Chapter 272
From a young age, Jae-Hyeok’s perception of his father had always been towering and steadfast, as if no situation could faze him. But after everything he’d experienced, Jae-Hyeok’s understanding cleared.
Indeed, his father had always returned home with a smile, but his silver-touched hair and the crows-feet at the corners of his eyes whispered truths that Jae-Hyeok had only now understood.
Every gate-break, every parent and child separated by life and death, and every citizen caught as collateral in the battles of players...
Indeed, his father’s heart was as clear and proud as a diamond, but no heart could bear the world alone.
And alone his father was.
Korea had several National Treasures, but only his father could stand eye to eye with China and Japan.
His peers couldn’t help him, and neither could his young children.
And what’s more, before China and Japan, those two sharks, his father couldn’t afford to reveal an iota of weakness.
He had to stand alone, and do so as unyielding and unbreakable as a mountain. Even on that day eight years ago, he was cornered and sent off to his death, yet he’d faced it calmly...
Ultimately, the more Jae-Hyeok understood his father’s burdens, the more respect he felt.
He was a man who bore the world on his shoulders—even when it cost his family’s hegemony, even when it shattered his family.
I never resented you for that.