Kyungsook sold all the jewelry she had and the luxury bag her daughter received as a gift from her son-in-law, which she had stolen.

[What should I do?]

“It’s simple. Just call Choi Arin, and it’s done.”

[What? What are you talking about? Am I supposed to call her just because I say so?]

“She has to come out. Getting a large sum of money isn’t that easy.”

[…….]

“What do you think? By calling Choi Arin, you can get 200 million won in your hands. Can’t you do that?”

[200, 200 million?]

“Yes. How about it? Does it entice you a bit?”

The next morning.

The phone rang from dawn and continued throughout the morning. In the end, in less than an hour, the phone battery dropped below 10%.

The other party’s words were obvious, and she already knew what she wanted to say.

It was an unwanted call. When she rejected it, a call came immediately from another number.

Arin sighed deeply as she looked down at her phone.

“You’re more persistent today.”

She couldn’t do anything about the incessant phone calls. Helplessly, she had to comply with the situation as the other person intended.

[Why aren’t you answering the phone like this!]

As soon as she pressed the call button, a piercing scream echoed through the speaker.

“Are you going to have a genetic test?”

[What?]

“I don’t want to hear anything else other than that. Otherwise, I’ll hang up.”

[Ha.]

Kyungsook burst into a bitter laugh as if she found it amusing.

[You, you’re a really vicious one, huh?]

Even though Kyungsook knew that the cause of the change was with her, she turned the arrow towards Arin.

Arin had endured trying to become a family with them, knowing that they were not her family. She had tried to understand that these people were using her as a family. But each time, all that came back to her were wounds and disappointment.

Arin, who didn’t want to say anything unpleasant, decided to hang up the phone.

“If you’re going to say that, I’ll hang up. Call me when you change your mind.”

At the same time,

[Hey, wait. Why are you so impatient?]

Desperate Kyungsook’s voice was heard.

[Your father is in critical condition now.]

“……Critical condition?”

[Yes, the hospital said today or tomorrow is the crisis. So I came home.]

“You came home? Why?”

[It was your father’s wish. He wanted to spend his last moments at home. The hospital allowed it.]

A short conversation delivered a tremendous shock. Her mind was in chaos.

Is it really the last moment?

Could it be the worst case, to the extent of fabricating lies with a person’s life?

In the past, Arin would have believed Kyungsook’s words right away, but not now.

When she was hesitating, Kyungsook quickly added.

[You’ll recognize his face even if it’s just for the funeral. But, above all, he’s your father. Keep his last moments. Even if it’s just for that. He’s the one who treated you the best.]

Kyungsook was wrong in her words. Mr. Choi was not the one who treated her the best but rather the one who did the least wrong among them.

But Arin didn’t have the luxury to point that out.

[Call me within an hour. I don’t know what will happen inside.] After Kyungsook’s piercing words, the call was finally cut off.

“What should I do…….?”

For some reason, an uncomfortable feeling lingered. But what if it was indeed the end?

“Okay. Let’s go first. Before that.”

On the 58th minute, narrowly filling the hour, Arin decided to meet Mr. Choi after much contemplation.

“It might be good to talk to Jiyoon.”

Kyungsook’s track record was too dazzling to believe everything she said. Just in case of an unexpected situation, Arin decided to leave traces.

Arin called Jiyoon, but the call immediately went to voicemail.

Jiyoon, I’m going to meet those people now. I’ll leave a message since you’re in a meeting. I’ll leave the address. I want to think no, but just in case I can’t reach you, come to this address.

After leaving the message, Arin stood up and went outside. Her mind was still complicated. Nevertheless, there was only one reason she was heading there.

To avoid regret, saying the final goodbye was not about affection for Mr. Choi.

It was because she was worried that the guilt of not being able to keep the last promise, even if it was just one in a million, would haunt her.

Unbeknownst to Arin, several people followed her as she left the house.

They were bodyguards that Jaehyuk had secretly placed without her knowledge.

She took a taxi to the address Kyungsook provided. It was a residential area in Seoul.

“Thank you.”

When Arin got out of the taxi and looked at the run-down villa, it happened.

“Hey, Choi Arin.”

Hantae-soo, who had been hiding in the alley, appeared.

“You are!”

She had a face-to-face encounter with Hantae-soo. When Madam Jung harassed her, Hantae-soo often stood by her side.

At first, she thought he was a secretary, but later she found out. Hantae-soo’s true colors…