285 – Hime Hajime
“Mother, Father, I’m here.”
“Miss President? What are you doing at this late hour?”
“It’s the end of the year, and there’s something I really want to say after seeing the two of you.”
The chairman said that and greeted politely.
“Oh, this is a small thing, but I brought some presents. I heard that in Korea, it is customary to bring presents on holidays.”
While saying that, what the chairman held out was a golden bundle.
Since I was still curious about it, I untied the knot of the bundle that the chairman had placed on the kotatsu.
And what came out of it was-
“Snow crab! So precious!”
“I hear it’s in season these days.”
“If you haven’t had dinner, how about eating together? I’ll prepare it soon.”
My mother said that and tried to get up from her seat.
However, the chairman dissuaded the mother, and she said with a serious expression.
“It doesn’t matter if we eat together, but please give me a moment before that.”
Then, as if her mother had noticed her strange behavior, she hesitated and sat back down.
“Miss President, what’s wrong? With such a serious face.”
Then, sitting in front of his parents, the chairman took a small deep breath and suddenly lowered his head and shouted.
“Father! Mother! Give me your son!”
The moment I heard the chairman’s loud cry, my brain stopped momentarily.
***
What is it? What the hell did I just say?
I tried desperately to understand the meaning of the chairman, desperately shaking my head.
However, there is only one conclusion.
The president formally proposed to me in front of my parents.
“What…”
Bewildered, I opened my mouth to say something, but a beat faster than that, my mother said kyaaagh! I hugged the president while screaming.
“Of course not! When will the wedding be held? Where will the ceremony be held?! Auntie will treat you like her own daughter!”
“Is this woman crazy?!”
And it was her father who prevented her mother from running amok.
“Do you think marriage is a child’s play?! It’s one of the great humanities!”
Her father yelled at her, and her mother turned her head away with a slight look on her face.
“No, it’s because I like people so much, but I’m going to face you with something like that.”
“Write!”
“Okay. Okay.”
When the mother grumbled and released the president from her arms, the father let out a small sigh and straightened his back.
“Saionji-san, I’m sorry for being rude. I didn’t say this because I didn’t like you, Saionji-san. The only thing you wanted to say is that marriage is not something that can be decided so easily just by liking it. Going to be.”
Then the chairman nodded his head.
“I know very well what my father wants to say. However, I also want you to know that I did not propose to Yooseong-gun lightly.”
“…That’s good. I can’t help it if you say that. But marriage is no joke. Even if there are no problems with civil law, isn’t it too early for both of you to get married?”
At his father’s counterattack, the chairman nodded his head and said.
“So, I want them to get engaged for now, and have a wedding after Yooseong graduates from school.”
“…What do you plan on doing with your newlyweds? If you’re both students, it’ll be hard to earn money. From what I’ve seen, Yooseong doesn’t have the ability to feed you yet.”
Then the chairman smiled and said,
“That’s fine. Even if Yooseong doesn’t have a job, I can feed him.”
“…What?”
As his father blinked his eyes in bewilderment, the chairman quietly took something out of his arms.
That was a business card.
And the title written on that business card was by no means light.
President of Saionji Group
‘Saionji Kumiko’
“…….”
My father’s pupils, who thought of the chairman as just a daughter of a rich family, trembled as if an earthquake had struck.
You would never have thought that your son’s bride-to-be would become the president of a large corporation.
She thought it would be revealed sometime, but she never thought it would be revealed in this way.
“I won’t put a drop of water on Yooseong’s hands. So please allow me to get engaged. Father.”
Finally, the chairman beat the wedge, and the father’s answer to that was—
“Please take good care of me in the future. My daughter-in-law.”
It was an unconditional YES.
***
“Hohoho, Kumiko, try this.”
“Thank you, Mother.”
“hahahahaha, my daughter-in-law is truly blessed to eat.”
“This is all thanks to my mother’s good cooking skills.”
