Chapter 251 – Punishment
“Mom…Mom is sorry…She said Mommy was wrong…Mom is sorry…”
She sobbed and continued to mutter her words.
And when she became Min Sera, she vomited as she recalled what she had said to Seong-ah, what she had done to Seong-ah.
It was something that could never be forgiven.
“Woweeeee Ooh!!”
In the end, Lee Shin-ah had to empty everything in the toilet bowl.
After vomiting for a long time, when her stomach calmed down, she played the video again and started to check Mijin’s every move.
Now she seemed to see her true self.
[Love you. Cheer up.]
[…Haha. I’ll have a good trip]
Seeing off her husband at the front door.
Husband going to work with strong steps.
Now you’re finally healthy enough to go to work.
Lee Shin-ah smiled even as she shed tears.
Seeing her husband in her health made her happy.
“…”
How many times did she watch the video?
While Shina Lee watched the rest of her video, she sobbed five more times, and she stroked the family on the monitor six times.
Before I knew it, the monitor was glistening with traces of her saliva and tears.
-Sue.
Shina Lee took off her own beanie.
Before I knew it, her hair had grown quite a bit.
It’s time for her to push again.
-Wheeying…
Shina Lee shaved off all of her own ingrown hair with her hair clipper.
She shaved everything so short that all of her pure white flesh could be seen.
She said that now she herself should not express her individuality.
Isin Ara must completely kill her existence.
“It’s not long now…”
As a result of checking all the videos, Mijin was doing very well.
It was as if she was looking at herself. That is, her past self.
She was lively, gentle, and strong…The look she never got back.
However, she still had a few things left to correct.
Will it all be over in about a month?
Shin-Ah Lee should prepare for her farewell soon, she thought.
After teaching Mi-jin everything, she will spend the rest of her life in her one-room apartment that Jung Seong-min got for her.
However, her activities there are free.
She can pursue her hobby, she can hold her job, and she can meet men.
She may even start her new home.
Now, if she teaches Mi-jin well, she herself will be completely banished from her family.
She can live a new life.
“One month ahead.”
Shina Lee clenched her fists as she braced herself.
A path for everyone to be happy prepared by her son…
In order to go that way, Lee Sin-ah took all her heart.
***
One month was too short a time.
She was gone in the blink of an eye.
Lee Shin-ah called Kim Mi-jin, who imitated her perfectly, as Lee Shin-ah.
She and she changed her name to Kim Yeon-ju.
“Finally her family went to see. I’ll bring them all… Home.”
Jung Seong-min said she let Lee Shin-ah see her family before leaving for her final time.
Lee Shin-a nodded her head with a smile that she had practiced for a long, really long time.
She decided not to show her final way, crying.
“Ruler.”
Face leather handed over by my son.
In other words, it was a bast face.
Shin-ah Lee disguised herself as a housekeeper by wearing a bast face mask, and entered Jeong Seong-min’s mansion.
“Mom~ Give me another bowl!”
Evening time like that.
Lee Shin-ah cleaned her living room and saw Seong-ah and her husband eating together in harmony.
Jeong Seong-min was just chewing on rice with a blunt face, but to Lee Shin-ah, each and every one of them was precious.
It was the last time I actually saw them.
You will never see them again.
“Thank you for your hard work~ Please ask for this as well.”
Seong-a hands her an empty bowl of rice to herself.
After receiving her bowl with a grin, Lee Shin-ah started washing her dishes.
Still, she caught a glimpse of her family out of the corner of her eye.
-Ahhhhh …
However, tears suddenly flowed.
Lee Shin-ah continued to wash her rice bowl, which had been washed with tap water.
I kept wiping the rice bowl that made a squeaky sound while pouring my sorrow into it.
“Whoa…”
How many times did you wash a bowl like that?
Barely calm, she finished washing the rest, the dishes, and her dishes and looked around her.
After the meal, each family was taking a break in their own way.
“Miss. Would it be all right if I tidy up my room for a while?”
So Lee Shin-ah stopped by each room under the excuse of tidying up the room.
Upon entering Seong-ah’s room, she sprayed air freshener on her curtains and lit a candle.
While doing so, she glanced at Seong-ah, who was on the phone.
“…Miss.”
Lee Shin-ah called Seong-ah with her choking voice.
When Seong-ah looked back at herself, she said.
“The future will be full of only good things.”
A strange word spoken by a housekeeper I’ve never seen before.
Jung Sung-ah looked at Lee Shin-ah as if she was burdened, she said.
“Ah. Yes… Haha. Thank you.”
“…”
Shina Lee finished her conversation with a smile and left her room.
However, she took her visit very slowly, capturing the last glimpse of her daughter even a little more.
