Bedroom Genius Actor - Chapter 106

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Episode 106

“Hmm….”

A number written on the wine bottle.

Why was there suddenly a number written here?

Kim Ji-hu stared intently at the wine bottle.

“It is rather suspicious.”

This was probably why the police hadn’t discovered it either.

They likely only took a small sample for component testing and didn’t pour out the entire wine bottle.

‘So they just handled it on their end….’

Wouldn’t that have been more convenient instead?

Kim Ji-hu first tried to contact Dok-go Cheol.

But before that, he felt a bit of curiosity.

‘Should I try calling first….’

If the police contacted them, the other party might catch on, right?

Especially since ‘Park, the President’ seemed to be involved everywhere.

There was no guarantee there weren’t people within the police who were connected to ‘Park, the President.’

‘I’ll call and if it seems too strange, I’ll hang up right away….’

So he decided to try calling by himself first.

Ring- Ring-

After a brief ringtone, someone answered the phone.

-*Sob*… Who is this….

A woman’s voice soaked in tears.

“Who… who is this?”

-Huh?

“No… well….”

He had called, but it was awkward to know what to say.

-Don’t do voice phishing! I’m already having a hard enough time as it is….

“…?”

-Really, life… *sob*….

Since the person who left the phone number was sniffling and crying, Kim Ji-hu could only feel flustered.

‘What kind of person is this anyway.’

As Kim Ji-hu remained awkwardly silent, a voice came through.

-Why aren’t you hanging up! Really… yes… wait a moment…. Could it be.

Then, as if realizing something, the other party asked urgently.

-Are you by any chance Kim Ji-hu?

It seemed they had figured it out. Kim Ji-hu acknowledged it for now.

“Y-yes, that’s right.”

At his acknowledgment, the woman spoke in a desperate voice.

-K-Kim Ji-hu, I’m really, really sorry but… could you please help us….

***

‘Asking me for help… what is she thinking….’

Kim Ji-hu was dumbfounded.

‘Could she be someone unrelated to those people?’

Of course, that didn’t seem to be the case.

There was no way someone unrelated could have their phone number written on a wine bottle given by someone connected to Park, the President.

‘Then what does asking for help mean exactly….’

While he was thinking such thoughts, someone approached from far away.

A person wearing a hood and looking around nervously.

Anyone could see they looked suspicious, as if they had committed some wrongdoing.

“Excuse me… are you the right person? The one who left the phone number.”

That person was startled and looked at Kim Ji-hu.

“K-Kim Ji-hu?”

Of course, Kim Ji-hu had also come out with a full set – hat, sunglasses, and mask – so the other party couldn’t recognize him either.

Kim Ji-hu nodded.

“That’s right.”

“B-but why did you want to meet in a place like this….”

The place Kim Ji-hu had arranged to meet was precisely.

“That way I can feel safe too. It could be dangerous, you know.”

In front of the police station.

Kim Ji-hu had deliberately called her to meet in front of the police station so he could respond quickly if anything happened.

“B-but still… it’s a bit….”

Looking at her behavior, she did seem like someone who had done something wrong.

But what caught his attention more than that was her face.

‘Did someone beat her up?’

Her lips were split, her face was bruised, and overall she looked badly injured.

Just looking at that, it seemed like she was caught up in something that had gone wrong.

“So why are you asking me for help? Aren’t you someone who was trying to do bad things to me?”

When Kim Ji-hu asked that, the woman averted her eyes and stammered.

“W-well, that’s true but… we had no choice… we were told to do it… that’s how it was….”

“Who told you to do it?”

“A-a tattooed man but… I don’t really know. I just moved according to what my brother wanted to do….”

“Your brother?”

The woman said carefully.

“Well… the lighting staff who was on Director Park Sang-pil’s set is my brother….”

The person who tried to drug Jung Tae-hyun was her brother.

“I don’t think I can help you.”

“What? Why, why not?”

“More than that, turn yourself in. The police station is conveniently right next to us.”

The fact that the woman could leave her number on the wine bottle meant she was also part of the group.

Honestly, at first Kim Ji-hu’s heart had softened because of her injured face and plea for help, but he had no intention of helping someone who had tried to put him and his colleagues in danger.

“B-but…. Still….”

“If it’s hard for you to turn yourself in, should I make you do it? Thanks to this, I’ve gotten to know some police officers.”

This wasn’t the usual gentle and passive Kim Ji-hu.

But it was also different from his cold demeanor when working.

The current Kim Ji-hu was very chilly.

Various emotions arose along with memories of his mother.

“If that person is your brother, then you know very well what he was trying to do to us, right?”

“W-well.”

