Chapter 365 – #55. Gangster Mother-in-Law (4)
It was an apology in a loud, powerful voice.
I didn’t think that a loud voice would have such a big impact.
Despite the somewhat burdensome apology, the mother-in-law looked down at the woman calmly as if nothing had happened.
‘What is it, is it correct to apologize for making people suspicious?’
Everyone has something called greed, and it was only natural for people to be suspicious because they knew about ten roads under water but not one road inside people.
There is no reason for mother-in-law to apologize like this.
Rather, she was in a situation where she could feel betrayed, saying, “How could she doubt me?”
But that woman didn’t make excuses or get angry, she just put her head down and apologized.
‘This is a really strange place. Is that a real man or a real woman?’
Little by little, I started to understand Yeon Joo’s sister’s words, which had not been readily accessible to me until now.
Moreover, the attitude of the mother-in-law who was receiving an apology was tremendous.
The woman’s behavior was very pleasing to her.
“Hmmmm! I didn’t doubt your heart. Even if I think about it, the second child was lacking a lot. So, naturally, it just made my thoughts more complicated. The first word is not my idea.”
For all that said, it sounds like the woman loves to get down on her knees and bow her head.
I wondered why I liked it so much, but Yeonjoo sister poked my side and whispered in my ear.
‘It’s all acting, so don’t be upset.’
‘Is that acting?’
‘Just think of it as saving face.’
Face?
It’s like a scene out of a noir movie, right?
‘This isn’t friendship, but loyalty?’
Certainly, it seems that making an apology like that is a better image for the person above you than making excuses every single time.
Even if it’s second to covering whether he really did something wrong.
“Get up. There are customers, but it’s not nice to see you lowering your posture like that.”
“Yes, Boss. Sorry.”
The woman who was cool even when she was on her knees was also cool when she got up.
The mother-in-law, who comforted the kneeling woman and made her stand up, said to me.
“Come to think of it, did I introduce my son-in-law to Gwan-i?”
From the word ‘we’, I could see that my mother-in-law had great trust in that woman.
“No, I didn’t hear the introduction.”
“I didn’t care. When you get older, you blink like this. This is my foster daughter, Choi Gwan.”
“She is called Choi Kwan.”
“Yes, yes, the coffin can call you brother-in-law. You too should think of Guanyi as your sister-in-law.”
“All right.”
Unlike me, who answered meekly, Mr. Choi jumped up.
“Yes!? How dare I…”
“What dare you? Are you uncomfortable with playing?”
“No. Will you stop making useless appearances?”
Yeonjoo seemed to have no complaints about a woman named Choi Gwan calling me brother-in-law.
When talking about that woman, I thought it was a bad relationship because her tone was quite sharp, but it seems that the relationship between the two is not too bad than I expected.
“Yes, lady.”
“It seems like it’s been a while since I asked her to call her sister, but she is still a lady.”
“… I apologize.”
“No matter how much I respect my mother, it is very annoying to use a profanity for no reason. Don’t you think anything while watching her mother like to hear that? She said she was such a great person.”
“The boss deserves respect.”
“This is why there is a saying that it is useless to have a daughter. You are persecuting old Emmy.”
“If I persecute you, will you suffer?”
Again, Yeonjoo’s sister and mother-in-law started fighting.
I took a step away from the conversation for a moment and rolled my head.
Mother-in-law cannot give up Hyeon-oh because she must find an heir, and Yeon-joo does not want Hyeon-oh to be bound by this place.
‘If I just ask Mr. Choi to hand over the succession, he will surely say no.’
After thinking about it, I came up with the best way to take a step back from each other and decided to suggest it to everyone.
It was clear that the two people, who would lead to a fight just by talking, would not come to an agreement even if they talked for a hundred days.
‘Let’s use that woman.’
I don’t know what kind of heart a woman named Choi Gwan has inside.
She might really be a woman with quite a bit of ambition on the inside.
It even makes no sense that she lacks ambition given her position.
Since she didn’t know anything about Kwan Choi, she decided to leave the possibility wide open.
It didn’t matter if she was ambitious or if she really had no intention of doing so because of her loyalty.
‘If I can lessen my mother-in-law’s attention with this, it’s worth it.’
I don’t know how Mr. Choi will accept my proposal.
But if she thought of her too a little bit, she would know that it’s a good story for both of them.
“Could Choi Gwan be our godmother?”
“!?”
“What?!”
“Godmother? Did she say she’s your mother-in-law now?”
The attention of Yeonju sister and mother-in-law, who had been quarreling for a long time, poured into me at once.
“Yes, I think she would be very reassuring if Ms. Choi became Hyun-oh’s godmother. Honestly, isn’t Hyeon-oh too young? My mother-in-law wants to make Hyeon-oh her successor, but is that possible in a day or two? Until Hyeon-oh grows up, it will take 20 years.”
“20 years…”
20 years from now, my mother-in-law will be over eighty.
It’s not the order of birth when I go, but until then, my mother-in-law won’t be able to keep the family clean, and in the end, the closest person to pass on the work was Mr. Choi.
Naturally, if she took over her real power, Hyeon-oh would become her successor, so whether he inherited it or not, it was necessary to establish a good relationship.
‘I didn’t say anything to my mother-in-law, but she should think about after she passed away.’
Currently, the quarrel between mother-in-law and Yeon-joo sister was something that time would naturally resolve.
There is only one thing I can do for Hyeon-oh.
Using Mr. Choi to buy time.
The age at which a child can make serious decisions about his or her future.
That is, until you’re twenty.
Choi Kwan was the best card to put off her mother-in-law’s decision until then.
“Are you telling me to wait 20 years for me? Then I’ll be a little boy and a grandmother! It’s meaningless if you don’t raise him as an heir from a young age!”
