AAE So Much in Love
Translated by Moonlight
Edited by Chewy
Sm is 25 years old, not a
kid any more. She can not throw away jars, glass and whatever she gets her
hands on. She can only scold when she gets ticked off.
“No way, whatever you did cannot force me to marry him!”
Father is still sitting calm and was looking at his beloved daughter with
puzzled eyes.
“Who taught you to yell at your parents, SM?” auntie song talks to SM, although
she speaks simply but really resolutely
“I’m sorry! I don’t intend to be impolite” SM feels guilty, her father looks at
her with his warm eyes.
“That’s all right, my dear! I think … sometimes children nowadays think that
their parents are friends …so since they are so close they speak to their
parents like friends (loud) right? … come here and sit down, auntie prepared
your favorite dishes.”
“You’re always spoiling her, you know! So sickening” auntie muttered
“Let’s eat! Otherwise it’s cold and won’t be as delicious”
“I don’t want to eat” she says rudely while sitting beside her father. SM can’t
stay still like this beside her father for a long time.. The cold war was
broken up by her.
“I won’t marry …. I WILL NOT marry”
“How can you do that…? Uncle Yun and your father had managed this wedding since
your mother was pregnant and also your father agreed and, now you disagree…
surely you can’t”
“Hah! Then, if I was born to be a boy, what would you all do? Auntie would set
a wedding ceremony for gay?”
“Who cares! Cause now, you were born as a girl”
“I can’t believe that I have an old-fashioned aunt trying to force her niece to
marry”
“Who said force? We told each of you many years ago. Also the senior did not
say no. You’re getting older every year… furthermore, you don’t have a
boyfriend, right? Hyung Chul suits you a lot. Uncle Yun wants to have kids in
the family … so we accept it!” Auntie explained to Sunmi
“How do we get to know each other? In such a short time I have to learn about
the nerd doctor and he needs to learn about me. And what else? …we need to have
kids? ….. Oh my gosh! I’m not a pig that a man marries and uses like a factory
to give birth...”
“Sunmi why did you call your senior like that, you should pay more respect to
him…at least he’s your older brother”
Father complained Sunmi, but, in his eyes he is still full of laughter and
love.
“Respect? Why I don’t pay respect… I also press him to say nerd … DOCTOR … but
I don’t normally say Mr. NERD.” Auntie looked at Sunmi with an annoyed face.
“Because of you to doubt him like this…. SUNMI, I order you not to call senior
like that anymore…to look down on your husband is not good.”
“Husband?” sunmi’s voice was higher
“Who said he will be my husband? … Who said that I’ll marry with that N … ERD”
Sunmi almost can’t stop her last word when she saw auntie’s eyes.
“Could you tell us what is so bad about Hyung chul”
Sunmi thought on him urgently …. The tall white man, really good looking ran
into her brain. Hah! O.k you look handsome … o ok I can tell that you’re very
handsome.. so that is why many women have a crush on you. His nose? is really
beautiful .. but his sharp eyes were hiding behind his glasses … it made her
feel uncomfortable when he looked at her with that pair of eyes… she couldn’t
understand the meaning inside.
Knowledge? Getting PHD … hah! So so! …
The more she thought of him, the more she found how perfect he was.
Sunmi and Hyung Chul knew each other since they were young but when they grew
up, Hyung Chul had to study in London. When he came back, her friend who was
like an older brother, became a stranger. …”How is he strange?” Auntie asks.
“Just look at him!” Sm replies.
He always acted like he’s perfect.
Sunmi tried to find his bad side … when she knew the commitment about marriage.
She thought of what year it was now and why did she have to accept the arranged
marriage!
“So? Can’t find the bad side?” Father asked .. Sunmi touched her mouth with her
tongue before she said …
“ummmm! “ she puckered her nose … “He is much older than me by many years”
“5 years? Your father was older than your mother almost 10 years… and I didn’t
see any problem. Don’t refer to that whole problem. It’s not a good reason..”
Auntie cut the sentence because she couldn’t keep up Sunmi’s thought.
“Not only he’s old, but … his personality is really oldddddddderrrrr I don’t
like it.”
“If he’s not like that … surely he cannot stand on you. You’re really stubborn.
