Reason for Marriage

Chapter 24

An unfamiliar face

Minju thought for a moment and turned around as if she had made up her mind and looked at Sang-yeon.

“Okay then, shall we play Truth or Dare?”

Minju took out the largest kitchen knife from the cutlery lying on the Irish kitchen. The sharp blade flashed as if threatening Sang-yeon.

“If you can’t answer a question, I’ll cut one finger… What do you think?”

“The joke is too much…”

Minju cut off Sang-yeon’s words.

“Well, you ask first.”

“…”

“Don’t you have any questions for me? So, shall we start again with the previous question? You ask if I’m angry… That’s right. I’m angry right now. A lot of that, too.”

“…”

“I guess you don’t know how to play the game. You have to ask why.”

“…Why, why are you so angry?”

Realizing that this situation was not a joke, Sang-yeon asked calmly as Minju, who took the lead in the game, told him to do. In a sweet and soft voice.

It was unexpected. She thought he would react roughly and coldly, but he responded to Minju’s angry heart with a gentle look like a lamb. When Minju thought her provocation worked, she gradually became more excited.

“Because you lost the cuff links I gave you?!”

Despite Minju’s answer, Sang-yeon did not give excuses. However, he just dropped his head with a regretful face.

Minju did not feel bad when Sang-yeon, who had always been proud and charismatic in front of everyone, showed an infinitely small and shabby appearance. She felt something like the secret pleasure of monopolizing Park Sang-yeon that others did not know.

“Now it’s my turn to ask a question. You were with a girl last night, right?”

Sang-yeon could not readily answer. Then Minju set up the tip of the knife and turned around on the Irish kitchen, sneaking a smile.

“If you can’t answer, I have to cut off a finger as promised… Then I guess I won’t be able to play the piano anymore?”

Sang-yeon got up from the chair and slowly approached behind Minju’s back.

“That’s right, I was with a girl.”

“Who?”

Sang-yeon’s hand wrapped around Minju’s right shoulder and came down gradually on her forearm.

“If you give me this knife… I’ll answer.”

Soon after, Sang-yeon’s fingers swept between Minju’s hand and the knife.

“Okay, all right.”

Minju gently gave it to Sang-yeon.

“That was Seo Ji-hee, the President of my agency.”

Sang-yeon pushed the knife straight to the end of the Irish kitchen.

“Nothing happened between you two, right?”

When Minju asked in a pathetic voice, Sang-yeon put his lips close to Minju’s ear.

“If this is what you’re worried about… I swear nothing happened.”

Sang-yeon’s warm confession, which was passed down in her ears, made Minju excited. A tendon sprang up on Sang-yeon’s forearms, hugging Minju’s waist tightly. In a tightly trapped gap, Minju barely turned, twisting her body.

The eyes of the two people who met persistently searched for each other. Every corner of Sang-yeon’s body, which was touched by Minju’s eyes, burning with anger and hatred, became hot as if on fire.

Sang-yeon untied Minju’s hair tie, which had been tied up.

“You look much hotter with your hair down.”

Sang-yeon’s hand, which swept Minju’s hair behind her ears, came down on Minju’s back and loosened the strap of the apron tied to her waist. He then grabbed Minju’s waist with both hands and lifted her up.

At that moment, Minju’s body floated lightly like a cloud. It was not a very high position, but Minju was distracted by this unexpected romantic action.

Sang-yeon gently put Minju on the Irish kitchen and squeezed between her knees. And began kissing her. With no time for Minju to question last night’s event anymore.

Minju had no talent to escape Sang-yeon’s kisses that penetrated deep into her throat. Swallowing each other’s lips, the two kissed like crazy.

Sang-yeon failed to control his excessive passion and bit Minju’s lower lip.

“Ouch!”

Blood burst out with a light moan, but Minju did not feel bad. Rather, it felt thrilling.

Sang-yeon slightly stole the blood from Minju’s lips, and this time, chewed Minju’s earlobes well. Perhaps this was also not bad, but Minju slightly moved her excited body. Then, as if to apply what she learned immediately, she grabbed Sang-yeon’s long neck.

Minju’s continuous traces clearly remained on Sang-yeon’s neck. Minju smiled satisfactorily, savoring the taste of Sang-yeon’s blood in her mouth.

What should this chemical that was created by suspicion and anger turning into relief and love be called?

Minju and Sang-yeon were engulfed in unprecedented passion and made rough love on the Irish kitchen. It was a perfect place to enjoy the dramatic pleasure created by extreme tension.

However, Sang-yeon’s gaze gradually deviated from Minju. Sang-yeon was looking at a kitchen knife next to Minju’s head.

After noticing that, Minju quickly raised her upper body and stuck to Sang-yeon.

