Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 30

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Chapter 30

 

“…Senior….”

 

Seeing Jaejun, the heat in her head that had been boiling with rage and ready to explode gradually began to cool down.

 

No, it didn’t just cool down—the temperature dropped so suddenly that she shivered.

 

“Ah, ah, it hurts, you bastard! Let go!”

 

Byeongtae flailed his hands uselessly at the column and air instead of Jaejun’s body, telling him to let go.

 

Eventually, the surface of the column cracked.

 

At that sound, short screams and terrified voices filled the air.

 

Seriousness began to overlay the faces of everyone who had been laughing and chatting.

 

Moreover, Jaejun was pressing Byeongtae’s face so hard against the column that blood began to flow from where Byeongtae’s face was scraped by the rough surface.

 

It wasn’t gushing, but every time Byeongtae struggled, red stains appeared on the white column like marks from a red crayon.

 

“S-Senior….”

 

Yoomin called out to Jaejun cautiously.

 

However, Jaejun showed no reaction.

 

Eventually, Yoomin went behind Jaejun and grabbed his arm.

 

Instead of stepping back toward her, he actually applied more force toward Byeongtae, making Byeongtae’s screams even more intense.

 

At this rate, it seemed like it would only end when Byeongtae actually collapsed.

 

Then Jaejun would be in trouble.

 

Especially since he might be the son of an organized crime family.

 

Yoomin squeezed her eyes shut and hugged Jaejun’s waist tightly.

 

“Senior…! Stop it now….”

 

Only then did Jaejun stop and release the tension from his entire body.

 

Taking advantage of that moment, Byeongtae knocked away Jaejun’s hand and fled out of the store.

 

His face as he went outside looked as wretched as someone who had been in a traffic accident.

 

Seeing that sight, Yoomin’s legs trembled.

 

Just as she was about to collapse on the spot.

 

Jaejun grabbed her forearm and helped her regain her balance and stand.

 

Then, immediately seeing that her palm was bleeding profusely, he hurriedly pulled out a handkerchief and covered her wound.

 

“We need to go to the hospital first.”

 

He didn’t ask what this situation was about.

 

So he seemed like someone who had come knowing Yoomin was in danger, and now seeing she was injured, was trying to take her away.

 

How does he always appear like this whenever I’m in danger.

 

I don’t want to show my shameful side to Senior of all people.

 

But I want to show him and lean on him.

 

She tensed her jaw to hide her heavy heart and kept her expression from showing.

 

“I’ll hold on for a moment.”

 

Jaejun took her uninjured hand.

 

The touch was so warm and gentle that tears almost welled up, but she forced herself to blink and hold them back.

 

“Hey, isn’t that person Seol Jaejun?”

 

“That’s right. I heard he came back. Is he really confirmed as Taehyun’s successor?”

 

“He’s so fucking handsome I can’t even be jealous.”

 

“But is it true that he was the son of Taehyun Group’s chairman?”

 

“Don’t you watch the news? Even if his face didn’t appear, his name was mentioned. He was appointed as vice president of Taehyeon Hotel a few days ago.”

 

“Wow.”

 

However, despite trying not to listen, the words kept penetrating her ears, making Yoomin tilt her head several times as they walked.

 

Are they really talking about Senior right now?

 

“But what’s the relationship between Jaejun senior and Hong Yoomin anyway?”

 

“Hey. Hong Suji. You tell us. Who was that older person you brought?”

 

“Looking at this picture, those two seem like the real couple?”

 

Just before passing through the entrance door, Yoomin glanced at Suji.

 

Suji’s face was like a tomato cooked in fire.

 

As if she would explode if attacked just one more time.

 

“Hey, Hong Suji! This mess happened because of you, so explain! What is this!”

 

“Isn’t it weird not to explain? She’s your cousin, isn’t she?”

 

And at that moment.

 

“I don’t know! That bitch must be cheating on her fiancé!”

 

Suji, perhaps not thinking about the consequences, yelled at her classmates.

 

After hearing that and stepping outside, Yoomin was walking in the direction Jaejun was leading when she became short of breath and stopped.

 

“Wait, just a moment, Senior.”

