I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 323
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Chapter 323
“My daughter!”
The person who was the biggest plot twist in <Faster Than the Law 1>.
Chief, the overnight millionaire who had overcome pressure from above with the power of coins, cheerfully called out to someone in the Daechi-dong Cram School District.
“Ah, I’m dead tired. Really.”
“Were you? Were you tired?”
The daughter-obsessed Chief picked up his daughter in a gleaming foreign car. His exhausted daughter threw her heavy bag into the back seats.
“Seriously, how are all the kids here so good at studying?”
“What. Who’s crushing our daughter’s spirit like that.”
“There’s this famous kid whose mom is a celebrity and dad is a prosecutor. She literally gets 100 points every day. Never gets anything wrong.”
Chief looked worriedly at his sighing daughter and spoke loudly.
“Ah! Our daughter is fine even if she gets zero points instead of 100! If studying gets too hard for you, tell me right away. I’ll make you quit everything, no big deal.”
“It’s fine.”
His sighing daughter fell asleep in the passenger seat. He felt sorry for his daughter who studied until dawn every day.
* * *
“Daughter? You’re coming out late.”
The woman who had appeared as a panelist on the same program as Director Sa also came to pick up at the Daechi-dong Cram School District.
“You had a test today, right? Another 100 points?”
“….”
Her daughter nodded without saying anything. The brightly smiling woman concentrated on driving without looking at her daughter’s face.
“Right. That’s all you need to do. But you know? It’s a bit hard right now. Once you get into university, life will be smooth sailing, right?”
Contrary to those words, the roads of Daechi-dong were completely jammed. The honking of car horns was loud and chaotic.
Academy vehicles and parents’ cars coming for pickup were mixed together haphazardly, unable to move forward properly.
Returning home like that. The woman entered the house first and turned on her cell phone timer.
“Wash up and come out within 10 minutes.”
Even after returning home, the woman’s daughter couldn’t rest. She had to memorize English vocabulary while eating and listen to online lectures.
The hour hand pointed to 12 o’clock. The woman sitting in a chair behind her daughter nodded off drowsily.
“….”
The child who had been studying blankly suddenly stopped. Her empty eyes were so clouded it was unclear where they were looking.
“….”
Slowly. The child stood up.
* * *
“Hey, I’m on my way back to the station now.”
-Geez, why are you coming so late?
“Hey you bastard, what do you mean late. I just got my hair pulled out by Seonhee. Showing your face after a whole month. Do you know what a married man’s life is like?”
At that time, Chief was returning to the station after stopping by home for the first time in a while.
-Sometimes I see that hyung really lacks responsibility. How can you act like it’s none of your business and ignore everything like this?
“Got it. I just need to go and make it work. I’m trying to work hard too.”
-Work hard? It’s always like that. Just words, just words! I’m so sick of it, really.
Somehow the conversation sounded like that of an old married couple. Someone ran in front of Chief’s car as he was bickering with Detective Gwak.
“Ahhhhh!”
Screech!
The sound of tires scraping the road was loud.
-Hyung? Hyung, what happened, did you have an accident?
Detective Gwak’s voice came through the speaker. Chief, who had hit his forehead on the steering wheel, looked up in shock.
Thud.
“Holy shit!”
A young girl was standing in front of the windshield. Chief hurriedly got out of the car and asked the young girl standing right near the hood.
“Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
Without answering Chief’s words, the young girl blankly walked forward again.
“No, no. Wait. We should at least go to the hospital…”
When he carefully grabbed the young girl’s wrist, her powerless body swayed.
“Huh…?”
The young girl was barefoot. Chief felt something was seriously wrong.
* * *
The young girl who arrived at the hospital fell into a deep sleep. The person who came as the young girl’s guardian was a man in his 40s.
Holding his cell phone, he seemed to be sending messages somewhere, moving his hands busily.
“Yes. I’ll contact you with detailed information later.”
And he spoke halfheartedly to Chief.
Chief asked sharply to the man who was grumbling with an annoyed face as if he had just woken up.
“What is your relationship to the patient?”
“Do I have to tell you that too? If you caused a traffic accident, you should start with an apology.”
“I’m from Mapo Police Station. From now on, please answer the questions I ask properly in this informal inquiry.”
Chief’s expression became stern in an instant as he pulled out his police badge from inside his jacket. The frowning man sighed.
“There are signs of child abuse.”
“What! What child abuse are you talking about!”
“Are you really the guardian? What’s your relationship?”
“Damn it…”
As the man hesitated, unable to do this or that, another person approached. It was elite Detective Yoon.
Thanks to the woman who had spoken to Influencer 1 in the restroom, the investigation team now had a clue about the drug.
Because they knew the name of that drug.
Detective Yoon, dressed neatly in a suit even at dawn, spoke calmly.
“You’ve been giving her Consecta for a long time, right? Without getting an ADHD diagnosis. Because that way her concentration would improve and she could maintain her grades.”
“….”
“Since it’s designated as unavailable without a prescription, you probably switched to something else this time.”
His speculation was as accurate as if he had seen the entire situation unfold before his eyes.
“Rotichelli.”
The name of a drug that should have remained underwater was dragged to the surface.
“Isn’t that right?”
Sharp eyes behind glasses pierced straight through the dark truth.