The chairman, who instantly captured the hearts of his parents with his overwhelming capital power, said he would go to sleep overnight.
Then, thanks to her son, her mother, who got a daughter-in-law of the chairman of a large company, brought out the snow crab she received as a gift from her kitchen, steaming it, saying that she would feed the chairman who came home after a long time something delicious.
Thanks to that, there is usually a party at my house out of season.
“Don’t stay still and eat Yooseong-gun. Now, ah-“
“…Ah.”
I was embarrassed to be in front of my parents, so I hesitantly opened my mouth, and the chairman smiled and put the legs of a plump snow crab into my mouth.
“Be sure to chew thoroughly. If you eat in a hurry, you will get sick.”
Chairman asked me as if he were treating a child.
To be honest, being treated like this was unfamiliar, so I had no choice but to blush.
And Ms. Lee Mi-ja made fun of me when she saw me like that.
“Son, isn’t it embarrassing for Kumiko to show affection?”
Hearing that, I quietly turned my head the other way.
Because it hit me right in the middle.
My mother sighed at the sight of me like that.
“Have a lot of fun now. You might not be able to do it later even if you ask for it.”
After having a drink in a good mood, I can feel that the tension is slightly higher than usual.
After dinner, my parents said that they were tired and went to bed early without hearing the New Year’s Eve bell.
It seemed like he avoided the seat for me and the chairman, but it’s really smart not to mention it.
Thanks to that, only the chairman and I were left in the living room, but since it was still midwinter, the air in the house was chilly, so I waved to the chairman, who came out of the kitchen with a tray of green tea, to come in quickly with the kotatsu.
Then the chairman set the tray down on the table, and instead of an empty seat, he sat right next to me and rested his head on his shoulder.
“…I’m sorry.”
“What is it?”
“You were very surprised that I came today without saying anything, right?”
I hesitated for a moment when I heard that.
Because it was true.
“To be honest, I was surprised. Kumiko-senpai I know would have contacted me beforehand.”
“Shinji did that. He said it’s better to act unexpectedly.”
“…Still, if you had spoken a little, I wouldn’t have prepared my mind.”
“Whoops, I’ll be sure to tell you next time.”
After that, time passed without a word as we leaned against each other, and the president opened his mouth at the point where the clock hands were already approaching 12:00.
“Yooseong-kun, can I talk about my family for a second?”
Are you talking about the president’s family?
“Yes, please.”
It was a bit out of the blue, but this was the first time the chairman voluntarily brought up the story about his family.
So when I gave the OK sign, the president took a deep breath and began to explain in a soft voice.
“In fact, both of my parents died when I was young. Unfortunately, in a plane crash. Thanks to that, orphaned at a young age, I was raised by my paternal grandfather.”
As I listened to the president’s words, I remembered the white-haired old man I had seen at a hotel in Kyoto before.
With finely combed white hair, a straight waist, and fierce eyes, he possessed charisma worthy of the title of chairman of a large company.
“My grandfather wanted to raise me as if he were my father’s only blood relative. That’s why I was brought up with a very strict home education from a very young age.”
Of course, that was all possible because of the love he had for me.
“But to be honest, from my point of view, it was a bit frustrating.”
It was like a cannibal bird trapped in a cage.
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It was just an answering machine, always repeating the answer my grandfather wanted.
“Then I met Yuseong-gun.”
The president looked up at me while saying that.
“It was Yooseong-gun that showed me, who was ignorant of the world, the scenery outside the cage for the first time and made me dream a new dream. How could I not like Yooseong-gun?”
After saying that, the chairman smiled shyly.
“Yooseong-kun. I like you. It may sound new, but I want to be with you for the rest of my life.”
In return, I hugged the president who was leaning on my chest tightly from behind.
“Me too.”
Dang! Dang! Dang!
Perhaps it is 12 o’clock just in time, the New Year’s Eve bell sounds from the TV screen.
But instead of listening, we began to take off each other’s clothes with excited faces and lick each other’s lips.