My Heart Beats For You ||KookV||

16

Even after losing this person, life still had to move on. But Jungkook could never smile again. He detested seeing this person because whenever he saw her, she would remind him of the heart in her chest that once belonged to his beloved.

She was his younger sister, so Jungkook would protect her for her entire life, but the new Chaewon seemed to have become more willful. In the past, she would often stay at home to rest because of her body. However, after gaining a healthy body, she refused to treasure it and frequently visited places of entertainment to make friends with people of dubious characters. She would wantonly squander money and act arrogant and domineering, gradually becoming an utterly different person.

Jungkook had never known that his younger sister was so thoughtless. Was she deliberately acting loose or was it innate? Jungkook couldn't help but feel that it was not worth Taehyung's sacrifice. The woman he lost his life for did not hold any feelings of gratitude towards him. Instead, she enjoyed a luxurious and filthy lifestyle as though it were her right.

Jungkook controlled her spending and sent her to a school, but she would still always cause some kind of trouble and remained unchanged despite all their admonishments. Eventually, Jungkook also gave up.

Two years after Taehyung passed away, Chanyeol and Chaewon got married.

After she was married, Chaewon exercised some restraint and opened a coffee shop as a pastime.

Yet, despite their many years of marriage, Chaewon and Chanyeol never had any children. Jungkook thus adopted a child, named him "Jeon Taegguk", and prepared to cultivate him into the Jeon Family's future heir.

Only later did Jungkook discover that Chanyeol and Chaewon slept in different rooms shortly after their marriage. Their relationship was excellent, but they were just not good together in bed. Chaewon apparently resisted Chanyeol's touch, saying that it was "disgusting".

Chanyeol, while he was drunk, once blurted out to Jungkook, "Is it because Chaewon has Taehyung's heart that she would be so mentally conflicted towards me, his older brother?"

Jungkook gave him a punch once he said those words.

According to Chanyeol's logic, would he say that the reason Chaewon's personality changed so much was also because of the heart transplanted from Taehyung? Taehyung was such a cheerful person, such a passionate person. Even if there were influences, shouldn't they be positive ones?

Jungkook always felt that the Taehyung he knew and the one Chanyeol knew weren't really the same person. Why was there such a huge misunderstanding between them when they were obviously blood brothers? In Chanyeol's eyes, his younger brother seemed to lack any good points and was full of weak points. Every time this happened, Jungkook would wish that Taehyung were his own younger brother. If it were him, even if he had to bear the infamy of incest, he would still do everything in his ability to cherish him, to love him.

Forget it, none of this was important anymore.

Taehyung was already dead, and all his expectations were merely beautiful fantasies.

Regardless of his parents' opposition, Jungkook remained steadfast in his decision to adopt Jeon Taegguk and poured what remained of his emotions into the child.

Taegguk also did not disappoint him. At fifteen, he began to participate in company affairs; by eighteen, he could already take charge of a section by himself. The reason Jungkook adopted Taegguk at first was because his features were forty to fifty percent similar to Taehyung. Gradually, Taegguk resembled Jungkook more and more as he grew up. They weren't similar in appearance, but their personalities bore a striking resemblance as they each sported a frozen face that easily alienated others.

Perhaps it was because he felt that he was raising him askew but, Jungkook, by the time he turned forty-five, no longer stayed so close to him. Besides having to work together, they rarely had any more interactions.

This year, Chaewon successfully gave birth to twins using in vitro fertilization. Jeon Family's father and mother immediately put their utmost effort into raising those twins. In contrast, they had never liked Taegguk much, because even though he was very outstanding, he was not their blood relative.

Taegguk had believed that he would someday need to give way to Chaewon's children and did not plan to resist. He merely concentrated on working, accumulating experience and making adequate preparations for his own future.

However, he never expected that his foster father who was always so cold to him would sign his name onto his will with zero hesitation before passing away.

The moment he stopped breathing, a serene and relieved smile appeared on Jungkook's face. Taegguk's eyes immediately filled with tears at the sight. In his memories, his foster father had never smiled and had always been working tediously every day. He had believed that his foster father did not know how to enjoy life, but only now did he discover that in the past, he had only treated life as an unavoidable responsibility.

His happiness no longer existed in the human world.

From the next chapter, we will have a different time. Just a little bit spoiler...

They will not be reincarnated. They will just go back in time.