Lee Hyun clenched his fist tightly as memories surged back to him. Blood welled up on his forehead.
“Husband?”
Seohee muttered with her eyes wide open as if she didn’t understand. Her hand was still on her stomach.
Lee Hyun’s pitch-black eyes persistently scanned her stomach, which was no different from before they broke up.
Ha, at that moment, Lee Hyeon let out a sigh.
It was a child. The last thing you ever wanted was a child.
The inside of my mouth felt rough and sticky. I pressed hard against my throat because I couldn’t breathe.
It didn’t matter whether she only wanted a child who looked like me or whether she was just using that child as an excuse to stay by my side.
It was a child, you know. A child who looked like you and me.
His black pupils darkened. Lee Hyun curled his lips.
I will never miss it again. I will never let you go.
I have to weave her tightly from head to toe. Then, like the night embroidering the sky, I have to dye it little by little.
Your mind, your body, and if I want, even your soul.
Seohee.
Lee Hyun’s eyes sparkled brightly.
“I… … so, I got married?”
Lee Hyun raised his left hand towards the confused girl.
Lee Hyun, who hates wearing anything on his body, does not wear a ring except for formal events he attends with his wife.
Seohee occasionally moved her mouth as if she was displeased about it, but said nothing, and Lee Hyun repeated the same actions as if it were a habit.
But after Seohee disappeared, he never took off the ring even once.
No, he was pathologically obsessed with the ring. He acted like a crazy person, as if it was the only thing that connected him to her.
“Director Jeong.”
At Lee Hyun’s call, Seungho quickly handed him a piece of paper that said “marriage registration form.”
Husband and wife. Lee Hyun’s gaze fell on the letters that had Yoon lee-hyun and Jin Seo-hee’s names written side by side. The neat, round letters were Seo-hee’s.
Every year on their wedding anniversary, Seohee would place a marriage certificate on his desk, filling it with her name and personal information.
The marriage registration form that was submitted on their 5th wedding anniversary was different from usual. Seo-hee, who usually only wrote about herself, had also written down Lee-hyun’s personal information.
As if it was her last chance, Seohee reached out to him once again.
You should have done it earlier.
Even though they did everything between a married couple, Hyun Lee never registered his marriage, saying that he would let her go someday.
Even though he knew that it would make Seo-hee miserable, she held on to it stubbornly. And yet, she attended the couple’s gatherings without fail.
I would not divorce you while maintaining any other close relationship.
On that topic, after Seo-hee disappeared, I headed to the district office like a madman. I reported it in a hurry as if this piece of paper was the only thing that connected the two of us.
Lee Hyun smiled as he handed the documents over to Seo Hee.
What I brought as a reunion gift turned out to be used as proof of our relationship.
“Why… … . You… … .came……. Now?”
Seohee sobbed. Lee Hyeon clenched his fists at the faintly scattered words.
“First of all, I would like to transfer you to a different hospital.”
Seungho moved her head quickly at Lee Hyun’s one word.
“I will discuss it with the doctor in charge.”
Lee Hyun, who had been nodding as if it was obvious, stopped Seungho’s actions by saying,
“Ms. Jin Seo-hee.”
“Huh?”
Seohee shook her shoulders as if surprised when she heard her name from his mouth.
“No, Seohee.”
I should have called you out on it more often when you told me not to draw the line like that. Lee Hyun said softly, while biting his lip.
“I would like to move you to the hospital situated in Hanseo. What do you think?”
His gentle voice that said that if you don’t want to, he won’t force you, but that he hopes you will follow along had a strangely powerful tone.
“Hanseo… city?”
“It’s a place where we originally lived.”
The place where she originally lived. Hanseo Special City. Seohee slowly blinked her eyes, mulling over Lee Hyun’s words.
Hyun Lee soon began to sweetly seduce her, while erasing his usual coercive habits.
“You don’t like this kind of noisy places.”
Even though I tried to be quiet, it was a six-person room. There was a lot of noise from everyday life, and even conversations from other people that I didn’t necessarily need to know. It was a place where it was hard to rest comfortably because there were so many people coming and going.
“… … .”
