Yoo-hwa, who lined the again of her hand on the burning sensation, smiled as if it was somewhat ridiculous and leaned down to choose up her telephone. The nook of her telephone was barely cracked. Such a crack wouldn’t make it an issue to make use of it, however she couldn’t take her eyes off it.

[Mom

Sin Woo-hyun]

The 2 saved names appeared on the display screen because the contact button was pressed when it fell.

One was the one who made her stay on this world, and the opposite was the one who gave her the affirmation that she was alive. Even when it was contradictory, they each made her stay and, on the identical time, made her wish to die.

Her coronary heart sank. Quite a few ideas poured down like rain as her reminiscences barely quieted down.

“My daughter.”

Her mom’s voice.

“Noona.”

Yi-woon’s obsessive gaze.

“Noona, are you cheerful?”

Seong-woo’s hurtful query.

“Yoo-hwa.”

And even Woo-hyun’s candy voice.

There was nothing that didn’t harm in every of them.

As she was trying on the display screen, her view turned darkish. She noticed her face when the display screen turned off. There was ache on the drained face.

She questioned if this was the face Seong-woo talked about his sister had simply earlier than she died.

That’s proper. She actually seemed like she was going to die.

Yoo-hwa laughed as if it was ridiculous.

She thought she had swum very far, however she obtained again to sq. one. No, possibly she was going to an much more terrible place. Whereas having the phantasm that she was going to a reasonably good place.

Yoo-hwa raised her hand and, after urgent Woo-hyun’s title, she then pressed the delete button. Yoo-hwa didn’t transfer till her environment felt darkish as a consequence of each the display screen that had solely her mom’s title now and the sensor mild turning off. Her ft appeared to sink in.

***

It was just like regular. After being printed in {a magazine} as a scrumptious restaurant, there have been a number of extra clients than regular and loads of work. However regardless that the grandmother, whose nerves have been already on edge, was much more nervous due to that, it was the identical as regular.

She thought it might even be like that in the present day. It didn’t take lengthy for her to appreciate that she was mistaken.

At first, a pointy scream was heard. It wasn’t a easy spill from a plate, somebody bumping into somebody, or a scream of being shocked for a second; it was a pointy scream of somebody seemingly discovering one thing that shouldn’t be there. Then, there was silence. The acquainted sound made her really feel the hair on the again of her neck standing up in unison.

As she slowly raised her head, the very first thing she noticed was Seong-woo watching her. Even after telling her that she was like his sister about to commit suicide, he glanced at her now and again. Every time, Yoo-hwa silently did what she needed to do whereas having the absurd thought that she ought to no less than present the need to stay. Then, Seong-woo would do his job as if nothing had occurred.

However in the present day’s gaze was totally different from that. His eyes have been filled with suspicion. Turning her head round, she noticed the proprietor and the visitors taking a look at her, and on the finish of it, she noticed an individual standing by the door. The individual pointing their finger at her with a shocked and astonished face was somebody she knew.

“Yoo-hwa, I really feel so dangerous once I take a look at you.”

The face of the sort woman, holding out a bag of groceries from the mart when she was going dwelling,

“You bitch! You fucking whore! How dare you do this to my husband? For this reason folks say to by no means chunk the hand that feeds you! By no means! Oh god, oh god. You fucking bitch…”

and the face of the mart proprietor’s spouse, spitting out curses like she was going to kill her and crying, flashed by way of her thoughts one after the opposite.

She stood there along with her eyes open huge, somewhat extra worn out and thin than she remembered.

“Why are you right here!”

She didn’t know what to do on the lady’s screams.

“Excuse me. I’m sorry, however different individuals are consuming. I don’t know what’s occurring, however exit for now and…”

The proprietor approached her and tried to take her exterior.

“Let go! Have you learnt who she is, to let her inside? You don’t even verify what sort of folks your workers are when doing enterprise? She’s Kim Beom-sik’s daughter! The daughter of that serial killer!”

The toxic phrases poured out with out a likelihood to cease them. The darkish, gloomy poison melted the sound, making a near-death silence. The stinging gaze of the folks turned to Yoo-hwa in unison.

Perhaps she was dying now.

That’s what Yoo-hwa thought, receiving that express gaze with no place to cover or a solution to cease it. As a result of in any other case, her consciousness wouldn’t be fading, and he or she wouldn’t discover it arduous to breathe.

Gasp.

A buzzing sound unfold right here and there, beginning with the sound of somebody’s astonishment.

“That filthy bitch seduced my husband along with her physique and hit him within the head with a soju bottle! However what? Cease? You don’t know what occurred, however you need me to go away? Simply know that I saved this retailer! You appear to be the proprietor.”

The spouse’s phrases continued. At that, the proprietor’s arm, which had been stopping her, dropped down.

Ought to she make an excuse?

What ought to she do?

She felt like she needed to do one thing as a result of the conventional routine she had barely discovered was breaking up.

However was there something she might say to cease this example?

“… Scary bitch.”

The grandmother, who was standing subsequent to her, stepped again and threw a phrase. At her phrases, Yoo-hwa, who had opened her mouth barely to say one thing, closed it. The extraordinarily faint excuse that had risen in her head disappeared utterly.