Chapter 160 – 160 – Oblivion
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“Wow… Why is that thing over there?”
Heaven above the sky.
Eris, the god of discord and manager of entertainment.
As she looked down to the ground for her amusement, she noticed an interesting object that is hard to find even in the celestial world.
“It must be hard to get that one… Did you give it to me?”
Eris asked Hermes, who was in the same place.
Hermes was making a puzzled expression.
“Yes… I have given them in the past. But… I didn’t think it would still be there…”
That item was delivered directly to Lee Tae-sung by Hermes.
20 years ago.
It was at a time when Lee Tae-seong was in the midst of a successful business career.
Hermes who succeeded Lee Tae-seong.
Now, there is only one step left to finish designing Yu-hee.
The final step is the existence of a vessel to contain Hera…
This bowl was intended to be made as a child of Lee Tae-seong.
This was to fulfill Hera’s terms of play.
Hera said that she wished that it was enjoyed in a noble or prestigious family, in accordance with her status.
So Hermes succeeded Lee Tae-seong.
He made a vessel for Hera with the child he gave birth to, trying to meet Hera’s conditions for play.
It didn’t matter if he was a child of the existing chaebol or those with vested interests.
However, in order to lead Yu-hee smoothly, he had to create dependence on himself, so he chose Lee Tae-seong, who had no connections.
After going through so many things…
Hermes instilled trust and dependence in Lee Tae-seong, and his ability was quite outstanding, so he quickly became suitable for the play conditions Hera demanded.
Now I just need to have a baby.
When he met a woman, started a family, and had children, the design of Yu-hee was completed.
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But one problem arose.
Lee Tae-seong had no women.
Is Lee Tae-sung seriously lacking in looks?
That’s not it.
On the contrary, I could see that he was handsome.
Because appearance was included in the selection in the first place.
In addition, there were many women who tried to seduce Lee Tae-seong because he had the ability and economic power to hold the title of president of a company.
However, the fact that there were no women meant that Lee Tae-seong had no interest in the opposite sex.
The fun didn’t even start if I continued like this…
Hermes had to come up with a countermeasure.
If I left it as it is, I had no choice but to skip a generation or choose someone else.
It took about 10 years to design Yu-hee up to this point.
Although it was a short period by the standards of the race of gods, it was a waste of time.
Hermes, wondering if he should postpone Yu-hee to the next opportunity, looked into Lee Tae-seong’s past and found a woman in the process.
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“So… About 20 years ago. By chance… I met your mother.”
Lee Tae-seong, who just said he would solve his problems, suddenly recalls the past.
Sia said, ‘Mom? She suddenly thought, Why is she talking about that?’, But she decided to listen.
“…Exactly, the word ‘reunion’ is correct.”
Originally, the two were said to have been lovers in the past.
But since one day, I couldn’t contact him, and he disappeared as if he had disappeared from the world…
“Until then, I couldn’t even figure out whether they were dead or alive… But on that day… They met again by chance.”
Lee Tae-seong, who is said to have found her now lying on the side of the road, just when the existence of her current wife had been forgotten in her mind.
“But her condition seemed to make no sense…”
She recalled the time, saying her wife was very haggard.
It is said that she was a broken person.
She later found out that her wife, Tae-Sung Lee, had been secretly hanging out with her bad guys, and that she had gone through a lot and was abandoned.
As it were…
She could be called a worn-out, broken woman.
What she was and how she was used… I’ll leave it to the imagination.
“…Seeing you again like that made me feel sorry for something. Even before, she was a proud, confident woman…”
It is said that Lee Tae-sung treated her wife’s body because she could not just leave her like that.
“She broke up with her badly once, but because they had an old relationship… She couldn’t pretend she didn’t see her…”
And she’s been successful in putting her time and money and time into getting her wife’s body back, she said.
But…
“The mental scars of her painful memories or experiences could not be recovered.”
At the time, his wife was mentally unstable, and she said that she tried to harm herself every day because of her uneasy spirit.
And every single day she was like, ‘It hurts. She was wrong Forgive me,” Someone… No, someone screamed as if they were suffering…
It is said that Lee Tae-seong, who had a weak heart, felt sympathy for such a wife.
Lee Tae-sung said that he had tried all kinds of means and methods, but it was all to no avail, perhaps because the incident in the past was too intense.
“In the meantime, ‘the person’ himself came and handed me this item.”
In Lee Tae-seong’s hand was a small box.
“What’s this?…”
“Memory erasing drug.”
“Memory-erasing drug?”
Lee Tae-sung opened the box’s hinges.
Then a small glass bottle was revealed.
Unusually, the glass bottle contained a very small amount of liquid.
“I decided to erase your mother’s painful memories with this medicine.”
Lee Tae-seong said that by giving her this medicine, her wife’s painful memories were erased.
[River of Lethe – Water taken from Lethe, the river of oblivion, which is the fourth of the rivers of the underworld. When you hear the sound of water, you fall into a deep sleep, and when you consume it, you forget your memory.]
(Memory loss varies depending on the amount consumed)
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“So, you gave that to that person?”
Lethe River.
As described in the item description, this water was brought from Lethe River, one of the rivers leading to the underworld, and was difficult to find even in heaven.
But no matter how much it’s for play, to give such a thing to an insignificant human being.
Eris did not understand Hermes.
“Why? Is it worth it?”
“Yes. It was a worthy move.”
He said that by giving Lee Tae-sung the water of Lete, Hermes contributed greatly to increasing his dependence on him.
He said that it was a bit surprising that Lee Tae-seong was interested in a woman like that.
It was a bit of a gamble at first, but…
And now that I think about it, it seemed like a good choice…
“What Hera wants is to establish relationships with as many humans as possible. And since he was corrupted, he was aiming to offend Zeus…”
Hermes with a fishy laugh.
