The prosecution summoned Tae Seo Jun and Eom So Yeon to the prosecutor’s office.

Yesterday, Professor Eom responded to the summons regarding the case related to Chairman Han, and today was the day to question Seo Jun and So Yeon about the truthfulness of Han Seung Jae’s statement denying the intentionality of his actions in trying to harm the three individuals, based on his testimony.

However, it was not an investigation that left a loophole for the defendant to escape.

The prosecution, which had conducted extensive search and seizure of not only the Lian Group and university hospitals, but also the homes of those who orchestrated and cooperated with the staged suicide case 10 years ago and the Jeju Island shooting incident, had already secured sufficient physical evidence to prove the crimes of the Han father and son.

Therefore, it was a formality cross-examination in the trial procedure.

The door of the interrogation room opened and the prosecutor and investigator took their seats in front of the square table. Han Seung Jae and his lawyer, who had strategized in advance, were already seated in their designated seats. Then, Tae Seo Jun, who had just arrived at the prosecutor’s office, appeared in the interrogation room.

“What happened to your woman that you came alone?”

Han Seung Jae gave Seo Jun, who was seated in front of him, a displeased look. Still, he couldn’t look directly at Seo Jun, perhaps feeling some guilt.

“……”

Seo Jun elegantly crossed his long legs and slightly turned his head towards the prosecutor and investigator. It wasn’t worth answering, but if necessary, that person would do it.

“Ms. Eom So Yeon has delegated the questioning to Mr. Tae Seo Jun due to a headache.”

As stated, So Yeon had come to the prosecutor’s office but was waiting for Seo Jun outside the interrogation room. She couldn’t forgive Han Seung Jae, who had systematically tried to harm her father, and she felt nauseous just being in the same building as him.

“Heh, well done……”

Han Seung Jae muttered to himself with a sneer and glanced at Seo Jun with a hateful gaze. He was very displeased with Tae Seo Jun, who, despite doing nothing but sitting there in a perfect suit fit, exuded a strong charisma.

On the other hand, Han Seung Jae’s appearance in a prison uniform with handcuffs on both wrists was utterly miserable. However, his distorted eyes filled with venom remained the same.

“This is really funny. You should have treated Yoo Jung Hwa a little better. Then you wouldn’t have had your woman taken away by me. Well, if you hadn’t unnecessarily meddled with Phantom Sys that I had been working hard on, none of this would have happened.”

The country that needed to protect the core semiconductor technology selected the Lian Group, which was perfect in every aspect, to operate Phantom Sys, which had lost its self-sufficiency, and proceeded with a private contract. However, Key Hazel, which reported the unfair practices of the Lian Group and Han Seung Jae at that time, completely reset the bidding process and eventually took over the company.

Because of that grudge, he deliberately targeted Yoo Jung Hwa.

The reason Han Seung Jae deliberately confessed that fact himself was to try to shake Tae Seo Jun and somehow justify the crimes he had committed.

However, far from being flustered, Seo Jun ridiculed Han Seung Jae’s brazen and despicable behavior and rebuked him.

“Is what you call hard work just cheap tricks? Do you think that can beat solid fair play? You should know how to gracefully accept defeat for your own mistakes. Han Seung Jae, who never reflects and always blames others. That’s why your later years are obvious.”

“What? That bastard, what is he saying now…!”

Han Seung Jae, who momentarily became agitated, abruptly stood up from his chair, and his lawyer quickly sat him down and spoke softly.

“Please bear with it. This will only be disadvantageous for you, Director Han.”

“Damn it! I should have snapped his neck in Jeju Island……”

“Director, please!”

The lawyer earnestly pleaded with Han Seung Jae, who was ranting terrible words in a fit of rage, to calm down. However, Han Seung Jae became even more violent. He instantly got up from his seat, threw the chair, banged his head against the wall, and went on a rampage. He even foamed at the mouth as if he was out of his mind.

But from the beginning, the one holding the knife was not him, but Seo Jun.

“As if that would make you bleed a single drop of blood? If you want to be admitted to the hospital for self-harm, you have to do it harder. You’re being too gentle. Or at least pretend to be crazy properly. Do you think that kind of show will reduce your sentence by much?”