So she went to Jung Hyun-jae’s room.
“President. Would it be all right if I could help tidy up the room?”
“Hmm. Come in~”
Jung Hyun-jae opens the door by hand.
Shina Lee’s body froze at her kindness, but she smiled and went inside.
And this time, she sprinkled air freshener and touched things for no reason, and she glanced at Jung Hyun-jae.
“Do you have anything to say?”
However, Jung Hyun-jae noticed her own gaze.
Lee Shin-ah, embarrassed, said.
“Ah. That, that it’s nothing.”
“…Hmm. I think you have something to say. Speak comfortably. Haha.”
Jung Hyun-jae says that with a kind smile.
Knowing Lee, she pondered over what to say, but she opened her mouth in search of the right words.
“I-I just wanted to say my final goodbyes. Quit today.”
“Oh yeah? Umm… I guess you were working when I went to work?”
Shina Lee nodded her head roughly.
Then Jung Hyun-jae smiled and said.
“Haha. You were the one who worked hard while I didn’t know. You have worked hard all this time.”
Lee Shin-ah’s lips flowing like waves.
Lee Shin-ah managed to put in the sadness that was creeping up, and smiled.
How long she had practiced smiling for this day.
“Yes. I was also grateful. Thanks to you, stay well.”
Strangely out of focus, Lee Shin-ah’s answer.
Jung Hyun-jae said with a gentle smile.
“Looks like you liked your job. Seeing you talk as if you’ve been working for decades.”
“…Yes. There’s no place like here… Now.”
“Haha. Come anytime if you need work. I will tell my son.”
“… Now, I’m going to do a different job. I probably won’t do this job again…”
“Ah. Hmm. What you do will be fine. I wish you luck.”
Jung Hyun-jae, looking for something to say in moderation, ends the conversation with a cliché.
Lee Shin-ah smiled and said thank you.
And she closed the door very slowly again, capturing the last image of Jung Hyun-jae.
‘Goodbye… Honey. You were too much for me…’
Lee Shin-ah, who has finished saying goodbye to her until Jung Hyun-jae.
Now she headed to Jung Sung-min’s room.
As if he was waiting for Lee Shin-ah, he was sitting on her chair and looking toward her door.
“…”
“…”
Two hats looking at each other without speaking.
Eventually, Lee Shin-ah spoke.
“Sungmin. One last time… Just once… Can I hug you just once?”
Jung Sung-min was silent.
He just looked at Lee Shin-ah with an unknown expression.
Shina Lee smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“Okay.”
At that time, Jeong Seong-min’s answer was to allow hugs.
Lee Shin-ah was startled and looked at Jung Sung-min again.
His expression didn’t change from before, but he clearly allowed the hug.
“Even if I hug you… Is it okay if I hug you? Did you hear me right?”
“…”
Jeong Seong-min nodded his head in silence.
But that was enough.
Lee Shin-ah slowly approached Jung Sung-min.
And she gently hugged him.
Finally, feeling his body temperature, she repeated the words she couldn’t get out of her mouth.
‘Son… I’m sorry, Mom. You should be happy. Got it?’
Having said goodbye in her heart, she let go of Jung Sung-min.
And she got out of the door and went straight out of Jeong Seong-min’s mansion.
“You can return the bast face.”
When he came out, there was Jeong Seong-min’s subordinate who met him.
Shina Lee took off her wig and bast face and handed it to her subordinate, then put on a beanie to cover her bald head.
“You can go out the front door. Thank you for your hard work.”
Last goodbye.
Lee Shin-ah nodded her head and headed for her front door.
When she arrived at the front door, her guards identified herself and opened the door for her.
After Shina Lee exited the front door, she looked back.
At the same time as the front door slammed shut, a desolate wind blew.
-Whee-oo-oh…
Lee Shin-ah blankly looked at the front door and the scenery beyond.
She stood still, as if she were a monk, and she looked at the front door of her mansion for over half an hour.
– Jerk… Jerk… Jerk…
Then finally, she turned around.
Now she has walked the opposite path of hers to live her own life alone.
However, it was hard to bear the sadness of her being thrown into the world alone.
“Hauuuuu…Uuuuu…”
As soon as she walked away from the front door, she started to sob.
I walked and walked and walked and cried and cried and cried.
“Aaaaa”
On this day, Lee Shin-ah’s crying did not stop.
When you get out of the mansion and go out on the road, when you catch a taxi there, when you take a taxi to the bus stop, when you get on the bus to Seoul.
She cried incessantly.
On this day when she had to say her last words as Lee Shin-ah, she cried and cried to be reborn as Kim Yeon-joo.
Now she had no place to be as a child of her own.
