When I returned, Eun So-young was busy running around doing work.
“Are you looking for the Lady? I’m not sure where she is exactly…”
Everyone was busy trying to finish the move that was delayed because of Yang Ha-jeong and Ju Yeo-rin, and I couldn’t help but oversee it all.
But something felt off. This wasn’t a house like Namgoong Se’s, where there were still remnants of a lavish lifestyle. It was just a temporary home we stayed in before the move.
There was no way the move would take days, and the servant who answered my question told me they had started preparing today, not a few days ago.
“Is she really avoiding me?”
While Eun So-young was looking for me and ended up getting into a fight with that old man, I was putting Ju Yeo-rin to bed.
Of course, I could argue that I was kidnapped, but the last time was my own will, so I couldn’t deny my mistake.
I didn’t know if Yang Ha-jeong had told her the full story, but I felt guilty about it regardless.
“Can I just go see her in this situation?”
No matter how busy she was, if I tried to find her, I wouldn’t be able to see her.
But I wasn’t sure if it was the right choice to purposely go see her when she was avoiding me.
“Son, you’re here…?”
Unable to come to a conclusion, I greeted my mother, who I had been worried about all this time.
She must have been worried about me as much as anyone else, but because she wasn’t feeling well, I had told her not to come see me.
But it seemed to have made her even more upset, as she touched my face and body to see if I was hurt.
“You seem to be getting better, but you’re still not completely healed. Don’t use your body recklessly for a while.”
My mother seemed to have guessed where the medicine man had warned me, and I could only nod my head obediently.
“Our son… not just for a while, but you shouldn’t push yourself too hard in the future either…”
My mother held my hand and hugged me, slowly pulling me in and bowing her head.
It seemed that the story of me pushing myself too hard and fighting had reached her through someone else.
“Mother, I…”
“Can you promise me?”
Honestly, I didn’t know. The most reasonable choice in that situation was to stall for time and somehow let Eun So-young and that woman escape.
But even though I knew it, blood rushed to my head and I made the choice to kill that bastard no matter what.
Well, my heart might feel better, but what about everyone else?
“I’ll make the promise.”
My mother patted my back as if she had thought about it and let me go.
But could I keep this promise? I was a little skeptical.
That old man whose name I didn’t know wasn’t targeting me as an individual.
The old man’s subordinates were all self-destructing one by one, so I couldn’t interrogate them, but Dang Hye-won told me a few things about the martial arts they were using, and I could guess that the same guys had attacked me again this time.
‘Besides, they weren’t caught up in it this time, they were aiming for me from the beginning.’
I didn’t know what their intentions were, but if they were planning to target me and my surroundings, I had no intention of just letting it happen.
If I could make money in modern times and live quietly with Milp, that would be the best, but if the enemy didn’t allow it, I needed to be prepared.
“I know how valuable my body is, Mother.”
But there was no need to bring up such talk and worry a mother who was soon to give birth.
I was determined to keep the promise of ‘not too much.’
The move was over in no time. There were not many things to move because there were too many people compared to the world.
Women who shared a bed in pairs were now living in their own rooms again, and since it was a space designed to accommodate them from the beginning, people’s attention didn’t focus on them.
People’s attention was focused on the crazy Mu-rim who caused a disturbance in the clinic a few days ago, rather than on those who were wandering around the clinic, so people said that they were interested in the money they earned because of the clinic’s reputation.
As a result, some wealthy ladies who couldn’t stay here because they couldn’t afford it left their rooms, but those who were poor couldn’t easily leave the clinic.
There was no place like this where they could be treated with sincerity and almost no money was charged.
“Hmm, hmm! With this vacancy, there should be no objection to the Lady entering, right?”
“…Yes, my lord.”
“Shh. Don’t others hear. Call her Lady Seong like before.”
As a result, the attack of the old man and his dark forces, including the old man himself, resulted in only making room for Ju Yeo-rin.
Ju Yeo-rin didn’t seem to think she needed treatment right away, but it seemed that she planned to stay here until it was confirmed that she was pregnant.
I’m sorry to be vulgar, but even though I knew it was a good thing to beat that bastard with a cock stick, it was difficult to see Ju Yeo-rin still avoiding me and being with her.
But there was an empty seat, and I had no reason to stop her.
“If you want to hide your identity, at least use a polite tone like before.”
She told me not to call her a lord, but she didn’t seem to care about her own tone.
Well, even when she used a polite tone, I already felt like she wasn’t a normal person, so changing her tone wouldn’t make much of a difference.
“Sa… Kang So-hyeop, you’re here.”
At that moment, Eon So-yeong found me. While Dang Hye-won took care of the clinic’s affairs, Eon So-yeong played the role of the hostess in the special area, which was basically a space only for us.
Since coming here, Eon So-yeong had not come to see me for personal reasons, but she had not avoided me even for official reasons.
Looking at Ju Yeo-rin for a moment, Eon So-yeong turned back to me and said, “It seems like summer will end soon, so it’s better to prepare for winter from now on. These are the things we need to buy at the market…”
As she handed me a paper with the items listed, Eon So-yeong calmly explained them to me. I couldn’t help but wonder what she was thinking as she looked at Ju Yeo-rin.
