12 Chapter 12

Hojoon recalled the impression of this woman who came to see him at the office with her mother last time. He conjured up the glittering eyes of her mother who wanted her to marry by the end of this year.

"Did you tell your mother of your decision?"

"Not yet."

Probably she couldn't tell her mother she would live as a single woman.

Hojoon seized the chance to cut in, "This week or next week if you're busy this week, let me stop by your house and give you a consultation if you're available. It's too early for you to give up. You've been promoted, which is a good message. It would have been better if it had been a man. It's a very good sign that a change has happened in your life, namely a change in the spirit. If you stop there, the spirit will be broken."

Hojoon could not make her give up not because of her expensive consultation fee but because of her desperate efforts. She could not open her mouth.

A little later, she broke the silence and said, "Do you go to church?"

"What?"