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Kim was drawn to the door when there was a knock on it. With a stiff smile, Jimin emerges behind a door. ‘Mrs. Kim asked me to fetch all of you,’ she says, her tone flat since she’s only now concentrating on Minjeong.

Jimin is aware that Minjeong, her ex-wife, is drowning in this room that is filled with air rather than water.

As soon as their eyes met, ‘Dinner is ready.’ She smiled broadly and pressed her lips a little more, hoping it would give Minjeong some comfort, before turning away and shutting the door.

Even though the interaction with Jimin was brief, Minjeong felt a wave of confidence pass through her. She turns to face her father, square-shouldered, her head lowered slightly to project a powerful image as she relaxes her facial features.

Eyes on his father now.

‘We'll work it out on our own.’ Minjeong stated it grimly, ‘our future,’ Minjeong pushes the chair, it screeches as she gets up from the chair. "It is not necessary for you to get involved." Minjeong then pivots her ankle and leaves her father's study.

Despite looking all calm, Minjeong is trembling inside, yet she endures it. Chanting the name of Jimin and constantly reminding herself that Jimin believes in her and is by her side

Jiyoung just stared at his father's dark face, it was obvious anger and a slight humiliation on that face. He was the head of the family of Kim, yet the youngest in the family talked back to him straight in the face.

‘It’s time for you to let us go’ Jiyoung mutters under his breath, ‘You might be able to control me, but not Minjeong’

‘Shut it!’ Mr. Kim growled.

‘It’s no use now, dad,’ Jiyoung pressed his tone when he called his father dad. ‘Me too, not going to let you arrange my daughter's life. I want my daughter to have the life that they want.’

‘a life that a kid wants is just going to destroy them in the future.’

‘We both know that’s not the truth.’ Jiyoung countered. He is now standing up, ready to leave. ‘If you try to force your belief on me and Minjeong again, you might lose everything.’

Despite the unpleasant dinnertime, Jiyoung's daughters managed to make it enjoyable by using their silly, innocent vibes.  

A short conversation was exchanged between adults. Jimin is busy helping Minjeong since her ex-wife's right hand still has a cast on it. The taller one ignores the stare from everyone on the table as she feeds Minjeong.

It was embarrassing to show this side of them in front of Minjeong family. Jimin hopes her face is not as red as her ears.

Maybe her face flushed more now. But because of anger this time,

‘You endured much with my flawed daughter’ Mr. Kim's remark left everyone stunned.

Feeling ashamed of her husband, Minjeong's mother lowers her head and asks him to let the family eat dinner in silence.

‘Everyone has flaws.’ Even though Jimin's voice was quiet, her courage to respond to others in the room made a few of them shudder.

She is upset because, while her parents are still alive, Jimin has never heard them say anything negative or some kind of discouragement towards her and Hyein.

Witnessing Minjeong father voice out his cold judgement to her own biological daughter left Jimin in disbelief.

Jimin wanted to continue, but a hand on her thigh made her stop and forced her to end it with a flat smile to Minjeong father.

Leaning against the headboard, sitting on Minjeong's old bed. As she waits for Minjeong to take a shower, she decides to look through the photo album she grabbed.

Looking through a picture book of Minjeong's early and adolescent years makes Jimin's heart feel hollow.

Minjeong stood by herself in the centre of each page. A group photo of Minjeong with a friend at elementary school, then there is no picture of Minjeong with her friend anymore.

There is no picture of Minjeong receiving an award in school, and there is no picture of Minjeong with her club member.

‘Where you get that?’

Jimin raised her head to look at her ex-wife, looking fresh after shower. She points her finger towards the shelves, ‘sorry I looked without asking you first.’

Minjeong shrugged, she doesn’t mind it.

Closing the album of Minjeong's childhood photo, ‘you were really cute’ she commented with a warm smile. Little Minjeong has a very chubby cheek, which makes her feel like squeezing it.

‘No picture during college?’ she carefully asked the shorter one.

Minjeong chewed her bottom lips, sorting an answer in her head. ‘Minju has it.’ Minjeong paused since Jimin's smile flattened a little. She doesn’t want to talk about it, afraid it might open up the old wound. ‘She kept all of my pictures since I rarely came home after eighteen.’

