Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4

During those three months that could be considered long or short.

While living as an unwanted burden at Yoomin’s family home, losing my true colors, Jaejoon kept painting me with warm hues.

“Because you’re pretty.”

“Does there need to be a reason for liking someone?”

“I’ll do everything for you. Date me.”

He said there was no reason.

He said it was just love at first sight.

At first, I was suspicious when this handsome senior, who clearly looked like a rich young master with an elegant air and was good-looking enough to be a celebrity, said he liked me.

But before I knew it, I was enchanted and had my heart stolen by him.

Actually, that’s why when Yoomin’s family tried to force me to go to Germany, I asked him for help.

Even though it hurt my pride, I even borrowed money from him.

I thought he wasn’t the kind of man who would treat me like a pathetic person over just that one million won.

Of course, that help became useless. No, it became a complete case of repaying kindness with enmity.

“Sigh.”

Yoomin let out a deep sigh.

Her chest felt tight and painful at the fact that she had met the senior she had liked so much in college and had unintentionally caused harm to at a blind date.

What must he think when he sees me?

“Where did she sell off her fiancé in Germany that she’s having a blind date with such an old man?”

Moreover, what Jaejoon had said earlier flashed through her mind.

He seemed to even misunderstand that she had gone to Germany to meet a fiancé.

He probably thinks of me as a woman who can’t live without a man.

“…This is driving me crazy.”

Yoomin stopped in place and frantically grabbed at her hair.

Should I go back to the hotel and tell him that Yoomin’s family actually forced me to study abroad in Germany?

Should I tell him that the blind date with that bald eagle wasn’t my will but was forced upon me?

However, Yoomin soon collapsed in place and buried her face in her knees.

Since Jaejoon and I have no relationship, is there any reason to explain?

We’ll probably never see each other again anyway.

Then… why did we have to run into each other?

Yoomin closed her eyes and swallowed her bitterness.

* * *

When she returned home, it was a little before 2 PM.

Yoomin entered the house and listlessly took off her shoes.

“…I’m back.”

She announced her return weakly, but it was quiet.

Yoomin hesitated and looked at the entrance floor where she had just taken off her shoes.

The slippers that her aunt often wore were nowhere to be seen.

She seemed to have gone out.

That was fortunate at least.

If she had to report that the blind date failed in this state, she would have gotten slapped and more.

She decided to wash her face first and think about how to get through this situation, then headed to the second floor.

As she stepped on the last stair, she heard giggling laughter from somewhere.

Hong Suji, didn’t she go out?

Let me quickly go to my room before getting nagged for no reason, she thought as she lifted her foot.

“Hey. Isn’t it creepy? Dying if you get married at twenty-five.”

A strange sound that stopped Yoomin in her tracks was heard.

Getting married at twenty-five?

Are they talking about me?

Yoomin was drawn to hold her breath and went to Suji’s door.

Suji was still on the phone, giggling without knowing Yoomin had come.

“Yeah! I have a fate of being beaten to death by my husband! That’s why my mom and dad have given that fortune teller tens of billions of won so far.”

Ah, she’s not talking about me but about herself?

“Yeah. I thought it was a bit of a scam at first too, you know? I didn’t believe it until last year? But I had three accidents last year. She predicted all of them. And last Christmas, she told me I’d have a car accident so I absolutely shouldn’t go outside, right? But I thought just drinking coffee would be okay, so I met you guys and drank coffee by the cafe window. Then a drunk driver came and smashed the window and only I got crushed. Damn, who else could predict that?”

An eerie feeling swept through Yoomin’s entire body.

If what Suji said was true, wasn’t Yun Bosal quite a skilled person?

Naturally, she also recalled what CEO Kim Byeongtae had said earlier.

“My fortune shows that women have dried up around me. Yun Bosal found a woman to complement that. That’s you, kid.”

What he said about Yun Bosal connecting them.

What on earth is going on?

“Anyway, since that day I’ve been a blind believer in the fortune teller. So today Hong Yoomin is going on a blind date instead of me.”

