Chapter 143 – Winter Vacation 5 (Dahye’s Past)

With her natural beauty, her mother nurtured Da-hye’s innate intelligence and did a good job running her tavern based on the know-how she gained from her low-down life.

After seeing her mother’s resourcefulness, her father, the actual owner of this bar, together with several of her acquaintances, bought her a decent room salon in the city and appointed her mother as the owner madam. It was around this time. Dahye’s family’s situation began to improve rapidly.

She lived in a newly built middle-class apartment, but her mother was still gone in the evenings.

Even her housekeeper left work, so Da-hye ate her meals alone in the empty house, did her homework and studied, and sometimes watched her TV when she had time.

Dahye studied hard in her elementary and middle school years because she still didn’t want to disappoint her father. Her father, who occasionally visits her apartment and has dinner with her, always smiles warmly and supports Da-hye. Thanks to that, Da-hye was able to enter a prestigious private high school in Busan. Br〉

For most women with a high school diploma, the fact that she graduated from a prestigious private high school spoke volumes. The family’s economic power to afford expensive tuition, friendships with daughters from families with great social influence, romance with male students there, marriage, etc.

One weekend evening, a few weeks after she entered high school, her mother took Da-hye to the salon she ran.

“Huh? Mom’s store? Why here?”

“You come here and work once a month starting today.”

“Hehe? Really? Why did I.?”

“What’s wrong with the daughter of a bar girl working at a bar? It’s natural.”

I found out later that her mother wanted to pass this salon on to Da-hye, so she trained her successor early on.

Dahye, who was working at an entertainment bar for the first time in her life, worked as an assistant in the kitchen. Dahye’s main job was to wash various glasses and clean up food waste. Afterward, she gradually expanded her scope of work to include chores such as cleaning rooms and setting glasses.

Dahye was seen working in her room in the early days, wearing clothes similar to the vest suits worn by her waiter brothers and holding a mop.

After she graduated from high school, she began serving her customers as a salon girl in earnest. After the announcement of the successful applicants for the Male Zone Women’s University, Da-hye became a room salon girl every day until OTI, where she received the male guest’s choice, sat next to her guest, poured drinks, took off her clothes, and sometimes touched the guest’s cock.

“Ah… So… When you’re OT… When you get extra discipline…”

“Yeah… That’s what I always did… I couldn’t tell you then. I’m sorry.”

“No… No… How could you… Say something like that in that situation?”

“But, Da-hye… Then… You too… Can’t it be… Your first experience… Like me?”

“Yes. I am just like you. But then.”

“Oh my…”

Soyeon covered her mouth with her hand and her eyes widened. Da-hye smiles brightly when she sees So-yeon.

‘That’s why he took care of me like that…’

The room salon run by Da-hye’s mother and owned by Da-hye’s father was not just an ordinary room salon. Her membership was expensive, and she did not accept just anyone as a member. The girls had a level of beauty that could make them celebrities. Customers were mainly local politicians, professional athletes, local judges and prosecutors, and company owners. Sometimes male celebrities from Seoul came to visit. My father often used Da-hye’s mother’s salon for her business drinks.

“So… Where is your dad…?”

About a year ago, when Da-hye was accepted into Namjon Yeobi University, Da-hye’s mother took her to her father’s house to greet her.

A neighborhood where rich people live. Luxurious single-family homes. The car Da-hye and her mother were riding in stopped in front of a house in a neighborhood with endless high and long walls. Mom got out of the car, handed back her driver, and took the gift in her hand.

After taking a few deep breaths, she rang the doorbell.

Ding dong~~~

“Who are you?”

“Yes… I… I’m Dahye’s mother…”

“Who… Ah… Yes, yes… Just a moment… I’ll tell my wife.”

After some time passed, a heavy and luxurious door opened.

The world inside the wall was different. A large, well-maintained garden and pretty garden trees. When I looked up, my father’s house was magnificent.

The front door of the house opens and a maid wearing a maid uniform welcomes the mother and daughter.

Her mother, who brought Da-hye in, handed over the gift she had brought to this housekeeper. Then, she took off her shoes at the front door and entered the house.

The mother clearly looked very nervous. Although she was a mother who had never told her in detail about her father, Da-hye had some idea. There is no one to welcome us here.

“Welcome.”

A woman with a cold voice and harsh eyes that is not welcoming at all.
She looks more than ten years older than her mother.

“Yes, hello… Brother…”

“Dahye… You are my eldest mother… Greet.”

“Hello, uncle.”

The old woman’s eyes softened a little as she looked at the young woman politely bowing.

“Is it that kid? The kid from our nobleman?”

“Yes, brother… My name is Shin Da-hye… I told you…”

“Thank goodness I let that bitch use my last name Shin!!”

“Keep in mind… I’ll keep that in mind, brother…”

A mother’s servile attitude that I have never seen before. But Da-hye knew that she had to endure here. So she was upset, but she had no choice but to endure it.

