Seeing Jaewoo’s name, Kyunghee felt her chest sink.
Her heart pounded, and a nauseating feeling swept over her.
By now, she sensed something was wrong with not being able to contact Chaeyoon, and there was still time left.
Before answering the call, Kyunghee pondered whether Jaewoo had found Chaeyoon first or if he couldn’t find her and thus called her.
Unable to swallow even a sip of water due to her dry throat, Kyunghee, after taking a deep breath, answered the phone as naturally as possible.
“Hello?”
[Dash] Where is Chaeyoon?The incredibly low tone of Jaewoo’s voice indicated that his mood was not good.
‘He didn’t find her.’
Understanding the situation from Jaewoo’s words, Kyunghee bit her lower lip for a moment and then moved her lips.
“Why did you come to me to find Chaeyoon?”
[Dash] Because you’re the one most likely to find her.His voice, filled with intense anger, sounded rough.
[Dash] I’ll ask one last time. Where is Chaeyoon?“Well, why would I know that…”
Before she could finish her sentence, there was a loud bang!
“Oh my! What is all this! What are you doing right now!”
The noise outside the room grew louder.
Curious about what was happening, Kyunghee left the bedroom and headed to the living room.
And what she saw made Kyunghee’s jaw drop.
“…”
Standing in the middle of the living room was Jaewoo. Without even taking off his shoes, he had a bodyguard on each side, and his expression was quite dark.
Kyunghee, seeing Jaewoo’s appearance that seemed like he could turn the entire house upside down at any moment, looked around the room.
The first thing she noticed was the perplexed expressions of the maids who had come out of the kitchen. Then she saw the bodyguards he brought, examining the utility room on the first floor and other rooms leading to the second floor.
Surprised, Kyunghee gasped for breath with her wide-open mouth.
“What are you doing right now?”
Hearing Kyunghee’s voice, Jaewoo took his phone off his ear, pressed the end call button, and said, “Since you won’t tell me where she is, I have to find her myself. Any objections?”
At that moment, a banging sound came from the second floor. It sounded like someone was forcibly opening a locked door.
In addition to the intrusion, the noise of rummaging through the house made Kyunghee’s eyes sharpen in an instant.
Chaeyoon had disappeared while going to meet Jipil. There was no reason for her to doubt herself in this situation. Therefore, Kyunghee confidently stepped forward.
“What is all this chaos you’re causing without permission? Coming in and searching my house as you please!”
The sharp and loud voice pierced through the air.
Seeing Kyunghee screaming with her eyes bloodshot, Jaewoo smirked.
“What, do you have nothing to say because nothing’s visible to the eye?”
“What? Nothing visible?”
“Or, do you just not have any thoughts?”
If her head wasn’t spinning, it wouldn’t have come out like this…
At the additional remark, a glint flashed in Kyunghee’s eyes.
At that moment, there was another banging sound, this time from a room inside the corridor, assaulting Kyunghee’s eardrums.
It felt as if a sturdy, meticulously built tower collapsed without warning.
Rage surged from the tip of Kyunghee’s head. This was the first time she felt such emotions, making it impossible for her to hold onto reason.
“This insolent bastard…”
As much as Jaewoo was arrogantly intruding into her home, Kyunghee felt an overwhelming urge to do something to that brat. The fact that Chaeyoon was missing didn’t even cross her mind.
Filled only with the determination to do something to that brat, Kyunghee approached Jaewoo with tightly clenched hands and halted when she reached him.
A phone emerged from Jaewoo’s suit pocket, different from the one he was holding. Even though Kyunghee was confidently advancing, her steps faltered when she saw Chaeyoon’s phone unmistakably in Jaewoo’s hand.
“The one who went to meet Grandfather, she didn’t contact me, and when I tried calling Grandfather because of it, he said he hadn’t called for Chaeyoon.”
“…”
“From that moment, I searched the entire company. Chaeyoon is nowhere to be found, but her phone came into my hands.”
After unlocking Chaeyoon’s phone with the password, Jaewoo pressed the call log and presented it in front of Kyunghee.
“3:20 PM, Madam, 3:23 PM, Secretary Jo.”
Kyunghee glanced over the call log that Jaewoo recited and then shifted her gaze to Jaewoo.
“So what? I called Chaeyoon because I had something to say to her.”
Jaewoo looked at Woojong. This time, Woojong lightly touched the phone’s screen.
From Woojong’s phone came messages.
『What did you say to Madam Chaeyoon?』
『The Chairman is looking for her, so he said to come right away.』
Kyunghee’s eyes closed in a sigh upon hearing Secretary Jo’s voice.
『Who told you to do that?』
『…Madam Kyunghee.』
The characters of her name uttered by Secretary Jo were vividly clear.
Ah, that foul-mouthed son of a b*tch.
Chewing her inner lip forcefully, Kyunghee mulled over the secretary’s light-mouthed confession.
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.”
