The Hit Song of This Life Is Revenge - Chapter 1

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My Hit Song in This Life Is Revenge
Episode 1
My friend told me she was pregnant with my husband’s child.
“You knew, didn’t you?”
And then she had the nerve to ask me if I already knew?
A singer signed to my husband’s agency, and my one and only friend.
“You, Baek Song-ha…”
Because of our shared love for singing, Song-ha and I had grown close easily from our very first meeting.
But that didn’t mean she had to love my husband too.
The hand that used to pat my back in front of the fertility clinic was now wrapped around my husband’s waist.
The tip of Baek Song-ha’s nose twitched as a sneering breath escaped her lips.
I didn’t know Song-ha could make a face like that.
Who exactly was the friend who had seemed so sincerely worried about me?
Jae-i felt the scene before her eyes shimmer as if she were underwater.
Her ears rang, and though it was her familiar home, it felt completely alien.
Could this be some kind of hidden camera prank?
“What you couldn’t have, I have right here in my belly,”
Baek Song-ha said, caressing her still-flat stomach with her fingertips.
“Your husband’s baby, I mean.”
The emotions she had been barely holding onto snapped completely.
The fingers gripping her cup lost their strength and trembled violently, causing the sloshing water to splash across the floor like a stain.
The spilled water felt exactly like her own self-esteem.
Something that gets trampled under people’s feet, or vanishes entirely with a single swipe of a rag.
Aren’t they pretty much the same?
“Young-jae, look at that.”
Song-ha nudged my husband’s arm, a twisted smile hanging on her lips.
“If you sue, it’ll only exhaust you. We’ll give you alimony, so let’s just end this quietly.”
Yoo Young-jae pulled Song-ha into a gentle embrace without offering his wife a single glance.
It was devastating. Not even tears would come.
The shattered trust raised a cloud of dust right in the center of Jae-i’s chest.
Everything had collapsed, yet the irony was that the exterior looked perfectly fine.
“You… were you always this kind of person?”
“You couldn’t even have a child, yet you’ve been freeloading in this house for nearly ten years. Why are you sitting there looking like the victim?”
Baek Song-ha beamed at Yoo Young-jae’s sarcasm.
As if she were the victor.
Her sheer shamelessness left me speechless.
Now, that expression even looked cunning.
Baek Song-ha traced the shape of Jae-i’s mouth with her fingertip.
“Jae-i. You’re not about to curse at me, are you? That’s bad for prenatal care.”
Actual profanity almost burst from my throat.
“Even curses are too good for you.”
“What?!”
Jae-i had assumed her husband’s neglect toward her was simply due to him getting busier with work.
She had thought his indifferent gaze falling over the neatly prepared dinner table was just him deliberately hiding his emotions.
‘You don’t have to have a baby.’
Those words had sounded so warm.
But it wasn’t comfort; it was because he had another woman on the side.
The days when Song-ha’s frequent messages had suddenly grown sparse…
coincided perfectly with the days Young-jae went on business trips.
Only now did everything make sense.
Giving up her dreams and abandoning auditions, she had swallowed all that persecution.
‘Is this pathetic excuse for an ending really it?’
The devastation that had slowly spread through her soon began to boil over into a hot, sticky rage.
“Oh! Our parents already know. I introduced Song-ha to them.”
“Your mother was truly wonderful. She’s already picked out a name for her grandchild. Hohoho.”
With a pair of consecutive daggers driven into her, Jae-i’s sanity flickered.
Since it was the grandchild she had longed for so desperately, how thrilled she must have been.
‘After all the money we spent putting you through school, you marry some kid with absolutely no background.’
The voice of her mother-in-law, who had disapproved of her since their very first meeting, flashed through her mind.
Still, if you’re human, shouldn’t there be basic decency?
Such morals are supposed to be what separates humans from beasts.
Looking at these two, Jae-i felt those concepts seemed as distant as ancient folklore.
“We need to hold the wedding before she starts showing, so let’s wrap this up as quickly as possible. I’ll give you time to pack your things and leave.”
With that, Yoo Young-jae gently helped Song-ha to her feet.
His gaze was exactly the same as it had been when they first met in front of the ice cream parlor.
“Ha, haahat…”
A hollow laugh burst out of Jae-i. Because it was just so incredibly cheap and ridiculous.
She felt pathetic for having come all this way trusting a single look that could shift so easily to another woman.
Cheating bastards always just happened to have glittering eyes.
She had been naive. There was no way to roll back the years she had thrown away.
“Have you gone mad? Is this situation funny to you?”
Song-ha’s shrill voice clawed at the back of her ears.
“No, you’re the one who’s mad.”
She lunged to her feet and grabbed a handful of Baek Song-ha’s thin hair.
“Let go! Don’t you know I’m pregnant?! Hey!”
