A Handsome K*nky Gangster Reporter - Chapter 79

#79

Bella had been neglecting her daughter, and she didn’t even think she had the qualifications to be a mother. Therefore, she signed on as a palace maid because she wanted to be by her daughter’s side for the rest of her life. Her daughter was very beautiful and grew up well. Although Empress Fionia was sometimes too hard on her, she occasionally stopped her with witch power. She responded to the witch’s power. That was when Fionia realized Bella.

“Hey! What are you? What is your relationship with Gloria?”

The life of a witch was time-limited. She had transferred her soul to another body and moved on with her life until now. After learning that her son had married Bella’s daughter, the Empress stopped bothering Gloria from then on.

However, whenever she saw Bella, the empress snickered at Bella. Although offended that the strange snicker seemed to hold another meaning, Bella was happy because the presence that plagued her daughter in the Imperial Palace had disappeared.

However, she was struck with the news of her daughter’s s*ic*de.

Bella didn’t know where her daughter got the terrible poison, but her daughter was said to be suffering from mental illness due to loneliness in the palace. That was the testimony of Gloria’s closest maid, so she had to believe it. According to the maid, her daughter often stumbled upon difficulties between the crown prince who was having an affair with her mother-in-law.

After losing her only daughter, Bella felt like the world was crumbling. 

She reflected on her life so far, but it was too late. Her daughter lived in a place more luxurious than anyone else with expensive things on her body and became a noble person. However, her daughter’s life was no longer more precious than the necklace around her neck.

Bella could feel her soul slipping away from her daughter’s body.

“No! We can’t end up like this!”

Tears began to flow even more profusely. There was a chuckling sound from deep in Bella’s throat. ‘Ah, it turns out I love this child more than I thought. I shouldn’t have run away in fear like that.’ Late regret led to the wrong choice of an angel.

Desperate, Bella turned back time by promising the demon that she would give up her wings. The devil appeared in the guise of Daniel, her first and last ex-husband whom she loved. A black mist crept up around his body.

“Help! This child and I, we want to start over.”

The devil was pleased to see the angel’s desperate expression. The devil couldn’t believe the noble angel made such an expression because she was only bound to these things. A moment later, he saw a future where Bella struggled in hell many times in life in the human world.

‘Oh, this stupid angel must be enjoying the torment.’

He burst out laughing while pulling his lips almost all the wat to his ears.

“Sometimes life is more painful than hell. Well, I’ll help you. Give me your wings in exchange.”

Just for fun. The devil returned their time like a joke. Whether sad to part, Bella then looked at the soul of the princess floating beside her and said silently.

‘Next time, don’t choose the Crown Prince and live lonely like last time.’

However, contrary to the witch’s wishes, her daughter could not be happy even if she turned back time.

After going back in time, Bella raised her daughter alone this time. In a more precious way than anyone else, so that she would not fall into any danger. She was confident and even took the place of what her daughter should do.

Bella didn’t know back then. If the parents step up and do everything, your child will lose the chance to do things on their own and become stupid.

“The world is dangerous. Mom will always be there for you.”

‘It was purely because I love my daughter. I never thought that overprotection would poison my daughter.’

Frustrated with her mother’s meddling, her daughter runs away from home at one point and falls in love with a dangerous man in the back alley. That was Phillip. Phillip was a strange man, sort of a leader of the dark group. He loved her daughter, but he was obsessed with her.

Thanks to her son-in-law not letting her go out after marriage, Bella was forced to go straight to the Dunger residence to see her daughter’s face. ‘My daughter is getting thinner and thinner day by day because she’s having a hard time.’

“Mother will help, Phillip. How about divorcing her?”

The daughter had no freedom because of the attachment that was getting worse by the day. Bella had to make her more experienced. The daughter loved her mother and hated her at the same time. Even so, she didn’t face the fact that she chose the wrong man.

“Because he loves me so much. If I do well, we will live happily. Look at this necklace. It’s pretty, isn’t it? He bought it for me and said it would suit me. Mother, I’m happy. You don’t have to worry about me. Please refrain from visiting suddenly like this. He doesn’t like it.”

Her daughter turned her eyes away from Bella while caressing the large blue diamond necklace. Realizing that it was impossible to distract her daughter’s mind, she swallowed a sip of cold tea.

“The tea is already cold. Change it to a new one.”

The maid approached the witch and threw away the cold tea and brought warm tea. The witch who examined the maid’s face raised one of her eyebrows.

“Who are you?”

She was the maid who helped her daughter in the imperial palace in the past. The servant girl who Bella remembered her face because they were always together.

“Gloria saved my life. From then on, she served by my side.”

She was a girl with a common name. She didn’t even need to remember his name. It was the second mistake the angel made in the human world to ignore the maid that day and leave the residence.

That evening, the maid in question reported today’s events to Phillip.

“The Madam’s mother came, and persuaded her to break up the marriage while saying she would introduce Miss Gloria to another man who has a steady job. She seemed to waver by her mother’s words.”