“If you are the daughter of a woman who is prone to temptation or desire, she will naturally do the same… Then, wouldn’t she naturally achieve her goal? That’s why Yu-Hee has been so successful now.”
Eris thought.
‘He really has a bad personality.’
“Look now. How well it’s going.”
“Yeah… It went so well. It’s not a mess…”
Because Zeus was very angry…
Anyway, Eris had one thing to worry about.
“But that… What did you bring it out for?”
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“You erased your memory? With this? By the way, is what you just said true?”
Sia was dumbfounded by her behind-the-scenes story about her own parents, but even the traces of liquid in her bottle were suspicious.
“Why can’t you believe it? Does what you just said make sense?”
“…”
“She believes what you say because I also had a similar experience to you.”
Something that the average person would not believe at all.
However, she agreed because even Shia had experienced unbelievable phenomena.
“…But what are you going to do with this? Does it have anything to do with helping me?”
Lee Tae-sung nodded at Shia’s question.
“I’m thinking of erasing Woojin’s memories with this. She’s in the state she was in before Woojin began to doubt you in earnest.”
The amount of liquid contained in the glass bottle is small enough to be less than a sip.
Because the loss of memory depends on the amount consumed,
At this amount, she said, she could get rid of memories from three to four days before now.
“Wouldn’t it be enough time for Woojin to return to the state before he suspected it in 3-4 days?”
Shia nodded her head in a daze.
As Lee Tae-sung said, it would have been the best.
In the end, Shia accepted Lee Tae-sung’s proposal.
It was because she seemed to have the only way to get her relationship back together with Woo-jin.
‘Anyway, why does this medicine have so little left?’
Usually, I thought that if a bottle of medicine is used up, or if this amount is left, it will be thrown away.
However, since it was something that her father said was given to her by ‘the person’, it was not that I couldn’t understand why she cherished it.
The exact thing is, if you ask your father, he will give you an answer.
But it didn’t seem very important, so I decided to just skip it.
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So Lee Tae-seong called Woo-jin to the restaurant.
Shia was in the room next to her, overhearing their conversation.
Originally, the two of them were going to wait and use the medicine.
However, as Lee Tae-sung and Woo-jin’s conversation progressed, the atmosphere became more and more serious…
Woo-jin even found out that Shia and her Joo-won were living together.
In the end, Lee Tae-seong shakes the bottle containing Lete’s river water and puts Woo-jin to sleep… In the meantime, he opens the stopper and feeds it to Woo-jin.
“When you wake up, you’ll lose your memory and be a little confused.”
“…”
Sia’s expression was very bad.
Lee Tae-sung patted Shia on the shoulder and gave short advice.
“It’s better to finish that app point or something as soon as possible. Before something like today happens… Dad will help you, huh?”
“Okay…”
Sia made another promise.
Never… Never let Woojin ever get caught again.
No matter what happens, let’s achieve our goal before Woojin is discharged.
So let’s not create a situation that makes us suspicious.
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Heaven at that time.
Stomping rumble!
Cooong! Cooong!
In the heavens, Zeus’ wrath covered the sky.
“Haha… I’m tired…”
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〈 The answer to Shia’s question〉
Lee Tae-seong erased the painful memories of his wife in the past.
But he didn’t erase all of them.
It erased most of his painful memories, but not all of them.
Lee Tae-seong left a little bit of her wife’s memory by leaving some medicine.
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Before we got married, when we were dating…
So, before her wife went missing, Lee Tae-seong had been dating her as if she had caught her.
In the process, her wife, who looked down on Lee Tae-seong, had an affair with other men, and Lee Tae-seong knew about it.
One day, Lee Tae-seong couldn’t stand it and questioned his wife about the affair.
OK…
‘Are you going to keep saying that? If that’s the case, we just break up.’
However, her wife’s attitude was shameless and confident.
In the end, Lee Tae-seong did not question after that, but just watched.
It was like a hogu, but I couldn’t help it.
Because Lee Tae-seong loved his wife so much.
Time passed like that… While continuing a difficult relationship, her wife went missing.
And in a distant future, while forgetting the person she was as her wife, she discovered her wife, whose body and mind were broken.
As mentioned earlier, Lee Tae-seong cured his wife.
We broke up badly, but we were still lovers…
The wife, who came to her senses, regretted her past when she saw Lee Tae-seong, and she apologized, saying that in the past she had done a terrible thing.
At first, I thought so, but as time went by, I started to build affection…
After discovering his wife’s weak side, Lee Tae-seong was drawn to her again.
In the end, Lee Tae-seong accepted his wife’s atonement, and the two became closer and closer and eventually continued again.
Unlike before, Lee Tae-seong is the top…
But there was a problem.
As said above, the wife’s body was somehow cured, but her mental was incurable.
Her wife was mentally very unstable.
It was very serious, such as sudden screaming at night or sudden panic.
Lee Tae-seong brought good medicine and doctors to treat his wife’s mental illness, but he made little progress.
In the meantime, Herr came to visit her and gave her a medicine called ‘Lete’s River Water’…
Herr said it was a drug that could erase memories.
However, with this amount, it is said that even the painful memories of her wife can be erased…
After delivering only medicine and words, Herr disappeared somewhere…
Lee Tae-seong looked at the medicine Herr gave him and contemplated whether to use it or not.
The goal was to erase her wife’s painful memories, but if she erased all of her painful memories, would she have a wife now? It was because I had a question.
In Lee Tae-sung’s opinion, it was concluded that if she had no painful memories of the past, she would return to being the obscene and irresponsible woman of the past.
That’s why Lee Tae-seong didn’t use all the medicine.
To leave her wife with dependence and guilt on herself …
To make her wife wholly her own…