“You’re probably not the guardian. You seem like a proxy sent by parents who would be in trouble if their identity was revealed…”
Detective Yoon continued in a cold voice.
“If you don’t want to see this thing really blow up, make the right decision. Tell them whether they’ll cooperate with the investigation or pretend not to know until the end and get completely humiliated.”
Inside the hospital room, the child was still sleeping soundly. As if sleeping like this for the first time in a very long while.
The cold dawn light from beyond the window enveloped the child’s face.
* * *
At that time in Maesot, Thailand. Director Sa was having a conversation with a drug organization in a dim bar. Even though he was surrounded by organization members, there was no fear in Director Sa’s eyes.
“It’s better to make deals certain.”
“Right. As much as you want.”
“It’ll really be distributed properly even after you leave Korea, right? We’ve prepared in advance, so it’ll be troublesome if things go wrong.”
Director Sa was preparing a drug to follow Rotichelli. Now an even stronger and more addictive drug had been born from his hands.
He had no great attachment to life in Korea. He planned to leave for overseas after receiving the trophy at the Pure White Medical Society that would open this time.
Once you spread the drug, what happened after was as obvious as fire.
“Korea has the world’s strongest beauty market, and the passion for education is beyond words.”
Diet effects plus improved grades after taking it. There wouldn’t be just one or two people who would become addicted to the drug.
The new drug he distributed was drawing a big picture that would start in Gangnam, devour Seoul, and eventually swallow all of Korea.
A new drug created by refining Yuba, a stimulant containing caffeine famous as a cheap drug.
The name of that drug that would make you feel the ecstatic sensation of flying through the world was exactly.
“Good. We’ll manufacture Butterfly and send it over by ship.”
Butterfly. It was a butterfly.
* * *
“What? You’re feeding that kind of stuff to a kid?”
Detective Gwak frowned after hearing Detective Yoon’s words. His face, which already looked like it belonged to someone involved in criminal organizations, became even more fierce.
And there he was,
“Hey! Hurry, hurry, hurry!”
Wearing a pink cat apron, a sanitary mask over his mouth, and a white headscarf on his head.
“It’s hardening, it’s hardening!”
Making candy disguised as diet pills.
“…What exactly are you doing right now.”
The situation was truly serious. How serious was it?
“Hey! You hurry up and put on an apron too, you bastard. Don’t be so lazy.”
They had even brought in a silver two-door commercial refrigerator. The shared kitchen sparkled brilliantly.
“What the… so dazzling….”
When Detective Yoon squinted at the light, the Junior Detective gave him serious advice.
“Don’t you know that cleanliness is the first principle in the food business?”
“…Why are you like that…. No, what’s this strange sound I’ve been hearing?”
When Detective Yoon looked for the source of the sound, he saw a laptop placed on the dining table. This screen was displayed on it:
INTUBE
[Want to lose weight just by sleeping? Diet frequency] 2:45:11
Views: 1,887,222
“Like fruit that becomes sweeter when you listen to classical music. This candy, when you think about it, through the placebo effect, somehow meets the consumer’s needs!”
“…It’s placebo effect.”
And so the candy piled up abundantly. Now the trap was ready.
* * *
The Influencer 1 Group prepared drugs in their bags. They planned to sell candy in teams of three with the detectives.
“Hey, this is really kind of thrilling.”
“Aren’t we all going to get brave citizen awards later?”
“Kyaaaa-.”
Behind them making a fuss, the detectives checked their handcuffs.
“Radio?”
“Okay.”
“Your ankle that you sprained last time.”
“It’s all healed.”
The influencers and detectives finished their complete preparations. Influencer 1, Han Yeoreum, swept back her hair and said.
“Let’s go! Girls!”
“Hey. Why are you the one saying that?”
“I really wanted to try saying it once….”
And so they set out with such spirited determination.
“You’re under arrest for illegal drug trafficking.”
“Police. You have the right to remain silent-.”
“From this moment on, anything you say can and will be used against you!”
Everyone they caught was mostly women who really knew nothing at all.
“I’m sorry… sob….”
“I really, really was going to eat it just a few more times and then stop…. The hospital keeps saying my BMI isn’t that bad, but I want to lose more weight….”
“I don’t know anything. I just came after seeing it on the internet.”
No matter how many deals they made, they couldn’t meet any gang members. Everyone was sighing when.
“Sigh… Another one is coming now.”
Influencer 1’s face appeared on the screen. The sound of people quietly laughing without realizing it could be heard throughout the theater.
A familiar taste. A familiar development. The next situation they could predict.
“I have a good feeling about this. I think we’ll really catch them now!”
But the detectives sighed when they saw Influencer 1’s chat window.
“The username is Melon Nyami?”
“It’s blown. It’s blown.”
“There’s never a way to catch them in one go, right? No matter how good your luck is, that’s not it.”
The audience laughed even louder at the detectives’ words. Because everyone except them knew. That the gang member they were waiting for was coming now.
From the moment Han Yeoreum’s face appeared on the screen, the audience had already moved past the frustrating part on their own.
“Um… Are you Melon Nyami who contacted me through T-gram?”
In the dim alley, Influencer 1 spoke to the black silhouette approaching her.
“Yes. That’s me.”
“…I thought you were a woman?”
Influencer 1 noticed something strange. The detectives lying in wait in the car felt the same way.
Tension filled the air in an instant.
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