Chapter 155 – #151 Master’s Past and Request

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The reaction I saw in front of the fox was quite intense, so the contact I thought would come that day came only two days later.
I even came by text first, not by phone call, but judging from that…

“There’s nothing to see. Seohoo seems to have a lot of heart, right?”

“I think so.”

It’s not 100% certain, of course, but it’s very likely.
The fox, not understanding the conversation between me and Dohyang, interrupted and asked a question.

“Why? Shouldn’t you contact me sooner if you have a crush on me?”

“Well, each person is different, but in general, it’s not easy. The contact point between Target and Seohoo is very fragmented, isn’t it? It’s a situation you don’t know anything about.”

“Um… She could be all alone if she’s wrong, so she’s careful with that word.”

“Yeah. Actually, if you’re just saying thank you, then you don’t have to worry about that, right? But while you’re very happy, you actually get your number and shrink back? Then there are only a few cases.”

“Hmm… There’s a considerable gap between your thoughts and your actual actions.”

I opened my smartphone again to check the text message.

Sara: Hello. Do you have Seohoo’s number?
Me: Yes, that’s right.
Sara: My name is Sarah Miller. Before that, she saved her daughter from nearly getting hurt in Hawaii…
Me: Ah… You are the beautiful brown-haired person I saw then. Nice to meet you. I hope you are enjoying your trip to Hawaii.
Sarah: yes She played well with her daughter and is now in New York. I live in New York.
Me: Oh really? I am also in New York now. It’s just a coincidence.
Sara: Well… I’d like to say thank you for that, but can I treat you to dinner?

The reply, of course, was ‘yes’.
Since then, there has been no reply yet.
It’s probably something like a date or time being planned.

“It’s obviously a lively and active personality… Maybe the shock of my husband’s work was big. He moves more cautiously than I thought.”

Master, Lingling, and the fox nodded at Dohyang’s words.
Even when examining the past records of the target, it was captured that they moved very passionately in school, clubs, and social activities.
But now he was acting as if he had become a different person.
When I send a text, it takes less than 10 seconds to read it, but it takes several minutes for a reply to arrive.

“Turn it off…! For now, I have no choice but to wait for a reply!”

Do-hyang stretches out and gets up from her seat.
She waved her hand gently at me and her companions.

“I’m going to the arboretum in front of you for a while, so call me if something happens!”

“Heh heh. Come back before dinner.”

“Okay~”

That’s how the smell disappears.
The teacher looked back at me and got up from his seat.

“Then it looks like there’s about an hour left until dinner, so why don’t we just talk for a while?”

It’s also uncomfortable. I wanted to avoid Lingling’s stinging gaze, but I had no choice but to accept the offer as there was no excuse for the unexpected question.

***

Scattered one by one unintentionally.
Yerim and Lingling are left alone in a hotel room.

Ling-Ling tried to follow the owner immediately, but he stood up at the signal not to follow. Then she relieved her stress by tapping the potted plants with her fingers.
It was one of the herbs that Dohyang had prepared outside, saying that the room was too dull.

‘No, what the hell is Seohoo doing? It’s like sitting in a daze and following the master without being able to properly explain…!’

Seohu hates that teacher.
I don’t mean hatred or anything like that… Shall I say that I’m disgusted with the way people, especially women, are treated like objects?
You can think of it as a feeling that you think of your teacher like a father, but are reluctant to deal with it.

So, usually when something like this happened, it was normal to make excuses and avoid it, but I don’t know what he was thinking about earlier, but he couldn’t deal with it properly. In the end, he robbed her of her intimate time with her master.

Took. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk-tuk.

In the frustration, he hits the plants.
Keep repeating the plant’s head lowering and standing up.

“Lingling sister?”

“Hmm? Ah, Ms. Yerim.”

“Just feel free to call me Yerim.”

Looking at her little girl looking up at her, Lingling hesitated for a moment, then nodded at her.

“…I understand, Yerim.”

A fox approaches her.
Lingling intuitively sensed that this girl had a problem with her, and she was now trying to talk it over to herself.