“…!”

Damn it, you noticed?

As Seo Jun said, the best way to reduce his huge guilt, even a little, was to become sick or mentally ill. There was no other way, so he had agreed with his lawyer to do that.

Han Seung Jae, who had stopped all movement, looked at Seo Jun with his chin raised. Seo Jun uncrossed his legs and approached him with slow steps.

“No remorse. Just trying to find a way out, the cowardly Han Seung Jae. Just the crimes listed in the indictment already give you life imprisonment, so if I expose all the undiscovered crimes one by one, will you face reality then? How about it, should I add more to it?”

A sneer spilled from Seo Jun’s lips. As he leaned his upper body slightly forward, his bangs naturally flowed down his forehead. His black eyes flashed between the strands of hair.

Meeting Seo Jun’s cold gaze, Han Seung Jae’s legs trembled involuntarily.

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An hour later.

Han Seung Jae, who had obediently completed the cross-examination, was led out of the interrogation room by the investigator, trudging along.

In front of him stood Eom So Yeon, her posture upright and her demeanor as calm as a painting.

However, she changed in an instant.

Bam!

“This is for my father!”

Slap!

“And this is for making the father of my child suffer!”

So Yeon, who had forcefully thrown a stinging fist and a stinging slap at Han Seung Jae’s face with all her might, her eyes turning red around the edges, even kicked him violently. Of course, the prosecution people quickly grabbed her, so her feet only kicked the air.

“Let me go! That bastard doesn’t even deserve the air he breathes!”

Seo Jun couldn’t help but be surprised when he first encountered So Yeon, who had fiercely accelerated. To the point where he thought, is this woman really the Eom So Yeon I know?

How much resentment must she have endured for her uncharacteristic fierce personality to emerge?

However, it seemed that such thoughts had to be put aside for now.

Seo Jun, who tightly embraced So Yeon with both arms as she struggled to hit Han Seung Jae one more time with all her strength, had to hurry and leave the prosecutor’s office for now.

“Sob sob, because of that damn bastard, I lost my father and brother on the same day… Wahhh……”

So Yeon, who had been crying her heart out in the passenger seat, finally stopped crying and lifted her head after a long time.

“Pfft.”

“Why are you laughing?”

“You were like a ferocious beast earlier, but now you look like a raccoon.”

Father lying on the cold ground. Tae Seo Jun suffering in pain after taking the bullet for her. Han Seung Jae mercilessly trampling on him. That horrific moment was the hell of hells, and it was a nightmare deeply etched in her mind that would never be erased for the rest of her life.

So even if he gets the maximum sentence, will my heart be refreshed? Isn’t prison a luxury for that demon who would mock even the iron mace of the law?

That’s why.

Regardless of the law or anything else, So Yeon had to beat Han Seung Jae to her heart’s content to relieve the anger that was suffocating her, so she even heavily applied eyeliner while contemplating that thought. It had smudged with her tears.

The area around her eyes was black and her nose was bright red. Seo Jun, who found her appearance cute and pitiful, felt a sharp pain in his chest.

“Eom So Yeon’s mood is beyond words. I feel the same way. Shall we go for a change of mood?”

“Where to?”

“Where do you want to go?”

“I have a lot of pent-up feelings. Where should I go to release them all?”

“Somewhere with no one around?”

“I think that would be best, right?”

“Then… shall we get a room?”

So Yeon, who found his suggestion not too bad, wiped her continuously tearing eyes and sniffling nose with a tissue and nodded.

“Sniff… let’s go.”

As soon as So Yeon finished speaking, Seo Jun immediately drove the car to the El Stella Hotel.

It was still broad daylight.

Seo Jun just stared intently at So Yeon’s face as she emptied glass after glass of wine.

“I had a feeling this would happen.”

Speaking slowly, Seo Jun refilled So Yeon’s empty glass and opened his mouth loosely.

“I thought it would be okay for you to let yourself go for a day like today.”

“Really? You brought me to your private room with that in mind?”

“Yes. Eom So Yeon, Hyun Woo’s mother, Tae Seo Jun’s woman. Let go of all those titles and do whatever you want. It’s okay to me or anyone else, so gossip and curse as much as you want.”

