“Is this a joke? Tying me up like this?”
Jeho coldly smiled, shaking the cable tie that had bound him in front of Minwoo’s face.
“Oh, what the heck?”
Perplexed, Minwoo resolutely swung the knife in his hand. However, facing Jeho, who was free to move, it was an uphill battle. In the blink of an eye, Jeho took the knife from Minwoo’s hand and threw it far away.
Then, without realizing what was happening, it ended in an instant. Jeho easily subdued Minwoo, making him lie on the floor, and with a cable tie he pulled out of his pocket, he bound Minwoo’s wrists.
“Now, it’s your turn. Try untying it yourself if you can.”
“Argh! I’ll kill this bastard!”
Minwoo twisted his body, screaming in frustration. However, with his wrists tied behind his back, he couldn’t easily escape from Jeho’s grip.
“As much as I’d like to hit you, I endure because you’re my brother.”
“What? You endure because I’m your brother? Is the guy who steals his younger sister’s woman also a brother, you piece of crap?”
Provoking with curses, Minwoo stared at Jeho with flames of anger in his eyes.
Although just a little while ago, he was the one doing the hitting, and Jeho was the one receiving it, Jeho’s torn lips were still bleeding, a proof of that.
However, Jeho remained composed, with no change in expression or reaction to Minwoo’s provocations.
“Sorry, Minwoo.”
“Sure, you bastard! Stealing your sister’s woman just because there’s nothing else to steal? You call yourself a person… ugh.”
At that moment, Jeho’s hand suddenly grabbed the back of Minwoo’s head, and Minwoo, frowning, stopped talking.
“I’m not apologizing for that.”
Jeho brought his face close to Minwoo’s and whispered in a low voice.
“I’m apologizing for letting you off the hook. When your parents abandoned you, I should have done something. You haven’t been normal since you were young.”
“What? If I’m not normal, who is? Stop talking nonsense!”
Minwoo glared at Jeho with fiery eyes, rejecting his words.
Certainly, until just a little while ago, he was the one doing the hitting, and Jeho was the one bound to the chair. As if to prove that, blood was still flowing from Jeho’s torn lips.
However, Jeho remained rational and composed. With a cold gaze, he looked at Minwoo as if he were pitifully arrogant. That made Minwoo even angrier. It seemed less humiliating to receive hits himself.
Damn it! Why did the situation turn around like this?
Why?
Minwoo couldn’t accept the current situation soberly.
“Ugh!”
Minwoo’s pupils, glaring at Jeho, turned red as if soaked in blood.
Back in time…
Inside the comprehensive situation room of a large hospital.
“Can you zoom in on that scene?”
Jeho, who was examining the last footage of Yuri, hastily pointed at the screen with his finger.
“Yes.”
The employee quickly replied, moving the mouse to zoom in on the screen and replay the video.
In the video, Yuri looked around and swept her hair back with her hand.
“Wait, please stop there.”
The video paused at the moment when Yuri raised her hand above her head. Jeho approached the screen a little more and stared intently at the frozen image.
“What’s that?”
After a while, Jeho muttered to himself.
“Have you found any clues?”
Kim, who was watching from the side, asked with a puzzled expression. Jeho nodded and pointed to the watch on Yuri’s wrist.
“That wristwatch.”
“What? A wristwatch?”
“Yes, a wristwatch. I gave her this. It’s not a smartwatch, but it has a GPS tracking function.”
Traditional luxury watches mostly lack a location tracking function, but the watch Jeho gifted Yuri was a product created through collaboration between a Swiss luxury manufacturer and a cutting-edge technology company in the United States, equipped with a GPS tracking feature.
“A GPS tracking function?”
At Kim’s words, Jeho’s face brightened.
“Then, we can check the watch’s location information on the manufacturer’s server.”
“To do that, we need to obtain a warrant first due to privacy laws. But to get a warrant, we need to file a missing person report. Is that possible?”
Kim, at Jeho’s words, wrinkled his brow as if in distress. After all, it wasn’t certain yet that Yuri was missing.
“Then should we inform the congressman and ask for help?”
That’s when…
“There’s no need for that!”
A booming voice came from behind. Turning around, they saw Hyunkyung, who had rushed over after hearing the news from Kim, running towards them. Behind Hyunkyung, the head of the security team, Director Kim, was also seen.
“Pant, pant, I… I…”
Whether she had been running non-stop from the parking lot or not, Hyunkyung spoke with difficulty, panting.
“Pant, pant… I installed an app on Yuri’s phone and connected it to the wristwatch… so we don’t need to go to the manufacturer’s server. Pant, pant…”
Of course, Hyunkyung hadn’t done it in anticipation of Minwoo kidnapping Yuri. Worried about Yuri, whose watch cost more than the annual salary of most ordinary workers, Hyunkyung downloaded the app on her phone and connected it to the GPS on the wristwatch.
“Did she say she left her phone at home?”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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