“That’s why I wanted Choi Kwan to be her godmother. If you are Mr. Choi Kwan, who has spent a lot of time near her mother-in-law, can’t you raise her enough even after her child is all grown up?”
“Are you trying to link Hyeon-oh with the people in this house?”
“If you stay like this, you will only fight and hurt your feelings. We need to take one step at a time to solve the problem. We don’t want to decide Hyeon-oh’s future right away, and my mother-in-law says she can’t wait 20 years, so we agree to have Choi Gwan-ssi be her godmother.”
If her mother-in-law said she couldn’t do that, she would betray Mr. Choi Kwan, who even knelt down and apologized.
Refusal itself would mean that you still do not trust Mr. Choi.
“Of course, it would be possible if Mr. Choi accepted my proposal.”
“… Today, my brother-in-law and I met for the first time. Are you still willing to trust me?”
Choi Kwan asks in a trembling voice.
It’s not her suggestion as long as she honestly believes in her.
But here, she saw it was not good to be honest.
“Sure. Seeing her sincere respect for her mother-in-law gave her confidence that she could trust Hyeon-oh’s godmother position.”
“Still, it’s your son’s godmother…”
Ms. Choi must have been deeply moved by my words. She kept her lips tightly shut and seemed to have made up her mind. She opened her eyes and called for her mother-in-law.
“Boss!!”
“Uh, huh?”
My mother-in-law, who was taken aback by the sudden conversation, was taken aback by Mr. Choi’s force.
“Can I really be your godmother?”
“… I really want to ask Are you okay though?”
It is a place with many temptations.
Will I be able to withstand it…
Isn’t it a disaster that I sincerely believed in Mr. Choi.
I could have interfered in this matter and suffered bad things in my later years.
“Please trust me. Just as he introduced me as his foster daughter, I dare to think of Boss as her mother. I will never be swayed by greed. She will teach the youngster everything about the boss and clearly what the boss was like.”
“…”
My mother-in-law spared her words, patting her head as if she had gotten a thorny problem.
“I don’t think I can make a decision right away.”
“… Yes.”
Mr. Choi looked a little disappointed, but her mother-in-law closed her eyes, as if not to make her decision.
Sister Yeon Jo was grasping the situation, and then she said quietly.
“Eat some rice. I am hungry.”
It was a neat change of topic that everyone hoped for.
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She ended up being caught and tied up because her mother-in-law told her to go to bed for the night.
Her mother-in-law, who never took her hyeono from her side even for a moment, didn’t take it off even when she was sleeping.
Eventually, I moved to a place to stay overnight with my sister.
Upon entering the room, there was a surprising sense of life.
“Is this your sister’s room?”
“This is the room I stayed in as a child.”
“Oh!”
This is Yeon Joo’s sister’s childhood room!
Suddenly there was a great interest in this room.
“No pictures? Normally, when you come to play like this, you show a picture.”
“Doesn’t exist. There can be no such thing.”
“Ah, aren’t you pretending not to be there?”
“Stop talking nonsense and sit here. Let’s talk.”
“Yes.”
Since there was something I committed without consulting, I sat down at my sister’s call.
“What the hell are you thinking? You are seeing Choi for the first time.”
“Yes?”
“What do you trust and think about entrusting your child to him? It was imprudent to do so without consulting me.”
I nodded my head obediently at Yeonjoo sister’s stinging scolding.
It was embarrassing for my sister because she did it as soon as she remembered it without consulting her.
“It wasn’t a proposal I genuinely believed in him. I have no intention of entrusting Hyeon-oh to him.”
“Then why did you bring up the godmother?”
“Because neither my mother-in-law nor my sister have any intention of stepping down. In a way, it might be possible to use Mr. Choi. Or maybe it could be a win-win for each other.”
“Please explain. I need to hear what you were aiming for.”
I began to explain so that my sister could understand.
He was a smart person, so it was easy to understand.
“You’re trying to buy time by using Gwan-i.”
“If I leave my mother-in-law alone like this, her obsession with Hyeon-oh will only get worse. At that time, it may not be possible to solve it with words like now.”
“I know his patience. It won’t be long before you get nervous and do all sorts of things. I didn’t even know it was dirty.”
“So it is. With Choi Gwan as her godmother, there is no need to be so impatient with her education.”
After listening to what I said, they seemed to understand that it was a good idea.
Yeon Joo’s serious expression softened.
“But I don’t know if my mother will accept your offer. She would have to have her mother trust Kwan Yi wholeheartedly, but that nobleman couldn’t possibly do that. She sincerely said that if she had regarded Gwan-i as her daughter, there would be no way she would have made such a fuss with her second child, and she had no reason to be obsessed with Hyeon-oh.”
No matter how bloodless they are, they are close enough to introduce her as ‘foster daughter’.
Anyone can see that Mr. Choi Gwan is suitable as her successor.
Nevertheless, her mother-in-law covets Hyeon-oh.
That’s how intense her obsession with bloodline is.
She couldn’t let that obsession spill all over Hyeon-oh.
That’s why she thought of using Choi Kwan.
“I think my mother-in-law will accept it. No, shouldn’t that be the case? Things are a bit tricky. Mr. Choi Kwan already had her on her knees because of it.”
“It’s subtle… Well, the old man’s head must be complicated now. If she refuses your offer, it will mean that she doesn’t trust Guanyi. He’s human too, so it’s no joke to feel betrayed if you’re rejected. It’s a chance to properly fuck one of the two, whoever it is, isn’t it?”
Isn’t it the law that the greater the original trust, the greater the risk in case of disappointment?
Since my mother-in-law wasn’t someone who didn’t know that, my sister burst into a pleasant laugh.
