“It’s not bullshit, it’s real. “Even if I try not to, you keep showing me how cool you are, so I don’t fall in love with you?”
Hyun Je-ha shook his head with a sigh.
There really is no one who is that consistent.
“Do you know how foolish you really are?”
“uh? “I heard that before.”
“To whom?”
“To Seongyul.”
I could clearly see what kind of foolishness Eunyul had in her mind.
“So what did you answer?”
“I said I knew I was foolish too.”
Namgoonghyuk stretched out his chest.
“Are you proud of that?”
“I’m better than kids who don’t know.”
“Don’t you think that kids who don’t know are better off?”
No matter how Hyun Je-ha looked at him, Nam Gung-hyuk was confident.
“okay. “What you think matters.”
This is how those with strong faith win. So, instead of persuading Namgoonghyeok, Hyeonjaeha looked ahead.
Why did I come to meet Namgoong Hyuk? As the story went elsewhere for a moment and I was thinking about the business that had come to visit him, I heard Namgoonghyuk’s voice.
“Don’t you pity me for being foolish?”
“What is he saying now.”
Hyun Je-ha narrowed his eyebrows, not knowing why he was bringing up a story that had already ended, but Namgung-hyuk suddenly spoke up.
“If you feel bad, I help you sometimes.”
It was purely Namgoong Hyuk’s opinion.
“They eat the food I make and sometimes say it’s delicious. and… … .”
Namgoonghyuk must have been thirsty in the middle of the day, so he poured down the remaining beer in one mouthful.
“Please come visit me like you did today.”
In response to Namgoonghyeok’s serious reply, Hyeonjaeha muttered whatever came to mind.
“It’s really foolish.”
It seems really pitiful that he couldn’t confess to dating until a moment like this.
however… … .
The way he wiped the area where my mouth touched with his sleeve seemed quite cool.
“I ate pork belly earlier, right? But since I have a child, I definitely can’t ask him out for a drink. Pork belly should be eaten with soju, really.”
Namgoonghyuk clicked his tongue and chuckled. I couldn’t bear to sip soju in Haneul’s presence.
Especially since Eun-yul and Kang Ha-jun took care of each other, and my partner, Haneul, did a lot for me.
“But the pork belly without soju was pretty good.”
Let’s eat together next time.
At Namgoonghyuk’s simple words, Hyunjeha opened a new beer.
* * *
“It’s frustrating.”
The lawyer noticed Kang Yi-heum’s heavy words.
“Why can’t we bring them here even though they can grow up in a better environment?”
“It is difficult to obtain custody unless there are circumstances in which the child has been abused or there are other special reasons.”
I asked about ways to bring Haneul in as Kang Ha-jun’s child, but the lawyer only answered that it was impossible.
I was planning to absorb Lee Hyun-seung’s things through Haneul, but I didn’t expect Kang I-heum’s eyebrows to straighten when he heard that it was difficult to bring the child right away.
“Hmm, and I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can take on this request anymore.”
“what?”
The lawyer couldn’t make eye contact with Kang Yi-heum’s harsh gaze, but he diligently packed his things with both hands.
“sorry.”
Even though he knew that it would be rude to refuse a request without any particular reason, he decided to boldly withdraw his hand. Even if the other person is a famous politician in Korea.
“then… … .”
As the lawyer bowed his head and left, the aide who had just brought the tea looked puzzled.
“What’s going on?”
“dare… … .”
Kang Iheum clenched his fists to suppress the urge to destroy everything he could get his hands on right now. In that bloody atmosphere, the aide quietly closed the door.
“Reject me? me?”
Kang I-heum, who once lived at the top of the pyramid as the head of a company and now as a politician, was not used to rejection.
Last time, people suddenly avoided contacting me, so I held an engagement ceremony to show that I was still alive, but now a lawyer has touched my pride.
“I won’t leave you alone.”
As I was staring at the door through which the lawyer left, there was a knock and an aide came in.
“There is someone who came to see you.”
“Who is it?”
“My name is Lim Bong-soon… … .”
“Who is that?”
Kang Yi-heum responded as if snatching away the aide’s words before he finished speaking.
“This is Seong Eun-yul’s grandmother, whom I saw when I went to see Executive Director Kang the other day.”
“under.”
An unpleasant person came to visit. What kind of grandmother is this? When I looked up him later, I found out that he was an ordinary old man who ran a restaurant.
“Where is this? “Kick me out.”
“that is… … .”
The aide hesitated.
“Is there anyone with you?”
“That’s not it. “I am alone.”
When I asked him if he had brought Hyunseung Lee with him, the aide shook his head.
“Then what is there to hesitate about?”
“He said he would regret it if we didn’t meet him.”
“under.”
This guy or that guy is the only one who offends Kang Yi-heum. It seemed like everyone thought they would meet Seong Eun-yul when he came to the house.
Kang Yi-heum sighed and waved his hand as if he was annoyed, but then stopped.
〈Unless there are circumstances in which the child has been abused or there are other special reasons, it is difficult to obtain custody.〉
“Special reasons.”
Kang I-heum, who was tapping the armrest and thinking about the lawyer’s words, snapped his fingers.
“Let me in.”
It seemed like the old man had appeared to explain the reason.
Kang Yi-heum smiled and picked up the pen-type recorder on the nightstand and put it in his front pocket.
Lim Bong-soon, who came in shortly, was no different from the last time I saw her. She still had a shabby appearance and her eyes were full of anger.
“Please sit down.”
Kang Iheum pointed to the empty seat with his eyes without getting up.
Lim Bong-soon looked around the seats and sat down in the farthest place.
“Do you need to sit that far away?”
“It doesn’t matter if I say it here because I can hear everything.”
Kang Yi-heum’s eyebrows twitched at her sharp tone even though it wasn’t the time to fight like last time, but he forced himself to calm down.
“I came to warn you.”
Lim Bong-soon got straight to the point, as if it was a waste of a casual conversation.
“warning… … .”
“Don’t touch Eunyul. “The same goes for the sky.”
“Are you here to say such nonsense?”
Kang Yi-heum snorted loudly. A person who had no idea what I was doing came to me and told me not to mess with him, so all I could do was laugh.
“How can a person who is told by a lawyer to find a means to take him to Heaven get away with it?”
“that… … .”
Kang Iheum tried to refute, but was speechless. Since making the request to the lawyer, we have only had two meetings until today. However, just as I was wondering how I would know and mention it, I remembered that the lawyer had just said that he could not make the request.
Did you really meet a lawyer?
“Don’t roll your head.”
That word I heard recently stuck in my head like a thorn.
Since Kang I-heum couldn’t open his mouth easily, Lim Bong-soon got up and walked away, thinking that this was enough.
“Destiny… … .”
〈My late father had a very deep relationship with someone while he was alive.〉
〈I met him recently. I’m sure it’s not just me.〉
What Hyun Seong-Hoon once said naturally reminded me of this.
Could it be that connection?
* * *
“What day is today?”
Haneul saw Eunyul dressing her with her arms wide open.
After buttoning up the buttons one by one, Eunyul adjusted her clothes and neatly smoothed Haneul’s hair.
