Chapter 131 – A Side Story – The Story of a Nuclear and Gold Player (13)

After Lee Seol-ah moved into this house, she and her daughter So-yeong stayed in one room.
Kang Gyeong-cheol, the landlord, said that there were many vacant rooms anyway, so he told me to choose one and use it, but he thought that he couldn’t do that from the point of view of living on top of each other without paying. Her daughter, So-young, also said that at first she wanted a room of her own, but she didn’t insist on that. It was because she had been living with her mother in a studio since she was little, so she didn’t have anything to do with sharing the same room.

The current time was just past midnight. Normally, she would have already fallen asleep, but Lee Seol-ah was pretending to sleep with her eyes closed. It was because her daughter So-yeong’s attitude was suspicious for some reason today.
If So-Young asks when she didn’t win the award, it’s hard for her to answer, but she definitely won today anyway. She must have thought that she was up to something. She was her mother’s intuition, which had been watching over So-yeong for nearly 20 years.

If nothing happens, that’s it. But she was So-Young, and she was such a mischievous child that she couldn’t believe that half of her own blood was flowing. No matter how much Kyung-cheol said to her, she said, but these days, So-young’s attitude was uneasy to watch.

So, what is Soyoung up to? Seol-ah closed her eyes and waited for So-young to move.

Bassrock.
Bassack Bassak.

There is a sound of rustling fabric. Are you changing clothes? In the room where the lights were off, I couldn’t see what So-yeong was doing.

Before long, So-Young stole her footsteps and left her room stealthily. She would be happy if she was going to the bathroom, but Seol-ah had a hunch that it wasn’t like that.

After So-young left her room, Seol-ah quietly stood up from her seat. She and she opened the door and she stepped out into the living room.

Where did Soyoung go? It took less than a minute for her curiosity to be answered.

“Whoah?! Wow wow!!”

Thud!
Loud noise in the middle of the night. Seol-ah sighed and headed for the source of her sound.
It was Kyung-cheol’s bedroom.

“Seo, Seol, Seol-ah, oh, misunderstanding, misunderstanding…”

When I entered the room and turned on the light, Kyung-chul was crawling on the floor for some reason. And when she sees Seol-ah’s face, she becomes contemplative, and then she speaks gibberish.

The cause was obvious. It was her daughter, So-young.
With So-yeong wearing nothing but her underwear, she crawled into Kyung-chul’s bed.

She must have been red-headed in the middle of the night, not Kyung-chul, who was sleeping well. She sleeps and opens her eyes to find a high school girl lying next to her wearing only her underwear. I don’t know if it’s a novel or a cartoon, but in real life, it was an issue that required calling the police. Even Seol-ah knows everything about herself, so she’s embarrassed, but if she didn’t know, she would have had a wild imagination. She mostly goes against Kyung-chul.

“Lee So-young.”
“Ugh~.”

Lee Seol-ah smashed her back with all her might at her daughter So-yeong, who was mumbling and pretending to be asleep.
Squash!!

“Nugyaak!”

So-young, who had been properly beaten by her bare skin, rolled and rolled on her bed, writhing in her pain. Kyung-chul, who was still not awake, watched the scene with her eyes wide open.

“Lee So-yeong. Come out quickly so that you can go to sleep.”
“Ah~ It hurts~!”

And Seol-ah pulled So-young by the ear and forcibly dragged her out of Kyung-chul’s room.
Soyeong cried and sent an SOS to Gyeongchul, but Gyeongchul did not dare to intervene. First of all, since Soyoung was only wearing her underwear, she couldn’t even look straight at her.

After the storm passed, only silence remained in the room.

“What the hell was that…”

Kyung-chul scratched his head and laid back on the bed. But he couldn’t seem to fall asleep again.

When I woke up, there was a girl next to me wearing only underwear. That alone is terrifying, but she showed the sight to the child’s mother.

Fortunately, Seol-ah doesn’t seem to have a bad misunderstanding… Why was So-young in her room in the first place? It was too extreme a prank for an old man like Kang Gyeong-cheol to digest.

“That’s right. It’s embarrassing.”

No matter how much he is a wooden man, there was no way he wouldn’t notice it at this point. The special feelings that So-yeong gives to herself. He had limits even when he pretended not to know.

In a way, it’s an honor. But she just couldn’t like it.
When Gyeong-cheol proposed to the two of them to live together, he clearly had a different ulterior motive. However, the target of his ulterior motive was Seol-Ah, not his daughter So-Young.

To Kyung-chul, So-yeong was like her cute niece. She was pretty, cute, and sometimes pathetic. She was confident that if her relationship with Seol-ah worked out and she adopted So-yeong as her adopted daughter, she would love her more than her own daughter.

However, the love that Kyung-cheol thinks and the love that So-young thinks have different directions. What Soyoung asked for from Kyungchul was not that kind of paternal love.

“How am I supposed to do this…”

It was a question without an answer for Kyung-chul, a newbie in love, to solve.

*

Meanwhile, the women’s room.
Seol-A crossed her arms and asked So-Young, who was wearing her pajamas again.

“Lee So-young. What are you doing?”
“…”

Despite the shrill voice, Soyoung kept her mouth shut and remained silent.

“Do you know what you just did? I could have made you a sex offender.”
“It’s not like that…!”

So-yeong tries to refute her mother’s words, but her words do not come out until the end.

“Or what? Was it because teasing you was fun? Is that kind of a joke to you?”
“…It’s not like that.”
“Or what?”
“…Mom. Do you like Mister?”

This time, it was Seol-ah’s turn to be silent.

