Thump! Thump! Thump!
“I hate it! I hate it! I won’t! Rather than being confined, I’d rather bite my tongue and die!”
Seonhwa was dragged into the room, her strong arms held by a robust man.
She began thrashing around and screaming, but her father, Baek Jintae, remained unfazed.
Before the door closed, Seonhwa and Jintae faced each other for a moment.
“Stop whining. If you keep it up, you won’t end up in a mental hospital but behind bars. Got it?”
“Why. Why me!”
“Quietly prepare to become a bride. Instead, you’re threatening and causing trouble. You’re fearless. Or maybe brainless!”
Seonhwa glared resentfully at her father, Jintae.
“When you set the trap, did you think you wouldn’t fall into it? Watch how Chairman Lee, the director of the competing hospital, falls into a predicament. See what happens to Baekhwa Group. Even if you hate the surroundings, you shouldn’t make things worse.”
Seonhwa’s suppressed anger began to boil.
No one had any intention of saving her.
From birth, there was no one to embrace her.
In this filthy world.
“I want to die.”
It felt like her heart was somersaulting in the air.
As her breath started to choke, Jintae, watching, furrowed his brow.
To prevent any unpredictable actions, the men holding Seonhwa took her to a bed and tied her arms and legs firmly.
Seonhwa suffered from panic disorder due to insufficient adjustment to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“Get Dr. Kim.”
Jintae instructed the nurse sympathetically looking at Seonhwa.
Seonhwa was adopted by Jintae, who brought her as a granddaughter with the stubbornness of a grandmother who insisted on reaping what she sowed.
During the time she was having a fit, she should have just died without any fuss.
“Ah, there’s never a quiet day because of her?”
Jintae’s wife, Insuk, muttered as she went downstairs.
She openly hinted that it was annoying to live with this ugly creature causing a commotion but Jintae paid no attention.
“That’s why, where can I send her to get married? She’s a burden both inside and outside. I don’t know if sending her to get married will bring shame to the family.”
Whether Insuk murmured or not, Jintae casually looked at the workers who were waiting behind him.
“Proceed.”
As the order was given, the men in work clothes began drilling into the door. Two workers were attaching a lock to the door.
Inside the closed door, Seonhwa screamed and howled again. The workers were momentarily unsure of what to do.
If she keeps this up, she’ll collapse and fall out.
Jintae’s eyes, urging them to continue, were dry and indifferent.
And so, the sound of drilling continued.
With a sharp noise, Jintae frowned as he descended the stairs to the first floor.
“Chairman, must it be like this?”
Following him, Byeongryul cautiously brought up the subject, but Jintae only created fierce wrinkles on his forehead.
As Jintae sat on the sofa in the first-floor reception room, Byeongryul, with hunched shoulders, stood beside the sofa.
One side of Byeongryul’s face was red, having blocked Jintae’s menacing hand that was about to hit Seonhwa.
“Seohyunwoo. Who is that guy, anyway?”
Jintae asked, recalling the man who had come looking for her.
Byeongryul cautiously replied, “He’s someone Chairman has been quite fond of for a long time.”
He seemed pleased for a while, but then he had to go and do such nonsense. Unbelievable.
“Liking one guy and deciding to ruin the group. Are you insane?”
“Well, I tried to stop her, but she was so blindly infatuated.”
“Is it that difficult to handle her quietly and get her married?”
“I apologize, Chairman.”
“Chairman said he’s handling Director Lee without any issues. Is this what you call handling!”
In truth, he hadn’t been able to manage his duties properly due to busyness and didn’t fully trust it.
He just needed to keep her seated in a respectable position. That way, he could at least acknowledge her worth and save face.
“So, I didn’t know I was working so hard to get rid of her by the end of this year. Can’t you properly supervise and dance to the rhythm? Are you sane or not?”
The more he thought about it, the more his anger boiled, and he continued scolding the irritated person for no reason.
Seonhwa, with an unpredictable and extreme personality, was like a bomb in this house.
Byeongryul, who had been taking care of Seonhwa for almost 15 years, ensuring she graduated from college without any issues, managing interpersonal relationships, health care, etc., was someone he could somewhat trust.
“Well, if what you’re saying makes it a bit easier to endure, then listen well. Persuade him skillfully. If you keep watching, you might catch someone sooner or later.”
Glancing at Jintae’s reaction, Byeongryul expressed his opinion boldly.
“Still, keeping her confined like that is counterproductive. How about trying to talk with her?”
“Talk? If I thought I could have a conversation with that crazy X, I would’ve… Well, let’s stop there.”
“Every time Chairman only shouts and threatens.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
