Chapter 169 – Farewell
Lee Hee-yeon suddenly had an idea.
I don’t know what life is like.
If you look, you look, if you study, you study. Exercise if exercise. Sociality is sociality. Lee Ha-young, perfect with all of that, is weeping over the receiver.
“Aaaaa…”
… Truly, the sound of crying like a child.
She is the cry of a person who has lost love due to a crime she has committed.
As Lee Hee-yeon heard the cry, she fell into thought.
Somehow the flow of conversation flowed to this point, and she was able to listen to Lee Ha-young’s sobbing silently, and she traced the process.
‘I didn’t mean this.’
At first, it was just a sense of superiority.
It was a manifestation of a sense of accomplishment that he had finally defeated Lee Ha-young.
So she sent a message with the meaning of ridicule.
Wanting to announce her own victory, she finally proclaimed that she had been recognized as the master’s woman.
[The owner kicked out Lee Ha-young.]
However, the words the spy told him. And the picture of Lee Ha-young, who was sobbing, hung in her mind. The image of her crying her heart out made her unable to fully enjoy her victory.
‘Stupid bitch…’
Maybe that’s why, I felt pity.
No, it would be more accurate to say that it is a sympathy.
Suddenly, Lee Hee-yeon recalled the past when she heard the news that the owner and Lee Ha-young were connected.
To Lee Ha-young, who was smiling brightly, she recalled her miserable past, which she had to congratulate as her ‘friend’.
“Aaaaa…”
And that past appearance overlapped with Lee Ha-young.
Seeing her with her completely reversed position, her past and her self overlapped.
– Aww…
Lee Hee-yeon clenched her fist and bit her lips.
In her poor past, there was Lee Ha-young, who always shined.
Lee Ha-young has always been a light to herself, who was always depressed and gloomy.
‘Why are you torturing the child! Why!’
Her past self was a child who was easily teased.
I was so poor that I had never decorated it properly, and everything I carried was cheap.
She never applied any toner or lotion, so her skin was always a mess.
‘If you touch him one more time, he won’t stay. Okay?’
So Lee Hee-yeon thought that her bullying towards him was justified.
Because I’m such a lousy and lacking child.
Because her mom always said that her dad left because of me.
‘Who is it? Are you that kind of kid?’
But she wasn’t as good as Lee Ha-young.
She complimented me saying that she has a really pretty face on a day like this.
‘Is today your birthday? Then I’ll buy you this as a gift’
She was always giving.
What she eats, what she puts on, what she plays with, what she wears, what she receives from her is so much.
But, given all those things, she didn’t want anything.
She was a child who was satisfied with just one smile.
‘And. Heeyeon, are you studying very well? Let’s go to the same university as me!’
Studying like hell to escape the hellish house.
I hope that if I can get a full scholarship to live in another dormitory, I will be able to get out of this house.
Thanks to that hope, Lee Hee-yeon was able to go to the same university as Lee Ha-young.
Being able to be with her who she loves and longs for made her feel like she has her whole world.
‘I’m sure Lee Ha-young did that…’
However, Lee Ha-young of the world is crying shabby like this.
In the photo sent by her spy, she was so miserably lying on her face and weeping.
‘You can just cry. Don’t pretend to be fine.’
So, on impulse, she spit out those words.
At that time, she kept thinking of Ha-young from that time, and she couldn’t control her mind and threw it away.
‘Are you okay. I’m serious. Still, we were once… Close friends. That’s right, Hayoung.’
Alter ego.
There was definitely a time when we believed in each other so strongly.
When you reached out to me
The time when I gave up my love hoping for your happiness.
At that time, obviously, we were close friends to each other.
‘You can just cry. You can be honest.’
She was the one she admired so much.
But because of her betrayal, the wounds were deeply engraved in her heart.
However, Lee Hee-yeon, who suffered from Mr. Choi, knows.
He knew better than anyone how near impossible it was to be able to stay sane in his demon beast.
He is very aware of his absolute dominion, which the will cannot overcome by effort.
‘I will help you.’
So Lee Hee-yeon decided to reach out her hand to her, just like Lee Ha-young of her past did.
It’s true that I still feel sorry for her, but I decided to help her get back on her feet just this once.
“Whoa…”
So, Lee Hee-yeon took a deep breath and looked back at her own heart.
I couldn’t imagine that the mind that started with ‘sense of superiority’ would end with nostalgia for the past.
