Speaking the words was harder than death, but once they were out, it was easy.
Borrowing the power of alcohol, she hid her expression as much as possible and continued to speak.
How she had come to be drawn to him.
When the relationship she had considered a momentary mistake had truly turned into something serious.
“...Beyond all excuses, it’s Mom’s fault.”
If she tried to patch things up somehow, if she appealed to emotion, she could hide her guilt.
Your dad pushed me away first.
While working in the provinces, he practically set up house with a bar girl.
Feeling so wronged by that, only Dojin embraced me, so I couldn't help it.
Even though she had plenty of ugly but solid excuses, she didn't use them.
“What could I do? Your mom is a woman just like you. I could easily push away men who only approached me for my body, but pushing away a man who approached me with sincerity... that wasn't easy.”
Having reached this point, it was no longer easy to maintain the marital relationship.
An inevitable separation.
To her daughter, the only fruit born of her and her husband, she didn't want to show the sight of parents venomously tearing each other down until the very end as they parted.
Nor did she want to use her husband's infidelity as a shield for meeting Kim Dojin, rather than their mutual attraction.
Shin Yujeong, who had been silently listening to her mother's story, finally opened her mouth.
“...So that’s how it is.”
When she heard in detail how her mother had fallen in love with another man.
What emotion was a daughter supposed to express in such a situation?
It wasn't that she wasn't sad.
She was definitely sad.
A family that had lived together under one roof for over 20 years was now scattering; how could she not be sad?
However, the aftermath of that sadness was not more intense than necessary.
Why was that?
Was it because her emotions weren't rich enough?
No.
‘Perhaps it was because she already knew to some extent.’
She had vaguely understood.
That their family could scatter at any time.
Shin Hyo-seop, Shin Yujeong, Seo Jeong-hee.
She had known for a long time that the only person striving to keep these three within the family's fence was her mother, Seo Jeong-hee.
Her father, who aimlessly drifted between home and the nearby billiard hall, and her mother, who took on all the difficult tasks, including managing building facilities (their sole income), housework, and childcare.
Which one was the driving force maintaining the family was so clear that even a young Shin Yujeong could grasp it at a glance.
“Right... Mom could do that.”
Neither she nor her father.
Even if they felt a shred of betrayal, they had no right to stop her.
For themselves, who had only enjoyed happiness without responsibility within the fence she had built until now.
“...When are you going to tell Dad?”
“Since things have come to this, I’ll have to talk to him when he comes home this time.”
“Yeah... that’s right. Becoming an open relationship even a day sooner will be more comfortable for Mom too.”
“......”
With a slightly surprised expression, Seo Jeong-hee looked at her daughter.
“Are you... alright?”
Normally, her daughter would have raged, asking how she could do such a thing, but she seemed too calm.
That made it even scarier.
Perhaps the shock was too great, and she had lost even the strength to be angry.
Contrary to her worries, Shin Yujeong was utterly calm and composed.
“What’s there to not be alright about?”
At her daughter's indifferent retort, Seo Jeong-hee felt relieved.
Meanwhile, Shin Yujeong continued.
“If the person who has been maintaining the family wants to quit, then they quit, what else?”
“Yujeong...”
“I’m sorry. For not knowing how much you’ve struggled until now.”
With an embarrassed expression, Shin Yujeong scratched the back of her head.
“It’s not that I didn’t know at all... I just didn’t try to understand in detail.”
What was hardest for her.
If there was anything she could do to help with that.
She had been negligent about things she could have known with a little effort, things she could have alleviated, even if only partially.
At her daughter's more mature appearance, Seo Jeong-hee's eyes welled up.
“N-no, it’s not. Mom... Mom is sorry.”
The moment she uttered the word 'sorry', tears gushed out.
“Mom should have endured more for Yujeong’s sake... Mom is so, so sorryyy!”
“...Uh, Mom?”
“Sorry, hic, I’m so sorryyy!”
“......”
Watching her mother cry so sorrowfully that it made even the observer feel sad, a thought came to her.
‘So that’s how Mom cried.’
It was the first time.
She had faced her mother's crying face directly.
She had only occasionally heard the sounds.
The sound of sobbing from the master bedroom when she went to the kitchen for a drink in the early morning and returned.
Her mother, who always cried only when she herself was in a deep sleep, must have been shedding tears with this kind of expression and appearance every time.
Realizing this anew, she immediately got up from her seat and hugged her sorrowfully weeping mother.
“It’s okay, you can cry. But don’t cry in hiding next time.”
“Y-yeah, m-hm... hic, sniff...”
Always dependable, but in truth, infinitely small and fragile, she hugged her mother's shoulders and patted her back, while also comforting her own heart.
‘...It’s okay. Nothing will change.’
The fact that she had committed infidelity remained unchanged.
And that she had no right to condemn her.
Furthermore, her own life wouldn't change either.
Even if the two of them separated, Mom would still be Mom, and Dad would still be Dad.
‘...No, wait a minute.’
Perhaps it wasn't that absolutely nothing would change.
If Mom acknowledged her 'relationship' with Kim Dojin, what would happen to her and him?
Boyfriend and Dad?
“Fuck...?”
The immense confusion that arrived belatedly muddled her mind.
His mind slowly emerged from deep sleep.
Similarly, the returning senses first felt a pleasure concentrated in one spot.
“Ugh...”
His dick, which naturally rose straight up every morning.
“Slurp... suck... slurp♥”
Someone was very carefully sucking it.
The sensation that would have greatly surprised him before was now utterly familiar and welcome.
Like ripples spreading across a calm lake, amidst the pleasure spreading throughout his body, he merely thought.
Who could it be?
Shin Yujeong?
Or Jeong-hee?
He slowly reached out and pulled back the blanket, and Jeong-hee smiled sweetly, his dick still in her mouth.
