Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 9

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Chapter 9

“S-s-senior, why are you… here?”

“I’m the one who wants to ask. Why do you keep lurking around wherever I am?”

Jaejun raised one eyebrow crookedly as he stared at Yoomin.

His eyes, deeper than an abyss, were so emotionless that it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Unlike herself, who was flustered like someone caught stealing, he looked relaxed.

“I asked why you’re lurking around.”

“S-senior, you’re the one lurking in front of me.”

Silence fell, and Yoomin squeezed her eyes shut.

What did I just say.

Then she heard a low snickering sound.

Yoomin fearfully bit down hard on her teeth and slightly lifted one eye.

Sure enough, he was sneering coldly.

“…No, I mean, I had my own business to attend to here…”

“Looking at loan shark flyers is your business?”

Yoomin’s face turned bright red.

She was so embarrassed she wanted to hide in a mouse hole.

Earlier, she got caught in a blind date scene with a bald eagle in his 40s.

Now she even got caught showing interest in loan sharks.

Yoomin bit her lips repeatedly and cast her gaze downward.

“What have you been doing for 5 years to end up like this?”

Yoomin glanced up slightly.

His expression was emotionless, but his voice was full of sharp edges.

He must be furious about her running away with the assignment 5 years ago.

“Gambling? Cryptocurrency? What did you do to be so desperate for money that you’re going on blind dates with men old enough to be your uncle and even looking into loan sharks.”

Though his voice was monotone, there was a chill colder than frost, making her shrink back.

It wasn’t just Yoomin who felt it – the people smoking nearby also quietly slipped away.

“Hong Yoomin.”

When she didn’t answer, Jaejun pressed her.

Yoomin didn’t know what to say and just kept clenching and unclenching her fists.

She couldn’t bring herself to say that she came to see her father, wanted to leave Yoomin’s family home, and was tempted by loan sharks because of her father’s hospital bills.

5 years ago, she had only told him that she was adopted and lived at Yoomin’s family home.

She hadn’t talked about her father.

If she talked about her father, she would have to reveal the details of her unfortunate and painful family history, so she deliberately didn’t bring it up.

She was afraid that the man who said he liked her for no reason might leave if he learned the details of her unfortunate family circumstances.

“Hong-“

Finding the silence frustrating, her name was called once more.

And Yoomin cut off his words.

“F-frankly speaking, we’re not going to see each other again anyway, so I don’t need to tell you all my personal business, senior.”

Jaejun’s eyes sank eerily cold.

Yoomin was scared but pretended to be fine and bowed her head.

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

After blurting this out without breathing until her face turned red, Yoomin hurriedly passed by him.

And she started running with every ounce of strength she had.

It was truly shameful and devastating to show her worst side to her first love twice.

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Watching Yoomin run away without looking back, Jaejun let out a hollow laugh.

“Still writing bad checks.”

Telling him to contact her without even giving her contact information.

He watched until her figure was no longer visible, then lifted his phone.

And made a call somewhere.

-Yes, young master.

It was Yongil.

“Are you looking into that Kim pervert bastard or whatever?”

-Yes, I’ll report to you by evening.

“And look into Hong Yoomin in detail too. Everything from how she lived after leaving for Germany to her current financial situation. Ah. Look into all the personal information of her biological parents before the adoption too.”

After receiving confirmation, Jaejun hung up the phone.

Actually, even at the hotel lounge cafe, he had been wondering whether he should let go of his interest in her.

It was too sudden a meeting, and he judged they would never cross paths again.

However, on the way to the hospital, thinking about her marrying some low-quality guy kept bothering him and made driving damn difficult.

In the midst of that, as soon as he arrived at the hospital, he saw a familiar figure again.

Hong Yoomin, crouched in an awkward position with her waist bent, quietly peering into an ashtray that came up to her waist.

Absurd, he slowly closed the distance.

To properly confirm if it was really her.

The closer he got, the more the faint fruit scent that tickled his heart through the cigarette smoke gave him an answer to why she had been on his mind all along.

Running into Hong Yoomin this much was fate.

Heaven was giving her a chance to make up for the wrong she did to him.

Thinking this way, his blood boiled as if his blood vessels would burst. His mood explosively improved as if adrenaline was rushing.

In that state, he was closing the distance with her.

“How much would they lend for something like this. How much would the interest be…”

She muttered.

While looking at loan shark flyers.

You, who once drove me crazy.

What kind of situation are you going through to be struggling at rock bottom.

Enough to completely damage my pride that was once crazy about you.

Then the phone in his hand rang.

It was his mother.

He declined the call and took a step forward.

“Ah.”

Then he stopped again and took a photo of the loan shark flyer attached to the ashtray.

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Jaejun went to the VIP ward, passed the security guards standing in front of the hospital room door, and reached the door.

When he opened the door, his eyes met directly with Seo Jeonghwa, who was sitting on the luxurious hospital bed sniffling.

“Son… Why don’t you answer mom’s calls. Hm? Do you want to see mom go crazy?”

At Seo Jeonghwa’s voice full of resentment, Jaejun sighed quietly enough for only himself to hear and approached the hospital bed.

Seo Jeonghwa quickly patted the bed sheet as if telling him to sit next to her.

However, Jaejun pulled over a portable chair from the side and sat down, asking.

“Your complexion is good. Your makeup looks great. Your beauty is still there.”

“…What?”

“You don’t look sick at all. What diagnosis got you hospitalized. Stress-induced gastritis?”

Seo Jeonghwa pouted.

“It’s your grandmother.”

He had expected as much.

The real power of Taehyun Group, Grandmother.

Jaejun’s paternal grandmother and his mother’s natural enemy who always clashed with his mother.

Everyone in the group knew that his late grandfather, the group’s first chairman, was only chairman in name, while the real power was in Grandmother’s hands.

So when Grandmother spoke, even her most beloved sons and daughters had no choice but to obey.

His father, being the eldest son, was particularly obedient to grandmother and couldn’t defy her.

Because of this, his mother was always stressed.

The eldest daughter-in-law. And the eldest daughter-in-law of Taehyun Group at that, so his mother had her own serious hardships.

“This too shall pass.”

Jeonghwa shook her head at Jaejun’s consolation.

“No. This time she really dropped a bomb.”

Grandmother always made unreasonable demands of the eldest son and his wife, but somehow Father had always managed to resolve everything.

“No. Trust Father.”

“Even your father can’t handle this matter!”

“What is it that’s making you like this?”

“The eldest grandson’s marriage.”

“…The eldest grandson, you mean my marriage?”

“Yes. She said to get you married within this year and drive the Hotel stock price to its maximum!”

“What about the partner?”

“Oh, I don’t know.”

Jeonghwa rubbed her temples as if fed up and complained.

“No matter how good a daughter-in-law candidate I bring, do you think that woman would be pleased? Hm? She’ll definitely oppose it with this excuse and that excuse! Your grandmother hates me!”

“…”

“I can’t even freely choose my own son’s bride!”

Jaejun grabbed Jeonghwa’s wrist as she was beating her chest.

“Don’t worry. I’ll find a bride that Mother will absolutely love.”

Jeonghwa, whose eyes had become bloodshot, looked at Jaejun and continued with a deep sigh.

“You think that’s all?”

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