I’m Obsessed With the Suspect - Chapter 19

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19

Cheong-a grabbed a passing nurse and asked in a stammering voice.

“Ex, excuse me, could I ask you something, ma’am!”

“Yes?”

“By any chance, are you talking about Professor Min Yoo-shin? The transfer…?”

The nurses in examination gowns all nodded in unison.

“Yes. The professor was transferred to Gumi as of today.”

“Th… thank you.”

Cheong-a bowed her head and expressed her gratitude.

Then she ran toward Yushin’s room.

“Ha…!”

A hollow laugh burst out at the scene unfolding before her eyes.

The hellish research lab had been cleaned up in an instant.

The pile of books that had been stacked like the stone pagoda at Mireuksaji were neatly arranged on the bookshelf. Not only the piles of documents that had been scattered throughout the room, but even the examination gown on the sofa was nowhere to be found.

It was absurd that he had even carefully packed away those heavy dumbbells before leaving.

Cheong-a’s gaze fixed intently on the clock.

“It’s not even 7 o’clock yet.”

The time she had been trapped in the on-duty room hadn’t been that long. But he had already finished organizing all that chaos and left?

These were things that took her several hours to organize every single day. Seeing the room completely clean in an instant left her stunned.

If he could clean the room this quickly…

‘On purpose. He messed up the room on purpose?’

Only then could Cheong-a realize Yushin’s true intentions. The fact that he had been deliberately messing up the room every day to keep her here.

The daily accumulation of trash and mess wasn’t to hide something.

It was just a deception to keep her here by pretending there was something there.

“Crazy. Crazy bastard.”

A big laugh burst out from the absurdity.

Cheong-a looked around the room and headed toward Yushin’s desk. And she saw that the lock on the third drawer, which had always been tightly locked, was gone.

She reached out and opened the drawer, inside which lay a single piece of paper. Written on it in very crooked handwriting was:

I’ll drink the buckwheat tea well.

But that’s not swelling.

I’m naturally tall lol

The tips of Cheong-a’s ears turned red once again without resistance.

“Is he really crazy?”

Cheong-a, who had been holding the note for a moment, roared and tore it to shreds. Then she was startled and screamed.

“Aah! No! Get it together, Kim Cheong-a!”

She wailed and gathered the torn pieces of paper in her hand.

She shouldn’t have torn up this note like this if she wanted to compare the handwriting or check for fingerprints left on the paper…

Cheong-a tearfully and carefully gathered the tattered pieces of paper.

“Sob. I really hate Min Yoo-shin.”

***

Clatter clatter.

Line 1 was always like this, but today the train felt particularly shaky. Perhaps it felt that way because her mind was noisy.

Cheong-a had just thrown her resignation letter at Seojeong Power Clean and run out of the hospital. Her phone kept vibrating in her back pocket.

“Haah…”

The one calling was Park Inkyu.

He had already made several calls without getting tired. However, it was quite difficult to answer the phone.

“Ah, hyung. Please stop calling.”

He said there was wiretapping.

She couldn’t know what information would flow where and how much. In this situation, it was impossible to share her movements through phone calls.

“Park In-gyu: Hey! I heard rumors you submitted your resignation letter? ㅋㅋ Coming back today? Your bro will treat you to pork belly and soju to celebrate your resignation ㄱㄱ”

Cheong-a looked at her phone and muttered to herself instead of sending a reply she couldn’t send to Inkyu.

“Yeah, sorry. Eat alone. I’m late today.”

She was on the Line 1 train bound for Changdong, heading to the main headquarters in Jongno instead of the Central Police Station.

***

Cheong-a, wearing a light sky-blue jumper, short white t-shirt, and loose black slacks, stared blankly at the cafe entrance.

Inside the cafe where bright sunlight streamed in.

She was the only one with a gloomy face and outfit.

Cheong-a put both hands deep in her pockets and bit on a straw. While sipping her Americano, she fidgeted with her hands stuck in her pockets.

“Ha…”

There was a mountain of things to investigate. She was anxious about time passing. Her heart felt even more restless because the sunlight was unusually nice and the coffee tasted good.

Ding.

The wind chime at the cafe entrance rang, followed by the click-clack sound of high heels.

Cheong-a raised her head while biting the straw with her front teeth.

