Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12

No way…

Yoomin slowly turned her head toward the direction of the sound.

A little ahead of the bus stop, she could see a familiar white sedan.

And standing next to that sedan was one of the people she absolutely shouldn’t encounter right now.

“Hong Yoomin!”

It was Grandfather.

He looked toward Yoomin and the roadway, gesturing with his head and waving his arms widely as if telling her to hurry up and get in.

“Hurry up and get in! You’ll get yelled at when the bus comes!”

As Yoomin stood frozen, unable to do this or that, people around her started glancing at her.

Then the people who had been looking at Yoomin suddenly began to stand up.

A bus was approaching the stop.

Having instantly become a nuisance character, Yoomin turned her steps in the opposite direction from Grandfather to escape.

Just as she was about to run, shifting her weight forward, she suddenly had a change of heart and stopped with a firm stomp of her foot.

Her body swayed from the momentum, but she managed to steady herself.

“Hey! Hong Yoomin! Hurry up and get in!”

Grandfather shouted at the top of his lungs.

Yoomin let out a long sigh.

Then she turned around and sprinted at full speed toward Grandfather’s car.

Suddenly changing direction and running toward him at full speed, Grandfather seemed flustered and stepped back.

“Hurry up. Won’t the cameras catch us here?!”

Yoomin subtly pushed Grandfather aside and opened the passenger door.

Grandfather looked at Yoomin with a strange expression and quickly got into the driver’s seat.

Grandfather’s car smelled of incense that you could only smell in temples, mixed with a fishy cinnamon scent.

This smell always gave her a headache and made her nauseous because it was so toxic.

“Yoomin-“

Hooooooonk-!

Because they had parked in front of the bus stop, the bus driver right behind them pressed the horn very long.

Grandfather stopped calling Yoomin mid-sentence and hurriedly checked the side mirror, turning the steering wheel to merge into the inner lane.

“Damn that bastard, really.”

At Grandfather’s true nature that came out unconsciously, Yoomin clenched her fists and gritted her teeth.

If she showed that she was afraid of him, he would look down on her even more and commit even more terrible acts for the sake of his daughter Suji.

Yoomin resolved to handle this calmly and well, since she had already changed her mind and come back.

Just before she had tried to run away.

If she ran away anyway, she would be caught again. And when caught, she would have to face Grandfather.

Running away here would only briefly extend the time until that happened.

Since she would have to confront him anyway, she judged it would be better in many ways to confront him now and then think about how to escape.

However, despite her being tense and prepared, Grandfather didn’t say anything for over ten minutes.

It was the first time silence felt more frightening.

He wasn’t suddenly going to take her to a shaman and make her do strange things, was he?

He was someone who had done things that were incomprehensible by normal standards for the sake of his daughter.

Thinking about what other crazy things he might do, her fear began to grow overwhelmingly.

So much tension entered her entire body that it felt like her calves would cramp.

And then.

“We’re here. Let’s get out.”

He said as he stopped the car.

Yoomin sighed quietly so only she could hear and quickly checked through the front windshield and side windows.

It was the neighborhood where she had lived during her childhood, before the fire at her father’s factory. In other words, during the happiest time of Yoomin’s life.

Yoomin was somewhat bewildered.

“It’s been a while since we came here. About 5 years?”

Taking advantage of that moment, Grandfather unbuckled his seatbelt and asked affectionately.

Knowing his true intentions, hearing such an affectionate voice only made her think it was disgusting.

“You remember. Still, Grandfather brought you here once or twice every year.”

Of course she remembered.

While living under someone else’s roof at Yoomin’s family home, she had experienced many troublesome and humiliating things because of Suji.

Especially since teenage Yoomin wasn’t the type to just take it lying down, she had tried running away and fighting back against Suji.

Then one day when they had scratched each other’s faces and it was quite a scene.

Grandfather had brought Yoomin to this place.

“Yoomin. This is the regular place your dad and I visited every day after coming up to Seoul, you know?”

“…Then it must be a really old place?”

