Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 10

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Chapter 10

“What else is there?”

At her son’s question, Jeonghwa let out deep sighs as if the ground would cave in and said.

“Seol Insoo.”

Jaejun slightly furrowed his brow and asked back.

“Seol Insoo? Are you talking about my uncle?”

“Yes. Your youngest uncle.”

Jaejun briefly looked up at the ceiling.

Seol Insoo.

He was the youngest among father’s siblings and the only one not involved in the Group.

Until Jaejun was in middle school, he often saw him at family events, but after that he went to America saying he would do theater.

Grandfather collapsed from the shock at the time, and passed away without recovering.

Because of that, he earned the hatred of father’s siblings and cut ties with the family.

“Has uncle returned?”

“Well, someone came back. Not Seol Insoo, but his son.”

“…What did you say? Uncle’s son?”

“Yes. He secretly had a child with a Korean woman there and raised him. But that woman recently died after battling cancer?”

“No way.”

“Yes. Seol Insoo was your grandmother’s sore spot. She doted on him so much because he was the youngest.”

“…”

“He said he didn’t want his son to live as a widower, so he brought that grandson to Korea. Just yesterday too.”

“Ah. Please be good to him. He must be deeply saddened by losing his mother.”

“You brat!”

Jeonghwa’s face turned red as she shouted.

“How can you be so carefree right now?! Do you know where your grandmother brought that child? She brought him to Seongbuk-dong!”

“He came to the family home?”

“Yes! She’s telling us to take care of him at our house!”

“Hmm.”

Jaejun slowly crossed his arms and thought.

Just because Insoo’s son, his cousin, was coming didn’t mean his position would diminish.

All he had to do was focus entirely on hotel growth as soon as he took office.

Of course, he’d have to produce results in a shorter time than he thought, but that wasn’t impossible.

“Listen carefully. He’s your competitor. A kid who could put a knife to your throat at any time.”

“He’s just my younger cousin though.”

“Hey. What won’t people with power lust do? Anyway, from now on keep your wits about you and don’t do anything to fall out of grandmother’s favor. Got it? I’ll also hurry and look into daughters from families that could help your business.”

Maybe it was because he’d be getting married sooner than planned.

“When mom tells you to come out, you come out right away.”

Jaejun’s chest area, which had been fine all along, began to feel stuffy.

He was already busy focusing all his energy on hotel growth, and he could see many troublesome things would increase.

There was also something he needed to think about before that.

“I’m sorry about the assignment again. If there’s a way to repay you, I’ll repay you somehow, so please contact me.”

Jaejun stood up from his seat and said.

“I understand for now. Get plenty of rest.”

Jeonghwa, who had been complaining, became restless like a motherless kitten when Jaejun was about to leave.

“…You’re leaving already?”

“I have to go. I have some things to think about.”

Jaejun headed toward the door but stopped and asked.

“So when will you be discharged. We don’t know how long grandmother will keep that child at home.”

“…Oh, that’s right. I don’t know. I want to rest here for a few days.”

Jaejun told her to do that, then was about to leave but stopped again.

“Oh.”

“Yes?”

“What’s uncle’s son’s name?”

“I think it was… Haneul.”

“Seol Haneul? How old is he.”

“Ten years old.”

Jaejun’s brow wrinkled in amusement.

Did Jeonghwa seriously think a ten-year-old child would become enough of a competitor to put a knife to his throat.

“Are you going straight home…?”

“I have to. I need to pay my respects to grandmother for returning to the country. Rest well.”

With that, Jaejun left the hospital room.

* * *

On his way home, Jaejun first received a report from Yongil on what he had found so far.

-Kim Byeongtae. He runs his company fairly well, but his private life was seriously messy.

“How so?”

-He’s been arrested and released several times on drug charges. He probably paid his way out. And in the past 5 years, he’s been married to two women.

“Two? In 5 years?”

-Yes. One was a woman well-known in the underworld, and the other was a graduate student of Chinese descent…

Jaejun stepped on the brakes at the red light that had just changed and continued the conversation.

“What? Why are you stopping mid-sentence?”

-Both died.

Jaejun’s expression twisted.

“…What? What was the cause of death?”

-The first wife died from a fall while hiking, and the second wife committed suicide. They say no autopsy was performed in the second case. It really stinks. Kim Byeongtae has more than enough conditions to cover things up.

