Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 73

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Chapter 73

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Yoomin was extremely flustered.

“Whaaaat?!”

So this person wasn’t a maid of this house, but Jaejun’s real grandmother?

Yoomin could only blink her eyes while unable to hide her bewildered expression.

However, there was someone else whose complexion had turned pale as if they were even more shocked than Yoomin.

“Ju…ran?”

Jaejun’s mother hesitantly called out to the woman.

Joo Ran looked back and forth between Jaejun’s mother and grandmother with trembling lips.

“So…so you’re saying she’s not someone who works here… but Seol Jaejun’s real grandmother?”

Jeonghwa slowly nodded as if sensing something strange.

Joo Ran muttered to herself with a despairing expression.

Only Yoomin, who was closest to her, could hear it.

She kept exclaiming that she was doomed.

Then Jaejun’s grandmother sternly called out to Jaejun’s mother.

“Dear.”

“Yes, yes? Oh, yes, Mother.”

“Im Juran, the granddaughter of Udam Group’s chairman, is completely useless.”

Silence fell.

Joo Ran opened and closed her mouth like a fish while waving her hands in the air.

It was clear she wanted to grab Jaejun’s grandmother’s arm and cry out that it was a misunderstanding.

“She looks down on anyone she thinks is beneath her and has no basic manners. I’m eighty years old and our Haneul prepared breakfast for me, so I was struggling since morning and got tired, which made me spill some soup. Then she made me out to be the world’s greatest sinner just because some broth splashed on her clothes.”

Jaejun’s mother looked at Joo Ran with her jaw dropped like someone whose jaw had been dislocated.

Joo Ran just shook her head frantically with a pale face.

“Should I have to watch such an ill-mannered child become the match for my precious eldest grandson? Pay for that girl’s clothes and make sure she never comes near this family again!”

Jaejun’s grandmother commanded Joo Ran’s expulsion with the vigor of a great warrior, not like the frail old woman who had spilled soup earlier.

Jaejun’s mother also couldn’t manage her expression as she entered the kitchen, took Joo Ran’s hand, and went out to the living room.

When only the two of them remained, Jaejun’s grandmother looked at Yoomin first.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you earlier, Miss Yoomin. Sorry for the late introduction. I’m Yun Bosal, Jaejun’s grandmother.”

Unlike when she was furious with Joo Ran, Grandmother offered a gentle smile and extended her hand for a handshake.

Yoomin swallowed her confusion and reached to take Grandmother’s hand, but then noticed that the area around Grandmother’s thumb was red from burns.

“Oh? Your hand is burned! I think we should put it in cold water right now!”

Yoomin passed by Grandmother, went to the sink, filled a cup with cold water, then grabbed Grandmother’s hand and plunged it right in.

Silence fell and Yoomin belatedly regretted her actions.

She had only acted out of concern that Grandmother’s burned area might hurt, but she worried it might seem like she had crossed the line or appeared presumptuous.

However, instead of showing displeasure, Grandmother laughed out loud.

“In my 80 years of life, you’re the first person to treat me like this, Miss Yoomin.”

“…I’m sorry. I was worried your hand might be stinging.”

Grandmother stopped laughing out loud and spoke with just a gentle smile on her lips.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you earlier. Haneul is my sore spot – he’s the only son of my troublesome child, so I’m particularly fond of that boy. When I heard he was suddenly getting a tutor, I just wanted to check if you were a strange person.”

“No. If it’s family you care about, it’s natural to worry. Please don’t mind it.”

“Still, thanks to that, I got to see Miss Hong Yoomin’s true worth. I think I understand why Jaejun still wants to see Miss Hong Yoomin.”

“Yes…?”

“Wasn’t it Miss Yoomin who captured that boy’s heart when he was in college?”

“Yes? How did you know…?”

“That boy who had never shown a relaxed side at home did so just once, for one day. He came home completely drunk and cried his heart out saying the girl he liked had disappeared.”

Yoomin’s heart sank.

The fact that Jaejun had gotten completely drunk and cried because she had left was shocking since she had never imagined or heard of such a thing.

