Chapter 328: Treasure Hunt (7)
“What do you mean by that, Gramps? You killed her?” Song Ha-Eun asked in shock. “But earlier, you said a bad person killed her...”
“Yeah. I’m a bad person.” Baek Mu-Kang looked down at the half-bitten dumpling in his hand and smiled sorrowfully. “I’m a fool. There’s not a single thing I can do on my own. Because of that, my wife had to endure so much.”
The hardships and the pain became unbearable.
“She got really sick. A terrible illness. And... she died.”
It wasn’t because of anyone else.
“I’m the one who killed her,” Baek Mu-Kang said with a faint smile.
Strangely, Song Ha-Eun felt like she could understand the distant emotion behind that smile because she had experienced it too.
“Gramps...”
Blinded and with one leg gone, unable to walk, she had also become a heavy burden on Kwon Oh-Jin’s shoulders. She could still remember it vividly. The way Kwon Oh-Jin saved every bit of money for her, the stench of old, secondhand clothes, the rustling of five-hundred-won protein bars being unwrapped.
The despair of having to watch that pitiful life from the sidelines, unable to do anything, felt like falling endlessly into a bottomless abyss.
What if...
Kwon Oh-Jin had died in an accident while trying to earn money for her? What would have become of her then?