Chapter 62 – Episode 62
“I live in two households.”
Living in two houses.
It is said that he set up a home with two women and lived back and forth.
“After listening to Song Se-hyun’s story… Only then did I understand what the situation was.”
After saying that, Soo-ae Kim stopped speaking.
And then I looked at Ga-hye’s feelings.
“… Please keep talking.”
Ga-hye urged Kim Soo-ae to tell her story.
I felt the will to hear the whole story.
“… Whew.”
Kim Soo-ae and Song Se-hyun shared information on the spot to confirm the full story.
Around the same time, Kim Soo-ae and Song Se-hyun both dated Lim Seok-pil.
Meanwhile, at Kim Soo-ae’s request, Im Seok-pil came to live with her.
But at that time, Song Se-hyeon asked Im Seok-pil to marry him.
In other words, she was a little faster than Kim Soo-ae.
Lim Seok-pil accepted the request, but because he was busy, it seems he decided to hold the ceremony later.
There, Song Se-hyeon asked him to register his family, and he eventually did so.
“Song Se-hyun, like me, realized something strange and hurried.”
“So you raised the family register first…?”
“Of course.”
Kim Soo-ae continued her words to me, who was puzzled.
“She also wanted to make him completely hers. She was the same as me. However, the method I chose was cohabitation, and the method she chose was family registration.”
“And there, Mr. Lim Seok-pil was unable to choose one person and started living with two households.”
“…”
Kim Soo-ae silently affirms.
“But something like that would have been discovered quickly… No, it was actually discovered quickly.”
“Yes.”
Two women talked and confirmed the whole story.
But the two women were not on the same side.
Song Se-hyun is said to have said to Kim Soo-ae, ‘I am your wife, so you should go away.’
“But I couldn’t do as she said.”
“Did you like Lim Seok-pil that much…?”
“There was a bigger problem than that, no, something bigger than that.”
“… Ah.”
I noticed that Kim Soo-ae hesitated in her words.
So I kept my mouth shut.
But it was not Gahye.
“What was the problem?”
“… The child was inside me.”
Ga-hye also kept her mouth shut at those words.
“Song Se-hyeon had married him, but I was carrying his child on my body.”
“Song Se-hyun is pregnant…”
“I haven’t done it since.”
“Huh…”
It’s all messed up.
He is actually married to Song Se-hyun.
He lives with Kim Soo-ae and has a child.
When the two women met, Lim Seok-pil had established such a relationship.
“Song Se-hyun hurled curses at me… But about half of those curses were directed at him.”
“…”
It is said that Song Se-hyun cursed Kim Soo-ae as if she were going to kill her.
She said she heard all the swear words from her that she had never heard before.
“But I couldn’t say anything more than swearing. At least not to me.”
But she didn’t do more than that.
She said she didn’t act viciously, stab herself or do anything like that.
“That woman is naturally impatient. That’s probably why she registered her family so quickly. Moreover, as she was the daughter of a rancher, she had a lot of money, and because she was raised like a princess, she is a self-indulgent woman. Even though she is like that… She didn’t do anything else to me. I didn’t do it.”
I don’t know why.
However, in Kim Soo-ae’s opinion, even if she was that kind of woman, she thought that it was because she knew who Satan was to blame.
That’s right.
Anyone can see that the one who made a mistake here was Lim Seok-pil.
“We were in trouble. One of us had already registered, and the other was already pregnant. It was already too late for her to just end the relationship with him.”
Song Se-hyeon is still the daughter of a successful person in this area.
That’s why she didn’t want to tarnish her face by getting a divorce.
Considering the age and era, divorce did not seem very good.
However, it was impossible for Kim Soo-ae to have an abortion.
At that point, she was already over three months pregnant, and her abortion was originally illegal in Korea.
“So she asked me never to appear in front of her again. I wasn’t going to accept that request, but she had her means ready to tie him up for sure.”
“How?”
“I owed her a debt under the pretext of guilt. Song Se-hyun’s father passed away leaving a will to pass on the ranch to her, but Song Se-hyun kept the ranch for herself. He, who was at fault, completely opposed her choice. I didn’t do it.”
“But living on a ranch now… Oh, no way.”
“Song Se-hyeon took her ranch for herself, and she gave the ranch to him as her debt. In that way, she took control of his economic rights for herself.”
Only now did I understand why Song Se-hyeon owned Lim Seok-pil’s house.
“She has his financial rights for herself. One word from me could make him a beggar. That’s how she threatened me, but I couldn’t accept her demands.”
I heard you have a child.
But how could she accept that the child was told not to appear in front of her father?
“I wanted to have a child. Then, whether he likes it or not, he is needed.”
“…”
I took a quick look at Gahye’s thoughts.
Ga-hye had an unchanging attitude and continued to listen to Kim Soo-ae’s story.
I couldn’t even imagine how twisted that inside was.
“So, despite Song Se-hyun’s warnings, she continued to see him often, and she eventually gave birth to her child. But then another problem arose.”
“Another problem?”
No, is there anything left to get worse in this dead end?
“After giving birth, my body deteriorated very badly. I was not in a position to take care of a child.”
After Kim Soo-ae gave birth to her child, she had to be hospitalized.
According to the doctor, it was due to severe stress, poor nutrition, and various other negative factors.
Even so, what is important about the reason for hospitalization?
The important thing is that Kim Soo-ae was in no position to take care of her own child.
