Chapter 196 – Overpainting Memories (3)
Jeong Ha-yeon’s relatives, in other words, Lee Seok-chan’s parents’ family, Unsung Group, is a family with a family that has been passed down from generation to generation. However, the place where Jeong Ha-yeon’s mother was buried was not in Unseong’s Seonsan Mountain, but in a common cemetery in Seoul.
Jung Ha-yeon, who resented her father when she was young, was dissatisfied with the situation. It was disgusting that someone who had n’t shown her face her before her mother her passed away belatedly came and tried to pretend to be her father her. That’s why everything was dissatisfying, and her mother’s presence in her in the cemetery was also sad and annoying.
In time, after she was able to think rationally, she changed her mind. She could n’t shake off all her feelings her for her father her, but she at least admitted that he had put her mother her in a good place.
Unlike in the past, in today’s modern society, enshrining the dead in a cemetery is quite a luxury. Usually, the cost of the tomb was burdensome, so most of the cases were enshrined in the ossuary. In that situation, it was fortunate that even though it was a cemetery, it was enshrined in a good place in Seoul.
“The rain stopped and we arrived quickly. I think it took about an hour.”
“Yes. Made it to the nearest Maybe he was considerate.”
It is often said that the graves of relatives should be located nearby. There may be several reasons for this.
However, putting all the complicated issues aside, it would be very heartbreaking if it was difficult to find you because of the distance, when you miss you deeply all of a sudden. For that reason alone, it was right that the graves of relatives were nearby.
That is why Jeong Ha-yeon thanked her father for enshrining her mother her in Seoul.
“Let’s buy some flowers before we go up. What flowers did your mother like?”
“I didn’t have a particular favorite flower. Instead, there is a flower that was cursed at for being unlucky…….”
“What is that? I’m curious.”
“… Acacia.”
“…….”
Seo Joo-hwan slightly turned his head so that he could not see his awkward expression of her. Acacia was one of the few flowers that she knew the meaning of, but when she recalled the language of the flower, she could guess why Jeong Ha-yeon’s mother hated acacia.
‘Hidden love.’
Jeong Ha-yeon’s mother, Jeong Seon-ae, raised her daughter by herself without her husband her. She then predicted her own death her and asked her husband to take care of her young daughter her. In other words, she had the means to keep in touch, but she was raising her child alone.
Presumably, Jeong Seon-ae knew that her husband already had a family, so she did not inform her and raised Jeong Ha-yeon alone. Since she lived her whole life like that, she hated acacia, which means ‘hidden love’.
Seo Joo-hwan quickly managed his expression and said.
“She said that acacia is a flower she hates, so let’s buy her something else. Anything you like.”
“Then I will live with tulips.”
“When is the season for tulips? I don’t know if there is.”
Tulips usually bloom from March to May. However, it has been a long time since the development of technology has already overcome the time gap of one or two months. After safely purchasing red tulips, the two moved to their destination.
“This way.”
“Go slow. It’s slippery and I’m going to fall.”
Seo Joo-hwan followed her and looked around her cemetery slowly. According to what he heard, the prices of cemeteries vary widely depending on the location, but the best among them was the Baesan Imsu Type, which had good water drainage and was facing the south, where it could receive sunlight all year round.
‘They said they cared about it, but they made it a nice place.’
The place where Jeong Ha-yeon’s mother was enshrined had just such conditions. She crossed the Samdo Stream on a dark cloudy day, but at least the location of the moat was a terrain with warm sunlight.
Jeong Ha-yeon, approaching her mother’s tombstone her, pours a drink into her paper cup her. It was her cup her for her mother her, whom she loved to drink in her lifetime, but she did n’t drink often because she was paying attention to her daughter her.
“Mom, I’m sorry. Have I been here too long? I went to college this year and was very busy.”
After saying that, Jeong Ha-yeon put her hands together and prayed playfully.
“Please forgive me because I went to college the way my mother wanted me to. Yes?”
Jung Ha-yeon talks as if her mother is right in front of her.
Seo Joo-hwan stood one step behind and looked at Jung Ha-yeon and the tombstone. The name inscribed on the tombstone caught my eye.
Jeong Seon-ae.
‘Good love. It’s a beautiful love…….’
The meaning of the name written on the tombstone came to me ironically. Did Jung Ha-yeon’s mother have a beautiful love like her name her?
“Mom, I came with a friend today. Who is the first time you came together? I met you at the university you just mentioned… He’s a very dependable friend.”
From Jeong Ha-yeon’s softly smiling face, I could see that the two mothers and daughters were very close. I don’t know if her love her with Jung In was beautiful, but at least she gave her daughter her unreserved love.
“Juhwan-ah, can you come and say hello?”