“So she said it again?”

Phillip praised his servant and given her a pocket of money before going to the bedroom with an uncomfortable feeling.

There were too many people eyeing the beautiful and kind-hearted woman. These unpleasant and complicated feelings were all felt by him. ‘I love her so much.’

‘Last time I fired one of the coachmen in this manor because she was seen with the coachman. Now his mother has come here and said she will look for another man.’

What was Phillip lacking so much that she needed to to look for another good man? Phillip felt lucky to have a guard beside his wife. Otherwise, his wife who would have left him earlier. His wife was beautiful and so innocent and good that everyone coveted her.

From unmarried butlers to coachmen and even jewelers. Every man he met was enamored by her. What made him even angrier was that Gloria didn’t even actively resist those men. Shooing servants out of her room and talking with them. Every time Phillip heard such things from his house servants, he felt as if his blood was boiling in anger.

“Gloria, I don’t want to see Bella for a while.”

“Why are you saying this again?”

“Your mother asked you to divorce me, right?”

“Are you putting surveillance on me? I’m your wife. Don’t you trust me?”

“It’s all because I love you so much!”

‘This is the first time I’ve ever loved someone like this. That’s why I’m doing this. I love you so much that your every action gives it meaning, and I misunderstood you like that.’

Phillip was angry and made excuses for that, but in the end he blamed his own wife. Thus, Phillip imprisoned her in the name of ‘love’, and justified it. In the end, she was tired and ended her life by drinking even though she knew the cup of tea handed over by the housemaid was poisoned.

Having been unable to stop her daughter’s death again, Bella again prayed to the devil who appeared before her. Please help me one more time. This time, Bella lost her remaining wings.

“Do you think your daughter’s life will be different this time?”

The scoffing demon gave a gift to Bella’s daughter who was starting her fourth life. It reminded her of the memories of her first life, the soul who came from another world.

* * *

On the way to work, I turned my gaze out the window. Claude and Phillip were engaged in a psychological battle with each other, until they felt tired at one point. How many minutes had passed? My head fell several times without me realizing it and fell asleep.

‘Is this a dream?’

In this dream, I was back to my old self. Black eyes with black hair. When I put down my hand mirror and looked around, the seniors were moving diligently while holding cameras.

‘This seems when I transferred to the broadcasting station.’

That was when I quit because I was fed up with the newspaper company and worked as a new employee at the local broadcasting company. As I looked around, heavy rain and strong winds were blowing violently outside. There was an annoying sound from the glass entrance door that wasn’t fastened with a rope.

‘Oh, I seem to know where this is. It turns out there was a typhoon broadcast at the passenger terminal.’

I almost cried because I was happy to see the modern world that I hadn’t seen in a long time.

“Hey! What are you doing? Get in the rain now!”

The tears that were just about to come out went inside the senior’s bruises. There was no feeling of longing in my tears. I walked alone into that horrible downpour with only one corner of my mouth raised. They didn’t want to get caught in the rain, so they opt to stay inside the building.

“Don’t let the rain get into the equipment, so we’ll enlarge the maximum here. You can read the article according to the sign. Okay?”

I’m about to pull out the zoom camera, so I’m the only one who says to read the article while being exposed to the rain and wind. Yes, I understand how cameramen feel. We can’t get caught in the rain with expensive equipment. However, that same reporter, the boy with the senior name Gwi-nam was nagging me like a st*pid brother-in-law.

“Pretend to have trouble getting into the broadcast! You also showed your body shaking from the cold!”

Unlike me, the senior conductor stood with a normal appearance without getting caught in the rain. She ordered me to make enough memes to overcome reporters from other broadcasting companies.

“Untie, untie your hair.”

If you read the article with long hair fluttering in this rain and wind, you will look very funny. After this broadcast comes out, I think my embarrassing photo will circulate in the internet community for a while.

‘If you know well, you stand in front of the camera instead.’

I stood in front of the camera while grumbling inwardly, and suddenly getting goosebumps all over. Someone placed a cold hand on my shoulder. As I turned my head, the sparkling eyes of the woman wearing the hat met my gaze. The stalker who had been bothering me for a long time. As soon as I saw the woman’s empty pupils, I felt scared.

The woman muttered something strange to me.

“You made me… Do you think you can?”

It was also the moment when I felt the coolness of the knife behind my back. A steaming red liquid came out of my body and immediately fell to the floor. I couldn’t understand this situation properly.

“…Sh*t.”

This wasn’t real. I was just facing the memories of the past again in my dreams now.

I wanted to see the villain’s face clearly, but my vision immediately went dark.

It wasn’t fair to see her again. If I had known that I would die so stupidly in my previous life, I should have tried to use my money without considering about next month’s card fees at all. It was said to be envious of celebrities’ weight, don’t chew grass, and eat all greasy high-calorie foods. There are still many foods that I have never tried.

‘My next life will be tuna and increasing my belly fat value.’

Unfortunately, this was the last thought I had when I was back in the real modern world.