“Do you think it makes sense for me to help such a person? Honestly, just going by my feelings, I feel like throwing a punch right now.”

“….”

“Ha…, really.”

The woman fell silent at Kim Ji-hu’s outburst.

‘Forget feeling sorry for her, let’s hand her over to the police. That way there won’t be other victims.’

Thinking coldly, Kim Ji-hu was about to go to the police station.

Then the woman opened her mouth.

“I-I’ll turn myself in.”

“…? Well, that’s obvious.”

“A-and! I’ll do my best to cooperate so you can catch Park, the President and the tattooed man!”

“…!”

This person was definitely a ‘Park, the President’ associate. And her brother was even more deeply involved.

If she helped him, he might be able to dig into the inside story.

“But there’s, there’s a condition!”

“…What is it.”

“Please let only Kim Ji-hu know about this story….”

“Then I won’t be able to help you properly.”

The reason Kim Ji-hu had been able to deduce things about ‘Park, the President’ so far was thanks to help from Baek Do-kyung and Oh Jin-woo.

Especially without Dok-go Cheol, who was a police officer, he wouldn’t have been able to receive much help regarding this matter.

“It’s okay… I think Ji-hu can do it….”

“When we finally catch Park, the President or that tattooed man, we’ll need help from others.”

“Can’t we just say it was based on Ji-hu’s deductions… something like that….”

He didn’t know what she was thinking, but he nodded for now.

“Understood. Then I’ll listen to your story. But if you try anything funny… I won’t just stand by either.”

“Yes… of course. Then… shall we go somewhere else to talk….”

Standing in front of the police station in suspicious attire, it seemed like the police officers inside were also looking at them strangely.

Kim Ji-hu nodded.

***

‘Just in case, I set up a scheduled text to my manager… and roughly explained things to the employee, so it should be fine.’

Kim Ji-hu came to a nearby quiet cafe. Of course, he had prepared for every possibility.

There was a chance the other party might have set a trap.

‘Though looking at that expression, it doesn’t seem likely.’

The other party was hunched over with an expression that looked like she was about to cry.

If that was acting, he should immediately take her to Producer Seo Min-sik, saying he’d found a genius.

“So let’s hear your story. What do you mean by asking for help?”

“Well….”

To summarize it in one sentence, it was like this.

The woman’s brother had taken the blame for all the bad things the tattooed man had done.

“My brother isn’t exactly a good person… but he didn’t do such terrible things!”

“Terrible things being….”

“Well…, solicitation of murder…, embezzlement…, stock manipulation…, things like that….”

The scale of the crimes seemed larger than expected.

“But… how can someone take the blame for all that when they didn’t do anything?”

“I heard my brother’s name was listed as the representative of that company… so everything got transferred to my brother….”

“Then why don’t you just tell them? That the tattooed man did it.”

“That’s… because of me….”

“Ah.”

Now the puzzle seemed to be coming together. This person was also involved with that criminal organization.

So they seemed to have used this person as a hostage to threaten her brother.

“Later, I also got framed… and was even fired from the company….”

“If you were fired, then you can’t meet that tattooed man either, right?”

“I, I know where he is. He said he’d kill me if I talked… but still… I want to try something…. Even if I’m going to prison, I should fight back at least once.”

The reason for not telling the police or other people seemed to be for that reason too.

“So what would you like me to do for you?”

He didn’t feel much sympathy for these people.

Even if they had pitiful circumstances, they were essentially perpetrators against Kim Ji-hu.

But if they helped catch ‘Park, the President,’ that would be a different story.

‘That’s where my goal lies.’

Since these people also said they would turn themselves in, he planned to help what he could help and take what he could take.

The hooded woman said.

“First, we need to catch that tattooed man….”

“Then shouldn’t you report it to the police?”

“No… there was someone like that before, but it passed without any problems. Evidence… we need evidence. Evidence that he ordered everything and that he’s a bad person.”

That was another difficult task. Finding evidence without help from others would be like plucking stars from the sky.

“Then I just need to not reveal that I received information from you, right?”

“Ah, yes yes. If you could do that, I’d be grateful….”

That meant he could receive help from others.

Of course, he’d have to hide it well, but even that much would be sufficient.

“Understood. I’ll help you.”

“Re, really? Thank you!! This kindness….”

“Repay it by turning yourself in. That’s enough.”

“Of, of course!”

Kim Ji-hu said.

“Then please tell me who that tattooed man is. Where he is or what kind of person he is.”

“Just a moment….”

The woman searched for something on the internet and soon showed it to Kim Ji-hu.

“The president of this company. This is him.”

What the woman showed him was,

‘2.1 billion…?’

The president of Ju-am Studio who had offered the huge sum.

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