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I was out of luck.

A flying bird threw poop at me, and I felt uneasy and looked down…

Just now.

There were a lot of birds gathered on the power lines on the road I had to go, so I ran quickly, feeling that bird droppings would fall if I passed by.

“Phew… safely…”

When I did this, my shoes felt sticky and unpleasant… It wasn’t uncommon for me to step on dog poop like that.

Does this world really hate me? It was so unlucky that I felt like I was in trouble.

As a result, I couldn’t relax even on a regular basis.

Is it common to say that if you are unlucky, there is good luck?

At least it wasn’t me.

I didn’t have any luck with my parents. It would have been better if he had been an orphan, at least…

My family was a wealthy family, like something out of a popular drama.

If you watch on TV, even the illegitimate sons of rich people live well, whining and being angry.

But it wasn’t reality.

Although he was the illegitimate son of a chaebol family, he was a bastard. I have never received affection from my parents.

My life began to plummet in earnest.

On my 9th birthday, my mom was in a good mood that day.

“Serine, we are going to a good place.”

“Good place…?”

“Yes. You will be happier.”

My mother was so obsessed with luxury goods and extravagance that it was hard to tell where the money came from. At the same time, he fed his daughter cup noodles and, on days when he was in a good mood, delivered food.

Until then, I thought I was normal. Even if there was no father, there was a mother, and there was no shortage of home.

I held hands with my mom. That alone made me happy.

But my mother walked like crazy. I tried hard to follow with my short legs, but ended up falling.

My friend’s mother looked at her daughter with concern and hugged her when she fell.

But my mother was different.

“Ha. Who do you look like and fall for with that…”

As he said that, he grabbed my wrist. There was no sign of regret at all. When he said that, he felt like he had done something wrong. I was able to get my body up, but my wrists were in so much pain.

“Mom… it hurts… just take it a little slower…”

I held it in for a long time, but in the end it came out sounding like crying. My wrist hurt from being pulled. Mom walked with great strides even though she was wearing shoes.

After a while, the steps stopped.

It was in front of a magnificent mansion.

People stopped Mom.

My mom took me ahead, said something, and went into the house.

Then a man came running out in a huff. He was a handsome man, dressed in a luxurious suit and with a straight posture, just like a movie star.

It was my first time seeing it, but I felt it. It’s my dad. Did he run out in a huff because he wanted to see himself?

I think I had high expectations because I was young at the time.

“I told you, right? If you don’t come, you’ll be in trouble.”

Mom sneered and looked at the man.

“Why aren’t you saying anything? Are you scared? Didn’t I tell you not to hang up the card? Didn’t you know with that smart head that if you block the card, they will come?”

“I don’t think you know you’re visiting a lawyer? Who is it that makes such a fuss about not being satisfied with how much money they give you and trying to do something foolish?”

A bloody conversation is heard.

The relationship between my parents was so bad that even I knew when I was young. My body trembled. Still, his eyes were looking at his father.

Our eyes met.

At that moment, I knew. It wasn’t the way he looked at his daughter. The eyes seemed to be looking at something cold… and repulsive.

I felt like my heart, which had been excited to see my dad… that my dad was handsome… that I looked like my dad, was frozen cold.

My shoulders shrank.

I was shaking and wanted to go home and rest.

I felt sick.

In the meantime, my mom pushed my back. Given his position, it would have been so simple to accept his younger self, but his father avoided him like he was looking at dirt.

The floor was smooth, but I was pushed and fell. It hurt. But my heart hurt more than my body.

I tried to get up, but I felt the words above my head pressing down on my body even more.

“Are you crazy? Pushing your child? Moreover, all of my relatives are here now, so are you doing this knowing what my position will be like?”

“Ha. Then you shouldn’t have blocked the card. Give me the money. And you just avoided him, right? Did I make this on my own? The child you made together is your child.”

“It was an accident. You say you use birth control, but what? I took birth control and had a baby? Well, it doesn’t mean it’s not 100%, but it can happen. Let’s delete it after that, what? How do you erase a life? Okay, so where do you think all this luxurious life you’ve been enjoying came from? If my position decreases, that’s the end. It’s all my money!”

“……So why are you blocking my card?”

“Not satisfied with the money he was giving, he tried to do something else, but do you know how much your card costs? Have I ever been hit with that even once?”

