Breaking Up Is Better Than Divorce

Green Caps Club

“I have to get up first today.”

William stood up and said.

“I will make up for today’s rudeness next time.”

He was still smiling, but William’s cheeks trembled slightly.

It seems I couldn’t stand it.

“okay. We’ll be together in a better place next time. It seems you are not feeling well, so please go in first.”

“yes. Then see you next time.”

William left the restaurant without seeing the woman’s place.

“Probably… … Is it because of the couple over there?”

Yoosung said with a soft wink.

“It looks like that.”

“Mr William. Didn’t you say you’re getting married soon? Surely she won’t be the bride, right?”

“Okay.”

It’s something you know clearly, but sometimes it’s better to pretend you don’t know.

“William… … I think I said that the woman I was going to marry was also Korean.”

“I heard that. Did you say that you came to New York to hang out and that you met William and decided to settle down?”

It must have been an adventure for her as well. It must not have been easy for him to decide to live in New York after falling in love with a man he met by chance after coming to visit relatives for a while.

Of course, there is also the fact that William is objectively a decent husband.

He works for a major investment company on Wall Street, and his annual salary is hundreds of millions of won.

He has a good education, and his parents live in the western United States, so even after marriage, he will never take care of his parents-in-law.

After living with William in New York, he said he wanted to do something too, and was leaving the actor school in Manhattan.

William said he was very pretty and talented, so maybe he could be successful.

“It’s a big deal… … If it were that woman, really.”

Yoosung said, recalling how William had secretly revealed how much he loved his girlfriend.

“I know. It’s a big deal.”

Celebrating that his intentions had been fulfilled, Eugene answered with a dry voice.

If you need to know anyway, it’s better to know as soon as possible.

“Isn’t William supposed to be being harsh? here… … It’s America.”

Yoosung seems afraid that William will go somewhere and buy a gun.

“You know William’s personality.”

At least Eugene knows it well. William is not that kind of person.

He was not a person who thought of revenge prematurely, nor was he someone who would simply use violence if he did.

If William had anything to do… … .

First of all, it will be economical.

Going to school in New York costs a lot of money. Especially in places like Actor School.

“by the way… … That’s awesome. those people.”

If they didn’t know that they had anything to do with William, they were just so engrossed in each other that they thought they were both in love with each other.

The table where Eugene and Yooseong are sitting is pretty deep inside the hall, so it doesn’t look like it’s conspicuous from where the friendly couple is sitting. Or maybe they’re so preoccupied with each other that they can’t afford to care about others.

“Oh, I can’t. Brother, I have lost my appetite.”

Yooseong put down his fork without eating a few pieces of steak that was served.

“Shall we go?”

Eugene doesn’t even have an appetite. It turned out the way he wanted it to, but this wonderful steak felt like sand when he thought of William, who by now must be struggling with a terrible sense of betrayal.

Especially since it’s not anyone else and it’s Eugene.

“uh. Let’s go out for a walk. Just looking at it makes me burn ten.”

Yooseong also had a rough idea of what had happened to hyung.

“okay. Let’s go out and buy a hamburger.”

“uh. That would be much better.”

The brothers left the steakhouse and walked down the street for a while before entering a local burger shop that wasn’t crowded.

We ordered a burger with a lot of greasy cheese and cola, and the two ate it up greedily.

Taking a large bite and chewing on the hamburger, Eugene thought about William.

* * *

In their past lives, Eugene and William have been quite close.

They were of the same age, the direction of life they pursued, and above all else, they had suffered similar pains.

At least since living in New York, he deserved to be considered one of his best friends.

Occasionally, but not often, two or three would gather at a bar to order a bottle of whiskey and chat.

“I don’t know what the reason was.”

After emptying about half a bottle of whiskey together, William’s complaints began.

“She did everything she wanted. I knew she loved me too. But why?”

When I was busy working at Black Rock for a while. William’s woman seems to have fallen in love with some white man.

