The Ultimate Soulmate's

Listen to Stories of the Past

Twenty-one years ago, "Can't we keep it? Are you sure you want a divorce from me?" jeon Sungjin asked Jeon Youra, his wife and the eomma of Kim Seojun, his first son. "Yes, my decision will never change and Seojun will use my surname!" youra replied that she was already hurt at her husband's betrayal, although Sungjin repeatedly said that it was just an unintentional mistake. "Your accident still destroys us and I will never forget it!" youa continued in between sobs that made Sungjin feel guilty about his actions.

If only that night, Sungjin was not drunk and did not sleep with a woman he did not know, he was sure, his household would be fine, he said, although it only started from the matchmaking parents because he had started to learn to love Youra who had given him a son. "I'm sorry." That's all Sungjin can say over and over again. On the one hand, he felt guilty for hurting the woman who was his wife. On the other hand, Sungjin also feels guilty for a woman whose name he does not even know. Especially when Sungjin woke up in the morning, the foreign woman who had spent her first night with him was no longer in his hotel room and only left a question mark and curiosity in the heart of a Jeon Sungjin.

The first and unexpected encounter that not only left a mark on Jeon Sungjin's heart, but also on Min Mirae's life, a simple beautiful girl who came to Jeju Island to attend the wedding of her sister who is an artist of the capital. It was the wedding day of Lee Daeshim and Min Miyoung, both of my parents, which was held on Jeju Island behind closed doors. Jeon Sungjin who is my superiors and friends was forced to come alone because his wife was taking care of their sick son. Sungjin was drinking too much that night until he entered the hotel room where the guests were staying. Sungjin walked into the room of Mirae, my aunt, who was taking a bath before she intended to take a break after the wedding.

There is no previous introduction between the two of them and the meeting of the two only starts from accident and ends the coercion made by Sungjin who lost his mind when he saw Mirae's beautiful body. Mirae who was petite and powerless against the strength of Sungjin who had a large height posture, could only cry helplessly. For the first time in his life, Mirae condemned the silence she suffered from at birth. In just a matter of minutes, the innocent girl's life was shattered instantly by a man she didn't know. Frightened and confused, Mirae decides to run away leaving Sungjin asleep after planting her seed on Mirae.

Since then, the mute Mirae, grew more and more silent with her blank stare. Miyoung, my eomma who realized her brother's sweet smile had suddenly disappeared from her wedding day, could only resign herself to not getting any answers from Mirae. Days change months, Miyoung's questions are answered with Mirae's enlarged stomach. Miyoung tries to ask Mirae to open her mouth, but it is useless because Mirae does not know who the man is and where to hold him accountable.

Daeshim, my appa helped by searching the surveillance footage at the scene hotel, but came too late because the footage had been deleted by someone who did not know and that someone was Jeon Youra, his own best friend's wife. After the incident, Sungjin returned home in a state of chaos. The suspicious Youa finds lipstick marks on Sungjin's ripped shirt, as well as some nail claw marks on her husband's body. Youra went berserk and found out by looking at the surveillance footage at the hotel.

Seeing a woman come out in a mess from the room she entered 1 hour earlier, Youra was further devastated and immediately asked for a divorce from Sungjin, without listening to any explanation from Sungjin at all. Sungjin, feeling guilty, begs Youra for forgiveness and persuades him to keep the household for Seojun, their son, but his efforts never work, until the divorce cannot be avoided.

Without anyone knowing, since the incident, secretly due to his deep guilt, Sungjin insists on finding Mirae with a makeshift clue, although his efforts were also never fruitful at all because the only clue that the surveillance camera footage had been removed by his wife. The search of both sides that actually adrift each other never produces results because each of them do it secretly for the good name of the family that does not want to be defiled.

"Come, happy!" said Miyoung also who was accompanying Mirae at her home. "Stop like this! Even if this is heavy, the eonni must survive for the sake of the child who is eonni-brain. This kid's not wrong. He just wants to live, eonni," Miyoung continued. To be honest, Miyoung herself did not know what to do, if the child Mirae was born without an appa. "At least, if she was born, eonni would not be lonely anymore" said Miyoung, hugging the depressed Mirae from the moment. The spirit of the mute woman's life was lost after she learned of her pregnancy, even slowly eating away at her physically weak birth and Mirae was finally only able to survive until the child she gave birth to was 6 years old.

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"I'm sorry. I know, it's all useless. It's all too late. Very late, even I just found out your name today, Mirae." said Mr. Jeon in front of the tomb of the woman he finally managed to find after decades of searching. "If it wasn't Junghwa who showed me a picture of Yongju and said that his idol looked like me when I was young, maybe I would never have found you all my life," he continued while putting an incense stick in front of a beautiful photo of Mirae.

"Since that night, I lost my wife and son to divorce. But I don't know if our meeting made me lose my way or if I was lost in the first place because of the match," she said, recalling what happened decades ago. "I find it strange to say that I fell in love with you at first sight, when we only met once. As for the woman who was my wife for two years, I didn't feel what love was" she continued.

"But strangely, I still want to find you until I can. Even when I was together and married another woman, one corner of my heart still wanted to find you. Isn't this even stranger?" he said with a bitter smile. "Yes, this is all like a strange fate. How come all this time, I didn't manage to find you two, when in reality we were adrift so closely together like this?" regrettable Lord Jeon who just found out the truth that the woman he was looking for was the sister-in-law of his own best friend. "I'm sorry. It is regretful to have our son born with such a frightening childhood. Our son must be lonely without us. I'm sorry, Mirae. Forgive me.." said Mr. Jeon who repeatedly bowed his head in front of Mirae's tomb.

Yongju was silent as he looked and listened to all the truth that Lord Jeon had said. Not only Yongju, but also Junghwa and Seojun standing beside Yongju. The three brothers hid behind the wall of the room while leaning their heads against the wall, even Junghwa to tears heard the story. While Seojun with all his strength held back his tears so as not to fall. Seojun stared at Yongju with a hard-to-understand look. "If your eomma is still the cause of my appa and eomma divorce, but I am happy to see a happy appa has finally found you" Seojun said in his heart.

A few minutes ago, Seojun, upset with Yongju's brash attitude, came to Yongju's car and forced his sister to return to their appa by dragging him in violently. Junghwa, the youngest could only try to break up the commotion of his two hyungs while following them behind and when they got back in front of the tomb, the three simply fell silent listening to their past stories.