Episode 4.10
“Look at you. What was so great about this childish way of bullying people?”
The embers of dissatisfaction in Han’s heart were instantly ignited into a huge fire.
Han Seori followed the path down to Cha Ye Ryun’s room.
On the second floor, there were the rooms of Cha Ye Ryun and Cha Ye Bin. Han Seo ri purposely went to Cha Yebin’s room first, but she couldn’t help but think of the face of the man who hadn’t even made eye contact with her.
“Cha Ye Ryun!”
“Not again. Now I had to watch this mess at home.”
As Cha opened the door in annoyance, her back was turned to the view from her room.
It was moderately colorful, filled with stylish furniture and accessories, and looked three times larger than her room. Han Seo-ri’s stomach flipped once again as she remembered her shabby room.
Only one thought kept running through her head.
It was not fair.
“My room. Why was there nothing in it? Did you do this? Does it make you feel better if you try to bully people in such a childish way?”
“How I wish it would ease my mind too.”
Cha Ye-ryun sighed heavily, pulled Han Seo’s hand, and placed a card on her palm with a thud.
“What was this?”
“It is your card. You can spend as much as you want on it, and you can buy things for your room. I was so busy enough to pay
attention to what goes on in your room.”
As if to shoo away an annoying fly, Cha Ye ryun waved her hand. Then she closed the door on Han Seo ri’s face. It was a clear celebration.
In her hand was a black card she had never seen before.
“Look at that, the lady took special care for you.”
Deacon Kim, who had followed Han Seo-ri, said bluntly,
Han Seo-ri clutched the card in her hand, feeling subtly uncomfortable. Was this all I can get out of this? She felt dejected.
* * *
“You were given an empty room without a futon to sleep in, and your family is broke!”
Han Seo Ri’s foster mother grabbed Han Seo Ri’s wrist and led her into Daesoo Department Store, the largest department store in Korea.
She insisted they went to the market together, saying she needed to bring something for the mansion.
But she was furious when she realized the room was empty.
Cha’s should be held responsible for the mess!
It was hard for her to accept that her daughter, whom she had raised without a drop of water on her hands, was being treated like that in her father’s house.
“You can use the money from the house, but if you bring in things from the market, you’ll just be ignored!”
Han Seo-ri was dragged by her mother’s hand as if she couldn’t win.
The mother and daughter went to look at the furniture first, and the first thing they looked at was the bed for the room.
Han Seo-ri, who had never bought anything in a department store in her life, and her foster parents, who were frugal like her, were wide-eyed at the parade of zeros on the price tag.
“Were beds supposed to be this expensive?”
“Mom, it is not expensive, people in that house have more expensive ones. Let’s take this one!”
Han Seo’s wool curiously picked the most expensive one on the
price list.
But when the department store employee saw her sitting on the bed and jumping around, he slowly approached her.
Thinking she was going to the market, she wore a tee with a long neck and jean with kimchi soup stains on the knees.
She was unwittingly attracting attention in the department store.
“I am sorry, maam. These items were a bit on the pricey side, so I’d like to help you choose from the more affordable items on the shelves.”
“What? No, we were buying this!”
Han Seo Ri and Yang Mo’s eyes lit up.
“Excuse me, what did you mean?”
Han Seori, irritated by the employee’s attitude, stepped in front of Yang Mo and glared at the employee.
“I am sorry, maam. I just thought you might not be able to buy it…….”
“How do you know if I can buy that or not?”
“Oh, it was because…….”
At her urging, the employee looked at Ms. Wool.
Her face turned bright red with shame.
“What was wrong with my clothes? If I was dressed like this, I can’t buy anything in a department store!”
The loud-mouthed wool shouted so loudly that the people shopping in the department store began to gather around her.
The squeaky voice startled the employee, who bowed his head in apology.
“I was sorry, I was sorry. Sorry, Please don’t be angry.”
“Look at this! People in the neighborhood! You were judging people for the way they dress, and this is the attitude of someone who works in the service industry?”
At one point, she even sat down on the floor of the department store, pounding the ground and sobbing. As more and more people gathered around, the employee pleaded with her, her face blue with anger.
“I was so sorry. I had overstepped my bounds, please let it go.”
“Okay, just charge me for that bed.”
Relieved by the staff member’s polite apology, Han Seo Ri handed the staff member a black card and picked up the cushion.
“The customer is the king, dressed like this or dressed like that, he was still the king!”
Even as her daughter helped her to her feet, the frosty Mrs. wool continued to criticize.
The employee who took the card was wide-eyed and hurried to the counter to talk to the manager before making a quick phone call somewhere.
The murmur of the crowd grew louder.
She was dusting off the bed when, in the distance, she saw a dozen men in black suits rushing in.
“I am so sorry, Maam.”
“Sorry!!”
The group of black suits apologized as they bent their waists at 90 degrees in front of Han Seo ri and her foster mother.
Both Han Shuo and her foster mother were stunned by the suddenness of the situation, and their eyes widened in confusion.
“I am Lee Jae-seok, the general manager of Daesoo Department Store’s Operational Services Department. I was sorry that I didn’t recognize you. All of this was my responsibility as the general manager. Please forgave me!”
The man at the front of the group of black suits bent his head to the floor and apologized.
When he got no response from the bewildered Han Seo and Yang Mo, he stomped his foot on the employee who was apologizing alongside him.
“On your knees.”
“What?”
“Got on your knees, Ms. Kim.”
“What was that…….”
“Did you think our department store should lose a VIP customer
because of you? If you don’t want to be blown away, get down on your knees and beg.”
The employee trembled under the cold pressure from Mr. Lee Jae-seok and looked at Han Seo-ri and Yang Mo.
Han Seo-ri stiffened in embarrassment, unable to say anything.
The employee saw her stiff face and bowed his head deeply in shame.
The star-stricken employee slowly walked over to Han Seo ri and Yang Mo and knelt.
Her fists were clenched tightly on her lap and trembled.
As she knelt, she heard the horrified group of the people gathered around them.
One by one, people whipped out their cell phones and started snapping pictures.
“Sin…… sends. I was guilty of dying. Please forgive me.”
