Divorced // bang yongguk (#26)

오십

Yongguk

I thought that I was done with pleasing my in-laws and doing everything for them, it ended as soon as I ended my marriage to my ex-wife and I don't need to do anything for her family anymore because we are not connected anymore and I am now a stranger to her family. And they were disappointed in me as usual because they thought that I was the one who broke the relationship, my ex-wife never told her family about her cheating and her family still thinks to this day that I was the cheater and I deserved it when in fact I was the one who got hurt from this marriage.

They were quick to cut off ties with me as soon as I signed the papers and I handed in the paperwork to the lawyers, I was nothing to them but that guy who used to be part of their daughter's life for the past 18 years and we are strangers again. My kids get to meet up with them sometimes but I don't want them to see each other too often, one of my kids might accidentally tell their grandparents that their mother was the cheater and they will get so betrayed by their daughter, I would rather be the one to be blamed for the marriage.

It was my fault why she chose to leave me, I was not able to give the love that she wanted and I don't make her feel happy anymore, she feels miserable with me and she did the right thing by leaving me and the kids behind for a new life with her new lover. But I was insistent on not letting her parents know that she was the one who had the affair, she was my wife for 18 years and she meant the world to me, that is the least that I can do for her.

And now I have to deal with a new mother-in-law who might only be a decade older than me since Han Yiyeong is 25 years old and her mother would have to be in her late forties to her early fifties to be her mother, and I don't have any idea how to deal with that.

We planned to go for a picnic but Sena cancelled it at the very last minute, saying that we are going to meet the in-laws instead. I know that this day is going to come if Yiyeong and I are going to get married but I have never thought that I will be meeting her so soon, and I don't even think that she knows that she will be meeting her future son-in-law and her future grandchildren that are not even her daughter's.

She is going to be so angry but SeNa reassured me that nothing much is going to happen and I can be ready assured that I will not get killed today. "So what if I get killed today?" I asked her.

"It doesn't matter, the CEO will be me since I am your eldest daughter and you will make me your successor rather than SeJeong or Sehyun who is still very young to be a CEO." I glared at her. "Nothing much is going to happen, if you are that scared, go hide somewhere or bring my brothers to the picnic. I will go with Yiyeong Omma and we will face the mother together."

It is the mother of Han Yiyeong and I would have to make the best impression of myself to her if I want to marry Yiyeong, no mother will be willing to allow anyone to marry their beloved daughter if the guy doesn't impress her and she would have very high expectations of me because I am a businessman who is divorced with 3 children. That is something that not a lot of people can accept, especially the part that I have 3 children of my own and Yiyeong would have to take in my children as her own if she marries me.

"Sena is right, you don't have to come along if you don't want to. I will just be meeting my mother and telling her that I am dating her and there is a very high possibility of us getting married, she might mention you but she wouldn't want to meet you that soon." Han Yiyeong said to me.

"I will make the best impression that I can." I started the car engine and we started driving to her mother's house where she stays alone, Yiyeong is being raided by a single parent family and her mother has been the one who is doing whatever she can to raise her and I have to be better than her mother for Mdm Han to entrust her to me.

We arrived at Gwangju but I can tell that things are not that simple as it looks, it is small but I can tell that people there can catch up with the latest news as fast as Seoul, the children here are dressed to the latest fashion trends and the newest technology are all here.

"Appa, you might not have noticed but we are still in South Korea and we are only 2 hours away from Seoul, we are not like in such a remote area that you only see grass and nothing else." My daughter rolled her eyes at me which I told her not to do it and she quickly apologized to me.

"Appa, there are bananas here too!" Sehyun exclaimed and he is so close to grabbing one of them and I carried him up.

"There is plenty of bananas around and you don't have to do that," I said to him and I looked towards SeJeong who looked so pleased to be here, it looked like he belonged here and he looked so happy that I thought that he is never going to stop smiling.

We walked up to one house and Han Yiyeong knocks on the door, and an older Han Yiyeong opens the door. "I see that you have finally decided to come back, did they kick you out because you ran out of money to pay for rent?" And she is a very feisty woman, I can see that she is going to judge the hell out of me like I am on a survival program and she is one of the judges.