Impure Wedding Night - Chapter 101



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#101. Accidental relationship, no, fate
2024.05.17.

“Han Ye-rin, I think it would be better to take some medicine and sleep.”

However, Ye-rin was so tired that she couldn’t move even after hearing Lee Hyun’s words.

Lee Hyun thought for a moment, then went to the kitchen and came back with a cup of lukewarm water.

In the meantime, Ye-rin seemed to have gained some strength and got up and sat on the headboard.

“Han Ye-rin, you need to take some medicine.”

“Yes.”

She answered, but didn’t take the first step to take the fever reducer.

“Oh, try it.”

Only when Lee Hyun brought the fever reducer to her mouth did Ye-rin open her lips slightly.

He put the fever reducer in it and lifted the cup.

He tried to give it to Ye-rin, but soon he drank the water himself.

Then he kissed Ye-rin’s lips and let the water flow out.

Ye-rin was surprised when something entered her mouth and tried to push it away.

Lee Hyun, who was anxious that she might spit out the medicine he had put in her mouth, unconsciously pushed his hot breath deeper into Yerin’s mouth.

Lee Hyun had to close his eyes tightly because he could feel the soft texture of Yerin’s lips.

“This is a cure. This is.”

Lee Hyun tried to suppress the strange imagination that kept rising throughout his body and focus on giving her the medicine.

Fortunately, Yerin slowly swallowed the medicine and water that Lee Hyun had given her.

“Good job. I’ll close my eyes in the living room and come in every now and then to check my temperature, so sleep comfortably.”

Yerin, who seemed to understand Lee Hyun’s words, lay down on the bed again.

Soon after, Lee Hyun confirmed that he could hear her breathing and left her room.

Hoping that her fever would go down soon, Lee Hyun stayed up all night.

***

Chan Sook, who had been discharged from the hospital and came home, opened the safe right away.

There was nothing like a bundle of cash or gold in the safe, but there was an old wallet inside.

Inside, Chan-sook took out a business card she had received a long time ago.

[Director Yoon Hye-ran of Ji-seok Gallery]

The faded business card showed the passage of time.

Chan-sook held the business card and recalled that incident long ago.

***

About 20 years ago.

It was when the whole family went on a trip because a CEO had rented a friend’s villa.

CEO Han had been drinking with his friend since the middle of the day and passed out, while Ye-rin and Chan-sook pretended not to know.

“Mom, I’m bored.”

Since the villa was in a remote place, there was no place for little Ye-rin to play.

“Ye-rin, do you want to go for a walk with Mom? I think there’s a valley down there.”

“Really? Then are there fish?”

“Yes, there are.”

“I want to go see the fish!”

Chan-sook held Ye-rin’s hand and walked down for a while.

The sound of the stream water flowing could be heard, and Ye-rin jumped up and down with a very excited expression.

“Ye-rin, let’s go together.”

“Mom, this place looks really nice.”

Arriving at the valley, Yerin smiled brightly.

The sound of cicadas and the lush trees were truly spectacular.

“Huh? Mom, who’s swimming over there?”

Chansuk also turned his gaze to where Yerin was pointing.

At first, he thought it was a young boy swimming, but soon realized that it wasn’t.

“Oh, it looks like he fell into the water.”

The child was struggling, perhaps because he wasn’t good at swimming.

Perhaps because the valley was so deserted, there were no passersby or people playing nearby.

“Mom, shouldn’t we save him?”

Yerin stomped her feet, and Chansuk couldn’t just watch.

She wasn’t completely scared either, but what helped her overcome that fear was her motherly love.

When she thought that the child who fell into the water was someone’s child, she couldn’t hesitate.

She hoped that if our Yerin was in danger like that, someone wouldn’t just pass by.

After calling 119, Chansuk handed Yerin her cell phone.

“Yerin, if you get a call while I’m out, you have to answer it. Okay?”

“Mom, I’m scared.”

“No, don’t worry. The water doesn’t look that deep, so you’ll be fine.”

Chan-sook thought it was really fortunate that she had once been a competitive swimmer and picked up a rescue tube lying nearby.

After doing some quick stretches, she jumped into the stream without hesitation.

Fortunately, the water wasn’t that deep, as she had expected.

It was deep enough to reach the chest of an adult woman, but it was enough to make the young boy feel scared.

Chan-sook went over to the struggling boy and inserted a tube.

The boy had already drunk a lot of water, so he didn’t have much strength.

“Don’t worry, I’ll save you.”

If the boy had continued to struggle, it would have taken a lot of effort to rescue him, but that didn’t happen.

The boy fainted while still in the tube.

Fortunately, an ambulance had arrived when Chan-sook brought the boy outside.

