“Vice President……”
“Was it Aunt’s orders?”
“……”
“Nothing has changed, I see.”
Hyuk Joo chuckled bitterly.
Only after acknowledging the reality that Eun Soo had practically been expelled from the house did the question ‘why?’ occur to Hyuk Joo.
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t find a reason.
With a troubled expression, Hyuk Joo gripped the edge of the desk with his hand.
“The Chairman said he would be here soon, and asked you to wait.”
“I have to wait.”
“……”
“He’s the kind of person who only finds satisfaction when everything moves according to his will.”
Hyuk Joo let out a long sigh, his face showing a look of displeasure.
The sound of the study door closing followed Director Ju out.
After instructing Director Song to find out Eun Soo’s whereabouts, Hyuk Joo slumped onto the sofa.
The vibration from his cellphone in his pocket was felt.
It was a call from Director Song.
“Yeah.”
— Uh, Vice President……
There was embarrassment in Director Song’s voice.
Hyuk Joo, who had been leaning back on the sofa, straightened up.
“Speak.”
— I asked the security room, but they said it’s difficult to check.
“They didn’t say it’s difficult to check. They said they couldn’t check.”
— ……
At Hyuk Joo’s remark, Director Song couldn’t respond.
At first, he thought Eun Soo might have left on her own. But then he realized, seeing that not a single item that her hands had touched remained.
That leaving this house was never Eun Soo’s intention.
“Why don’t you come directly to the office when you arrive?”
Seeing Young Ran enter the study, Hyuk Joo hung up the phone.
“Where’s Eun Soo?”
“She left on her own.”
“Do you expect me to believe that now?”
Hyuk Joo scratched at his forehead with his hand and gave a hollow laugh.
Her own will, he didn’t want it, he tried to dissuade her, but he couldn’t break her resolution.
That was what his aunt was going to tell him.
Even after his mother’s death, when she was supposedly recuperating, his aunt said the same thing.
That it was your mother’s will, if I knew you would be this hurt, I wouldn’t have lied.
“Now, let’s start with this and discuss.”
Young Ran extended a piece of paper towards Hyuk Joo, who was glaring at her.
Hyuk Joo briefly glanced at the paper placed in front of him.
It was a medical record under Eun Soo’s name.
Someone had taken photos of her things and printed them out.
“A girl who was sick to this extent, managed to hide it completely.”
“……”
“How could she hide something like this and act perfectly fine?”
As if appalled, Young Ran shivered down to her shoulders. At the same time, she cautiously studied her nephew’s face.
He was expected to be surprised, but Hyuk Joo’s expression was unexpectedly calm.
“I knew Eun Soo was sick.”
“What?”
“It was something I asked for.”
“……”
“It means it’s not Eun Soo’s fault.”
Taking a slow breath, Hyuk Joo continued to ask.
“Where is Eun Soo?”
There was no reply.
Tilting his head slightly, Hyuk Joo asked again.
“Where is she?”
“I told you. She left on her own. I don’t know where she went.”
“You probably pushed her to the point where she had no choice but to leave.”
Hyuk Joo said, mixing in a sigh.
What the hell was a painful past?
Anyone can get sick. Whether you’re healthy or not, it’s something that you can’t control by your own will. Moreover, Eun Soo was very young then.
A young child endured a treatment process that even adults find hard to handle and was cured.
Isn’t it right to be grateful that she wasn’t worse off and to consider her recovery as fortunate?
Hyuk Joo rubbed his weary face with his hand.
“I’m tired of treating sick people like broken things.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“……Mother did the same.”
“It was what your mother wanted.”
Young Ran retorted as if taken aback.
“Isn’t it your specialty to drain people until you hear the response and behavior you want?”
Young Ran, who even exploited her only son to keep her illness a secret from his deceased mother.
While doing so, Young Ran always denied her wrongs, living with the excuse that she felt relieved, claiming it was for the country.
Just like she did with her mother, Young Ran probably drove Eun Soo to act according to her will as well.
Targeting when she was vulnerable.
Hyuk Joo clenched his fist tightly. He put so much strength that the back of his hand turned pale with protruding veins.
“I’ll say it again, it was what Eun Soo wanted.”
“Do you expect me to believe that?”
“She told me so. She said she didn’t want to be involved with us anymore. She asked me to pretend not to know.”
“……”
“You know better than anyone why Eun Soo married you.”
Hyuk Joo’s fist, which had been clenched with great force, slowly loosened.
“She’s a girl who only cared about her mother. That’s why she agreed to marry you, who was infatuated with another woman.”
“……”
“And when her motherinlaw passed away, she must have wanted to live her own life properly.”
Eun Soo’s words overlapped, saying that it was fine whatever he did, as long as her mother could be treated.
Was it really like that?
While Eun Soo was by his side, had there been a single moment when she didn’t keep me in her heart?
‘I miss you.’
Her last words to me were so vivid.
“She asked me to make sure that President Oh Ju Hwan pays for his sins properly. That’s the only thing she wished for.”
“……”
“If she had wanted to stay here, she would have told me when I showed her this. That you, Hyuk Joo, also know about it. But she never said such a thing to me. If she had, I would have held her back. So, I assumed you obviously didn’t know.”
At Young Ran’s words, Hyuk Joo pressed his forehead with his hand.
Were the words she said, about waiting, about missing him, all lies?
To reassure him?
When Young Ran extended the medical records, Eun Soo, like someone who had been waiting, erased her existence from this place. She left no belongings, no trace of her stay.
Hyuk Joo’s nose tingled with disbelief at the reality.
What am I supposed to do now, left alone and abandoned?
“If you really can’t believe it, try meeting Eun Soo once.”
Young Ran interjected while watching Hyuk Joo in agony.
“I’ll ask her if she’s thinking about seeing you.”
Young Ran picked up her mobile phone and called Director Hwang Hyun Kyung. She put her mobile on the table like a person who wanted to prove her innocence and pressed the speaker button.
After a few rings, the call was answered.
Yes, Chairman.
“Is Eun Soo there?”
She’s in the living room right now.
“Could you ask Eun Soo if she’s thinking about seeing Hyuk Joo?”
I’ll ask her right away.
Footsteps were heard from the other end of the phone, followed by faint voices conversing.
Hyuk Joo nearly called Eun Soo’s name, but stopped himself. He didn’t think he could have a normal conversation with her right now.
Unsure of what he would say to Eun Soo in his halfderanged state, Hyuk Joo struggled to keep his lips sealed.
Hyuk Joo, with a tense expression, waited for the decision Eun Soo would make to his proposition to meet.
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Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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