“The chicken here is amazing. Do you know why your dad built his factory near this area? It was because of this chicken restaurant.”

“Really?”

“He says no, but I was certain. Haha, Owner. Please fry up one sweet and tender seasoned whole chicken for our pretty niece!”

He would cheer her up by bringing up stories about her dad.

“It’s a secret from Suji. That girl is very jealous too. Anyway, Yoomin. You see, Grandfather thinks of our Yoomin as a daughter just like our Suji now. Suji has been rather willful because she’s been lonely since childhood due to both of us working. Our Yoomin, please look after her for a long time. Okay?”

He always asked her to stay by Suji’s side.

In high school, she was just happy because the chicken was delicious.

When she turned twenty, she was truly grateful that he looked after her secretly from Grandmother and Suji, since they were blood relatives after all.

Of course, when he forcibly sent her to Germany, even that gratitude disappeared.

“You remember how Grandfather often brought you here whenever you fought with Suji or had any problems, right?”

Yoomin quietly answered “Yes.”

Grandfather laughed cheerfully and put his arm around Yoomin’s back, almost pushing her into the chicken restaurant.

“Owner. It’s been a while.”

“Oh my. Isn’t that President Hong? Oh my goodness. Is that Yoomin?”

“Hello, Owner. It’s been a while.”

“She’s ready to get married now, my goodness.”

The chicken restaurant owner recognized the two and welcomed them.

He especially couldn’t take his eyes off Yoomin.

Yoomin smiled awkwardly and greeted the owner.

“It’s been a while, Owner.”

When Yoomin bowed her head in greeting, the owner rushed out from behind the counter and grabbed Yoomin’s hands.

“Owner, you haven’t aged at all. You’ve become even more beautiful.”

The owner covered her mouth and laughed at Yoomin’s flattery.

Then, Grandfather subtly inserted himself between the two.

“Owner. Our Yoomin might be getting married next month.”

“Oh my goodness! Really?!”

Yoomin’s expression immediately hardened.

However, the owner and Grandfather, having received the news, paid no attention to Yoomin’s expression.

Questions came up from who she was marrying to what her future husband did for a living.

Yoomin clenched her fists so tight her nails dug in and suppressed her rising anger.

At the very least, she had expected Grandfather to pretend to cheer her up and say there had been a misunderstanding.

Or at least she thought he would try to persuade her.

But seeing him tell even the chicken restaurant owner, a long-time acquaintance, that she was marrying Kim Byeongtae, it was clear he intended to push through with a smile until the end.

He was definitely planning to force her while smiling.

“Yoomin. Let’s sit.”

Yoomin calmly responded to the detestable Grandfather’s words and took a seat.

While waiting for the chicken to come out, a strange tension flowed between the two.

During that time, Yoomin came to a complete conclusion about how she should handle this.

First, she would pretend to be disappointed and ask questions as if she didn’t understand, then later pretend to obediently listen.

While making him let his guard down that way, she would look into whether she could arrange private loans and make plans to leave.

“Grandfather. I overheard Suji’s phone conversation earlier today. She said I’m her scapegoat. That Suji was originally destined to die if she married, but I’m taking on that fate instead.”

Grandfather didn’t even blink and let out a dry laugh.

“Heh heh.”

“Do you really think that way?”

“What do you take your grandfather for! It’s true that Yun Bosal said that, but would this grandfather push my precious you into harm’s way to die in place of my daughter?”

Grandfather’s eyes grew moist as if he truly meant it.

“No matter how much I trust Yun Bosal blindly, I believe what I should believe and let what I can’t believe go in one ear and out the other. But Kim Byeongtae is different.”

“…”

“Aside from being a bit older, isn’t he really too good a man to let slip away? Even if more marriage proposals come in the future, it’ll be hard to find someone with as much as Kim Byeongtae has.”

“…If that’s true, then you could have just married Suji to him.”

“Suji, well. Sigh.”

Grandfather gulped down cold water.

Then he suddenly started to tear up.

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