Chapter 4

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'Even if it hurts, you should go through it? What kind of twisted logic is that?' wondered Roseanne but she didn't say it out loud.

"Grandpa, how about you give me some time?" Roseanne laid out her condition. "We just came Korea about two months ago. I'm still very unfamiliar with things here. And yet, I've already gone to 4 blind dates here." She spoke with a determined tone, "I have to settle a lot of things here. Although you started everything from this country, it's been decades since you stepped foot here. It's not easy for me to suddenly settle down here leaving everything behind. You need to give me some space to get familiar with this place and the people here."

Grandfather Park thought about what she said and nodded, "Go back to your room. It's late."

"So, no more blind dates, right?"

"No more blind dates," he answered.

Roseanne hugged him and gave him a kiss before turning to leave but stopped to say, "Grandpa, isn't there a proverb around here, 'One smile undoes 1000 worries.' So, stop frowning and give me a smile."

Grandfather Park smiled at her softly and she happily made her way upstairs towards her room. Park Dae-Hwan watched her retreating back and his smile vanished.

"She won't say it but she is indeed not fine with moving here all of a sudden."

Jisoo pushed his wheelchair towards his room as she said Rosie had lived a very organized life. It's difficult for her mentally to suddenly change the routines of her life. But you don't need to worry, she'll manage."

Grandfather Park didn't say anything to agree or contradict. His worry wasn't that she won't be able to get used to life here. His worry was that she would never learn that life wasn't all about work, money, and profits. She just turned 24 and yet had no idea what real happiness felt like.

Roseanne Park was very young when she started displaying her strange behavior. Even though she was exceptionally smart, that was what brought her grandfather a lot of worries. Because she acted more like a robot with a monotonous life than a human. She had a set routine of studying, eating, and there was no time for things like playing. And if anyone tried to interfere in that routine, she'd be irritated. Everything needed to be precise for her.

He took her to plenty of renowned doctors but it didn't really help. Her symptoms were said to be similar to patients of Alexithymia because she had difficulty with understanding emotions or explaining them. Even if she fell down, she won't be able to define the feeling of pain. It actually didn't mean she couldn't feel it, it just meant she didn't know how to express that feeling.

She had graduated high school at the age of 13 and graduated from Business School at the age of 16. Because of this, she had never been able to make friends. No psychiatrist had been able to help her. And she didn't really take those psychiatrists seriously either. There was only one thing she took seriously; work!

According to her matter of profits that she could calculate were a lot easier than a matter of human emotions that she neither could see nor could calculate. So, that's why she invested her all in her grandfather's business.

She not only made him take the backbench, she even managed to take the 'Wanda Enterprises' to a pinnacle it could never reach before. When she said she wanted to focus on the Asian Market, he didn't hesitate to take advantage of this and brought her back to his home country.

But coming here was also in naught. All she thought about day after day was how to earn money and more money and some more money!

"Did the Lee family know that their son had a girlfriend?" Grandfather Park questioned as he settled on his bed.

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