Letting Loose After Marrying A Business Tycoon

Chapter 163: Father Is Useless and Cannot Protect You

[This is an adaptation, this story is not mine. The credits goes to the original writer. Please do not vote!]

During lunch break, Lee Jung Jae opened his chat with the intermediary again. The last time he contacted the intermediary was a week ago. After another week, Lee Jung Jae lost his patience.

He couldn't resist typing again.

Lee Jung Jae: [Hi, is there any news?]

1 was online all day. Lee Jung Jae's message was only sent for about 40 seconds before he replied.

1: [This is not easy to handle. We can't find a suitable heart. I think I should return the deposit to you.] Lee Jung Jae had already expected this outcome. But when he saw 1's reply, he still felt very despondent.

Lee Jung Jae was not willing to lose this last clear path. He humbly asked: [Sir, is there no other way?]

1: [What choice do I have? I can't possibly kill someone!]

Lee Jung Jae narrowed his eyes.

He really dared to kill for Nancy.

Lee Jung Jae was a little distracted at work in the afternoon. When it was time to knock off, he packed up and went home. Ha Jiwon went out for a walk and Auntie Zhang was the only one at home. Lee Jung Jae instructed Auntie Zhang. "Make some pickled pork knuckles tonight. Both the mother and daughter love them."

"Alright, Sir."

Seeing that Lee Jung Jae was going upstairs, Auntie Zhang said worriedly, "Sir, Miss came back in the afternoon."

Last night, Nancy had sent a message saying that she wanted to meet up with a friend and wouldn't return that night. His daughter had been very obedient and Lee Jung Jae never doubted that Nancy would lie. Hearing Auntie Zhang say that Nancy was back, Lee Jung Jae didn't take it to heart.

Auntie Zhang added, "Miss's mental state isn't right. Her eyes were slightly red and swollen when she came back. She must have cried."

"She cried?"

Lee Jung Jae frowned. "Got it." He went upstairs.

He knocked on Nancy's door and entered without her permission.

Nancy was still awake. She was watching a Korean movie called "The Rubber in My Mind." As Nancy watched, she dabbed at her tears and mucus with a tissue. She looked rather neurotic.

Lee Jung Jae turned off her iPad.

]Nancy looked up with reddened eyes, silently protesting Lee Jung Jae's overbearing behavior.

Lee Jung Jae said, "That person replied me today."

Nancy's eyes quivered.

"What happened?"

Under Nancy's expectant gaze, Lee Jung Jae couldn't help shaking his head. Nancy's eyes dimmed instantly, turning grey and lifeless. "I see..."

Nancy smiled bitterly and comforted herself. "It's alright, Father. Don't feel guilty. You've already done too much for me."

Lee Jung Jae was not comforted.

Lee Jung Jae's heart felt like it was being stabbed as he gazed at his daughter's beautiful face. "Nanc, I can't protect you anymore." With that, Lee Jung Jae started crying. He supported his forehead with one hand and his tears and mucus fell onto his pants.

"Nanc, father is useless and cannot protect you..."

"Father is useless..."

The middle-aged man's tears burned Nancy's heart.

Nancy hugged her father's shoulders tightly and said tearfully, "Father, you are the best father in the world. I am already very satisfied to be able to bid you farewell and leave."

Compared to those who had left in a hurry without even saying goodbye, Nancy was already very fortunate.

It was a good thing that Nancy thought this way, but Lee Jung Jae couldn't accept it. "You are my baby. I can't bear for you to leave."

"Father, don't be like this. I feel terrible..."

The father-daughter duo hugged each other and wailed in despair.

At dinner that night, the father-daughter duo tacitly stopped talking about this matter and pretended to be relaxed. Ha Jiwon didn't notice the secret between the father-daughter duo. She told Lee Jung Jae, "Jennie called me today."

"Her?" Lee Jung Jae didn't wish to bring up Jennie and didn't ask further. Instead, Nancy asked with concern, "Did Elder Sister have a good time in Austria?"

"Of course she's having fun. But she's very worried about Irene."

"Irene?" Nancy asked, "What happened to Irene? Isn't she awake? Why is elder sister still worried about her?"

Lee Jung Jae also looked at Ha Jiwon curiously.

"You guys don't know, right?" Ha Jiwon told them. "That child Irene actually went to Congo to study the virus there." Ha Jiwon shook her head and sighed. "I heard that Congo is very chaotic, yet Irene went there. Of course Jennie is worried."

Lee Jung Jae snorted coldly and said without any pity, "If anything really happens, she deserves it. If she knew that it was dangerous there, why did she still go!"

Nancy frowned, slightly worried about Irene's condition. "I also heard that the political situation in the Congo is very chaotic. A few days ago, I saw the news that there was a riot and someone died. What if something really happens to Irene..."

Hearing this, Lee Jung Jae stopped eating and stared at the bowl of soup in front of him in a daze.

Irene was an opinionated person and Ha Jiwon didn't wish to speak too much about her matters. Thinking of something else, Ha Jiwon grabbed Lee Jung Jae's hand and said, "It will be Father-in-law's death anniversary in two days. I won't be going with you to pay my respects this year."

Lee Jung Jae's father was an alcoholic. When Lee Jung Jae graduated from university, Lee Jung Jae's father went into a drunken fit and fell into the river. By the time his body was found, he was already dead.

After his death, Father Lee was cremated and buried in the Great Hall of Peace.

Ha Jiwon was slightly superstitious. She was pregnant and didn't wish to go to places like the Great Hall of Peace where there was so much Yin energy. Lee Jung Jae naturally had no objections. He said, "Since you are pregnant, you can't go there. Just stay home and recuperate."

"Mmm."

Lee Jung Jae asked Nancy, "What about you? Are you coming with me?"

Nancy shook her head. "I'm not going either." Anyway, she would be meeting her grandfather in the underworld soon and couldn't be bothered to make the trip.

"Then I'll go alone."

...

The next day, Lee Jung Jae got up early and changed into a pure black suit. He drove to the Great Hall of Peace to pay his respects to his late father.

long the way, he stopped by a small shop and bought a bottle of Erguotou. Lee Jung Jae's father was called Lee Congjun. He was an alcoholic when he was alive. Lee Jung Jae didn't bring anything else with him when he came to visit his father. He only prepared a small bottle of wine for him.

Lee Jung Jae took out the Erguotou he had brought over last year and placed it in a small bag. He then placed the newly bought wine beside the urn.

Staring at his father's photo in the urn, there was no nostalgia in Lee Jung Jae's eyes. Instead, there was only coldness and mockery. "Father, I've brought you your favorite Erguotou."

As he spoke, his lips curled into a mocking smile. "Every time you got drunk, you would hit my mother. In the end, she couldn't stand being bullied anymore and hung herself. I've always wanted to ask you this—when you woke up that morning and saw your dead wife hanging on your door, did you ever regret even for a second?"