Seohee stared blankly at Lee Hyeon. Then he took a step closer. Slowly, he leaned his upper body towards her and met her gaze.
“There is no separate hospital room for a pregnant women here.”
Hyun Lee looked around the old building and the beds that were cramped together. There was no way a rural hospital like this would have a ward like that.
At the same time, he gently brushed the back of Seo-hee’s hand, where the needle marks were, as if he was worried.
“I am…….”
Seohee lowered her gaze and twirled the ring on her hand.
The habit of doing this whenever you’re worried is still the same. Lee Hyun, who had been quietly watching this, slowly covered the back of her hand.
“Your hand is swollen.”
It must have been uncomfortable, but she managed to wear the ring. Even after she quit playing the violin, Seo-hee habitually wore the ring on her right hand. Lee Hyun naturally moved it to her left hand and said.
“Your hands often swell at night.”
Lee Hyun paused for a moment. One of his eyebrow rose diagonally.
“… … I used to move it for you like this.”
It was a lie. I had never put a ring on her left hand with my own hands, even though I saw her spinning it around every time. Even though I knew it would fit perfectly since it was a ring made for her left hand.
Lee Hyun burst out laughing at her very natural behavior. Seo Hee’s eyes, which had been filled with confusion, calmed down.
If before, her eyes had been filled with doubts as to whether she could trust this man, now her eyes had a look that said, if he can act like this naturally, then they were definitely close.
Lee Hyeon, who had been observing her expression, nodded his head toward Seungho as if he had heard a positive answer.
“If the doctor says it’s okay to move, then can we move, honey?”
I’ll do whatever you want. Lee Hyun lowered his body almost to her knees. He tilted his head back and looked up at Seo Hee’s eyes that were shaking back and forth.
Just give me the order, Seohee. I’ll do it all.
He looked into her eyes as if he was trying to swallow up all the remaining confusion and anxiety, and then he caressed both of her hands.
The fastest way to get back to Gayoon Group was to use J International.
J International was a semiconductor company that had the technology that Gayoon needed at the time. Lee Hyun planned to make a large investment in J International and establish himself in Gayoon.
But while he was finalizing the final investment plan, an issue arose at J International.
Owner, Jin Tae-sik’s industrial espionage charges.
Before any clear charges were revealed, CEO Jin Tae-sik took his own life, and the company went into steep decline.
While Gayoon Group was hesitating over the merger with J International, Lee Hyun dug into their relationship at a good time.
He proposed a bold investment amount, and J International had no reason to refuse the investment.
This was because YH Group was a foreign investment company in the first place, and there was no need to merge with Gayoon Group once the funding was secured.
Lee Hyun demanded one thing in exchange for the investment: marriage to Jin Seo-hee, the only heiress.
Because what he absolutely wanted was not the shell of J International, but the stocks that Jin Seo-hee owned.
Jin Seo-hee’s aunt, Jin Hee-young, forced Seo-hee to sit down as she was about to return to Germany after Jin Tae-sik’s funeral. Then she spoke to her as if giving orders.
There’s only one way to revive the company your father left reeling from allegations of industrial espionage.
Lee Hyun let out a snicker at the part where he mentioned ‘industrial espionage’, but that was it. He didn’t interrupt Jin Hee-young, who was trying to make up a plausible reason.
Seohee looked at me with her clear eyes, as if she wasn’t listening.
Feeling her gaze lingering on his pitch-black eyes for a long time before it turned to his hand that was caressing the water glass indifferently, Lee Hyun swept his neck with his remaining hand.
I will marry you, she said. And then, without hesitation, she covered my hand.
It was clearly Lee Hyun who chose this marriage, but Seo Hee acted as if she had chosen Lee Hyun.
“Seohee.”
Lee Hyun called her softly.
Please do it this time too.
Please hold my hand.
Come with me.
Sigh, Lee Hyun swallowed a light laugh and lowered his face onto the back of her hand.
Just say it once.
Just one word.
Seohee.
If that’s difficult, you can just nod your head.
Lee Hyun, who had been tracing the veins on the back of her thin hand as if engraving them, eventually kissed the back of her hand. As if obeying her like a dog.
