When The Phone Rings / The Call You Just Made Is

Chapter 58 Learn and Adapt

Once the expiration date is over, everything will rot without exception. Names are no exception.

Baek Sa-eon is rotting little by little every day because he lives with the name of a dead child.

Despite this, he still tries his best to learn and adapt, just to prevent Baek Jang-ho from discovering his true face.
In his mind, there are only two ways: sink to the bottom of the river and die, or struggle to survive on the water. In order not to drown, he always stands on tiptoe and holds his head high.

In this way, he has to endure the life that comes like a flood every day. As a result, he learned how to smile and respond appropriately.

"You will marry the eldest daughter of that family in the future. So, it's best to please her in advance." 

"Yes."

Although his heart is churning, he has become accustomed to keeping his emotions stable. It's like it's not enough to play the role of a grandson, but from now on... This is an endless bondage.

Watching his adoptive parents bite each other every night, he feels that marriage is just a window display. Business, interests, cages, contracts, documents and the like.

There is no meaning, and there is no emotional union.

This world is full of dirty and boring things.

Soon, the boy's face showed a weariness that was not in line with his age, as if covered with moss.

One day, he accidentally heard Baek Jang-ho's phone call.

"Then the fishing ground should be closed now." 

"......!"

He stopped as he was about to go downstairs.

"There is no evidence to discard there, and the people who lived there are gone. Let's turn it into private property again. By the way, has Sangxun not been found yet?"

If it was Sangxun, he would be the indifferent guard at the fishing ground.

"Alas... Forget it, he even dropped his fingers. Maybe he met a beloved woman. There is no need to track him down."

The boy's eyes flickered with anxiety.

After entering puberty, emotions often surge like tides, and today is one of those days. But why did he feel so unbearable?

His chest felt like it was being pressed down, and he couldn't breathe. The boy ran out from the back door.

Walk as you please and come to a familiar place by feeling. Dark and damp. He hid in the shadows, as if looking for the starting point of life.

Epiphany came unexpectedly.

"I knew you would come back one day."

His heart beat violently, vibrating his eardrums.

He just vaguely thought that he would return to his hometown one day.

Yes, hometown. The place where "he" really lived. However, the place he returned to no longer existed.

The place and the people were all gone, and his heart was empty. Finally, he realized the existence of the skin he wore. It was fake.

It was all a play.

The past three years flooded into his mind like a landslide.

He wanted to shout loudly until his throat was congested, but he could only clench his fists tightly.

His heart was churning, his eyes were as cold as winter, and he didn't know how to face this feeling, so he could only stand there powerlessly.

At this moment,