Chapter 46: Jang Taejun
The reason why the silly novel written by his sister went viral and became a best seller, wasn’t because it was a masterpiece or a genius story.
The reason was actually simple.
The popularity of The Forgotten Flower boomed after the introduction of one character, Jang Song-rik’s uncle and a villain in the story, Jang Taejun.
Thinking about it, it was quite obvious why Jang Taejun was so popular with the audience despite being an antagonist.
He was fucking hot.
And he was a devout husband as well as a great father to his kids. Moreover he was very good at being manipulative and even fooled the entire fandom for over sixty Chapters.
All these traits increased his popularity massively with female readers who saw him as the standard for a husband and father.
Marriage-material to be exact.
There was even a time when during merch sales, Jang Taejun outsold Oh Ryujin, the og male lead.
Doha was bewildered by how clearly he remembered it. Given how he was forgetting most of the other things.
But Jang Taejun was the first person in the family who accused Song-rik of messing around carelessly and therefore making such a disgraceful mistake.
Because, it didn’t make sense otherwise why Song-rik, holding the Director position, would be expelled from the family just for getting pregnant.
Song-rik was an only child, so it must have been quite different to get him out of his way for Taejun to get the family business and inheritance in his pocket.
So he got what he just needed when Song-rik got knocked up. A fuck-up big enough to escalate into an irreversible mess.
Doha looked at the card in his hand. He wasn’t sure how to react.
Why did he come here?
What did he mean by taking care of hyung?
How does he know about me?
I doubt hyung has told even his pare about me yet...
Is he... trying to use me to somehow hurt hyung?
Doha spiraled into all sorts of thoughts as he worked that shift.
But it couldn’t be any further from the truth.
Because Yeon Doha had underestimated how simple-minded Jang Song-rik could be. After all, his image of the Song-rik in the novel still over imposed on the Song-rik he had seen himself.
So, he was filled with the delusion that Jang Song-rik was some genius who would meticulously plan everything and keep secrets from his family.
But Jang Song-rik was what one would call... the spoiled child of the family.
He was the first born and also an only child. So he was loved and spoiled rotten since birth.
Pray the kidnapping incident, his family doted on him with their lives.
Including, Jang Taejun and his side of the family.
Yeon Doha had still not learned how different reality was from the novel.
Jang Taejun entered the family house of the Jang family at ten. The CEO Jang Seong-jin (Song-rik’s grandfather) and his wife, Seo Bora (Song-rik’s grandmother) lived here near the countryside.
Today was a gathering of the entire family over dinner. All of the immediate family had gathered there.
That included, Jang Taejun, his wife and son, and Song-rik’s parents and Song-rik himself.
Jang Taejun was the last one to arrive.
Jang Woobin, Taejun’s son and a high school, was chatting away with Song-rik in front the TV. The dinner was being prepared by the chef, so the elderly people were still in the living room.
The two ’children’ of the family were a bit away from the central area where the elders sat.
Taejun sat down beside his wife and kissed her on the cheek and asked how she was.
Well, the reason for this was because, well... they were expecting their second child soon.
Jang Taejun seemed absolutely smitten with his wife.
"Taejun, ahem, so... did you do it?" Seong-jin asked looking serious.
Suddenly the entire group became serious as if they were going to discuss treason.
Taejun sighed dramatically and nodded.
"So, what do you think?" Song-rik’s father, Jang Mingyu asked.
Taejun suddenly looked even more serious. The entire section suddenly became very tense. The air was heavier as the pressure grew.
"I think," Taejun started as he joined his hands and placed them under his chin as a motivational speaker. "Yeon Doha is a good boy."
The entire family stiffened.
Their reactions were quite... disappointing.
Seong-jin clicked his tongue.
"That means we can’t get rid of him the usual way. Are you sure he’s good enough lad?"
"Yes, I’ve confirmed it myself. He seems absolutely in love with our baby and would most likely grovel to be with him." Taejun confirmed his report again.
"But, what if he’s hiding some hidden motive? How could he be so in love when he was refusing our baby so adamantly in the beginning?" The aunt said, holding her phantom glasses up. She had a proscription but didn’t wear them as she had makeup on.
"But our baby seems so happy, is it okay to remove the boy?" The mother gazed at Song-rik with concern.
Jang Song-rik was fully immersed in the game he was playing with Woobin. Woobin sneakily raised a thumbs up at his dad.
He was incharge of distracting Song-rik so the family could plan what to do next.
Yes, Woobin was in on it too. And he had wonderfully executed his mission.
"Right. This is the happiest I’ve seen our baby since the kidnapping incident. That pedo bastard, we should have thrown him in a ditch after cutting.... ahem! Anyways, since Yeon Doha seems to be very important to our baby, we should observe a bit more and maybe, try get the boy under our control so he doesn’t get cocky." Jang Mingyu suggested.
The general family seemed to agree with the idea and thus the seventh family meeting discussing Yeon Doha had concluded.
Yes, this wasn’t the first time.
The very day, Doha and Song-rik started dating, the simple minded omega informed his family about it as if it was the most obvious thing to do.
They still remembered the shock from discovering that their baby had suddenly manifested as an omega and just two days later, he declared that he was dating some dirt poor alpha.
Seriously, imagine the shock!
And now someone else was in for a shock, as the famil had decided, they told Song-rik to bring over his ’boyfriend’ on the next family dinner.
The grandmother seemed pretty excited about it!
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