‘Can you ask her about it? I want to see you during college’

Minjeong wonders why Jimin wants to look at it, probably wants to see how she was during college. It’s not much different from now. She is flawed. ‘I'm not sure if she still has it since we broke up,’ she shrugged, ‘but I’ll try’  

Getting comfortable under the sheet, Minjeong's arm is naturally wrapped around Jimin's torso now, keeping her close as they lean against the headboard.

Eyes on each other, lost in each other's souls.

Memories of Jimin playing with her nieces resurface in her mind. The question lines up in her head, whether she is capable of being a parent or not, or whether she is able to build a family with Jimin, will Jimin accept her bloodline.

Jimin just witnessed how her family was during the dinner, will her ex-wife still want to be with her after this.

Is she thinking way too far ahead when she and Jimin are just getting started?

‘Am I that pretty?’ Jimin teased Minjeong for still looking at her without blinking. She isn’t sure where she got the strength to do that, but Jimin is sure her ears are covered in crimson colour now.

Minjeong's tight lips broke into a toothy smile, and a light chuckle escaped her lips. ‘Pretty is way too underrated for your beauty.’

A warm feeling spread across her body, and butterflies started to spread their wings in Jimin's stomach due to Minjeong's statement. Her ex-wife surprises her each time they have a small talk.

Resting her palm on Jimin's face, Minjeong caressed her ex-wife's face tenderly as her intense gaze bore into Jimin's soul.

‘You have no idea… don’t you?’ Minjeong whispered, ‘I'm always in awe of your beauty.’

Jimin darted her eyes away by turning her head to look at the plain wall, she couldn’t keep it with Minjeong's intense stare, but then Minjeong guided her head back to face her ex-wife.

‘You're beautiful in every way.’

This is too much for her, heart starts to race now. Jimin knows she should be dancing in joy as Minjeong compliments her. She always craved Minjeong's attention during their marriage, but now that her ex-wife actually does that,

She doesn’t know how to react. It made her feel nervous yet thrilling at the same time. It feels like she is floating, a feeling that is dreamlike, and she could fall and wake up in horror in a blink of an eye.

‘wh – what did you talk with your dad?’ Jimin changed the topic to save herself from fainting due to sweetness overload from Minjeong compliment. It was pretty obvious with how shaky her voice was while asking.

A slight smirk on her ex-wife's lips made Jimin squint her eyes, a warning for Minjeong to not about this.

Part of her is so proud of how comfortable Minjeong is with her right now. To be able to joke around right this

Minjeong didn’t tell Jimin the whole thing that happened in her father's study. She just told her ex-wife that they might need to take this further with the one who sent it since their demand is too much.

Minjeong didn’t even reveal to Jimin who sent the threat. She doesn’t want Jimin to be involved in her family scandal.

‘Why can’t I know about it?’ she grumbled.

‘It was sent to Kim, so it is sacred. Only Kim is allowed to know.’

Narrowed her eyes towards Minjeong, and Jimin straightened her back as she turned her body to face Minjeong. ‘Can you make me a Kim?’

It would be an understatement to say that Minjeong is shocked by Jimin's question. The CEO was so flabbergasted to be asked that question in a carefree way.

Minjeong is convinced that she was dead for a couple of seconds and then arose from the death just to make sure Jimin really asked her that.

Minjeong searches Jimin's eyes for anything to lead her to believe it was a joke, instead there is a flicker of panic rather than a humorous glimmer behind Jimin's two pools of soul.

Minjeong wonders what it is that makes Jimin have that tiny amount of fear in her ex-wife's soul. Is it her family, or is it herself.

They couldn’t continue the conversation because they were interrupted by a series of knocks on the door, followed by an apology from Minjeong's sister-in-law, and two little humans popping behind the door, looking at Jimin.

‘They want Jimin to read a bedtime story.’

An eager reaction came from her ex-wife as Minjeong watched the taller one crawl to get off the bed and let her nieces hug each of those tall legs. Giggling filled the room when Jimin bent over to ruffle their hairs.

‘Don’t give aunt Jimin a hard time.’ Jiyoung wife warned her two princesses, trying her best not to let them climb on Jimin like a monkey. ‘Don’t you want aunt Minjeong to tuck you in too?’

‘No’ they answered in unison, and Minjeong felt slightly offended by that.