Chapter 300.2
As they spoke, they examined each other’s faces carefully. It seemed like mentioning Sang-je triggered both of them, in one way or another. They were unsure of the other’s relationship with him, so they had to hide their true thoughts.
Alber looked up at the sky. She felt impossibly trapped. I almost made a mistake again.
Unlike the sky in this dream, actual time wouldn’t stop for her. She couldn’t waste this precious opportunity that her family had made for her. She had to do everything she could.
“Jin.”
Eugene looked at her nervously. “Yes?”
Alber looked at the girl with serious eyes. “The truth is that I came here to ask for your help?”
“Me?”
Then, the older woman shook her head. “No,” she said. “I’m not really asking for your help, it’s more like I want to tell you the truth. You will make your own choices after I do and that will be out of my control.”
She realized that she couldn’t ask this child to make up for all the sins of their ancestors. She herself had done unthinkable things in her life that she blamed on them, she couldn’t expect this girl to be any different. She just had to accept whatever came her way.