Chapter 437: 437
After cleaning the dishes and arranging the books to their new place, Gun-Ho and Young-Eun watched TV, and then they laid down on the bed together .
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"It's good, right?"
"What's good?"
"Being together . I mean as a married couple . "
Gun-Ho hugged Young-Eun and kissed her on the cheek .
"Thank you for being my significant other . "
"I saved an old bachelor, did I?"
"Why did you choose me as your husband? I'm sure you have plenty of men to choose from . "
"I don't know . "
Gun-Ho pressed his lips against Young-Eun's lips .
"Why did you choose me, oppa?"
"I just wanted to save an old bachelorette . "
Young-Eun kicked Gun-Ho's shin under the comforter .
"I wonder why you picked me . There should be tons of people who would want to marry you . "
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"I'm not sure . "
Young-Eun rubbed Gun-Ho's chest .
"The reason I picked you was, I think, that I want to be compensated . "
"Compensated for what?"
"I didn't graduate from the top university—Seoul National University . I guess I wanted to fulfill that deficiency by having a spouse who graduated from that college . "
"I heard that once you get old, everyone reaches the same level regardless of their various educational levels . "
"When I was in high school, my family was not financially affluent . Since your father was a teacher, studying hard probably came natural to you at that time . But, my family was different . My parents were so busy with their work in order to feed us, and I felt small all the time, and I didn't have any will to study hard . The atmosphere overall was not very supportive for me to concentrate on studying . I think I started focusing on making money because I wanted to compensate myself for those days . "
"That drove you to come this far, I guess . "
"Come to think of it now, I think you are right . You were ranked top in high school, and you are pretty . I guess you must be a popular kid in high school and had a happy adolescence . "
"Not necessarily . I had to constantly fight with myself in those days . It was not pretty; I can tell you that . "
"Why was that so?"
"I think I developed PTSD after my mom's death . It was hard to overcome at my young age . "
"I see . "
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"My mom died of ovarian cancer . She was not even 50 years old . I wanted to be a medical researcher who devotes her life to find treatment for ovarian cancer . That was my sole goal in my life . I decided not to pursue my dream to become a painter, but instead, I studied hard to be admitted to a medical school . "
"You must have been ranked first in your class . "
"Not just in my class, but I was ranked first in the entire school . Once I achieved my first step toward my life goal and started studying in medical school, I realized that my plan was probably not feasible . It's not simple to find a cure for a terminal illness like ovarian cancer . Well, someone will eventually find a cure someday of course . However, that doesn't mean it will happen during our generation . "
"Hmm . "
"When there is no guarantee to develop a cure, it's hard to find a fund to proceed unless I can get the fund from some conglomerate family . Whenever someone asked me why I hadn't married yet, I always made a joke by telling them that I wouldn't marry anyone except someone from a conglomerate family . One day, one of my friends introduced me to someone from a conglomerate family . He was a nephew of CY Group's president . I was told that he was smart, and he studied at one of the Ivy League universities . I actually met him . "
"And what happened? He rejected you on the spot, huh?"
Young-Eun kicked Gun-Ho's shin again under the comforter .
"Shoot . I feel like I married a gangster . "
"So I met this guy who is the third generation of an extremely wealthy family . He came to the meeting wearing short pants and flip-flops . He was also chewing a gum . His outfit and his attitude bothered me a lot . "
"Maybe because he was Americanized in some way?"
"I don't believe all of the American people are like that . There are so many conservative people in the U . S . as well . "
"That's true . "
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"So we started conversing, and I found out that he had no historical consciousness and no common knowledge about anything . He was just an idiot with a rich family . I didn't even think twice when I turned him down . "
"Hmm . "
"Another friend introduced me to another man who was upper level than me in the same medical field . I thought that even though I wouldn't be able to devote my life to develop cancer treatment, maybe I could just have a life with someone who would share the same life value and philosophy . It would be very nice to do some volunteer work together in Africa or something, but when I actually met that person, he was not my type at all . "
"Why not?"
"First of all, I didn't like his appearance . Second of all, he was a money-oriented person . He almost seemed to be obsessed with money . I just couldn't go on with a person like that . He was from a not very financially bountiful family either just like you . He was driven too strongly by his desire to make money . He even opened his own practice with a bank loan . "
"I do have a strong desire to make money as well . "
"You can't make money with just your desire to do so . You need luck and the ability to make it happen . "
"So, I guess he started his own practice without enough clinical experience, huh?"
"I heard that he eventually had to close his business, which left him with enormous debt . He is now working for a small clinic . "
"I still don't understand why you chose me . I do have a strong desire to make money . I'm sort of obsessed with money too . "
"You will have to thank my aunt for that . She talked extremely highly of you constantly . She said you have hundreds of billions of won, and you are a self-made successful young man with good manners . "
"Artist Choi said that?"
"I didn't believe what she said at first . Think about it . How is it possible for a young man to make hundreds of billions of won without his family background? Especially, given the fact that there is no economic ladder to climb up these days . Even a medical doctor who graduated from the top medical school often files for bankruptcy after opening his own practice with a loan from a bank, so I didn't believe what my aunt said . "
"So your aunt fed you with all those information, huh?"
"But it was not just my aunt, but my aunt's dear friend—President Jeong-Sook Shin—also persisted in asking me to meet you . She is one of my favorite people, so I decided to give it a try . "
"Do you know what my first impression was when I saw you for the first time?"
"How was I?"
"You didn't look like a rich man, but you looked like a mediocre salaryman who was working for a big company . I liked your appearance though . You looked like a decent man, but I didn't imagine marrying you at that time . I was just interested in hearing your story about how you make all that money . "
"And?"
"Remember the day when I showed you my scar on my arm? That I was bitten by a poisonous insect? After looking at my scar, you showed me yours . You said you got those scars when you worked in a factory . Probably, you haven't noticed at that time, but I almost cried . I didn't know until then that I was such an emotional person . I realized that you are a person who knows how to devote yourself to achieve something, and I thought that we might have a different life goal, but we could be a good companion to each other throughout life . At that time, I knew you were the one . "
"Hmm . "
"Also, you are conservative . You have a good manner, no chewing gum, no short pants or flip-flops . Also, you are a man who knows how to enjoy the arts . "
"Thank you for recognizing my value . "
"I knew you were the man who would protect me at any cost . "
"Of course, I will protect you for the rest of my life . "
Gun-Ho hugged Young-Eun tightly . She didn't act like a piece of wood that night . She wrapped Gun-Ho's neck with her arms . Gun-Ho and Young-Eun had a steamy night for the first time since they got married .