“Can I speak casually too?”

“Yes.”

“Okay. Forget the cursing, from now on, I’ll speak casually!”

“Do it!”

“Hey. Tae Seo Jun.”

At this moment, So Yeon smiled brightly and bluntly spoke casually.

“You have a prince complex, don’t you? What made you think you could ask me, whom you just met, to be your girlfriend?”

“Not a prince complex, I wasn’t in my right mind. I was annoyed by the nonsense and entered the bar, only to see a kid wearing her big sister’s clothes, pretending to be an adult. From that moment on, I couldn’t think straight.”

So Yeon immediately understood. The nonsense was said by Yoo Jung Hwa. And the kid wearing her sister’s clothes was her.

“Still, she was your girlfriend. What nonsense are you talking about?”

“I guess I have a bit of a nasty personality. Once it’s a no, it’s a no until the end. Instead, once I make up my mind to do something, I always do it. So I just threw out any words to seduce you.”

“Oh my gosh, you were going to go all the way after seducing me like that?”

“Well, I can’t say no to that.”

“Wow, you’re really a bad guy, aren’t you?”

“So, do you dislike me?”

Perhaps it was because of the red roses decorating the table. A reddish energy flickered in Seo Jun’s eyes, as if flames were rising. A strong possessiveness also blazed together. So Yeon, who couldn’t ignore that excessive desire directed towards her, played dumb.

“I, I’m suddenly hungry.”

As So Yeon put a piece of cheese into her mouth, Seo Jun’s eyes sparkled.

“Should I order something more for you? You’ve lost too much weight in a month.”

Seo Jun’s seductive gaze moved down from her face. Following his gaze, So Yeon gently adjusted the front of her blouse.

“S-so what? Are you saying you don’t like me because I’m skinny?”

“No. I wouldn’t dislike you even if you were a skeleton. On the contrary, I wouldn’t dislike you even if you became fat. Even if you became ugly, not at all. I like everything about Eom So Yeon unconditionally.”

Stroking the back of So Yeon’s head as if dealing with a child, Seo Jun chuckled.

“I’m the same way. No matter how bad you become, I won’t dislike you. Even if you’re the demon king, I won’t dislike you.”

So Yeon finally gave the answer she should have said earlier with a serious expression.

“Then you wouldn’t dislike me even if I did something bad, right?”

“What kind of bad… Mmph!”

Seo Jun roughly pushed his lips against So Yeon’s and sucked on them, roughly grabbing her slender waist. As his heated palms stroked up her waist, a hot breath and a finely trembling sob softly escaped So Yeon’s throat.

Seo Jun kissed So Yeon and lightly lifted her up. Then he strode and stood at the spot where she had grabbed his collar and pushed her lips against his a long time ago.

“We kissed here. Eom So Yeon suddenly pounced on me. I held you like this……”

Seo Jun walked with long strides again and placed So Yeon on the bed in the bedroom where they had spent their first night together.

“On that day when I was terribly excited, you completely paralyzed my reason and patience here. Our first time, I liked it so much, So Yeon……”

The low whisper penetrating her ear, followed by the sensation of lightly biting her earlobe, was so electrifying that So Yeon shrugged her shoulders, trembling.

“You remember all that?”

“Good memories are not easily forgotten. Especially how big your surprised eyes became while looking at me… Mmph.”

He remembered everything about that day. Even without hearing it out loud. No, So Yeon, who couldn’t bear to hear it anymore out of embarrassment, abruptly covered his mouth.

“Ah, I get it, so stop.”

Seo Jun fiddled with the fingers that she had easily removed from his mouth and spoke.

“Is the casual talk time over? I quite liked it. Your casual speech.”

“If you miss it that much, I should do it often for you.”

“Not sometimes, every day. Especially in bed.”

As he spoke, Seo Jun looked down at So Yeon with a longing, somewhat pleading gaze. Her face turned bright red at his ominous incantation. Because it sounded like a vow to do something every night before going to sleep.

Seo Jun deeply delved into her lips again as if igniting a fire.

So Yeon also tightly embraced his neck and kissed him firmly.