When I Reach You (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 134

The factory, having lost its owner, ceased operations.

The plant, once the sole focus of a major corporation’s interest, was sold off for a pittance, and after settling unrecovered investments and employees’ unpaid salaries, barely enough remained to rent a single room.

Even after being driven out with her four-year-old child into a drafty shack lacking heating, Mother reportedly resolved—just by looking at young me—that she had to survive no matter what.

Only later did I learn that, contrary to my belief they had abruptly appeared out of nowhere, they had in fact begun pressuring Mother as early as when I graduated middle school.

Money earned tirelessly, day and night, flowed straight into their pockets. Only then did I understand why our situation never improved despite the business doing well—and ultimately why I couldn’t even pay my college entrance fee.

When Mother’s illness worsened and the shop shut down, the target shifted naturally—onto me.

They ransacked not only our home but even our workplace, shattering the peaceful daily life we’d built, and relentlessly drove us to the edge of a cliff, reducing us at last to fugitives.

I thought that was all.

I already resented you enough—enough even to wish you dead—just from that alone.

How could you commit such a hideous act, then reappear before us with that shameless, indifferent face, as if nothing had ever happened?

“What did you say? Say it again.”

Seeing Kwon Seung Cheol snort with disbelief, Seon Woo’s words from last night suddenly flashed in my mind.

“It’s been 23 years, so the statute of limitations has expired. Legally, Kwon Seung Cheol can’t be punished for what happened back then—the only charge he *could* face now is coercion and intimidation.”

“So… the sentence would be extremely light, then.”

“At most, two years—if he’s lucky, probation.”

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