Emergency Instinct - Chapter 52
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Damn it!
His mind was in complete chaos.
Bo-kyung wanted nothing more than to chase after Hong Ji-an right now and tear out every strand of her hair.
She had thought using Park Soon-ja would easily resolve everything.
But to be swept away so absurdly like this.
At least it was fortunate that she had hidden her identity in preparation for such a possibility.
If she had gotten entangled in this mess, it would have been the end.
That fox-like woman was clearly using Seo Tae-jun cunningly.
Bo-kyung trembled all over as she headed outside.
After looking around, she took out the burner phone she had used to contact Park Soon-ja from inside her pocket, turned it off, and threw it in the trash.
Since she had gotten it from an errand service under a fake name, there was no risk of her identity being exposed. Still, since the number was compromised, it was better to dispose of it.
Now, there’s no choice. I have to step in directly.
Since she dared to steal what was mine, Hong Ji-an had to experience the same thing.
A cunning smile spread across her lips like a fox eyeing its prey, grinding her teeth as she vowed to make her regret it bitterly.
***
Park Soon-ja, who was urgently arrested, immediately underwent intensive investigation.
Breach of trust, embezzlement, tax evasion. Even illegal drug distribution.
The illegal evidence the prosecutor presented was overflowing.
Even so, she held out until the end.
“No! I don’t know anything about this!”
She screamed as if her throat would tear, claiming it was false accusations.
But no one listened.
Her words had already lost their meaning. Even her lawyer kept his head down and remained silent.
Park Soon-ja, who had been trembling, suddenly shouted as a thought struck her.
“That’s right. It was Chul-ho who did that. He’s the hospital director. I don’t know anything.”
No matter how she thought about it, her son was the only one she could shift the blame to. But the prosecutor asked back without questioning or arguing.
“Ms. Park Soon-ja. Where do you think all these internal documents came from?”
“Su, surely not…”
With the prosecutor’s signal, the investigation room door opened.
The moment Hong Chul-ho entered with a calm expression.
Park Soon-ja realized the identity of the whistleblower and her eyes rolled back.
“You…! You stupid bastard!”
She kicked her chair and stood up, grabbing her son by the collar.
“Hong Chul-ho! How could you betray your mother!”
Her hands trembled violently.
She couldn’t distinguish whether it was anger, betrayal, or the fear that everything was over.
“Please let go of this.”
Hong Chul-ho, who had been silently enduring, forcefully pushed his mother away.
Park Soon-ja staggered, hitting her thigh against the table.
“You… You! Did you just push me?”
“Why, is that not allowed?”
Hong Chul-ho’s voice was as calm as it was cold.
“Making such a fuss over just this much… Mother, you used to slap me whenever you felt like it.”
“Hey! You damn bastard! I’m your mother!”
“Does being my mother make it okay to hit me?”
“This, this bastard has really gone crazy!”
Park Soon-ja’s breathing became labored.
Hong Chul-ho tilted his head slightly.
“Don’t feel too wronged. I just did what Mother told me to do.”
“…What?”
“You told me to go out and do something. So I did. Something.”
Hong Chul-ho curled up the corners of his mouth as if to show off.
“You stupid bastard! What the hell are you talking about?”
“You always told me that, my whole life. To just do as I’m told. To stay quiet.”
He took out a USB from his pocket.
“But then, Mother only called me stupid. If I was going to be called stupid no matter what I did…”
Hong Chul-ho said with a relieved expression.
“I want to stop now.”
And he turned his head toward the prosecutor.
“Prosecutor. You said you’d give me leniency if I confess everything, right?”
“Of course. I promise you a suspended sentence.”
“It’s all here.”
He held out the USB.
“These are recorded files of everything Mother instructed me to do. I was against it, but she threatened me so I had no choice.”
“You… You bastard, right now… what!”
Park Soon-ja’s body trembled violently.
“It’s true. Mother ordered all of it.”
Park Soon-ja collapsed with a thud.
“Mother.”
Hong Chul-ho asked in a low voice.
“Do I still… look stupid to you?”
On his face was the refreshing smile of someone who had gained freedom.
“No! It wasn’t me…”
Park Soon-ja denied it until the end.
She couldn’t accept reality.
Then, Hong Chul-ho spoke to the prosecutor again as if he had just remembered something.
“Oh, Prosecutor! There’s one more thing.”
“What is it?”
“Mother also made threatening demands to Hanyeong Group. She made fake medical records and said she’d spread it to the media as assault if they didn’t give her 1 billion won.”
