Younger Man at Work (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 117

The camera that had been filming the two of them turned off, yet even as Team C’s performance aired, the siblings continued clinging to each other, weeping.

Once their crying had somewhat subsided, Chris—no, Eun Ho—immediately asked,

[“Nuna, then… what about Mom?”]

[“She passed away five years after you went missing. She searched all over the country for you and ruined her health beyond repair…”]

Eun Ho buried himself once more in Eun Seo’s arms and cried for a long while. That meant the song “Tears in Heaven,” which he had sung during his solo stage just earlier, was dedicated to his mother in heaven.

After the broadcast ended, the two met again and couldn’t bring themselves to let go of each other’s hands—not even when getting into the car, they held on tightly.

Arriving home side by side, the siblings stood before the apple tree in the yard. Though Christmas had passed, and the tree had shed its festive decorations, returning to its bare winter form, a single plump apple still hung from the tip of a branch, completely stripped of leaves.

Having heard about the apple tree from Eun Seo on their way home, Eun Ho’s eyes filled with tears once again. That lone apple, hanging there as if left out for magpies, seemed just like his sister’s heart—waiting faithfully all this time without ever forgetting him.

Eun Seo grasped Eun Ho’s hand tightly and said,

“Mom is buried here.”

Mom had said that while she was still alive: “What good is a woman who couldn’t even keep watch over her own children? Why should she deserve a proper grave? Just cremate me and scatter my ashes under the apple tree so I can at least become fertilizer.” They couldn’t bear to do exactly that, so instead, they buried her urn beneath the apple tree.

“Mom, Eun Ho’s grown up so much, hasn’t he? Even I couldn’t recognize him at first.”

Eun Seo wiped away her tears as she spoke toward the apple tree.

“Our Eun Ho’s become a huge star, right? You should’ve seen him just now, Mom… sniff…!”

Overcome by the memory of her mother, who’d passed away without ever closing her eyes in peace, Eun Seo couldn’t finish her sentence.

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