“Come in!!”

Wine glasses were set on the table next to the living room where I followed my scary uncle.

A mother and daughter enter the restaurant, but no one stands up to greet them.

At the head of the table, my father, dressed in a neat shirt and dress pants, sat solemnly, and my eldest mother, who had just paid my respects, sat right next to him.

My older brother and my older sister were sitting next to my eldest mother. The older brother wore a neat formal shirt like his father, and the older sisters wore sophisticated luxury dresses.

Dahye and her mother sat side by side across from them. The gaze pouring on the two is scary and unpleasant.

While the maids were setting the table for her family’s meal, Da-hye simply lowered her head slightly, not daring to make eye contact with anyone.

“Father, is this… Our younger brother?”

“Okay, I heard you went to college… Be nice to me.”

“You girl must have a hard time going to college…”

“Hey! What’s your name?”

“It’s called Dahye… Unni.”

Da-hye’s previously strong mentality was on the verge of collapsing as she received guests at her room’s salon. It was such a difficult and difficult position for her.

“Dahye-ra… That’s a pretty name…”

“It’s pretty… It’s a name with no basis… It’s something that Aemi made up on her own…”

Da-hye and her mother bow their heads in response to her eldest mother’s reprimand.

“Why… Your face is as pretty as your name… Mom has a bad temper for no reason…”

“I… Am the one who holds up… Taking off the top…”

“Uh huh… Well… Let’s call someone over… Let’s stop, honey… Huh?”

Da-hye’s mother is called ‘honey’, a title she has never heard from her father.

“Ugh… I’m bursting…”

“Come on… Everyone’s glasses are full, right? Let’s have a drink.”

“Yes, Dad.”

“Yes, father.”

“I’m formally introducing you to everyone. This is Da-hye, the father’s daughter, and her mother, Hee-yeon. Please welcome everyone.”

“Yes, then~~ Here for the two mother and daughter~~”

Her older sisters were cheerful and cool, but she was very scared of her eldest mother. Dahye raised her wine glass in a toast and gulped down the wine on her empty stomach.

After taking a sip of her wine, her father introduced her family one by one, starting with her eldest mother.

“Dahye, I heard you’re going to university?”

“Yes… Sister. Humanities department at Men’s Presence Women’s University.”

“It looks like you studied well. It’s hard for a girl to get in there…”

“I didn’t like being disciplined at my country’s universities, so I went to study abroad in England.”

“You really need university discipline…”

“Oppa… Is that discipline? He’s turning normal girls into prostitutes… Ah… Sorry…”

“Be careful what you say to your brother. How many times do you tell him that you should treat him like you would your father? Do you want to be disciplined by your father? He came back from studying abroad and took care of everything.”

“It’s okay, Mom. When she gets married later, her husband will discipline her a lot.”

“Hmph~~~”

“That’s what you’re saying. Where are you going, huh? If I get scolded for doing something like a child without a father, will that be okay?”

Her eldest mother points to Da-hye, the child she just ate with her chin.

“But… Da-hye, what are you going to do when you graduate from college?”

“I plan to work at my mom’s store.”

“Ah… That club? Well… If you’re as pretty as you are… But… Will you hang out there if I go there? I’m a girl?”

“If you come… I’ll take special care of you…”

“Really? I’m having fun…? It’s going to be hard for me to handle it?”

“This guy is real. He can’t speak discreetly at his father’s dinner table!! I heard somewhere that he hangs out with a bar girl!!”

Head bowed again.

Although it was an oppressive position where she was openly ignored, her father’s gaze as he looked around at Da-hye was extremely kind. With those easy eyes, Dahye was able to protect this hellish place until the end.

The humiliating meal was barely over, whether you ate it with your mouth or your nose, and only Mom and Da-hye stood up, bowed politely, and left the house.

While these two mother and daughter were leaving, just like when they arrived, no one in the household stood up to welcome them or see them off.

As soon as I went out the front door and the door closed

Stumbling~

Da-hye barely manages to support her mother, who nearly falls because her knee buckled.

“Mom… Are you okay?”

“Ugh… Mom… It’s okay… And… I’m sorry… I’m sorry… My Dahye…”

Soon the car from the store I was waiting for arrived, and it wasn’t until I got into the back seat that I let out a long sigh.

“Then… Dahye… Are you the hidden daughter of a chaebol family? Really?”

“It’s not like a chaebol… It’s just a well-off family… What’s the point? She’s the daughter of a concubine…”

“Your mom’s club… Then… Your dad’s…”

“Yes, Mom said, Dad invested her share. In fact, Dad is the owner of the club… Mom makes money by selling her body hard.”

“I see… So, it makes sense for you to work at that club after graduation… Because it’s your mom and dad’s…”

“And again… This… Last summer vacation, when I came home from volunteer work… I saw it while working at the club…”

“Yes, yes…”

Soyeon listened to Dahye’s story while sipping champagne, and it was so fun and interesting that she lost track of time.