Do Jun felt as if his blood was rushing backwards when he heard the words coming out of Ga Eun’s mouth.

“Since when?”

Do Jun’s sharp gaze fixed on her lips, as if urging an answer.

“The reason I wanted to leave you was because of that person.”

Ga Eun avoided Do Jun’s eyes and hid her slightly trembling hands behind her back.

“You said you lost all your memories in an accident, but you remembered that man right away?”

Do Jun approached Ga Eun closely, as if about to threaten her. Ga Eun tensed her whole body, trying not to show weakness in front of Do Jun.

Ga Eun faced Do Jun’s irrational behavior for the first time. Thinking she shouldn’t stand in front of Do Jun any longer, she hurriedly moved her feet.

“I have a meeting in the afternoon, so I’ll go first.”

Ga Eun rushed out of the conference room as if fleeing from Do Jun. Do Jun couldn’t stop her.

As soon as Ga Eun left, a deep sigh escaped Do Jun’s lips. Not once had he thought she would love another man.

She had always been by his side, as if she had been his from the beginning.

His heart was beating so fast that he felt heat rising throughout his body. Just as Do Jun was about to leave the conference room belatedly, his phone rang loudly.

[I’ve called you several times but you didn’t answer.]

Do Jun then realized that there were several missed calls on his phone.

“Tell me.”

The man explained the reason for his call without any hesitation.

[I just sent a photo to your phone, sir. Please check it.]

Do Jun immediately took the phone away from his ear and checked the photo that had arrived on his phone. It showed Ga Eun entering a cafe in the early morning.

And when he moved to the next photo, it showed Ga Eun coming out of a commercial building with a woman about her age. After confirming the photos, Do Jun quickly picked up the phone again.

“Are you saying this is where she went early this morning?”

[Yes.]

Do Jun’s voice quickened as if he wanted to know about Ga Eun’s secret as quickly as possible.

“Do you know who the woman she met at the coffee shop is?”

[She’s a gynecologist in the commercial building, sir.]

A sigh escaped Do Jun’s lips upon hearing the man’s explanation.

[If you enter the cafe and exit through the back door, you can immediately use the elevator of the commercial building.]

Do Jun felt his already complicated thoughts becoming even more muddled as he listened to the man’s explanation.

“Good work. Has there been any movement from Lee Yun Sook’s side?”

[No. There’s nothing unusual yet.]

Do Jun had secretly assigned someone to follow Ga Eun. It was someone he had assigned out of concern that Lee Yun Sook’s side might harm Ga Eun.

But that man had followed Ga Eun and gathered the most important evidence in this Moon reporter incident, delivering it to Do Jun. It was also the man who first informed him about Ga Eun’s interview schedule.

“Now that Moon reporter has been handed over to the prosecution, they’ll make other moves. Watch more carefully.”

[Yes, sir.]

Do Jun’s brow furrowed deeply after hanging up the phone. It felt as if all the matters he had only been suspicious about were finally connecting into a single line in his mind.

Ga Eun’s face, insisting on not going to the hospital despite having a high fever, once again made Do Jun’s head spin.

Ga Eun’s behavior when she threw the fever reducer to the floor seemed unlike her usual self, urgent and anxious as if hiding something. Do Jun’s eyes wavered as if he now understood why she had acted that way.

Just as Do Jun was about to hurry out to the main conference room, his phone rang loudly once again. The person calling was Secretary Kim.

[Did the live interview go well?]

When Do Jun suddenly expressed his intention to participate in an interview conducted by a reporter from A Newspaper, Secretary Kim had tried to dissuade him several times.

This was because the president of A Newspaper was a person with close relationships with the chairmen of several companies. Publicly confronting a reporter from A Newspaper was tantamount to declaring war on A Newspaper.

At a time when Shin Oh Group was already in turmoil due to Ga Eun’s traffic accident scandal, creating another issue could be fatal for Do Jun.

“Yes. Thank you for preparing on such short notice.”

Secretary Kim, hiding his words of concern for Do Jun, immediately stated the purpose of his call.

[I looked into the accident witness. He has a daughter who is about to undergo heart surgery. He had several months of unpaid hospital bills, but recently paid all the overdue surgery costs at once.]

Do Jun’s eyebrows shot up as he listened to Secretary Kim’s words. It was as he expected. His intuition that the witness was giving false testimony to him was exactly right. After hesitating for a while, Do Jun moved his lips towards the secretary again.

“I need you to find one person for me. Find out if there was a man named Sun around Yoon Ga Eun.”

[Pardon?]

