July 1, 2005
California, United States
"Mom, I want ice cream!"
"There is no ice cream."
"But I want ice cream, Mom!"
Hwang Ian kept whining at his mother---Lee Emma---to get ice cream. The seven-year-old boy even tugged at the bottom of the mother's shirt while still whining.
"Mom! I want ice cream!"
Ian's initially low whimper turned into a loud scream, making visitors who happened to be there turn to the mother and child. Emma quickly apologized to the visitors, who fortunately understood and responded with a smile.
"Hwang Ian! Why did you have to scream like that?" Emma asked, looking intently at the child.
"Because you didn't respond to me!" Ian replied, crossing his small arms in front of his chest. He's getting upset now.
Emma sighed after hearing her son's answer. "You just ate ice cream yesterday, so now you can't get it, understand?"
"But i want an ice cream! Chocolate ice cream!"
"Don't you remember John's message? Your teeth are broken, so don't eat ice cream too often, okay?"
"But I want an ice cream," said Ian in a low voice.
Emma growled in annoyance that Ian was fussing to buy ice cream. The woman then looked for a way for the child to stop asking for ice cream, until an idea came to her mind.
"Ian, instead of buying ice cream, what if we buy watermelon? Then mom will make watermelon salad and watermelon ice, ok?"
The look on Ian's face that was originally upset turned into a look of confusion. Watermelon Salad?
He had never eaten watermelon salad, not even his mother had made it before. But for ice watermelon, he often eats it. The fruit that contains a lot of water will be cut into triangular pieces by the mother, after which it is put into the freezer until it freezes.
"Want it or not?" asked Emma, who was immediately answered by a nod of the child's head. She smiled because her attempt to make the child not buy ice cream was successful. "Yes, we are looking for fruit."
"I want!" Ian replied excitedly.
***
Hwang Residence
A big smile adorned Emma's pretty face when she saw Ian, who was enjoying her homemade watermelon salad. The salad in question is just a watermelon cut into cubes, then added with shaved ice cubes, after which it is all mixed together and ready to serve to reduce the heat, because it happens that at this time of summer.
In the midst of Emma watching Ian who was eating, there was the sound of the door being knocked. The woman immediately moved from her stool toward the door. Her eyes caught an envelope that was in front of the door.
Emma immediately picked up the envelope, which was of considerable size. There was no return address, making her curious. She opened the envelope to see what was inside. She took out of the envelope a few pictures. The photo is of a man and a blonde woman. Emma knew the man was her husband, Hwang Jason. In the photo, Jason is hanging out with her. In addition, one of the photos has the inscription If the picture was taken today.
The flames of jealousy instantly burned Emma after seeing the photos. She was very upset to find that her husband was having an affair with another woman. The household has only been running for eight years, but the husband is actually playing with other women behind him.
Hwang Jason. You're playing with the wrong guy! Just watch, I'll finish you off!
***
The atmosphere of Hwang Jason's residence tonight was already very quiet, because the boy who was the culprit of the commotion in the house was already asleep in his room. While Ian has entered into his dream world, the two children's parents are still awake while doing their respective activities. Jason was seriously reading a book on his bed, while Emma was doing a facial treatment in front of her dressing table mirror. Emma occasionally glanced at her husband through the mirror, the man looked calm even though he had cheated on her.
What a jerk, inner Emma.
She didn't expect that in Kang Yi Seok's life this time, the man actually had a completely opposite attitude to the man's previous life. Emma is at a loss for marrying Kang Yi Seok's reincarnation this time.
"How was your meeting with your potential business partner?" Emma asked suddenly. He asked that question because Jason had permission this morning to go see his future business partner, despite the fact that the man was meeting with another woman.
"What business partner?" Jason asked without taking his eyes off the book.
Emma smiled sarcastically at such an answer from Jason. "This morning you went to see your company's business associates, didn't you? Or maybe your reason is just a lie?"
Jason chuckled, but his laugh in Emma's ear sounded like a pretense. "I was just joking earlier. My meeting went well, we are working together now, " explained Jason.
Emma then moved from her dressing table chair and approached her husband. "Is your business partner a young woman?" he asked.
"No, he's a man," Jason replied as he greeted his wife, who sat on his lap. "Why do you suddenly ask like that?" His hand was raised and then he caressed the wife's long mane so intensely.
"Why? Shouldn't I ask? You keep asking me what I've been doing all day and who I've met. So, wouldn't it hurt if I did that to my husband too?"
Jason responded to Emma with a smile. Although he looks so calm now, unbeknownst to his wife, he was feeling nervous. He suspected that his wife knew what he was doing behind the back of the woman he had been married to for eight years.
"By the way, Ian said something to me this afternoon," Emma said. She is now very sure that her husband is lying to her right now, just waiting for the right time before he drops a big bomb on her.
"What did Ian say?"
Emma approached Jason's ear and whispered something that made the man's face red.
"So, do you want to do it tonight?" asks Jason.
"Of course."
Hwang Jason I'll finish you off.