Traveling back in time to take care of Sung Deok-sun

Chapter 13 The secret that cannot be told

They lit the fire and rekindled the candles, but they didn't notice that Deok-sun's expression was still not normal. She kept looking at the happy smiles on her parents' faces, thinking about the unfair treatment she had faced, being ignored and unappreciated by her parents, and even the major event of participating in the Olympics that would change her life was wasted. Her efforts seemed like a joke.

Her parents had already told her that she wouldn't celebrate her birthday with her sister.

Her expression grew even more sorrowful, and a hint of grief and anger flashed in her eyes.

"Ah! This is our second daughter's birthday party!" Bora's dad said with a smile, looking at Bora's mom. "One, two, three!" (Deok-sun's birthday should be a few days later; there was a mistake earlier, which has been corrected.)

"I wish you..."

"Stop it!"

Just as they were about to sing the birthday song, Deok-sun finally couldn't hold back and shouted.

"I told you! I won't live with my sister! I told you!"

Why won't anyone listen to me?!

"I told you I didn't want to celebrate my birthday with my sister, right?"

“Let’s spend this year together, and then start spending it separately next year,” Bora’s mother said apologetically to Deok-sun.

"They said the same thing last year, and the year before!"

Why are you treating me like this?!

Do you think I'm easy to bully?

Am I someone who can be treated casually and without any regard for others?

Upon hearing Deok-sun's question, Bora's mother was on the verge of tears. She could only look sadly at her aggrieved second daughter. She knew that although Deok-sun had been very sensible over the years, she had really neglected her.

"Why won't you fry me an egg! I love fried eggs, but all I get are pickled beans, which I don't like either!"

Hearing this, Bora's mother was devastated. She remembered that morning when there were only two eggs left, and Deok-sun saw them and told her not to worry about them, that it didn't matter if she didn't eat them.

She gave the two eggs to Bora and Yu Hui, and all she could give to Deok-sun was pickled beans. She even said that Deok-sun loved pickled beans the most, but she didn't realize that it was just Deok-sun being modest. It seemed that she had never understood Deok-sun's heart and had never asked her whether she liked them or not.

The more sensible a child is, the more they are neglected. Deok-sun doesn't dislike her; she just wants to be considerate of her mother. However, the long-term neglect causes all the pent-up grievances to erupt at once.

"And you, why did you only buy World Cup ice cream for Yu Hui!" Deok-sun looked at her father.

"The same goes for the whole fried chicken. They only gave the drumsticks to my sister and Yu Hui, and only gave me the wings. I'll eat the drumsticks too!"

"Why! Why am I the only one who's Sung Deok-sun!"

"My sister is Bora, he is Yu Hui, why am I the only one who is Sung Deok-sun!"

"Why was I named Deok-sun!"

Deok-sun's pent-up grievances finally erupted at this moment, and even her name became a source of resentment. Why was she called Deok-sun? Why wasn't she called Bora?

Why are Mom and Dad only nice to their older sister Paula and younger brother Yu Hui?

Like the neglected children in all families, she always yielded for various reasons, thinking that her parents knew about her noble spirit of sacrifice.

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Perhaps, family members are the ones who understand their children's thoughts the least, after all, no one is born knowing how to be a parent.

Liu Shuyu watched everything from Deok-sun crying as she walked out of her house until she sat down on the bench in front of the convenience store.

Sigh, he was also helpless. Even an upright official can't settle family disputes. He knew that Deok-sun's family was like this, but he didn't know how to improve Deok-sun's situation. After all, he wasn't a perfect protagonist in those novels. Before he transmigrated, he was a 996 office worker who would go home every day to cook a meal and have a drink.

When I have money, I'll send some to my parents so they can play mahjong, and send my sister a red envelope so she can have a late-night snack and a milk tea.

He's never even had a girlfriend, and he doesn't know what to do with his money, so he can only silently take care of Deok-sun.

after all

He wasn't born knowing he was going to time travel.

He has never been anyone's boyfriend.

He didn't know what other people's parents were thinking.

He's just an ordinary person; he can't do what those protagonists do—manipulate the entire world.

If you don't count the system, he's just an ordinary, sentimental person.

......

