CHAPTER 11
Gone : Perished in The Name of LoveI hope you can read the A/N at the bottom for this chapter after this, There's something i need to tell you....
There's someone who actually knows Ji Seok's past... What he have been through on the very last days of his life. Everything that even Ji Ho is never aware of.
Who??
After an hour of ride, Ji Ho finally reaches his destination, the mansion where his mother is. Kyung was already there with a bunch of their men. All of them gather inside the house. There are just two men patrolling outside the place in case something will happen because they don’t want to attract any attention from the outsiders. Their plan tonight is supposes to be a secret... to his father and also the Park sisters.
Ji Ho knows Hani is not going to let him go that easily… and his mother too. That’s why he decided to move his mother far away, out from Seoul. In his life, this is the biggest decision he ever made and this is the first time he choose to back away without any battle, he already let his revenge towards Ji Seok’s murderer go. He doesn’t care what people will think… It may seem like a cowardly excuse but he can’t stand to risk his mother’s life anymore.
As Ji Ho enter the huge mansion, Kyung stands from his place and walks towards him.
“Right on time…” Kyung says as he greets Ji Ho with a hand gesture.
“This is me you are talking about.” He smirks.
“Where’s Lady Yoo?” Ji Ho asks as he observes the almost packed living room.
“Oh… she’s supposes to be preparing, packing or what-so-ever... She’s in the maid’s room, maybe.” Kyung answers casually pointing to the upper floor.
“I’m going to see her.” Kyung just nods at him and watch Ji Ho walks to the maid’s chamber.
Ji Ho peeks his head into the maid’s chamber and sees Lady Yoo standing back facing him on the balcony. He walks into the room and outlining what he’s going to say to her for this farewell in his mind. Still, she was once his nanny and even if he’s all grown up now… He can never erase his respect towards the wise old lady.
“Ji Ho do-ryeo-nim.” The old lady calls without looking at him. She knows he’s there.
“Lady Yoo…” he calls back, but pauses right away.
“Aren’t you packing?” Ji Ho asks the old lady, that’s not what he planned to say just now.
“It’s been almost 50 years.” Ignoring Ji Ho’s question, she starts to speak.
“Since I served the Woo’s family… You are the third generation.” Ji Ho seems a little bit confuse with her speech but still listens to her. She’s like his grandmother after all, so wise, so strict yet so loving.
“I was here when Jung Ho was still a kid…I’m still here when Ji Seok do-ryeo-nim were born. And then you…” She finally turns and looks at Ji Ho.
“I saw the three of you grow up. I never thought I would be alive until today to see who you are now. You are 23 already. I watched the three of you change as you grow up.” She continues before turns around again. Her sight lost into the dark landscape that surrounds the gloomy mansion.
“Jung Ho… I was the one who raised him. How did it come wrong…? He was once a good kid grown up as a noble man… but everything changes not long after your grandfather died in an accident… which he believed not. He believed that it is a planned massacre... That’s when revenge started to trail in this family like a curse.” She continues after a deep sigh, totally showing her regrets.
“Never once it crossed my mind… that… this family would finally tear apart likes this. Once, you all were so happy... So harmony...” The sad tone of her voice explains everything.
“What makes it even worse… Jung Ho was too carried away with his own vengeance. He fell to deep in the game; he was too obsessed in finding his father’s murderer and he started to neglect his own family…. Ji Seok do-ryeo-nim, you and Ji Hyun.” Not knowing how to react, Ji Ho just leans against the patterned wall, patiently listens to Lady Yoo’s story.
“Ji Hyun, She was so young at that time, so frail… A young woman who’s craving the love from a man… An affection… which she couldn’t get from the husband she really loves. She feels so alone.”
“That was when he came… Like a savior for Ji Hyun. A man named Park Seung Ho… He gave Ji Hyun everything she needed. Everything she longed from her husband who already neglected her for months. That was the starting of the forbidden relationship.” Ji Ho raises his head to look at Lady Yoo, shock. This is the first time he ever heard about this story but he still stays silent and waits for her to continue her words.
“But Jung Ho, being an influential man he is… finally learnt the truth and it was not a good news at all for him. It doesn’t take long for Jung Ho to eliminate anything he hates. And Park Seung Ho is one of them. “
“Without Ji Hyun’s knowing, Park Seung Ho actually has his own family and his wife died when she tries to save him from Jung Ho’s wrath.” Lady Yoo lightly shakes his head. No one knows what’s in her mind right at that time.
“But Jung Ho being Jung Ho… the couple died in his hand… leaving their children behind… Three daughters.” The old lady now looks deep into Ji Ho’s eyes, trying to tell him something.
It finally registers Ji Ho’s mind. “You don’t say…” he doesn’t finish his words when Lady Yoo cut him off first.
“The three siblings… They are the Park sisters.” Ji Ho shivers at the answer.
He knows that Park Hani is trying to eradicate his family but he never know why. All these time, he only assumed that it was just a mission given to her with the well-known fact to him that the Park sisters were trained as assassins. He never doubts that because he knows that his father have a lot of enemies.
Then… what makes him and Chae Young? Did Chae Young know this? If she did, there’s no way she will love the son of the person who killed her own parents. His heart sinks at the th
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