Unhealthy - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50. Witness to Darkness

“I always assume the worst-case scenario.”

He stood up, showing a faint smile as he bitterly lifted the corners of his mouth.

“You told me to watch. To watch everything fall apart miserably… But why.”

Why are you trying to push me out now, why are you trying to walk alone into that pitch-black darkness.

Hae-yeong wanted to swallow the words she couldn’t bring herself to say and grab onto his clothes, but Taejun cut through Hae-yeong’s anxiety immediately.

“I’ll come back.”

Hae-yeong felt the heavy touch pressing down on the top of her head and looked up at him. It was a moment when she could feel the distant gap between herself and Gi Tae-jun that seemed to touch yet never quite reach.

After Taejun disappeared into the estate, Hae-yeong, left alone, gripped the car keys he had given her so tightly that her palm ached.

The impulse to run after Taejun’s retreating figure and the fear of wanting to drive away from this hellish space collided violently within Hae-yeong.

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Finally standing before Gi Chairman, Taejun skipped even basic greetings and held out the document envelope he had received from An Ji-min.

“I wondered who would come first, and as expected, you came first.”

Gi Chairman let out a hollow breath and took the document envelope Taejun offered.

“I brought the documents you were looking for.”

What Taejun offered was the document that Gi Chairman had so desperately craved, clearly stamped with An Ji-min’s signature and seal.

But it was not the transfer agreement Gi Chairman had dreamed of.

It was a complete inheritance rights return guarantee letter stating that An Ji-min was renouncing all her inheritance rights while simultaneously transferring all management rights to her niece An Hae-yeong immediately.

The moment this document was filed, Hae-yeong’s assets that Gi Chairman had tied up using his legal guardian status as an excuse would completely slip from Gi Chairman’s grasp.

“You finally, you brought this…!”

Gi Chairman faced the piece of paper thrust before his eyes that foretold the failure of his plans, his fingertips trembling violently.

The tower of greed he had carefully built over the years was shaking from the foundation by just a single piece of paper.

Unable to control his anger, Gi Chairman snatched the document and tore it to shreds.

White paper fragments scattered across the study floor like falling petals, but there wasn’t a single point of disturbance in Taejun’s expression.

He looked down indifferently at the paper scraps that had fallen at his feet, then once again pulled out an identical document envelope from his jacket pocket and placed it on Gi Chairman’s desk.

“Tearing it won’t help. The original has already been notarized at the law firm, and this is just one of the copies of the original that aunt wrote.”

Taejun’s declaration suppressing Gi Chairman’s outburst was poisonously dry.

“Now decide. Will you quietly return what belongs to Hae-yeong and step down, or will you expose all the ugly truths that the name Gi Kyung-woon holds to the world along with this document.”

Gi Chairman’s complexion turned ashen. It was like a hunting dog he had raised with his own hands was lunging to bite its master’s throat.

Gi Chairman, who had been alternately staring at the torn paper scraps and Taejun’s face for a long while, developed a tremor in his eyelids.

The longer the silence continued, the more the air in the study stretched taut with sharpened tension.

Finally, Gi Chairman’s patience exceeded its breaking point.

“You, you fucking bastard…!”

Gi Chairman suddenly grabbed the desk lamp and struck the desk with it.

Not only was the well-crafted wooden desk damaged, but the smooth glass curve of the lamp that had been pristine just moments before shattered with a loud crash.

Glass fragments flew to Taejun’s feet, but Taejun didn’t even flinch.

Then Gi Chairman thrust a sharp, jagged piece of lamp glass right in front of Taejun’s nose.

“I was being too nice to you, so you completely lost your fear. Huh? How else would you dare to think of shoving such dog-like documents at me.”

“You already have more than enough. Stop here.”

A small crack appeared on Taejun’s face, which had always been unshakably calm.

“Aren’t you even sorry to the two who passed away?”

Taejun’s voice was beyond peaceful—it was chilling.

That dry question, stripped even of anger, rather sharply grated against Gi Chairman’s nerves.

The smell of blood that had been hidden behind years of Jiwon Group’s prosperity and glory seemed to vibrate through the study.

Gi Chairman hesitated for a moment, but soon let out a bitter sneer as he looked down at Taejun.

“Sorry? Me? Why should I be sorry to those bastards?”

There wasn’t a trace of guilt in Gi Chairman’s eyes. Instead, they were filled only with arrogance, as if asking what was wrong with removing stones that had blocked his path. Eyes glittering with greed swept over Taejun’s face.

“You didn’t need to take their lives.”

Taejun’s gaze slowly settled on Gi Chairman. At the end of his unwavering gaze, cold resentment crystallized.

“If you were greedy, there were plenty of ways to take things without killing people. Did you really need to trample them so miserably?”

Gi Chairman’s eyes narrowed as he sensed something ominous.

The words coming from Taejun’s mouth weren’t mere speculation.

They were convictions that had been sharpened in his heart for a long time, carrying a weight different from the bluster of one without evidence.

“You didn’t need to cruelly take everything away. It wasn’t even father’s to begin with.”

That single statement pierced straight through Gi Chairman’s reverse scale.

To Gi Kyung-woon, who had lived his entire life proud of being a member of Jiwon Group, the pointing out that none of it had originally been his was more humiliating than any curse.

Gi Chairman’s face instantly contorted hideously.

Gi Chairman let out a beast-like roar and grabbed Taejun’s neck, strangling him.

His hands, driven by evil, dug into Taejun’s neck, choking his windpipe.

Blood rushed to Taejun’s face from the sudden pressure, but instead of resisting, he only watched Gi Chairman’s madness with heavily sunken eyes.

“You, what do you know to come here running your mouth carelessly? Where did you pick up what to hear and come…”

The fingertips of the old man strangling his neck were trembling slightly. It was partly from anger, but also from the fundamental fear that a witness to the darkness he had committed decades ago might still be alive.

The more Taejun’s breathing became labored, the more Gi Chairman’s murderous intent darkly consumed the space.

Even while being strangled, Taejun didn’t wrinkle his expression even slightly.

Taejun seemed to feel heavy relief instead. Like someone hoping everything would end here, or like someone convinced that even this threshold of death was part of the perfect plan he had designed, his face was poisonously cold.

Even in the moment of experiencing his vision turning white, he didn’t lose his cynicism.

“I didn’t pick it up, I saw it. I saw it directly.”

Taejun’s metallic voice resonated low through the space.

Gi Chairman’s hands momentarily lost strength. His pupils wavered with indescribable shock.

“What?”

“That day, what father did in the study.”

Gi Kyung-woon’s face instantly turned bright red.

“Do you know what you’re saying right now… You, is that why you brought that girl Hae-yeong into this house?”

“Yes.”

Taejun’s answer had not an inch of hesitation. Gi Chairman staggered as if he had been struck in the back of the head.

“You put that girl in front of me to chew on it over and over again and strangle me!”

Listening to Gi Kyung-woon’s pathetically shaking voice, Taejun smiled faintly. The smile hanging on his bloodless lips struck Gi Chairman’s heart like the cruelest dagger. He seemed to find it hard to believe that everything had been within his blood relative’s calculations as he swallowed rough breaths.

Taejun grabbed Gi Kyung-woon’s weakened arm and brushed it off indifferently.

“So stop now. Unless you want to see me come forward as a witness to that night’s murder case.”

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