I still can’t forget Ha-young from that time.
“…”
Anyway, while looking back on her past, Lee Ha-young’s crying stopped before she knew it.
Lee Hee-yeon cleared her throat and asked how Lee Ha-young was.
“Are you feeling better now?”
“…Huh.”
“Whoa. Then listen carefully to what I have to say from now on.”
“…Huh”
She obediently said ‘yes’ with her nose-blind voice.
I laughed for no reason, but Lee Hee-yeon erased her expression and spoke in a serious voice.
“Know one thing first. There is nothing wrong with what the master said. Honestly, it’s funny that you’re crying right now.”
“…”
Lee Ha-young answers silently.
Heeyeon Lee said.
“You still don’t get the subject. You just want to believe that, but you are no longer the master’s girlfriend. Master didn’t accept you as his girlfriend.”
“…I see.”
“So what? Did you know the truth too? You just pretended not to know.”
“… Is it”
“Uh. Stupid You don’t even know your own mind.”
“…”
“You look at the owner while you are all alone. Pretending to be calm and talking inappropriately to the owner. In return for helping the owner, I went out first and started working. It’s all because you want to be confirmed as a girlfriend. Right?”
Lee Ha-young’s breathing through the receiver.
Taking a breath like that, Lee Ha-young said in a timid voice.
“Yeah… You’re right. I continue… Sungmin, no. I guess she wanted to be confirmed… That she was the owner’s girlfriend.”
Desire between people. And Lee Ha-young, who has a talent for twisting the situation by using the interests between organizations, did not know about her own mind.
No, he was turning away out of fear.
“Okay. Imagine if you were the owner. Are you going to get mad at me if you keep doing things like that? Won’t you?”
“… I’m going to be angry.”
“Are you wrong? Didn’t you?”
“I was wrong.”
Lee Hee-yeon smiled.
And Lee Ha-young continued to ask questions to face her truth.
“Okay. Besides, you’ve done it again for the sake of the master. Without even looking at it. If you thought of yourself as your master’s slave, you would never have done such a thing. Because the decision made by the master is the correct answer, and the words of the master are the truth.”
“…”
“Okay? You haven’t gotten out of the past yet. Unconsciously pretending to be a girlfriend. That’s arrogance If you are your master’s slave, all you have to do is trust and follow him, but he did something the master didn’t want and even pretended to be his girlfriend. Don’t you think it’s presumptuous?”
“… Huh. It was over-the-top.”
Lee Ha-young, who readily admits it.
Lee Hee-yeon sighed and then said.
“Whoa-. That’s your biggest problem. Still thinking you’re the owner’s girlfriend. That’s what I’m hoping for.”
“…Huh. Now I’m nothing…”
Lee Ha-young’s voice crying again.
She was greatly hurt by the word “Nothing”.
But Lee Hee-yeon was laughing.
“Of course nothing. Not a slave, not a girlfriend. Because you are being vague.”
“…”
“Now let go. Your relationship with the master is over.”
The end of a romantic relationship.
When I mentioned that, a cry was heard through the receiver.
However, Lee Hee-yeon continued to say what she had to say.
“… You did that, how can you still be a lover? What else were you trying to do with such a ruined relationship?”
The irregular breathing of Lee Ha-young.
Then she said in her snorted voice.
“I hate myself so much. I hate myself so much, I want to die… Just everything, everything… I regret it so much… I want to abuse me again and again…”
The hatred she had for herself that you could feel just from her voice.
Lee Hee-yeon waited for Lee Ha-young to calm down.
Five minutes later, she spoke up again.
“Are you okay. You can start over.”
You can start over.
Lee Ha-young replied to that.
“How…? I have already committed the unforgivable sin.”
“…That sin was committed by Lee Ha-young, her girlfriend.”
A crime committed by Lee Ha-young, who was her girlfriend.
What does that mean?
Lee Ha-young over the receiver chewed on the meaning and answered.
“… I don’t get it. Anyway, that’s what I did.”
“Ha. You stupid. The master is the master.”
Master is master
Lee Hee-yeon speaks enigmatically again.
After a while, Lee Ha-young replied.
“What are you talking about. I don’t get it.”
However, Lee Ha-young still doesn’t understand.
Lee Hee-yeon cleared her throat and gave her answer.
“Hmm. Listen carefully. I’ll tell you just once.”
