Chapter 254 – Facing the Truth
Another 3 days passed.
For the past three days, Jeong Seong-min has been forced to eat food in the Kku-yeok area.
This is to check the mail that arrives every two hours.
If you stop eating and drinking and stay like a disabled person, you won’t even have the energy to watch videos.
Watching the video and sobbing over and over again were all things that required stamina.
So before the mail arrived, Jung Sung-min ate food, lay down on the bed, fell asleep, and watched the video when the mail arrived, shedding tears over and over again.
“Huhhhhh”
I didn’t think about who the hell was sending this video or why.
What was important to him was to see what kind of life Lee Shin-ah had as Kim Yeon-ju and how she ended up committing suicide.
“Ah ah ah ah ah…”
And now, Jung Sung-min knew why.
In the first place, Lee Shin-ah was not able to suggest.
A hint of forgetting her family and moving on to a new life?
She was arrogant.
That didn’t work.
The reason she was able to get through all the suggestion and brainwashing was because she wanted it.
Baek Ha-yoon wanted to be saved, Lee Hee-yeon and Lee Ha-young loved themselves, and Ahn Ji-yeon also wanted to become a woman.
Elena also wanted to be her father’s beloved daughter, and she was able to complete her brainwashing through her purgatory by using her heart to desire that.
This is also the case with Park Jong-pil.
The reason he was able to use Purgatory to plant beautiful memories with Baek Ha-yoon was because that was the life he most wanted to live.
No matter how much purgatory and all kinds of psychological techniques were used, in the end it was possible to slightly bend the person in the desired direction, not omnipotence.
Erasing memories was also something that could be erased because there was a belief that people wanted to forget them because they were terrible or traumatic memories.
“Uh…Keuhuhuh…”
In the end, Lee Shin-ah could not live a new life.
She was just struggling to move on with her new life.
Proof of this was the contrast in the video.
Lee Shin-ah, who tried to live as Kim Yeon-ju, worked harder than anyone else.
Every day she worked out steadily, sweated to work, went to clubs and gatherings to build relationships with people, and lived a full day with the goal of increasing store sales.
But when she returns home, she changes.
She walks into a dark, empty house, takes off her clothes and takes a shower, then sits on her bed and stares blankly into space at her.
She spends an hour… Two hours… Three hours… She looks blankly into space.
The sight made Jung Sung-min go crazy.
Then, when she finally falls asleep, she starts another active day.
She struggles to live somehow, to blend in with others and be happy.
Because of this, she showed desperation in each and every one of her amiable appearances.
It was felt that she was trying to find happiness at all costs.
But all those attempts end in failure.
Because whenever she comes home, she is staring blankly into space from her unlit room.
In the end, her life as Kim Yeon-ju left in search of happiness, but it was a series of frustrations.
She opened her own shop and tried to run her own business, but she was not happy.
She laughed and chatted with the part-timer she chose as her friend, but she wasn’t happy.
She went to clubs and gatherings and tried to find a source of vitality in her life by mixing with many people, but she was not happy.
In the end, she met a man who liked her and had a strong relationship with her, but was not happy in the end.
Always. Every time I come home, I blankly look up into space.
She stretches her hand towards somewhere out of reach.
Tears rise and flow in the dead eyes that have no light.
Lee Shin-ah, who became Kim Yeon-ju, tried all of her attempts, but all failed.
I tried to move on to a new life, ignoring all the videos that steadily accumulated in my mail, but in the end, I couldn’t escape the longing that pierced me.
“Haaaaa…”
So Jung Seong-min locked herself in her room for about two weeks and read a video summarizing Lee Shin-ah’s day.
And on the day of watching the last video, Jeong Seong-min cried like a child.
She is Shin-ah Lee, who has been in a relationship for six months, she has tried everything she can, and she is determined to finally end her life.
She realized that she would not be able to survive without her family’s arms.
So she went to her hardware store and bought some rope.
She stopped at a convenience store and she bought soju and beer.
She then stared blankly into the void, she finally began to see the daily life of her family that she had mailed to her.
She sipped her soju while watching her family on her monitor, sometimes laughing, sometimes smiling bitterly, and sometimes crying.
She was exactly the same as she is now.
‘I, I was stupid. Man, from this pain… I can’t live with this pain. In this pain…’
After Lee Shin-ah became Kim Yeon-ju, every day of her past year and six months was at stake.
She endured the icy day and tried to find her own happiness, but in the end, all she was left with was despair.
She forced Shin-ah Lee to live like that.
[-Click.]
At that time, she played a video of Lee Sin-ah.
She was not a video sent by herself, she was a video of herself and her sexuality when she was a child.
Lee Shin-ah said with a bright smile as she saw herself playing in the sun and her sincerity.
[Seongminah. Must be castle After all, I don’t think my mother can live without you guys.]
With those words, she fixed the rope on top.
And after she had made her loop of the rope, she hung herself.
She looked at herself and her saint in her video with her bright smile on her face.
[-Tuk.]
She then kicked the chair she was sitting on.
The video ended this last.
