The Liar And Her Love

Chapter 21:

Oct'22

Her eyes fluttered and she saw her mom scrolling her phone with a look of anger, her heart beating immediately pulsed when she realised what just happened.

She fell asleep while talking to him, trying to make it up to him, she wasn't even sure why but she was.

There was so much in the chats, things he said, things she said, so much she said to keep him around because he was the only guy who gave her a false look of care. For her even that fallacy was enough.

"Taeri" she says

She doesn't get up, scared out of her wits, planning to play it cool.

Then she saw, her mother had called the number. " Pil soon, what are you texting to taeri, absolutely disgusting. Do you not have shame. Do not ever contact my daughter ever again" she says and cuts the call.

And a slap hit her tight, that was the first slap because after that her mother humiliated her, scolded her, called her a slut, a whore for being so desperate to have a boyfriend at the age of 17. This was the beginning because her mom grabbed her hair and dragged it to the floor, kicked her, slapped her, tore the grey dress she was wearing.

Poured the content of a water bottle on her and when she felt it wasn't enough, she grabbed her hair and dragged her to the washroom, while she lay limb not a single tear but the skin was red, she poured water on her and dunked her head in the tub multiple times using the hand shower she again poured on her, the temperature increased and it wasn't just warm anymore, it was hot, extremely burning hot.

Her skin was red when she pulled her hair again. "Take those off" she said and taeri didn't wait another minute, she did as she said and followed her back to her room, still no signs of pain despite the red skin and blue marks.

Her mother paced around and started crying, taeri immediately knelt down and slapped herself begging her to not cry. She slapped herself again and again and asked her mother to not cry and that is she is the one who was wrong.

The only time she felt she finally had someone was gone, she was scared terrified, hopeless. She internally laughed at herself to believe she could be happy.

"Absolutely, why would I cry. It's your fault. What did I do!? My daughter betrays me and sleeps around with a guy. Do you really want sex so much. Let's just send you where you can make money out of it" she says and gets up.

Getting heartbroken at the idea, taeri absolutely doesn't comment. Her mom immediately switched and sat silently but gets angry again and punches her, she feels dizzy and as if she could see stars. When she could finally be stable she realised her mom broke her glasses, that she wore and forgot to take off.

The lenses had broken and cut through her cheeks and eyebrows and her eye was blue.

"Wash your wash and come to sleep. I'm going to sleep with you and I'm taking your phone."

With that they slept on the same bed for bed. She attended the fair, but she was too scared to go home either, she talked to no one, fear residing inside her, too scared to even say anything. Pil soon never approached her, he just sent a message saying 'it's best for you, and I wouldn't want my family involved anyway. It would be difficult to be strangers but that's how it is. Let's meet in the future'

About what happened to her? She was taunted by her mother for more than half a year, while she begged her mom to take her to a psychologist which she never did. She didn't even take her doctor to check her up on her health conditions.

She would use this to guilt trip her. She never let her go out without her company or two men claiming to be her bodyguard but she too know they were there to keep her in check.

She was not allowed to make calls or have a phone. When she finally got a phone after a month, her phone was regularly checked. Her money expenditure was tracked so she stopped spending altogether. She wasn't allowed to be out of sight for more than a minute and she wasn't allowed to lock the doors to the washroom when she went to use it.

While she gave up. Just accepted it. Because she was certain that she is hopeless now. The look she saw on her mother when she choked her and literally tried to kill her never got off her head and it will never leave her head too.

Aug'22

"Seo Taeri takes over Winston Industries as the chairwoman"

"The heir of Winston makes a comeback after going off from the public eyes post the death of the late chairwoman Bae Suzy, her mother and Daniel Seo her father."

"Seo Taeri is her brother's guardian"

"Seo Taeri took custody of her brother at the age of 19"

"Seo Taeri clears rumours regarding her and Jeon jungkook. They say they are more like siblings than friends"

"Jeon jungkook, the heir of Jeon educational group to get married soon"

"Seo Taeri talks about her potential lover"

"Seo Taeri makes a public confession to a man"

"Seo Taeri claims to be in love with a single father and uses words like pathetic, desperate and obsessive to describe it"

"Seo Taeri reminisces about the late chairwoman her mother"

First, there were headlines and then there were articles.

"Seo Taeri confession look, click here to recreate it"

"Seo Taeri's rare book collection. How it's every reader's dream"

"Seo Taeri's photos from her international student days surface"

"Click here to know Seo Taeri's lifestyle"

"Click here to know more about Seo Taeri's life?"

"Unpopular Valentino heels worn by Seo Taeri goes out of stock"

"Learn about the Seo Taeri trend where girls are publicly confessing to their love interests"

"Stark similarities between the late chairwoman and the current chairwoman, from their looks to their passion. The apple definitely doesn't fall far from the tree. Mother like daughter"

"Seo Taeri turns into an overnight sensation with her first public appearance as an adult"