If you marry with the same age.. I think you will be fighting everyday and die
before you have a baby” SM doesn’t know why she blushes when auntie talks about
having a baby.
“Naah! I think he maybe hiding some girlfriends in London... how can he be
single till now.” Sunmi still avoid to others reason.
“Hyung Chul is a good boy. He won’t do that. Also you can’t find a perfect man
like him …” Sunmi can’t protest because she knew that her father said the truth
because, she once took him to a night club and he looked at her like a teacher
who is trying to forgive his misbehaved student. And she hated the guilty
feeling which happened in him.
“So nothing to protest? I talked to uncle yun and decided that next month is
uncle’s birthday and we’ll set a small party, inviting close relatives and
close friends. And announce the engagement of you and Hyung chul” auntie
concluded.
“I won’t marry” Sunmi still standing on her ground.
“Up to you! If you don’t want to … don’t call me auntie and don’t call your
father, father … because your father would have to be ashamed to have a
stubborn kid like you.. and made me die because lost word.
“Right! It’s just a tiny thing for you but for us it’s important. Important for
your father’s feeling. For the name of our family .. you think again. You want
to make your father lose face for this. It’s the honor deal. You don’t care if
anyone blames your father that he didn’t keep his word?” when auntie sailing
the seven seas, father was little and had a little cough and went to look at
the small tree at the terrace near them.
“Auntie you forced me… ” Sunmi reproved!
When Sunmi was 5 years old her mother had passed away so auntie loves her only
niece. Whatever sunmi wanted, she never denied. So sunmi is rather a stubborn
girl like this (a cow).
“I take care off you for 20 years. I had never say no to you… Just only this
once, do as I want, can you please?”
“Do as you want just one time? But this is my whole life.” Sunmi saw her auntie
was still on her attitude so she changed her strategy.
“This is a non-sense story…. Auntie … you don’t want to take care of me any
more? I promise I won’t be stubborn anymore.. I’ll be a good niece. I’d like to
take care of you … for 2-3 years more … then after please at that time we come
to talk about this marriage again.” Sunmi implored with the way she always
succeeds but this time why did auntie not fall into my trap.
“If you marry with hyung chul. Father and I won’t have any worries about you
anymore. We can sleep in peace. That’s all we ask for; you don’t need to take
care of us at all.”
However she tried to avoid this but she couldn’t so Sunmi announced
“If everybody forces me, I’ll kill myself” auntie was just a little shocked,
she looked at Sunmi a little bit before….and said
“Which color do you want? And how long of a rope?”
“Rope?’ Sunmi stunned
“For you to tie around your neck. You want to die don’t you? Do you want a
poison? What do you want? Give me a note then I’ll shop for you. Umm! Remind
you this. When you’re dead please keep your tongue and your eyes in, because I
don’t want to be ashamed when the newspaper prints your picture like a
goldfish.” Auntie said like it’s really a simple story.
“Auntie” Sunmi shouted and turned to her father who’s still looking at the
trees.
“Father … listen to auntie”
“Um! What? Oh I see! I listen to her more than 30 years ... your auntie talk’s
everyday; I don’t see which day she doesn’t speak.”
“I mean auntie order me to kill myself” Sm’s voice trembled and then her tears
dropped!
“You’re on auntie’s side, right? Everybody doesn’t love me… they force me to
marry although I don’t want to … I still confirm that I won’t marry with that
nerd doctor… Doctor Hyung Chul is a good boy in auntie’s eyes”
Ending her speech, Sunmi went home with an angry feeling. Her red sport car hit
some flowerpots around there…
“Don’t you think we’re forcing her too much?” father said to auntie worrying…
“If she kills herself what do we do?”
“Sunmi? No way… I took care of her since she was young, she wouldn’t do this…
just only her finger got a little bit hurt by a knife-cut, she gave out loud a
huge cry. Kill herself? She wouldn’t dare to do it… you and I could find the
way to face her when she gets another way to avoid marriage. I think we have to
face this situation for a long time.” Auntie smiled to her father.
So Much in Love
Translated by
Moonlight
Edited by Chewy
SM knocked the door repeatedly after waiting a long time when she pressed the
bell.
There was a voice from inside shouting before the door opened.
“I’m coming! I’m coming! … Don’t damage my door. I’m too lazy to fix it.
