I'll Marry Your Brother (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 2

Leaving them frozen in place behind me, I headed toward the bridal waiting room.

After gathering the things I needed, I saw Ji Han standing in front of the waiting room, reaching out his hand toward me.

“What do you mean by that?”

Behind him, I felt the sharp gazes of countless guests, and my heart began pounding fiercely.

“Yoon Yeo Jin.”

“I mean exactly what I said—I’m not going through with this wedding.”

Ji Han blinked slowly, still unable to comprehend the situation.

I turned away from his incredulous expression.

“What’s going on? What’s happening?”

“It looks like the bride’s running away?”

Aside from the reporters’ murmurs, even the air around me seemed to freeze over.

The gathered reporters began relentlessly clicking their shutters.

“Snap it! This is a scoop!”

As I stepped backward, reporters who had been idly milling about surged toward me like a swarm of bees.

I ran toward the elevator, dodging the journalists trying to block my way.

“Follow her!”

Seeing me sprinting away in my pure white dress, the Chairman and Vice Chairman’s faces twisted in dismay.

I hurriedly pressed the elevator’s close button as reporters ran toward it.

‘How could something like this possibly happen?’

The elevator doors fully blocked my view. Only when I was utterly alone did I slump against the wall like I might collapse.

My still-panicked heart pounded wildly in my chest.

“Haah… ha…”

A heavy breath escaped my lips.

My hand gripping the elevator’s handrail trembled violently.

Ever since I realized I’d returned to my wedding day, my heart had been racing anxiously.

As my eyes slowly scanned the elevator, where an inexplicable sense of wrongness lingered—

An unknown number appeared on my phone screen, and a strange ringtone pierced through the silence.

“…Hello?”

“This is Dae Jin Hospital. Are you Ms. Yoon Yeo Jin?”

“Yes… I’m Yoon Yeo Jin.”

“This is Dae Jin Hospital. We’re calling to inform family members that Mr. Yoon Tae Guk and Ms. Yoon Ji Young have been in an accident.”

At those blunt words, my phone slipped from my hand and crashed to the floor.

“Hello? Ms. Yoon Yeo Jin? Can you hear me?”

The elevator doors opened as it reached the lobby.

Was it because I’d suddenly come back to life…? It seemed I’d completely lost my mind.

How could I possibly forget my family’s accident?

“Ha… Why of all times, now?”

May 28th—

Not only was it the day of my wedding to him, but also the day my grandfather and parents met with their fatal accident.

I remembered my family, who’d perished in that sudden, unforeseen crash.

Walking toward the main entrance, my legs trembled so badly I nearly collapsed several times.

Just as I reached for the car door parked in front of the lobby—

A strong grip seized my wrist, and I reflexively turned around.

Ji Han, who I hadn’t even noticed following me, was breathing heavily, glaring at me with fierce eyes.

He rarely showed emotion on his face,

but right now, he looked like a bomb about to explode.

“What are you doing?!”

“Let go of me.”

“Get back upstairs. Now.”

The harder I tried to pull my arm away, the tighter Ji Han gripped my wrist.

My resistance seemed to push his patience to its limit; his face contorted menacingly.

Yes, of course he’d be furious—I’d just tarnished the reputation he’d worked so hard to build.

“Yoon Yeo Jin!”

I twisted my wrist from his grasp and lifted it up.

“Let go! I have to go to the hospital.”

He clearly hadn’t expected the word ‘hospital’—his face flooded with shock.

Only then did his grip on my wrist loosen slightly.

“There’s been an accident. My parents and grandfather are in critical condition.”

“…What?”

“So let go, okay?”

I turned away, cradling my wrist that had just escaped his grip.

Then I hurriedly got into the driver’s seat and started the engine.

Through the side mirror, I saw Ji Han speaking urgently into his phone.

Apparently, he’d just learned about my family’s accident—his eyes suddenly gleamed.

You bastard…

Even as the wedding venue slowly faded into the distance, I couldn’t take my eyes off him.

Understanding the meaning behind that flash in his eyes, my hands gripping the steering wheel trembled.

“Please… survive.”

I couldn’t bear to lose my family twice. My lips pressed tightly together to hold back the tears threatening to spill over.

***

I slammed the car into an empty spot in the hospital parking lot and ran.

People’s stares burned into me as I dashed, but I had no time to care.

Rushing past the crowded lobby, I boarded an elevator that stopped at the VIP floor.

Unlike the lobby, the VIP ward corridor was quiet. I ran all the way to the farthest end.

Among several guards gathered nearby, a familiar middle-aged man came into view.

He was Attorney Park Hyun Ik, longtime legal counsel of the W Group who’d served my grandfather for years.

Mr. Hyun Ik, seated in front of a patient room, looked up at the sound of my hurried heels.

“Uncle!”

