Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

However, Yoomin soon shook her head vigorously.

During university, they had mutual feelings for each other, but she and Jaejun never developed into a deep relationship.

Since there had been no contact for 5 years after that, they were practically strangers.

So thinking of him in such a desperate moment would not only be fruitless but also rude to him.

Clatter-!

That’s when it happened.

The door handle turned and the door opened roughly.

“How dare this girl lock the door when she’s living here as a freeloader?!”

Grandmother entered, pointing her finger with her eyebrows sharply raised.

“What happened with ruining the matchmaking-“

“What happened?! You didn’t take the matchmaking seriously?! Huh?!”

Suji, who pushed past Grandmother, quickly approached and grabbed Yoomin’s hair.

“…!”

When Yoomin, with her hair grabbed, kept her lips tightly shut and didn’t respond, Suji shook Yoomin’s head roughly as if frustrated.

Even with the pain of her brain being shaken and her hair being torn out, she felt more angry.

She felt wronged about why she had to be treated like this.

Yoomin grabbed Suji’s wrist tightly and twisted it, filled with rage.

Suji screamed in pain and stepped back greatly.

“Ah! That, that bitch…!”

Suji frowned and then turned her head sharply to look at her mother.

Grandmother, who had been pushed aside by Suji, was looking at her phone with a serious face from two steps away.

“Mom! Do something about her! And did Dad or Yun Bosal contact you?”

Grandmother muttered coldly while still keeping her eyes fixed on her phone.

“Actually, I just got a text from your father.”

Soon, she raised her gaze and glared at Yoomin.

“You really.”

Yoomin was dumbfounded seeing Grandmother looking at her with such an angry face.

“What did I do so wrong that you’re glaring at me like you want to kill me? And what’s this about being a scapegoat?”

At Yoomin’s clearly articulated question, Grandmother flinched for a moment. However, she soon put on an expressionless face as if it was nothing.

“Scapegoat? Did you have some dream?”

Yoomin let out a hollow laugh at Grandmother’s way of speaking that casually made her look like a fool.

“I heard everything Hong Suji was saying. That I’m a scapegoat. And that Hong Suji will die if I don’t go on matchmaking dates.”

Grandmother’s eyes wavered.

However, contrary to her flustered eyes, she opened her mouth wide and began to laugh forcedly.

“Haha, I’m so dumbfounded, really. Why would our Suji die if you don’t go on matchmaking dates? Are you going to keep saying such unlucky things?”

“Then why is Yun Bosal involved in this matchmaking? Kim Byeongtae was also going on and on about Yun Bosal earlier, wasn’t he? Didn’t you hear something strange from Yun Bosal and transfer the bad luck that Hong Suji should face to me? That’s why you sent me to the matchmaking in her place, right?”

Perhaps because she hit the nail on the head, Grandmother bit her lips with a distorted face.

And she poked Yoomin’s chest with her index finger while speaking in a threatening tone.

“Nonsense.”

“….”

“Cut it out, you bitch. If your uncle finds out about this behavior, you’ll end up locked in a mental hospital and more. You know?”

Mental hospital?

She felt completely deflated.

There’s a limit to treating someone like a fool.

These people were treating her worse than a stone on the roadside.

They say when two people gather, they can make one person look like a fool.

No matter how much she recounted their wrongdoings, she would be the one who looked strange.

“Besides, we arranged a precious matchmaking opportunity for you and your father to repay the debt you owe us. And you ruined it? By bringing a man with you?!”

Yoomin flinched.

She had been so out of it that she hadn’t even thought that Kim Byeongtae would have mentioned Jaejun.

“What?! A man?! What man?!”

While Yoomin was too flustered to respond, Suji approached again and grabbed Grandmother’s arm.

“What man! So you’re saying Hong Yoomin brought a man and ruined the matchmaking?”

Grandmother didn’t answer and glared at Yoomin again.

“You tell me. What exactly did you do during the matchmaking?”

Yoomin squeezed her eyes shut.

How much did Kim Byeongtae tell Uncle?

That Jaejun and I seemed to know each other? That I brought a man and ruined the matchmaking?

Then how much did Uncle tell Grandmother?

That’s when it happened.

Thwack-!

With a dull sound, her head rang.

Suji had hit Yoomin’s head hard with her phone.

Yoomin held the spot where she was hit and glared at Suji.

“Answer me! Do you want to make someone burst with anger and die?! Do you have a boyfriend? You don’t even know any men!”

Yoomin swallowed her boiling rage at Suji, who would hit her at the drop of a hat, and ignored Suji’s question.

And she looked only at Grandmother while explaining.

“At the matchmaking with Kim Byeongtae, I just happened to meet a senior I briefly knew from university. Kim Byeongtae saw that and misunderstood.”

