Chapter 197 – Chapter 197
More emigration has passed.
In the meantime, Eun-chae periodically met and spent time with Baek-san.
At first, Do-gyun, who was full of worries, now thinks that he is fortunate that Baek-san is taking care of Eun-chae.
In Baeksan’s house, on the table in the living room, souls were clashing for a long time today.
“Trap card.”
When Eun-chae opened the card she had turned over, all the cards on Baeksan’s field disappeared.
Now Baeksan’s remaining points are 0.
Baek San-eun neatly admitted that he had lost and nodded his head.
“… Lost.”
Eun-chae’s cheeks were reminded.
That’s why today’s exhilarating joy flows through my body from the fact that I won the match today.
Eun-chae said with her shoulders wide open and her breasts puffed out.
“Eunchae is a Duel Master.”
“Yes.”
Eun-chae exhaled her snort and savored the joy of her victory. Then, after sorting out her cards, she approached Baek-san.
Baeksan reached out to her hand first, with a movement he had become accustomed to, and held her hand with Eunchae.
To go to the pond after the duel.
She never made any particular commitments, but the process was becoming one of the natural routines.
Baeksan and Eunchae walked hand in hand.
Open the living room door, go through a long hallway, exit the front door and go to the right.
If you walk through the well-landscaped garden for a while, you will come to a pond that has been particularly well-maintained in recent years.
In front of the pond, a new long chair had now been brought in.
Baeksan and Eunchae sat on the chairs.
She was still wearing her clothes because of the wind that was cold enough to call it a knife wind.
Right next to Baeksan, Eunchae blew on her with a ‘ho’, ‘ho’ and watched her dispersed breath.
Stirring it once with her hand, Eun-chae’s gaze turned to the pond as she nodded her head with a flushed face, perhaps because of the cold or because of her excitement.
“I’m frozen.”
“Yeah, it’s frozen.”
A very thin layer of ice had formed on the surface of the pond.
“Are the carps okay?”
“Below is fine.”
Baeksan continued his thoughts while answering Eunchae’s question.
How can I say that even if the ice freezes above, the fish below do not have any trouble surviving.
How can I explain that so that my little granddaughter can understand?
Baeksan, who had been thinking about it for a while, soon dispelled the thoughts that came to mind and followed Eunchae to the top of the pond.
It occurred to her that the little granddaughter she had seen in recent weeks would not be curious about the correlation between her layer of ice and the fish that lived beneath it.
Just savoring this time.
Baeksan decided to focus only on that.
It could have been said that it was a very difficult task for Baeksan, who always thought about work, but fortunately, thanks to the magical power of her young granddaughter, Baeksan was able to put those things down for this moment.
The strange, erratic, and somewhat cunning little granddaughter had the power to suck all the nerves around her just by her presence.
Only when Baek San-eun was with his young granddaughter did he feel like he was Seo Baek-san, the old man in the back room, rather than Seo Baek-san, the chairman of Hanseong.
Instead of being the head of a conglomerate admired by everyone, he feels like an old man in the back room waiting for his little granddaughter to arrive.
If asked if he didn’t like it, Baeksan could come up with the answer, ‘Not at all.’
Unknowingly, he is looking for her granddaughter, whom she had neglected all her life and had only known how to turn away from even after they finally reunited.
Baeksan thought.
He said that the reason he had this kind of heart was because of the remorse inside.
She says she is now turning an irreversible relationship into being with this young granddaughter. She said that it was not something she wanted to be mistaken for.
Since this young granddaughter alone is still stuck in the old days, she is still in the moment when she hasn’t fallen apart, she must be selfishly seeking comfort in keeping this little granddaughter by her side.
Baeksan let out a long breath.
The pure white breath followed, dissipating into the air.
Eun-chae, who had been preoccupied with her carp for a while, opened her eyes wide and looked at the scattering breath.
“Dragon.”
It was because of the idea that Baeksan’s breath resembled a 7th grade dragon.
*
It was dinnertime, and it was time for Do-gyun to come pick up Eun-chae.
Eunchae finished her day’s duel and started packing her things.
Returning home after a rewarding day.
It was something that made Eunchae feel proud these days.
Eun-chae put her bag on her back and looked at Baeksan.
Baeksan had opened the book again and was reading.
Eun-chae, who had been watching her, suddenly spat out such words.
“Chairman, aren’t you lonely?”
She said this because she was worried about Baeksan, who would be left alone again.
