Chapter 31: Longing and Love
The second blessing—and Nam Taekyung’s younger sibling.
That is, Nam Taekyung’s mother, who had lost her child, was no longer in her right mind. She didn’t sleep, didn’t eat, and just stared endlessly at her child’s photo with vacant eyes as she cried.
She regretted it, over and over, thinking that she should never have let go of the child’s hand at that moment. The scene of the child lying on the cold ground, bleeding, wouldn’t leave her mind.
The blaring horn, the stopped car, the screams erupting from all sides.
For days and nights, she relived the moment her child died—and then, all at once, she recalled Nam Taekyung. The first thing she saw when she turned her body was Nam Taekyung, standing right beside her.
He had been standing there, staring blankly at the road. His sibling had just been hit by a car in front of his eyes—he must have been in shock, unable to move.
But what she remembered belatedly was the expression on his face.
Without a doubt—
“He smiled...”
Even though his sibling had been hit by a car, he had smiled so broadly that his dimples had sunk deep into his cheeks. A family member had died, and that was the reaction he showed in front of them?
Driven to the edge of her sanity, she stormed into Nam Taekyung’s room and grabbed him.
“You were smiling, weren’t you...? Why were you smiling? Your sibling got hit by a car—why were you smiling!”