Chapter 197 – 197화 – Briefly, Their Mother (2)
“Mom, is this your first time in a special theater?”
“Yeah. It’s really amazing.”
A large movie theater located on the top floor of the department store.
The screen was much larger than any ordinary movie theater she had seen before, and the seats even resembled high-end massage chairs.
Leaning back in her seat, Yoon Na-eun sipped the orange juice she received as a service before entering the theater and looked around.
“Movie theaters these days have places like this.”
Yoon Yu-jeong laughed at her mother’s words and replied.
“Yeah. It’s called a special theater, and there are many different types of theaters.”
“Hehe, I only found out about it because Jin-hyeon oppa brought me here. There are even places where each seat has headphones?”
“Really?”
“Yeah!”
Yoon Na-eun smiled faintly at Da-jeong’s cheerful demeanor.
Her daughter had mentioned “Jin-hyeon oppa” again.
She had heard the name Cheon Jin-hyeon so many times.
Whenever she talked with her daughters, he was always the center of the conversation.
“But the movie tickets for this theater are really expensive, aren’t you getting too much from that oppa?”
Yoon Na-eun asked with a slightly worried tone.
When Da-jeong said she was going on a trip.
Other than a brief phone call with him to see if it was okay, Yoon Na-eun had never met or even talked to the person named Cheon Jin-hyeon that her daughters spoke of.
However, because she had heard so much about him through her daughters, she was relatively well aware of what he had done for them and how grateful they were to him.
He had given Yu-jeong a manager position at the cafe with a considerable salary, and he had allowed Da-jeong to study and draw comics in a good environment in the office inside the cafe every day.
At first, she was a little worried, but since Yu-jeong was there, she allowed Da-jeong to study at the cafe.
And watching her two daughters’ faces brighten day by day, her worries gradually turned into gratitude.
Even from what she heard, he not only provided them with opportunities but also bought them a lot of things. She herself had received many gifts from him, so it was obvious.
Drinks, nutritional supplements, even cosmetics.
Sometimes, her two daughters would come home with boxes, and when she asked what they were, they would both say in unison that Jin-hyeon or Jin-hyeon oppa had given them as gifts for her.
“Hehe. It’s okay, it’s okay. Oppa has a looot of money.”
Yoon Na-eun shook her head, looking at Da-jeong’s innocent smile.
“Still. You shouldn’t receive too much just because he has a lot of money. He even bought you a new tablet for your birthday last time.”
“Yeah. I really love it.”
After searching online, she found out it was a high-end tablet that cost well over a million won.
Could such gifts be exchanged between ordinary siblings?
He was said to be younger than Yu-jeong, so he probably wasn’t much older than Da-jeong either.
At the time, she had suspected that he might be dating Da-jeong.
[ Are you, by any chance, dating that Jin-hyeon oppa? ]
[ Uh, uh? Th, that’s… ]
However, when she asked Da-jeong if she was dating him, her cute daughter vaguely trailed off, denying it as if she wasn’t dating him, but not quite.
At that moment, Yoon Na-eun didn’t miss the fact that Da-jeong was clearly looking at Yu-jeong’s reaction.
‘Could they both like him? A competition?’
It was just a thought, but it didn’t take long for that suspicion to turn into certainty.
It was the same today.
Both Da-jeong and Yu-jeong’s eyes were too bright when they talked about Cheon Jin-hyeon.
‘Come to think of it, I’ve been meaning to meet him.’
She hadn’t met him yet.
Honestly, while she would be very cautious about marriage, Yoon Na-eun didn’t intend to interfere much in her daughters’ relationships.
Her husband, who was addicted to gambling and left home without any responsibility, abandoning his daughters and her.
Because she had to raise her two daughters alone in a difficult environment, Yoon Na-eun thought that her daughters had not dated and had only focused on studying and working hard for her sake.
Originally, they should have followed their father’s surname, but her two lovely daughters had even requested to change their surname to Yoon because they didn’t want to call the man who left their mother an “appa.”
Surely, her thoughts were right.
Now that they both had someone they liked, she hoped it would work out well.
‘Still, I should talk to him directly to see what kind of person he is.’
Of course, she knew what he looked like.
Her two daughters had shown her pictures more than once. Honestly, she thought he was handsome enough to fall for just by looking at his face.
So far, he had been evaluated as a very good and grateful person, but her evaluation might change after meeting and talking to him in person.
She also wanted to thank him.
And since she had gotten a vacation this time.
Yoon Na-eun decided that she would definitely visit the cafe during this vacation to talk to him.
“Ah. This is cheese-flavored popcorn, and this is the caramel flavor that Mom likes.”
“Really?”
She reached for the popcorn set that Jin-hyeon had given as a gift.
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‘Mom has really gotten so much better.’
While watching the movie, Yoon Da-jeong turned her head slightly to look at her mother.
A pleased smile spread across her face.
It was great to go on dates with Jin-hyeon oppa, but it was also really fun to watch a movie with her mom and sister like this.
She was a high school student, but looking at her mom now, it was like seeing her mom when she had just entered middle school.
Her skin and complexion were getting better and better.
If she continued to improve like this, she might be able to see her mom as she was before that person, who was hard to even call her father, left home, when she wasn’t stressed at all.
She was definitely pretty now, but looking at her mom’s old photos, she was even prettier back then.
‘Thank you, oppa. Hehe.’
It was all thanks to Jin-hyeon oppa.
As her mom said, she had received so much from oppa.
Her mom didn’t even know that oppa had promised to pay off all their debts.
Even so, she felt like she had received so much, so how much more would she feel?
Because Jin-hyeon oppa had told her not to feel sorry about it, and because she was determined to become a great cartoonist someday and repay him, Yoon Da-jeong accepted everything that oppa gave her with confidence.
Even that good, pleasant thrill and love…! Ahem!
Of course, oppa had his flaws too.
The fact that he had many women was one of them.
He said he was going out today, so he was probably on a date with that Ye-hwa unnie right now. Silly oppa…
Anyway.
‘But how do I convince Mom?’
That was Yoon Da-jeong’s concern.
From her mom’s perspective, it would be hard to understand that her two daughters were dating the same oppa at the same time, and that the oppa also had many other girlfriends.
Eventually, this relationship would be exposed, and in order to live together at oppa’s house before it was exposed, she had to get her mom’s permission, which meant she would naturally have to talk about it.
‘What does oppa plan to do?’
She thought about it, but she couldn’t come up with a clear answer.
‘Well, it’s oppa…’
She thought he would resolve it peacefully.
Yeah.
Yoon Da-jeong stopped thinking and focused on the movie again.