In response, Baeksan raised her head slightly, looked at her silver hair, and then pursed her lips.
“I am not lonely.”
“Why?”
“Because I’m used to it.”
A new question.
Baeksan came up with such a thought in response to Eunchae’s question. There is no reason for her to be lonely now that she was always sitting alone on the sofa in the living room.
It was the life he chose, and it was the result of that choice, so isn’t Baeksan regretting it again and not being able to eat it?
However, was that not a satisfactory answer to Eun-chae?
Eun-chae approached Baek-san, and she tapped Baek-san on the shoulder, she said.
“Great job.”
Baeksan’s body trembled.
In the midst of that, Eunchae said, this time stroking Baeksan’s hair.
“Eunchae will come again, so wait kindly.”
Baeksan’s expression darkened.
This was also why she couldn’t understand the behavior of this erratic little granddaughter.
However, to Eun-chae, it was approaching as ‘shame’.
It’s because she did it.
I always felt happy and embarrassed when the bee stroked my hair like this, so I thought the president must be like that too.
Eun-chae dyed her cheeks red because she was so proud of herself that she knew how to praise others.
It felt like something grown up.
While Eun-chae’s pride deepened and Baek-san’s expression became strangely crumpled, a housekeeper came in and said.
“You are here.”
It was a word that announced the arrival of Do-gyun.
Eun-chae jumped up at those words, and she waved her hand at Baek-san and said,
“Sleep well, President.”
“… Yes.”
Baeksan nodded his head.
*
A few days later, at Eun-ah’s house.
Do-gyun tilted his head as he saw Eun-seol getting ready to go out.
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to see the president.”
“Eh?”
At the thought of ‘suddenly?’, Doubts grew on Do-gyun’s face.
Eun-seol met that gaze and added a comment with a sunken face as always.
“Aren’t you taking care of that little boy? You should come and say thank you.”
“Ah… I’ll get it soon…”
“Done. I am going alone.”
Do-gyun cut off his words that he would go with him, and then, watching Eun-seol trimming his clothes, he came up with that idea.
‘I don’t think I hate it…’
He thought that he had no idea what Eun-seol thought of Baek-san.
One day, I thought Eun-seol hated Baek-san because of the attitude he showed when he first mentioned Baek-san, but looking at the attitude he showed while facing Baek-san afterwards or the way he went to say hello first, it wasn’t that.
‘Rather than hate…’
Respect.
In Do-kyun’s gaze, Eun-seol’s attitude was visible.
When it comes to Cheonwu, they definitely show a sense of rejection or denial, but it would be correct to say that Baeksan has a strange form mixed with respect and small resentment.
What the hell happened between the two of them?
Do-gyun stared at Eun-seol for a long time at a question he could not come up with an answer for, and then erased his thoughts.
Judgment that it is useless to think about things that cannot be known right away.
“Come on.”
“Yes.”
Eun-seol gave a short answer to Do-gyun’s greeting and left the house.
*
“He is inside.”
Eun-seol nodded at the housekeeper’s words and opened the door leading to the living room at the end of the hallway.
Kik-.
The sound of hinges was heard, and Baeksan’s back caught Eunseol’s eyes.
“Long time no see.”
Baeksan’s head turned to Eunseol.
Baeksan looked at Eunseol with his mouth closed for a moment, then nodded.
“… Yes.”
A slightly more subdued voice than usual.
In response, Eun-seol raised a small question and approached Baek-san, then stopped him abruptly.
Eun-seol’s eyes narrowed.
It was because of the ‘pack of cards’ lying on the table in the living room.
It was the card that Eunchae always played with and messed up the house.
Why is that there
Eun-seol came up with such a thought and soon came to the conclusion that Baek-san was playing that card game with Eun-chae.
However, there was an unanswered question, and it was a question that came to mind because I couldn’t imagine that Baeksan, not anyone else, would be suitable for such a game.
A little embarrassment came to mind in Eun-seol.
Eun-seol’s gaze turned to Baeksan. Baeksan’s eyes turned to Eunseol again.
In the meantime, Baeksan’s hand was hiding the stack of cards that had been on the table above the armrest of the sofa again.
Eun-seol tried to look away from her and lowered her eyes to the floor.
“… I’m glad you look alright.”
“… Yes.”
It was a situation where the atmosphere could have gone bad, but fortunately both Eun-seol and Baek-san were people who knew how to respect each other’s privacy.
