Chapter 872 – #97. Lanna (32)
“I didn’t even remember it until I looked at the picture again. But when I saw the picture, I remembered. This woman came to visit me several times, and she bought me delicious food and gave me presents.”
“Under.”
Mother-in-law sighed deeply at Lanna’s words.
She had a lot to say, but she seemed to be holding it back.
“This woman was so suspicious that I recognized her, and she had a lot of things with my dad.”
“…It’s okay. Why do you know that? Never mind. It’s over.”
My mother-in-law showed a sense of rejection, saying that it was not easy for her to say what was inside her, turning her nerves off.
But she didn’t seem like she was willing to back down easily.
“Why did this end? Is there really nothing wrong with mom?”
Lanna seemed to feel her frustration when she saw her mother-in-law completely drained of her venom.
“When I think about that incident, my head still throbs. I feel comfortable living as if nothing happened. My daughter and son-in-law are so filial to me, so why are you living so tired?”
“Isn’t mom unfair? She should at least get rid of the false accusation!”
“Why is that a false name? Yes, you guessed it, that woman made me that way. She came and drugged me gently. But if Mama had been rationally smart, she wouldn’t have lost your father. After all, It’s my fault.”
Seeing her mother-in-law’s despair made her feel bad.
How much did she burn inside before she gave up even expressing her resentment?
She imagined her mother-in-law crying alone at the reality that had not changed no matter how much she beat her chest and regretted it.
If I, the son-in-law, are like this, what about Ran, her real daughter?
She was of course she was mad and she was at a loss.
“That girl who benefited from your mother being like that? She leaves that bad bitch alone? Was she that mother was such a good person?”
“Well… Her mother doesn’t have any lingering attachments to her father for her to care.”
“I’m not. I’m angry, I want revenge!”
“Do you have such bad thoughts while pregnant with three children?
Unable to hit her pregnant daughter, her mother-in-law opens her ax eye and scolds her Lanna.
But in reality, she had nothing but revenge.
“At least I have to tell Dad the truth. No, Dad is also a problem in the first place. If there is such a woman, you should have cut him off and rejected it. Why do you keep taking her with you? In the same school, in the same department, and the girl’s father runs it. Doesn’t the fact that you even got a job at a company mean that your dad had something?”
“Eww, I don’t know if he really… Just brings back things that have already been done and upsets me.”
“She says if mom says she doesn’t want to do it, I’ll do it. I’ll go to my dad and ask him if he really didn’t know, if he’s proud.”
“Don’t do it, this one! What if you say you don’t know, what if you say you know? Nothing changes!”
“Why doesn’t anything change? At least the guilt of the guy who burned her mother’s breast is alleviated!”
She burst into rage because she couldn’t bear to drink her drink, and after drinking only her plain water, she got up from her seat.
“She said it was true that she touched her mother, so that’s okay.”
“What are you doing here? Pregnant baby!”
“Don’t worry. Mothers and daughters are competent. Sons-in-law are capable beyond imagination.”
“Why are you trying to touch someone who is living a good life? Can I just bury him?”
“She’s all right as long as mommy is okay?”
“!!”
Ran’s mother-in-law’s mouth fell shut at my words.
“I am a victim in that case too. Her mother is not the only victim. I lost her father because of her.”
“…”
“Am I still not qualified to take revenge on her?”
“It’s because I don’t want to see you do rough things. I’d rather have my mom do it.”
“She said she didn’t want to meddle because she had no lingering feelings for her? Then she just watched. I didn’t intend to force her either. I just needed to find out what was going on.”
Directly by her mother-in-law’s mouth, the woman gave the cause, she said.
With that one word, it was as if we had done everything we needed to confirm.
Before Lanna met her dad, she needed to be sure that the woman was involved in the affair at the time.
After hearing that she was also a victim of what happened that day, her mother-in-law could no longer dissuade her.
First, the mother-in-law, who was staring bitterly at the back of Lanna, who had rushed into her room, took a shot of her alcohol in her glass and said to me.
“Can’t you try drying him?”
“Lanna’s wounds are deep, as is her mother-in-law’s.”
“I thought I didn’t remember because I was young. I never talked about my dad until I started talking about it today. He never talked about his dad even when he was talking in his sleep.”
So, saying she didn’t know, her mother-in-law drank alcohol alone again.
I filled my mother-in-law’s glass with alcohol, and I filled my glass with alcohol as well.
“I think that in order to heal a wound, you need to clearly identify where the wound is. Not even checking where the wound is or how much pain you are just because you are afraid is to develop a disease.”
“Will he get better if he does that?”
“Wouldn’t it at least feel relieved inside?”
“What does someone else do for revenge? How are you going to get revenge? How do you prove what happened in the past? That woman is not an ordinary fox. A kid says it’s me, so why wouldn’t you want to do it? But there’s no proof.”
My mother-in-law said that she wouldn’t believe me if I told her that she was the cause.