Understand?’
The man who opened the door was still in his bath towel with wet hair. His eyes
could show that he just got up from bed. But he didn’t seem to be surprised for
SM’s visit; instead he made an angry face in front of the door.
WJ yawned and stepped back to let SM get in the house.
“Coffee? I want to drink… so if you want, I’ll make one for you too. Maybe,
after drinking some coffee, your face may get better than this.”
“O.K. since this morning, I don’t have anything.” SM bumped into the chair. WJ
is still walking around with the bath towel and meanwhile boiled the coffee. SM
took a glance at his bedroom.
“Do you …. Have something wrong … in there?” Her voice meant to one of his
girlfriends. WJ although was older than SM by 5 years were really close so SM
thought that he’s her friend more than brother… so that she didn’t call him
senior. And WJ didn’t mind that.
“Today, no” he answered with a big smile
“I’m busy at work so I don’t want a girl to disturb me. Sit and wait here, let
me dress and I will be back to talk”
He ordered her before he got in his bedroom
SM took a look around the small room. She puckered her nose for the untidiness
of the room. There were a lot of art magazines laid on the floor, also there
were photographs and many art frames laid in the corner. Some frames were
incompletely painted and others were from his art exhibition which he didn’t
want to sell even at high prices.
Shoju bottles were laid on the kitchen floor. Also, on the fridge there was
paint. SM smiled although she was moody and tried to clean the house as much as
she could. She loved this atmosphere; Artist was really free.
The voice of WJ murmured something when he kicked on something before he went
out.
WJ and SM were cousins and are close since WJ studied Art at university and
became her tooter until she could enter/studied interior designing in the
university. Also he was her consultant (a man who she could ask advice) for
everything. SM sometimes thought that he was her real brother.
WJ moved out from home to stay in a Condominium so when SM had a problem, she
would visit here to hide for a while. Also recently, when she was always forced
for the wedding, she thought that WJ was the only one who understood her, and
maybe they loved the same thing as Art.
WJ went out, this time he wore a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with a fresh face
because he had just took a bath.
“My friend went to Italy and became a model so she bought it for me.” WJ gave
SM a cup of coffee and asked how the coffee tasted. SM took a zip.. umm! Good
smell but she had to fill a lot of sugar.
“This time, what’s the problem?” WJ asked normally and sat at the opposite
sofa.
“Daddy and auntie… they’re teasing me by forcing me to marry with Doctor ...
um! You know who! And scolded me if I denied I would be cut off from the
family.’ When she talked about this story, she always got angry with Hyun Chul
“Old topic…boring’ WJ said
“But today… seemed to be a breaking point my family and I were debating for a
long time. And I also said that I won’t marry otherwise I’ll kill myself so
auntie chased me to die” this time her sound was really petulant.
“Harmfulness like that? …. Anyway, why don’t you like HC. I think he’s also a
good one.” WJ asked because he also knew HC very well. SM raised her face.
“Again! The same question! Listen to me clearly! … He’s a nerd I don’t like
him.”
“Oh! So you like a kind of fashionable man?”
“I don’t like, neither. I hate nerd men. I hate gallant men, I hate all men. I
don’t want to marry with everybody” SM frowned.
WJ had a big smile because he could keep up her thought.
“Frankly you tell me that you don’t hate him but you don’t want to be forced to
marry him!”
Although SM seemed to be stubborn she nodded to accept.
“Ok! Then, if no one forces you, you will marry him?”
“….. No!” The answer was so reluctant “well! I knew that everybody wants me to
marry him. I’m not a thing, I have my soul, I want to select a chance by
myself, can’t I?”
“He he he! You know what… everybody planned this because they don’t want you to
be an old maid. Look! Till now, we won’t see you getting together with
someone.”
“I’m only 25 years old this year! Don’t worry about me too much! But you! Are
30 years old and can’t find a girlfriend so we should help you find a girl too.
“he he he I’m a man. Who cares! If I want to be single for my whole life.
…well! Although I’m single but can’t say I’m single in action. Ha ha ha …
you’re getting older and older … you will be a topic for gossip for example how
come you can’t find someone. … Trust me! You ‘ll miss this good chance” WJ made
SM blush.