Secretary Kim unwittingly raised his voice at the sudden, implausible situation. Do Jun wanted to clearly sort out any situation that seemed even slightly suspicious.

“I’d like you to find out as quickly as possible.”

Do Jun was about to hang up but quickly caught Secretary Kim again.

“I’d like to postpone the health checkup that World Group was planning to conduct by a few months. Make up an appropriate excuse.”

Secretary Kim took out a notebook and noted down each instruction as Do Jun continued giving directions. After hanging up with Secretary Kim, Do Jun felt as if Ga Eun’s voice kept echoing in his ears.

“I’m sorry, Sun.”

Even though she had only called another man’s name, Do Jun’s hands clenched tightly. For a brief moment, he even felt pathetic for feeling murderous towards a man whose face and name he didn’t even know.

Struggling to regain his rationality, Do Jun tried to reorganize his muddled thoughts back to square one.

No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t believe that Ga Eun had another man. After being lost in thought for a while, one thought flashed through Do Jun’s mind.

Before Ga Eun left home. The day he first held her vividly came back to Do Jun’s mind. Do Jun quickly left the conference room and hurriedly moved his steps somewhere.

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As soon as she left the conference room of A Newspaper, Ga Eun immediately got on the elevator. Worried that Do Jun might follow her, she hurriedly pressed the close button on the elevator repeatedly.

When the elevator doors closed completely, her legs weakened and she staggered for a moment.

‘Did he believe the lie?’

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t figure out what Do Jun’s gaze meant.

‘Surely, he couldn’t have found out about my visit to the gynecologist this morning, could he?’

As anxiety set in, Ga Eun’s hand wrapped around her belly. It was because Yu Jin’s words telling her to absolutely avoid stress came back to her mind.

Ga Eun had planned in advance how to handle it if Do Jun discovered her pregnancy. She intended to make up a story about having an unfortunate incident with a man she met while drunk, and that’s when she got pregnant.

She was even confident that if this was the reason, Do Jun would be the first to divorce her. He was a man who hated lies so much that he would hate even breathing in the same space as her if he knew she had deceived him and even had an affair.

As she organized her plan in her mind, her anxious heart became much more at ease. Ga Eun quickly hailed a taxi in front of A Newspaper.

Ga Eun tried to erase thoughts of Do Jun and focused on thoughts of the company.

She reminded herself several times that she needed to successfully complete this fashion show to fully secure her position as successor within World Group. She planned to resolve the issue with Do Jun after the fashion show ended.

When the taxi stopped in front of World Fashion headquarters, she hurriedly got out of the taxi.

As she entered the headquarters building, she felt the sharp gazes of employees piercing her, perhaps due to the live broadcast interview this morning. Ga Eun tried to ignore such gazes and quickly entered the World Fashion team office.

She quietly exchanged eye greetings with the employees before hurriedly hiding herself in the team leader’s office. Although she pretended to be nonchalant, she was acutely aware of the employees talking about her.

Ga Eun took a deep breath and picked up some documents, trying to focus on the fashion show work. Just then, a text message arrived on her phone.

It was a notification message informing her that the date of the health checkup scheduled for two weeks later had been pushed back by 3 months. Reading the message, Ga Eun was so surprised that she dropped her phone on the table.

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The place Do Jun rushed to after quickly leaving the A Newspaper building was the commercial building Ga Eun had visited this morning. Do Jun entered the cafe by opening the door as the man had said.

After passing through the long cafe corridor, the back door of the cafe came into view. Opening the back door and going out, the commercial building elevator appeared as the man had explained.

If she had pretended to enter the cafe, she could have gone to the hospital avoiding suspicion until now. Do Jun’s gaze turned to the building directory. After confirming the floor where the gynecologist was located, Do Jun immediately got on the elevator.

Getting off the elevator and standing in front of the gynecologist’s office, Do Jun couldn’t easily enter. Inside, he could see expectant mothers who had come with their husbands. After hesitating for a while, Do Jun opened the door and entered the gynecologist’s office.

The nurse looked at Do Jun and moved her lips cheerfully.

“Is this your first time? Where is the expectant mother?”

As if it was unusual for a man to visit the gynecologist alone, the nurse looked behind Do Jun, waiting for the expectant mother to enter.

Do Jun slowly moved his lips towards such a nurse.

“Is Dr. Moon Ji Soo here?”

The nurse asked back in a bewildered voice at Do Jun’s sudden words.

“What business do you have with Dr. Moon……”

Do Jun, who had been hesitating, seemed to make up his mind and quickly moved his lips again.

“Please tell Dr. Moon Ji Soo that Yoon Ga Eun’s husband is here.”