Chapter 178 – 178- Father and Son
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Woo-jin’s father, Seo Yong-ho, runs a pretty popular restaurant.
The restaurant he had been doing before became a popular restaurant in the area.
He thought that since he had secured the location, manpower, and business partners of the restaurant, he could take a little more time off work than before, but Seo Yong-ho’s reaction was a little different.
Rather, should I say that I am doing a lot of work in the other direction?
Previously, he was concerned with customer reception and store management within the restaurant, but now he goes beyond management and is directly engaged in transportation by traveling around the country.
Woojin’s Restaurant is a basic meat restaurant, but there are occasional seasonal delicacies on the menu.
Traveling around the country to find ingredients for these things… Is a superficial reason. My father’s personality is that he likes to move around rather than stay in one place…
Dad seemed to have a bit of an explorer-like disposition, unlike Woo-jin.
Because of this, even though I was on vacation, I rarely saw my dad.
“Um… You don’t have a mother?”
There was no mother at home.
She asked her father where he had gone,
“My mom said she went to volunteer with Shia’s mom and she’s coming over for dinner.”
Her mom is Shia Yes her mom and her code fit, she used to go out to volunteer once or twice a month like today.
“…”
Woo-jin gets upset when Shia’s name is mentioned.
“What’s wrong, son?”
Dad looked at Woojin with a frown on his face and made a worried expression.
“Uh…? Ugh… No.”
Woojin pretended nothing was wrong and went to his room.
The moment I tried to change my clothes like that.
“Shall we go out to dinner with my son’s father after a long time?”
“Dinner?”
It’s definitely time to eat.
Woo-jin accepted her father’s proposal without even trying to change her clothes.
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The two head to the restaurant run by their father.
At first, I objected to the store clerks, but they said it was okay, so I ended up going to my dad’s store.
Fortunately, contrary to Woojin’s concerns, the clerks didn’t seem to care about Dad.
To the extent that there are clerks who are more comfortable joking around?
Fortunately, the situation that Woojin was worried about did not seem to happen.
“Anyway, it seems like it’s been a really long time.”
Woojin felt as if he had been to the restaurant for the first time in years.
If Woo-jin remembers correctly, it was the first time since Woo-jin came before enlisting.
Maybe that’s why the inside of the store looked a little different.
It seemed that it had been remodeled over time.
“Dinner is served.”
While looking around, the meal came out.
Tables are set by the clerk…
“Who is this boss?”
A clerk suddenly talks to Dad.
“Yes? Oh my son.”
Dad accepted the question casually.
“Aha!~”
Pretty responsive saleswoman.
Since she had mentioned herself, she couldn’t help but look at the clerk.
The clerk was a woman with a warm impression, like a mixture of a squirrel and a puppy.
At first glance, she seemed younger than herself…
She felt young, as if she had just turned 20.
Woojin lightly bowed her head to her clerk, and the clerk lightly bowed accordingly.
After setting the table…
“Then enjoy your two minutes~”
The clerk was just about to go to work.
“That’s right Araya.”
Dad stopped the clerk.
“Yes?”
“Bring me two bottles of soju and two bottles of beer.”
“Yes!~”
The clerk listened to what Dad said and walked off somewhere to get a drink.
“You want to drink? You brought your dad’s car.”
“What about drinking? I can’t call a proxy. And I’ll have to get some drinks, won’t we talk about it?”
“That’s…”
Dad seemed to know that Woojin was having unspeakable worries.
It seemed like we were going to have a serious (?) Talk between father and son while drinking…
“Okay.”
Woojin accepted her father’s proposal.
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Woojin had several conversations with her father while drinking alcohol and grilled meat.
Since before, I had this kind of communication with my dad often, so I was able to talk more comfortably than other friends.
Starting with the story of the future career after the discharge…
“Are you going back to school this time?”
“Yes. Because of that, I enlisted in September.”
“Oh, that’s right, that kid is there. I’m from the same school as you Was it a photography department?”
“Yes?”
Even stellar chatter.
As time went by, alcohol and meat gradually disappeared, and Woojin gradually came to a situation where he became more aware.
“So, why don’t you brush off your worries?”
“I’m worried…”
Before I knew it, the story about Shia started to come up on the cutting board.
“So… I don’t know if it’s my imagination… But I think Sia is a little suspicious?”
Starting with Sia becoming suspicious of her behavior, she feels like a person has changed.
And she talked about talking to Sia today.
“…So when I asked why they were still in Gangwon-do, they said that they came to play with a friend for filming. So when I asked her to send me some pictures of her with her friend, she got back angry and hung up on her. No, I could just send you a picture… Does this make sense?”
“Hmm…”
Dad stroked his chin and tilted his beer glass wide.
“Once you listen to your son, it’s a part that’s enough to raise doubts.”
“Right?”
“But you can’t.”
“Yes?”
Woojin tilted her head at her father’s unexpected reaction.
“Of course, it’s true that Sia lied, but she shouldn’t face it like that.”
Dad’s words were that she would be angry on Shia’s part, too, for suddenly taking the high-handed attitude to prove her innocence openly.
“But!”
“Woojin, imagine what it would be like if you were in Shia’s shoes. Wouldn’t you feel bad if you were so suspicious?”
“That’s…”
Dad’s words made sense enough.
But then she just thought she would just tell her from the start that she just went out to hang out.
“But I have enough doubts. Because she didn’t have to do it if Shia lied in the first place.”
“Isn’t that true?”
Dad seemed to be defending Sia by speaking in as neutral a position as possible.
“Should we meet Taeseong after a long time?”
Dad fiddled with the glass.
“No. Even if I solve it, that’s what I’m going to do. Dad doesn’t have to step out. I was just asking because I thought I was wrong…”
It was not what Woo-jin wanted for adults to wear.
