Chapters Chapter 97. That son with that mother (1/2)

“D-Daughter?”

Park Sun-Ja was completely shocked at this unbelievable event.

On a hot summer day, as Park Sun-Ja was relaxedly tending to the garden that Kang Chul-In had bought for her, she let go of the water bucket she was holding.

“Son? How can this be…? Explain it to me.”

Suddenly becoming a widower, Kang Chul-In couldn’t lift his face to look at his mother due to his embarrassment.

Dammit!

Since he had fully accepted Arshelly as a daughter now, he wasn’t going to hide her existence from his mother. The method he chose to do this was through “frontal collision”.

“W-When was this, son?”

Park Sun-Ja’s face darkened.

“It was when I was 20.”

Kang Chul-In lied to her.

“H-How about the mother?”

“She’s dead.”

Well, technically, this wasn’t really a lie. Arshelly’s parents had really died, just that it was around a thousand years ago.

“Stop lying…”

Park Sun-Ja thought of this as a joke.

How could this make any sense?

Kang Chul-In had never even brought his girlfriend to his house, and there was no way that he could suddenly bring his “daughter”.

Well, let’s take a look.

Full of suspicion, Park Sun-Ja carefully looked over Arshelly.

Jet black hair, big eyes without a double eyelid, a sharp nose, high cheekbones, and whitish skin, etc… Other than the fact that she looked somewhat non-Korean, she looked absolutely similar to Kang Chul-In. No matter who looked at it, they would think that the two were related.

“...Son. Was the mother…?”

“She was a westerner.”

“Sigh…”

At that moment, Park Sun-Ja nearly tripped over due to the sudden dizziness she felt.

“M-My son… with a western girl… Sigh…”

“Mother.”

Kang Chul-In quickly helped Park Sun-Ja up.

“... I’m sorry.”

Since this was something that had to happen at some point, Kang Chul-In decided to accept it as well as possible.

“Grandma~”

But the one that really allowed Park Sun-Ja to calm down was Arshelly. Due to Kang Chul-In’s special training and the help of the Talking Tree Saps, she was able to fluently speak Korean now.

“Are you okay?”

Thankfully, Arshelly seemed to have the ability of “healing” someone just by talking to them.

“H-Huh?”

“Grandma~”

Arshelly suddenly bowed to her grandma, Park Sun-Ja.

“Uh… yeah.”

But Park Sun-Ja couldn’t really get used to having Arshelly around.

There was a saying that you should “be careful what you wish for” as that wish could come true at any time. This was a great example of this as Park Sun-Ja had kept on bugging him about having a granddaughter, and she suddenly received one, without any forewarning.

“I’ve wanted to meet you for so long~”

“I-Is that so?”

Though Park Sun-Ja was taken aback, there was no way that she could hate this girl that was so similar to her son, Kang Chul-In.

“I will speak to you about the specifics later, mother,” Kang Chul-In said.

“I’m sorry.”

There was no parent in the world that would be happy if their only son became a widower. Due to this, Kang Chul-In felt his conscience being hurt as he continued to lie.

“N-No. It happens when you’re young, son.”

“.......”

“Taking responsibility like this isn’t a bad thing. You said that you found out just recently too, right? I can’t say that this was purely your fault. But let me just ask you one thing.”

“What is it?”

“Will you take responsibility for her and raise her well?”

“Of course.”

“Very well. Your father would have done the same.”

“We can talk about what happened in detail later. It doesn’t matter if it’s not today. We can take our time on this.”

Though she did seem shocked, looking at Park Sun-Ja who accepted reality so quickly, Lee Chae-Rin was surprised. It was as expected for the mother of Kang Chul-In to be so strong. It seemed like it was passed down through genetics.

“Ms. Chae-Rin, you come in too. You’ve become a lot prettier over the time I haven’t seen you! I almost couldn’t recognize you.”

“Haha~ No, that’s not true~.”

Lee Chae-Rin spoke to Park Sun-Ja while smiling radiantly.

Sigh…

Thinking that he had passed through a great disaster, Kang Chul-In let out a sigh of relief. He was mentally damaged by this more than if he had fought a million men.

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Sadly, Lucia couldn’t come to Earth.

As the Secretary of the territory, she had to keep her place when Kang Chul-In was away, and she also had to do her own “training”.

And thanks to this, the honor of taking care of Arshelly naturally went over to Lee Chae-Rin.

While Kang Chul-In had left the house temporarily to visit Old Man Kwon, Lee Chae-Rin tried her best to conquer Park Sun-Ja’s heart.

“How could someone be perfect~?”

Lee Chae-Rin fiercely defended Kang Chul-In’s “mistakes”.

Realizing that Arshelly was actually an adopted daughter and that Kang Chul-In was still unmarried, Lee Chae-Rin tried to score a free kick towards the goal that was left open.

“Although it is true that he has made a mistake, isn’t someone who doesn’t take responsibility completely different than someone who does? If you look at it in this way, Mr. Chul-In is actually a man that is very responsible.”

“I-Is that so?”

Though Park Sun-Ja didn’t openly act happy about it, there was no sign of her being unhappy with what Lee Chae-Rin said.