Ah. So Yun Bosal sent me to Kim Byeongtae instead of Hong Suji, who has a fate of dying if she marries at twenty-five?

“She told me to give something I think of as my alter ego, so I gave her a Chanel bag. Yeah. It’s a waste. It is wasteful but well…”

There was a moment of silence, then a chillingly giggling sound.

“When I thought of it as a gift to the scapegoat who would die instead of me, it felt okay?”

Yoomin’s pupils shook violently.

What did I just hear?

A scapegoat who would die instead of Hong Suji?

“Hey. Think about it. He’s forty-four and has already been married twice. Both wives died in accidents. I don’t know~ I don’t know the reason. But you know what? For rich guys, it’s easy to kill someone and disguise it as an accident. Ugh. Hey, I almost became Bluebeard’s victim. Kekeke.”

Yoomin’s legs trembled.

Since she didn’t know much about shamanism, she didn’t really understand terms like scapegoat.

But she seemed to understand what it meant.

She barely managed to put strength into her weakening legs and quietly headed to her room.

She went in, locked the door, turned on her phone and searched for “scapegoat.”

“…Taking on bad energy instead of someone else?”

Yoomin put down her phone and chewed her nails while thinking.

So to summarize what Hong Suji said.

Hong Suji has a short-lived fortune, and if she marries at twenty-five, she has a fate of being beaten to death by the man she marries.

To avoid that, they used me as a scapegoat.

Then, an unpleasant chill penetrated her entire body.

“Oh dear, poor thing. Let’s go to your uncle’s house. We’ll raise you like Suji.”

“Yoomin. Do you want to cut your hair like Suji too?”

“Yoomin. If you don’t want to show that you don’t have a mother, try to be at least half like our Suji. Look at Suji. How elegant she is.”

When she was young, after dad became like that and they brought her to Yoomin’s family home, dressing and feeding her exactly like Suji.

Was all of that to make her receive all of Suji’s bad energy instead of Suji?

And then.

Thump thump, footsteps began approaching Yoomin’s room.

“Kekeke. Hey. That’s why people used to say we looked like twins when we were kids. Making us wear the same hair and bags and everything. Ah, wait. Let me check if she took the bag.”

Yoomin forgot to breathe and focused on Suji’s voice.

“If she didn’t take it? Well… what could happen? I can just tell her to take it to the after-party… huh?”

Click.

The door handle began to shake.

Soon Suji’s panicked voice and curses could be heard.

“Shit. What? Why is the door locked? Hey. Hong Yoomin. Are you inside? Hey?!”

As Yoomin held her breath, Suji raged for a while then suddenly ran toward the stairs with thumping sounds.

Soon she came running back and pounded on the door.

“Your shoes are here! You’re in your room, Hong Yoomin! Won’t you open the door?! How long have you been here?! Hey?! You didn’t meet that man, did you? Why are you home so early?!”

Suji’s urgent voice rang out.

When Yoomin didn’t open the door until the end, she kicked the door and hurled all kinds of curses.

Yoomin covered her ears and closed her eyes.

Her palms covering her ears trembled like aspen leaves.

The reason this family had taken her in and told her to stay by Suji’s side every day was more inhumane and terrible than she had ever imagined.

“Open the door, you bitch!”

After Suji’s curse, someone else’s voice was added.

“Daughter? Why are you acting like this?”

“Mom! Hong Yoomin already came back! It’s only been an hour since the blind date! She must have ruined it and came back! If she doesn’t marry that man, what’s going to happen to me? Huh?!”

“What?! That damn girl! I’ll go get the key, so wait!”

The sound of someone stomping down the stairs to get the key could be heard.

This was different from when she had lived receiving hatred from Yoomin’s family and harbored feelings of resentment.

Fear seized Yoomin to the point where she felt her life was threatened.

What should I do. What do I do.

Just when her mind went completely blank and she couldn’t think of anything.

“You’re the one talking bullshit. Could you move your damn head?”

“So I can confirm if the woman sitting in front of me is the woman I know.”

Jaejoon’s voice, which had saved her from Kim Byeongtae, came to mind clearly.

Of all times, at this moment.

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