“Yeo… Yeo Jin-ah. Why are you so late…?”

‘Late…? No, it can’t be.’

His words sent a wave of dread crashing over me.

He was still dressed in formal attire, having apparently turned his car around abruptly upon hearing the tragic news while heading to my wedding.

“…How are all three of them doing now?”

He rushed toward me immediately and clasped my trembling hand with his wrinkled one.

His wandering eyes settled on my pure white dress.

In his moist eyes, I read pity—and profound despair.

“Ha… The Chairman… has passed away.”

A scream tore from my lips before I could stop it.

My grandfather’s death—it was just like my previous life.

I staggered past him and into the patient room.

As soon as the sliding door closed completely, an unbearable loneliness settled over the room.

Seeing my parents lying on the beds, the tears I’d been holding back finally burst forth.

Again… this is happening again.

Was I wrong to think I could prevent it? Was that arrogance on my part?

“I thought… I thought there’d still be time…”

My grandfather and parents had always been strict about punctuality.

Because of their delay, the ceremony had been postponed for a long time.

And then came the news of the accident.

It was a sudden tragedy—first my grandfather passed, and now my parents had followed.

Standing beside their beds, tears streamed down my cheeks.

“Why… why can’t we save them?!”

In my previous life, I’d also fled the wedding venue upon hearing of the accident right before walking down the aisle.

The W Group, one of the top five conglomerates, was a massive enterprise built by my grandfather.

Media outlets everywhere had broadcasted the news of the W family’s accident.

The press, treating me as if I were mere gossip, clamored about how I’d become the sole heiress to a massive corporation with no preparation.

[“W Group: Will the granddaughter, the sole heir, take over? What will the succession look like…?”] [“Thought it was a celebration… but turned into a funeral. What now for this legendary union of two chaebol families?”]

When I believed I was utterly alone in the world, it was my husband, Seo Ji Han, who reached out his hand to me.

He was my only family then.

‘I really believed him…’

He’d comforted me gently, promising to handle all company matters himself.

Amid the whirlwind of inheritance and management disputes, Ji Han had merged W Group with Ho Jin Group under the pretense of protecting me.

I gently brushed my parents’ hands as they lay unconscious, connected to ventilators.

‘You must have thought I was just an ignorant, naive girl.’

But I’m no longer that fragile twenty-nine-year-old Yoon Yeo Jin.

I won’t let anyone take the W Group—built by my grandfather and my parents’ lifelong dedication.

‘I won’t let you have it your way…’

I might forgive others—but never you.

If you want W Group, then I’ll take W Group. And if you want Ho Jin, then I’ll claim Ho Jin for myself.

In this life, you won’t get a single thing you desire.

***

The firmly closed door slid open, and footsteps approached from behind.

The uncle who’d come to my side gently placed his hand on my shoulder as I held my parents’ hands.

Feeling the heavy yet warm pressure of his touch, my chest tightened with emotion.

He had been the only person to stand by my side in my past life as well.

“Yeo Jin-ah, the Chairman’s funeral parlor has been set up.”

“…”

“I’ve already informed the shareholders of the Chairman’s passing, but so far there’s been no major movement.”

Shareholders…

Their voices still echoed clearly in my mind—whispering that I was too young, a woman, and an untrained heir.

In the previous life, at the shareholders’ meeting, the merger had been decided under Ji Han’s leadership.

“Uncle.”

At my low call, his hand on my shoulder twitched slightly.

“Please keep monitoring the shareholders’ moves. An emergency shareholders’ meeting will be held soon.”

Although the shareholders hadn’t reacted strongly to my grandfather’s death, they’d started moving in earnest now that my parents were critically ill.

If nothing changed, management rights would pass to Vice Chairman Kim Young Min—which effectively meant handing control to Seo Ji Han.

“And one more thing—please investigate Representative Seo Ji Han a bit.”

“Why look into Representative Seo? Isn’t he your husband now?”

Apparently, he’d already heard about the wedding; he asked with a worried look in his eyes.

“You’re not planning to pretend this marriage never happened, are you?”

He’d known me since childhood—I’d always been obedient, compliant, and never raised my voice.

Seeing me act so differently now clearly startled him; his eyes wavered.

Moreover, refusing a marriage alliance with the solidly positioned Ho Jin Group seemed utterly unreasonable under current circumstances.

“The situation’s bad. Right now, solidifying your position through this marriage is your best option.”

“…”

“Representative Seo is Ho Jin’s heir, even if he’s an illegitimate son.”

“No. I will never marry that man.”

I’ll no longer accept such a flimsy foundation—one that could crumble at any moment.

“I’m calling off the engagement.”

At the word ‘broken engagement’ escaping my lips, his mouth hung open in shock.

‘I can’t change the past, but the future is different.’

Seo Ji Han will never become chairman of Ho Jin Group—I’ll make sure of it.