“You don’t have to answer. Because I know everything. I don’t like mom and uncle very much.”
“…Lee So-young. What the hell are you talking about?”
“I can see it all in my eyes. She knows that the uncle has feelings for her mother. And that her mother knows but keeps a vague distance.”
“Soyoung.”
“Then what are you going to do next? If he proposes to you, will she accept it as if she can’t win? Then you, Mom, and I can all be happy? I hate that kind of thing, Mom.”

Seol-ah was taken aback. It was because among the futures she had vaguely envisioned in her head, there were certainly such futures.
In terms of conditions, Kyung-cheol was a man who should never be missed. He did it both for himself and for her daughter So-young.
But she was so ashamed that she would want to go down her mouse hole if she thought her daughter had found out about her snobbishness.

“Mom, I like you. I love you with all my heart. I know you don’t fit in, and I know that I look like a child in your eyes. But I want to make you happy with my own hands.”

So-yeong is pure, and that’s why she was all the more blind. No matter how hard she tried to pull it off, So-young wouldn’t let it go. Because Seol-ah herself was like that, she knew better.
Is this karma? When she was little, she felt that her sins were strangling her throat. Seol-ah sighed heavily.

“I wonder if she’s not my daughter. How come she doesn’t have eyes for men?”
“Because an uncle is a million times better than a father you don’t even know?”

That was right. Seol-Ah himself ruined her life by being possessed by a trashy man, but he did not think that Kyung-Chul would ruin So-Young’s life. He was rather a much more reliable opponent than a clumsy boy his age.
If so, isn’t this something she should actively push as her mother?

“… So-Young. She said now what she said to her mother, can she say to the uncle?”
“Of course! She would have been doing it already if her mother hadn’t interfered?”

Was it like that She thought she was doing something unimaginable, but So-young seems to have committed it with her own determination.

“Then she said, let’s go talk to Uncle from now on.”
“Now?”
“Yeah. You’re not going to like it alone, right? Then you should listen to the man’s opinion.”

If you don’t like peace and gratitude, don’t you stop? She thinks that it can’t be, but Kyung-cheol might reject So-young.
Seol-ah knocked on Kyung-chul’s door, thinking that if she really refused, she would yell at her about her dissatisfaction.

“Kyung-chul, are you sleeping?”
“Uh, no, not yet. Why?”
“Then can we talk for a minute?”
“Uh, okay.”

Kyung-cheol was embarrassed, but hurriedly put on his clothes and came out.
He sat on the sofa in the living room with her mother and daughter in their nightgowns. What is the story to tell? Could it be about Soyoung breaking into the bedroom earlier?

“Mister.”
“Yes?”

For some reason, Kyung-chul lost his spirits at So-yeong’s eyes, which seemed to be spirited. So-young’s youthful energy was so dazzling that Kyung-chul was embarrassed to even dare to look at him.

“Mister. I like that man. Please date me on the premise of marriage.”
“Uh, huh…Huh?”

A stupid face turned to Seol-ah.

“Why are you looking at me?”
“Oh, no, don’t you say anything?”

Seol-ah, who naturally thought she would scold her, just watched in silence.

“What do you mean?”
“No, that’s…”
“As a mother, if you’re asking for my opinion, I have no intention of objecting. You know what I did when So-yeong was born? How can I object to that?”

It was. Considering Seol-ah’s accident at that age, So-young’s confession was cute.
I hoped that Seol-ah would act appropriately… When this happened, she felt sorry for So-yeong, but she had no choice but to directly refuse.

“So-young, I’m happy, but I don’t think so. So-young is like a real daughter to you.”

Kyung-cheol brought out a comment he had prepared just in case. I hope you will write it today.

“Beep! It’s a lie! Who looks at her real daughter with such sly eyes!”
“What? Ugh, sneaky eyes?!”

Kyung-cheol was taken aback by So-young’s point. She hoped that she would refrain from expressions that could be misunderstood by others.

“You’d glanced at me when I came out of the bath and was wearing only a T-shirt and no bra!”
“Oh, no, that’s right. If you go around like that, of course you care.”
“And when I’m lying on a bed or sofa in a short skirt!”
“I’m afraid you’ll see it.”

Gyeongcheol, who was once speechless, made excuses by talking gibberish.
Certainly, there were times when Soyoung would sometimes go out in such a defenseless outfit. She just thought it was because she was insensitive, but she said that she was actually collecting Kyung-cheol’s gaze.

“Mister! Stop making obvious excuses like saying you can’t be like a daughter! If you really don’t like it, tell me you don’t like it. Then I won’t chase after you!”

Kyung-chul scratched his head. It occurred to me that a girl so young for such a long time was talking so seriously that it was not okay to dismiss it roughly. Gyeongcheol also decided to answer seriously.

“There’s no way you wouldn’t like that.”
“Really?”
“Sure. Still, the old man has a big age difference, and he’s a friend of my mother, so it’s hard to see others. And if So-young goes to college and makes cool friends, people like you won’t even notice?”
“What does it matter what other people do. And I’m not such an easy girl? Don’t think I’m going to fall for just about any guy.”

Kyung-chul admired So-young’s confident tone.

“So, mister, trust me and go out with me. I’ll make you happy.”

Soyoung held out one of her hands and said.
It was a very manly proposal. I thought it was cheating to say these things with a face that looked just like her first love and a voice that looked just like her. I was stunned and let out a laugh.

“…Are you really making Uncle happy?”
“Oh, sure. Trust me and ride.”

Even though you’re a man, and you’re an adult, you can’t help but feel excited about things like this. Kyung-chul had no choice but to hold So-yeong’s outstretched hand.

When Kyung-chul took his hand, So-young smiled brightly as he wrapped her hands in hers as if he would never let go of her.

“Then Mister, we have one day from today.”

Seol-ah was looking at the two with a bittersweet look on her face.