Deok-sun sat in front of the stool, wiping away tears. Her eyes were red and she was crying incessantly.

But when a dark figure blocked her way, she still raised her head and looked at the person with her red, tear-filled eyes.

"Paper"

Liu Shuyu gave her a reassuring smile and handed it to her.

Deok-sun looked at Yoo Seo-woo, her sobs gradually subsiding. She stared at him blankly, lost in thought.

"Paper"

Liu Shuyu handed over the tissue in his hand again.

Deok-sun took the tissue and started wiping her tears, but the more she wiped, the louder she cried.

Liu Shuyu was at a loss for words, and he cautiously asked, "Deok-sun, are you alright?"

Deok-sun shook her head, crying, and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Liu Shuyu simply sat down beside her and quietly kept her company.

After she finished erasing one sheet, Liu Shuyu handed her another.

After Deok-sun finished wiping one sheet, she would take another one.

The dim light shone on the two of them, and the crying gradually subsided. Liu Shuyu stared blankly at Deok-sun, who was crying with tears streaming down her face.

Deok-sun instinctively reached for it, but when she saw Yoo Seo-woo staring at her blankly, she immediately stopped crying.

When Liu Shuyu saw Deok-sun looking at him, he immediately snapped out of his daze.

"Oh...oh...Deok-sun, paper!" In a flurry of activity, Liu Shuyu pulled out two or three sheets of paper.

Deok-sun burst out laughing at his flustered state.

Seeing her laugh, Liu Shuyu scratched his head and couldn't help but reveal a slightly embarrassed, silly smile.

"Hey, Shuyu!"

"Ok?"

Deok-sun looked at Yoo Seo-woo and poured out all the grievances she felt. Finally, she couldn't help but ask Yoo Seo-woo a question.

Are your parents good to you?

"My parents?"

"Ah."

"My parents, um~~"

Liu Shuyu couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He thought about his parents on Earth, and how he was raised by his grandmother since he was a child. His impression of his parents was that they would come back once a year, familiar strangers.

In order to give their children a better life, they worked for more than ten years. At that time, I was at my maternal grandmother's house. In order to help my elderly grandmother, I had to go home early after school from the second grade of elementary school, pick up the small iron bucket, put it by the well, lift the crank, and use my own weight to press down to draw water.

They would fill a large pot with water, half a bucket at a time, and then boil it. After boiling the water, they would take the leftover rice, mix it with the sweet potato vines and rice bran they had just chopped, and feed it to the chickens. Finally, they would use a pressure cooker to rinse the rice and cook it.

That's how I got to junior high school.

When I was in junior high school, I was incredibly rebellious and often got my parents to call and scold me.

At the time, he felt that his parents didn't understand him at all. They only came back once a year, and he only cared about his grandmother. He didn't want to pay any attention to his parents' discipline.

It wasn't until I grew up and started working that I realized how much sweat and toil my parents had put in to raise me over the past ten years.

All he could say to his parents was that he could never repay their kindness in raising him.

It's not that they don't love him, it's just that their love is too heavy, they dare not tell the child, and they don't have the opportunity to open their hearts to the child.

Liu Shuyu looked at Deok-sun and recounted his own experiences in the context of the present world.

Deok-sun looked at Yoo Seo-woo and spoke slowly, tears welling up in her eyes again.

Fortunately, Liu Shuyu comforted him in time and said that he had come to terms with it and was now very cheerful.

Deok-sun couldn't help but chuckle at how simply he made it sound, and said, "Then, what happened today will remain a secret between us. Let's not tell anyone! Okay?"

"Okay! Sure." Liu Shuyu had heard Deok-sun tell him a lot about her grievances and heartache today.

I thought to myself, I definitely won't say it. Saying it would be like exposing someone's weakness.

Besides, children and parents usually make up in a day or two after an argument, and then they're still a loving family, aren't they?

After confiding in Liu Shuyu, Deok-sun felt much better and finally smiled.

Liu Shuyu also smiled happily.

The two of them sat there, their hands behind their backs, looking up at the sky, their little feet swinging unconsciously.

Just as Liu Shuyu was looking at the sky, Deok-sun couldn't help but steal a glance at him...

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