The bedroom wasn't anything unfamiliar to Joon Tae. After all, him and Mujin have been fiances for half a year now. And how many days has he spent littering around these familiar furnitures? Simply a lot.
Starting from the enormous round bed to the walk in closet just as big as the room itself, Joon Tae has seen everything. But yet, tonight, sitting infront of the ceiling length mirror of Mujin's dresser, as he took off his extravagant and equally ostentatious knickknacks, his eyes were stiff as though he was nervous or maybe repulsed even.
The black brooch, made of unripe diamond, then those large amount of rings, also curved from rich stones and metal, and then the Chanel ear studs; one after one all of them went down. Joon Tae couldn't help frowning once his wedding ring got stuck in its place. He has recently gained a few pounds and a jewelry chosen prior to the present apparently was an ill fit.
Struggling with it, he didn't lose hope. If not the real wedding, he should be able to at least control this forsaken ring. He struggled to take the ring off, and he did take it off after a certain effort given. He struggled to stop their marriage, but why did he not success after giving a certain amount of effort? Was it his lack of devotion or is it that he was just deluding himself with all those determine facade when he was actually secretly hoping for the wedding?
That would be really shameful!
His father once said, even handsome and well kept guys look horrendous at their wedding reception. He didn't believe him then.
Looking at himself in the mirror, he didn't believe him now either.
However, who would be in the mood for marveling or praising oneself when he was just married off to someone by force? Sitting and waiting in bed for that person.
They are fiances for seven and a half month now. Obviously until tonight as they got officially married. That would make them lawful husbands, right?
But just to be upmost apparent, Joon Tae was pregnant for a month now. And all of them were aware of it. They knew about it the very day he himself came to know, actually. And miraculously the first thing they were worried about was not the fact that him, clearly a big man, was pregnant with a human child. Rather, they fell from the sky and right to the mud with the pain of betrayal; Mujin and Joon Tae had never actually consumated their relationship before the actual marriage.
With how traditional their families were and even from the perspective of Joon Tae who was a relatively conservative person, it was a given their first night would be their wedding night at most. Then why did Joon Tae have a relationship outside and a child out of wedlock? Where was his so called conservative ethics that time when he was rolling in bed with some stranger while his poor fiance, oblivious and happy, discussed their future plans at home?
Their thoughts must've been something along these lines, Joon Tae thought.
He smirked in few seconds of solidified despair before getting up and leaving the closet. The closet was recently renovated along with few other parts of this house two or three months ago when Mujin was still excitedly running errands for the wedding arrangements, and had separate places for Mujin and Joon Tae. If what they had previously planned would've gone, Joon Tae's clothes would've been hanging there, in the left half of the luxury room. But nothing goes as planned. So his clothes now were in his luggage outside the room, and he was rather doubtful they could ever get some place in this closet in the future.
He really didn't understand how his parents' minds worked. He couldn't fathom why they would think it was a good enough idea to marry him off to the very fiance who was still burning hot like molten lava from the hatred and shame of being cheated on. Could they not see Mujin was urging the wedding to be held sooner right after the truth about Tae's pregnancy got out? With his painful and unripe wounds, he wanted to force Joon Tae, who clearly wanted to call the wedding off, into a bond that would stop him from uniting with the child's father.
As if he would even think of uniting anyway!
However, Mujin didn't necessarily feel that way, and wanted Joon Tae and his child to be forever separated from the other parent. Deeming it some sort of punishment.
Were his parents blind enough to see no ulterior motive in Mujin's eyes? Or it might be their way of disciplining him, who knew?
Because Tae had stopped them from giving a proper response to the Kang family, from giving them an actual explanation and instead cut in to spew nonsensical lies; maybe that's the reason they also washed their hands off his mess and let time take its course. After all, Kim companies' industrial revolution in a conservative country like South Korea would be greatly affected by such a scandal if Mujin was to break their marriage off for Joon Tae's sins.
Who told him to interfere when they were clearly going to give an accurate explanation that would save them both from shame? Now Joon Tae could only count the ripes for what he had sowed.
And that was also the very exact reason why he interrupted their parents when they wanted to let the Kang family know of the truth. Cause Joon Tae wanted them, especially Mujin, to call the marriage off himself. For them to cleanly part, without any wanton 'mutually harming each other' ploy. After all, their parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on were family friends from the ancient times. And did Joon Tae say how he is a very conservative person?
He wanted to have nothing to do with breaking this bond of friendship. He deemed, the ghost of his heart would torment him to death if that happens. And thus, he chose to be the villain, if that meant he wouldn't be the reason why the generations after generation of brotherhood fell apart.
He remembered, that day, even in that air conditioned hospital room, he had been sweating a bucket load, after Namwoon came in with the results and a gloomy face. Namwoon had tried to come off as comprehensive as he could while describing what a case of cross pregnancy was, but with EQ way lower than his IQ, he declared about Joon Tae's pregnancy right infront of the room full of Tae's and Mujin's family.
Even after the flabbergasted Joon Hyuk slapped him shocked and the room fell into a deathly silence, Tae could tell Namwoon had not yet understood the reason he was slapped. He had only come with a good news. Was it because he was too sudden and abrupt? Namwoon had looked so lost!
Joon Tae though, unlike popular opinion, wasn't a least bit of warry. If anything, he saw it as a chance. An opportunity to break off the marriage but not break off the families.
One might say, if such a betrayal from Joon Tae could not break the relationship between the two families then what was there that he was so afraid to tell that could break them? One might say, he was doing exactly what he was reasoning that he didn't want to do. Like a hypocrite, or an idiot.
But Joon Tae knew better.
He wanted to stop the wedding. He also didn't want the truth to come forth. So, what was a better option than this? And that was why Joon Tae jumped into their parents' conversation and said with a dead face, may it be quoted,
"This child, my boyfriend is the father. Mujin, auntie, I'm sorry that you had to know about it this way. But I have a boyfriend and thus, let's break this engagement off."