Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69

-She kept refusing food and was eventually found collapsed today.

Yoomin’s heart stirred for a moment.

However, Hong Suji had only been confined for three days at most.

During that period, she might collapse from hunger, but it wouldn’t be life-threatening.

She knew this better than anyone, having been confined for over two days herself and having gone without food for days due to Suji’s cruelty in Germany.

Yoomin asked calmly.

“So what’s the situation now?”

-I moved her temporarily to a psychiatric hospital in Suwon. She regained consciousness and I’ve got her locked up. But how long are you planning to keep this up?

“I want to keep her like that for at least two more weeks. Grandfather and Grandmother think Suji just went missing, right? I want them to feel the bone-deep pain of losing family.”

-And what about Hong Suji.

“Hong Suji will go crazy with rage just from the fact that I confined her with your help, senior. She absolutely hated me meeting you. The fact that you personally confined her for me, someone she always looked down on? With her personality and pride, she’ll suffer greatly from anger-induced illness.”

-Besides that, she needs to be punished for what she did to your father.

“Of course. But right now I want to torment her psychologically a bit more. I don’t want to hand her over to the police right away to live comfortably in a cell. I’ll tell you when it’s time to turn her over to the police.”

-I thought Hong Yoomin was soft, but you have an unexpectedly scary side.

“When senior offers to be such reliable backing, I have to get my revenge properly. I couldn’t do this without you, senior.”

-Even boosting your boyfriend’s reputation. Impressive.

“Boy… friend?”

-Calling and texting every day. When we’re alone together, we get heated and mate all night long. If I’m not your boyfriend, then what am I?

Yoomin was momentarily speechless.

Even from her perspective, the only word that seemed to describe a man who helped her carry out revenge against Yoomin’s family home, paid for Father’s hospital bills,

and shared intimate nights with her whenever their eyes met was “lover.”

The moment she realized they were dating despite never having said “let’s go out,” her heart suddenly beat faster and her face grew hot.

-Why no answer?

Yoomin tensed her throat to hide her embarrassment as she replied.

“A-ahem. Y-yes, that’s right. Anyway, I’m hanging up the phone, senior-“

-Wait a moment.

“Yes?”

-How long are you planning to sleep at the hospital? Taking care of your father is good, but his condition has improved a lot now. Usually the caregiver gets sicker than the patient. I’m worried you’ll wear yourself out.

Yoomin couldn’t respond immediately.

Even in this situation, Jaejun was worrying about her more than she worried about herself.

-Sleep at home starting tonight. I’ll assign even tighter security to the hospital room.

Yoomin smiled softly as she answered.

“I… understand.”

-Good. I’ll see you at home later.

Suddenly thinking about sleeping together with him at home, a strange sensation swept through her lower abdomen.

Standing in the middle of the hospital feeling this way, she found herself quite unfamiliar.

She was about to shake her head to clear the suggestive thoughts and open her mouth to end the call with Jaejun when

she remembered one more thing to ask him.

“Oh, senior!”

-Yeah.

“That shaman from before. I think we need to investigate Yun Bosal too.”

-What aspect?

“Thinking about it, there are more than one or two strange things. After Suji became a college student, accidents happened frequently, and they all occurred exactly as Yun Bosal predicted. I think Yun Bosal orchestrated them directly.”

-Then we should start by obtaining the CCTV footage that would have captured Hong Suji being attacked by that suspicious person recently.

“I’d be so grateful if you could do that.”

-It’s nothing. But if it’s revealed that the shaman did it? What are you planning to do with that? Report it?

“No. I need to inform Grandfather about that fact. How his precious family ended up because he only listened to the shaman’s words. I want to enlighten Grandfather about his foolishness.”

Jaejun laughed.

“Why are you laughing?”

-I was wondering how you’ve been holding back all this time. I thought Hong Yoomin was a goddess of beauty, but turns out you’re an incarnation of revenge. Anyway, I’ll contact you as soon as I obtain the CCTV.

The call ended with Yoomin’s expression of gratitude.

Having gained the most reliable support in the world, Yoomin walked back toward the convenience store with the most confident stride of anyone in the hospital.

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At that moment, in a small village in Boeun City.

Jaejun, who had finished his call with Yoomin, got out of his car.

He told Secretary Kwon, who was waiting outside the car, to obtain the CCTV footage that Yoomin had requested.

“Yes, understood.”

“And Secretary Kwon, stay here. I’ll go alone.”

“Will you be alright? Kim Jaechul seems to have quite a temper.”

“At most I’ll get cursed at and hit by thrown objects.”

“…I cannot allow the vice president to suffer such humiliation.”

“It’s fine. If I want to score points with my father-in-law, I need to do at least this much.”

“Pardon?”

Ignoring Yongil, who was so flustered his voice cracked, Jaejun walked toward the tightly closed, rusty blue gate.

“Kim Jaechul!”

Jaejun knocked on the gate while calling Kim Jaechul’s name.

Only after calling his name about three times did he hear the sound of a rusty hinged entrance door opening from inside.

“Who is it!”

Soon came the irritated response of a middle-aged man.

Clank-.

The gate opened, revealing Kim Jaechul with greasy slicked-back hair and a scruffy beard.

He looked like someone with no will to live, not taking care of himself at all.

“Who…”

He looked up quietly at Jaejun, who was much taller and had a refined aura, trailing off his words.

“I heard you’ve been talking frequently with my secretary lately.”

Only then realizing why Jaejun had come, his eyes turned sharp.

“I have nothing to say, so please leave.”

“I have something to say about Hong Jeonghun, not Hong Sanghun.”

When he mentioned talking about Yoomin’s father, his pupils wavered.

As Yoomin had said, he seemed to have indeed been very close to her father in the past.

“Aren’t you curious by now? It’s been quite a while since Kim Jaechul quit the company, and it’s been 20 years since you’ve seen Hong Jeonghun.”

“…”

“Don’t worry, I won’t make any proposals that would harm Kim Jaechul. Twenty minutes will do.”

Jaechul bit his lips as if pondering, then stepped back.

“Just twenty minutes.”

Nodding as if to say come in, he went into the house first, and Jaejun hurriedly followed.

Entering the house, Jaejun’s eyes took in a living room as poorly maintained as Jaechul’s appearance.

Cup noodles of unknown age and soju bottles were scattered about, and the floor was so dirty and dusty it was questionable whether people actually lived there.

However, Jaejun paid no mind and sat on the floor across from Jaechul to get to the point.

“I need a statement about the factory fire that Hong Jeonghun used to run.”

Jaechul’s eyes widened briefly, but he played dumb.

“What would I know about that fire? All I know is that I became unemployed because of that fire.”

“No. I came here knowing that Kim Jaechul betrayed Hong Jeonghun and handed over all the company secrets to Hong Sanghun.”

“Th-that’s… that’s nonsense!”

“Hong Sanghun confessed everything. He said it was all something Kim Jaechul did voluntarily.”

Jaejun deliberately lied to learn the truth about the past factory fire.

Jaechul was so indignant that he rolled his eyes back and fumed.

He cursed Hong Sanghun viciously with words too harsh to repeat.

Jaejun cut off his words with a firm voice and said.

“Hong Jeonghun said that. That you’re still his one and only friend. That Kim Jaechul wouldn’t have done it on purpose.”

When another lie was thrown out, this time Jaechul’s eyes shook violently.

“…That bastard Jeonghun said that. That he still considers me a frien…d.”

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