 

When she stopped, Jaejun let go of her hand and looked down at her.

 

He was wearing beige cotton pants and a neat white t-shirt, as if he had been golfing.

 

Having always seen him in suits, seeing him in casual clothes gave her the illusion that the Seol Jaejun of the past had appeared before her eyes.

 

So she didn’t feel the intense hostility she had felt when seeing him at the academy.

 

Or maybe she was being fickle as a human, and his help had opened her heart a little.

 

“Vice President!”

 

That’s when it happened.

 

Someone’s voice was heard from the direction of the road.

 

Seeing Jaejun immediately turn his head when called, it seemed he was calling for Jaejun.

 

Soon he came running toward Jaejun and Yoomin.

 

“Is everything alri… Gasp…!”

 

The man who stopped mid-sentence upon seeing Yoomin’s hand quickly gestured toward where the car was.

 

“Let’s go to the hospital first.”

 

Even after he ran back toward where the car was, Yoomin stared blankly in the direction the man had gone.

 

That man is definitely….

 

He was Jaejun’s friend from university. His name was Kwon Yong… senior, wasn’t it.

 

I ate with him just once.

 

When that senior got ghosted by his girlfriend.

 

Why on earth is that person calling Senior ‘Vice President’.

 

And at that moment, sentences that had been input into her mind but couldn’t be immediately processed due to the chaos began to line up in her head again.

 

“But is it true that he was the son of Taehyun Group’s chairman?”

 

“Don’t you watch the news? Even if his face didn’t appear, his name was mentioned. He was appointed as vice president of Taehyeon Hotel a few days ago.”

 

No way….

 

That Taehyun I know? That company famous for electronics and construction in our country?

 

Yoomin looked at him with her jaw dropped without realizing it.

 

He just mouthed ‘what’ to Yoomin, then took her toward the car.

 

Suddenly finding herself in his car, Yoomin was even more confused.

 

Even the car she was riding in now was known to be very expensive. The back seat embraced Yoomin completely, releasing the tension in her body that had stiffened from the humiliation by Suji.

 

There was even a massage mode that gently massaged from her back to her lower back, which was quite refreshing.

 

No, a car with massage function isn’t what’s important right now.

 

Yoomin turned her head.

 

Whether she was the only one feeling restless, Jaejun sat next to her in an impeccable posture, comfortably closing his eyes.

 

Yoomin looked at his profile and thought.

 

This Seol Jaejun I know… is really the son of Taehyun Group’s chairman?

 

She thought it was ridiculous and chewed her lips, then remembered that the current Taehyun Group chairman’s surname was ‘Seol’.

 

As soon as she unconsciously made a groaning sound, Jaejun opened his eyes and looked at her.

 

“Why. Does your hand hurt a lot?”

 

“Ah…. That’s not it… Senior.”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Are you the son of Taehyun Group’s chairman, Senior?”

 

Jaejun’s eyes held a bewildered question as if to say ‘you still didn’t know that?’

 

It was Jaejun who broke the terrible silence that followed for several seconds.

 

“Wasn’t it rumored back in university?”

 

“…There were things like he’s the son of a well-off family, from a very wealthy Korean-American family background, the son of a rich business owner…”

 

I never dreamed in my wildest imagination that he would be the son of Taehyun Group, which owns three subsidiaries that rank in the top ten by market capitalization.

 

“Hong Suji would know.”

 

Yoomin bit her lip.

 

If such rumors had been circulating since university, Hong Suji would obviously have known.

 

So that’s why she hated seeing me stick close to Seol Jaejun so much. No, looking at it now, it was jealousy.

 

“…As you know, I was a loner so I didn’t know much.”

 

“You would have known just from watching the news.”

 

“I don’t have a TV in my room either. I didn’t have the luxury to pay attention to worldly affairs.”

 

Silence flowed through the car once again.

 

“What if you had known?”

 

And it was Jaejun again who broke that silence.

 

“What do you…mean?”

 

“Back when we were university students, if you had known I was the son of Taehyun Group’s chairman.”

 

“…”

 

“You wouldn’t have screwed me over and run away then, would you?”

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