“Now I’ve lived with that woman for more years than I have. But now, have you revealed that? Let’s say I’ve revealed it. So what’s different? He’ll choose that woman who’s lived with her for a long time. I know that. Because that’s who she is.”
Even if her truth was revealed, nothing would change, so her mother-in-law’s guess was that it would eventually be Lanna who was hurt.
“She’s going to feel abandoned by her dad all over again. I hate that. It’s okay to just ask this and go.”
Listening to her mother-in-law, I could see that she wasn’t refusing to bring up memories of that time because she didn’t like it.
“I can understand your mother-in-law’s feelings.”
But couldn’t she have touched this, saying that Lanna would end up hurting her?
“I don’t think she did that to her mother-in-law alone. I’m going to bring out not only what happened in the past, but everything she’s done because of her father-in-law.”
“Is she you? She’s that woman… She’s not to be trifled with.”
“Don’t worry. I’m not easygoing either.”
When I said it with confidence, my mother-in-law seemed to feel relieved, and her expression relaxed.
“Yes, even if I don’t trust that bitch, I trust my son-in-law. I’ll trust only you. At least I hope he doesn’t end up getting hurt after going on a rampage alone. If there’s anything I can help you with, tell me.”
The reason her mother-in-law didn’t want to touch it was that she was worried about Lanna after all.
After checking my mother-in-law’s mind, I feel much more comfortable.
“Yes, I will. And… This might allow him to come see his mother-in-law.”
“Then let’s meet. The one who left is the one who left, and I stayed still. If you come, tell me to come.”
It was fortunate that my mother-in-law was cooler than I thought.
Seeing that he didn’t care too much about meeting his father-in-law, it seemed that he had really put his mind in order.
“Then why don’t you meet someone who likes this?”
“Your son-in-law wants to introduce you?”
“If your mother-in-law wants it.”
“Do I have high eyes?”
“I have to match it as much as I can. Traveling with friends is good, but wouldn’t it be different to go out with a good person?”
My mother-in-law is surprisingly sympathetic.
“My son-in-law said he would introduce me, but I can’t help but take a look at the picture of what kind of person he is.”
“Good idea. Haha.”
I was planning to prepare in advance so that Lanna and her mother-in-law would not be hurt by this incident.
The first thing to do in the process was to introduce a good person to my mother-in-law.
‘They say they’ve sorted their minds out now, but if we meet again, our minds might be shaken.’
That’s why I asked if it would be good to be introduced to a good person so that I wouldn’t be shaken.
My mother-in-law was well aware of why I had offered to introduce her to someone new.
So, the person who would normally have refused said he would like to see the photo.
After my mother-in-law stayed by her side until she finished drinking, I entered her room.
“Didn’t you sleep?”
“Can you sleep?”
“What about the conversation with your mother-in-law? Did you hear?”
“Are you really going to introduce me to a man?”
“Sure. You don’t like it?”
“No. I’m fine. I’m Chansung. Please introduce me as a very nice person. I have to be a nice enough person that my mom can fall in love with.”
“Sure.”
Of the men I met while I was here, there were some really nice ones.
Among such people, there was a man who was similar in age to his mother-in-law, but felt lonely because there was no one around.
Just because a man is dating many women doesn’t mean that women don’t cheat.
He worked as an actor in Korea as his father, his goose, and his daughter and wife went to study abroad and made a living.
The problem is that her wife had an affair there.
‘It was a rare single-mindedness…I didn’t expect to betray that.’
What’s even more surprising is that he found out during her divorce that her daughter was not his real daughter.
Deeply hurt by the betrayal of his faith, he has not met a woman to this day.
He’s had a few drinks with his older brother, and he said he doesn’t have any intentions of meeting a girl, but he doesn’t have anyone he cares about.
“But all I can do is introduce myself. I’ll have to meet and see if the two of you will get along well.”
“Ha… I guess we should meet her dad again and talk about it first, right? Would it be right to meet her first?”
“Would you like to meet her first?”
“I’m not confident that I’ll tear her hair out if I meet her. I think it’s better to just meet her dad first.”
“Okay, then. Do whatever you want. I’ll let you do it.”
He took her by the hand and held her in her arms.
I think my heart hurt a lot while talking to my mother-in-law today.
Lanna, who had been healing for a while in my arms, asked in a languid voice.
“I regret that I spoke so hard to her mother earlier. She didn’t have to be so hard…”
“I’m angry too. I think my mother-in-law gave up too easily. But after hearing what she said, I think she was worried about you.”
“I listened to it too. But it’s so frustrating that you don’t even think about resolving unfair things because you’re worried about me. I’m so angry that I wake up from my sleep. But mom is so calm.”
Until her heart calms down, I keep imagining how much her mother must have boiled her inside.
Ranna’s shoulders trembled little by little as she buried her face in my chest.
He gently stroked the back of her hair against her increasingly damp chest.
It seemed that a warm hug would be better than words of consolation.
Lanna, who wept for a long time while wetting my heart, quietly fell asleep.