“He he he! I don’t think I’ll be single till I die but…. No way am I going to
marry that nerd one.”
“You’re too much! I can’t see how nerdy he is.”
“Nerd... Hah! WJ I come here to consult. I won’t intend to listen to you make
me like that guy. And approach me to marry him.”
“I don’t but I say it as I see.” WJ executed.
“Come on don’t think so much… ok! Ok! I’ll help you think about this. If I
won’t help you, who would I help.” His eyes were really tricky. But SM felt
better immediately to have someone beside her.
“Then, what should I do? The engagement will be announced next month. After
that the wedding will be set in a month later… hah! How come it’s so fast …?
Don’t know why my parents really want to drive me so fast like this”
WJ smiled before he said.
“Why don’t you tell that you’ve a boyfriend.”
“Where could I find him? Auntie won’t believe me, I’m sure! Or maybe I can
bring a fake boyfriend to see them privately. So they could believe me.”
“You have a lot of friends. I can see that many guys have a crush on you. Why
don’t you choose someone to help.”
“Those guys? I can’t see if any of them are good. Moreover, they’re so boring.
If I chose one of them to be my boyfriend then they might take this opportunity
and not let me free.
“Why don’t you try to consult HC? Maybe he also doesn’t want to marry you like
you don’t want to marry him. Then, you can be a team.”
“Him? Whatever uncle said, he would do even if he said to marry me! ”
“Who knows… Maybe that perfect man doesn’t want to marry a naughty girl like
you.”
“Hah! Let’s see … he doesn’t want to marry me … a woman like me is not easy to
find at all. If he doesn’t marry to someone that his parents arranged. I can
guarantee that he will be alone for his whole entire life because he doesn’t
know how to find or please girls” don’t know why she had to get angry like
that!
“He he he! You’re looking too down upon him! Don’t hide the truth! ” SM was
still on her stubbornness, then WJ laughed like he had an idea
“Try this way! I once read from a book with the story the same as you. But the
actress could find the way to avoid the marriage”
“How! Come on, tell me!” SM opened her eyes widely and kept concentrating to
listen.
“It’s like I recommended… but .... ’ SM listened to him carefully. Finally she
shook her head and murmured.
“Do you think he will help me?”
“This is up to your way to approach him. I think if you request him and give
him a good reason that why you don’t want to marry him...But do not tell him
that you think he’s a nerd. .. Who knows! He may get in your trick if you plead
him like you always did when you were young. I saw that he always pleased you.
This time should be as the past”
WJ said so deeply meaning but SM didn’t notice because she’s thinking.
“OK! I’ll go to meet him and try to request him”
Translated by Moonlight
Edited by Chewy
SM was now on her bed, thinking on WJ’s plan. She couldn’t sleep although it
was almost 3 in the morning. It shouldn’t make her in a tough situation like
this if…. she didn’t feel that she had been forced. SM was thinking about their
relationship back in the old days. She thought of when he left her alone and
went to London…. Then, she decided to fight!
She woke up. She was in no mood to be happy. She intended to make a cold war so
she wouldn’t talk to everyone in the family.
SM took a sick leave today. She drove along the street without a destination.
It was too early in the morning to go meet HC. She should wait till his lunch
break.
At HC’s office, it looked really old. He was so mad because he graduated and
got a PHD but didn’t want to work at MBS, his family business, but chose to
work in a small company in the old building which he didn’t know when it would
collapse.
“May I meet DR. Yun?” SM told to the lady who sat in front of his room, she
should be his secretary. Hah! Beautiful!
“Have appointment?” she asked SM politely with friendly eyes.
“Urr! No! But could you please tell him that … I’m Jin Sun Mi and I want to
meet him?” that lady had a big smile after she heard SM’s name.
“Miss Jin Sun Mi. I hear your name really often. Today I am fortunate to have a
chance to meet you. My name is Hoy Yung Mi. DR. Yun’s secretary. Nice to meet
you. … you can also call me Yung Mi”
“You can call me Sun Mi.” SM thought that she found someone for him. The lady
in front of her was really beautiful, smart which suited him a lot.
“Please sit down! I’ll tell DR. Yun... Because he has an important call” YM
went into his room. Wait a moment she said
Then YM came out and gave SM a signal which meant she was allowed in.