‘That worry is probably related to the Queen Mother.’

However, she is still a bit confused about whether she is correct in counseling others when her own relationship is also underperforming.
And her girl, as expected, carefully brought her own troubles out to her.

“I heard from that… Uncle. About Lingling unnie.”

“What do you mean?”

“Sister, I heard that she liked her grandfather, and she followed her for a long time.”

In a way, it could have been quite offensive, but Lingling nodded her head without expressing it.
It wasn’t too difficult for her, who had been by her lover’s side for more than ten years, controlling her emotions.

But I got a question.
What the hell are you trying to ask?
When Lingling looks at her girl, her child hesitates, then she asks quietly.

“Has she ever been tired or anything?”

For a moment, I couldn’t think of anything.
Right now, inside her mind is chaos itself… She was fine on the outside, but on the inside, she was completely in tatters.

‘Why not get tired?’

She was followed for a very long time.
Because of that, she was finally able to be next to him, but she was not receiving his love.
He could beg for her affection, but she couldn’t even show it.
Her master, whom she knew, was the one who would ruthlessly throw her out if she saw anything like that.

But in the meantime, often more difficult was the fact that she had to sexually serve and have relations with another man in front of the one she loved.
She was able to hold on though. The thought of her that one day he will look after her.

‘Even that thought is greatly shaken now…’

Looking down at her girl and even ask

“…Why do you ask that question?”

Maybe it’s because her voice is a little cold.
The girl flinched.
Lingling said not to misunderstand, and she put a slight smile on her lips. And her girl, who saw that smile, cautiously confided her own troubles.

“It’s just that I feel like I’m in the same situation. I’m worried about the future. I’m curious about how her sister survived…”

Actually a while ago. When she hit the jackpot in her first mission, Yerim was very happy as if she was flying into the sky.
I think she did one thing right on her first stage.
Of course, it was luck to the end, but isn’t luck also skill after all?

But the heat gradually cools down.
Seeing that he was texting and making plans to meet with another woman, she was the one who made me feel like why did she try so hard and be happy.

“That’s why I want to get advice from you. Even if you can tolerate it… There are times when your hair goes gray and it’s just… Hard to control your emotions…? … Black… I have no idea…”

The girl is crying
Lingling could fully understand the meaning of her tears.
Because she had been through a dozen years before her.

She approached him quietly and hugged and comforted her.
Words of hope. The words she wants to hear.

“Don’t worry, Yerim. Seohu is a good person. He doesn’t enjoy seeing his woman suffer emotionally, nor does he use women like tools. So you can trust and wait. You can trust and wait.”

“I-Is that so? Whip… Lingling unnie…?”

“Yes. So you don’t have to worry. What you’re doing now is just work, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

“Heukheuk. Thank you, sister. Thank you…”

A girl cries in her woman’s arms.
Lingling stroked her back and smiled bitterly.
That would be too…

‘I’m jealous of Yerim. There is still a lot of time left between the two of them. But me and my master…’

Ling-Ling lowered her head at the grim reality that was right in front of her.
Uncharacteristically for her, a drop of water dripped from her eyes.

***

A city center with loud horns ringing.
Thinking that Master would like a quiet place, I drove to a nearby park.
However, it also did not seem appropriate to discuss anything serious.

There are many people lying down after taking drugs and beggars begging because they have no money.
Then I drove the car and headed to the beach where the cool breeze was blowing.
And only then did the master start to open the car door and get out.

‘I guess I don’t have to worry.’

Walk beside the teacher and look around.
The guards who have followed are widely deployed and are vigilant of the owner.

The second-in-command of a conglomerate that is said to be the best in Korea.
In fact, one of the influential people who say they control the Republic of Korea.
There are probably very few people who know that he is such an ordinary old man.
He is a white sandman. I went to the place where the sea water was close to me, and I opened my mouth quietly as I watched the water rushing in and out.

“I mean. I haven’t been feeling well since I was young.”

“…Is that so?”

