chapter 31
31 – Only for Two (3)
What Seol So-young wanted to say was clearly conveyed to Lee Hwa-young.
Thanks to this, Hwayoung Lee’s determination is shaken.
Hwayoung Lee asked her daughter to give her some time to think.
…… Lee Hwa-young was left alone in her hospitalization room.
‘You don’t have to worry too much.’
She smiled bitterly as she recalled Seol So-yeong’s serious words and expression from a while ago.
Maybe that wasn’t her daughter’s timid first rebellion. Of course, it seemed that someone had blown her daughter up and the scale of her first defiance was enormous.
Anyway.
I guess you knew… ….
How she was feeling and what choices she made.
That’s from a long time ago.
At least, you must have known that before the drama was made.
And the only person who knew about it at that time was her husband Seol Han-yong.
A rough picture is drawn.
Since the husband is a great man who is infinitely smaller in front of her daughter, he must have explained his condition straight away.
“After… It’s difficult.”
Lee Hwayoung let out a deep sigh.
I guess I was just looking at Soyoung like a child.
Enduring her pain and being with her, trying to watch So-young grow even a little more in the short amount of time left, seemed to be nothing more than her own selfish thoughts.
Yes. So-yeong wanted to get herself operated as soon as possible.
I hope her mother doesn’t suffer any more, she tells her not to worry too much because even if the operation goes wrong, as long as she’s her mother’s daughter, she can overcome it well enough…….
However, even after realizing what her daughter wanted to say, Lee Hwa-yeong was still uneasy.
That’s what her original parents are like. When it comes to children’s problems, my eyes automatically roll, and I’m always worried. Her worry multiplies, especially if she is invisible.
Knock- Knock-
It was then.
─Madam. I have something to tell you.
The nurse in charge of Lee Hwa-young knocked on the door of her hospital room.
Something was strange.
I have already been given painkillers… There must be no more schedule left today?
“Why is that?”
─ Ah, she called because someone wanted to meet her.
Who wants to meet me?
If it was a family member, it would have been just a free pass since they would come and go often.
In other words, it means an outsider.
However, Lee Hwa-young had been refusing all interviews with her except for her recent family.
It was because her mind and body were too tired to talk about work.
Even today it was all the more so because a storm had passed.
Lee Hwa-young thought that if it was her interview, she would flatly decline, so she asked her nurse across the door who it was.
But…….
─That’s… She’s on the studio en mix side. She gets a call from the hospital and she asks if she can transfer the call to her mother’s side. If you change the phone, you’ll know who it is…….
Studio and Mix?
How could I not know that the two works my daughter filmed were all produced there.
She even knew some of the people there.
If you dare to give an example, it was Na Young-jin PD. She even had several phone calls with him about her daughter’s filming and casting.
Then it was probably the case. In the first place, I heard that the call coming this way from Studio Enmix was in charge of PD Na Young-jin.
─Hello, Ms. Lee Hwa-yeong. This is Na Young-jin PD, whom I talked to before. If you don’t mind, can I call you right now?
As expected…….
Her prediction came true.
“What are you doing?”
Hwayoung Lee asked.
Na Young-jin took a deep breath for a moment as if she had made a big decision, and then she explained the reason for the call.
Today, Lee Hwa-yeong was greatly surprised to hear her daughter’s sincerity.
Just…….
─The author of 927 asked for it. She wants to have a brief interview with Mrs. She wants to schedule it. If… Are you willing to accept?
This time I couldn’t help but be more surprised than that.
***
The sun has set and darkness has entered the silence.
Dubuck-Dubuck-
Currently, Seo Eun-woo was walking in the hallway of Jeil Hospital.
To visit Mrs. Lee Hwa-young’s hospital room and have a conversation with her.
On the day the last episode of Fly High aired, Seo Eun-woo sent a text message to Seol So-young asking how things went with her mother.
So she sent me this reply.
[…] I do not know. I think you are still thinking about it.]
It was a slightly unexpected answer for Seo Eun-woo.
Honestly, he thought things would be easy.
With the message contained in the last episode of episode 16, she thought that if Seol So-young conveyed her sincerity, then Mrs. Lee Hwa-young would inevitably raise the white flag.
What…
Okay.
Seo Eun-woo acknowledged it.
If she had been the kind of person who would raise the white flag so easily in the first place, she wouldn’t have chosen the extreme option of giving up surgery and being with her family for the rest of her time.
Certainly, I think I was a little short on this one.
Ah, but what does that have to do with meeting Hwayoung Lee?
Why doesn’t it matter?
In order to change Mrs. Lee Hwa-young’s mind, I proposed to So-yeong a plan to make Fly High, and she believed in herself and was willing to invest the time. And for the filming, Seol So-young rolled a lot, not a little bit.
I have done all the work myself, but the results are not very satisfactory. But like this, you say “I don’t know” And go on a ponytail?
That would probably be legal even if Seol So-young came to me with a knife.
If you think about it, lately I’ve been too arrogant.
