Chapter 1033 – It’s Piled Up Like This, How Have You Been Able to Endure It All This Time? (1)
The day after meeting Choi Min-seok.
Just like the day before, when I saw off her husband and child and finished doing housework, the doorbell rang.
I had already expected it, but Lee Jae-kyung came.
Since our houses were not far away, and we lived in the same apartment complex, it was common for him to come by without warning and ring the doorbell.
Seeing Lee Jae-kyung smiling brightly through the intercom screen, I sighed briefly, calmed her mind, and opened her door.
“Is there still work left?”
“It’s all over.”
My husband goes to work at the same time and our children attend the same elementary school, so our schedules are bound to be similar.
Jaekyung Lee must have come to play after finishing all her household chores.
“Ugh. All the housework is done in the morning, so I have nothing to do.”
“Anew.”
I came into the living room, sat down on the sofa as if it was my own home, and sat down slightly at a distance from the grumbles and answered calmly.
“I feel like I want to work, but I can’t do that when I think about my kids.”
“I can’t help it.”
Most of the daytime is spent with nothing to do, but when you start working, it is difficult to make breakfast and the children are left alone at home.
Since I couldn’t properly shop for groceries and prepare meals, it was ideal for me to be a full-time housewife considering my children.
Lee Jae-kyung already knows that much, but the frustration makes him complain every time. And,
“After all, I have no choice but to learn something during my free time.”
The subtle invitation that began recently also naturally continued.
It was an appealing story about starting sports or hobbies together, such as Pilates, yoga, or swimming.
Although he didn’t say it out loud, he guessed that, like himself, he was also thinking about trying to calm his insatiable sexual desire through exercise.
“It’s nice to be able to take care of your health in your spare time.”
“That’s true.”
Spending the free time after finishing household chores without getting bored and taking care of one’s health were good stories that there was no reason to refuse, but Yoo Eun-seol was putting off making a decision for her own reasons.
It’s awkward to learn something among people you don’t know, and it’s embarrassing to wear sportswear or swimsuits that reveal your body in front of others.
Also, it pricked her conscience a little that her husband was enjoying her hobbies with the money he earned from his hard work.
Yesterday, I committed something that pricked my conscience dozens of times more than that.
“Anyway… You’re just going to say that and then say you won’t do anything?”
“I’m just saying, let’s think about it a little more.”
“Yes, yes.”
Perhaps because Lee Jae-kyung seemed to be trying to give in little by little to his increasingly strong sexual desires, Lee Jae-kyung also gave in without pushing too hard.
When I think about it that way, I feel a little sorry.
Because I left my friend who had the same problem alone and solved the problem on my own.
‘Should I say it too.?’
She feels like she wants to feel refreshed by revealing her secret to Lee Jae-kyung, and feels sorry that she was the only one to solve the problem.
These were thoughts that were tormenting Yu Eun-seol more than her guilt about her husband.
The cause was the hypnosis that Choi Min-seok used to attract Lee Jae-kyung, but she was in a state where she could not feel the slightest sense of discomfort because she was completely mixed with her guilt about her affair.
“But you, there’s something…”
“Huh?”
“Somehow, I think I’ve gotten prettier?”
“What, suddenly?”
I was wondering what she was going to say when she suddenly spoke with a serious expression on her face. Contrary to his facial expression, he was talking nonsense, so he relaxed and burst into laughter.
However, Lee Jae-kyung’s expression still remained serious.
“No, really. Something about my skin… No, my face seems to have brightened up?”
“Yeah, really?”
“Did something good happen? Maybe…”
Now, whether Yu Eun-seol is embarrassed or not, Lee Jae-kyung, who turns his head to look at her face as if he is openly observing her, makes an expectant expression as if something has occurred to him.
“Yesterday, with Mr. Jungwoo.”
“Oh, no. I didn’t.”
“. Really? I 100% thought it was that. Then what is it?”
She seemed to be really convinced, and even though she was slightly discouraged by the answer, she still looked at her face with narrowed eyes as if she were suspicious and muttered to herself.
“What’s going on, right? Isn’t it related to going out during the day yesterday?”
“…”
Even though she hadn’t said anything yet, she swallowed hard and cringed at the sight of her guessing the puzzle by herself.
Even though she couldn’t guess that she had committed an affair by contacting Choi Min-seok out of the blue, she felt that if she said something wrong, she could really get caught.
“Tell me something. Something happened, right?”
“That.”
“There is, there is. What happened to make the atmosphere so bright?”
“…”
Wouldn’t it be better to just say it like this?
If it wasn’t anyone else, Lee Jae-kyung was someone I could trust, and even though it happened last year, I was already sharing secrets with each other.
To be honest, she just wanted to be honest and put her mind at ease a little.
‘. If it’s Jaekyung, it’ll be okay.’
In the end, she made a decision while muttering to herself as if making excuses.
She wasn’t always this soft-spoken and was the type of person to strictly protect what she had to protect, but perhaps because she had already crossed a line because of what happened yesterday, she couldn’t exercise her patience properly.
“. Can’t I tell anyone?”
“Of course. What’s going on?”