“Th, that wasn’t me!”
At that moment, Park Soon-ja rolled her eyes and shouted.
“Really, it wasn’t! They said they’d give me money… I just did what that woman told me to!”
“You’re saying you received orders and made threats?”
The prosecutor’s eyes flashed.
“Y, yes! I didn’t want to either… I just did what I was told.”
Park Soon-ja shouted as if grasping at a last lifeline.
“It was all that hopeless woman’s doing. That young thing controlled me while speaking informally to me.”
When the prosecutor reacted, she shouted even more urgently.
“The number’s in my phone. Call there and catch her! It really wasn’t me!”
However, that number belonged to a burner phone that had already been discarded.
What remained wasn’t evidence, but additional testimony.
Extortion and threats.
Park Soon-ja’s charges had increased by one more.
***
Tae-jun silently gazed at the streetlight illuminating the area outside the window.
As fatigue settled on his eyelids, his gaze also grew heavier.
He opened Park Soon-ja’s statement again.
She claimed that threatening his mother was done at the behest of a young woman.
Of course, he couldn’t believe everything she said.
There was a possibility she had fabricated being threatened herself to reduce even one of her charges.
But her call records showed calls to a burner phone. The last location of that burner phone was Hanyeong Hospital.
That record turned Tae-jun’s suspicion into certainty.
There was a high possibility that someone close to them had been manipulating Park Soon-ja from behind.
Someone with power and cunning.
They had approached her systematically while hiding their identity, moved Park Soon-ja, and used her hands to threaten his mother.
The purpose was clear.
To shake him using his parents as bait and drive a wedge between him and Ji-an.
According to Park Soon-ja’s statement, the opponent was a meticulous yet ruthless young woman who was also connected to Hanyeong Hospital.
A woman’s face naturally flashed through his mind.
Someone with money, brains, and thorough knowledge of his family’s circumstances.
Those annoyingly greedy eyes that coveted the position of Hanyeong Group’s mistress.
Certain now, Tae-jun called Manager Kim.
“Investigate Cha Bo-kyung’s activities. Discreetly investigate her father, Director Cha Dong-un, too.”
He had to move carefully.
To pay back what he received. No, more than that. He had to crush them completely so this could never happen again.
After Manager Kim left, Tae-jun closed his heavy eyes.
Quickly detaining Park Soon-ja was partly to protect Ji-an, but also because of his parents.
He had visited the chairman’s office to persuade his father and barely managed to prevent Ji-an’s dismissal.
Fortunately, his father had stepped back, saying he would follow his mother’s wishes.
But his mother’s opposition remained completely unwavering.
He had visited the family home, but his mother wouldn’t even meet with him.
Instead, she said she needed time to think and even banned him from visiting the family home for the time being.
He had thought there would be no problem once he and Ji-an confirmed their feelings for each other.
But he was facing an unexpected obstacle.
Still, Tae-jun wasn’t one to be discouraged.
He was confident that things would ultimately go his way. Though he needed to resolve this quickly so Ji-an wouldn’t get hurt in the process.
Having finished signing the last document, Tae-jun pressed his tired eyelids.
It had already been several days since he’d properly seen Ji-an’s face.
He was busy, but Ji-an was no less so.
Night shifts. Emergency patients. Her mother. And hospital promotions.
They needed to go on a proper date, but they couldn’t match their schedules at all.
No, forget a decent date—he could barely even hear her voice.
It was already the end of January.
To achieve his first-half goals, there was no time to waste.
After checking his free time between leaving work and his evening meeting, he stood up.
“I’ll go to the parking lot in an hour. Have the car ready.”
Leaving only those words for Manager Kim, he walked forward without hesitation.
Then he got on the elevator and pressed the button for the 9th floor where the hospital ward was, swallowing nervously in awkward tension.
***
There was a knock, and an unfamiliar man entered the hospital room.
Who could it be?
Ji-an’s mother, Lee Yeo-kyung, examined the person carefully.
The man was a handsome man with no sharp edges to his eyes, nose, or mouth.
Someone whose wrinkle-free suit fit his body perfectly.
A face you could never forget once you saw it.
The doctor had said she was fine, but she wondered if there had been a problem with her brain while she was unconscious. No matter how much she looked and looked again, she couldn’t figure out who this person was.
“It’s my first time meeting you.”
The man suddenly bowed his head respectfully.
“Let me introduce myself properly. I’m Seo Tae-jun.”
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