Chapter 324 – Gabriela De’ Medici (6)
Gabriella started talking after some hesitation, and Seo Ju-hwan listened quietly.
“I… I didn’t grow up in the Medici family from the beginning.”
She originally lived with her mother. Although she did not know her father’s face of her, she never thought she was very unhappy. Her beautiful mother cared for her, and her family her was well-off in its own way, so she did not feel so lacking.
“There was very little racism back then.”
Her mother her was a stereotypical oriental woman with jet-black hair and dark-brown eyes, but she did not resemble her mother her very much. Instead, she seemed to have inherited the blood of her father, who did not even know her face her, and she was born with brilliant white blonde hair and a mysterious inside. She was also a Westerner, so her friends did not know that he was of mixed race, so naturally, she was not discriminated against.
The life of a happy child without any worries. That started to change around the age of 10.
The family, which had been wealthy in its own way, declined without noticing it. I didn’t know why. However, she felt that her poverty had come, even though she was a child at the time.
And when she was 12, her life her completely changed.
“A strange man came to visit.”
Although it was a strange face that I had never seen before, it was somehow familiar. She didn’t have her purple eyes like hers, but her gleaming platinum hair her was exactly the same.
It was a father I did not know his face or name his.
A few days later, Gabriella followed her father her. She didn’t want to go but she told her she had no choice. Her mother her shed tears when she saw her leave her, but her father her listened to her and wished her happiness her, she said.
As a child, she could not fathom her mother’s feelings to her.
“I think I thought the house was being sold because it became poor. She thought it was a lie that the man who suddenly came to her was her father her.”
Even after following the man, it took him a few more days to admit he was the father. Not to mention, he wasn’t very interested in young Gabriela.
“It was because of my appearance that I was able to enter the family.”
“Because you’re pretty?”
I didn’t mean to, but the words came out in a sarcastic tone.
However, Gabriella did not take it as sarcastic. Because it was true that she was pretty.
“Yes. Ordinary people don’t know about it, but arranged marriage still exists. The off-white color that had been noticed since I was a child seemed to be a good trading tool.”
Later, when negotiating with powerful families, she is a useful card.
That was the value Gabriella had.
“It wasn’t until I entered the family that I experienced racism.”
After entering the family, she received racial discrimination that she had never experienced even in her normal life. Unlike those outside of her, those within her family knew she was of mixed Asian descent.
The intensity of her discrimination grew as she grew up. Discrimination based on her ability her, not just her race her, continued. This is because she was slow in her learning of her.
It is not easy for a normal child to catch up with someone who has received special education since birth. Her learning abilities of her were comparable to those of her peers of her, but in her family of her, mediocrity was incompetence.
Because the Medici had to be special.
“I was ignored because I was slow to learn, I wasn’t good at anything, and I didn’t have any special talent.”
The label of a mixed-race illegitimate child followed. It was only because their education was late compared to them that their learning was also slow, but everything was replaced because they were mixed-race illegitimate children.
So Gabriella turned fifteen. She was at an age when she was introduced to tarot cards.
“She became interested in watching a divination broadcast. She wasn’t interested in the good side, though.”
At that time, Gabriela assumed that he would be sold somewhere when he became an adult, so he read his fortune while helping himself with his fate.
And a change happened.
The 15-year-old’s tarot readings were miraculously correct. Her cards her foresaw everything from minor crises to major events.
The world has changed with divination.
From then on, Gabriela devoted herself to her divination her. She tried to produce more diverse and more accurate fortune-telling.
“Ability is value. And the worthless are useless. Only then did she realize what she had learned from her family. When she showed her ability to her, the situation around me changed in an instant.”
Gabriella gradually became more involved in the affairs of her family her, and even her father her, as well as her brothers her, who had been ignoring her, changed their attitude her. She was no longer heard of her label as the ‘half-breed bastard’ that had followed her for years. Her arranged marriage her with a powerful family became like nothing at all.
She finally found freedom and gained ‘life’.
“I went to visit her mother her first.”
She had never seen her mother her, spending her time locked up in the family her. She thought she had been abandoned because she had never received a letter or a phone call.
Thinking so, when she went to her birthplace her, her mother her had already died of an incurable disease. Her mother her was a few years ago, and not long after she left her home, she returned to a handful of dirt.
“Maybe she did n’t want me to know her death when I was young. I wish I had told you…….”