I think I had no choice but to do it because everything I do goes well. Honestly, the level of drama in the world in the drama is so low that I was lucky enough to rob an empty house…….
Anyway.
He felt responsible for this situation, and he thought of solving it in his own way.
[Lee Hwa-young]
Seo Eun-woo carefully knocked on the door of the hospitalization room used by the owner of this name.
─Please come in.
With a voice of permission, he opened the door and entered the hospital room.
Lee Hwa-yeong was sitting elegantly on the bed in the middle of the hospital room. And she looked at Seo Eun-woo with a slightly surprised look.
For those who realized his true identity, that was clearly a weak response.
This was thanks to what Na Young-jin had told her beforehand.
Na Young-jin said to Mrs. Lee Hwa-yeong, who allowed her to meet.
‘That… This is what I’m telling you in advance because the interview was held. If you are meeting the artist for the first time, please do not be too surprised or doubtful. In terms of age, she is definitely the same age as her daughter, Miss So-young.’
When Lee Hwa-yeong heard this at first, she thought, ‘What kind of bullsh*t is this?’, But when she saw a boy who opened the door and entered, she immediately understood what Na Young-jin was saying.
I could never have imagined that the genius writer who is shaking up the drama industry was a middle school student the same age as his daughter… ….
Who would dare to imagine this?
Now I think I know a little bit why the boy took up the concept of mysticism.
“Sorry for asking to see you so late. For convenience, the one with fewer eyes is easier to move…….”
Seo Eun-woo lowered his head and handed over the apology first.
Hwayoung Lee shook her head and expressed her intention to be okay. It didn’t matter to her now. The important thing was why this boy came looking for him until he revealed the identity he had been hiding.
To that question, the boy replied with a small smile.
“I just thought you might have a lot of questions about me.”
Hwayoung Lee replied with a bewildered expression.
“That sounds like you’re willing to answer any questions I ask.”
“Right. I came here with that in mind. In the first place, Fly High is a drama for the first lady and So-young.”
There was no lie in this statement.
As Seo Eun-woo said, Fly High was inspired by Seol So-young and Lee Hwa-young. He thought the woman in front of her had a right to know the whole truth.
Hwayoung Lee, who understood his meaning, pondered for a while, then asked what she had been curious about.
“Why did you make the dance practice making film?”
A making film that makes you feel proud and heartbroken whenever you see your daughter’s dancing skills improve.
It could have been for a simple reason to promote the drama, but the boy in front of me must have had a different purpose.
“Oh, you saw that! What a relief.”
“…… ?”
Lee Hwa-young tilts her head as she sees Seo Eun-woo making a satisfied expression.
“To be honest, Soyoung’s dancing skills can be said to be the worst. But now it’s different from the first time. I’ve grown a lot. Do you admit that?”
Hwayoung Lee nodded her head.
Even in her own eyes, her daughter’s dancing skills have grown remarkably. It was a bit embarrassing for her as a mother, but in fact she wasn’t even expecting to dance at all.
“Seeing Soyoung’s dancing skills gradually improved, I felt proud of myself. Looking at the comments, it seems I’m not the only one feeling that way….”
Seo Eun-woo looked at Lee Hwa-young with a meaningful smile.
I feel that level of pride even when others see it, but Mrs. Lee Hwa-young, Seol So-young’s mother, would have done more if she did more, at least not less.
So…….
“It may be a bit cruel, but I wanted to let you know the feeling of ‘lingering’.”
The moment she witnessed her daughter’s remarkable growth by overcoming her weaknesses, she must have thought this.
She said that as her mother, she wants to watch Seol So-yeong move forward more and more by her side.
Not just for a second, keep going.
The cause that made her heart suffocate was that she herself gave up that precious right.
“What… So-Young is so good at everything that it’s a little hard to find, but she probably has something immature besides dancing. It might be meaningful in its own way to learn about it and overcome it with her first lady.”
The boy said so with an innocent face.
However, she was a very frightening word to Lee Hwa-young today.
Because that’s the future you have to give up if you choose the option of not having surgery.
She opened her mouth with a sad expression.
“But I am anxious. If the operation goes wrong and I suddenly meet her death, it will definitely leave a huge scar on So-young. Even when So-Young tells her not to worry, she says that she said when she wasn’t hurt yet.”
That was somewhat correct.
In fact, this is something even Seol So-yeong, her party member, cannot be sure of.
No one could have predicted how much of a shock it would be if her surgery failed.
But…….
“No.”
Seo Eun-woo strongly denied what Lee Hwa-young said.
Lee Hwa-yeong could not understand her boy’s infidelity.
She was, so she wanted to ask why.
“Why…… “
However, Lee Hwa-yeong, who naturally made eye contact with the boy, could not bear to open her mouth.
It was because her eyes contained only certain confidence, without an inch of falsehood.
Seo Eun-woo firmly believed in it.
If it’s her…….
“If it is Soyoung, she will surely overcome her wounds.”