Many words were exchanged, but not much was intelligible. When I fell, I couldn’t hear where I was hurt.

Still, I could tell. They were making a deal. The goods of the transaction are yourself.

“What are you doing in a gathering of relatives!”

The fierce fight ended with a shout. He was an old man with white hair, but his eyes were intense.

He is his grandfather and his father’s father. He was the ruler of this conglomerate.

The grandfather looked at his father, mother, and finally himself with relaxed eyes.

It didn’t look like he was meeting his grandchild. Eyes that seem to be looking at trouble.

“The love is gathered here.”

“Father!?”

Nevertheless, the answer I received was different.

reap yourself I wasn’t happy at all. I just wanted to go home.

“There are only a few conditions.”

Grandpa said to Mom. Even though she had been told to give up her custody, that she was no longer her mother, and that she had to give up herself, a smile appeared on my mother’s face when she heard the money my grandfather offered.

When I got 100 points on the test, my mom patted my head and said I did well. It wasn’t the first time I saw my mom smile. However, he looked happier than any smile I’ve ever seen.

Only then did I understand everything. The smile he showed at that time was a smile because the product was smart. The smile he showed now was a smile of satisfaction because the product he had grown for 9 years received a good price. I was devastated.

sold.

Grandpa came up to me.

Maybe if you bought yourself so expensively, wouldn’t you cherish it? Any expectations I had were dashed in an instant.

“Ugh!”

His grandfather did not welcome him.

He grabbed both shoulders so hard that they were crushed and whispered lowly.

“You are a shame to this family. Remember. Don’t expect anything, just breathe as if nothing exists, and then you will be able to survive.”

At the time, I didn’t know exactly what that meant, but I was just scared and nodded frantically.

The mother who sold herself came last.

“Serine~ If you do well, you can be happy. Take care.”

He was smiling, looking happy.

I couldn’t bear to say anything. But I was desperately looking at my mother with my eyes.

Without realizing it, I reached out to my mom.

Nevertheless, my mother turned around without the slightest hesitation.

I wanted to sing, but my voice wouldn’t come out. I knew it instinctively. no use.

Mom left.

That fact alone remained empty in my heart.

It was abandoned.

Without realizing it, my eyes turned to the person called Dad.

When we made eye contact, he turned his head and walked away with an expression as if he was looking at something dirty. I couldn’t bear to follow.

The only remaining grandfather. I was scared.

“Follow me, lady.”

I was guided by someone. I don’t remember the details of what happened at the time because it was so shocking to me as a child.

The life of a chaebol family wasn’t that bad.

From the beginning, his mother never took care of him. It was a large house, a warehouse-like room within the mansion, but objectively it wasn’t bad. Unlike other families, I cooked my meals alone, but it was rather comfortable. If we had been together, maybe we wouldn’t have acted?

The Invisible Man. It was a word that really suited me well.

When I said I wanted to become independent as an adult, contrary to my expectations, my grandfather readily agreed.

At that moment, my grandfather looked really bright.

5 billion.

It was the ransom my mother sold me for.

Still, it wasn’t right to ask me to pay for it.

I felt like laughing.

Although he was objectively a scary grandfather, he wasn’t that bad. That’s what I came to think.

Is it because fear has decreased? My grandfather, who was scary, looked small.

“Serin…”

“Yes.”

“Don’t trust anyone.”

“Yes…?”

You left something I don’t know what you meant, but…

It is liberation.

It wasn’t bad, except for the loneliness of not having a family.

I thought I could think of it that way.

This is the house you will live in from now on. It’s neat and there’s nothing special about it, but let’s fill it up in the future.

A new start…

Is it because you feel relaxed?

hungry.

“Even a convenience store… 6:47, ambiguous… Ah!”

curfew at 7 o’clock. Is this a time that no kindergarten student would ever have?

“There is no curfew anymore… Now that I think about it… the lady…”

I opened the wrapping cloth left on the table.

“Wow…”

It was a truly colorful lunch box.

However, I did not expect that even my life would be liberated.

It was foolish.

“Cough… fuck…”

Blood comes out of the mouth.

I haven’t even eaten a few bites, but…

It was a common story.

“Lady! You didn’t eat, right?”

A lunch box given to me by the housekeeper who took care of me.

“Ah. Thank you.”

“I hope you enjoy it.”

What she didn’t expect was that her grandfather, whom she thought was scary, was saving her life.