Chapter 350 (2/2)

“Ah, it is that… we’re outside to get some supplies for Sports Day. Ruda is also together.”

“Oh, really?”

After I dropped that response, I became surprised that we were having a normal conversation. Although Yi Jenny and I got acquainted by a strange coincidence, our relationship couldn’t be described as something very positive at the same time.

Barely loosening up my strained shoulders, I flung a question as nonchalantly as possible.

“Now I come to think of it, how’s Lucas? Is he doing well?”

“Oh, you mean our NEW first son,” replied Yi Jenny somewhat apathetically. She suddenly asked, “Isn’t he keeping in touch with you?”

“Huh? Ah, no.”

Shaking my head, I felt something lingering in my mind. ‘Even if Lucas wasn’t also a good fateful connection for me, he could have, at least, reached out to me once he sorted out all the things. Well, he might be very busy taking the successor training, so it could be rather strange that I’m expecting something from him. I mean, there was nothing going on between us in the first place too.’

However, Yi Jenny showed a smile after my response. Her following words startled me.

“Good. If he did, I was about to go back and teach him a lesson.”

“Excuse me?”

“That kid is alone in the jungle right now. Ah, of course, no mobile or communication devices are allowed.”

“…”

‘That means, if I replied, ‘Yes, sometimes,’ just now, Lucas might have been dead… Is that what she’s talking about…? Geez, this family has this warlike atmosphere as always.’ Having that thought in my head, I wished good luck to Lucas, who was thrown into the wildest jungle as soon as he took back the successor position.

I tilted my head again, thinking, ‘Anyway, our conversation goes very well than I thought?’ I never even imagined this situation happening in real life, but now I was having quite a normal dialog with Yi Jenny just like I would have it with my friend’s mother.

That was when I finally realized that things around Yi Ruda had been all solved. The moment I gently smiled, Yi Jenny, who was browsing her bag all of a sudden, called me, “Ah, I have something for you.”

“Excuse me?”

“Here.”

My eyes widened at the white envelope she suddenly handed out to me.

‘Aren’t we having a normal conversation just now that usually takes place between a friend’s mother and son’s friend? What’s going on right now out of the blue?’

“Take it.”

With a straight face, Yi Jenny urged me, who was staring blankly at the envelope. At that moment, someone shouted in our direction with urgent footsteps.

“Mom! What the heck are you doing?”

Running anxiously toward our backs, Ruda intervened between us and snatched the envelope with a loud noise. While all eyes around us fell in this direction, Ruda pulled Yi Jenny’s wrist and whispered, “I mean, what is this envelope all of a sudden? What are you trying to do in the middle of the street?”

He might be talking that way while regarding that I wouldn’t be able to hear his remark, but unfortunately, his words were very clear. ‘Ruda, aren’t you looking down on people’s hearing too much?’ While I looked in that direction enigmatically with that thought in mind, Yi Jenny’s response returned.

“In TV dramas, they tend to manage things with an envelope of money. They use it when separating a couple, so why not using it when putting two together again?”

“Mom, how can you learn Korea from soap operas?”

Even I, who was listening to her remark, wondered, ‘Using an envelope of money at the end and the beginning of a relationship… The influence of Korean drama, are we okay where we are right now?’