Childhood Friend of the Youngest Daughter of a Conglomerate Family

1 – Returned with a scream

Lee Han-sol, 25 years old. A week ago, he broke up with his girlfriend of three years, Kim So-yi, on Christmas Eve.

No, it might be more accurate to say that they were forcibly torn apart rather than saying they broke up.

It wasn’t that we hated each other or that we broke up because of our problems.

The cause of the breakup was an external problem, coercion by the girlfriend’s parents.

———-

The evening of December 24th. Christmas Eve.

For lovers, the happiest day of the year.

There were four people who faced the worst day on a downtown street where other lovers were all enjoying happiness.

“You leper! Where! Dare! Touch my daughter!”

Soyi’s father dropped Soyi and me, kicking and punching clumsily.

He probably followed her daughter because she wanted to see her boyfriend’s face.

Maybe it was my intention to go back after checking my face, but my face was the problem.

Because I was a monster with half of my face disfigured by burns.

“Dad, please!”

“Soi, stay still. Where would you go with such a lousy man… You can’t do something like that… Are you sleeping or not? How long have you been dating?”

Her mother blocked her way, bruising her inclination to dissuade her father.

She looked at my face and put on an expression of open disgust.

Not only my face, but the clothes and appearance I wore must have fallen far short of her standards.

“Don’t appear in front of my daughter again! Soy, you b*tch, get in the car right now!”

“Oh no! Sol!”

Her parents forced her into her car as if they were taking her away.

Soi shed tears and desperately resisted, but she couldn’t overcome the oppression of the two.

I didn’t even think to stop it and sat down on the street.

I just shed tears.

———-

Fire!

I took a picture of her and her girlfriend out of the frame and set it on fire.

Since I’m not a smoker, I didn’t have an ashtray, so I burned the photo in a plate that was used as a tableware.

There was soot on the plate with the smell of burning.

You may say it’s a waste, but it’s an item that has no use anyway.

This is the plate Soyi uses every time she comes home.

“… Well, it’s a miracle that we dated for three years.”

Actually, dating Soyi was a miracle to me.

Her first meeting was made when she dropped her wallet and I just picked it up.

She expressed her gratitude while smiling brightly at her hideous face.

A reunion happened when she went to college in the area I was cleaning.

She said that she was happy to meet her again, and that she was the same age as her, so she held out her hand.

Thanking her for the drinks she prepared for me every time we met, and finally accepting her courageous invitation to dinner.

Everything I did with Soyi was like a miracle to me.

But I was always ready to leave her and let her go, even during her three happy years with her.

Of course.

I am a cleaning service with no money, no education, no family, nothing.

The face on the right was crushed by a childhood burn, and the hair color of the platinum was beautiful, but it could not cover this ugly bone.

In contrast, Soi is a prestigious university student with a pretty face.

She is the only daughter of a silver spoon family that runs a small business, if not even a gold spoon.

She had a bright and cheerful personality.

I always thought Soyi would abandon me.

There must have been many men better than me at the university she attended.

But Soyi hasn’t looked away from her for three years.

I’ve never compared myself to anyone who excels anywhere.

Even when I took her bus with her because she didn’t have her car, even when I couldn’t take her to an expensive store on her birthday, she smiled at how nice it was.

To a guy like me, even if it’s literally a gift from God, he’s a very thankful person.

‘The only flaw is that I don’t have eyes for men?’

Helping myself, I looked at the half-burnt photo before I knew it.

In the photo, the part where I came out has already been burned.

In the photo, Soyi’s brightly smiling face was filled with tears again.

Suddenly, I couldn’t stand the burning on her face, so I hurriedly extinguished the fire with my bare hands.

Now I got a picture of her.

“… What is my subject Christmas?”

I regretted meeting Soyi on Christmas Eve.

Until now, she feared that just walking with me would make her a laughingstock, so she refrained from meeting in crowded places.

All of the trips, amusement parks, and aquariums that we asked to go together.

I refused all dates in bright places.

Then, the exhausted Soyi cried.

So I couldn’t stand it any longer.

I promised to spend Christmas together this year.

Soi smiled brightly.

I wondered why it hadn’t been like this before.

I also prepared a bouquet of her favorite forget-me-nots for her eve.

For some reason, it seemed like everything would work out.

But she broke up.

———-

Diring!

Several weeks passed, and a text message came to my cell phone that I had tossed on the floor.

I didn’t have the energy to do anything, so I slept all day and only woke up in the evening to the little sound.

「I’ll go to Sol’s house today.

Don’t avoid today.

If you avoid me again today, I will never see you again.”

“Haa… “

Soi’s text warning that this is the last time.

She made the last phone call the day after we broke up, and she never once answered her texts or phone calls.

I sighed and put on the clothes scattered on the floor and left the house.

“… Should I go to a stall again?”

The past few days have been days of avoiding fire.

I changed the password for the door lock at my house and ignored text messages and phone calls.

He drank until late every day and didn’t even go home until late.

I have to go to work by 7:00 every day, but my work has also been disrupted.

People who were originally broken are more broken.

“Welcome… Ah, this bachelor is here again today.

“Hello.”

Entering the stall with four or five tables, the hostess greeted me with a puzzled look.

It must be strange that they only come to the same food stall all week.

However, among the shops Soyi couldn’t visit, this was the only one with few customers and reasonable prices enough to come every day.

The attitude of the hostess, who didn’t pay much attention to my ugly face, was also a plus factor.