But instead of leaving in search of a new love, she chose to marry William.

And less than a year after marriage, she gave birth to a blue-eyed child.

“It was a shock. I never thought it would happen to me.”

“So that’s it.”

Whenever he listened to William, Eugene would reflect for a moment as to who was more unhappy, him or William, whom he had not doubted in the slightest for years after the birth of the child.

“You. idiot kkkkkk.”

Terrence, who used to be with William when he was drunk, smirked and said:

“You fell in love with the two of you even though you were deceived. for several years.”

“okay. You won.”

William took a glass of wine and held it to Eugene.

“Damn bastards. I am the King of Hogu.”

Eugene said as he lifted the glass and bumped into William’s glass and emptied it at once.

“So are you at that point?”

And asked Terrence.

“me? I still are my babies. … .”

But the only emotion that appeared on Terrence’s face was utter depression.

Terrence, like Eugene and William, was suffering from his wife’s affair.

Moreover, Terence was in the present tense.

Terrence could not afford to divorce because of the children.

It was because he feared that the children in North Korea (Taipei) would suffer, but the truth is that only he himself will know.

Upon learning that his wife was having an affair, Terrence volunteered for the US branch.

It seems that he wanted to stay away and ignore that fact.

Of course, I just reaffirmed that ignoring the facts doesn’t help anyone.

“Now, in two years, both of them will graduate from college. And then there will be nothing more to see than before. They don’t call Daddy unless they need the money… … .”

To be honest, Eugene and William thought Terrence was the real winner.

The two of them were able to shake the pain away a little bit farther away in time, but Terence was suffering from endless pain.

He said the kids would get a divorce after they graduate from college.

But neither William nor Eugene believed it.

A person once turned away is always afraid to face the truth.

“Damn losers… … .”

Terrence sighed and emptied his glass.

The reason the three of them got together was that they met frequently on the job, but it must have been because of the similar pain.

It won’t be common. The fact that three or more men who have suffered from his wife’s affair are gathered in one place.

Even if there is such a thing, it is usually men who do not show it well. However, to comfort Terrence, who accidentally brought up the story of his wife’s affair at a party, William opened his mouth first, and Eugene’s past was also revealed.

When I think back to the past, it was a truly terribly self-help meeting.

William and Terrence were respectable people as a human being, but the pain they experienced in their youth and even in their old age was consuming the three men’s minds, either small or large.

“If I could go back to my youth… … I want to ask that woman. Why did you blame it for my fault?”

That was the part that really hurt William.

“It was because I was too negligent. He said he hated the life of being invisible when he came home at night and only slept when he woke up in the morning. So he said he was attracted to people who cared about him and treated him kindly. Do you think that makes sense?”

“Most of the excuses of cheaters look the same.”

Terrence said in a voice almost crying.

“My wife said the same thing. I was too indifferent to him. How much more should I have done?”

Then, Terrence is right.

Such people always place the blame on the other person.

It was as if he believed that the other person’s flaws justified his own immorality.

Eugene had a similar experience.

“It’s because of you.”

Eugene will never forget what his wife said.

“When I shake, you should have held me.”

Looking at Eugene with piercing eyes, she let out a word of resentment.

“What should I have done?”

“I should have been a better person. You weren’t the right man for me.”

I should have asked what the hell he was thinking.

But Eugene couldn’t say anything.

It was overwhelming just to endure the shock of finding out that the woman he loved betrayed him, and that the child he loved was actually the child of a man who did not even know who he was.

As luck would have it, Eugene, who returned to the past, thought about asking her for once.

How on earth can you even think about getting married after having a relationship with someone else?

But he knew all too well how pointless it was.

* * *

“Is it all right?”

Yooseong asked after cleaning a burger.

It is ambiguous whether he is asking about William’s work or Yooseong’s feelings.

“You can say it went well. However… … Well, no. That’s good.”

Yoosung also ate his burger and said.

“Are you okay now?”

