Chapter 360 – Part 2. 1993

Seongjin hardened her face and looked at Jang Jaeyoung.

“Your Soyoung? He said it as if he had a relationship with So-young and Jae-young. As far as I know, there is no relationship whatsoever.”

“You are this child. Mr. Soyoung is going to marry me in the future. She just said that she’s not a girl that someone like you would want to look up to.

Seongjin was so full of energy that she even laughed.

“What the. I don’t know who is dreaming in vain now. Hyung-nim, this probably isn’t the time to chase after women..”

“What.. Dude? What are you talking about now?”

“I don’t know? It’s okay if you don’t know. You’ll find out everything later.”

Seongjin looked at Jang Jaeyoung and laughed as if mocking her.

Seeing Sung-jin like that, Jang Jae-young felt chills running down her spine, and as if she had realized something, her face changed color and glared at Seong-jin terribly.

“You bastard.. I won’t let go if you do useless things behind your back. Okay? I skipped it last time, but I’ll give you a very harpoon soon. You’d better be careful. And again, stay away from Soyoung. Got it?”

Seongjin was too lazy to deal with her idiot who couldn’t tell if it was shit or soybean paste, so she smiled once more and turned around and threw it away.

“You… You bastard. Are you ignoring me now?”

Jaeyoung Jang’s voice rose.
At that moment, people’s eyes were focused on Jang Jae-young.

Jaeyoung Jang realized his mistake and quickly shrank his head and disappeared among the people.
Whether or not Sungjin did it, her annoyance surged, and she walked toward the terrace, thinking that even the wind should wedge her.

‘Haa~ Did I worry so much about dealing with lesser things like that? I’m just annoyed now shit..’

Sungjin opened the large window at her entrance and came out onto the terrace.
Since the building was built like a mansion, the terrace on the second floor was built around the building, so it was quite large.

I saw countless stars twinkling in the dark night sky of LA.
It is now mid-November in Seoul, but a cold wave and heavy snow came early due to abnormal weather.
But it wasn’t that cold here, it was just a little bit cool.

Still, it was winter, so there were few people on the terrace.
I felt very lucky that no one was there.

As Seongjin escaped from her people and was greeted by the cool breeze, she felt very refreshed as her heart, which had been hurt by Jang Jae-young’s behavior like a dog car class earlier, was relieved.

But then the big window opened again and I could see someone coming out onto the terrace.
However, the atmosphere did not look very good.

Seong-jin, for some reason, thought that it would not be good for her to meet her face, so she hid herself in the dark space of the terrace without realizing it.
No one said anything, but I just instinctively hid myself.

After a while, the sound of conversation was heard.

“Honey.. Let’s just go. What would be different about this? Just try again yes? We’ve been doing well so far.”

It was a woman’s voice.

“When? How? Have you forgotten how hard we’ve been trying? Is there anything we haven’t done here, such as studying abroad, washing dishes, washing clothes, and working at a gas station? I studied so hard, but this time I failed the professor appointment again. I’m thinking of going back to Korea now. If you go to Korea, you can become a university professor, and recently, they say that research institutes of large corporations are hiring a lot of people. So don’t nag and say hello properly. Don’t frown like that…”

The man’s voice was full of emotion, whether angry or annoyed.

“Honey. Can’t it be like this? Go back now Crawling around looking for you when people don’t even recognize you… I don’t want people to see you as just that kind of person. Let’s try again for another year. Do you know Will I be appointed as a professor next year?”

“No… I’m forty now. You’re already 36… We haven’t had children, and we’ve worked hard to death and even earned a Ph.D. What’s the result though? I don’t want to waste any more time on things that may or may not work. And I’m fed up with this fucking American land. I will go back to Korea To do that, you have to look good to the presidents here..”

“Honey.. Please.. Isn’t it a waste of time spent so far? Let’s do it for one more year. If that doesn’t work, then I’ll go back to Korea. Yes?”