The atmosphere became very cold.

Yoomin didn’t care and somehow continued speaking.

“And the matchmaking wasn’t ruined because of that senior. It was because of Kim Byeongtae. Kim Byeongtae said he just needed a wife who was good at nighttime activities and tried to forcibly drag me to a hotel!”

As she spoke, Yoomin’s voice grew louder with rising anger.

And at that plea, Grandmother let out a hollow laugh as if it was absurd.

“Well, I’m dumbfounded. How much is that little body of yours worth?”

“…What did you say?”

“You’d have to have marital relations if you lived together anyway, right? Couldn’t you just think of it as practicing that a bit early?”

“Grandmother!”

“What! Am I wrong? If I were you, I’d roll my body a hundred or a thousand times to repay the debt to our family! If you really ruined it for such a reason, I’ll arrange another meeting with Kim Byeongtae, so go apologize and somehow win back Kim Byeongtae’s heart!”

Grandmother poured out words to Yoomin that she would never have said to her own daughter and left the room.

Left behind, Yoomin was so dumbfounded that she could only open and close her mouth like a fish.

And Suji, who hadn’t left yet, roughly grabbed Yoomin’s wrist and asked.

“Which university senior? Huh?! Don’t tell me it was Seol Jaejun?!”

“…What?”

“…It is, isn’t it?! How dare you meet Seol Jaejun? Are you in contact with Seol Jaejun? Since when? Wasn’t it already over?!”

Yoomin narrowed her eyes and quietly stared at Suji, who was pressing for an answer.

Why does Hong Suji seem so obsessed with Seol Jaejun?

“Answer me!”

“Hong Suji. Why are you so obsessed with Jaejun senior?”

“What? Obsessed? No, I’m not?”

Hong Suji, who had been violent and cursing at her just moments before, seemed very flustered.

“Thinking about it, it is strange. I got to know Jaejun senior during a liberal arts class in the second semester of my first year, but you were on leave then.”

“That’s because I found out about it since you were hanging around with Seol Jaejun, who was famous at school for being incredibly handsome!”

“So you could know about him, I’ll give you that. But why do you obsess over him every time Jaejun senior comes up? You used to ask me until my ears bled whether I had met Jaejun senior whenever I came back from school.”

Hong Suji always wanted her to be alone. At home and outside.

So whenever she tried to get close to classmates or seniors, Suji would sow discord and interfere.

She thought Seol Jaejun was the same.

But now it seemed Seol Jaejun was different. Perhaps she had been interested in him.

“Did you like Jaejun senior?”

At Yoomin’s question, Suji scoffed as if it was ridiculous, then closed the distance until their foreheads almost touched and whispered.

“Don’t be ridiculous. I just don’t want to see you getting even slightly involved with a rich young master that someone like you couldn’t even dare to look at.”

Ah. So that was the reason.

Because Jaejun was a rich young master.

Was he really that well-off?

Come to think of it, there were many rumors about Jaejun at school back then too.

That he was the son of some architectural firm chairman, or the grandson of some hospital foundation director, and so on.

However, Yoomin wasn’t even curious about his background.

She simply liked Jaejun as a person who kept trying to give her the warmth she couldn’t feel at Yoomin’s family home.

Before she could get to know such a person deeply, she was forced to go to Germany.

“Ah. If that’s the reason, don’t worry. There won’t be any involvement whatsoever.”

At Yoomin’s words, Suji answered in a somewhat relieved voice.

“…Right. Someone like you getting involved with Seol Jaejun again would be ridiculous. Anyway, don’t ruin things with Kim Byeongtae and handle this properly, okay?”

Yoomin hurriedly grabbed Suji who was about to leave.

“Hong Suji!”

“Damn it, what!”

“About being a scapegoat and me dying instead of you. At least tell me about that before you go. I heard everything you said on the phone call.”

“What are you talking about. Did you dream it? Crazy bitch.”

Bang-!

Suji left and the door closed.

Left alone, Yoomin laughed like a crazy person in disbelief.

Did I really dream it?

Why do Yoomin’s family members, who act abnormally, call me the crazy one?

How long had she been standing there with such a dejected heart?

Unable to bear the stuffiness in her chest, she ran down to the 1st floor.

She felt like she needed to get some fresh air outside for a few hours to survive.

“Wait? Hey, are you leaving the house?”

Just then, Grandmother, who had been on the phone on the sofa, briefly took her phone away from her ear and asked.

“No. How could I dare leave the house when I’m being held with my father as hostage?”

Yoomin ignored Grandmother’s angry words about talking back and slammed the front door shut as she came out.

After leaving through the main gate, she walked aimlessly down the alley.

“…What?”

At some point, a black car started following closely behind Yoomin.

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