The tall man stood up when she came in. He looked good in his white shirt. With
glasses, he looked even more attractive. SM was pull out of her thought when he
greeted her.
“Hello! Glad to see you.” His voice was really soft. He walked to her.
“Anything I can help? You seem to be not well! Are you o.k.?”
“Umm! I have a little headache” SM answered him …. She felt ashamed that she
was looking at his attraction for a while, Hope he couldn’t know that.
“I need your help.” SM told him shortly, HC took a look at his watch.
“Lunch time! Let’s have lunch … there is a good place near here! Then, we can
talk there!” he touched her arm really lightly and didn’t forget to open the
door for her.
The environment of that place was really beautiful
“It’s really beautiful. I never knew that there is a good restaurant like this
here”
“You haven’t been here! So you don’t know. This shop has opened a long time
ago, the owner is my friend.” He gave SM a menu.
“You can make the order, whatever! I’m easy, it doesn’t matter I eat anything.”
After SM made their order … it seemed that they were in silence till HC said.
“Anything I can do for you? Sun Mi” his voice was full of kindness and care.
“Umm! I want to request you that ……. Ur! About our engagement”
SM felt really uncomfortable! Why he didn’t show his emotion like anger or
happiness or anything that she could know… he was very silent and looked simply
… she couldn’t read his mind.
“Why?” HC asked
“I don’t want the engagement be announced on uncle’s birthday party”
“Do you mind if I’d like to know the reason.” He looked really calmly.
Calmmmmly till seemed to be cold. And this was another reason why she didn’t
want to marry him.
“Because … first! We don’t love each other. Second ur ur … I have a boyfriend
and we’re having a plan to marry”
Again! He didn’t take action that he’s surprised or anything! This made SM more
uncomfortable
“Why don’t you tell your father and aunt about that so they will not set the
engagement?”
“Auntie doesn’t like him” SM was not a good lier but she was trying her best
“he’s an artist so auntie doesn’t’ like him. But I think if we have more time,
auntie will like him one day but …. For now, we can’t because auntie likes you
the most. … So I come to beg you …please give up the engagement.”
His eyebrows were a little knit after he listened to SM!
“Please, please … if we marry, I’m sure we won’t be happy for our whole lives …
think about this … we won’t love each other. We will suffer a lot. Also I’m sad
that I can’t live with the one I love… and … you? Umm! I won’t ask you if you
have someone or not” SM thought that he had no one.
“But one day you can find her. And when that day comes then, what would you do…
see the problem?” SM controlled her voice to sadness tone.
“That time we have to break up for sure. So why don’t we give up now” SM
concluded shortly
A moment, she saw the sparkle of smile in his eyes! But it’s happened quickly
so she thought she might be partially blind.
HC didn’t answer but invited SM to test the food.
“Taste it … delicious! I remember you like it”
SM tasted it with anxiety... why didn’t he say anything! Either to Agree or
disagree? She felt that he enjoyed lunch very much. When she asked him again
several times, he didn’t answer, also he could change the topic until SM kept
him up. SM felt that she wouldn’t get the answer from him so she laid down the
spoon.
“Cake? You love black forest! ” He ordered it for her and ordered coffee for
himself.
SM looked at him, his smile for her was really polite but she felt the far
distance between them. Also his eyes meaning were hard to understand … SM
couldn’t stand on him anymore.
“Give up? “ SM abruptly asked, HC still in a mood to enjoy his coffee.
“I’m thinking.” And finally he answered
“Is it possible? To marry and have a happy life as our parent’s intended” His
voice was like talking to a business customer in a meeting.
“Sorry! No way! Moreover, we’re totally different. Also your friends and I are
really in a different world. Meanwhile your qualification is too high in my
circle of friends.”
“I am going to marry you, not your friends. And you’re going to marry me, not
my friends.”
“Friend problem is one problem from many …. You don’t understand … you and me
don’t have a biggest part! Love, so we can’t marry”
“We can! But you won’t accept that, will you! SM” he asked her so tender and
care but SM felt he tried to spin her head.
“The problem is not all you try to tell me but … you don’t like parents to
manage or force you. You want to be the one who tells your parents that you
choose me by your own, right?”
His eyes that could read her mind made SM frightened. So she rejected
automatically but her voice was really shivered.