“I want to know about you… From one to ten… Everything.”

It was intended to disturb Sang-yeon’s gaze focused on the kitchen knife.

“Are you more curious than you look?

“Can’t you do that? You’re mine anyway.”

Minju tangled Sang-yeon’s hair and whispered in a sticky voice.

“It’s not fun if you know everything.”

“It doesn’t matter. It’s much better than being curious.”

All the cells and nerves of Sang-yeon were directed back to Minju, perhaps because her operation worked.

That’s when Minju closed her eyes, soaked in the peak of her amazing concentration! Sang-yeon pulled out another knife and stuck it in Minju’s back.

The knife accurately penetrated Minju’s heart. Strangely, however, she did not feel any pain at all. It was just suffocating and her eyes opened wide.

Sang-yeon pulled out the knife from her body. Hot blood dropped from the tip of the blade. The white marble kitchen quickly turned red when Sang-yeon laid down Minju, who was drooping in his arms, on top of it.

It was too terrible to be the price of curiosity. Minju wanted to shout for help, but there was no way for a voice to come out of her body, where her soul had already begun to escape. Tears formed in Minju’s eyes, which she could not even close.

Sang-yeon turned his head next to Minju’s face lying down to make eye contact and said in a gentle voice.

“Why are you so curious? What’s the point of knowing the truth?”

Tears that had formed in Minju’s eyes began to drop. Sang-yeon smiled sadly. She tried her best, but Minju could not hold out her gradually closing eyelids.

The moment she realized that she was really dead, she gasped. Her eyes opened wide with pain that seemed to tighten her heart.

It was a nightmare. How vivid it was, Minju’s cold sweat and tears soaked her pillowcase.

He was in front of Minju, who woke up from death. The man who just put a knife in her back, the same man who brutally murdered her, was now lying next to her.

Minju could not even breathe aloud because the reality after opening her eyes was more terrible. There was a question that newly married people were asked the most.

What is the best thing about getting married?

‘I was so sad whenever our date ended, but I’m happy to be with him/her all the time now.’
‘It’s nice to be able to see him/her first as soon as I wake up in the morning.’
‘When I opened my eyes after having a scary nightmare at night, and when I saw him/her sleeping next to me, I felt relieved somehow.’
‘I love that I’m not alone.’

Of course, few people in the world knew that Minju was with Sang-yeon, and Minju had no friends, so she had never been asked this question, but she thought about it.

What if the only person she believed would comfort and protect her from the world tried to kill her?

Minju was afraid, even if it was just a ridiculous hypothesis created by a meaningless dream.

If all the stories told by the doctor about his former wife, who had disappeared, were true, then Sang-yeon was likely to be a monster. She did not easily believe words about a woman she had never seen spoken by a man she only met twice, but what if it was true?

Minju felt so terrible just thinking about it that she got goosebumps all over her body. She knew well what kind of hell a family with a dangerous spouse to endure day by day was.

In order to overcome her fear, she had to know where it came from.

But… Minju knew nothing about Sang-yeon. All she knew about him was what could be found when searching on the internet.

Ignorance created this fear, which raised itself and brought about such a nightmare.

She looked at Sang-yeon’s face, sleeping quietly. His large eyes, long eyelashes, a high nose bridge, a sharp nose, lips that were neither thin nor thick, and a neat mouth…

There was nothing unusual, but for Minju, Sang-yeon’s appearance felt so unfamiliar.

‘If I take off that beautiful mask, what’s behind it? Park Sang-yeon, what kind of person are you?’

Minju wanted to know more about him She wanted to know everything, down to his darkest shade and curved sadness. It was natural to wonder about the one you loved.

However, Minju struggled to turn her back, remembering the message from the nightmare she had just had.

‘I should never be curious. What’s the point of knowing the truth? I will never wonder, ever.’

In order to overcome her fear, Minju had to know what kind of person Sang-yeon truly was, but ironically, Minju could not guarantee any happiness after knowing the real him.

Would she endure fear without knowing? Would she endure it knowing everything? It was difficult. It was not a choice about what would make her happier, but about what would make her less unhappy.

As she was struggling in a perfect dilemma, she suddenly remembered the day when she first met Sang-yeon.

Thinking about it now, it was a little strange to see him concentrating on something so much that he could not hear her and did not notice he was hurt even though it was a wound deep enough to bleed.

What was Sang-yeon doing in the garden? How did he hurt his arm?

Minju carefully turned around and looked at Sang-yeon’s right arm. The wound had long healed, but Sang-yeon tossed and turned when she touched the spot where the scar still remained blurred.

At that moment, Minju felt a burning thirst. Unfulfilled curiosity toward the unknown universe called Park Sang-yeon. She herself was realizing that it was probably wrong to put it to sleep.