It disgusted me. Her hypocrisy ruined her son’s life and robbed him of almost a decade with his child.
It’s so miserable considering how excited he was to have a family. How much he wanted to be there for every milestone in his daughter’s life. He missed it all. He missed her birth, her first word, her steps, the first time he’d send her to pre-school. He missed 7 years of his daughter’s life that he’ll never get back. He missed his girlfriend, his future wife. Even if he joined her life now it will never be the same for him, he’ll be reminded forever that he never even got to see his baby girl’s face through all those years and be there for her. That his child was also stripped of a loving father
If my mother ripped me away from my child like that I would disown her
Reading the novel makes me hate me ML's mom so much more.
The anguish this man feels after realizing he had someone he loved and a child out there but did not know anything about because the mom chose to interfere in his life. How time has passed not only for Yena and Jeong-o but for Jihun as well and he can't have those seven years back.
When the ML tells his father about Yena, there's a line in the novel-- "I had amnesia. I didn't know. So I lost everything." And this hit me so hard.
And mom looking down on Jeong-o for not coming from a reputable family, was a from a normal family as well and was the dad's fucking secretary. Talk about double standards.