Consideration for a pregnant woman?
The thread of her sanity was already far too frayed to think about something like that.
“Kyaak!! Young-jae! Young-jae!!”
She was prepared to rip out the hair she held, but her body was shoved away by Yoo Young-jae’s rough hands.
“Ugh.”
Her waist slammed against the marble countertop. A heavy thud of pain rippled through her.
“Ha, damn it… You really turn my stomach.”
There wasn’t a shred of hesitation in his posture as he cradled the other woman in his arms.
In fact, his gaze held nothing but clear contempt.
“Get the hell out of my house right now!”
Even with eyes flashing like a hatchet, Baek Song-ha maintained her fragile act while buried in his chest.
“The things left in the house where you two rolled around? I don’t need them. An exhausting lawsuit?! Just so you know, I’m going to file one.”
Enduring the throbbing pain in her lower back, Jae-i grabbed nothing but her wallet and walked straight out of the house.
The moment the door slammed shut with a heavy bang, Baek Song-ha’s screeching voice clung to her from behind.
“That bitch hit me! Don’t even give her alimony! That’s my medical bill!”
She quickened her pace out onto the street.
The winter wind cut across her cheeks. Her ragged breathing continuously conjured puffs of white mist.
Yet perhaps because of the heat raging from her anger, it actually felt refreshing.
The cars racing down the road and the acoustic signals of the crosswalk lights all felt incredibly distant.
After walking aimlessly for a long time, Jae-i paused for a moment.
Plop.
A snowflake falling from the pitch-black night sky landed on the tip of Jae-i’s nose.
‘The first snow…’
The expressions of the people looking up at the sky were filled with excitement.
The unpredicted first snow must feel like a small gift to them.
Why did even this beautiful scenery have to feel so sorrowful?
Suddenly, a familiar melody drifted into her ears from somewhere.
That one day I will be where I was,
Following the sound of the music, Jae-i drifted toward the speakers outside a jazz bar.
‘Someday… the place where I used to be.’
That song was the one she had sung when she took her very first audition.
Maybe that was why. Jae-i easily closed her eyes along with the melody.
How wonderful would it be if she could just go back to those days?
hard, the days just seem so dark.
‘Yes, actually… it is dark, and it is hard.’
They say that when times are tough, every lyric sounds like your own story.
She didn’t possess any desperate feelings for a past lover, yet every single word seemed to speak for her.
I am coming to you. Can you hear me?
She wanted to say this current lyric to her past self.
Please don’t do something so stupid.
If she could just be given one more miraculous chance, she wanted to take care of ‘myself.’
In the place where she could truly shine.
“Uh…! Look out!”
“Kyaak!”
At the thin, sharp scream, Jae-i felt as though the world flashed before her eyes.
It wasn’t an illusion.
The blinding glare of headlights completely swallowed her vision.
There was no room to run, no time to dodge.
Her body froze. Every regret and memory rushed in like a tidal wave in that brief fraction of a second.
Am I really going to die like this without even getting to slap an adulteress label on Baek Song-ha’s name?
No, more than that.
I should have kept singing. I shouldn’t have given up so easily over someone like Yoo Young-jae.
Screech—
Just then, the speaker crackled and the song switched.
I will tell you everything
Crash—!
With a tremendous roar, the sign of the jazz bar collapsed over the truck that had plowed into it.
“911… 911! Quick!”
“Oh my god, what do we do, what do we do!”
People gripped by shock surrounded the perimeter.
From the speaker of the half-destroyed jazz bar, the rest of the music leaked out.
When……I see……you. Again.
‘When I meet you again’
A strange voice blended into the bleeding lyrics.
“Oh dear, you haven’t been able to display a single ounce of the talent God so beautifully bestowed upon you.”
As her consciousness fractured completely, she heard someone calling her name.
“Lee Jae-i. This time, protect yourself with your own voice.”
She opened her eyes to another destiny.
* * *
A man was scanning the obituary of the YU Entertainment CEO’s wife.
The moment he had seen her at YU Entertainment’s year-end party, he recognized her.
The fact that she was the woman who had once auditioned for his own company.
She had left a profound impression. The eyes that sparkled during the intro, the confidence when she soared into the high notes.
She possessed the exact voice he had been looking for.
However, his performance schedule had been disrupted, causing him to check the audition video too late.
When he finally extended a casting offer, she had flatly refused.
If he had tried a little harder to persuade her back then, would this article look different today?
“…”
He closed his eyes. Her face refused to leave his mind.
To think a person who could have shone so brightly vanished without ever setting foot on a proper stage.
He couldn’t shake the bitter taste from his mouth.
[Star Entertainment CEO: Kang Ki-baek]
Beside the computer where the article was being closed, a single nameplate gleamed quietly.

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