“That monster won’t even go after ghosts. She’s so wicked. Be aware, because there will be a big deal in my temper sooner or later.”

Doh Soon, who couldn’t claim to have foresight but had been feeling strangely ominous since earlier, hurriedly left to leave this place.

It was the moment Doh Soon, holding a bag firmly in her left hand, opened the waiting room door with her right hand.

“Oh, huh? Why is the door like this?”

Suddenly, suddenly, bang, bang!

The iron door did not open. No matter how hard she pulled and pushed, it didn’t budge.

“Soyeon-ah, the door won’t open!”

“That can’t be!”
Soyeon also turned the doorknob and tried everything to pull it, but the door didn’t open at all. It was useless.

“Huh! What on earth?”

“It seems like someone locked it from the outside, right?”

“It seems like it, but… Could it be…?”

Did Yoo Jung-hwa do this childish prank?

The face that came to mind in her muddled mind was only one. The person who left this room last was undoubtedly trying to torment us.

Soyeon was bewildered but not surprised. There was something to do if she contacted someone. She just needed to call someone who would help, no matter how long it took.

However, it was just a moment. It was when Soyeon, who had put her bag on the floor, urgently picked up her phone.

Through the crack in the door, hazy smoke and a strong smell seeped in.

“Soyeon-ah! What is this smoke that I see? What’s this rubber-burning smell?”

“Fire, it seems like it’s on fire!”

In this room with no windows, there was no way out. Just one tightly locked iron door. Soyeon, feeling the sense of crisis up to her chin, stood in the space where the fire alarm didn’t work, looking with trembling eyes at the escape route being corroded by the pungent smoke.

“What should we do!”

“……!”

Doh Soon and Soyeon faced the approaching horror of the fire with eyes full of astonishment.

The start of the fire was already triggered by the production team that had evacuated, causing a small short circuit in the warehouse building where insufficient power was drawn for the broadcasting equipment.

A spark started from the old wiring.

It took quite a while for that tiny spark to stick to the interior of the building. Unfortunately, the fire broke through the exterior wall of the second-floor corridor exactly where Eom So-yeon’s room was. However, no one noticed that sign. Except for Yoo Jung-hwa, who came out to the corridor after the argument.

On the stairs connecting the first floor to the second floor and the room directly adjacent to it, there were also Oh Min-jung and one more of her managers. Just before moving her steps there, Jung-hwa quickly saw the spreading flames from the corner of the corridor.

The flames that soared out from the building, burning vigorously. When she saw it, Jung-hwa felt even more exhilarated. The instinct to retaliate overwhelmed reason.

Although they had stopped talking loudly and left, Soyeon had taken the lead in the conversation from start to finish. It was her who was supposed to scare, but she ended up being pushed back. It was against such a trivial woman.

It was a release of frustration.

Jung-hwa lowered the iron bar of the lock above the door and firmly sealed Soyeon’s exit.

If left like this, it was likely to spread into a big fire. Moreover, there was no reason to resist the temptation coming from my heart.

Putting Eom So-yeon in a dangerous situation was very simple. And from the moment she did that, Yoo Jung-hwa, whose boundary between good and evil had completely collapsed, became even more intoxicated with the evil energy.

At this moment, it didn’t matter what happened.
That annoying woman, Eom Soyeon, who is like a thorn in my side, if the one inside her changes to ashes and disappears from the world cleanly, and if I can take Taeseo Jun for myself. Furthermore, if everything goes as I wish, I could do even worse things.

Was it an extension of that thought? Yoo Junghwa’s shocking act didn’t stop at imprisoning Soyeon.

The next place she moved to was in front of Oh Minjung’s waiting room, the closest to the stairs. However, instead of opening the door, she reached out with her hand to pull down the lock that looked just like the one she had just touched.

Yoo Junghwa abandoned Oh Minjung, who believed and waited for her like iron that she would have dinner together.

Click!

With the sound of locking the door, Jung-hwa’s steps became brisk.

Going down the stairs to the first floor, and then leaving the building, Jung-hwa moved to the parking lot and muttered to herself.

“It’s because of your three-inch tongue that you will end your insignificant life here. It’s the punishment for insulting a single mother!”

Soyeon, I hated her so much, but it seemed like someone would ask why she did that to Oh Minjung. And her answer was…

“Because it’s bothersome.”

Actually, that was true. After making an appointment with Oh Minjung to have dinner together tonight, Jung-hwa revealed her ultimate goal at the end of the conversation. It was an order that took the form of a request to keep Soyeon at the shooting site until I appeared.

But Oh Minjung was not a person with a calm personality that anyone knew. Oh Minjung, who dug up every little thing, was irritating enough. If Soyeon disappeared, the well-used child would naturally be at a loss.

“Sorry, but what can you do? Blame your unfortunate luck. Still, you lived like a princess under good parents while you were alive. You didn’t need to hide your past and pretend with lies like me, so you had a happy life. If you feel unfair, blame the culprit of all this, Soyeon.”

In this way, impulsively, Jung-hwa trapped two actresses and their manager in the flames, yet she calmly climbed into her car with a casual expression.

“Unni Jung-hwa, are you done with everything?”

“No. There’s no one in the waiting room. I waited for a bit, but I just came out.”

“It feels really eerie here. Can we leave now?”

When Seongjin asked with a gaze thrown to the back seat, Jung-hwa answered slowly with a tired, disheveled voice.

“Let’s wait for about 10 more minutes and then leave. My stomach feels a bit nauseous.”

However, Jung-hwa’s gaze toward the building she came out of was unusually clear.

It was like the instinct of a criminal who feels exhilaration while wandering around the crime scene. Watching over the warehouse building, Jung-hwa not leaving straight away had its own meaning for her.

If the entire building was engulfed by the flames.

As the black smoke soared into the sky.

Looking at the scene with the smoke rising, Jung-hwa’s last farewell, wanting to say “Goodbye forever,” was because she wanted to.