Chapter 875 – #97. Lanna (35)
“Father-in-law, if you’re avoiding it like that because you’re worried about Lanna or your mother-in-law, then you don’t have to worry. Lanna isn’t the weak child that your father-in-law knows. And I don’t intend to stay still either.”
“…It’s already past, so I don’t know why you’re trying to bring it up again. It’s right to cover it up. It’s been a long time.”
The father-in-law, who wanted to speak more comfortably, raised his voice again.
“It’s a wound that hasn’t healed even after many years. In that case, you have to check the wound again. What’s wrong and it’s not healing?”
“Then it could hurt even more. It might be better to just not touch it.”
“Why do we get hurt?
“…To get punished?”
The father-in-law has been questioning whether he can not easily believe it.
“I will protect Mr. Lanna and her mother-in-law.”
“It’s going to get bigger. Just live without knowing it like now. That’s right.”
“I don’t want to do that. Why should I? Your father-in-law isn’t looking at you because you hate Lanna-san, isn’t it a situation where you can’t see her even though you want to?”
For some reason, the father-in-law couldn’t hide his desire to see her grandchildren and granddaughters.
He, who had long experienced the pain of not being able to see the person he wanted to see, listened to me and hesitated to see if his feet would not drop.
“That woman…”
“I’m sorry, my father-in-law, but he may be a difficult person to you, but he may not be a big deal to me.”
“!!”
The grown-up father-in-law seemed to me to be one of the examples in the news.
As the number of men decreases, the crime rate of women targeting them is increasing.
However, the past does not mean that there was no crime at all.
Rather, it is more vicious in that it is the past.
At that time, crimes against men were not on the surface, so the man who became the target of the crime could not be saved.
And I didn’t know that the target of the crime was an adult father-in-law.
‘If I had known sooner, I would have helped you earlier, but it’s a pity.’
The bewildered father-in-law sat down again, and Lanna also sat down.
“Both of you, calm down and start with the situation. Fighting amongst ourselves won’t solve anything.”
“Dad says he won’t talk, so what can I do?”
“Your father-in-law needs to be brave.”
“…It’s not that I don’t have the courage to talk. It’s because it’s obvious that if I open my mouth, there will be trouble.”
“I can endure that trouble for the sake of my father-in-law.”
“Why am I making such sacrifices?”
“It’s because Lanna wants it. That’s enough reason for me to move.”
The father-in-law listened to me and told Lanna.
“You’ve met a nice person.”
“Yes. He’s a good person.”
“Ha, then…Yes. Please tell me.”
But she is just telling the truth at that time, and she has said that she will not take action just because she digs into the day’s work separately.
Still, the father-in-law clung to her passive attitude, and he seemed to have a hard time getting over her fear of her.
“Your father-in-law, you just have to tell the truth. I don’t want to take out my anger on someone worthless.”
“So… It wasn’t until Lanna was 3 that I noticed something was going wrong.”
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Until Lanna was 3 years old, her household was harmonious without any problems.
The relationship that met each other at first sight quickly flared up.
As soon as he found out that Lanna was born, he decided to marry her and live for them all his life.
However, I never imagined that that decision would be messed up by a close junior I knew.
“My mother suddenly started to doubt me. I just came in after working as usual.”
When I went on a business trip, I asked who I was going with, tried to make me crazy if there were juniors, and forced me to text or call every hour.
He was a patient man, and he listened to his wife’s wishes silently.
He got in the way of his work, but fortunately, his juniors were understanding and he was able to do his wife’s favor.
“I thought she’d be okay if she did what she wanted. But my wife just grew more suspicious of her. She was strange. She’s not one of those people.”
He wanted to know why his wife had changed the way he did, knowing that he wasn’t the kind of person who would do such a thing without a reason.
Actually, I didn’t have to think too long about the reason.
After all, there was only one person that her wife constantly referred to and hated.
“I pointed out that I was constantly moving with my juniors. So naturally, I had no choice but to be suspicious of my juniors. At that time, my juniors were friends who were so good to me, so it was difficult to notice the strangeness.”
“According to my research, I heard that they were even called a couple among the employees?