Jaejun’s expression turned colder than ever.

-He originally had bad habits with his hands, so even just going to bars, he would use violence against employees and women alike. It was probably the same with those wives.

He could imagine Yoomin living in constant anxiety about being beaten by Byeongtae.

That’s ridiculous.

Even if it was brief. She was a woman I was so careful with, worried she might break just from my touch.

-This is just my opinion, but I think he might be a sadist… or have sociopathic tendencies. Seeing how he’s looking for women to remarry again without caring about his surroundings.

“Then.”

-Yes, young master.

“If he succeeds in a third remarriage.”

-I think that third woman would also meet the same fate as the previous two wives…

His breath almost got completely blocked.

-I’ll report again as soon as additional information comes out.

Jaejun unconsciously rolled the three syllables “Hong Yoomin” around in his mouth.

Without even knowing if it was audible.

-Ah. The investigation on Hong Yoomin is also mostly finished-

“Send me Hong Yoomin’s contact information first.”

-Yes, understood.

“And I’m going to the family home now. Send the rest of the information by text.”

After ending the call, Jaejun’s expression was surrounded by coldness.

Not only is he old enough, but he’s lusting after a woman more than ten years younger than him?

When he recalled the scene at the hotel earlier where Byeongtae handed Yoomin the room key and tried to drag her away by force, anger was about to spread like a storm inside him.

On top of that, when he remembered the photo of them eating snacks together after he had visited Yoomin’s home, his anger boiled as if it would burst his blood vessels.

Why on earth did Hong Yoomin go on a blind date with such a bastard and even eat with him.

Back then, when you barely ate tteokbokki with me.

“Ha.”

As soon as he let out an irritated sigh, a text message arrived.

It was Yoomin’s contact information that Yongil had sent.

Jaejun entered the contact without hesitation and pressed the call button.

What kind of situation was she going through that made her go on a blind date with Kim Byeongtae?

He wanted to let her know that guy was strange and she should at least avoid meeting him.

The dial tone rang a few times, then a familiar voice came through.

-Hello.

“It’s me, Seol Jaejun.”

Click.

“…”

Jaejun was momentarily stunned.

Did she hang up on purpose after knowing it was me? Because I make her uncomfortable?

He alternately looked at the road ahead and his phone screen.

Soon he let out a scornful laugh as if finding it absurd.

“This is really…”

Perhaps because it was so ridiculous, he wasn’t even angry.

“Well, frankly speaking, we’re not going to see each other in the future anyway, so I don’t need to tell you everything about my personal life, senior.”

It seemed like Yoomin was reluctant to clash with him.

But what to do.

I absolutely can’t stand to see you getting married to some Kim Byeongtae or whatever and living while getting beaten.

Ding-.

Just then, as he finished parking after arriving at his family home, a text message arrived.

It was part of the information about Yoomin that Yongil had sent.

She had dropped out of university and was only working at a children’s piano academy near her home.

Why did she drop out when she even went abroad to study?

He entered the house with this question in mind.

As soon as he entered through the front door, he heard someone hurriedly running away toward the inner part of the living room.

Soon a head peeked out from inside the living room.

It was a boy.

“Seol Haneul?”

When Jaejun called his name, the child flinched and revealed himself.

He was a bit shorter and skinnier than expected for a ten-year-old.

Did they not feed him properly in America?

How could mother be wary of such a child? He’d fall over with just a light kick.

Jaejun walked through the hallway to the living room.

The child with snow-white skin and innocent calf-like eyes stiffened up as soon as he saw Jaejun and just blinked.

“Hey kid. You should say hello.”

“H-hello. Jae, Jaejun… hyung.”

Jaejun chuckled.

“Grandmother told you my name, huh.”

Haneul nodded and added.

“She said… to get along well with hyung…”

“I see. Where did grandmother go?”

Haneul nodded again.

“It would be better to answer rather than just nodding. When do you start school?”

“Next year…”

“Alright. Rest up.”

She’s probably planning to give him this year to adapt to Korea, then send him to school starting next year.

Jaejun turned to head up to the second floor where his room was.

And the moment he stepped on the stairs, the content of Yongil’s text flashed through his mind.

He immediately turned around and called out to Haneul.

“Hey, kid.”

Haneul blinked his eyes.

“Do you want to go to piano academy?”

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