“No. If you don’t like this, just go home. I’m going to make it so that more people can at least take a face stamp…”

The man threw his anger at the woman who seemed to be his wife and went inside.

“Hey, hey… Why… Did this happen?”

As the woman collapsed, she sat down on the ground and let out her cry.

As Seong-jin continued to listen to them, she realized that she was the beauty and her beast couple he had been strangely blinded by earlier.
Seongjin pondered for a moment whether he should go out in the dark or not.

Sung-jin looked at her woman for a while, then she sighed and took off her outerwear and approached her woman.

No matter how warm LA is, it was winter, so the wind was quite chilly.
Thinking that the woman in her party clothes with her shoulders exposed might be cold, Sungjin approached her and draped her clothes over her shoulders.

The woman sobbed, unaware that her seongjin was approaching, and when her clothes covered her shoulders, she jumped up in surprise and looked at her seongjin.

“Sorry. I happened to hear all about them. The weather is chilly, so if you stay there you will catch a cold. You are wearing my clothes.”

Seongjin smiled warmly at her woman and she spoke softly to her.
Now, when she sees only beautiful married women, she was a smile that came out naturally.

The woman’s name is Jeong Hyeon-sook, she is 36 years old this year, she graduated from college, married her brother, whom she met at her school when she was in college, and came to the United States to study together.
Her husband’s name was Lee Seong-il, a 40-year-old man.

When she first got married and came to the United States, her husband’s family, who lived well, provided money, so she could study without too much difficulty.
But a few years later, her husband’s family went bankrupt, and her business went bankrupt.
From then on, the hardships of the two began.

Jeong Hyeon-sook’s family was not so wealthy, so it was not in a situation to pay for the two of them to study abroad.
In the end, the two of them had to go to school and study by earning money by going to a dishwasher, laundry, chicken factory, etc. In the afternoon.

It was so very difficult that I asked to go back to Korea several times, but it was a waste of what I had done so far, and in the end, I stayed in the United States for only one year.
Of course, they studied so hard that in 10 years, both of them earned doctoral degrees.

But then there was another problem.
The two of them continued to apply as professors at a university affiliated with UCLA with the intention of settling down in the United States.
However, for the past 4 years, I have been repeatedly rejected from appointments as professors.

At least she sometimes takes on a temporary assistant professorship and somehow manages to live, but to be honest, Jung Hyeon-sook is still working as an employee at a Korean mart.

When the black riot broke out last year, the mart where Jung Hyun-suk worked was also raided.
Fortunately, her life was saved, but she still had the memory of being very, very scared.

Lee Seong-il had made up his mind to return to Korea after his wife had gone through such a thing, and he and his wife were repeatedly rejected for appointments as professors.
This damn American land was just fed up with it.

However, the person who has been stopping Lee Seong-il for a year has been his wife Jeong Hyeon-sook.

Ever since her college days, when people saw Jeong Hyeon-sook meeting her husband Lee Seong-il, they said all sorts of things to Jung Hyeon-suk, such as that she was strange, that she was crazy, and that she was dating her for money.

Lee Seong-il was really ugly, and apart from being good at studies, he didn’t have anything to be proud of.
Then, by chance, Jeong Hyeon-sook, who saw her husband working really hard, thought that he was a decent man, and it was what she believed in and lived until now.

However, the recent appearance of her husband was not the one she believed in and followed.
I was getting more and more angry, and these days, the number of times I was drinking was getting more and more.
And Jung Hyeon-suk was increasingly disappointed and tired of seeing her constantly trying to act like an opportunist.

She said absurd things, such as saying that she had to pay bribes to her professor or department head, and suddenly she made Jeong Hyeon-sook herself look pretty and she started taking them with her when she met them.
Then she would make room with the old men and she would slip away or stay away.