Gabriella, who was calmly telling her story her, shut her mouth. Seo Joo-hwan did not rush and waited. She already thought she did n’t mind hearing more, but now she seemed to want to talk her out of her.
After a while, Gabriela opened her mouth again.
“I was the result of a one-night stand between her mother and the man. Her father her, a human being, asked to erase me from her stomach her, but her mother her refused … I raised myself like that, and then I got an incurable disease, and even if I tried to cure it Somehow, the money was not enough.”
“…….”
“I didn’t have much time to live, but I didn’t have a connection anywhere, so I contacted that person. Still, he’s a child, so I didn’t want to let him die. Fortunately, I was reaped thanks to a useful face.”
When Seo Joo-hwan heard the story, there was a person that came to his mind.
Jeong Ha-yeon. Lee Seok-chan’s half-brother. Without knowing her father’s face her, she lived alone as a mother and daughter. She and the child her left to her father her with the death of her mother her.
Gabriela suddenly looked back at him. Meeting her gaze her, she said with a smile as if she had shaken off her fear her before she knew it.
“Isn’t it similar to someone Joo-hwan knows?”
“…….”
“Please don’t be angry. I just want to say something different.”
“What do you mean by different?”
Gabriela smiled bitterly and turned her head back to the ceiling.
“Jeong Ha-yeon… The woman met her brother her well. Because none of her bothered her or her her. Even fathers don’t seem to think of their children as tools.”
“… I also looked closely.”
“Actually, it was only Jeong Ha-yeon who looked into this in detail. Other women… It’s just her job her, her education her, and the fact that she’s wearing a ring on her ring finger her. Although they all look different.”
“Stop talking about that. Whether you do a little or a lot of background checks, it’s just as unpleasant.”
“… I’m sorry.”
The lame excuses didn’t work. Would it be an illusion if the atmosphere seemed to have softened? He thought his heart would stop when he stared at him like he was going to kill him, but surprisingly, the man seemed to have a soft heart.
That seemed to be the case. What I was jealous of.
‘I’m envious.’
Jeong Ha-yeon was envious. The fact that she was living a different life because she was in a similar environment to his. And she is lucky that she met Seo Joo-hwan before herself.
Gabriella turned away from her bitter taste and said.
“Then I will continue. There’s not much more to say.”
The story, which had been cut off for a while, resumed.
At the age of 19, she suffered from a major fever. She overcame her death by vomiting up her own blood in her high fever of 43 degrees.
Her father her, the head of the household, came to visit her barely alive. It was for her divination her before an important decision.
Seo Joo-hwan opened her mouth as if it was absurd.
“… Right to the child who wandered between death and near death?”
“I didn’t feel resentful or resentful. She’s just dying of exhaustion, but why is she just a little annoyed now? Rather, it was also a counter-proof that the value of my fortune-telling was recognized as much.”
The real trouble happened the following year.
No, to be precise, I only recognized the problem after a year.
“I did n’t notice it at first because it was so insignificant, but her ability her is gradually declining.”
Her divination her was almost a supernatural power. However, her ability gradually faded over time. It still showed absurd probability and accuracy compared to general fortune-telling, but there were many cases where the interpretation was subtly distorted or twisted.
From then on, she worked tirelessly to recover her powers her. She even tried re-studying her divination from scratch to find her way her somehow.
Myungsul (命術), which peeks into fate and fate based on immutable information such as her date of birth her.
On the premise that all ideas are inevitable, it is a two-way technique that unravels the meaning of the product of chance.
A technique of judging the shape of an object and how it affects people.
She explored divination regardless of field.
And finally, she found a way.
“A piece came out one by one from different fields of divination. It felt like putting together a puzzle. And I came to Korea to find my partner.”
“Is that companion born?”
“Yes. Joo-hwan, you wouldn’t know how excited I was to see Joo-hwan. I felt it the moment I first saw it at the cafe that day.”
A companion who was given a fortune by a card that changed his life.
I hoped for him not just as a means of recovery, but as a companion for the future. He had more ability than anyone else, and he thought he had the ability to suit him better than any other woman.
“As I said before, Joo-hwan is a special person. He is a man who will leave his name in the world as a cultural and artistic genius.”
“Therefore?”
Indifferent question.
Gabriella looked at him with longing eyes.
“Can’t I? My mistake caused a twist in our relationship, but can we solve it from now on?”
“It won’t work.”
An immediate answer with no room for entry.