Seo Joo-hwan, who had taken a step back, approached the tombstone at Jeong Ha-yeon’s gesture. He bowed slightly and said hello.
“Hello, mother. Ha-yeon calls her friend her Seo Joo-hwan. We met in college, but I’m probably my best friend.”
“Put. What confidence?”
“Uh? I think you and the kids are the best, but you’re not?”
“… What do I do if I say that? And I didn’t say no.”
“Flaw. Ha-yeon This kid bounces like this, mother. There are some annoying aspects, but I will take good care of them.”
“Oh, what are you saying? Come out if you want to say hello. I still have a lot to say.”
Jeong Ha-yeon told the story of her being pushed in front of her mother’s tombstone for a while. What happened to her when she went to college, how is she doing now. It seemed strange at first glance that she was talking to the air as if she were talking to her her, but her face her as she talked about her current situation her looked very happy.
But she also had a sparsely not-so-nice face, mainly when she talked about Seo Joo-hwan, her expression she became awkward or darkened.
“Well. Joo-hwan is… Yeah, like he said earlier, he’s my best friend. I think we’ll be friends for the rest of our lives. Oh, I also have younger siblings called Jikyung and Deokhun.”
She, of course, never said that she was dating him, and the expression on her face when she said that they would be friends for life was very ambiguous. Why is she looking at the notice every time she talks.
Seo Joo-hwan, who had been watching quietly, let out a low sigh. At first he thought it was because he was awkward around him, but judging from what he said more and more, that wasn’t the case.
‘Because I really need a lot of hands.’
Even thinking about it, I shook my head. It was because she knew that she had played a part firmly in blaming Jeong Ha-yeon. He went through her hair as if he was in trouble, then grabbed Jeong Ha-yeon by the shoulder of her.
“Jeong Ha-yeon, come see me.”
“Uh, huh? Why?”
Jeong Ha-yeon was taken aback when she suddenly stepped forward.
Seo Joo-hwan pinched and shook Jeong Ha-yeon’s cheeks. A scream erupted from her mouth.
“Ouch! Hey, what are you doing all of a sudden!”
“I tried to pretend I didn’t know if I was dizzy, but I couldn’t. Get out of the way, Mozilla.”
“What are you talking about, what the hell? If you don’t explain it right, you die.”
Jeong Ha-yeon, who grabbed her reddened cheeks, glared at Seo Joo-hwan with sharp eyes. But instead, he fed another chestnut on his forehead her. Normally, I would have pretended to be scared, but at least not now.
“Hey you…!”
He said, bowing his head at the tombstone before Jeong Ha-yeon got angry.
“Greetings again, Mother. My name is Seo Joo-hwan…”
Jeong Ha-yeon, who was about to say hello or something, had no choice but to stiffen up at the words that followed.
“… Hayeon is my ex-boyfriend.”
Jeong Ha-yeon widened her eyes in shock at those words. But her next words were even more shocking.
Seo Joo-hwan said.
“By the way, Ha-yeon still likes me very much.”
Who is this madman?!
Jung Ha-yeon’s mouth widened in an uncultured way.
“You, what, what are you saying… “
“You are talking to your mother. Be quiet.”
“Uh, crazy guy…… ?”
Jeong Ha-yeon could not continue her words at her shameless attitude as she glanced back. Leaving Jeong Ha-yeon alone, Seo Joo-hwan opened his mouth again.
“He seems to think he hid it well, but it shows too much. You have to be pretty clumsy to pretend you don’t know. She can’t lie, maybe her mother raised her daughter her too right.”
At those words, Jeong Ha-yeon trembled. He was completely stabbed to the point. Her face his flushed.
‘Since when…?’
All this time, she thought, she had been hiding it well. In fact, he was completely unaware. However, listening to what she said now, it seemed that she had already noticed her heart in her in her old days.
Seo Joo-hwan continued to speak. Glancing at Jeong Ha-yeon in the middle, it was difficult to tell who the hell she was talking to.
“I knew right away, but I pretended not to know. It was because I guessed what kind of heart Ha-yeon was thinking. I know there is nothing I can do… She thought that pretending not to know would help.”
The language was directed towards Jeong Seon-ae, but the content was directed toward Jeong Ha-yeon.
Jung Ha-yeon couldn’t hide her trembling from her gaze at her. More than the fact that his feelings of her were revealed, it was because he was afraid of Seo Joo-hwan, who had been pretending not to know, but was talking to Lee Je-hwan. Anyway, what kind of conclusion did he come to?
The worst thing that immediately flashed through her mind was not even being friends anymore. And the lesser evil was dating him again and breaking up with him again later.
Whatever she was, he thought he wouldn’t last long. She thought that being her friend was the only way, but she ended up…….
