Chapter 115 – Offline Meeting (3)
On the taxi ride home, no words were exchanged.
Titi – Tiririk –
The suffocating silence continued until the front door was opened, but Hyeji did not dare to speak first.
Looking at her brother’s serious expression, she felt like she had done something wrong, but she couldn’t pinpoint what it was…
Above all, because this was the first time she had made a mistake as a ‘human Jeong Hye-ji’, she had no idea how to apologize or what to say first.
If this was ‘mingming’, if that were the case…
She could have just gotten down on the floor and licked her brother’s feet. She could have just screamed that she did something wrong and begged for punishment…
Hyeji felt like her blood was drying up as the atmosphere changed 180 degrees from the wedding photo shoot in the morning. It felt like her body was slowly freezing from the tips of her feet to the coldness that Hyunwoo was giving off.
And.
Hee-joo’s advice, which she had pondered over on the way back, kept repeating in her anxious mind.
“Huh… What did that woman say earlier? “In the bathroom.”
“Huh?”
The suffocating silence was finally broken with a clanging sound.
However, the broken fragment became another sharp dagger and stabbed her in the chest.
“You said that when you got off the elevator. “Please think carefully about what I said.”
Hyunwoo urges Hyeji to answer with an indifferent expression and indifferent voice.
He knew that her soft voice was more annoying than her loud yelling, so he lowered the tone of her voice noticeably.
Hyeji barely opened her mouth, remembering their conversation in the bathroom.
“Well… He looked at my brother and said he was a snake…”
“Snake?”
A snake. Hyunwoo tilted his head and asked back as an unexpected word came out of her mouth.
Why, why?
He called the man “Brother” And bowed down to him, but he did not become servile. He wanted to fuck that bitch, but he didn’t show any signs of being impatient.
No matter how much you think about it, there was nothing wrong with your performance today, and yet you are a snake…
Hyunwoo, who had been suppressing his anger, appeared in his eyes instead of annoyance.
There was no way he didn’t know that he had just openly eaten ppaenjji.
A man who refused to give me his number, making lame excuses. A woman who went to the bathroom and felt a cold breeze blowing.
His pride was severely damaged by the treatment he had never experienced since getting plastic surgery.
He was no longer a person who would be ignored wherever he went.
With looks and money. There was no one who could ignore him so carelessly.
Even though it was true, he was ignored.
At first, he thought the cause was her Hye-ji and planned to catch her and beat her up. Because of her immature behavior, he was upset because he felt like he was suddenly being treated as a lackey.
However, listening to Hyeji’s words just now, it seemed like the cause of the situation was somehow herself.
“Tell me in detail. “What did you say?”
“Oh, my sister…”
“What about you? Don’t you know what the situation is now? “We were treated like complete idiots.”
“Huh?”
“Whew, that’s it. “I’ll explain everything later, so let’s start by listening to what she said.”
Hyeji carefully watched Hyunwoo’s thoughts and recalled the conversation in her bathroom.
She didn’t know why, but she felt her brother’s vivid hostility right through her, so she chose her words carefully.
“She is that woman…”
*
At that moment, Hyeji was looking around, amazed that even the bathrooms in the hotel were different.
After confirming that the bathroom was empty, Heeju immediately got to the point.
“Are you happy meeting that man?”
“Yes?”
“You say you love me every day, right? You say you’re getting married. And then you order all sorts of things, right?”
Hyeji, who was smiling innocently, could not hide her embarrassment.
I don’t know why he suddenly did this, but I could clearly feel the other person’s dissatisfaction in his sharp tone.
The smile gradually faded from her face.
“… I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Were you happy while playing? “I’m asking if you did it because it felt good or because you wanted to.”
Whether you are happy pops up again. I wondered why I was asking this question, but for now, she nodded.
Because the happiness she felt the day before yesterday was undoubtedly real.
“I was happy. “She felt good, and she wanted to do it.”
“Ha, me. “This is your first relationship, right?”
“It’s not the first time, it’s the second time.”
Hyeji’s lips came forward little by little.
She just told me to feel free to call her sister, so why did she suddenly say this?
The way she criticized her as if she had done something wrong reminded her of the mean manager who had been harassing her not long ago.
Is this person, like the manager, a bad person on the outside and inside?
I thought she was definitely a good person… She seemed like that… But I couldn’t understand why she was so angry.
