Due to Seokhwa entering, Jaepil’s anger subsided a bit. Jaepil used practical issues to persuade Taejun.

“Not only that. It will become unbearable once it becomes known to the world. Your actions to claim her will be exposed.”

“……. ”

“You’ll have to give up social status, dignity, and pride. Do you think you can be happy then?”

With a veiled warning, Jaepil persuaded Taejun. Taejun’s expression twisted at the thinly veiled threat.

“What’s the big deal about social status, dignity, and pride? Forget it all.”

As Seokhwa and Jaepil’s jaws dropped like broken nutcracker dolls simultaneously.

“Grandfather, when will you keep seeing only what you want to see, hearing only what you want to hear, and stubbornly clinging to the truth?”
“Kim Taejun! What kind of manners is that? To your grandfather!”

Seokhwa, who regained his composure first, shouted.

“Then apologize to Hansoeun and bring her here! Once you find Hansoeun, you can shut your mouth and be the obedient grandson again!”

Taejun also rebelled in the same way.

“If you keep hiding like this, I don’t need a grandfather or aunt.”

Holding his forehead with one hand and pointing at the trembling Taejun with the other, Jaepil shouted.

“Y-You, you insolent child. You’ll be fired immediately. I’ll cut off the purse strings!”

“Yes. That’s what I wanted. I don’t need Grandfather’s help. I have enough with the inheritance from my deceased parents.”

Once again, the two opened their mouths. Taking advantage of the momentary distraction, Taejun pressed again.

“Release her quickly. Where is Hansoeun?”

“I don’t know! I don’t!”

“If my grandfather gets involved, do you think I won’t find her?”

Taejun was a person who shared the same sentiments as his grandfather. He was fearless. A man who, when circumstances allowed, would threaten with a curse.

A man who, when negotiations failed, would resort to curses.

“So, that’s why K Group can’t become a global company.”

“What? You punk! K is already a global company!”

“With a mindset like yours, starting with the chairman, thinking like this, what kind of global company is it? Please.”

“What, what?”

“I erased the rumors of an old man with nothing left but honor, whenever they became noticeable, but now I won’t do it anymore.”

Seokhwa couldn’t close his open mouth, covering it with both hands. Jaepil staggered in shock, and Taejun left the office without looking back at the two.

Having discovered how his only grandson had become, Jaepil, who was now aware of the situation, stumbled and sat hesitantly on the sofa.

“……If anyone interferes with my path, I’ll kill him, even if it’s my grandfather.”

Seokhwa, suppressing his surprised feelings, approached Jaepil and handed him a bottle of water.

“Does he take after someone to act like that?”

“……That’s right.”

“Even if he can’t inherit the fortune, he’s still rich.”

Especially angry about that, Jaepil thumped his chest.

“Just let it go today. He’ll come back tomorrow. ……But the next day will be even more shocking, Father.”

Seokhwa, who had experienced dealing with a fierce nephew once, offered brief advice.

After finishing speaking, curiosity arose.

“Father, but did you really abduct Hansoeun?”

Father also knew about Hansoeun.

Should I step in and tell him? The nephew seems to be already ruined. Shall I try saving one person?

“Where did you send her?”

“I don’t know. Really.”

However, the answer coming from Jaepil was vague.

“I gave her a plane ticket to New York. But she didn’t appear at the New York airport.”

Jaepil and Taejun, both carrying the weight of the world like soaked cotton, returned home.
Exhausted to the point of feeling glued to the ground, but the mind still seemed to be burning fiercely.

I thought about taking a break as advised by Munkyung, but I couldn’t enter the bedroom.

What Hansoeun did to me and left behind, the air, still filled that space.

The tender body that used to curl up so sweetly still seemed to be scratching my pupils.

As if giving everything, staking everything on me, she left me in a state of frenzy.

I didn’t know until the end. Foolishly, stupidly, I knew nothing.

This woman liked me so much, lost in that joy.

You liked me that much. Yes, you liked me incredibly.

You, who liked me so much, could you leave me?

Even though my eyes rolled back, creating chaos everywhere, I still couldn’t accept reality.

How can I spend another summer like this? Am I a summer migratory bird?

The legendary summer migratory bird that appeared after 20 years.

Haha, it’s crazy. The hand that touched my forehead slid down, covering my eyes. Laughter mixed with self-pity burst out weakly.

Reporting a stolen watch would put an end to it. However, I couldn’t do that.

Accusing the woman who had already falsely accused me once could tarnish even that noble honor.

You knew that. You knew I would never report it.

It was so infuriating that she was haunting me and that I couldn’t do anything about it.

Stupidly, I looked straight ahead, and a gaze from the direction hit a jar. It was a jar fixed on a tray with a stone, as she said that even if it was attached with bond, it would fall off quickly, so she fixed it with a stone on a tray. It was a jar that she had set up like this because she wanted to, despite it being rather unappealing.

Moving my steps to stand in front of the jar, Taejun stared inside for a long time. Every day, he looked inside, checked the few candies inside, and laughed. He had never taken one out to eat. Somehow, it felt like a waste.

Even though I cherished it so much.

Suddenly, the sweet and colorful things disappeared, leaving only one lying note. Despite reading and rereading it like it would wear out, the characters that wouldn’t disappear remained, causing a thump in my heart.

Now it was all useless.

Taejun pushed the tray supporting the jar.

With a thud, the fallen jar shattered into several pieces like meteor fragments that had mistakenly come to Earth. The white stones also tumbled and rolled on the floor.

The white porcelain crumpled into a bloody red.

Even though I said I would give anything, not to play push and pull, to give only love precisely, she was an annoying woman who flipped everything and left.

I resent you so much. But.

“So, I hate Director.”

“Hate is good.”

Yeah. I feel the same way.
Like you abruptly left as if it were nothing, I hate you, I hate you to death, but still, like an idiot, I like you, still. This is so wrong.

Miss Hansoeun, who fixes everything well.

Because of you, I’ve fallen apart, so now you should come and fix me.

Casually stepping on the fragments of the moon scattered on the floor and the reverse stones, I moved forward without any particular goal. The memories hurt more than the fragments embedded in the soles of my feet.

On the day he proudly glued the jar with bond and bragged about it, I remembered what she said.

“Anyway, what’s gone won’t come back. Director.”