In front of her, a woman in a tight office look with a loose cardigan looked around. When she spotted Cheong-a, she smiled so wide her mouth reached her ears.

“Unnieeeee!”

The one who came running while fluttering her heavily curled hair was Detective In Yeon-hee from headquarters. She smiled brightly and waved a black device she took out from her cardigan pocket.

“Noise?”

“Yeah! I turned it on so they can’t wiretap. Hand over the wiretapping device you brought.”

Instead of asking how she’d been, asking if she’d set up noise and naturally demanding she hand over the wiretapping device – their situation was quite amusing.

Cheong-a smiled bitterly and took out her phone, sliding it across the table.

Yeonhui, who received the phone, alternately checked the black device she was holding and the phone, then tilted her head in confusion.

“Unnie. This is a device that only wiretaps during calls? Hmm…”

“What do you mean?”

“Uh, unnie. Did you not know there’s a wiretapping device attached right now?”

“What?”

Cheong-a jumped up from her seat and felt all over her body.

But there was nothing special. The only thing she had brought from the hospital were the torn pieces of the note Min Yoo-shin had written.

Yeonhui started scanning Cheong-a’s body with the device held close.

The device, which had been blinking rapidly as it moved up from her pants pockets to her jumper, began flashing mercilessly fast when it reached her chest area.

“…”

“Why is this acting like this?”

“Unnie, did you put a wiretapping device inside your clothes? Huh, what is this. Who could put a wiretapping device in there? This is suspicious!”

“Yeonhui, say something that makes sense.”

“Or… did you eat it?”

The absurd conversation made her laugh.

“Why do you keep doing this. I’ve been starving all day. I barely had one nutritional supplement at dawn… Gasp!”

Cheong-a’s face, which had turned pale in an instant, turned toward Yeonhui.

“Wow. This is crazy. I think I really ate a wiretapping device…”

“Why did you eat that?”

“Vitamin, I thought it was a vitamin.”

Cheong-a had always diligently taken anything that was supposedly good for her health, even harsh things. Knowing this nature of hers, Yeonhui shook her head with a pitiful expression.

“But I’ve been eating that every day…?”

“…”

Cheong-a grabbed her head.

She was burning with rage inside.

Min Yoo-shin, that rotten bastard!

The reason he had told her she could eat his nutritional supplements as if he was doing her a favor was to make her eat wiretapping devices!

This made clear why Min Yoo-shin and Yang Dongjun were together in the medical office this morning. They must have wiretapped and heard her information that she had found by turning the trash upside down and made the first move.

Crazy man.

Crazy Min Yoo-shin!

Cheong-a held her coffee cup and downed the remaining americano in one gulp. Yeonhui, who had been quietly looking down at the device, muttered.

“Ah. The signal disappeared. It must have broken after being soaked in coffee.”

“….”

Yeonhui shook her head and tapped Cheong-a’s phone panel to unlock it.

She had never told her the phone password. Yet in an instant, it was disarmed by the expert’s fingertips, opening all information and switching to developer mode.

“Seeing that you even swallowed a bug, something must have happened at the hospital?”

“Yeah. Yang Dongjun was a straw. I overheard the drug dealers’ meeting place and code….”

Yeonhui opened and examined the apps installed on the phone while speaking in a nonchalant voice.

“What? What’s with that vague trailing off? If you confirmed it, just form a team and go take them down right away.”

“There’s one more problem.”

Yeonhui’s head shot up clearly.

“What problem?”

“Min Yoo-shin.”

Yeonhui’s large eyes blinked toward Cheong-a.

And then she smiled broadly.

“Come on, unnie. That person isn’t suspicious at all.”

“Yeonhui.”

Cheong-a let out a deep sigh and grabbed her head.

“Min Yoo-shin is the one who made me swallow the bug.”

“…What?!”

Yeonhui hurriedly pulled out her phone and opened the Boksan University Hospital website. Then she also accessed the Government Integrated Network and examined Min Yoo-shin’s information once more.

Her gaze moved quickly as she scanned through Min Yoo-shin’s records.

“No, this is strange? Really, why would this person? What would a professor with such a bright future lack?”

“He distributed bugs disguised as nutritional supplements through a pharmaceutical company. There must be dozens, no, hundreds of them. They were piled up like mountains in every professor’s research lab.”

“…What?”

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