“It’s …. It’s not true! …. It’s …. Urr! … Also our behavior is different.” SM
was driven to the wall. She couldn’t think of other reasons so she referred to
the old one.
“And I have boyfriend”
HC smiled! He really smiled. SM saw that.
“All right! You’re sure that you have someone to love then you don’t want to
marry me.” He asked her to confirm like SM was a kid and couldn’t decide which
cake she wanted to buy.
“Yes!” SM answered. But she didn’t understand why she wouldn’t be happy as it
should be. Maybe because she worried that she’s lying.
“Ok if you confirm I can’t force you. Umm! You also want me to tell auntie that
you don’t want to engage me in my father’s birthday party.”
SM really felt unhappy after HC accepted her request. She didn’t know why she
felt so irritated.
“Please don’t … if you tell auntie like that… auntie will scold me. If I won’t
marry you I would be cut off from the family. If they get angry with me they
won’t meet …. Urr my boyfriend …. What can I do? So Please DO NOT. Please,
please ”
“Umm! Or I can tell my father that you have a boyfriend so you don’t want to
marry me. Is it good?”
“That’s the same! Then, uncle has to tell auntie. If they cut me off! I’m going
to die then I can’t meet them for my whole life.” SM was really afraid about
this situation that she may be getting fired.
“Don’t feel terrible like that…. There’s no problem that you can’t solve. …
just tell me what you want me to do.”
“Auntie likes you a lot…. But... if she doesn’t like you she may accept my
boyfriend.”
“So you want me to tell auntie that I don’t want to marry you, right?”
“No! Auntie is really clever; she can keep up the game. If you do that auntie
absolutely knows that I begged you. … Err! Is it possible if you tell uncle
that you won’t marry?”
“Tell my father and I have no reason to refer? No way, my father is the same as
auntie. Also he loves you... if I tell him without a reason he has to force me
to marry you.” After his word, SM felt more difficult.
“Umm! I don’t want this plan but if we have no way to….. We should use this
plan.”
“What’s the plan?” HC asked with out a doubt.
“It may make some problems with you but … you’re a man … it won’t affect you
much... You may be in a gossip for a while.”
HC was a bit serious.
“Don’t tell me that you want me to tell auntie that I’m … err! A type of man
that loves man instead woman.”
“Hah! No, no …. Don’t think too much! I just want you to pretend to have a
girlfriend.”
“And?” HC didn’t smile, he listened to SM carefully.
“You just tell auntie that you love her a lot and have a plan to marry”
SM saw his face and knew that he didn’t agree with her.
“I’m not intending to push you to marry someone.” She spoke slowly and softly
like a kid who had done something wrong.
“I just beg you to play a simply game. Really easy! After the engagement give up,
then you can find the one that you love, I know…. Because … you’re ur! ….also a
good type in a woman’s mind” … HC spoke in his mind… BUT NOT YOUR TYPE, aren’t
I! … Why?
“Then, who will be my fake girlfriend. Just only tell, parent can’t believe.”
“Excuse me! If you know a girl and like her a lot then you can ask for her
help.”
HC smiled really softly and tender when he thought of the one SM asked!
“I have one! But... I think she won’t help me because now she quite rather
doesn’t like me.”
“how’s bad!” SM felt a little bit angry that who made him broken heart.
“So you don’t know anyone else?”
“No. … if you want me to help you, you have to find someone to help us.”
“Um! Just only you tell that you will help me, that’s enough!”
“What’s his name?” HC suddenly asked
“Name? Who? ….. ”
“Your boyfriend”
“Err! Umm! His name is XD” SM named whatever automatically.
“I think I never knew that he’s on your friend’s list.”
“Umm! You never met him before”
HC smiled again. In the past she loved to see his smile but nowadays! The more
she saw his smile, the more she was sick…. because he always seemed to keep up
her mind in his smile.
“So ask him to have a dinner with me… I really want to know that lucky man.”
“Um! I’ll “SM was afraid to face his eyes because she didn’t know who she would
bring to meet him.
After paying for the meal SM drove him back to his office!
She should be happy because the deal was a success but she’s not….
She didn’t look at the back mirror because she was also touched that he still
stood there to see her.
Chapter 4