Ye-rin looked at him with concern and asked,

“Mom, are you okay?”

“I’ll be okay.”

The boy seemed to be around the same age as Ye-rin.

That’s why she couldn’t pretend not to know him because he seemed like her own child.

Chan-sook, who went to the hospital with him, was able to meet the child’s mother who arrived after receiving a late call.

After learning the identity of the child she had saved, Chan-sook was very surprised.

It was the second generation of the Ji-seok Group, a family that no Korean would not know.

“Thank you so much for saving our Lee Hyun.”

The child’s mother kept bowing her head while holding Chan-sook’s hand.

“She disappeared and I’ve been looking for her for a long time. If it weren’t for you, I would have been in big trouble.”

“No. It’s fortunate that my daughter found her first.”

“Oh, so that’s what happened?”

The child’s mother wanted to thank her somehow, but Chan-sook stubbornly refused.

She hadn’t rescued the child because she wanted something.

“This is my business card. If you ever need help, please contact me anytime.”

Chan-sook couldn’t refuse the business card that

was offered to her, so she accepted it. Up until then, she had thought she would never get involved with the Ji-seok Group family.

Sometimes, life overturns such convictions.

When Ye-rin brought Lee Hyun to see her, Chan-sook thought.

It was a good thing she jumped into that stream decades ago.

And now, she wanted to grab onto her last remaining hope.

For Ye-rin.

***

Rrrrr-

An unfamiliar bell rang in the quiet Jinheonjae.

Mrs. Yoon, who was reading in the living room, reflexively raised her head quickly when she heard the sound.

Then, she walked to her room as if possessed.

She opened the drawer at the bottom and took out a very old cell phone that was receiving a call.

“No way… … .”

With half a pounding heart and half a nervous heart, Mrs. Yoon answered the phone.

“Yes, this is Yoon Hye-ran.”

– … … .

“Hello?”

The moment her anticipation, which had been building up as if she had dialed the wrong number, was about to crash to the floor.

– Do you remember what happened in the valley about 20 years ago?

“Oh, yes! Yes. Are you the lady that Lee Hyun saved back then?”

– Yes, that’s right.

Mrs. Yoon tightly closed her eyes when she heard the call she had been waiting for.

At the hospital, she couldn’t remember how much she regretted not sending off the person who saved her life like that.

The other person said there was no need for a thank you, but she should have properly thanked him by buying him a meal, but she was in a state of panic.

“How have you been? I was waiting for you to call me.”

– Is the child doing well?

“Yes. He’s a healthy young man now.”

Mrs. Yoon was so anxious that the phone call would end like this.

“Madam, if you could spare some time, I would like to treat you to a meal. He was such a grateful person

, and I’m so sorry I just sent him away.” She wanted to properly express her gratitude that she had not been able to express decades ago.

“My daughter said she found our Lee Hyun first, so you can come with me.”

– My daughter is busy, so it might be a little difficult. Shall we have a cup of tea together?

“That would be great.”

Mrs. Yoon made an appointment for the earliest possible date and suppressed her pounding heart as she ended the call.

She waited, keeping her old cell phone in a drawer without changing her number, hoping that the person who had saved Lee Hyun might contact her.

She was once again grateful that her old cell phone had held up so well.

And she was also happy that she had finally been able to contact the person who had saved Lee Hyun’s life after decades.

Recently, Mrs. Yoon was very angry after reading an absurd article about Lee Hyun’s love affair.

And later, she heard about the fight between Lee Hyun and Chairman Cha at a breakfast meeting at Jinheonjae, and she was just worried.

It was a message like a shower in Mrs. Yoon’s life, which had been full of worries these days.

***

Chan-sook entered the impressive, quiet hanok teahouse.

There was only one customer, perhaps because it was not a place visited by many people.

Her eyes met from afar with a middle-aged woman sitting by the window.

As Chan-sook slowly approached, the woman got up and smiled brightly.

Although she was a face she had only seen once, a long time ago, she was someone she was so grateful for that she appeared in her dreams several times, so she was able to recognize her right away.

“Hello, I’m Yoon Hye-ran.”

“Hello, I’m Park Chan-sook.”

The two women exchanged greetings and sat down facing each other.

After ordering warm chamomile tea, Mrs. Yoon spoke first.

“Thank you so much for contacting me first. I was secretly waiting for you to contact me.”

“Did you?”

The burden was somewhat relieved when she said she had been waiting for my call.

“Actually, I asked to meet because I had something I wanted to tell you.”

“Yes, what is it?”

Mrs. Yoon leaned forward as if she was ready to listen to whatever Chan-sook had to say.

“You might be surprised.”

“It’s okay. Is there anything more surprising than when our Lee Hyeon-i almost drowned?”