Chapter 916 – #97. Lanna (76)
People don’t know how fortunate it is to be a being that adapts to change.
There are times when I still feel awkward with the world and other cultures there, but can’t I just be unfamiliar with it?
Since I also lived here, I naturally became accustomed to it.
“Ouch!”
“Ugh! My baby, are you okay?”
“Hey…Pina.”
…Of course, getting used to that sight wasn’t easy.
It wasn’t easy to see a big boy clinging to a small girl and flirting with her.
It was a society where being protected by a woman was taken for granted, so I couldn’t curse at that scene.
It’s not that they’re weird, it’s that I’m weird.
In fact, the people around them were staring at the couple with eyes full of envy, not frowning.
Perhaps it’s that she feels envy at the fact that she’s in a relationship with a ‘man’.
“Fuck, everyone seems to be dating except me.”
“…Am I not a human?”
“Yes. Orc.”
I’ve gotten used to seeing women getting tougher now.
It’s because I’ve reached the stage where I can feel cuteness in a masculine appearance by my standards.
And…
‘It’s only my women who don’t have a really manly style.’
I didn’t want to care about the women I didn’t care about.
Anyway, why am I suddenly talking about this?
“Here, eat this.”
“Thank you.”
I wanted to tell you that I didn’t know that my senior, who was tough when he was among men, would become a man who shudders in prudence in front of the woman he loves.
The senior calmly accepted the steak plate that her mother-in-law had cut into small pieces.
My mother-in-law was smiling happily as if she were seeing the cutest thing in the world every time my senior ate steak.
“Mom.”
If anything, Lanna couldn’t stand it, and she even paid attention to her mother-in-law.
‘I didn’t expect you to like me that much.’
Surprisingly, he didn’t seem to be aware of it.
I can see that my mother-in-law is forcibly managing her expression.
The senior didn’t seem to bother to hide her feelings for her mother-in-law, and she did.
“Why do you keep calling mom? Do you want me to slice it too?”
“No… Just delicious.”
“Uh~ This is delicious. You enjoy it too. Our son-in-law also enjoys it.”
“Yes, mother-in-law.”
Fortunately, the restaurant I recommended to my senior was delicious enough for all four of us to be satisfied.
‘I got the location right, but it seems like I gave the wrong advice.’
What I hadn’t thought of before was that the advice I gave was only thinking about the appearance of my seniors.
Just as a man’s personality changes when he’s with a man, the senior’s personality changes when he’s with a male junior and when he’s next to a woman he loves.
In such a situation, I even said that I would like a ‘homely side’, so of course it’s right to show that side.
What does the word ‘domestic’ mean to a man in this world?
‘A world where men and women are reversed… It’s difficult. Difficult.’
Having lived for quite some time, I was proud that I had adapted to it now, but it was still a difficult worldview for me.
It’s just that I couldn’t adapt. In fact, fundamentally, that scene wasn’t a problem.
It was a natural and ordinary sight that could happen anywhere.
However… It was a sight that gave us a slightly different feeling from our point of view, Lanna and I.
“I’ll ask for clothes. Should I ask for an apron?”
“No, it’s fine.”
It’s my fault, but Lanna is a woman I dated and even married.
Living in a world where men and women are reversed, I was also a person who did not change my values.
Are men protected by women?
Just imagining it gave me goosebumps and made me want to scratch somewhere.
So, of course, I have been dating according to my standards.
Ran and I were a bit awkward with my style at first, but now she’s used to it.
It means that it has become unfamiliar for a man to be unilaterally protected and cared for by a woman.
There is a saying that a three-year-old habit becomes eighty.
And Ranna was in a state where she was accustomed to what I was doing.
‘Even implicitly, I felt like I was looking for a man who would ‘protect’ my mother.’
Since it is natural for a woman to be good to a man, it was a fact that she could not help but think that a man who was good to his woman would look special.
And personally, I thought that if you were a senior, you could meet that standard.
The sunbaenim, who cried while missing his family, always gave speeches on the importance of family.
I thought that if it was the usual passionate image, Lanna would be able to like it enough.
But now, even if the appearance of the senior is wrong, it is firmly wrong.
‘I don’t think you’ll like that look…’
Even so, it was not something I could say that my mother-in-law and seniors were wrong.
It’s just that Lanna’s standards I’ve become accustomed to are not common.
