The Vice-Chairman I Accidentally Found - Chapter 7

“That’s a good idea.”

Su Ah, who had no idea about his situation, chuckled softly.

“Good night. Have sweet dreams.”

“……”

There was no response to Su Ah’s goodnight greeting as she got into the blanket.

She should have been upset, thinking he was ignoring her, but oddly, she wasn’t.

It seemed she had already become accustomed to his taciturnity.

She just decided to think that way.

How much time had passed?

“Uhm… I’m. I’m thirsty.”

Su Ah, who hadn’t fully opened her eyes, got up from her seat and began to grope for the refrigerator.

Perhaps it was due to her tension. The burning thirst led her to gulp down a bottle of water quickly.

Having drained the bottle of water, she carelessly placed it on the sink and tried to go back, but whether she was still halfasleep, Su Ah’s steps naturally headed towards the bed.

Eventually, when she arrived right in front of the bed,

Ha Joon, who had only closed his eyes because he couldn’t sleep in a strange place, startled and opened his eyes wide.

“Ah! I, um……”

Before he could even say anything, Su Ah’s body had already fallen onto the bed with a thud.

“Hey. Hey…!”

“Uhm. Pengdol. Good. So warm.”

Su Ah, calling the name of the doll she usually hugs to sleep, lifted her arm and embraced Ha Joon.

What on earth was happening?

“Pengdol, are you working out? So hard. Uhm. Uhm.”

Ha Joon looked down at Su Ah, who was nuzzling against him while holding him, with a bewildered gaze.

His hand, awkwardly frozen in midair, had barely found its place when a steady sound of breathing reached his ears.

Softly, softly.

Ha! She startled him and now she was sleeping so comfortably.

He didn’t realize how ridiculous it was until he heard himself laughing dryly.

A moment later. Ha Joon’s gaze landed on Su Ah’s face as he carefully moved her arm that was resting on his stomach.

He felt like he had met her somewhere. But why couldn’t he remember where?

A faint smile flowed from his lips as he stared at Su Ah’s face.

[“I originally like the living room. I always stay in the living room at home.”]

It was because he remembered her confidently declaring that.

She sleeps just fine in bed. Who was it that liked the living room?

Ha Joon closed his eyes intending to try to sleep again.

Why hadn’t he sent Su Ah back to the living room?

Why hadn’t he gone to the living room to avoid Su Ah?

He himself didn’t know the reason for that.

Chirp chirp chirp.

Bright morning sunlight seeping in through the window and the refreshing sound of birds.

That’s right! The morning in the woods is all about the sound of birds!

While stretching her arms above her head, feeling good, something bumped into Su Ah’s fingertips.

‘Huh? What’s this?’

She turned her head nonchalantly.

“Ah……”

Unable to handle the shock, Su Ah’s eyes and mouth opened wide simultaneously.

Why is this person next to me?

No, no. Why am I next to this person?

Isn’t that the same thing? No, that’s not the important part right now!

Why are we in the same bed?!

While clutching her hair, trying to remember the past, Su Ah suddenly realized now wasn’t the time for this.

She slowly moved her body to get out of the bed, careful not to wake him up.

Then, she hastily scribbled a few words on a postit on the desk and fled the room as if escaping.

It took her a mere 5 minutes to get out of the room.

“She’s as swift as a national representative.”

As the door closed, Ha Joon, who had opened his eyes, muttered in a low voice.

“Uh…….”

A moan slipped through Ha Joon’s lips as he moved his body.

It was because he had been lying in an uncomfortable position for a while due to Su Ah’s onslaught last night.

Slowly lifting his body, he found a postit note stuck on the vanity mirror.

[Stop thinking bad thoughts and go home where your family is waiting.]

“Family……”

The corners of his lips, which had gently risen to the cute handwriting that resembled the round owner, found their place again at the word ‘family’.

“Ah! What? Why can’t I remember anything?”

As soon as she got home, Su Ah pulled at her hair and tried to recall her past memories.

“Really, it’s such a waste to see it alone. Such a waste.”

Da Eun, who was sitting on the sofa, clicked her tongue as if it was pathetic.

“Did I go there on my own, by any chance?”

She suddenly looked up and gazed at Da Eun with a desperate look.

“Of course. You don’t think that guy took you, who was sound asleep in the living room, and laid you in bed.”

Indeed. That was the only possibility.

“Ugh! I must be crazy. How could that happen?”

Su Ah rolled around on the living room floor, spewing out a sound close to a scream.

“That’s why. I told you to date someone long ago.”

“……..”

“You have sexual frustration.”

“No, that’s impossible……”

Was it because she hadn’t dated for a few years that she had become so aggressive as to jump a sleeping man?

“Sigh……”

Should she start dating now?

A deep sigh, mirroring the complexity of her thoughts, seeped out from between Su Ah’s lips.

Ha Joon’s bedroom was filled with silence.

“Hmm……. Hmm…….”

Ha Joon, who had gone to bed early after returning home due to a sleepless night, was sweating cold sweat and groaning heavily.

[Father, do I have to go? I don’t want to go.] [Are you insane? Why aren’t you following quickly?] [I did wrong. Please.]

The sight of a 10yearold boy being dragged into a hospital by his father.

[No! Don’t do it! No!]

People indiscriminately pulling things out from the screaming child’s body.

Gasp…!

In the suffocating pain, Ha Joon’s eyes suddenly opened wide after a long groan.

Gasp. Gasp.

Ha Joon, who quickly sat up, gasped for air.

The nightmare that continued for 20 years.

Why did the memories he wanted to forget become clearer as time passed?

More than 20 years had already passed, but the memories of that day were as vivid to Ha Joon as if they had happened yesterday.

“Su Ah……”

At the end of his labored breath, Su Ah’s name slipped out.

[Brother. Are you okay? Are you scared? Should I stay with you?] [It’s a secret spell that only I’ll tell you.][Brother. Brother.]

To Ha Joon, who was sinking in the deep sea and couldn’t breathe properly, Su Ah was his only breath.

Where could she be now? What kind of life would she be leading?

Although he could find her if he tried, Ha Joon didn’t look for her.

It wasn’t that he didn’t have a way to find her, he just lacked the courage.

Wanting to appear in a better condition, having long forgotten the painful past, but failing to do so, he could only sigh in his heart.

Just come back one last time.

If she did, no matter what happened, he wouldn’t let go of her hand.

“Sigh……”

With a heavy sigh, Ha Joon’s head dropped.