Lee Hee-yeon pauses, not knowing what to say.
Then she carefully opened her mouth.
“The master is the master. In other words, Jeong Seong-min is Jeong Seong-min.”
The sin of daring to mention the master’s name.
Lee Hee-yeon quickly shut her mouth and waited for Lee Ha-young’s reaction.
However, it seems that Lee Ha-young still didn’t understand her meaning, so she added the following words.
“…People don’t change easily. No matter what sins you committed, Master is trying to embrace you. Do you know what kind of person the owner really is? He will not abandon his people.”
“…I, I did that…Forgive me?”
“It is not forgiveness. How can you forgive that But the master just wants to cover it up. Maybe he wants to make it out of nothing… I think so.”
Lee Ha-young was silent again.
What is she thinking
However, Lee Hee-yeon only spoke her own thoughts.
“But if you pretend to be the owner’s girlfriend, if you look at me with such a guilty conscience. Then nothing can be done The past has to be cut out.”
Lee Ha-young over the receiver nodded her head.
Now, she also finally realized what Lee Hee-yeon was trying to say.
“Start a whole new relationship. Become a true slave to him, and live thinking only of him. If that’s the case, Master will accept you too.”
Hearing Lee Hee-yeon’s advice, Lee Ha-young shed tears.
Because he seemed to know now why his master forced him to become a slave.
He wanted to give himself a chance.
“… Thank you. Thank you Heeyeon. Everything is clear now.”
Lee Ha-young’s sincere voice.
Lee Hee-yeon replied with a smile on her face.
“Then let go now. That persistent lingering lingering in you. Send them all away now.”
“…Huh. I will.”
Contrary to her first call, her voice was full of certainty.
Heeyeon Lee pressed her end call button.
And today she pondered what she had done.
‘Haha. I wasn’t originally going to do this.’
The original plan was to ridicule the despairing Lee Ha-young and destroy her mentality.
Her Dowon resolution was anything but, in the end Lee Ha-Young was her own strong competitor.
That means she doesn’t have to step in and help out.
‘But…’
However, she couldn’t forsake her in the end.
She lost her mind and couldn’t leave her alone in her despair.
Why did I do that?
“Huh-ooh…”
Heeyeon Lee took out her phone.
She then goes into the secret folder, unhides one of the photos she has hidden, and she clicks to view it.
In the photo, when she was in her sophomore year of high school, she was wearing a V shape with Lee Ha-young on her shoulder.
‘Maybe I can’t let someone go, maybe I’m the same.’
***
Tuck… Tuck…
Lee Ha-young moved her steps and stopped at a general store.
She bought one of her lighters there and went out.
Then she came to a deserted lot and took out a picture from her chest.
“…”
The photo she took out was a couple photo taken with Jeong Seong-min during her first anniversary.
This is her favorite couple picture, and it was a picture she treasured enough to carry in her purse or arms throughout her life.
“…Haha.”
And, as always today, when I saw that picture, a deep smile spread.
It was a beautiful, perfect, precious moment to look at at any time.
However, such a smile lasted only for a moment, and soon the smile became unstable as if it would break, and then scattered and disappeared along with sobs.
– Hwareuk.
Now I have to send
Lee Ha-young turned on the lighter and lit the edge of her picture.
When the picture caught fire, it seemed that my heart was also burned to black.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry I sent you off like this.”
Lee Ha-young said she was alone.
As she looked at the burning photos, she confessed what she wanted to say to Jeong Seong-min, not the owner.
“Eh… It was very… Very difficult… Because I, I couldn’t… It was just because I was a woman like this…”
-Roaring…
“You. You gave me everything…Everything…Huh.. Haha…But I…”
Lee Ha-young grabbed her chest.
With her mouth wide open, she let out a choked cry.
Tears flowed endlessly, her runny nose discharged, and she cried so madly that her saliva flowed.
The process of parting was so painful.
“For the rest of my life… I will never forget… The love you gave me… I will cherish it forever…”
The photos were almost gone.
Now, only the faces of the two remained, and the bottom was blackened to ashes.
“And… I will never forget… The things I did to you… I will atone for all my life… My whole life… That, I will… Live…”
Lee Ha-young gathered the picture of her completely burned to ashes with both hands.
Then she grabbed it and held it to her chest.
So she said her final goodbyes.
“Goodbye… Really goodbye now.”