“Then he showed me a photo of a female student on his phone and asked me. Wouldn’t Grandmother be able to find her even if we had to search the whole world? My goodness. My eldest grandson who rarely even joked said that, so I was quite bewildered.”

“…”

“Whether he didn’t remember the next day or was pretending not to remember, he never brought up that story to me again. So I thought he had decided to forget, but when I saw that the person who came as Haneul’s tutor was the student in that photo, I knew. Our eldest grandson has been in love for a long time.”

The fact that Jaejun’s feelings had been so deep even back then made Yoomin’s heart feel heavy.

She should probably sincerely apologize someday for disappearing like that in the past.

“Oh. This is a secret from Jaejun. Only Miss Yoomin and I know.”

Yoomin unconsciously nodded her head.

“Sit for a moment. I’ll call people to come clean this up quickly. Finish eating before you go. Oh, I should tell Haneul to come back to the kitchen too.”

Yoomin ended up sitting back at the dining table and eating the food Grandmother had prepared.

Although Haneul talked to her throughout the meal, nothing registered in her mind.

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That evening.

She couldn’t even remember how she had left Jaejun’s house at lunch.

What she could remember was that when she left the house after even blowing out Haneul’s birthday candles, Jaejun’s mother had looked at her very displeasedly.

“Sigh.”

Yoomin, who had been sitting on the sofa feeling confused the whole time, went to the kitchen, drank cold water, and thought.

So Jaejun’s mother wanted to marry Jaejun to Im Juran, who was the granddaughter of Udam Group’s chairman.

Im Juran had unintentionally mistaken Jaejun’s grandmother for a maid and showed her terrible personality, so she got kicked out.

Only Jaejun’s mother, who had brought Im Juran, ended up in a difficult situation.

“So that’s why she looked at me so unfavorably. Sigh…”

Yoomin let out a deep sigh.

Even if her image wasn’t bad with Jaejun’s grandmother, it seemed she had definitely gotten on Jaejun’s mother’s bad side.

She didn’t look like someone who would be easy-going either…

She worried that this might become the biggest obstacle to marrying Jaejun.

Beep beep beep-.

Just then.

Jaejun entered with the sound of the door lock password being entered.

“What are you doing that you’re not answering your phone?”

As soon as he arrived, he scolded Yoomin in a subdued voice.

“I was worried something had happened.”

Yoomin slowly got up from the sofa.

“Ah… I was just… a bit out of it…”

Yoomin glanced at the clock.

It was already almost 9 PM.

“Huh. It’s already 9 o’clock?”

“Why. Was what happened at home that shocking?”

Yoomin, who had been wondering how to tell Jaejun about what happened during the day, opened her eyes wide and said.

“Senior, did you hear everything?”

“Yeah. Grandmother told me over the phone.”

“Ah…”

“She thinks very highly of you. She said we should have a meal together soon.”

Yoomin’s downcast eyes quickly lifted.

“Really? Is that true?”

“Yeah. She said she’ll never cook at home again and will buy expensive food outside. Just how did you even charm Grandmother?”

Jaejun slowly wrapped his arms around Yoomin’s waist and asked seductively.

“And you also took care of that Udam Group granddaughter that Mother was pushing for.”

“No, that was… that woman ruined her own image. Her personality was terrible. Senior, you shouldn’t marry a woman like that.”

“Then?”

Jaejun’s gaze settled warmly.

Yoomin swallowed and looked at Jaejun, who was sizing her up as if he might devour her at any moment.

“Hmm? What kind of woman should I marry then.”

He pulled her a little closer into his embrace.

As their upper bodies pressed intimately together, the sound of someone’s rapidly beating heart filled the air.

Yoomin let out a small breath and said.

“…You should do it with the woman you’ve liked for so long. The one you liked so much that you cried your eyes out when she disappeared. Ah.”

Yoomin was startled, having unconsciously revealed her secret with Grandmother.

Jaejun frowned and asked.

“You had a secret conversation with Grandmother?”

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