Absolute Advantage - Chapter 35.2

“Why are you calling?”

“Huh? It’s about work.”

Sera glanced at Ellie sitting opposite and asked, and Ellie hurriedly put down her cell phone. She had just texted Haewon.

“I-it’s nothing.”

“…….”

Sera stared at the cell phone that was turned upside down so that the screen could not be seen, and turned her eyes away.

She didn’t bother to inquire into Ellie’s awkward performance. She couldn’t keep cleaning up her sister’s mess.

On the other hand, Ellie smiled as if she thought she had deceived her sister.

“It’s nice to eat alone with you after a long time.”

Ellie said in a bubbly voice.

The Seo sisters had a slow breakfast at a hotel restaurant.

“You’re right. You like pasta here.”

“How do you know that?”

“Then can’t you remember that your only sister cares for you?”

Sera asked back, pretending to be exaggerated.

Ellie died of joy at the sound of her sister. She just said the obvious thing, but what’s so good about it? Sera still looked pitifully at her childlike sister.

Actually, she had one more younger sister.

No, Seo Hae-won was nothing.

A perfunctory younger sister whose mother just picked it up at will and put it on the family register. Although there were blood ties because it was the child of her late aunt, the word omega really felt like a stranger.

“She’s going to live with us from today.”’

Sera recalled memories of her childhood.

Next to her mother, who returned home after a month, was a scruffy lump. She thought she was around Ellie’s age, but she was two years older.

On top of that, she was quite surprised to hear that she will enter middle school soon. Hae-won was so small and ugly. And it evoked hostility rather than sympathy.

“Who is it?”

“Her daughter.”

“…Aunt’s daughter?”

“Yes.”

The answering mother had sad eyes as if she were wet in the rain. My mother always looked like this when she put her eldest aunt on her lips.

Chairman Seo was not usually interested in his two daughters. In addition, she was a terrible workaholic, so she spent more time at work than at home.

She is a mother who stayed at a hotel near her company, not at home when she was resting. Chairman Seo began to go home when she picked up Hae-won.

An older sister’s daughter.

The only blood that her sister left in this world.

Seo Haewon.

Sera knew how terrible her mother had always felt for her aunt, who died. No matter what people misunderstood, her mother loved her aunt.

So she was nervous. Seo Hae-won, the eldest aunt’s daughter, might take her mother’s attention. She’s afraid she will be as horrible as her aunt.

The prediction was somewhat right.

Of course, her mother didn’t come to Haewon because she was worried. Every time, she hurled terrible words at Haewon and left.

However, Sera, thirsty for her mother’s acknowledgment, was even jealous.

“Don’t cry just because you’ve heard something bitter. If I hadn’t been interested in you, I’d have let you live on that garbage floor for the rest of your life.’

That’s what her mother said.

Sera trembled when she thought of a 100-point test paper that filled her desk drawer in her room as a child even after she was over 30.

It’s only natural for her to win first place. On the contrary, if any ranking fell, Seo Hae-won had to be kicked out by the wind of pajamas even in cold winter.

Everyone would be happy if her mother didn’t expect such an inferior omega.

If it weren’t for Seo Hae-won in the first place…….

Her neck was hot. Sarah gulped down the water and she said with a calmer face, “Seo Ellie, stay quiet for a while.”

“Are you nagging me again?”

Ellie pouted her lips as she rummaged through the pasta. But she was unconsciously looking at her sister.

She was going to take part in Mr. Lee’s poker game soon. How was she supposed get the stakes? The thought of kneeling down to Adam made her stomach boil.

“Mother is sensitive these days.”

Ellie stopped and blinked just before putting the rolled pasta in her mouth. Don’t tell me, she didn’t notice, did she?

“It’s Aunt’s day soon.”

Ah.

Relieved, Ellie mumbled the pasta with her fork.

‘Mother gets sensitive to big auntie’s day, by the way.’

Ellie nodded obediently. But inside, she was thinking about something else.

She’ll just play this poker game and rest for a while. Anyway, it’s okay if she doesn’t get caught.

Ellie grinned as she made eye contact with Sera. Then, she secretly changed the subject.

“Hey, what’s that guy doing, Joo Adam?”

“What’s wrong with him?”

To make me want to eat it’s appetite Sarah clicked her tongue.

She lost her appetite. Sera clicked her tongue.

“No~ I’ve heard about the JS Art Museum from all over the place these days. Foreign media are making a fuss about the exhibition. Don’t you think he’s overdoing it?”

Ellie replied deftly. Sarah’s eyes narrowed.

“He will soon be the son-in-law of a Seo-Hwa Group, so he must be immersed in his own world.”

“That’s what I’m saying!”

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