“…”
She had no more tears to shed.
Jung Sung-min looked up at her blankly with her blank face.
I just stared into space with a heart pierced by such a painful sense of loss.
Just like that, an hour… Two hours… Half a day passed, a full day passed.
Even so, Jung Sung-min just stared blankly at the empty space.
It was when a week passed like that.
– Knocked up.
Someone opened her own door that no one could enter without permission.
Jung Hyun-jae and Jung Sung-ah were standing there.
Jeong Seong-min, who had grown a dark beard on his wild hair, tilted his head and looked at them.
The expression was unusual.
“Seo, Seongmin… How did this, how did this happen? Huh? Your mother… Where is your mother?”
“…”
“Brother… Me and Dad… Mom, we decided to forgive Mom. I remember everything So…Let’s go find my mother. Huh?”
Jeong Seong-min stumbled and stood up.
And he looked at Jung Hyeon-jae and Jeong Seong-ah with an expression of incomprehension.
“What? How did you solve it?”
“Sungmin. Your mother… What did your mother do? Where are you?”
“I’m sure it worked, but how could you? And Sung-A too…”
Jeong Seong-min was confused.
I don’t know if it was an allusion to Lee Shin-ah, but the allusion to Jung Hyeon-jae and Jung Sung-ah must not be resolved.
It was an implication designed so that it would not be resolved in the first place, and I was confident that it would not be resolved for the rest of my life.
“Sungmin! Come on tell me! Where is your mother! Ooh, we… We… Yo, because we can forgive… So…”
“He is dead.”
Jeong Seong-min’s words that he spat out indifferently.
At those words, Jung Hyeon-jae and Jung Sung-ah met each other’s eyes.
Then, he slowly approached Jeong Seong-min, who had become a disabled person, and said.
“No, that’s ridiculous… Why is my mother dying? Huh? At that time… At that time, my older brother promised me… That my mother would be brought back… That my family… Would be brought back…”
“…”
Jung Sung-min is silent.
Jung Hyeon-jae strode towards him.
He grabbed Jung Sung-min by the collar and shook it.
“You bastard! Say it right! Your mom! My…My wife…Shi, Shin-ah…Where is Shin-ah…Say…”
Jung Hyun-jae begins to blurt out his backbiting while thumping Jung Sung-min.
Hot tears flowed down his cheeks.
“Sorry. It’s all my fault.”
All Jimin could say was that he was sorry.
Other than that, everything was just an excuse.
Whether it was the designs he made for Shin-ah Lee’s happiness, or why he manipulated the memories of Hyun-jae Jeong and Seong-ah Jeong, those things were of no use after Shin-ah Lee died.
“Are you lying? Huh…? It’s a lie. My brother can’t do that. Only oppa… I only believed in oppa… Huh? Say it’s a lie…”
“…”
Jung Sung-min was silent.
Jung Hyun-jae left his body as it was shaking him and silently looked at Seong-ah, who was sobbing.
“Why… Why did you do that… Why the hell! Why!…”
Everything is smashed
Lee Shin-ah, who had to find a new life, committed suicide, and her family, who had to live happily without knowing anything, also learned the truth.
Moreover, once the suggestion is released, it will not be easy for the same suggestion and brainwashing to work again.
You will have to live with this bitter pain for the rest of your life.
“Shinah…Shinah…Uaaaaa…”
Jung Hyun-jae and Jung Sung-ah sobbed for a long time.
Sometimes resenting Jung Sung-min, and sometimes blaming themselves, the two sobbed for a long time.
After emptying out the sadness for such a long time and finally recovering his emotions, Jung Hyun-jae said.
“Where… Where is it buried?”
He accepts everything and asks where Lee Shin-ah’s body is buried.
Jeong Seong-min informed him of the location.
Jung Hyun-jae took Jung Sung-ah and immediately turned his back.
And he left the last words to Jung Sung-min.
“We… Are leaving this house. No more… I can’t be here any longer.”
That’s how Jung Hyeon-jae and Jung Sung-ah left.
Jung Sung-min was left alone.
***
Two days later, Jung Sung-min finally called someone to his room.
That someone was none other than Lee Ha-young.
“Did you call?”
Lee Ha-young responded to the call with a calm face.
Jeong Seong-min’s thin face turned to her.
He said, glaring at her.
“Why did you do that?”
She was not floating.
A voice full of certainty.
Lee Ha-young put on an expression that said, “She’s here to come.”
“You noticed.”
“…Say. Kim Mi-jin, whom you invited… What did you do with that bitch? Why did you brainwash Jung Hyeon-jae and Jung Sung-ah? And why…”
Jeong Seong-min stumbled and stood up.
And she said while glaring at Lee Ha-young as if she were going to kill her.
“Why did you send me a video of Lee Shin-ah? Say.”
Lee Ha-young closed her eyes.
Now comes the last step.
She took a deep breath, then let out a big sigh.
And she said to Jeong Seong-min, who was holding a knife in one hand, with her eyes wide open.
“Yes, because my mother is alive.”