“Oh, hi...♥”
Roughly meaning 'Good morning'.
“Ugh... is it because it’s been a while? This feels incredibly good.”
“Hoo-hoo-hoong...”
Every time she laughed or spoke, the breath escaping her lips tickled his dick.
“Slurp... suck, gasp... mumble...!”
A man's morning, starting with fellatio.
What more luxurious way to wake up could there be in the world?
“Slurrrp, suck, heave...♥”
“Kuh...!”
With her unrestrained sucking, the urge to cum quickly surged.
“I’m about to cum... ugh...!”
Ejaculation began before he could finish his sentence.
Pshhhht!
Pshhh!
Each time his dick pulsed strongly, the cum gushing from the glans filled Jeong-hee's mouth.
Her cheeks puffed out, holding the cum in her mouth.
Jeong-hee kept her mouth tightly closed until his ejaculation finished, then, with a strong suction from the base to the tip of the glans, she cleanly sucked off the cum on his dick and pulled it out.
“Pop... haaah...♥”
As if even a single stream of cum flowing between her parted lips was too precious to waste, the way she pushed it back in with her finger was incredibly sensual.
“Bleh.”
She carefully opened her mouth, showed him the cum she had taken from him, then swallowed it whole.
“Gulp... haaah...♥”
Having swallowed the thick cum in one gulp, she looked up at him with softly unfocused eyes.
“Thank you for the meal today, my husband...♥”
At her single word, his ears felt like they were melting.
In this familiar situation, which was no longer strange, he harbored a small question.
“Your service seems a bit excessive today...”
“Hoho... excessive, you say? Wasn't it always like this?”
“Uh... was it?”
No... he thought it used to be a little less overtly seductive than this.
His doubt lasted only a moment.
Jeong-hee slowly crawled out from under the blanket, lightly kissed his cheek, then whispered into his ear.
“Hurry and wash up and come downstairs. Time for breakfast.”
“Alright.”
After sending Jeong-hee, who had been on his stomach kissing him for about five minutes, downstairs, he immediately got up, finished his shower, and headed to the downstairs apartment.
“You here? Sit down quickly.”
“Oh...? Uh-huh.”
Sitting at the dining table, three people were waiting for him to arrive.
But the seating arrangement was a little different from usual.
Normally, Jeong-hee and Yujeong, and Baek Hyeon-a and he would sit together, that was the basic arrangement.
“What are you doing? Not going to eat?”
“Oh, right, I should.”
Today, Shin Yujeong had taken the seat next to him.
“Hyeon-a, try some of this. They say it’s the best for stamina recovery.”
“Thank you, unnie.”
It seemed one of the reasons was that Jeong-hee and Baek Hyeon-a had grown closer than expected.
He heard that whenever he and Yujeong were away, the two of them spent time together, and it looked like they had become as close as siblings in the meantime.
While the two of them happily chatted and enjoyed their meal.
Under the table, Shin Yujeong's hand caressed his thigh.
The touch was so blatant and suggestive that he twitched his thigh once to signal her to stop.
“Hey... just stay still.”
Why was this girl suddenly acting like this?
Well, fine.
Giving up just a thigh wasn't that difficult...
“Cough...!”
“Dojin, what’s wrong?”
“I, I choked. Cough, cough...!”
It was true that unchewed rice had gotten stuck in his throat, but it wasn't a choke.
“What are you doing...?”
“Hehe.”
He was startled because the girl, who had been enthusiastically massaging his thigh, suddenly slipped her hand right into his pants.
He chewed his food, pretending to eat as much as possible, and whispered softly so only she could hear.
“D-don’t laugh, s-stop it...”
Despite that, Shin Yujeong paid no mind, and with her hand pushed into his underwear, she rubbed his dick.
“As long as you don’t make it obvious, no one will know.”
“Hey, you...”
How could he not make it obvious when she was touching his dick like that?
As if enjoying his discomfort, Shin Yujeong swallowed her rice with a smiling face.
Meanwhile, the movements of the hand massaging his dick grew increasingly bold.
Rub-rub, rub-rub...♥
His mind felt like it was going blank.
Even though he knew this shouldn't be happening, he couldn't strongly push her hand away.
It was because of the thrill this situation itself conveyed.
A handjob received at the same table where Jeong-hee and Baek Hyeon-a were eating.
He knew that if they were caught, it would be a huge disaster in itself.
And the mere fact that he knew that doubled, tripled his excitement, making him unable to stop.
Rub-throb, rub-throb♥
The rapidly rising urge to cum.
Feeling the throbbing pulse of his dick, the girl, realizing his cumming was near, looked at him, grinned, and mouthed these words.
‘Cum quickly♥’
No sooner had he confirmed the movements of those sensual lips than ejaculation began.
Pshhhht!
Just as he began to cum, the girl, with a wet wipe in her hand, covered his cumming dick.
As if telling him to cum freely, her hand didn't stop, and he helplessly spewed out his cum.
Pshhh...!
Pshh!
After one long session of cumming.
Shin Yujeong took the cum-soaked wet wipe and slipped it into her pocket.
Then, as if nothing had happened, she continued eating.
“...What was that?”
With a blank gaze, he looked around the dining table.
Jeong-hee and Baek Hyeon-a were eating, discussing what to do in the afternoon.
“Let’s watch a movie this afternoon.”
“A movie?”
“Yeah. It just finished its run recently, and they say it’s really good.”
“Hehe, alright.”
Shin Yujeong, who, even after such a thrilling act, casually put a spoonful of food into her mouth.
“Why does the food taste so good today?”
“......”
Amidst it all, he alone couldn't focus on his meal, lost in the afterglow of his cumming, and held one certainty.
Something around him had changed.
That much was clear.
...But he didn't know what it was.