“uh. then. Are you fine. After that, everything will be fine.”

However, some wounds stick to each other like scars that cannot be erased even after decades.

There is only one way to heal such a wound.

it will pay back

The world is always like that.

The perpetrator can lightly shake off his actions and move forward.

It is always the victim who suffers.

so.

In order to heal a wound, you must become the perpetrator yourself.

At least Eugene thought so.

“I got a call from a lawyer.”

Eugene said as he left the burger shop.

“What happened?”

“uh. A trial was held, and your lawyer asked me for an in-person examination.”

“uh? party… … What?”

“Party Capital People’s Newspaper. So the plaintiff calls the defendant and asks him to testify. It’s like applying for a witness in a courtroom drama.”

“Ask for witnesses? ah… … But what to do? What are you going to ask?”

A look of disgust was evident on Yooseong’s face.

“Looks like you want to put me in court and disgrace me.”

“Do I have to go out?”

Yoosung asked worriedly.

“Go away. If I do not appear in the person’s own interrogation, the judge will accept that I have acknowledged all of their arguments.”

“Then I must go. it’s okay?”

“Are you fine. then.”

Eugene replied with a smile.

“Yesterday was very rude.”

The next day, William got a call.

“Are you all right? It looked very bad.”

“it’s okay. It wasn’t really bad at all. Can I see you for a moment this evening? I want to apologize for yesterday’s behavior, and I want to share my thoughts with you.”

“Good. Shall we see you outside? Would you like to come here?”

“I will visit. There are few places as beautiful as the terrace of Eugene’s mansion. haha.”

William laughed happily.

“I do that. Then we have dinner together.”

“You may have noticed… … .”

William, who visited Eugene’s house in the evening, opened his mouth with a little difficulty.

“It was not bad. I saw Amy there.”

“Are you talking about the one who is engaged?”

“What… … Not now.”

William said with a smile.

“I don’t know if you knew… … The woman who came in with a white man at that time. That was Amy.”

“Somehow, I was worried that it would be.”

“I was quite shocked.”

“You must have had a hard time last night.”

“Well, it was roughly. As I got home, showered and cooled my hair, she came in. He smiled so innocently and talked for a moment that I wondered if I was misunderstanding something.”

William said, emptying his drink.

“I said frankly. I had dinner with a customer at the Spark in the evening. His face turned white. I said. I’d like to end it here. She made excuses. They’re just colleagues who learn acting together at school. He said he would drop out of school if he didn’t like it. But it was after I had already made up my mind. You can’t spend the rest of your life together without trusting your partner, can you?”

William drank quite a bit. He seems embarrassed to reveal his secrets to someone who cannot be called a friend.

“He complained about what to do. If you break up with me, how do you go to school, how do you apply for permanent residence? … It’s fun, isn’t it? All he did was talk about himself.”

He took another sip of the whiskey.

“I gave her a few days to clean up and left the house. Yesterday I slept in a hotel. I never thought of going back to that house.”

“I’m glad it ended well.”

It seems that nothing as violent as Yoosung was concerned.

“I thought a lot about it until she came. What the hell happened to me? If you think about it, it looks like you should have had that thought in the first place. She was so pretty. And it seems that what she wanted from me was the background, not me.”

“William is a wonderful person. There is no need to blame yourself for such a woman.”

“Thank you. haha. It looks like you need someone to tell you that. Somehow, Eugene… … As a customer, I feel very friendly. Just like old friends. Perhaps it is because Eugene treated me well.”

It seems that Eugene’s attitude was like that. I used to treat him like a friend I had been with for a long time.

“I feel like William is a friend, too.”

Fortunately, I think I will be able to remain a good friend in this life as well.

“And you’ll see William in the newspaper anyway… … I also had a similar experience. For some reason, William’s work doesn’t feel like anyone else’s.”

Eugene said, emptying the whiskey glass.

“this… … It’s much better if you don’t agree with that experience.”

William smiled bitterly and emptied his glass.