Something Beautiful

Chapter 1

The crazy blonde woman propped her body with one elbow and then pulled the blanket up to the chest. Frowning slightly he noticed the eighteen-year-old handsome young man standing in front of the bedroom window. The young man leaned his shoulders against the window sill while observing the backyard, where his mother's celebration party was taking place.

"What are you looking at, that you find more interesting than me?" madam Lee asked as she wrapped the blanket around her body and walked over to the window.

Kim Mingyu, Kim Group's heir apparent, did not seem to have heard the question because he kept looking towards the palace-like estate, which one day, if his father had died, he said, it will be his. While watching the labyrinth of plants below, he saw his mother coming out of a bin. The woman looked around for a moment then straightened her corset and tidied up her dense dark hair so as not to look messy. Not long after, a man came out of the pile while tying his tie back. While the two people joined hands, their laughter floated in through the open window of Mingyu's bedroom.

A sardonic smile graced the handsome young Mingyu's face as she watched her mother and her newest lover traverse the courtyard and walk towards the gazebo. A few minutes later, his father also came out of the same nursery, looked around, then pulled a woman, his current mistress, from a glance.

"It seems that my mother has a new lover," Mingyu said sarcastically.

"really?" ms Lee asked as she peeked out the window. "Who?"

"Your husband." Mingyu turned around to face Lady Lee, observing the beautiful face of the woman, wanting to know if the woman was surprised. When he looked not surprised in the least, his facial expression hardened into a cynical mask. "You already know they're all at once, that's why you suddenly became interested in sleeping on my bed, isn't that right?"

The woman nodded, looking nervous under those cold gray eyes. "I thought," he said as he rubbed his hand against Mingyu's sturdy chest, "it would be nice if we could be together. But my interest in your bed did not come suddenly, Mingyu, I have long wanted you. Now that your mother and my husband are having fun, I see it never hurts to get what I wanted all along. What's wrong with that?"

Mingyu said nothing, the woman observed her mysterious expression, then smiled spoiledly. "You surprised?"

"Absolutely not," Mingyu replied. "I've known about my mother's affair since I was eight, and I don't think I'd be surprised at anything a woman does. If anything, I'm surprised you didn't propose that the six of us meet in the labyrinth for 'family gathering'" he said in a deliberate insult.

Madam Lee let out a choking sound that resembled laughter and fear. "Now you're surprising me,"

Mingyu slowly reached out and raised her chin, watching the woman's face with a gaze that was too cruel, too wise for a young man her age. "Either why I find it hard to believe,"

Suddenly embarrassed, Lady Lee pulled her hand from Mingyu's chest and wrapped the blanket tighter into her plain body. "Really, Mingyu, I don't understand why you look at me as if I should be hated" she said, her face looking completely confused and a little embarrassed. "You're not married yet, so you don't know how boring the life we're living, if we don't cheat to ease the tension in our brains, we can all go crazy."

The sad tone in Madam Lee's voice made Mingyu's expression soften and her firm yet seductive lips curled up making a mocking smile.

"Madam Lee was poor little" he said flatly, reached out and stroked the woman's cheek with his knuckle. "You women are so sad. From birth, everything you want is available, so you don't have to work, and even if you want to work, you're not allowed to do it. We don't allow you to learn and exercise, so you can't train your brain or body. You don't even have the honor you can be proud of, a man's honor will remain his as long as he wills, while the honor of a woman is between the legs and will be handed over to the first man who gets it. How unfair is life to you?" Mingyu finished his sentence. "It's no wonder you're all so bored, immoral and stupid."

Madam Lee hesitated for a moment, surprised at Mingyu's words, unsure whether the man was mocking her or not, then shrugged. "You're absolutely right."

Mingyu looked at Madame Lee curiously. "Have you ever thought of changing all that?"

"No" I'm Mrs Lee frankly.

Despite being only eighteen years old, Mingyu's allure had already become a topic of interesting conversation among women, and as Madame Lee stared into those cynical gray eyes, she said, he suddenly felt himself completely captivated, as if being pulled by a powerful magnetic field. The man's eyes radiated understanding, as well as amused and bitter wisdom that far surpassed his age. It was these kinds of things that fascinated women to him, and it was even more attractive than his handsome, manly face. Mingyu understood the woman, the man understood her, and although it seemed obvious the man neither admired nor liked her, the man accepted Madame Lee as she was, with all her flaws.

"Are you going to get into bed, My Lord?"

"No," Mingyu replied kindly.

"Why?

"Because I haven't been so bored that I want to sleep with my mother's lover's wife."

"you didn't... You don't really appreciate women, do you?" ask Mrs Lee, because she can't help herself.

"Is there any reason I should appreciate them?"

"I...." Mrs Lee bit her lip then reluctantly shook her head. "No. Seems not. But someday you'll have to get married to have children."

Mingyu's eyes suddenly glittered amusedly, then he leaned his back against the window sill, folding his hands in front of his chest. "Married? Did ya? Is that how people have offspring? All this time, I thought...."

"Mingyu, my goodness!" madam Lee exclaimed with a stupor, more because she was fascinated by the man's relaxed and clumsy demeanor. "You need a legitimate offspring."

"If I am forced to marry in order to get offspring," Mingyu replied bitterly, "I will choose a plain girl who has just graduated from school, who is willing to go up to my lap and do all my commands."

"And if he gets bored and looks for another distraction, what will you do?"

"Will he get bored?" Asked Mingyu with a sharp tone.

Madame Lee shrugged Mingyu's broad and muscular shoulders, her fielded chest, and her slender waist, then her eyes turned to her rough yet handsome face. Wrapped in linen shirts and tight-fitting riding pants, each inch of Mingyu's tall body exuded undeniable strength and good looks. Eyebrows above Mrs Lee's brown eyes lifted. "Maybe not."

While the woman was dressed, Mingyu turned her body to the window and angrily looked at the graceful guests gathered in the courtyard to celebrate her mother's birthday. To outsiders, that day the Kim family home must have looked like a beautiful paradise garden inhabited by beautiful, free, tropical birds showing off their beautiful outfits. For eighteen-year-old Kim Mingyu, the scene was completely unattractive and not beautiful, he knew very well what was going on behind the walls of his house when the guests had left.

At the age of eighteen, he did not believe in people who had good qualities, including himself. He has a good pedigree, a handsome face, and wealth, but he is also saturated with the world, cynical and closed.

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