“Whew, the second… Well, that’s not important right now. Do you think you will marry that man? I’m sure he said he wanted to get married. “No?”
“… That’s true, but… It’s a bit harsh to say that you are that guy.”
“I’m thinking about old times, so I’ll tell you something off-topic to Hyeji. It goes without saying, but snakes don’t marry frogs, they just eat them.”
Heeju gave advice from her heart to the unfortunate woman in front of her.
She wasn’t the kind of person who would bother to meddle in a fleeting relationship, but she couldn’t stay still when she saw Hyeji, who looked exactly like her past self.
“I remember. Snakes just like frogs, they don’t love them. “No snake loves a frog that just eats it deliciously.”
“… What are you talking about?”
“And marriage is not that easy and simple. There are many couples in the world who act like they’ll be together forever when they’re dating, but eventually break up. Even after marriage, a relationship between a man and a woman separates!”
As the conversation continued, Heeju’s voice grew louder. When she reached the end, she seemed to be excited as well and spoke informally.
Hye-ji, whose biggest goal, her marriage, was attacked, did not hold back and raised her voice.
“That’s because… My sister… She doesn’t know! My brother and I felt like we were destined for each other from the first time we met… We had the same pain and trauma… And…”
“Trauma?”
“Yes! Trauma! My brother and I had no family, so we were all alone in the world. So now I am the only woman who can understand her brother. So… So, I will definitely get married to my brother later.”
Fate, trauma, and the ridiculous story of each other being each other’s only mate.
A baby’s love. It is the love of a child. No, that’s not a baby’s love. You wouldn’t know it if you were a young child playing around with a child’s ugly desires.
Hee-ju sensed that she would no longer be able to communicate with Hye-ji, who was still holding on to her futile dreams.
Nevertheless.
She wanted to hear one last word from her. She is a senior who has already walked the same path.
“Hehe… There was a time when I was just like you. A time when I believed I had met my fateful partner. But of course, the love that I believed would last forever was not eternal and was not even love.”
Heeju closed her eyes and opened her mouth with difficulty, recalling the past she wanted to forget.
Is it because her emotions have become more sensitive due to her pregnancy? She didn’t know why she was so upset.
Saying that you don’t have a family, that you have trauma. It may have been because those words stuck with her.
“… To become a loved ‘me’, there must first be a ‘me’. Before you get hung up on love, take care of yourself first. After that, I think about whether my current love is really love.”
If someone had given me this advice at the time, would I have listened to it?
I wasn’t sure that was the case. However, she hoped that Hye-ji in front of her would be different from her foolish self.
“I remember. That snake named Hyun-woo doesn’t love Hye-ji. She’s playing with a woman who doesn’t even know she’s a frog. “I’ll go back first, so come in slowly.”
Hee-ju poured out what she had to say to Hye-ji, who was speechless, and then turned around.
Although she was somewhat emotional and impulsive, she said everything she wanted to say and had to say.
Ttogak – Ttogak –
As she walked away, leaving her hyeji behind, her back was confident without the slightest wavering.
*
“So, you… Said you were a snake, and you said I was a frog. “My brother is playing with me…”
Hyeji’s face was full of confusion as she finished her sentence. Both her voice and her hands were shaking.
When I heard what she said, it was so shocking that I didn’t have the time to really understand it, but the dozens of minutes of silence that followed while she was riding in the taxi made her head spin.
Brother, he loves himself. He loves himself and his brother. It was an immutable truth that should never be shaken.
But… But…
A woman she met on a week-long outing had such a confident attitude that she shook her truth sharply without even trying to change her words in the slightest.
“Ha, that woman… Something like that happened.”
Hyun-woo, who had answered all of her questions, looked straight into Hye-ji’s eyes.
Her dark eyes flashed with the power to pierce her soul.
“So, what did you answer?”
“No answer, no answer.”
“Then… What do you want to say now?”
Although it was only a short time, complete silence passed over the two, not even the sound of breathing.
“… Oppa, you love me, right? If I… Do better, will you really marry me? “I’m going to make you happy forever, right?”
I really didn’t want to ask this question. But I couldn’t help but ask. It was not enough for her to shake off her current confusion.
“Hehe… Are you shaking? “What does it look like to you?”
Hyeji had no answer to this question.
Her eyes trembled as if she would burst into tears at any moment, but her tightly closed mouth showed no sign of opening.
Just like that, the suffocating silence that had disappeared for a moment fell between the two again.