Gabriella’s eyebrows trembled.
“… Why? I can help Joo-hwan more than anyone else.”
“That’s why it doesn’t work.”
Seo Joo-hwan raised her body and stared at Gabriella with her questioning eyes with a clear gaze.
“I just couldn’t understand? Why do you have such a poor sense of choice?”
I did n’t like the sense of superiority that implied in his actions and words his. In particular, I was angry at his friends, whom I had never seen before, and the attitude of naturally considering women as my subordinates his.
Even so, it was because of Fabio that he insisted on listening to the story. It was because he looked sincere when he called Gabriella a pitiful person and asked for a favor. So it stopped She wondered if this woman was really a fool she would have a man like that stick by her side of her.
“After hearing the story, I finally understand.”
“…….”
The fact that she thought she was superior to others and that she could help Seo Joo-hwan better than anyone else was just a matter of course for her.
In other words, there was no malice in Gabriela’s words her.
However, she made a crucial mistake in researching, referring to, and comparing not only him but also his friends his.
Seo Ju-hwan said with a little pity.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, you don’t know what you’re sorry about, right?”
Gabriela hastily shakes her head.
“Oh, no. I’m reflecting. Really.”
“Yeah, you know it in your head. No matter how dull I was, I said that much.”
She told me everything openly, but if you don’t know that, she’s an idiot. The important thing is that you understand with your heart, not your head her.
Seo Joo-hwan felt sad and funny when she talked about her reflection of her.
“You, if you don’t have a special talent, people look like a lower class. So I can confidently say that you will be the most helpful, even though I have never seen your face.”
“…….”
“By the way, are you there? I can do it on my own without your help or the help of the Medici or Unsung Group. Do you know what that means?”
“…….”
“It means that I don’t have to choose someone who is going to be helpful to me or not. Even the Medici you are so proud of.”
Seo Joo-hwan did not have a single doubt about what he said. He assured me that he only told the truth without a hint of bravado. He was confident in his abilities.
‘The system is mine, it’s my ability.’
And because he was a man of such deceitful ability, he had something to say with confidence.
“Ability is value, and those without value are useless?”
There wasn’t that much bullshit.
“According to that, there are no people in the world who are worthless. Because everyone has a special talent.”
“…….”
Gabriela was just silent.
Seo Joo-hwan smiled at her expression.
“It looks like you want to refute it, but tell me once. I won’t say anything.”
“… Geniuses with talent are in the minority. The world is led by geniuses. History proves it.”
“Wrong.”
Seo Ju-hwan firmly shook his head.
In front of whom do you discuss talent? There were hundreds of status windows he had checked so far.
“There are only a handful of people who are lucky enough to discover and develop their talents. If genius is judged by talent, then everyone must be a genius.”
“…….”
Gabriella didn’t argue more, but she did, and she didn’t look convinced. Since it was not possible to check the status window like that, there was no way the values established through half a lifetime of education would suddenly be overturned.
Seo Joo-hwan smiled and looked at Gabriela. She didn’t even think that she would be convinced at first. It’s just a pity and funny thing for her to be trapped in a narrow world, so she spit out what came to her mind.
“You look like the father you hate so much.”
Did I touch the reverse?
Her complexion her changed at once.
“What are you talking about…….”
“You want to say no?”
For the first time, strength entered Gabriela’s eyes her. But her quivering lips did not make her speak.
Seo Joo-hwan said in a calm tone.
“To me, you look exactly like the father in the story I heard earlier. From judging people’s value by their talents to trying to use people as a means to my success.”
“…….”
“Companion is a bitch. I’m not love for you, but a tool, right?”
Immediately after spitting out those words, Seo Joo-hwan burst out giggling. It was because Gabriella’s expression was so strange that I wanted to retort her, but she could n’t find the words to say.
He laughed for a while and then lay down again. And as if he was not interested now, with his back his turned and his eyes closed, he said.
“Now sleep. I heard you well.”
“…….”
Gabriella choked up for a moment and felt something coming up on her. However, since I was not in a position to argue, I only chewed my lips.
To lie down after all I have to say In the first place, since we wanted to get to know each other, shouldn’t we also talk about ourselves?
“Oh, I forgot to tell you.”
Did you finally remember? That it’s my turn to talk.
“I see talent and happiness as separate things.”
He left an incomprehensible comment and snored as if the story had ended here. Somehow, even though he was lying on his back his, he could feel a nasty giggle.
