Fate 36 (1/1)

From every wound there is a scarAnd every scar tells a storyA story that says, I survived. “Auntie, I don’t mean to be rude but what made you come over to my house so suddenly?”  “Can we talk in private? Just you and me?” “Dara ah, will you please marry Jiyong? Before he left, he promised me that he will marry whoever I was about to choose for him to finally settle down. Let him take responsibility and take care of you for the rest of your life. Marry him and you will lead a comfortable life. I am really.. really… sorry for what happened" said Madam Jung as a tear gently rolled down her face.  “As a mother, would you let your child suffer the consequences of a sin he never committed consciously? He was not himself when he did that. He was not Kwon Jiyong. That, was a monster.” “My son would never do such a thing. He is a man with dignity. He was brought up well enough to at least be that.” Madam Jung shook with anger. Dara was just plainly staring at Madam Jung in confusion. Marry. Responsibility. Sin. Committed.  What on earth was she talking about? Just then a photo was placed on the table. We couldn't find him that night. We sent fifty of our people to go look for him. Late night parties are common I would say but on that night he didn’t return even after 5am and that was when his father and I started panicking, thinking that something bad had happened to him. We really thought that he was kidnapped and so we waited so long expecting a phone call from the kidnappers asking for a ransom. But it never came. One of our bodyguards finally found him in that secluded street, lying unconscious on the floor. He woke up not having a single memory of what happened that night. We decided to never tell him to not let this matter haunt him. He was drugged, if you are wondering. And it’s by a close friend of his. I had my team of people who worked hard to find adequate evidence to finally put that guy behind bars. It was a drug so potent that any higher dosage of it could have easily killed my son. Taeyang, that friend of yours. He came to find me, asking me if I had any idea about the owner of the photo. That was when it all clicked. He was talking about his friend and that friend was you, Dara. No wonder I thought you looked familiar the first time I saw you. There was a man who was following him that night. He took photos of the scene. Unfortunately, he never admitted who he was working for but we caught him and he said that those photos were meant to threaten us, Kwons. That, was when I decided that you should be the one to marry Jiyong. Upon receiving such confirmation, such revelation that the rapist was indeed Jiyong, Dara went insane; making a rash decision of wanting to accept the offer of marriage. She started throwing things around her when Taeyang asked her about it. "I don't care!! I will ruin his life just like how he ruined mine!!" she finally looked up at Taeyang with bloodshot teary eyes.  But you heard his mother, he was drugged, Dara. What is the point of you sacrificing your own future, your own life, your own happiness then? Can't you just let it go? There is nothing you can do to change the past, why won’t you just let it go!  Jiyon