Of course, until now, I had only laughed and talked with such men, and had not progressed further in the relationship, but it was now only a matter of time before I was embraced by men who were not my husband.
I endured it though. She thought that if her husband wanted it, if she could succeed, she could provide for her body at least enough.

On the day that her husband arranged for her to meet another man, her husband turned into a madman.
She obviously let herself go and asked Jung Hyeon-sook, Would you like her to meet someone else? Where did she go While doing so, she gradually showed signs of her dysphoria, and turned into a pervert, harassing her Jung Hyeon-sook in her bed.

Recently, her husband showed abnormal pervert behavior and stopped standing at all.
Still, Jeong Hyeon-suk silently followed her husband’s will.
She now has only one thought that soon she will be able to teach in America..

But this time, news spread that the president and the heads of conglomerates were coming from Korea.
Upon hearing the news, the husband trembled as if an opportunity had come to him.

She said that she had to go back to Korea, so she lobbied her close person with the money she didn’t have, so she attended this reception, and she even bought and wore this expensive dress.
It was impossible in their current economic situation.

Her husband was selling her wife today, of course, by wearing Jeong Hyeon-sook and saying hello to her people.
Hyeon-suk Jeong saw that her husband had made up her mind to return to Korea, and when what she had been protecting and enduring was about to collapse, she rebelled against her husband for the first time, and now she fights and cries on the terrace like this. There was

“My name is Seongjin Lee. This is the news of the HK Group that followed the President this time. I didn’t mean to listen to you, so please don’t be angry.”

Seongjin smiled kindly and spoke to Jeong Hyeon-suk.

“Are you okay. Anyway, now… Phew~ Ah~ My name is Jeong Hyeon-sook. She has a Ph.D. In business administration from UCLA and the University of the house, and is now preparing for her appointment as a professor.”

“Wow, you are a doctor. I thought she was some kind of movie star or model because she was so beautiful.”

“Yes? Pooh… Haha…”

“Eh? Is it true I’m not kidding. Hyunsook must have been the most beautiful during today’s party?”

Seong-jin was automatically betting on Jeong Hyeon-suk, not knowing if it was to soothe the crying woman, or if she was an instinctive cheater to seduce her married woman.

Jung Hyeon-suk, who had covered her mouth and laughed for a while, looked at Sung-jin, wiping the tears from her eyes with her fingers, as if she was feeling better.

Is it because she’s in a bad mood? Jung Hyeon-suk finally caught her eye in detail at the man standing leaning lightly on the railing in front of her.

Uncharacteristically tall for Koreans, a good-looking appearance that seemed to shine, and a muscular body that matched it, Jeong Hyeon-sook could easily recognize her even though her body was covered by a shirt.

Jeong Hyeon-sook’s heart skipped a beat.
She was herself, who had lived looking at her ugly husband for over 10 years.

In America’s liberal culture, many men have approached her.
There were even men who approached me saying that I should stay with them even though they knew that I was a married woman.

Among them were Asians, whites, and even blacks, and Jeong Hyeon-sook rejected all such men and lived only for her husband.

But she was getting tired of seeing her husband, who had recently started to change, when suddenly a very handsome young man appeared in front of her.
Hyeon-suk Jeong stared blankly at her Sung-jin without even realizing it, and she blushed in surprise.

“Ah~ I’m sorry. I was thinking about something else for a while.. So, did Seong-jin come as an attendant for the HK Group chairman this time? Oh my, it should look good. Ho Ho..”

She was the one and only husband of her own, no matter how strangely her husband had been changing lately.
She couldn’t help but think that it would be nice if she could help her husband with what he wanted because she looked so good.

Jeong Hyeon-sook wiped away her tears, and she approached Seong-jin in a friendly way.
If her husband wants to go back to Korea, she will have to go back to Korea anyway.

“Yes? Are you an attendant? Isn’t it… I’m the chairman of the HK group?”

“Yes? What, what, what?”

Jung Hyeon-suk opened her mouth in surprise and she looked blankly at Seong-jin again.