The Unyielding Wife
“No, that’s out of the question for me too. If it’s anything like that, I’m not even going to start.”
“Right. I don’t want to see you and your sister-in-law split up either. I want the two of you to live comfortably and happily, the way my wife and I do. That’s why I’m trying to help.”
“How?”
“Like I said earlier, I’ll talk to Jin-hee and have her go to the massage parlor with her. Start with ordinary massage, then slowly turn up the heat.”
“Do you think that’ll be okay?”
“I don’t know. But Jin-hee will handle it well. Stuff like this can’t be rushed. It has to be slow enough that she barely even realizes she’s changing...”
“Yeah.”
Before I knew it, I was listening so intently to my brother-in-law that I had leaned in without realizing it.
“No one knows whether your sister-in-law will end up like Jin-hee. Only she’ll know. I just want her to change without getting hurt, and get along well with you.”
At his words, another thought flashed through me.
Maybe my brother-in-law really could change my wife in the right way.
Honestly, I had no confidence at all. I knew better than anyone how hard it would be for me to change her myself.
With him, maybe it really could become the kind of relationship I’d only imagined before: my wife falling for another man, but never leaving me.
He and my sister-in-law had a free-spirited kind of relationship, and if she was helping him change my wife, then it didn’t seem like it would be a problem for the two of them to get involved. They were family only by name; in the end, there was no blood tie between my wife and him. As long as they were both fine with it, didn’t that make it a relationship with no real issue?
Besides, he’d had a vasectomy, so there was that sense of safety too. I didn’t know how big he was, but I even found myself hoping he was large enough to break my wife down, and skilled enough to do it properly.
“Well... let’s keep watching for now. If one or two sessions were all it took to change her, you wouldn’t have suffered all this time, would you?”
As he poured me another drink, he kept going.
“If someone keeps stimulating the erogenous zones and nothing’s released, their sex drive’s only going to keep building. If there’s no reaction by next week, let’s move on to the next stage.”
“The next stage?”
“Yeah. Actually, there’s another course at that massage parlor above the erotic massage, but that would be too much for your sister-in-law, and probably for you too.”
“What is it?”
“What do you think? A male masseur comes in, gets her worked up, and then she has sex.”
“Ah...”
Even to me, it was hard to imagine my wife doing something like that. I couldn’t even picture her getting aroused from an erotic massage, let alone mixing bodies with another man.
“So if there’s still no reaction by next week, let’s have a drink at our place.”
“A drink?”
Even if nothing happened, the four of us already drank together often, so I couldn’t tell what would be different.
“Get her drunk, have her sleep with Jin-hee, and have Jin-hee do some petting.”
“My sister-in-law?”
“Yeah. Jin-hee’s bisexual too, so she’ll probably be good at it. If your wife’s drunk, she won’t be able to resist. And since it’s her own older sister, the shock won’t be that big.”
As for me, I couldn’t imagine my sister-in-law doing such a thing at all. I’d always only seen her as a polished, proper woman, so the gap between that image and what he was describing felt enormous.
“If you’re okay with it, I can step in too.”
“Huh? You?”
“What? Is that a problem?”
“No... honestly, it’s not like I haven’t thought about it.”
“Yeah? Then it’d be more comfortable... and I am a professional, after all. Hahaha.”
Probably a little embarrassed, he laughed louder than necessary, then glanced around and cut himself off when he realized he’d been too loud.
“Well... let’s talk about that later. You should try setting the mood at home too. Make it a little different from usual.”
“Okay.”
And that was that.
For the rest of that week, nothing happened.
Even when I asked my wife to sleep with me, she said she was tired and suggested we do it another time, and each time that happened, my pointless anticipation collapsed, leaving me even more disappointed than before.
The more that happened, the more I found myself wishing my brother-in-law would just take my wife in hand and properly train her himself.
Then the week passed, and the following week brought a change.
For the first time in her life, my wife was the one who suggested we sleep together.
“Oppa... should we do it tonight? I felt bad about saying no last time...”
At her words, I rushed into the bathroom, washed up, and came back out. Then, kissing her, I casually slid my hand downward.
But when she grabbed my hand the way she had before and said we should just do it, my disappointment only deepened.
