Chapter 36

I wouldn’t let them suffer indefinitely. Maybe just a few days while I’m here, a week, or two, perhaps a month. How long would it take for them to make fundamental changes in how we all live? If I go back now, nothing will change, and I’ll pick up where I left off and have to face the war I no longer want to fight. I was already losing it. Jyeon was slipping out of my fingers long before this affair.

If I wait, Jyeon will leave with his woman, start a new life, assign my most stressful roles in OLO to others, and Mother will not have any choice but to accept it… while I take this time to try and make peace with it in my heart. So I can go back and learn how to live without him before figuring out my position in OLO with him still there. I should do that for him, me, for us both to stop hurting.

It’s a rare opportunity that I shouldn’t let pass by. No one knows who I am, and it seems I’m far enough away from where I came from that no one will have a clue to look at me. I’