“I ended up in the hospital for a long time. I was in the hospital for the first two months, and then after I was discharged, I had to continue to focus on healing my body.”
“Are you okay now?”
“Yes. As you can see, it’s fine now.”
Kim Soo-ae’s expression when she said that looked as if she was saying, “I’m sorry for your health.”
“That’s a good thing. Really.”
So I added a useless answer.
“… Anyway, so I had to focus only on the treatment of my body for about 10 years. And to add to the bad news, my father also became unwell… So I had to take care of him.”
“Oh my…”
“I know it’s an excuse. It’s a cowardly excuse. But at that time, I was in no position to take care of my child. So I left my child in his care.”
However, at that time, Lim Seok-pil must have been in a situation where Song Se-hyeon had complete control over the economy.
Were you able to take care of the child?
“He took care of the child. After that, I didn’t see him and the child for a while… And it wasn’t until later that I heard what happened.”
Lim Seok-pil was a playboy who lived in two households, but he was not a bastard who abandoned his responsibilities.
He is said to have told Song Se-hyun that he would receive her child from Kim Soo-ae and raise it himself.
“Of course Song Se-hyun hated it.”
Song Se-hyeon even threatened him by asking him to choose between her and his child, but Lim Seok-pil’s will was firm.
In the end, Song Se-hyeon left, leaving Lim Seok-pil at home, and Lim Seok-pil was left to take care of the child alone.
“But it seems that Song Se-hyeon had no intention of completely abandoning Lim Seok-pil.”
It is said that from Song Se-hyeon’s perspective, Im Seok-pil was the object of love and hate.
You will have to listen to her thoughts to know exactly, but if you look at the actions she took afterward, you can only interpret it that way.
He owed Lim Seok-pil a lot of money and entrusted him with the ranch, but did not take it from him in the end.
She told Im Seok-pil that if he was going to raise her child, he should abandon her, but in the end, she did not divorce.
‘It’s not just because of social opinion that they didn’t get divorced… Maybe.’
In the end, Song Se-hyeon and Lim Seok-pil compromised.
I will leave it alone to raise the child. But if you want to raise it, raise it alone.
Song Se-hyun does not accept Kim Soo-ae’s help, let alone her own help.
I will never see you living with her in the house I gave you or on my ranch.
The compromise between the two roughly felt like this.
‘I guess I should say that Song Se-hyun was very supportive.’
“Since then, she has been in charge of both sides.”
After that, Lim Seok-pil is said to have continued to take responsibility for the two women as if he was paying for his sins.
He went back and forth between the two women’s homes, interacted with them, and took care of their living expenses on his own.
In the meantime, the ranch’s management situation deteriorated, and he took on the debt himself.
At the same time, he developed Gahye.
Kim Soo-ae and Song Se-hyun did it on their own, without anyone’s help.
Almost 20 years have passed like that.
“… This story, this story… You…”
After finishing her story, Kim Soo-ae struggled to speak.
“Gahye, I was planning to tell you after you became independent.”
Until now, she had been talking calmly as if it were someone else’s story, but then she turned her attention to Ga-hye.
She used to speak calmly and easily, but now she was struggling to get her words out with an expression that made her feel like she was about to die.
“If you are in a situation where you can live on your own, and it doesn’t matter what the three of us do… If you become that strong and ready to receive it… I’m going to tell you then and there…”〈 Br〉
“…”
Ga-hye was not saying anything to Kim Soo-ae.
No, she had no answer.
“But, yeah, like this guy said, you’re an adult now, you can take responsibility for yourself, so now, now is the time to talk about this… Yeah, that’s right…” 〈 Br〉
After she finished speaking, Kim Soo-ae’s eyes filled with tears.
She slowly began to cry.
Her tears fell to the floor, and only a low, sorrowful cry escaped her mouth.
That small sound was echoing throughout this room.
Ga-hye continued to say nothing while looking at her like that.
***
After we finished talking, we left the room.
“…”
“…”
Gahye was still saying nothing.
Kim Soo-ae also couldn’t say anything to Ga-hye.
“… Well, then. I’ll leave for today.”
I had no choice but to open my mouth.
“I will contact you next time I come again.”
“Yes.”
Kim Soo-ae calmly nodded her head.
After receiving that greeting, Ga-hye and I left Kim Soo-ae’s house.
But, but this is not right.
It’s not something.
“… Gahye.”
I spoke to Gahye.
Gahye did not respond at all.
“Are you going to be okay?”
“…”
“…”
“… I, I… What… What should I do?”
Gahye looked at me while asking that question.
Those big eyes were shaking.
Now, she was so confused that she didn’t reply at all.
“…”
I thought I should answer Gahye’s question.
But I couldn’t come up with a suitable answer.
What should I do?
Well, what and what should I do now?
“I don’t know what to do. No, I definitely have to do something now. I guess there is no such thing.”
“Well, then…”
“That’s enough. What do you want to do, Ga-hye? It’s not an obligation, it’s something you want.”
“What do I want…?”
“Yes.”
While saying that, I stroked Gahye’s head.
“You said it before. I just want to see my mom. How about now?”
Those words were the trigger.
“Mom…”
Ga-hye turned her back and ran straight to Kim Soo-ae.
Kim Soo-ae, who was standing in front of the door to see us off, had a surprised expression on her face.
Ga-hye was just hugged by Kim Soo-ae, and Kim Soo-ae’s face looked surprised, then embarrassed, then sorry, and eventually…
She looked grateful and just hugged Gahye.
