He alone was superior in the world, trying to control everything regardless of others’ feelings, Yeon Woo’s grumpy boss.
“That’s right. Because you’re close, you might not know the real him.”
As expected, ‘Kwon Jun Hwi’ quickly changed his attitude. He retracted the stare that had been piercing her for a long while, smiling mockingly.
“You should practice hiding your expressions first.”
“What do I have to hide.”
“If you keep staring at another woman’s lover with such a heartbroken face, anyone would think the same as me.”
Startled, Yeon Woo touched her face hastily. Soon, a displeasure wrinkle spread all over her small face.
“You, the lawyer, really…….”
Really, what a jerk!
However, she didn’t say the rest. She tried hard to hide her expression as per his helpful advice.
She decided to stop exposing her personal feelings to him. She had to erase the unfamiliar wobble she had felt for a moment.
Yeon Woo only spit out words of gratitude and quickly got out of the car. Conscious of someone who might be watching from behind, she walked straight, upright into the apartment.
“Darn it.”
Alone in the car after she left, Jun Hwi cursed, punching the steering wheel with his fist.
Was it really a love triangle? What if it was? He should have no concern over who drops who, but because it’s Kim Yeon Woo, he feels frustrated.
It was because of her, who was on that twofaced Cha Han Bin’s side without even recognizing his false demeanor, siding with him over Jun Hwi.
Why should he have to have such a consuming worry?
The area of lingering emotions was not something he understood, nor did he ever need to.
Suddenly, Kim Yeon Woo, like a bright red apple, rolled into that area. First, she took his breath away as if she was trying to choke him to death, but now…
Jun Hwi, annoyed, tossed his hair and ripped off his bowtie. Something inside him kept bubbling up and irritating him. Quite a bit.
With nowhere to go, he just clenched the steering wheel tightly. Even when he exerted his strength until his knuckles turned pale, the irritation did not go away.
Three years ago. At the Special 2 Section of Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Prosecutor Kwon Jun Hwi’s office.
“Prosecutor, what do we do? Witness Kim Sun Ja didn’t show up! She suddenly won’t even answer her calls.”
The desperate voice of his team leader who was working with him rang in his ears. Jun Hwi, who was buttoning up his robe before the trial, halted his hands.
“Didn’t you confirm her attendance yesterday?”
“Yes! We even talked on the phone, and she assured us she would come….”
Jun Hwi walked over quickly, snatched the phone from the team leader’s hand, and furiously redialed the number.
‘The phone cannot be connected.’
Ah. He roughly threw the phone and wrung his head, which was not functioning due to the anger.
“What about the second witness, Kang Seung Beom?”
“I checked because I was worried, and he has finished registering as a witness.”
Will it be possible with just Kang Seung Beom? It’s not enough. She is a witness he persuaded. It’s an opportunity he created!
Jun Hwi clenched his jaw, cursing under his breath.
“Sir…… Prosecutor. Should we cancel the trial?”
“…….”
The first trial of a corporate Ponzi scheme. It had taken several months of Jun Hwi’s time and effort to bring the mastermind, hiding behind the façade of a company, to the court as an individual.
Moreover, it was such an important day that even the media were hopeful that this precedent could be applied to other fraudsters in the future.
He couldn’t give up now. If not this time, there would be no next time.
“Proceed as planned.”
And, fortunately, his decision was right.
After a fierce fight between the defense attorney and the judge, and a tightrope walk, they managed to get a partial admission from the defendant. The verdict was postponed until after the second trial.
The chief investigator and detectives who had struggled with him felt relieved, but from his perspective, it was essentially a failed trial. If the key witness Kim Seon Ja had testified, there would have been no need to drag it out until the second trial. A significant sentence could have been pronounced today.
His anger did not subside, enough to ponder until late at night, when even those who had been working overtime had all gone home.
“Prosecutor Kwon, are you not leaving?”
Yang Ju Yeon, a prosecutor passing by the corridor, saw the light on in his office and came in. He, who had been deep in thought, slowly rose from his chair and rubbed his forehead.
“I should go.”
“Still feeling upset? Come on, celebrate a little today. It’s no small feat to have gotten an admission in such a tough situation.”
“……”
“Why didn’t the witness come?”
Now that he thought about it, he was curious too. She was someone who had shown strong cooperation during the interview.
“Hey, forget it, let’s forget everything. It’s the past. Go home and get some sleep.”
Despite Yang Ju Yeon’s advice, his obsession drove him to the witness’s house instead of his own.
However, as he got closer to the witness’s house, his returning rationality made him hesitate. Jun Hwi, needing to decide whether it was appropriate for a prosecutor to visit a witness at this hour, parked his car in an alley near his destination and lit a cigarette.
At that moment.
“……Attorney Cha Han Bin.”
A familiar face came walking from the opposite direction, smiling subtly.
Cha Han Bin. A lawyer at Ro An Yul Law Firm. He’s a classmate from the Judicial Training Institute, but because he immediately took the exam upon entering university, he is much younger than Jun Hwi. Always smiling, he seems friendly, but he never shows his true colors.
“Nice to see you again, Prosecutor.”
Moreover, seeing the face of the defense attorney from today’s trial here again.
“What are you doing at the witness’s house?”
“Ah, I stopped by because I had some questions while investigating this case.”
“……”
Now he seemed to understand why the witness suddenly refused to appear. The sardonic smile loomed on Jun Hwi’s face, realizing Cha Han Bin’s trick.
“You’re more mediocre than I thought, Attorney Cha Han Bin.”
He didn’t expect him to resort to such a lowly tactic.
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.”
