Secretly, Secretly | LK Adaptation

Chapter 38

Perhaps, because of today's incidents, at night, Jungkook has a dream.

He dreams about when he got an admission notice from Keimyung University. A week before registration, his mother, Ruo Shu, prepared the money for him to go to college, but that money was once again snatched away by the so-called "creditors".

He dreams about that night.

Their apartment was already sold, they had rented an apartment with a living room and a bedroom. The bedroom was for Ruo Shu to sleep, and he slept in the living room.

During the summer vacation, Jungkook looked for several jobs as a private tutor and part-time jobs. So every day he would go home late.

That day when he returned home, he heard Ruo Shu on the phone.

She was calling her brother-in-law. The one who had always helped her when she raised her son.

In the living room.

Ruo Shuo called and greeted him.

"Da Ge, our Guk has passed the university exam of Keimyung University."

[Da Ge - Brother-in-law]

Then she turned silent for a while, it seemed hard for her to speak about it.

There are lots of meanings behind her sentence. She couldn't hide it.

"Keimyung University is a good university.

My son has passed that examination to enter that university.

But I have no money.

For attending that university, he finds himself a lot of part-time jobs to earn money. It's all my fault.

Could you....... lend me several thousand?"

The next moment, he starts to call her names.

"Aren't you guys shameless? Are you guys the only one that suffers? Why is it my duty to help you guys? I also have kids to raise up! I also want to live! You keep on borrowing money! Wow! Go away!"

Jungkook immediately went over and took the phone from her. He hung up.

The room turned quiet.

Ruo Shu stays silent for a while then suddenly covers her eyes. She starts to cry. She mumbles, "Mama let you down... mama let you down......"

When he was in junior high school, Jungkook never lacked money. So he never felt that money was important.

But when the accident happened, he knew that money can make a lot of changes in one's life.

Jungkook watched his mother, who used to be bright and confident, gradually crumble. She changed to be timid and inferior. She felt ill and aged quickly.

That time Jungkook, who was barely just an adult, knelt down in front of Ruo Shu. He looks at her and smiles, "Ma, do you believe me? All those money, I will earn it back."

"......"

"You don't need to borrow from anyone else. I'll earn my own money. I'll support you." He said gently, "I will change our lives just like how we were before."

"......."

So.

—Just wait, okay?

Jungkook wakes up from that dream.

The sky has not lightened up, the room is still dark. He doesn't have an ounce of sleepiness in him. He stands up and goes out to his bedroom to the living room. He pours a glass of water and takes out two ice cubes to put it inside the glass.