Chapter 55: What’s Approaching
When Ha Dohoon suddenly said he’d have bread like Ha Giyeon, both their mother and father stopped eating and turned to look at him.
Ha Giyeon wasn’t particularly surprised. Ha Dohoon was always temperamental and sensitive, so there was never much point in being puzzled by anything he did. It was just a little odd that he chose to say it right after Ha Giyeon got scolded by their father. On top of that, he didn’t usually eat bread for breakfast. He’d said it upset his stomach...
“You already ate half your rice, though.”
Why suddenly switch to bread after eating half a bowl of rice? But that was as far as Giyeon’s curiosity went. He tuned out. His father, however, did not.
His father was watching him. Giyeon could tell just from the way he looked at him, even without a word. That expression meant one thing: he didn’t like that Ha Dohoon was paying attention to him.
His father had always believed that Ha Giyeon clinging to Dohoon would get in the way of his eldest son's future. When Dohoon graduated and went overseas, it was their father who had changed Giyeon’s phone number. And when he still managed to contact Dohoon through the new number, their father confiscated the phone entirely.
To his father, Giyeon was nothing but a burden. That’s why he’d ripped him away from the successful Dohoon. Now, even without needing to intervene, Giyeon was the one distancing himself.
“Thank you.”
Ha Giyeon picked up the toast the housekeeper had placed on his plate and took a bite. The rich, buttery flavor and sweet blueberry jam filled his mouth. Toast was definitely better.
As he focused on eating, their mother—unable to bear the sight—finally spoke up in annoyance.
“Don’t eat with your hands. It’s unsanitary.”
“Ah... okay.”