Kang Hyun sat on the couch directly in front, scrutinizing Choi Jun Young, who was seated with a defiant attitude.

Upon returning from the workshop, Kang Hyun, now in comfortable clothes, brushed back his unkempt hair and opened his mouth.

“Do you know my face?”
“Hmm, a celebrity? What, a successful actor, perhaps?”
“We’ve crossed paths before.”
Kang Hyun vividly remembered the face of Choi Jun Young who had been about to take Ji An away at the bus stop.

Since he had harmed her right in front of him, he hadn’t forgotten any feature of his face – eyes, nose, or mouth.

Only after confirming himself crossing the road, stopping the moving cars, did Choi Jun Young move away, he would have remembered that as well.

“Why would I, a guy, remember another guy’s face?”
Choi Jun Young smirked, letting out the breath he had drawn in deeply as a thin wisp of smoke.

“I brought you here because I have a few things to ask before turning you into the police. You’re probably tired, so let’s not waste time.”
“I’ve already told your brother sitting next to you that I have nothing to say. Just a joke I made because she was pretty as I was passing by. Did I stab her with a knife, did I hit her? On the contrary, I’m the one who got hit. Bring that crazy woman from before.”
Choi Jun Young gritted his teeth as he threw the remaining cigarette butt into the fireplace, where sparks were spluttering.

He had been involved in fistfights since before he became an adult and had even lived in an illegal fighting ring.

His pride was bruised for the first time by a woman, despite always being proud of his physical prowess.

The guard, who had been monitoring Choi Jun Young casually seated on a wooden box used for decoration, suddenly swung his arm and slapped Choi Jun Young’s head.

“You son of a bh, you want to die? Ah!”
The guard, who had easily subdued Choi Jun Young rushing at him, firmly held his defiant face in his palm, forcing him to look at Kang Hyun.

“Just answer the questions and stop talking nonsense.”
Choi Jun Young, with his jaws clenched as if to break, glared at Kang Hyun with bulging eyes.

“Your constant approach to Seo Ji An.”
“Who’s Seo Ji An, you bastard!”
“You threatened her with a video you took together. How about showing that to me?”
Even as Choi Jun Young spewed vulgar words and played ignorant, Kang Hyun’s face, visible from the outside, remained calm.

His deeply pitched voice even felt soothing.

“You had a traffic accident 4 years ago.”
“Hey, why are you bothering the wrong person…”
“Do you have any blood relatives? Like parents or siblings.”
“What?”
“No matter how much you lived like trash, you must have made at least one person to live harmoniously with.”
“Why do you keep talking nonsense?”
Choi Jun Young’s face was distorted. The calm, continuing questions were more like mutterings than interrogations.

It seemed like he didn’t care what kind of answer the other party gave.

“In case you die here, we need to contact someone.”
Kang Hyun, who had been looking down at Choi Jun Young, who was stubbornly thrusting his chin out even after committing a crime, smirked.

“Who’s going to die.”
Choi Jun Young, mumbling with a broken voice, turned his head first, his smile contrasting with his cold eyes.

It felt strange, like a spider crawling up his spine, looking at Kang Hyun’s smiling face.

While he was hiding his anxiety with harsh words, his palm clenched tightly was damp with cold sweat.

Being impatient to handle Han Seo Yoon because of Gu Se Jun’s nagging, he ended up getting caught.

Whether by the police or Kang Hyun, Gu Se Jun would kill him without fail, he wouldn’t save him.

He had committed many illegal acts as a errand boy, but this was the first time he had been caught and he couldn’t think of an appropriate countermeasure.

That’s why he felt more anxious and hopeless.

“It’s you who harms others as if it’s nothing, but still cherishes his own life.”
“President.”
Seok Won, who had been watching Kang Hyun from a distance, approached him.

Although he was not reckless enough to do anything without thinking, he often crossed the line when it came to Seo Yoon, and it was worrisome what he would do.

“Let’s stand up now. I’ll look into Choi Jun Young in detail. Since we have his cell phone and ID, it will be much easier than last time.”
Kang Hyun, who nodded slowly, got up.

There was no need to have a long conversation with a person who was determined to keep his mouth shut from the beginning.

“Choi Jun Young.”
“……”
“No matter how much you were paid, I can pay more.”
The shoulders of Jun Young, who was ignoring Kang Hyun’s call and looking at the opposite side, flinched.

“What’s important to me is Han Seo Yoon, not Seo Ji An. And I have no intention of venting my anger on a lowly minion like you. If you give me the answer I want, negotiations are always possible, so make a wise choice.”

Junyeong bit his lower lip as he watched the receding figures of Kanghyun and Seokwon.

Maybe he had wanted this kind of proposal from the beginning.