Sister, Back-off From MY MAN

"Aunt Da-Hye, I am a strong and independent girl. I make my own decisions and I am my own voice. No one is allowed to control me, not even my own parents."

A glint of confidence and pride was seen in Kiaraa's eyes which added weight to her words.

"Who taught you all of this?" Sa Da-Hye asked her after a deafening silence.

Kiaraa's subconscious mind remembered the day when Song Ji Hun said these words but she pushed away that thought, "No one did, this is who I already am"

She was right, Kiaraa has indeed been a strong woman, Song Ji Hun's words just helped her handle the situation with Ian at that time and did not influence her completely.

"Kiaraa, but you hurt your mom deeply, can you please keep your ego aside and apologize to her?" Sa Da-Hye had no idea how to handle Kiaraa or how to make her understand that what she did was wrong as Kiaraa's logical counters turned her quiet.

So, she retorted to emotional blackmailing.

"Your mother had a great career going on but she gave that up to take care of you. Instead of appreciating her, you are insulting her, dear. It is not fair, right?"

"Even though she left her career to take care of me, I don't think she did a great job at it" Kiaraa again surprised Sa Da-Hye.

"She anyway pays more attention to Aera" Kiaraa frustratedly added.

"That's not true, Kiaraa. Your mom loves both of you equally…"

"How can she love us equally? I was born first so shouldn't I deserve more love?"

Sa Da-Hye: "…"

After a few minutes, Sa Da-Hye found her voice, "Parents are always more protective towards the weaker child. Between you and Aera, she is weak and as you just said, you are a very strong girl, who can take care of herself. That's why your parents pay a bit more attention to Aera"

She decided to make Kiaraa understand the problem in this style.

This time Kiaraa actually thought for a while before nodding her head, "Hmm, Aera is weak as well as dumb" she rubbed her chin as if thinking deeply, "You are right aunt Sa Da-Hye, mom and dad needs to pay more attention to her as she is useless."

Sa Da-Hye wanted to request Kiaraa to not use words like – useless and dumb when referring to Aera but she decided to take one step at a time as it was already very difficult to deal with Kiaraa.

"That is only the reason why your parents pay more attention to Aera, they don't love you any less"

"You are right, any person in their sane mind would obviously love me and not Aera" Kiaraa confidently said.

'No, only an insane person with a twisted mind would love you over Aera' Sa Da-Hye couldn't help but think and the next moment she scolded herself for thinking like this about a child.

'Ahhh why am I acting like Ji Seo Yun? Don't I also love Kiaraa more than Aera? Am I insane, of course, I am not, so how can I think like that?' Sa Da-Hye scolded herself and both of them stepped out of Kiaraa's room.

"Kiaraa, go and apologize to your mother" Sa Da-Hye patted her head.

"Apologize? Seriously?" Kiaraa rolled her eyes.

"Kiaraa at times even when we are not wrong, we apologize for our loved ones. You love your mom, right?"

"Everyone love their moms"

"Yes, and believe me there are many kids who in spite of not being at fault apologize to their mothers to maintain peace. Ian and Do-Yun too apologize to me many times even when it is my fault and not theirs"

Sa Da-Hye tried to convince her while they were in the corridor, heading towards the second floor, where Kiaraa's parents' room is there.

"Aunt Sa Da-Hye, in spite of knowing that you are at fault and not your children, you are making them apologize to you. That is really very immature of you, you should learn to be a good mother"

Sa Da-Hye: "…"

The woman stopped in her tracks as Kiaraa again made her speechless today.

Kiaraa innocently looked at her and said, "Don't worry, you will grow up soon" and patted on Sa Da-Hye's hand.

Kiaraa went to her parents' room, while Sa Da-Hye stood there still, standing in shock, "I am trying to teach this girl how to be a good daughter and she is teaching me how to be a good mother" she chuckled as she saw the sincerity when Kiaraa said those words, she actually meant it and was not mocking her.

'This silly girl' Sa Da-Hye didn't take Kiaraa's words to heart and went back to join Ji Seo Yun.

After reaching the second floor, Kiaraa went ahead and knocked on her parents' door.

"Who it is?" Her father's hoarse voice was heard from the inside.

"It is me, dad" Kiaraa answered him.

"Come in" Her dad's voice was now coated with anger but Kiaraa was not afraid and she entered the master bedroom of their mansion.

She saw her mother sitting on the couch, hugging her father and clearly crying in his arms, while her father was stroking her mother's head.

When Lee Myung Soo saw his daughter, he tried to control his anger. 

"Close the door" he ordered and Kiaraa did as instructed.

"Kiaraa, did you insult your mom in front of everyone?" Myung Soo tried to sound as gentle as possible as he didn't wish to scare his daughter either in spite of how agitated he was with her.

"What? You don't trust me?" Chu Yu Ri lifted her dad and shouted at her husband.

"Yu Ri, I heard your side of the story, let me hear hers too." He calmly said.

"But…"

"Yu Ri" Lee Myung Soo signalled her to keep quiet and looked at his daughter, "Tell me what exactly happened"

Kiaraa then narrated her side of the story.

"You asked her to leave between her food?" Myung Soo questioned his wife.

Chu Yu Ri earlier kept crying so much while narrating her side of the story that Lee Myung Soo didn't understand anything except for the fact that Kiaraa said something hurtful to her.

"Yes, to punish her, she is rude to elders" Chu Yu Ri wiped away her tears and glared at her husband, who instead of scolding Kiaraa was questioning her.

"Kiaraa, even if you were angry, you should not disrespect your mother" Lee Myung Soo decided to scold his wife for her actions in Kiaraa's absence.

"I didn't. I just asked her what right she had to take away my food?"

"She is your mother, that's enough right to take away anything from you" 

"But not my food"

"She didn't take away food from you, she tried to take you away from the food."

Kiaraa: "…"

Kiaraa was speechless for a moment as her dad was the only person in this world who can argue with her using her kind of logic.

According to his logic although the food didn't belong to Chu Yu Ri, Kiaraa belonged to her. So, she tried to separate her daughter from that food which was on the table.

Kiaraa continued being speechless as she didn't expect her dad to twist the situation.

How can she argue saying she didn't belong to her mother? Because she did as her mom gave birth to her.

After thinking how to counter her dad, Kiaraa finally spoke, "Dad, you are coming up with ridiculous logic to prove your point"

"Just like you?" Her dad's three words again stunned her.

Kiaraa and her dad glared at each other.

"Dad, what's your point?"

"Don't hurt your mother with your words. She did a lot for you and Aera. Her career was going great but to take care of you two, she left it all behind and…"

"I never asked her to leave her career behind. Also, she cares more for Aera than me" Kiaraa felt like she was losing this argument so in spite of Sa Da-Hye's explanation she put this same point forward.

"No, she does not. You both are equ…" Lee Myung Soo paused suddenly before changing his words, "You both are our kids and yet we always loved you more" he said.

Kiaraa narrowed her eyes at him, "But it seems like you were about to say something else earlier"

"Hmm, earlier I was about to say you and Aera are equal for us but in the middle of the sentence I realized it is a lie and we love you more"

Chu Yu Ri got surprised hearing her husband's words.

Shouldn't a father say both kids are equal so when Myung Soo said such words, she frowned.

"Really?" Kiaraa was very happy hearing she is more loved than her sister.

"Of course, you are our first born, you are special, darling" Her dad gently smiled at her.

"Then why do you people always care for Aera more?" Kiaraa asked and before her father's reply, she added, "Oh yeah, because she is dumb"