Chapter 105 – Change of Mind (1)
The day after the face-to-face ceremony.
I had class early in the morning, so I was changing my clothes when someone knocked on the door.
Can-can-can!
I know who it is just by knocking on the door.
There is only one person who can kick like that.
“Hey, open the door!”
It is also Shin Yoo-jung.
What is he doing in the morning?
I put on the shirt I took out to wear today and walk to open the door.
“What are you doing to open the door so late….”
The guy who was habitually trying to vent his irritation slowed down towards the end, and soon he was speechless.
A blatant gaze is transmitted through the open shirt gap.
Seeing that the neck of the neck moves mercilessly, it seems that he is swallowing saliva.
Because that’s pretty perverted.
“What are you doing in the morning?”
As I deliberately buttoned up my shirt, he licked his lips.
“Shit… , Have breakfast.”
“Hey.”
It’s a little surprising that Shin Yoo-jung takes care of my breakfast.
“What is it, those eyes?”
“Are you just curious?”
To be honest, he replied with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“It can’t be helped. She insisted that she make sure to feed you your breakfast while her mother is away.”
My eyes widened slightly at his words.
While away… If so, it sounds like the story about where the lady went.
Even for several days.
“West… , No, where did you go?”
I try to keep calling him once I say his name.
Effortlessly evading the words in front of her, he asked the auntie’s whereabouts with a tone mixed with bewilderment.
“I don’t know.”
“… You don’t know?”
“Uh. They said they went there for a few days to get some fresh air. When she asked where she was going, it was a secret.”
“Oh yeah….”
“I thought your mother would have told you too, but I guess she didn’t.”
“I know.”
The sudden decision to travel is probably because of me.
Would a confession like a strong stone fastball thrown at too many people hurt more than good?
The reason he left without saying anything to me must have been that he needed time.
Time to clear my confused mind and decide the answer to my confession.
Even in the midst of that, I am deeply saddened by the fact that he left after begging me to make sure to take care of my breakfast.
“I will have to wait….”
“What are you waiting for?”
Shin Yoo-jung tilts her head at the words that leaked out of her mouth and asked back.
I shook my head.
“Nothing. So what did you do this morning?”
“It’s a side dish, because there are so many in the refrigerator. I just boiled soybean paste stew… ?”
“Since you boiled it, I’m really looking forward to it. Let’s go eat before it gets cold.”
“… Is it my mistake that the word ‘expectation’ sounds very uncomfortable?”
“I guess.”
Madame… , Now that Seo Jeong-hee has gone on a silent trip, there is only one thing I can do.
Just waiting
How long it will take, whether it will clear all your thoughts, and what decisions will be made that way.
I don’t know everything, but I just have to believe and wait in silence.
“Actually, it doesn’t matter either way.”
Depending on what answer she hears from her, her mood will change a little, but her thoughts won’t change.
I never intend to give her up on her.
“Hey, why aren’t you coming sooner?”
“Go now.”
Hearing her voice from downstairs, I put my thoughts aside and went straight downstairs to finish breakfast for the two of us.
The moment I tasted soybean paste stew made by Shin Yoo-jung, I thought.
Another reason why we shouldn’t give up on Seo Jeong-hee has increased.
* * *
It was quite impulsive that she decided on her trip.
She desperately wanted to get away and have some alone time.
So I decided to leave.
When I thought about it, it was like that.
She saw no reason why she couldn’t leave.
‘My daughter is all grown up, so there’s no reason I can’t leave anymore.’
It is said that in the past, you could not even dream of traveling because you could not leave your young daughter behind, but that is not the case now.
That evening, she immediately booked her train ticket.
She offered to go on a short trip to her daughter as well, and she readily accepted.
It took exactly less than 30 minutes from booking train tickets to packing up.
A bitter smile leaked out of my empty heart.
“Why is it so easy….”
I felt a sense of regret, wondering why I hadn’t been able to do these easy things until now.
She left her house early in the morning.
A dusky dawn when the sun begins to rise.
I got on the train at Seoul Station with a swollen heart.
Her destination is Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do.
It was because I had heard that the place in autumn was very pretty and beautiful.
Soon after, Jeongeup arrived.
The red and yellow scenery she saw there was beautiful enough to meet her expectations.
“Ha… , Good night.”