“Sundae and soju today?”

“Oh, yes. May I sit here?”

“I always sit down and ask something and draw it. Wait while eating this.”

“Thank you.”

After receiving the oden soup from the owner, I immediately opened a bottle of soju.

Without even pouring into the glass, she drank half the bottle out of her bottle and drank oden-tang right out of the bowl.

“Ugh, big… “

When I drank soju on an empty stomach, I got drunk.

I felt like I was about to get drunk, but I didn’t stop.

She emptied the entire bottle and served stir-fried sundae, then opened a new bottle.

“… Ah.”

Her mind went hazy before she knew it.

I caught my eye on the cell phone that was on the table.

The last phone call from the day after we broke up comes to mind again.

“… Why did you call me? I sent you a message, saying let’s break up. Now we have something more to say.”

– Whip… How can it end like that… Sniff… I’ll tell mom and dad well… It’s because mom and dad don’t know. Sol is what a good person you are….

“Do it in moderation, you.”

– What… ?

Soi was crying. She wasn’t over yet for her.

However, our end was clear to me.

That’s why I had to be poisoned.

I spewed out lies with a broken heart.

“You honestly knew that too. We won’t be able to What parent in the world would entrust their daughter to someone like me? What are you pretending to know? You just played with me, you knew I wouldn’t be greedy for you anyway. Did you even think about marrying me?”

– Ah, no… Sol, I….

“Until now, you had a good heart, too. You were just getting drunk on yourself, pretending to love and care for the ugly monster kid like the main character in a fairy tale. No?”

– Ugh, huh…. Why do you say that sniff… You know I’m not… Don’t say that, Sol….

“Don’t call me again. Because yesterday I was very alert. Because I know what suits a guy like me.”

– Cow, Sol! Brush….

Since then, I ignored Soi’s phone that rings every day.

I should have blocked it, but I couldn’t bear it because my heart was weak.

… No, stop lying.

In fact, I didn’t because I thought it was selfish that I could confirm my love for her through Soyi’s phone that rings every day.

I feel disillusioned with myself.

“… I’m really trash.”

Feeling disgusted with myself, I drank some of the remaining alcohol from the bottle.

Maybe it’s already the third bottle, so my vision is shaking.

I don’t want to drink more, but tomorrow is Sunday anyway, so I don’t have to go to work.

I raised her hand and tried to tell the owner, her aunt, to ask for more of her drink.

Ring! Tring!

Just as she was about to call her aunt, the phone rang.

Soyi’s name appeared on the phone screen.

She must have called when she arrived at my house.

“… Here’s the calculation.”

For some reason, I thought that Soyi would even find this stall.

She hurriedly finished her checkout and left her shop.

‘Where should I go?’

She staggered along the street and stopped at a crosswalk.

Looking to the side, I saw a child who was excited about the night with her parents, holding hands and chatting.

The child’s parent secretly hid her child behind her back as if to protect her child from me.

Well, it’s an ugly face originally, but it must look dangerous because it’s drunk like this.

This is a familiar treatment.

I looked across the crosswalk in a calm mood.

“… Uh?”

Unbelievably, I saw the incendiary there.

I thought she was too drunk, but I saw the girl across from her screaming when she found me.

I don’t want to run into you.

I have to let her go.

I quickly turned around before the signal changed.

I saw a soi across the street running at a crosswalk with a red light.

Paang!!

“Kim Soi!!”

The horn honked and the car hit Soyi.

I threw myself without even thinking.

Bang!!

… I heard something loud.

My vision was all black.

“Sol! Sol! Open your eyes Sol!”

I felt something shaking and with my eyesight slightly returned, I saw Soyi’s face full of tears.

I want to wipe away my tears, but my body has no sense at all.

I tried to tell him not to cry, but he didn’t even move his mouth.

I have to say I’m sorry… I must say that what I said then was not sincere…

It was difficult to keep my mind any longer.

Losing sight.

The voice of a loved one that I heard in my ears is also fading.

As the feeling of loneliness amplified.

I couldn’t think of any more.

I am dead.

———-

“Elephants form their own society by gathering dozens of individuals, and they are extremely intelligent, understanding human speech well and even showing the ability to play musical instruments. An elephant remembered a human being reunited after being separated for 30 years… 」

‘… Do elephants come to heaven?’

When I opened my eyes, there was a herd of elephants in front of me.

A herd of elephants in the meadow.

The cute baby elephant playing tricks on her mother and the bravery of a mother elephant chasing away a beast caught my eye.

‘No, it can’t be.’

Of course, this was no place like paradise.

It is a convex cathode ray tube TV that is hard to see these days to illuminate the herd of elephants.

Only then did I realize that I was sitting in an unfamiliar room.

No, looking at it again, it’s not an unfamiliar room.

The bed I was leaning on was also familiar to me.

… And the displeased woman lying on top of it was also familiar.

No, she is a very knowledgeable woman.

“Ha, f*ck… It’s terribly boring.”

“… Lee Yoon-ah?”

I blankly muttered this woman’s name.

The fact that this woman is here… Was this heaven, not hell?

The woman lying on the bed is Lee Yuna, my birth mother.

She really is a villain who deserves to go to hell.

“This bastard calls Amy Ji by her first name?”

“Ah… “

Lee Yoon-ah’s hand approaching.

Ingrained learned fear.

A clear sense of pulling the hair.

With a shriek, I realized that I had returned to the past.