S1 » Ch 1 » First Broken Marriage!!

Park Taehyung was lying on the bed, with a towel wrapped around his head.

His face looked dry and thin, his cheeks were deeply sunken, his lips were pale, and his eyes looked straight at the beam under the yellowish roof. It was bright and scary.

Park Sooyoung lifted the curtain and walked in with a bowl of egg soup. When she saw her son's eyes looking straight at the roof, her eyes, which had turned red from crying before, shed tears again.

"You really know how to make people be upset! What's wrong with you? Do you really have to fret over trifles to the point that you want to court death? If it wasn't for your Uncle Wang passing by with Jiahn, how could you even be alive and lie down here? If not, you would have died a long time ago!" Park Sooyoung said.

Park Sooyoung's heart was in pain and at the same time, she was angry. She was used to being bold and vigorous, so she wasn't able to soften her words. There was a hint of grief in her tone.

How could she not feel aggrieved? Her only omega son was good. She had painstakingly taken care of him for 18 years, and after marrying him off, she thought he would have a smooth life, a peaceful and prosperous life. Who knows, maybe after three years of marriage, he was driven back by his mother-in-law's family without any warning. On the grounds that he was unable to give birth after these 3 years, they didn't want this daughter-in-law.

This sudden news made the whole Park family feel like being struck by lightning. These days, the villagers have their eyes set on their families. ‘You must live with your marriage for the rest of your life, no matter how good or bad it was.’ this is what they taught to do so!.

Her good son has only been married for three years and has turned into a rag. The reason for the divorce was the inability to give birth to a child. In rural areas that pay attention to "more children and more blessings" and "more people and more power", it's like you are being sentenced to death. How can he find someone else in the future?

But again, even if there was no hope (for remarriage) left, he shouldn't have gone and jumped into the river, right? They say it's better to live than to die. As long as you live, there will still be hope, right?

Park Sooyoung put the steaming egg soup on the bedside cabinet, sat down and held her son's hands.

These hands used to be soft and tender, and when he was just her son at home, she pampered him. She had 3 alpha sons, so the manpower was enough. She only lets her omega son stay at home and lets her son help with cooking, feeding the chicken, watering the flowers and vegetables, and other simple chores.

It's only been 3 years since he was married off to the Lee family, and the son's hands have already become thick like this. For these past three years, she could imagine what kind of life he was leading in the Lee Family.

Park Sooyoung regretted that she didn't find out that there was something wrong with the Lee family. She regretted that she was not able to support her only omega son, which caused her son to suffer these three years in vain.

That day, when her son came back with a bag in his back, her son's eyes were red and swollen, his hair was dishevelled. He was only in his early twenties; he should have been as bright as a flower, not withered and lifeless.

He said that the Lee family did not want him anymore, and his dowry was given back by the Lee family the next day.

Park Taehyung's three brothers went to Lee's Village with their weapons to settle accounts with the Lee family. But Lee’s family was also horrible, and directly claimed that Park Taehyung had not been pregnant for three years after his marriage.

There are three ways to be unfilial: having no sons is the worst. Park Taehyung was married for three years, but he didn't give birth. In ancient times, it was also the life of repudiation.

"Stop causing trouble in our Lee's village just because there are so many people in your Park family. If you keep doing this, who would dare to marry your omega son in the future? Given that he was incapable of giving birth, do you really want to see us suffer before you are reconciled?!"

These words not only made the village cadres of the two villages too embarrassed to take charge but also made the Park family lay down their arms.

Strictly speaking, what the Lee family said was not unreasonable. After all, Lee Bogum is the only male member of the Lee family. Although the wife, who had been married for three years, was driven back in the wrong direction, from an ethical point of view, the heirs of the rural people are the most important thing. If he can not give birth, the Lee family will be extinct. Indeed, hundreds of years from now, who will throw the pots? Who will burn incense papers for them?

(A/n: Throwing a pot means that the deceased will be completely cut off from the surviving people in the world. How many people are still alive? Then how many holes will be drilled in the basin? These holes not only express the sadness of the descendants for the death of the old man, but also show that the old man is full of children and grandchildren throughout his life, and he can walk with peace of mind.)

