Chapter 77: Birdcage
“Ha... Giyeon hasn’t come home yet?”
Lee Mihyun, having returned from work, went to check Ha Giyeon’s room and, finding it empty, immediately asked Kang Jini. He’d skipped breakfast and left early in the morning, and now it was late and he still hadn’t returned. Had he always spent this little time at home?
As Mihyun felt a creeping sense of dissonance, Kang Jini responded slowly, puzzled.
“He said he’s sleeping over at a friend’s place.”
“...He’s sleeping over?”
Even though he wasn’t feeling well, he was staying somewhere else instead of coming ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) home—Lee Mihyun couldn’t understand it. She knew that Giyeon no longer had hopes or expectations of them, but still, dragging his sick body out to sleep at a friend’s? That was ridiculous.
Was he that unwilling to see her?
He hadn’t sent her a single text, but had left a message with Kang Jini.
“Did you ask him yourself, ahjumma?”
“Giyeon sent me a message.”
Lee Mihyun turned on her heel and left the kitchen. Was she offended? Was her pride hurt? She didn’t even know how to describe the feeling.
Why had Ha Giyeon informed Kang Jini—and not her or even Ha Dohoon—that he wouldn’t be home that night? No matter what, she was still his mother.