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pho had grown tired of her father’s urging her to find a suitable husband and this was, in her opinion, just his latest attempt at begging her to show some interest in a man who was, in his opinion, on her level. she couldn’t take it. she’d reached the point where the sight of a man pretty much made her nauseous and after all that had happened with her dating life in high school, she didn’t even want one near her and definitely not close enough to marry. she didn’t want to be in a situation where there was a man who wanted anything from her and she surely did not want anything from a man.
despite that, she stood in front of the ornate mirror in the dressing room of her parent’s estate as her mother primped and preened over her hair. a waft of steam from the curling iron grace her skin and she winced. “Ma! Stop it. Even if I look ugly, which let’s be honest, I never do, it’s not like he has a choice, right? If Appa has got his dad as locked into this as he say then he’s just like me. Marriage or...I don’t know, poverty,” pho would’ve been okay with being poor. As a matter of a fact, she might’ve even preferred to be a penniless nobody and if it wasn’t for the orphanage that she up-kept, the addiction clinic she secretly funded and the smuggling she so passionately ran under the streets of seoul, she would’ve decided to say ‘Fuck This’ and do what she wanted, anyway. the problem was, though, that she couldn’t do that. it wasn’t just her life that was at stake. it was her employees and the kids and the addicts that would be out of a healthy detox and a place to get better. she groaned waving her mother away and standing as she smoothed her hands over her dress and walked to the foyer where her father ( and several servants ) had been waiting. she stood still sighing as she heard the car pull up. Fucking showtime. She thought as she watched her father walk out the door to greet what would soon be her father-in-law ( though, she was hoping her personality alone would be enough to ruin the deal ).