“Yes. Because I was not feeling well, I couldn’t go to school properly until about the first year of middle school. So, I was always sitting in a hospital room or room.”

I’ve been following my teacher for a long time, but this is the first time I’ve heard of it.
He slowly uncovered his past.

“So I always thought. What is the reason for my existence? What should I do in the future while living in this world? Things like that. Then one day came.”

One of the nurses at the time had a woman with a flawed personality.
She bowed her head in front of her master’s parents and pretended to take good care of her master, but after they and the housemaid were away, she didn’t do her job properly and wasted her time. Said

“Once I was thirsty and asked for some water, but she snorted and told me to bring it myself.”

“Did you leave it alone?”

“At the time, I was a silent child. I was a patient child. I thought she would be like that when she was stressed by work, so I left her alone. And the girl who knew that would act as if she were a god when she was alone with me.”

But the problem is that it went too far. The teacher, who hadn’t even had a sip of water for eight hours that day, said that his condition worsened and he collapsed as if fainting for a week.
Then when I woke up, the master saw.
A female nurse who knelt down in front of him and begged to beg for forgiveness and to save him.

“It was at that time. I just had that thought. I want to deal with the creatures called women as I please. I want to become a person who can do that. It’s already been about 40 years since I started running after that.”

The old man looks at the horizon at the end of the sea.
The sun is setting and a red twilight colors the world.
Today, the teacher’s wrinkles look deeper.

“I haven’t been feeling well since I was young. So I’m organizing things one by one just in case.”

“What is that…”

“Do you remember what I asked you before? I will entrust everything to you, so in case I meet a suitable person who will continue my will in the future, I will pass it on.”

“Yes.”

The old man shakes his head slowly.
As if it were a way to relive the memories of the time.

“…Please take care of Lingling. That child is an exception. I want you to take care of it.”

“Master. That’s the person’s opinion…”

“She is the part she also agreed on. You and Lingling. If she each takes 5% of my inheritance, she will have no problem living in the future.”

That Lingling…?
I couldn’t believe it, but since the master couldn’t lie, the truth must be the truth.

“I will support you well, and I will also be a suitable teacher for that child named Yerim.”

The head of the master comes back to me.
After that, the glowing red light went out and the twilight descended on the world.
And the moment I saw that, I came to a realization and said to him quietly.

“I understand what you mean. But Master is still correcting it, so I’ll just remember it. In the meantime, Ling-Lingi’s thoughts may change. Do you know? Maybe he wants to meet the owner and make a new start.”

“Chuck. Then you, me, and the child will be happy too.”

The old man moves slowly.
I also stick to his side and go back to the car.
Then, as a way to ventilate the current atmosphere, I suddenly got curious and asked a question.

“Come to think of it, what happened to the woman who was nursing at that time?”

Even at that time, Hansung Enterprise was a huge company.
There was absolutely no way he would leave the bitch who played a prank on his bloodline alone.

“I didn’t want her to die, but she said she would do anything if I let her live. My brother, who heard that, accepted the offer. Then he made her do her job.”

That job is to handle all the excrement and urine of the master with his mouth.

“In the end, he got sick, and after getting sick, he disappeared without even knowing the mouse or bird.”

“The president is a pretty scary person.”

But. Come to think of it, he was someone who wouldn’t bleed even if he stabbed him.
Although he had only seen it once, he was a person with such a strong presence that the feeling of his time was still clearly lingered in his mind. Who is the teacher’s older brother?

“Well, he may seem that way…But he’s quite affectionate. The day will come when you realize that too.”

“Haha. I just hope I don’t have to run into many things in the future.”

This is a very difficult class to deal with.
The part where you can’t feel the emotion itself like steel.
Do you feel as if your energy is getting faster in a few words of conversation?

“Heh heh heh. Yes, yes.”

The master smiles pleasantly.
And then, the smartphone rang once.
Contact from the target.

Sarah : So, do you have time this Friday evening?

I smiled and immediately replied.

Me: yes We’ll see you then.