"Who said that it must be Taehyung's problem that he was not able to conceive a child? Maybe it will be born in two years, Lee Bogum, you are still not a man, and you can't even protect your wife! "

Lee Bogum was flushed, hiding in a corner and didn't say anything. But his mother, Park Taehyung's former mother-in-law, spat with her hands on her hips.

"Bah! Our Lee family is already considered benevolent. If it were not for your Park family's omega son, my only family Bogum would not have wasted three years. If I had found another omega, maybe the grandson of the Lee family could carry a pot out and buy soy sauce!"

The Park brothers couldn't face it and pulled Park Taehyung's dowry home with a black face, so the two families broke up completely.

The two were married without a marriage certificate, and this time, there was no need to get a divorce certificate.

This incident spread around several villages, those with good hearts were sighing for Park Taehyung for a while, lamenting that his future is not easy. Those who are not good, begin to sneer behind their backs.

You should know that when Park Taehyung married into the Lee family, everyone envied his good life. His former Father-in-law was the secretary of the brigade, there were no sisters-in-law to have a conflict with. When the two Lee family members died in a hundred years, wouldn't the Lee estate be given to the young couple?

The Lee family only had one son. As long as you can add a grandson to the Lee family, the Lee family can be like a mother. But the life of a person is such that everyone envied Park Taehyung, who, in the blink of an eye, became unable to give birth to a child, a abandoned woman.

Even if they were angry to the point of suffocation, Park Taehyung being incapable of giving birth was the fact after all. After the fiasco, the Park family went back home. The family was very careful with Taehyung because of this matter.

Not to mention his brothers, who adored him since childhood, regardless of what their sisters-in-law thought. They would not say anything unpleasant to his face.

His family will not say anything. but they can't control others' mouths. No, the daughter-in-law of his third aunt's neighbor said something unpleasant when she ran through the door with her child. Taehyung was stimulated. Without saying a word, he ran out to jump into the river, the Han River, which was connected to the sea. If he hadn't been caught and rescued, he would have been washed into the river.

In March, the river was still very cold. Although he was rescued, he still had a high fever. Taehyung was feverish all day and night. Finally, the barefoot doctor in the village took half of the wild mountain ginseng dug from the mountain, boiled the ginseng soup and fed it to him. Then the fever subsided.

"Taehyung, listen to your mother's advice. Don't penetrate a bull's horn again. You are still young. You're only twenty-one years old. You're still at a flower-like age. It was not necessarily your fault that you were unable to give birth. You also saw that the wife of the Hong family was only able to give birth after 6 years of marriage. She held her first baby, and after that, she had one after another, until she reached 5 children."

(A/n: to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom) -to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem)

This time the level of medical care was limited, unlike any B-ultrasound and color ultrasound that can do various examinations in the future. The old thinking of rural people was that as long as the child is not born, it was the omega's fault.

But giving birth to a child really depends on luck. Some people get pregnant as soon as they get married, others can't get pregnant, and there are strange things that the wife couldn't give birth because of the man, and when he/she was married to another man, she could get pregnant.

Anyway, Park Sooyoung doesn't believe that her son can't give birth to a baby.

"The Lee family was wrong at first. I thought Lee Bogum was a good one. Who knows he's a soft rake? He listens to his mother. It's all his mother's fault. Take care of yourself first. I'll find your sixth aunt in a while. She's a famous matchmaker. Your sixth aunt loves you. She has made a lot of good marriages in her life. She knows all the boys from ten miles and eight villages, your sixth aunt loves you. She will definitely find a good one for you."

Taehyung has a headache. He can't lift his body. The original owner jumped into the river and hung up. Then he came into his body. After waking up, he has been sorting out the memory left by the original owner. He knows that the original owner was abandoned by his man's family because he was unable to get pregnant after these past 3 years. Aish, how can he stand such an identity? It's better to transmigrate as a big omega of the yellow flower.

