Yes. It was a brick. A sharp brick with three holes, in a dark red color resembling dried bloodstains.
Her long hair blew in the wind, covering her pale face. The woman’s pupils, extinguished like a broken streetlight, seemed to be staring straight at Seo Ha. The fear that the brick would shatter the glass and fly towards her any moment engulfed Seo Ha.
“What, what, what is this? Why is she doing that?”
She shouldn’t get out of the car. Seo Ha desperately hoped that the woman would move away or a security guard would come running, and she honked the horn as hard as she could.
At that moment.
Vroooom!
With a tremendous engine noise, a flash of light burst from the side window.
Crash!
There was no time to avoid it. The car, struck with an enormous impact, crumpled like tinfoil and was flung away.
It was Yoon Seo Ha’s last memory.
“Seo Haahahah!”
Lee Seung Oh burst into tears. Then, Kim Ok Soon’s scream was heard.
“Madam! Pull yourself together! Madam!”
“Move aside! We need to lay her down on the bed!”
“Motherinlaw, motherinlaw!”
Finally, it seemed that her mother had collapsed. It was unbelievable. I was alive. Seung Oh’s sobbing, the doctor saying it was a shame, the vibrations of all those sounds, and even the fluorescent light shining on my closed eyelids could be felt.
I remembered a news story I had seen once. A person who had fainted was about to be buried after receiving a wrongful death declaration, but someone noticed and they were barely saved.
Seo Ha’s current situation was much worse than the protagonist of that news story. Not burial, but cremation. She was about to be burned alive.
Mom, I’m alive. I’m really okay. Wake up. Don’t cremate me.
Seo Ha tried her hardest to let people know she was alive. She focused all her energy on her eyelids and her fingers, which had become as hard as stone.
Move, Yoon Seo Ha. You have to move!
Even the slightest twitch would do. Being put in a coffin and burned alive like this would be too horrifying.
Did her efforts pay off? Suddenly, a loud shout came.
“Doctor, over here! Patient Jo Seo Ha’s finger moved!”
“Check for vital signs! Prepare for emergency surgery immediately!”
She didn’t know who Jo Seo Ha was, but at that moment, Seo Ha was very envious of that person with the same name as hers.
Lee Seung Oh was still sobbing pretentiously. Her mother didn’t seem to wake up. As if her brain was avoiding this enormous stress, a sudden wave of extreme drowsiness poured over her.
“Huh? Doctor, patient Yoon Seo Ha…!”
I thought I vaguely heard my name in my daze.
“Ryu Kyung Joon. Ryu Kyung Joon.”
Lee Seung Oh muttered the name in front of his miraculously stillworking, shattered phone.
The name Kyung Joon was common, but the surname was not. There was only one Ryu Kyung Joon who had even a slight connection with Yoon Seo Ha.
“Secretary Ryu Kyung Joon.”
“Huh.”
Lee Ji Soo put down a plate of fruit on the table with a worried look on her face.
“The, the boss’s secretary? The tall one with a pale face?”
“Have you seen him?”
“Yes. I, I saw him greeting the boss in front of the house a few times. Uhm, and also…”
“Also?”
Seung Oh pressed her. Ji Soo reluctantly continued her cautious words.
“I’m, I’m not sure, but… That day, you know. I think I saw him at the café. He, he seemed to be sitting in another seat… I, I was too nervous, and I only glanced at him, so I can’t be sure…”
“What? Why didn’t you tell me that before!”
Seung Oh unconsciously raised his voice at the unexpected words. Ji Soo’s eyelashes trembled.
“Sorry. I thought I might have seen him wrong, and I was also out of my mind…”
Her downcast eyes, unable to speak properly, were so pitiful. Seung Oh immediately regretted yelling at her and comforted Ji Soo.
“Sorry. I wasn’t mad at you.”
“I know. It’s okay if you’re angry.”
“I said I wasn’t angry.”
Seung Oh stared at his phone while lost in thought.
Why did this come out of Yoon Seo Ha’s car?
He couldn’t help but regret having thrown away the black box memory card long ago to avoid being caught in a relationship with Ji Soo.
“Um, oppa. By any chance…”
Ji Soo gently grabbed Seung Oh’s hand, who couldn’t come to a conclusion and was growing anxious.
“This is really, really, really just a thought. If this is really Secretary Ryu’s phone, and it came out of Miss’s car, maybe, just maybe, they have a… um, deep… relationship?”
As Ji Soo’s voice got smaller and more unsure towards the end, it sounded incredibly loud and clear to Seung Oh.
“… Right. That would make sense.”
As Lee Seung Oh muttered while lost in thought, Ji Soo’s eyes sparkled for a moment before returning to their usual gentle expression.
“That’s just a possibility. Don’t be suspicious. Anyway, Miss is in a lot of pain right now.”
“She’s in pain. She might as well be dead, but she didn’t die. What the hell did those bastards do?”
“What?”
This time, Ji Soo raised her voice.
“What are you talking about? Oppa, don’t tell me, Miss, did you…!”
“Shh.”
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.”