“…Has that ever happened? Ha… I was so ignorant. Since he’s always been like that, I thought he was originally such a friendly friend. So it was difficult to just be suspicious of juniors.”
She was uncomfortable with his wife getting too close with her junior, so she thought it better to distance herself a little rather than ask her what was going on with her.
“It was then that juniors started to change.”
How did she know that he had made up his mind to distance himself, she said, and started becoming obsessed with him to the point where her juniors were terrifying.
In the end, he had no choice but to speak directly to his junior.
My wife is uncomfortable with me being so close to you.
You are now at the age where you have to get married, so how long can you not stick with me?
“When you said that, I pretended to understand and pretended to understand. But that wasn’t the case.”
When the junior in power revealed his true colors, something happened to a level that he, who was only a petit bourgeois, could not solve.
The junior did not care about wielding his power.
His words of distance from him ignited the wick of a bomb, and his juniors made him stand on the edge of a precipice.
“It’s a bit hard to say this with my own mouth… My juniors did everything they could to get me. They threatened me, and even tied me up by force.”
Then, the thought that his wife was going to be in big trouble was when he heard a junior colleague curse his wife.
The more she refused, the more the junior developed hatred for his wife, and he thought that if people were mad like that, he would kill people enough.
“From then on, I couldn’t say no.”
It may have seemed to your co-workers that you enjoyed the attention of your juniors.
The mere fact of not rejecting the flirtation of juniors would make it appear as though they were allowing attention.
“It was a time when there was a social atmosphere where men shouldn’t swear at meeting other women. That’s why no one blocked the approach of juniors.”
He did not refuse the attention of his juniors, which made his wife even more crazy.
Saying I love you, but why are you ignoring the interest of another woman?
I’d rather admit it coolly.
Then I heard that it would be better.
“At that time, I should have acknowledged it. But then I was too young. I didn’t want to admit it. I didn’t like it and I was being treated one-sidedly.”
She sighed deeply, feeling sorry for her daughter and son-in-law.
Even thinking about it now, it is true that her actions at the time were wrong.
“Then something happened. My junior got pregnant. She said it was right because she had a child, and the junior forced her to marry. Threats toward her family were a bonus. The junior attached a person to her wife to take a picture, and the picture was taken. Showed it to me.”
She was confident that she could hurt this woman at any moment.
After receiving such serious threats, who could remain silent?
She decided to leave to save her family.
She also obtained a promise not to harm her wife if she fell.
“That’s how it happened. After that, I married a junior and lived faithfully in my family. Time passed like that, and after several decades, I got a call from my son-in-law.”
“Daddy is Hogu?”
Her daughter, who jumped up from her seat, raised her eyebrows fiercely.
He put his hand on his heart and took a deep breath.
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“Are you okay, father-in-law?”
“Uh uh… I’m sorry. I have a weak heart.”
“Did you have any chronic illnesses?”
“Dad! Are you okay? Is it because of me? Raise your voice?”
“No, no. It’s not like that, so don’t worry. I got the surgery and I’m fine.”
The complexion of the father-in-law was pale.
Somehow, from the first time I saw him, his complexion wasn’t good, but that must have been because he had a chronic illness.
Given my age, it was impossible not to have a chronic disease.
Her mother-in-law was also suffering from a herniated disc when I met her.
Of course, the chronic illness I had was alleviated with the nutritional supplements and health foods I gave.
“It must have been difficult to say, but thank you for saying it.”
“No… I was trying not to say it because I thought it would make me so angry.”
“Did that woman go so far as to occupy her father and not take good care of her health?”
“I’m a busy person. Taking care of my body was something I had to do on my own. And when you get older, it’s natural that your body breaks down here and there.”
“Are you siding with that girl in front of me right now? I thought she bought it because she was threatened, but since she lives next door to her, do you feel attached to her?”
“Lanna, don’t get too angry and calm down. You know, father-in-law is having a hard time.”
“Ha~”
The father-in-law seemed to have no excuses, so he just drank water.
Lanna held her breath as she cooled her blushing face with her hand fan.
She said, “Maybe she’s been precious because she’s lived so long. She might not want to break up with her.”
The reason Lanna-san was angry.
Because she had lived with her for so long, she thought that the woman’s family might have been more precious to her than herself.
