That was his irresistible, unbreakable proposition. He was like me. He broke what Park Eunwoo had to do, and the Flower of Trials forced him to act. He was not like the other characters,
who were frozen in time when the Flower of Trials imposed its sanctions. He was able to move nonchalantly, even though the Flower of Trials was creating a creepy situation. He slowly took Han Seo ri out of his arms and turned to face Cha Ye Bin. Cha Yebin was slowly approaching.
He naturally handed her over to him and took a step back, just as the scene in the drama between Han Seo-ri and Cha Ye-bin played out.
“Now we’re a little out of it.”
Park Eun Woo helped me up as I still had no strength in my legs.
“It’s okay, I’ll walk on my own feet.”
I glanced back as I made my way through the sand. Cha Yebin had grabbed Han Seo-ri’s wrist and was screaming at her, and Han Seo-ri was crying and throwing his hand away. Cha Yebin looked at her hand in pain, then walked over to her, hugged her, and started yelling at her again. I stared at the scene like it was from a drama and started walking again. Park Eun-woo brushed my sweaty hair out of my face and asked,
“How are you? Were you surprised, Ye-ryun?”
“You aren’t Park Eunwoo, you.”
“You finally believe me.”
“I have to believe, I saw it with my own eyes.”
I opened the car door, got in, and leaned back on my seat. My whole body throbbed with tension as I witnessed the first time in a long time that the sanction of the Flower of Trials was applied.
Park Eun-woo also entered the car and sat down, examining my complexion.
“What caused Han Seo-ri’s sudden change of heart?”
“She probably wanted to be comforted in my arms, in front of Cha Ye-ryun.”
“Is that something Park Eunwoo can’t do? That he can’t deny Han Seo Ri what she wants?”
“That’s right.”
“And that he hates Cha Ye-bin?”
“That’s just disliked because I don’t like him.”
“I wish you would learn to be a little more discreet, Mr. Cha.”
“I want my sister in our car right now……!”
Park Eun-woo’s cynical voice blew a cold breeze as he spoke to Cha Ye-bin, in keeping with his characterization as a cold man. I quickly interrupted Cha Yebin before he could start crying and arguing.
“Oh, please, big brother, stop it, what happened to Han Seo-ri, did she want to go up with you?”
“That’s…… Ye-ryun, I need you to help me with that…….”
Cha Ye-bin, who was about to grab Park Eunwoo’s throat, quickly became mute at my words. Help? What help. Why does he need my help to take Han Seo Ri upstairs?
“Seo Ri said…… she’ll go back to Seoul if you sincerely apologize.”
“What?”
“Ye-ryun, help your brother just this once. I can’t leave Ms. Seo-ri here alone.”
“You’re saying that now? You should just give up on her. You and Han Seo Ri are siblings now. What do you think you can do with her anymore, even if you take her upstairs?”
“But I can’t leave her behind in Busan, where she has no ties with anyone. Please, Ye Ryun.”
Cha Yebin’s heart was breaking with each of my words, and he bowed his head to beg me. I know that he and Han are siblings without a drop of blood between them, but he doesn’t know that, and he believes with all his heart that he and Han are siblings, so his heart must have been turned inside out a dozen times.
Nevertheless, he can’t leave Han Seo Ri in a strange place, and he bows his head to Cha Ye Ryun, the evil woman who created all of this.
What on earth made them fall in love so breathtakingly, what made Cha Yebin so drawn to Han Seo-ri, and what made Han Seo-ri so in love with Cha Yebin? I’m sick of it.
I’m tired of their tortured love. In my eyes, I was sick of it.
“You’ve been waiting for a while only for this, haven’t you?”
“Ryun!”
“We should go back now, but you’re too proud to go up there, and now that I’m right in front of you, you’re taking advantage of this situation to back naturally without apologizing. You are being sarcastic.”
“I’m not being sarcastic, I’m serious. If she wants to go up to Seoul, why would she need my apology? My apology is just an excuse, an excuse to go back to Seoul with a clean slate and no pride.”
If she wanted to come and settle down to Busan and never come back, she would have packed her things in a big suitcase. But her tiny handbag barely fit a cell phone. She wasn’t planning to stay long, or she thought Cha Yebin or Park Eunwoo would pick her up. Judging by the disappointment on Han Seo Ri’s face when she first saw me, she wanted her men to pick her up. Then she’d give them a good bounce and come back. Because that’s what happened in the original. However, Cha Yebin’s condition was different from the original, and my presence, which was a random act of kindness, gave Han Seo-ri a good excuse.
“She said that if you sincerely apologize, she’ll try to recognize and accept you as a sister, which is what she’s trying to do now.”
“Oh, that’s very kind of you. You’re making an effort I don’t even want you to make.”
“Cha, please!”
“Okay, okay.”
I was pushed out of the car by Cha Ye-bin’s back. Han Seo-ri was watching me from a little distance away from the car. Ugh, that slutty girl.
“That’s right, Ms. Han Seo-ri. She is only going back to Seoul if she gets my apology, right?”
“You need to talk to her, Cha Ye-ryun.”
“I don’t want to. Why don’t you just stop expecting for my apology and go back to Seoul?”
“You heard Mr. Ye Bin, I want to understand you, so let’s…… talk.”
She hesitated for a long time and I replied,
“I want to understand you because you’re my sister. I don’t blame
you for wanting to understand what was bothering you simply because we’re sisters, but I felt a little ridiculous at this point. To be honest, the things I’ve done to you so far were a bit ambiguous to be called evil. Just someone who was disliked by society? In other words, you didn’t deserve to be understood. However, I found it a little funny that I remained a thoroughly evil woman in your mind, and you had lived in love, care, and consideration. But you couldn’t even think of mercifully embracing me, a wicked woman. It is truly ridiculous. This understanding that I don’t want from you neither expect it for you, why don’t you just do well on your own and go to Seoul?”
