Chapter 437: Life of Newly-Married Couple (3) – Part 2
After cleaning the dishes and arranging the books to their new place, Gun-Ho and Young-Eun watched TV, and then they laid down on the bed together.
“It’s good, right?”
“What’s good?”
“Being together. I an as a married couple.”
Gun-Ho hugged Young-Eun and kissed her on the cheek.
“Thank you for being my significant other.”
“I saved an old bachelor, did I?”
“Why did you choose as your husband? I’m sure you have plenty of n to choose from.”
“I don’t know.”
Gun-Ho pressed his lips against Young-Eun’s lips.
“Why did you choose , oppa?”
“I just wanted to save an old bachelorette.”
Young-Eun kicked Gun-Ho’s shin under the comforter.
“I wonder why you picked . There should be tons of people who would want to marry you.”
“I’m not sure.”
Young-Eun rubbed Gun-Ho’s chest.
“The reason I picked you was, I think, that I want to be compensated.”
“Compensated for what?”
“I didn’t graduate from the top university—Seoul National University. I guess I wanted to fulfill that deficiency by having a spouse who graduated from that college.”
“I heard that once you get old, everyone reaches the sa level regardless of their various educational levels.”
“When I was in high school, my family was not financially affluent. Since your father was a teacher, studying hard probably ca natural to you at that ti. But, my family was different. My parents were so busy with their work in order to feed us, and I felt small all the ti, and I didn’t have any will to study hard. The atmosphere overall was not very supportive for to concentrate on studying. I think I started focusing on making money because I wanted to compensate myself for those days.”
“That drove you to co this far, I guess.”
“Co to think of it now, I think you are right. You were ranked top in high school, and you are pretty. I guess you must be a popular kid in high school and had a happy adolescence.”
“Not necessarily. I had to constantly fight with myself in those days. It was not pretty; I can tell you that.”
“Why was that so?”
“I think I developed PTSD after my mom’s death. It was hard to overco at my young age.”
“I see.”
“My mom died of ovarian cancer. She was not even 50 years old. I wanted to be a dical researcher who devotes her life to find treatnt for ovarian cancer. That was my sole goal in my life. I decided not to pursue my dream to beco a painter, but instead, I studied hard to be admitted to a dical school.”
“You must have been ranked first in your class.”
“Not just in my class, but I was ranked first in the entire school. Once I achieved my first step toward my life goal and started studying in dical school, I realized that my plan was probably not feasible. It’s not simple to find a cure for a terminal illness like ovarian cancer. Well, soone will eventually find a cure soday of course. However, that doesn’t an it will happen during our generation.”
“Hmm.”
“When there is no guarantee to develop a cure, it’s hard to find a fund to proceed unless I can get the fund from so conglorate family. Whenever soone asked why I hadn’t married yet, I always made a joke by telling them that I wouldn’t marry anyone except soone from a conglorate family. One day, one of my friends introduced to soone from a conglorate family. He was a nephew of CY Group’s president. I was told that he was smart, and he studied at one of the Ivy League universities. I actually t him.”
“And what happened? He rejected you on the spot, huh?”
Young-Eun kicked Gun-Ho’s shin again under the comforter.
“Shoot. I feel like I married a gangster.”
“So I t this guy who is the third generation of an extrely wealthy family. He ca to the eting wearing short pants and flip-flops. He was also chewing a gum. His outfit and his attitude bothered a lot.”
“Maybe because he was Aricanized in so way?”
“I don’t believe all of the Arican people are like that. There are so many conservative people in the U.S. as well.”
“That’s true.”
“So we started conversing, and I found out that he had no historical consciousness and no common knowledge about anything. He was just an idiot with a rich family. I didn’t even think twice when I turned him down.”
“Hmm.”
“Another friend introduced to another man who was upper level than in the sa dical field. I thought that even though I wouldn’t be able to devote my life to develop cancer treatnt, maybe I could just have a life with soone who would share the sa life value and philosophy. It would be very nice to do so volunteer work together in Africa or sothing, but when I actually t that person, he was not my type at all.”
“Why not?”
“First of all, I didn’t like his appearance. Second of all, he was a money-oriented person. He almost seed to be obsessed with money. I just couldn’t go on with a person like that. He was from a not very financially bountiful family either just like you. He was driven too strongly by his desire to make money. He even opened his own practice with a bank loan.”
“I do have a strong desire to make money as well.”
“You can’t make money with just your desire to do so. You need luck and the ability to make it happen.”
“So, I guess he started his own practice without enough clinical experience, huh?”
“I heard that he eventually had to close his business, which left him with enormous debt. He is now working for a small clinic.”
“I still don’t understand why you chose . I do have a strong desire to make money. I’m sort of obsessed with money too.”
“You will have to thank my aunt for that. She talked extrely highly of you constantly. She said you have hundreds of billions of won, and you are a self-made successful young man with good manners.”
“Artist Choi said that?”
“I didn’t believe what she said at first. Think about it. How is it possible for a young man to make hundreds of billions of won without his family background? Especially, given the fact that there is no economic ladder to climb up these days. Even a dical doctor who graduated from the top dical school often files for bankruptcy after opening his own practice with a loan from a bank, so I didn’t believe what my aunt said.”
“So your aunt fed you with all those information, huh?”
“But it was not just my aunt, but my aunt’s dear friend—President Jeong-Sook Shin—also persisted in asking to et you. She is one of my favorite people, so I decided to give it a try.”
“Do you know what my first impression was when I saw you for the first ti?”
“How was I?”
“You didn’t look like a rich man, but you looked like a diocre salaryman who was working for a big company. I liked your appearance though. You looked like a decent man, but I didn’t imagine marrying you at that ti. I was just interested in hearing your story about how you make all that money.”
“And?”
“Rember the day when I showed you my scar on my arm? That I was bitten by a poisonous insect? After looking at my scar, you showed yours. You said you got those scars when you worked in a factory. Probably, you haven’t noticed at that ti, but I almost cried. I didn’t know until then that I was such an emotional person. I realized that you are a person who knows how to devote yourself to achieve sothing, and I thought that we might have a different life goal, but we could be a good companion to each other throughout life. At that ti, I knew you were the one.”
“Hmm.”
“Also, you are conservative. You have a good manner, no chewing gum, no short pants or flip-flops. Also, you are a man who knows how to enjoy the arts.”
“Thank you for recognizing my value.”
“I knew you were the man who would protect at any cost.”
“Of course, I will protect you for the rest of my life.”
Gun-Ho hugged Young-Eun tightly. She didn’t act like a piece of wood that night. She wrapped Gun-Ho’s neck with her arms. Gun-Ho and Young-Eun had a steamy night for the first ti since they got married.
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