Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

An incomprehensible rage enveloped his entire body.

“This man is the one who went on a blind date with Hong Yoomin here, right?”

“….”

“…Young master?”

Yongil called out to Jaejun again, who wasn’t responding.

“Are you… alright?”

Jaejun closed his eyes to calm the anger boiling inside him.

However, the anger showed no signs of subsiding.

It was inevitable.

Hong Yoomin was his first love and the first woman to give him the feeling of loss.

How could he feel at ease when such a woman not only went on a blind date with a man old enough to be his uncle, but immediately went to a second location with him?

“Young master.”

“….”

“It didn’t seem like Hong Yoomin wanted to go to the second location.”

Jaejun slowly opened his eyes.

“You asked me to make sure Hong Yoomin got home safely. Since you seemed concerned about Hong Yoomin’s safety, I stayed in front of her house for 30 minutes even after she went inside.”

“Yeah. Continue.”

“After some time passed, Hong Yoomin came out, and a car that had approached her house kept following Hong Yoomin like it was tailing her.”

“….”

“After that, they seemed to argue for a while in the middle of the street, then Hong Yoomin refused to get in the car no matter what and went her own way alone. That car followed Hong Yoomin all the way.”

Jaejun tapped Yongil’s phone with his index finger and asked.

“All the way to this snack shop?”

“Yes. Hong Yoomin went to the snack shop first, and then that man followed her inside. I don’t know what they talked about, but the atmosphere didn’t look good.”

Jaejun became even more heated.

Wasn’t that man following Yoomin around like a stalker?

“What kind of bastard is he, hah.”

Jaejun started to ask what kind of bastard he was, then stopped and let out a sigh.

He felt pathetic for being so openly curious about the man.

He first met Hong Yoomin during his first liberal arts class after returning to university following his military discharge.

Due to Yongil’s prank, he had wandered around the lecture hall and was a few minutes late, so he quickly went and sat in a remaining seat.

Right next to him, a female student was sleeping with her head down, though the lecture had just started.

Throughout the professor’s orientation, the female student kept changing the direction of her head as she slept, and when she turned her face toward Jaejun, his time stopped.

How could someone look so pretty with their eyes closed, with their cheek pressed down like that?

Despite having no makeup on and features that weren’t particularly striking, she had planted her existence deep in his heart.

Was it her unexpected behavior of sleeping soundly from the first lecture with such an innocent face that seemed incapable of any wrongdoing that left such an impression?

His gaze kept drifting to her, and while pretending to listen to class, he rested his chin on his hand and stole glances at her so many times.

At some point, their eyes met when she opened hers.

“Hello.”

Love without reason is dangerous.

It was the first time in his life that he had spoken to a woman first.

After that, as if telling his parents’ words about maintaining dignity to go to hell, he forgot that he was the only son of Taehyun Group’s chairman and pursued her incredibly aggressively.

How much trouble had he gone through to forget the woman he had given his heart to like crazy, who disappeared without a word?

For five years, he had barely managed to erase the traces carved in his heart, and now she dared to go on a blind date with some guy old enough to be his uncle right before his eyes?

His original self that he had struggled to find disappeared like a mirage the moment he encountered Hong Yoomin.

That made him furiously angry.

Whether aware of his troubled feelings or not, Yongil handed back the phone he had briefly taken.

“I was actually checking his background, and to put it briefly, he’s the CEO of a private equity firm. It’s quite a large company.”

Jaejun kept his lips tightly pressed together as he checked the name entered in the person search window.

Kim Byeongtae.

What a fucking name.

“I didn’t have enough time to look into it thoroughly, but when I asked in the secretary group chat, some strange things came up.”

Jaejun’s gaze turned somewhat sharp.

“Strange things?”

Yongil took the phone back, touched it a few times, then opened the secretary group chat window to show him.

My younger sibling’s friend is that CEO’s cousin, and apparently even their relatives avoid them lol because they have such bad habits with their hands and a really twisted personality.

Wow~ Then the rumor about him calling his wife a sandbag must be true?

Well, I don’t really know for sure lol but the rumors about him aren’t great. I mean, he’s got all that money but can’t find a woman for blind dates. Word is he’s been blacklisted from the matchmaking scene. There are even rumors that dating app moderators filter him out…

Jaejun’s eyes darkened ominously.

Yongil put away the phone and carefully continued his explanation.

“…His character doesn’t seem very good. I’ll investigate more thoroughly and report back to you.”

Jaejun furrowed his brow and roughly ran his hand through his hair.

There’s no smoke without fire.

If he was someone avoided in the matchmaking market, the rumors were likely true.

Then why on earth was Hong Yoomin going on blind dates with such a bastard?

Did she break up badly with her previous fiancé? Or was she in a situation where she desperately needed money?

Bzzzz-.

While trapped in heavy thoughts, Jaejun’s phone inside his jacket rang.

Jaejun told Yongil to investigate everything he could find about Kim Byeongtae, then took out his phone.

It was his mother, Seo Jeonghwa.

He debated whether to answer or not.

It would definitely be a call urging him to come home quickly.

Even right before boarding the plane in America, she had called asking him to come straight home and what he wanted to eat, among other trivial things.

Since it was the day her only son was returning to his parents’ embrace after five years, he understood her eagerness to see him.

But that son, having just heard that his first love’s blind date partner treated his wife like a sandbag, wasn’t in the mood to go home and receive a grand welcome celebration.

The call ended in the meantime.

However, the phone rang again soon after.

This time it was his father.

Jaejun narrowed his eyes and quietly stared at his phone.

Since his father, who usually didn’t call him often, was calling, he thought it might be urgent and eventually pressed the answer button.

“Yes.”

-Where are you.

“I came to the hotel briefly. There was something I wanted to check before the inauguration ceremony.”

-It’s not urgent then.

“Is something wrong?”

-Your mother has been hospitalized. Go to Korea University Hospital.

Jaejun asked back slowly, as if he had misheard.

“Mother is at the hospital right now?”

-Yes.

Jaejun hurriedly ended the call and rushed away from his seat.

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Yoomin got out of the taxi and stood blankly staring at the hospital entrance.

Although she had barely escaped from Byeongtae and come to the hospital because she wanted to see her father, her feet wouldn’t easily move forward.

If she saw her father on a day when her heart was heavy, she might show her tears.

Her father, who had difficulty moving around, would feel bad about not being able to do anything for his daughter.

That’s why when she had troubles, she tried not to come to the hospital at all costs….

Today, she really had nowhere else to go.

Today, she didn’t want to go to the place where her great-aunt and great-uncle, who had been performing ancestral rites behind her back praying for her to die instead of their own daughter, were.

But she also didn’t think she could smile in front of her father and say she was doing well on a day like this. What should she do?

She was just stamping her feet while pressing and releasing her lips dried from the cold when it happened.

A familiar silhouette flickered at the main entrance.

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