At that time, the sound of tsk tsk and tongue clicking was clearly audible.
“Look at his expression His now, Mother. How can I stay still when I dig myself into a tunnel whenever I have a chance?”
Hearing that, he raised his head and saw Seo Joo-hwan, who clicked his tongue with a pathetic expression.
“No, not that…….”
She was taken aback and tried to make an excuse, but she just mumbled and couldn’t say anything properly. She was greatly embarrassed by the thought that she seemed depressed, imagining her future her, which she had n’t even woken up on her own.
Seo Joo-hwan smiles and says.
“I’m glad I’m not ashamed. Look at that face that’s gone. Anyway, it’s fun to play with. I’m not bored when I’m with you.”
After saying it in a teasing tone, he smiled bitterly.
“It’s not that I don’t understand. Isn’t that what trauma is originally about? They are so engrossed in their own emotions that they lose sight of their surroundings. In fact, I was like that too.”
Maybe it won’t be much different now, he finished his words and gently grabbed Jeong Ha-yeon’s hand her. He interlocked his white fingers to keep them from escaping.
Intense trauma is an emotional shock that has a lasting effect on the mind. If this intensifies, it can lead to mental disorders, but most people do not even properly recognize that they have such a problem. It was because there were many cases that were no different from ordinary people.
However, if the trigger is pressed, the underlying trauma will come to the surface. For Seo Joo-hwan, that button was the severance of human relations, or, in other words, separation from Jeong Ha-yeon. So at the time, he did not make the right decision and regretted it.
Then, what is Jeong Ha-yeon’s button?
Seo Joo-hwan made eye contact with her blankly looking at herself and smiled bitterly.
‘Separation from mother.’
And now, wouldn’t he himself have become Jeong Ha-yeon’s trigger?
The little girl who gave her mother her love her turned twenty-three and she gave her love her back. She fell in love with her first boyfriend her, and through him she got to know the man.
However, due to the effect of the ‘item’that the boyfriend possessed, the direction of her emotions was forcibly swung. So she said to break up, but it was true that she liked him, so her ‘breakup’ with him remained as a trigger.
‘That’s why I pretended not to know.’
He seemed to just want to remain friends, so he didn’t go too deep. It was in the same context that at some point, he did not recommend Jeong Ha-yeon to have sex with her.
But he couldn’t look any longer. It didn’t feel right for her to do what she wanted since she was alone watching her struggle her.
So I decided now
“I feel sorry for your mother. Because a bad guy seduced my precious daughter.”
Not a bad guy and something. Knowing her her feelings for Jeong Ha-yeon, he also likes her, but he has no intention of dating her. I hated having a relationship with an end set again.
“Hey, why are you a bad guy… He said he was a good friend…….”
Even in the midst of this, she defends her, she is such a stupid woman. Seeing her do this with such a brutishness that she usually does, it made me laugh because she was dumbfounded. She seems like the perfect bitch to be humiliated. I was worried about what would happen if some other bad guy snatched this stupid woman.
‘I can’t see anything like that.’
Seo Joo-hwan said, “Huh,” And laughed. She thought of doing it her own way without caring any more. Even if she was hurt, she would be worse than she is now.
He raised his index finger above his lips her.
“Shh. I’m not done talking yet.”
“You madman…….”
“If you’re going to curse, do it proudly.”
How pitiful it is to look up like a cat in the rain.
He gripped Jeong Ha-yeon’s hand with her tighter. And she looked at the tombstone engraved with Jeong Seon-ae (鄭嬋愛).
“I have a situation… No, because of my greed.”
He had a conscience to label his personal desire his to use the system’s abilities as circumstances.
“Anyway, I don’t know much about marriage.”
“Gyeol, conclusion… ?”
“I probably won’t. It’s the same with him or any other girl, and Ha-yeon is my first girlfriend and her last relationship with her.”
“…….”
Jeong Ha-yeon now looked at Seo Joo-hwan as if he were a madman. Why is this a series of sudden accelerations? Why should he reject a proposal he didn’t even do? I felt like I wanted to grab this madman by the collar right away and hang it on a tombstone.
However, seeing her stare at her mother’s tombstone with such a serious expression, Jeong Ha-yeon had no choice but to shut her mouth.
“I promise you one thing, though. No matter what happens, I will always be by your side.”
“…….”
“Hey.”
“Uh, huh?”
He says with a smile
“You are in trouble.”
“…… ?”
“Even if you run away, I will catch you and put you next to me. Now I can’t leave even if I hate it. Because I made a promise to my mother.”
“…….”
Jeong Ha-yeon stared blankly at him and let out a blank laugh.
“A madman. When did my mom allow it…….”
The desire to be together for a long time came back with an unexpected answer.
