worse than now? We’ve endured even the difficult times after Dad passed away by sticking together as three. If we don’t like it after going, we can stick together and live like we used to.”
Lady Yoon Jeong-yeon wiped away tears. Her granddaughter had grown so strong. Even though she could see that she had grown up well, it made her cry.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
