Chapter 232:

Lee-yeon responded with a refined frown as if she had lastly arrived to deal with this matter. The style of bitterness lingered in his mouth as he suppressed the phrases he had been holding again.

“I’ve by no means truly stated these phrases, so far as I can bear in mind. You had been too scary, and your brother had pressured me. I simply went together with it to maintain issues calm. In any case, your brother watched my each transfer. What else ought to I’ve achieved than fake to love you?”

Kwon Chae-woo wiped his pallid face with each fingers and swallowed a groan of agony.

He wanted to go away quickly. He wanted to shatter this phantasm and go meet Lee-yeon. However the phrases that gripped him had been steadily breaking his resolve, protecting him rooted in place.

The ache that had began in his chest quickly unfold all through his whole physique, contorting his legs and arms as in the event that they had been convulsing. Progressively, the person misplaced his braveness.

“I used to be improper. Please don’t say that.” The person’s voice trembled vulnerably.

“She confirmed me what it’s prefer to dwell usually. Making ready meals for you whereas dipping my fingers in water as a substitute of blood, rescuing animals as a substitute of harming them, and residing like a human. Lee-yeon confirmed me all of this.”

“…”

“How superb that extraordinary life was.”

Residing in hiding with Yoon Joo-ha and never receiving any advantages of schooling or medical care was an irregular life, whatever the recollections.

As well as, he was lonely throughout his teenage years and needed to dwell solely as a performer, and as he grew to become an grownup and have become a looking canine, his life went utterly off observe.

So, it was the primary time he had skilled it. To dwell solely as a home husband and have such a tranquil and cozy routine.

Cooking three meals a day, going out to the yard and tending the backyard, choosing up his spouse after work, and spending passionate nights together with her.

It was all a primary. Nights the place they’d cuddle beneath the blanket to maintain heat on chilly and lonely nights. That’s why –

“I wish to return to Hwaido.”

A grim smile tugged on the corners of his mouth as he grappled with a way of loss.

‘I got here to Hwaido to bury you within the first place.’

“When my life ends, I wish to be buried subsequent to you.”

It was solely now that he appeared to grasp why Lee-yeon wished to share the orchestra with him as a present.

Why she invited him as the primary viewers, not for another purpose, and why she wished to share music of all issues.

The ruined forest might have represented the picture of the household that Lee-yeon had in thoughts, however the music was Kwon Chae-woo.

Lee-yeon nonetheless didn’t reply.

“Don’t waver.”

Kwon Chae-woo tightened his grip round her, placing an virtually intimidating quantity of power into his arms.

He clung to her as if he would by no means let go, however after some time, he slowly launched his grip. At that second, Lee-yeon’s beforehand trembling again stiffened immediately.

“This outdated man has gone insane!”

At that very second, with Choo-ja’s voice and an inflow of enraged villagers, Kwon Chae-woo tried to protect Lee-yeon, however the peak distinction was an excessive amount of.

“All of that is due to that tree physician! How are you going to take duty for this? It’s due to you that our village’s divine tree died!”

The indignant villagers tried to tug Lee-yeon down by any means potential, reaching out with their claw-like fingers, however all their efforts had been thwarted by Kwon Chae-woo’s strong physique.

They scratched and pulled at his garments, however he didn’t launch even a single strand of Lee-yeon’s hair.

The lady who tried to avoid wasting the tree and the person who had lower it down.

Now, solely an unbridgeable hole remained between them.

Progressively, every little thing began to show just a little too white. He felt a slight heaviness in his limbs, and a headache was pounding via.

As a result of expertise of getting his imaginative and prescient flipped a number of occasions, Kwon Chae Woo instinctively knew what lay on the finish of this path.

His eyes had been closed tightly, his nostril was pinched, and he needed to endure the sensation of being tossed round. Then, in the end…

Ah…

Kwon Chae-woo was left speechless as if a burning lump was caught in his throat.

“….”

“….’

The cello Lee-yeon held so dearly had now change into a lethal weapon in her fingers, a software to precise revenge on the person who broke her coronary heart and household.

Kwon Chae-woo’s physique couldn’t assist however tremble. He clung to Lee-yeon even tighter, decided to face the implications of his previous actions.

The world round them pale to white, and the painful actuality he had yearned for was unfolding.

This was the fact he had longed for, the one he was prepared to face, regardless of the result.