The Binding Angel || Tzukook

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Tzuyu started to stand upright for the last day. She touched the ash barrel filled with her mother's ash for the last. She put their photo together with the barrel and closed the glass. She lost all of her tears through the times. She put on a smile not to make another sad moment for them.

"Mom... Be happy." She stuttered her last words with her forceful smile. Her feet hardly left the ash storage area and slowly walked outside.

A small fresh flower stamped on glass called her to take a look which was not far from her mother's. It was written full of sorry words on the note that stick with the flowers. The sender was Minhyuk, Yeojin's father. Tzuyu took a look and felt a familiar name written on the barrel. Jeon Nayeon is a picture of a young woman with an innocent smile. Her face was resembling Yeojin so much. Tzuyu's lips turned into a smile and came closer to the glass. There were put some pictures that linked with Nayeon. The picture of the newborn that was deemed as Yeojin, Yeojin on her 1st birthday with Jungkook holding her, and a picture of Nayeon and Jungkook on their teen. Tzuyu's heart twitched hard and her eyes started to well and wet her face again, she felt confused with her heart. She didn't even know to who her heart twitched. She didn't know for who her heart was beating hard.

Her phone vibrated along with a name shown on the screen. She picked up in no time still being shocked.

"Dahyun-ya." She greeted the one who called her with a forced smile.

"Eonni.... Where are you? I will pick you up soon.  So, wait." she sounded full of worry toward her. Tzuyu wiped her silently tears away after hearing her worry.

"I am fine. I will go home by myself. Anyway, I ate the kimbap and orange juice you had given to me for these days. Thank you. It filled me up." Tzuyu said in her cracked voice caused by her tears.

"Eonni... I don't give you kimbap and orange juice to you. I think you will get something to eat at the funeral ceremony." Dahyun replied innocently.

Tzuyu stopped her walk realizing something wrong.

The tears she held for a long time started to burst again. She covered her mouth in advance and held her so hard. She hangs up the phone straight away. Tzuyu grabbed her chest tightly. She bit her lower lip hard and searched the wall to balance her.

After she got a lot calmer, she ran to the place for the funeral ceremony and searched for the woman who gave her the kimbap and orange juice for days when her mother was being a tribute. There she found her, putting all the garbage in a huge black plastic bag. She reached her with her slipped steps.

"Excuse me." Tzuyu held her hand with slight hope. She didn't know if she wants her thought to be true or false. She was confused too. She wanted to meet her Oppa badly. She wanted to know the truth when he left her even though he had promised to come back to her. However, she also wasn't ready to face the fact. Kimbap and orange juice that just some of her closest friends know. The only Dahyun and her Oppa that would bring those when she was upset. Her favorite and always be.

The woman turned her body on her worriedly.

"Agassi."

"Excuse me, Can I ask you who gave me Kimbap and orange juice for me these days?" She asked carefully.

"A handsome man gave me the kimbap to hand to you every afternoon. He said that you can't eat properly, but you might eat that even a bit." the woman blunted her words without any further thinking.

"Can you describe the man?" Tzuyu anticipated her words worriedly. She won't miss the chance again. She should find him no matter what. The woman described the man by turning back her memories of when she was meeting him those days. She explained the words in detail and tried not to miss any small things. Tzuyu covered her mouth with her unexpected explanation. Her heart started aching and she almost lost her breath.

"Is the one who giving me, is him?" she handed her a photo with a trembling hand. The woman took the photo carefully and looked at the photo seriously with her furrowed brows, trying to match the photo and the man in her memory. She handed her the photo back to her.

"Yes. It is him, Agassi." she answered casually, convincing her answer. Tzuyu held her chest tightly and held her tears as she put her back against the wall for her balance.

Tzuyu remembered the last thing her mother said about her Oppa. She took the letter from her mother with an unbearable rising heartbeat, full of anticipation. She opened the letter and read line by line carefully. Each line added her weighted heart. She almost lost her way of breathing. She fell on her place weakly and grabbed her hair tightly, speechless.

"Agassi, Are you okay?" The woman asked full of worry.

"Oppa, I am sorry." Tzuyu repeated her words in her sob.

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Seonhwa's appearance became worse after days passed. Her mind was messier and she didn't know the reason. For the whole day, she was just lying on the bed and lost her appetite. The daughter was Minhyuk and it worsened her state. For once when she first saw Tzuyu with a daughter, she didn't feel that hurt.

She even thought that everything to Jungkook, she would always love him. She even thought to separate him from his wife. The remorse she felt after her father told her to reject the engagement with Jungkook hit her hard. She wasn't ready to have a life with Jungkook who was struggling hard to keep his company. She put her logic over anything. The easy life she got since she was born turned her feeling from Jungkook and chose Minhyuk over anything. She would never struggle for the whole of her life.

Minhyuk came closer to her and put dishes beside the bedside table. He sat beside her and hold her hand tightly. Seonhwa looked into his eyes deeply didn't know how to react if someone was loving him that. Her mind was back to the days when she was tied with Jungkook. He would never do that to her. But, she loved him.

"You should eat." Minhyuk said lightly. Seonhwa looked at him with a questionable look.

"I will eat it later." she sighed with her pale lips. She didn't even get a good meal after the incidents which made her body thinner.

"Please eat! I will help you." Minhyuk said softly and reached for the plate, but Seonhwa stopped him.

"Please don't act like that, It burdens me much." she sighed which aroused his temper.

"What should I do?" Minhyuk gritted his teeth hard seeing her rejection. Ever since they married, he was used to her rejection. However, not for this time. He was tired of all of those rejections.

"Please, don't do anything." Seonhwa said lightly. Minhyuk's jaw tightened at her words.

"Let's divorce!" He stated firmly and walked away from the bed.

"Please don't!" She said almost shouting. She tried to wake up from the bed and walked to him.

"I am tired of these. I just can't live with you, to feel your rejections. It is enough. I don't mind our companies going bankrupt. I don't mind with those shareholders that would leave." Minhyuk stated firmly.

"I had lost Nayeon, who sincerely loved me even though I did bad to her. Also, I lost the time I should spend with my daughter, but I just got your rejections too. I am not scared of anything now. I had lost everything though." Minhyuk added.

"Please don't.." Seonhwa hugged him from behind.

"You just love the money right?" Minhyuk gritted his teeth redeeming his anger.

"I will try to love you. Please, don't do that!" Seonhwa said as her tears fell from her eyes.