#84. …The father-in-law
Gulp.
I’ve been to Harin’s house before in this lifetime, but it was the first time I went in.
Suddenly, Harin remembered her memories of the first time she went.
About two years after she dated.
Harin invited me to her house.
* *
[Come in. Inwook-ah.]
[Yeah…]
When I first came to Harin’s house, I couldn’t help but be amazed.
When Harin always asks about the interior of her house, it’s just a bit spacious. It is not comfortable to live.
I gave this kind of answer, but when I actually went inside, it wasn’t at that level.
In the middle of the large yard, there was a fountain, and colorful flowers were neatly showing off whether the gardener was managing it himself.
[What are you doing? Aren’t you coming soon?]
Harin has already crossed almost all of her garden and arrived in front of the building.
After walking around, I quickly moved her steps at her words.
[Wait a minute.]
As Harin stood in front of the entrance, she was automatically unlocked.
When the door opened, I caught my eye on a floor that felt spacious and even spacious in a soft orange-toned light.
[Wow… It’s really wide…]
[A. No~]
I was just admiring, when I heard footsteps from the other side, I was startled.
Stand… Maybe. Are you Harin’s father…?
The person who sometimes illuminates her face on public broadcasters…?
Happily, however, the person who appeared was not Harin’s father.
[You are here. Miss.]
You look about 10 years older than us.
A man in a suit bowed her head to Harin and greeted her.
[Greetings! Inwook! Our housekeeper!]
[Ah… Yes. Hello.]
I greeted him awkwardly.
The butler… I knew there was a butler in the house, but when I saw it in reality, it looked like something out of a drama.
[This is Choi In-wook. I’ve heard a lot from you!]
…My story?
It seems that Harin talked about me to the butler.
[Butler! Prohibition! What if I say something like that!]
[Ha ha ha. Sorry.]
The butler with a mischievous smile.
[Anyway, I hope you have a good time.]
* *
“I… Harin-ah.”
“Huh?”
“Today… Father… aren’t you here?”
I thought I would be traumatized by just looking at her, so I decided to ask her without hesitation.
“Ah…”
She was the one who understood better than anyone why I asked such a question.
“Yes. You’re at work today, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
“That’s right…”
I’m glad. I was not yet mentally prepared to face him again.
For some reason, 10 years have passed, and even though he has no information about me in this life, I am a father-in-law…
“Instead, the butler is here, so please say hello after a long time.”
Even when we were dating and even after we got married, butler Kim was a person who often took care of convenience for Harin and me.
“Yes.”
Of course he doesn’t remember anything about me, but I thought it was a new feeling to see his face again.
When we entered the house with Sihwa and Harin, the butler welcomed us just like when we first visited the house.
“You are here. Miss.”
“Yes. Butler. These are my friends I was talking about. Hello guys!”
“Hello.”
Sihwa shook her head.
“Hello.”
Her I, too, smiled like her and handed him her greetings.
“Then I will guide you this way.”
The butler nodded and led us through a wide hallway and into a hallway full of rooms.
He took us to a fairly spacious seminar room.
I felt it before, but I wondered if I needed a space like this in my house, but Harin’s father is the head of a GW company.
Sometimes you will have guests in your house.
Harin was opposite and Sihwa sat in her chair side by side.
The butler turned on the huge screen installed on one side of the wall.
“Then, sir. Please start!”
“I see.”
In response to Harin’s instructions, the butler put on a pitti and started to do something absurd to announce to us.
Contents are the Plania Exploration Schedule.
From the detailed date, the butler explained step by step which flight to take.
“We have found a partner in the name of GW, so you won’t have any trouble getting in.”
Oh. To be honest, I was worried about how to break through the security, but this was a big boon.
Even if I relieved the work, I was able to relieve it for a long time.
“Thank you.”
“I think you should give thanks to the lady.”
The butler answered my words with a smile.
Harin nodded his head and looked at me with eyes asking for praise.
“Thank you. Harina.”
The briefing ended in a warm atmosphere, and Sihwa requested additional information from Harin.
“Everyone came to my house for tea, why don’t we have a cup of tea each?”
At Harin’s suggestion, I naturally looked at Sihwa.
It didn’t matter to me, but is Sihwa willing…?
“That’s right.”
Unexpectedly, contrary to what I thought, Sihwa coolly accepted her suggestion.
The butler led us out of the seminar room to the drawing room.
It was said that the room we stayed in a while ago was a very old-fashioned office space.
It was right next to the garden, so the view was good, and since it was a folding door made of a window, you could go out right away if you wanted to.
“What would you like to drink?”
I and Sihwa answered Harin’s question at the same time.
“Iced Americano.”
The two of us respond perfectly at the perfect timing.
Sihwa grinned as if she knew it, and Harin sticks out her mouth.
“…Something is annoying.”
“So who wants to drink only sweet things like that little kid?”
Sihwa said sarcastically to Harin.
“Anyway, okay. I’ll tell you to come right away.”
After Harin told her housekeeper her drink, she came back to us and sat down.
Maybe because of the lengthy briefing, the hour hand began to approach 8 o’clock.
“Oh. It’s a time like this, didn’t you think we’d eat together?”
Harin asked us with an apologetic look if she realized she had missed her meal.
I didn’t really care.
I wasn’t the type to be too attached to eating, and when I went out, I would go home and cook ramen noodles.
“Okay. Drink this and wake up.”
Sihwa responded indifferently to Harin’s words, whether they had the same opinion as me.
“Hmmmm~”
She suddenly strokes her chin and looks like she’s thinking about something.
“Guys.”
“Huh?”
“Would you like to go to sleep at my house?”
Of course, I knew that sleeping at Harin was as luxurious as any other hotel.
It wasn’t that I didn’t stay here, which was her girlfriend’s house and her in-law’s house.
“No. I didn’t tell the house… Haha…”
She was the only one I heard from her mother when she was staying overnight.
It was a time when my mother was still not used to my staying out at this time.
Whatever the reality is, I’m still 20 years old.
My mother thought of me as a child who had just graduated from high school.
[If you get into the habit of staying out like that, your wife will hate you later. You.]
Mother.
Even if he didn’t have to stay overnight, Soso lived a life that was hated enough by his wives.
Unlike me who tried to turn it down, Sihwa still just nailed it.
“Why do I have to sleep in your house?”
Whether he’s used to her cold reaction or doesn’t care, Harin once again clings to Sihwa.
“Ah~ Don’t do that~ You know what you’re doing, don’t you? Yoo Shihwa.”
“…Don’t go around doing background checks.”
She said the poem as if it were ridiculous.
“You know. Will I tell you the secret of Inwook that you will never know?”
…I’m definitely talking to Sihwa, so why is the cold sweat my part?
“Yes…?”
Sihwa’s eyes fluttered for a moment at Harin’s words.
…Isn’t it? It’s Sihwa
You’re not like that.
“Then, honestly, Yoo Shihwa. Hana. It seems that you don’t even know one thing about Inwook.”
Harin began to seduce Sihwa with her sweet voice.
“Stop. Ha-rin Yoon.”
I warned Harin.
Because he had no idea what kind of story Harin would tell her.
Honestly, Harin was the one who knew the dark history of her youth the best.
That’s because I and Harin were 20 years old.
Harin knew almost everything she had planned to do when she was young.
The sound of footsteps coming from outside the drawing room.
I thought it was the lady who brought drinks and wanted to open the door first, so I came across a completely unexpected person.
“…Is Harin a friend?”
…A craftsman.