Thanks to that, I missed the explanation several times, but Eon So-yeong calmly explained it again.
“It’s frustrating…”
I wish she would just tell me if there was something that bothered her and fix it.
Eon So-yeong only spoke what she had to say and left, leaving me with a feeling of frustration.
“Why are you like that? Is there any problem?”
Ju Yeo-rin asked me with a slightly worried expression, but I shook my head.
“You don’t have to worry.”
It wasn’t just to reassure Ju Yeo-rin that I said that. I didn’t know what Eon So-yeong was thinking. But I didn’t plan to waste time worrying about what she might be thinking.
Tonight, I planned to have a sincere conversation with Eon So-yeong.
If necessary, I would kneel or bow my head to relieve her stress.
Late at night.
Eon So-yeong had been restless for a few days.
Whenever she was half asleep and her eyes closed, she would think of her young husband’s disappointed face looking at her.
“Haah…”
She was doing her best to postpone that day as much as possible, but the day when she would see that face in reality would come someday.
To be honest, there were many other women for him, so I knew that the affection he poured on her would eventually turn to other women if she disappointed him.
“Mrs. Sung…?”
The woman in her early thirties who was talking to her husband today. She had a rather unattractive appearance, but she seemed to have quite a liking for her husband.
Although she was already a married woman, she would somehow make herself his. But unlike before, Eon So-yeong might not have a chance to intervene.
Eon So-yeong tried to erase those thoughts and go to sleep, but she felt someone approaching her place and opened her eyes again.
“So-yeong, it’s me.”
It was Kang Yoon’s voice. He seemed to have come to talk to her face to face after enduring avoiding her for a few days.
“Come in.”
Eon So-yeong couldn’t be sure if her voice was trembling or not. She just focused on welcoming him with a calm expression.
“At this late hour, what’s going on?”
It was a funny sound. Their nights were almost scheduled as a time to touch each other’s skin.
Since there were several women, they often slept even when they weren’t together, so there was no reason to question why he came at night.
But for the past few days, Eon So-yeong’s behavior had been suspicious, so she didn’t know that he couldn’t find other women.
The man who sat next to Eon So-yeong on the bed opened his mouth with a heavy expression.
“I came to apologize.”
“…What?”
Eon So-yeong asked with a blank face.
As far as she knew, there was no mistake that the man had to apologize to her for.
If a beautiful woman made a mistake, the man would have to live the rest of his life reflecting on his sins without hiding anything, but there was an implicit agreement between them to overlook those mistakes relatively lightly.
“I understand that you’re upset. But I’m really reflecting on it. To think that you were in such a dangerous situation and had a relationship with another woman…”
Eon So-yeong was really asking because she didn’t know, but the man seemed to misunderstand that she was avoiding him.
After listening to the man’s words, Eon So-yeong burst out laughing. It wasn’t the man’s responsibility that she was kidnapped, and it was inevitable that she would not know unless she had a telepathic ability.
Although there seemed to be a need to reflect on the fact that he had touched other women two at a time without her knowledge, there was no need to come to her like a dying man in the late night.
Phew.
Eon So-yeong let out a dry laugh, and the man’s expression brightened.
“Are you forgiving me?”
“It’s not forgiveness… I wasn’t even angry in the first place. Did you think I would get angry over something like that?”
Eon So-yeong continued to chuckle, and as her laughter grew, the man’s face also turned red.
The atmosphere that had become awkward due to avoiding each other for several days was quickly resolved, and the man naturally reached out his arm to Eon So-yeong’s waist.
Thunk.
“Uh…?”
But when Eon So-yeong pushed away his hand, the man looked bewildered.
And Eon So-yeong, who had pushed away his hand, also had a slightly flustered expression.
“So-yeong…? Why…?”
“That, that’s… Oh, today, not now.”
The man’s expression became even more puzzled. Except for playful times, no woman had ever refused his demands, and Eon So-yeong was not in the mood right now.
Seeing the man’s incomprehensible gaze, Eon So-yeong hastily added.
“Ah, anyway, not now. I just don’t want to.”
As the man’s expression became increasingly dark, Eon So-yeong couldn’t stop talking.
But there was no other way. If she refused him now, the man would undoubtedly be disappointed in her.
Rather than seeing the man disappointed, she would rather see him sad.
“I’m sorry… Just go today…”
“You don’t want to?”
“That, yes, I don’t want to…”
“Then I’ll make it good for you.”
“Wait…! Huh…!”
The man began to push himself onto her, roughly pushing his hand between her thighs.
And Eon So-yeong remembered.
Although they had been enjoying their physical relationship for quite some time, she had forgotten that their relationship had started by force.
“Ah… wait… I said no…!”
As the man’s hand slowly began to explore her body, Eon So-yeong closed her eyes tightly and spoke.
Just like on the first night they spent together, she knew that she couldn’t refuse the man’s demands today.
