Instead, Chairman Cho laughed as if he found this situation amusing.
“Hehe… They’re a married couple, after all.”
“!”
“So, wouldn’t it be easy to spend time together? Who would suspect? If we disguise it as a traffic accident.”
Chairman Cho was a true villain.
The next day, Minhyeong went to see his father, Chairman Cho. He knew she had met Seorin yesterday, and he couldn’t stand the curiosity about the results.
Kneeling down to squeeze out the last bit of pride, it had the opposite effect. Moreover, thinking that she was being ignored even by her friends, she had no more patience.
But wouldn’t it be different with Chairman Cho?
Even if it was Baek Seo-rin, he thought Chairman Cho would find a way to convince her.
However, with nothing much to say until the morning, he entered the main house.
“Where’s Father?”
“He’s in the study.”
He went upstairs to the study, knocked, and opened the door. Chairman Cho, who had been looking at something on his desk, raised his head.
“What’s the matter?”
“Yesterday, you met Seorin. I’m curious about the results.”
At Minhyeong’s urging, Chairman Cho’s forehead wrinkled.
It was a feeling of wanting to bury his son alive unless he was Jeong Minhyeong. But he had to endure it. After all, there was only one person in his bloodline, Jeong Minhyeong.
“Do you know what trouble I’ve been through because of you? Shut up and reflect! This won’t be easy.”
“Father, there’s no time. There’s soon a merger celebration party. Seorin has to withdraw the complaint before then. Otherwise, how can I face people?”
Minhyeong looked pitiful. Chairman Cho’s face gradually distorted at the sight.
Now, Minhyeong’s affairs were not important to Chairman Cho.
On the day when all the past misdeeds Chairman Cho had committed were revealed, everything he had built up like a sandcastle would collapse in vain.
They had to somehow prevent Seorin and Taejun.
And if the two were eliminated, Minhyeong’s affairs would be naturally resolved.
All he had to do was wait until then, but Minhyeong impatiently pressed him. Eventually, Chairman Cho exploded at the thoughtless appearance of his son.
“How dare you come here of all places! Did you even think about attending a celebration party after causing such an incident? Are you out of your mind?”
“Then, Father, who else will go if I don’t? Everyone related to investors and the merger will be there. As the sole successor, I need to go in advance and get acquainted. That’s how it should be.”
It wasn’t a wrong statement. If Minhyeong hadn’t been sued by Seorin.
But in a situation where everything had already been sold, taking Minhyeong to that place would only ruin the atmosphere of the good celebration party.
“Don’t say anything more and reflect this time. Now is not the time for you to step forward!”
“But, Father…”
Listen to me! Since you’re not the one with a headache, don’t make any more trouble! Got it?”
In Chairman Cho’s angry voice, Minhyeong eventually withdrew quietly. But Chairman Cho, who still hadn’t calmed down, breathed heavily, lost in thought.
It felt like walking on thin ice. He felt more at ease only if he somehow got rid of those two.
Now that it had come to this, there was no more delay.
Chairman Cho picked up his phone.
“Well, I have to do one thing. Since these guys aren’t easy, be accurate and quick this time.”
At that time, Taejun was receiving a call from a man.
[Hello. I’m calling you because the requested task has been completed.]“Faster than I thought.”
[Yes, they moved faster than expected. I sent a video file and the movements of the two via email….]
“Yes, I was just about to check it now.”
[Oh, before that, I think I need to tell you something. You should prepare yourself before watching the video file.]The man gave a pre-warning. However, Taejun, who was unfazed and had no more astonishment left, just nodded indifferently.
“Understood. Oh, and please continue to follow and monitor the two for a while.”
[If you wish, of course, I will do that.]“Yes. Please. Also, find out what they are talking about and who they are meeting.”
[Of course.]After hearing the man’s response, Taejun hung up and was about to open the email when he thought of Seorin and went downstairs.
She had just finished showering and was having a warm cup of tea.
“Seorin, the person who told you to follow Heo Gyeongjun and Chairman Cho seems to have found something. Do you want to see it together?”
“Yes, of course.”
She put down the tea cup she was holding and followed him upstairs.
When they checked the email, the two days’ worth of movements of Heo Gyeongjun and Chairman Cho were neatly summarized.
And a large video file.
It seemed to be the video that the man had warned about.
“Seorin, he said to prepare yourself before watching it….”
“I don’t have the heart to prepare anymore. Just play it.”
Taejun nodded and pressed the play button on the video.
Last night, after meeting Seorin, the two had met secretly in a bar. And thankfully, they were confessing their past mistakes one by one.
As the man had said, it was a very shocking past.
His hands and feet were shaking. He wanted to break Chairman Cho’s neck right now as he calmly confessed his past while smiling.
After the video playback ended, Seorin’s absent-minded voice brought Taejun back to the real world.
“Did you hear? From the beginning, the target was not our mom, but our dad….”
“Yes.”
“Ha… The more I hear, the more unbelievable it is. It was strange from the beginning. Why our mom? But after hearing the reason, it’s even stranger.”
“What is it?”
“Our dad didn’t know Chairman Cho. Until before Jeong Minhyeong and I were engaged, he didn’t even know Chairman Cho. But how could Chairman Cho have such deep resentment?”
“That’s right.”
“And whatever that resentment is, murder can’t be justified.”
In the midst of shock, Seorin nodded her head. Her head still felt numb, as if she had been hit hard.
But even in such a situation, the two calmly organized their emotions.
They couldn’t let anger distort their actions, especially in times like this.
In such times, they had to calmly grasp the noose around their necks.
Only by properly gripping it, when the time was right, could they pull that noose and strangle those bastards.
“Seorin, I can no longer trust the authorities.”
“Me neither.”
She nodded in agreement.
Then Taejun whispered softly in her ear.
“These bastards, let’s… catch them ourselves.”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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