it's been nearly six years since you became a nanny for the Jung residence. You've been their babysitter since before the baby was born, being hired a month before Mrs. Jung had even given birth. Well, former Mrs. Jung, you should say.
Mr. Jung's ex-wife decided that being a stay-at-home mother was not the life for a well-known model. The selfish bitch left her family before Nari even made it to a year of age. You remember how Mr. Jung would lock himself in his office and deal with the stress of his divorce alone, not wanting his daughter to see him in that state.
You'd hear him throw things across the room sometimes as you passed by, but you never mentioned it to him. It was hard to watch the man tear himself apart over a woman who didn't even deserve him. He loved her and did anything to make her happy, but that still wasn't enough.
She had pretended to be in love with him the entire time, only realizing that she couldn't keep it up anymore when she figured out how much babies cry at night. Initially, you weren't supposed to be a full-time nanny; you were only hired to look after Nari during the day and whenever Mrs. Jung was out, since her husband was busy running a company. The problem with that was she was always gone, and only returned in the evenings so she could bother Mr. Jung about money.
She never checked on the baby at night either. You'd often have to beg Mr. Jung to let you take Nari so that he could get some much-needed rest. That poor excuse of a woman never held her baby girl, never talked to her, never sang her a lullaby. She never did any of the things a mother should have been doing with her newborn baby.
The last straw for your boss was when she hired another babysitter just because you had to leave for a few hours to go to a doctor's appointment. You'd never seen him that angry before. When you called and told him that a middle-aged woman was in his home, claiming to be Nari's sitter, he came right away. Hoseok couldn't believe that his wife would leave their child with a stranger.
When she arrived home that night, her stuff was already packed, and he politely told her to return to wherever she had come from. She didn't put up much of a fight, and when it was time to go through their divorce, she told her lawyer that she didn't want anything because her new boyfriend could buy her anything she wanted. It wasn't a surprise that she already had someone else because there have always been speculations of her cheating on Mr. Jung. There just wasn't any proof until then.
However, what was shocking was the fact that she wanted to sign over her parental rights. She stated that she never wanted to be a mother in the first place–she only agreed to have a baby with her husband because she thought it would make him drop the prenuptial agreement that stopped her from claiming most of his assets had they divorce.
When her plan didn't work, she went out and found an older man with lots of money who was too blinded by lust to protect his wealth, leaving her husband and daughter behind so she could live her new life. She never loved Hoseok, and she never loved Nari; she only used them to get to her real true love; money.
So, that's why you're here now—playing princess and pirates for the fourth time this week. Your face is covered in lipstick and your hair matted with glitter. You're certain that you'll have to shampoo about five times before it comes out, but you don't care. You don't mind getting messy if it means putting a smile on Nari's face. You only took this job in the beginning because you needed to earn some extra money. It was supposed to be part-time; no nights and no weekends unless requested by the parents.
But here you are six years later, staring at a little girl that you didn't give birth to but still love like she's yours. You couldn't imagine life without her—without them. You've grown close to Mr. Jung as well. So close that, when you two are alone, he wants you to call him Hoseok.