There was nothing especially different from usual. Still, unless I’d misheard, I thought I caught a tiny moan from her, but I couldn’t ask whether she’d made a sound, so I had no choice but to wonder if I’d imagined it.
In the end, the thought that I should leave my wife to my brother-in-law was taking up more and more space in my mind.
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“Sis~ Brother-in-law~ We’re here~”
At last, we made plans to have a drink at my sister-in-law’s place the following weekend. Since it would be hard to go home after drinking the way we usually did, I went over intending to stay the night.
From the moment I stepped into their house, I was hit with a different kind of excitement and anticipation, and all I wanted was for time to move quickly.
“Welcome, sister-in-law~ For some reason, you look even prettier than the last time I saw you.”
“Hehe, thank you. It’s all thanks to you, brother-in-law.”
“Huh? Thanks to me?”
“You’re the one who got my sister to go to the massage parlor, right?”
“Ahhh~”
Watching my brother-in-law play dumb so naturally, I thought to myself how smooth he was.
“Man, it was worth doing. Our sister-in-law was already pretty enough, but if she gets any prettier, Woo-min’s in trouble.”
“Stop trying to stir things up. Anyway, thanks, brother-in-law.”
“You hungry? I made dakdoritang. Let’s eat first.”
There was already a pot of dakdoritang sitting on the table, and I naturally headed into the kitchen to ask my sister-in-law.
“Jin-hee, want me to serve the rice?”
“Damn, look at our Woo-min oppa and his sense. No wonder she’s precious to you.”
“You really do seem to love my husband way too much. Oppa, give me lots of rice~”
“Okay~ Should I give you a lot too, brother-in-law?”
“No, I’m fine with a normal amount.”
I scooped out four bowls of rice, set them down, and sat beside my wife.
“Eat well~”
“Wow, this looks good. Thanks, sis.”
“Oh, this looks delicious. I’ll eat well, sister-in-law~”
Just looking at it made my mouth water, and we ended up focusing on eating while repeatedly saying how good everything was. Before long, all of us were full.
“Wow, I’m stuffed. My stomach feels like a balloon.”
“Sis, this is so good. The chicken was good, but the seasoning was the real rice thief.”
We naturally moved to the living room sofa, each of us drinking the coffee my sister-in-law had made and watching TV while we let our food settle.
“I bought a really nice wine for our sister-in-law today.”
“Oh, really? Since the food had a little kick to it, I’ve been craving something sweet.”
“Haha, I figured you’d say that, so I picked a sweet one. There’s only one bottle, so this one’s just for you, sis.”
“Hehehe, our brother-in-law really is the best~”
We naturally moved back to the table, and my sister-in-law, as if she’d prepared in advance, brought out cheese, crackers, and fruit as snacks.
My brother-in-law took the wine he’d mentioned out of the cabinet, and I pulled beer and soju from the fridge. When our eyes met, he gave me a signal that there was something special about the wine.
Later I found out it was a sweet wine, but with a higher alcohol content than most others, the kind that went down easily and got you drunk quickly.
My wife must have liked it, because she kept sipping at it, and before long she’d finished the entire bottle by herself.
“Is it good?”
“Yeah. This is really good. I should remember it and drink it whenever I want something sweet.”
“It’s hard to get in Korea. I had a friend who brings things in from France get it for me. I’m not even sure it’s officially imported here yet. You might be able to find it if you look, but it won’t be easy.”
“No way, this is so special...”
Hearing my wife laugh, I could tell she was getting a little drunk.
She switched to beer and kept drinking, and maybe because she was in such a good mood, she seemed to be drinking more than usual.
Not knowing what the other three of us were thinking, my wife accepted every drink we offered and swallowed it down obediently, growing steadily more intoxicated.
“Ah... I feel so good tonight~~”
“You’re drunk.”
“So what if I am? There are only people I like and feel comfortable with here... Brother-in-law, I can get a little drunk tonight, right?”
Even my brother-in-law probably hadn’t seen her this drunk in a long time.
The first time we’d all drunk together after getting married, she’d gotten tipsy, but after that, she’d never really drunk enough to get drunk like this.
His nephew had been around at my sister-in-law’s house too, and we’d also been trying hard to have a baby, so we’d only ever stopped at a certain point.
But tonight, it seemed like she’d come in determined to get drunk, and seeing my wife like this again after so long made her look oddly cute to me.