(TN: The term "big omega of the yellow flower" refers to unmarried women over the age of 25 above.)

It's no wonder the original owner had thought of jumping into the river. In the 1970s, having a divorce was a big scandal.

The original owner was a kind-hearted omega, with a soft personality and a little bit submissive. He was always getting called around by his mother-in-law and other people in the Lee family. In addition, he didn't get pregnant after marriage. Then Lee family didn't like him at all.

The original owner was too soft, and he couldn't have a good life in his former mother-in-law's house. Every time his mother asks him if ‘he's doing well’, he says the Lee family are very good to him.

Sometimes the saying, "The poor must-have something to hate, and the hateful must-have miserable suffering," is very reasonable. People like to bully the weak and are afraid of the strong. But if the original owner behaves better with his mother-in-law, she may not dare treat him like this.

After the divorce, the original owner was hurt. His kind of personality was not good and not straightforward, so all he could do was stuff his feelings into his heart.

Originally, he was walking around thinking about his situation, but he was then stimulated by the outside world. So, he decided to end his life and felt that there was nothing left to live for.

He could say that such a little thing was really not worth jumping into the river for, that a divorce was nothing, since, in the twenty-first century, divorce was not a huge problem, but he was not the original owner, he did not know how painful it was, so he could certainly not feel what the original owner felt.

"Come on, drink this egg soup. I deliberately added two drops of sesame oil to it to add some fragrance."

He was in 1975 now. Although it is over, life in the countryside is not easy. Every household has to earn work points. Apart from eating and drinking, this little sesame oil is still squeezed during the Korean New Year. The three daughters-in-law of the Park family take turns giving birth to babies. Park Sooyoung is only willing to use sesame oil, brown sugar, and eggs when a few of her daughters-in-law are in confinement.

Taehyung has no strength in his body, and his stomach has been groaning with a hunger for a long time. He had been smelling this bowl of egg soup since he entered the house, and he had long been greedy.

Alas, in the 1970s, when there was a shortage of food and clothing, who else in the 21st world could eat egg soup? Taehyung missed those modern delicacies very much.

But a thoughtful person should not be reborn because of a bowl of egg soup. He is still very uncomfortable.

Park Sooyoung watched her son drink up the bowl of egg soup. Her heart was finally relieved. As long as he ate, then it meant that he was calm.

Seeing her son thin like this, he has no meat on his face and his hands are skin and bones. She felt distressed. She looked at him lovingly and said, "You look so thin. There are still some white noodles at home. I remember you loved to eat scallion cakes when you were a child. I'll make them for you in the evening."

The scallion cake was easy to make. It is just making a paste with the flour and water, brushing a layer of oil on the hot pot, heating it, pouring the flour into the pot along the edge of the pot, wiping the batter evenly with a spatula, and sprinkled with scallions when the batter is semi-dry. When the scallions are heated, they emit a pungent smell of scallions, which is a rare and easy food in rural villages.

This scallion pancake is best made with white flour. The cornmeal is also delicious but not as soft as white flour. It is said to be delicious, but it is actually a bitter rural life. There is nothing else delicious.

Taehyung received the memory of the original owner and knew that every family was frugal these days. White flour was only eaten during the Spring Festival. The original owner's mother's family has three daughters-in-law, five nephews and a niece. How can he eat that alone?

"Mom, don't get it for me alone. I'll just eat with everyone."

When Park Sooyoung heard this, her tears fell again.

"It's all my fault that I taught you so sincerely since childhood. I always told you that a family should value peace and be filial to their parents in law after marriage. You just listened to your mother's words so much that you suffered so many grievances. In a word, it's still your mother's fault."

When Park Sooyoung said this, Taehyung's tears flowed unconsciously. It should be the residual feelings of the original owner.

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[A/n: Hello~ This is your Author! Let me remind you, I do edited this other author's story, so the translation will not be 100% accurate, and I am not that fluent in English. If you still have any inquires about this story, then don't hesitate to ask me, I'll try to explain it to you. ]

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