He thought that it was right for him to solve this problem, so if the adults came forward, Woojin’s side would not stand.
Because of this, Woojin held back his father’s actions.
“No, just. It’s been a while since I saw Taeseong’s face.”
“Is it really like that?”
“Maybe? Kuck.”
Dad tilted his glass with a mischievous smile.
“Anyway, I never thought the day would come when the two of you would fight. It’s really something you don’t know about life.”
“Yeah…”
I think it happened once before, but I can’t remember, so I can’t say.
“Well, the odds of that happening are slim, but if Sia is cheating on her, what will she do?”
Dad’s sharp question.
I didn’t want to think about it, but I needed some preparation.
“Well…”
Woojin couldn’t catch her galpi.
Of course, breaking up will be certain.
But the question was how the process would proceed…
More than anything else, I thought it would be difficult to break the relationship as easily as other couples, since Shiane’s family and my family have had quite a lot of exchanges.
“What is your son worried about? Resentment towards Sia? Taeseong’s relationship with his family? Or both?”
Dad’s sharp point.
Woojin was silent for a moment at the words of her father who stabbed her in the middle.
“…Do you want both?…”
“Hmm…”
Dad is just as silent as Woojin.
“Well, if that happens, you don’t have to think about your mom and dad’s position. You do whatever you want.”
“Dad…”
“And what do you need to have regrets about? What are you worse than Shia?”
“…”
There was a lot to be said about this.
Aside from the difference in economic power between the two families, they were compared to Shia in terms of appearance and ability.
First of all, he was just a soldier about to be discharged, and his appearance was ordinary.
However, Sia had enough looks to enter a contest and look forward to winning, and she took advantage of it to enjoy a status almost similar to that of a celebrity.
In terms of superiority, Shia’s overwhelming victory.
And it was to the point where you could feel the reactions and gazes of people around you telling Woojin not to miss her Shia, or saying that you were too generous.
So, if she broke up with Shia, she wondered if she would be able to meet a woman with similar abilities and appearance to Shia.
Fuck-!
“Ah! Dad?”
Dad suddenly hits Woo-jin with a beating.
“You are thinking strangely. This.”
“…”
Woojin was silent again.
“What are you thinking? Let your dad cool off.”
“…So.”
Woojin slowly explains his thoughts.
Dad heard it…
“What do you have to bow down to compared to Shia!”
I shouted in a loud voice to get attention from the people around me, but there were so many people that no one looked at me as if I was buried.
“I told you. A lot of this and that. And if you look at Sia these days, you shouldn’t think like that, but you do it even if you want to?”
“…”
Dad didn’t seem to disagree with that statement, so he couldn’t find the momentum from before.
“At least if I were a man like my father…”
“…”
As mentioned earlier, Woojin’s father, Seo Yong-ho, had a huge size unlike Woojin.
He was around 185 in height and was very manly with a very lean body.
What should be the impression? Hoin?
Literally, he is a good-natured good-natured person, but he was more like a tiger and a good-looking man.
“Well, Woo-jin, you’re insincere.”
“…”
That’s why even after hearing such words, there was nothing to say from Woojin’s point of view.
Woo-jin’s physique was just like that of an average man, but from his father’s point of view, he would look insignificant.
“Sweep- is it because of the fever you got as a child?”
“Fever?”
“Ah! Didn’t I tell you?”
“Hey, is this your first time hearing it? Haven’t you heard anything from your mother?”
“Yes? Then I’ll have to try it this time. So… Woojin, you’re 8 years old? Was it when you were 9 years old?”
Dad said that when Woo-jin was young, he had a major fever.
“It must have been when the family went to Taeseong’s to play.”
Parents interacted with each other, and Woojin and Sia were clinging to each other and playing.
As an aside, it is said that Woojin hugged Sia tightly and did not let go.
“While talking about this and that with Taeseong, Sia suddenly came crying. Woojin said you collapsed.”
After that, she rushed straight to the hospital and took measures, but said that the underlying cause could not be found.
“At that time, Taeseong helped me a lot, so I went looking for good names, but even they couldn’t find the exact cause.”
So, with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw, she said that she went to the shaman too.
“I went and they said it was a new disease or something. She said that she had to do a gut, it was a bit like a fraud, but it was a good house, so I did a gut…”
“Did you?”
“The shaman suddenly fell down while performing an exorcism, said he was sorry, bowed to you and ran away.”
“What is it…”
Woojin was a bit unreasonable to her father’s words.
She did a good job and suddenly she bowed to herself? Something was something
After that, she went back to the hospital and watched the situation with intensive care, but the fever continued to boil, and she said that she just watched as she could not come to her senses.
“Was it about a month after I collapsed like that? Only then did he come to his senses.”
As if a person has changed since he woke up, he said that he has become very calm unlike Woojin, who was a mischievous person in the past.
“Didn’t I listen to you a lot before?”
“Yes.”
“…”
Her dad says she looked exactly like his dad when he was little…
“Anyway, I’m guessing that the fever made you this way.”
Woo-jin is dumbfounded by the story he heard for the first time.
In many ways today, I felt strange because I felt like I was learning about my past that Woojin didn’t know.
“Well, anyway, this is what if. It’s the past anyway, so the future is important.”
“That’s right.”
“So, drink this today, sleep comfortably, and call again tomorrow. Because there could be something wrong with Shia.”
“Yes…”
Just like what Dad said earlier, now that I think about it, it seems that Woojin himself said something bad to Sia.
But if her suspicions are true, I thought I’d take her heart and go out strong.
Because now one of Woojin’s worries has disappeared.
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Eun-jin and Jun-seo arrive at the motel before they know it.
“You know that you came all the way here, right? Take it off.”
“Quit…”
Eunjin crumpled her expression and slowly began to undress her.