Everything was good
The beautiful scenery, and the absolute peace of mind.
She moved from place to place with a light gait.
She took a cable car in Naejangsan National Park, looked down at the scenery below her feet, and went to a place called the Maple Tunnel.
Red, yellow, and even the green that remains unstained.
The three colors come together and the maple leaves covering the top so that the sky cannot be seen showed me why this place is called a tunnel.
“I should take a picture and show it to my daughter.”
When she was taking pictures of various places with her smart phone with an excited expression.
A man with his face dyed red like an autumn maple leaf approached her with shy steps.
“There….”
“Oh my goodness!”
Seo Jeong-hee is startled by the unexpected voice.
Then her man hurriedly lowered her head.
“No, sorry to startle you.”
At her polite apology, Seo Jeong-hee soon recovered her complexion, smiled softly and shook her head.
“No. I must have been focusing too much on taking pictures.”
The man’s hardened face softened slightly at her generous response.
“But why… ?”
“Ah, me, that.”
Her man hesitated and hesitated at her answer, then closed her eyes tightly and shouted at her.
“Hey, over there! Ho, if you come alone, why don’t you look around with me?!”
“Oh.”
Seo Jeong-hee was surprised again.
This time in a different way.
Her man’s age did not seem very old.
Should I hit it a lot, maybe in my early 30s?
It looks a bit messy, but it doesn’t look bad and the outfit is very good.
So she was a little puzzled.
And the answer to that was immediately heard from the man.
“Mmm, looking at it from afar, it’s so pretty. Well, I’m not the kind of person who would ever talk like this… , I felt like I would regret it forever if I didn’t.”
It’s pretty.
A man who was only in his early 30’s, to himself who was in his mid-40’s.
I suddenly became curious.
“How old do I look?”
I hope the man responds in bewilderment to the question out of the blue.
“Yes? Oh that… , Around the early 30’s….”
“Ho-ho, is that so?”
The joy that slowly fills up in your heart.
But apart from that, she smiled awkwardly and declined his offer.
“Thank you very much for the offer, but I will decline.”
“Ah….”
Saying that, Seo Jeong-hee raised her right hand and showed it to her man.
A ring worn on the fourth finger.
What that meant was clear.
The man’s face turned redder.
“I’m sorry. I really did not know that you would be married.”
“No. I felt good thanks to you.”
Indeed it was.
She was both delighted and relieved at the thought that she hadn’t lost her charm as a woman yet.
After a pleasant incident, she entered the hotel room she had reserved for the evening.
It was worth spending a little more money to get a room with a nice night view.
Just looking at the beautiful scenery from upstairs made me feel better.
I received wine and simple snacks from room service and drank a glass.
“Ha… !”
You can feel the alcohol flowing through your body.
It even feels like the fatigue accumulated from busy walking around is melting away.
She remembered what had happened a moment ago.
“Whoops….”
Thinking back on it, it was a good feeling.
However, there was also a bit of an oddity.
When she shows the ring on her ring finger to decline her man’s offer.
The person who came to her mind was not her husband, but Kim Do-jin.
“I thought you had a good meal….”
My heart keeps going
Now, she is more concerned about Kim Do-jin’s meals than her husband’s meals.
In the past, I used to call first, even if I was curious, but now I’m afraid of myself just going through it.
It’s like she’s becoming a bad woman who gets caught up in an affair from a drama.
Even though she knows she can’t, she can’t get out of it.
He is changing at a frighteningly rapid pace.
And the direction of that change was the perfect way to shake yourself up even more.
“What should I do….”
Seo Jung-hee is in trouble.
His bloody confession made her immersed in her happiness.
I wanted to say that I would go with him in his arms, but I couldn’t.
No matter how far she is, she has her husband.
In fact, what she truly feared was not the matter of having or not having her husband.
When Dojin Kim bumps into her heart, she comes to think of that.
Can you say that it is a husband and wife relationship that you can barely see on holidays from so far away?
Living apart like this, or living separately from each other.
What else will change?
No matter how much I thought about it during the long night, I couldn’t come up with an answer.
Divorce… , Hesitated
However, I know that getting away from Kim Do-jin is not easy anymore.
Suffering alone, she changed the destination of her trip.
Land’s End Village, Haenam.
Where her husband would be busy working.