I held her hand as her expression became increasingly displeased to tell Lanna about it.
“?”
She gave her smile to Lanna, who looked at me with that touch.
“…”
Ran, thinking I was pointing out her facial expression control, tried to get her expression to look a bit frowny.
That’s not what I wanted to say, but I decided to put the meaning in that I stopped it before going too far.
“What are your plans for the future of the two of you? It seems to me that the relationship between the two of you is deep.”
Instead, it was near the end of her meal, so she brought up something she wanted to talk about in earnest.
And the senior, who had been under the careful care of her mother-in-law until now, finally stepped forward and answered.
“I had that intuition from the first time I met this person. I couldn’t do it without this person. I don’t know how much time I have left in my life, but I think this person is enough to be by my side when I close my eyes.”
Seriously, the words of the senior with sincerity in the voice resonate.
The senior’s charm is not only his good looks, but he also has a really good voice.
The low sound of the cave was enough to mesmerize the women, and in fact, it was seen that the mother-in-law’s heart was also agitated.
Ran, too, flinched as if she had been stimulated by her senior’s low-pitched voice, and her body trembled slightly.
‘If I spit out my lines with such a loud voice, I’m shocked.’
The senior’s acting as a gangster leader remained a life character.
Personally, it is one of my favorite movies.
‘Because it’s not easy for a man to show such intense action acting in a world of gender reversal.’
While I was digging my eyes with another thought for a moment, the senior continued her words.
“I don’t think I would regret it even if I used up my last luck meeting this person.
“I definitely know how you two feel. I didn’t intend to object in the first place. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have introduced myself.”
“When I saw the two of them together today, I thought that they matched very well. There is a lion idiom called ‘a match made in heaven,’ and it seems like a lion idiom that fits the two of you perfectly.”
The faces of the two of them brighten after hearing Lanna and I agree.
“Thank you for taking good care of me.”
“I’ve always thought that we were like family. Father-in-law, please take good care of us in the future.”
Even though the two of us have already secretly met and called each other, we act together and make fun of each other as if we were meeting for the first time today.
I asked her to speak comfortably first, and since the senior doesn’t deny the request, Ranna also said how she couldn’t stay still.
“The son-in-law is also comfortable, but what kind of father would be uncomfortable talking to his daughter? Please be comfortable with me too.”
“Fu…Yes. Thank you. No, thank you. I’ll do my best.”
“You don’t have to be nice to me. All I want is to be nice to my mom. That’s all I want.”
“I’ll do anything I can. It’s only natural to be nice to my other half, and I’ll treasure the family I’ve gained once again. Unfortunately, I was abandoned by the family I once started.”
She said that she blamed herself for the reason she did that.
“I was a person who had to act, and my ex-wife was a person who valued children’s education. I wanted to follow her, but on the other hand, I couldn’t let go of my greed for acting.”
But now it was different from the past.
“Nothing comes before my family. Even acting doesn’t mean much to me anymore.”
“You say your mother is the most precious person.”
“I heard that daughters and sons-in-law and those who lack money are not.”
“Yes that’s right.”
“When I fell into smoke and lost my family, smoke was still the only thing by my side. Thanks to that, I had no time to spend money and just saved up.”
The senior has said that he wants to spend all the money on enjoying the rest of his life with his mother-in-law because he is lucky that he has no one to pass it on to, and no need to.
A soft smile crept into her face, which I couldn’t help but know how to spread because I was a human being too.
How many people think there is nothing more important than money in life?
“To be honest, I’m glad you said that. There was only one thing I was worried about. That I want to enjoy all the rewards my mother went through while raising me, even now. But being alone always bothered me. Someone by my side. I thought I would be happier if I had one.”
“I will always be by your side. The time I spend with this person is precious to me too.”
If you look at the meaning of the senior’s words that she will spend all the money she has saved up to now, doesn’t it mean that she will spend the rest of her time enjoying herself?
In her youth, she was a word that accurately captured her heart as she worried about her mother-in-law, who struggled to raise Ranna.
“Please don’t change your mind in the future. If that’s the case, there’s nothing more I want.”
It was a bit risky, but it was safe.
I breathed a sigh of relief and decided to suggest a trip together to lighten the mood.
Although the triplets are still young, they could go on a trip as long as they had nanny’s care.