The answer came back in a very light manner, but Lee Jae-kyung, thinking that it was a serious answer, swallowed again and carefully opened her mouth.
“. Do you remember? The boy I met last summer.”
“Huh.? I remember. But I guess.”
Jae-kyung Lee also seemed to have a hard time forgetting her strong memories, and even though she didn’t explain it properly, she looked shocked as if she knew her entire situation in an instant.
“Yeah. I met him yesterday.”
“… Really?”
“. Yes.”
“…”
Her expression of astonishment went beyond embarrassment, followed by a short period of breathtaking silence, and Jaekyung Lee, who had been rolling her eyes here and there for a moment, seemed to have finally regained her composure and cautiously opened her mouth.
“Did he contact me first.? Let’s meet.?”
He asks in a low voice, as if someone is eavesdropping.
It was strangely reassuring to see him try to listen to the details of the situation rather than immediately criticizing me for what I did.
Thanks to this, my heart, which had been pounding hard ever since she spoke, seemed to have calmed down a little.
“I contacted you first. I couldn’t bear it anymore.”
“Hmm.”
When I answered honestly in a slightly calmer voice, this time, it was difficult for me to defend myself, but I fell silent with a subtle expression that seemed to indicate that I did not want to be angry.
Since we both had the same concerns, it didn’t seem like we couldn’t understand each other at all.
“I thought a lot about whether I should contact you too.”
At the same time, what she added was a subtle consolation, telling her not to feel too guilty because she had suffered at least.
“I didn’t mean to do it right away, I just thought of it while I was bored, so I contacted you and asked if I had time to meet and have something to eat.”
At the time, I thought she did it as naturally as possible. As she said it with her own mouth, I thought she had called it out in a much more explicit way than I had thought.
Her face burned with shame later, but she finished the explanation for now.
“I was trying to meet up and talk. He asked me first. Is he really just calling me to eat? He said he was expecting something to happen. If he was mistaken, he said he really only wanted to eat and leave.”
“You just spoke honestly.”
Although there were some parts that were cut out little by little, the general flow itself must have been conveyed clearly.
“Yeah. So I went straight to the motel.”
“. Even when I called?”
“. Yes.”
“…”
When Lee Jae-kyung called, he was in the middle of climbing on top of Choi Min-seok and shaking his waist.
Thinking like that, I felt even more embarrassed and bit her mouth. Lee Jae-kyung also seemed to feel a little embarrassed and kept his mouth shut with his cheeks slightly red.
“Hmm.”
And, after a few seconds of silence, the silence was broken by a short cough.
“For now, I’ll keep it a secret from Jeongwoo.”
“. Thank you.”
“There’s nothing I can do about it because it’s already happened in the past, and I’m not exactly proud.”
He seemed to be referring to something that happened last year when he said he was not in an honest position.
“Anyway, after doing it once yesterday, you felt refreshed and your face opened up?”
“It’s obvious like that.?”
“A little? Still, I thought it was strange because it was me. Jungwoo won’t know, so you don’t have to worry.”
Her words were a bit of bitter, but as Lee Jae-kyung said, her husband passed by without noticing anything, so she didn’t have to worry about being caught.
“But that one thing really brightens the mood.”
It may have been his intention to lighten the mood, but I felt my cheeks getting hotter as he stared at her face as if he was truly intrigued.
“I tried it last year too, so I have a rough guess. Was it that good.?”
“. Yes.”
I was embarrassed to explain in detail, so I answered very briefly and briefly, but Lee Jae-kyung’s cheeks turned red as if it was clearly conveyed that it was a sincere answer.
Unlike himself, who was refreshed by yesterday’s incident, Lee Jae-kyung is still in a state of frustration, so there is nothing he can do about it.
“So, what are you going to do now?”
“Huh?”
“Let’s just say we’ll move on since it’s already been done and there’s nothing we can do about it. What are you going to do from now on? Minseok… Do you want to keep seeing him?”
“Hmm.”
To these questions, you should immediately answer no without hesitation.
Strangely, I couldn’t easily say no, so I hesitated to answer.
And, what Lee Jae-kyung said about her attitude was truly shocking.
“. Then, shall I meet you sometime?”
“Uh, huh.?”
“. I told you. I also thought a lot about whether to contact you or not. We couldn’t talk all this time because we were worried about each other. My husband stopped talking to me after going to the sea, and I wasn’t satisfied with doing it alone, and I only talked to him when he had a phone in his hand. I have contact information for someone to give it to.”
The words he poured out, as if he were lamenting that he had accumulated a lot of emotions due to not being able to speak for so long, were quite thorny, but the content itself was exactly the same as the thoughts he had been thinking.
As Jaekyung Lee was staring blankly in surprise at the words that poured out so quickly, Jaekyung Lee seemed a little embarrassed and cleared her throat briefly again to lighten the mood and then spoke again in a calmer voice.
“Anyway, I thought a lot about whether to do it or not. Since you said you did it first, I thought it would be okay for me to do it too.”
Of course it wasn’t okay, but it was too shameless an answer to give from a position that had already done the wrong thing.
