Chapter 173 – 173 – The Crossroads of Choice
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“Fuck!”
Jun-seo returned home and burst into anger.
Things in the house flew through the air, and the whole house was in disarray.
“What is that bastard!”
The shame and resentment that hadn’t existed at the time came belatedly, and he was angry like this.
Jun-seo had never felt the same emotions in his entire life.
Because he was always in a winning position.
Jun-seo was superior to anyone else in terms of looks, wealth, and strength.
He said that he was helplessly broken. He couldn’t accept it as Jun-seo’s position.
“Just… Ruin two bastards’ lives?”
When the military force he was confident in did not work, he thought about using the wealth and power of his family.
That’s how shocking his own defeat was.
Jun-seo ordered someone to investigate Lee Soo-ah and the man next to her.
He was trying to somehow catch his pod and force him to kneel before him.
A few days passed like that…
Received a report on the investigation…
“What? You say the investigation is impossible?”
“Yes. At first, I tried to subcontract it, but all of them turned down the request for investigation. So we tried to investigate on our own… But there were people who directly stopped us, even though we didn’t know where they belonged. So… Yes…”
“Ha… What… Fuck…”
Jun-seo is devastated by the absurd report from his subordinate.
Jun-seo’s family was quite wealthy, and Jun-seo’s father is the president of a company.
That’s why the people who work behind the scenes are also quite talented, but they were caught doing background checks on others?
It was clear that the two were related to a company larger than Junseo’s, or that they had something behind them.
That’s why Jun-seo realized.
He said that he lost to the man even the ‘wealth’ following the ‘power’ that he was confident in…
“Ha fuck…”
Jun-seo gives a lamentation mixed with short profanity.
Jun-seo was annoyed and unfair.
He somehow wanted to kill those two bitches, but he didn’t have his way…
Like that, Jun-seo drank alcohol to forget about the two of them.
[Tee-ring]
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Last weekend in May.
Seungjun left the house with Shia.
“I will be back.”
“Yes, go.”
Joo-won greeted Shia and Seung-jun.
The two of them are going to have a comic today? Cosplay? I heard that you are going to a festival or something.
“Then should I get ready to go out?”
Like Shia, Joo Won also had to go out.
It was the face-to-face with Shia’s father Lee Tae-seong.
…
Joo Won went out to the meeting place.
It was a quiet Korean restaurant located on the outskirts of Seoul, with a quiet taste.
“Sit here.”
“Yes.”
Joo Won sat in front of Lee Tae Sung.
After remaining silent for a while, Lee Tae-seong speaks first.
“I heard you had a bout on the street a few days ago?”
“If it’s work… Ah! Are you talking about that gisaeng brother-in-law?”
Lee Tae-sung seemed to be talking about a few days ago with a man named Jun-seo.
“He kept flirting with Sia. I changed her number from the morning and harassed her and tried to stab Sia with her hand, so I took care of it a little.”
“I appreciate that. But since he’s not your average friend…”
Lee Tae-seong said that Shia and Joo-won had guards attached to them.
He said that the man named Joon-seo whom Joo-won took care of was the son of the president of a fairly famous company in Korea.
Fortunately, Lee Tae-seong said he used his hand to block surveillance.
Joo-won said he didn’t know that, and he thanked Lee Tae-seong.
“That’s it… That Lee Soo-ah is Shia?”
“Did you not know? I thought I knew everything… Did Sia not explain?”
“…”
Lee Tae-seong didn’t seem to know that Su-ah was Shia.
Perhaps she didn’t explain, fearing that Shia would be scolded by Lee Tae-seong.
“Can you tell me something I don’t know? She will keep it a secret from Shia…”
“Ah… Then…”
Joo-Won tells everything from how Sia became Sua to how she works at Club Valhalla.
He further explained in detail how he lived with Sia and earned her LC.
Lee Tae-seong closes his eyes tightly as if dizzy at Joo-won’s report without a filter.
“For now, we have a rough idea of that. However, hearing this directly from the person concerned makes me feel a little upset…”
Lee Tae-seong drank the water as if his throat was dry.
“So, what do you plan to do next, Chairman?”
“After?”
“If Shia achieves her goal and her friend named Woojin is discharged.”
“…”
Lee Tae-seong was silent for a moment.
“I have to do as Shia wishes. You will forget all about this, and Shia and I will treat Woojin normally.”
“What if Sia is not that Woojin friend and she wants me?”
Bang!
Lee Tae-sung bangs the table.
“What are you trying to say now?…”
Lee Tae-seong asked Joo-won in an angry voice.
“It is literally. If Sia wants me… What will Sia do if she chooses me instead of Woojin?”
“I will make Sia yours now, what are you talking about?”
“I will keep my promise to the president and Shia. After achieving her goal, she won’t lay a hand on Sia. But…”
“But?…”
“She is Sia and if she comes to me, she won’t deny it. Because it was an action Shia chose herself.”
Lee Tae-seong tilted his head and asked a question as if he did not understand Joo-won’s words.
“It seems as if Shia is betting that she will go looking for you even after she has achieved her goal. If Sia achieves her goal, she has no reason to choose you.”
“Nope. Shia’s heart is already shaking.”
Joo-won talks about what happened a few days ago.
“A few days ago, I confessed to Sia. The result was tea. But she said Sia did. She says that because of her promise to the president, she cannot accept her feelings for me.”
“…”
Hearing those words, Lee Tae-seong grabbed his forehead as if in shock.
“And Sia is trying to get her item to lower the level of lewdness, not get rid of her past experience.”
“What?”
“Will Sia be satisfied with her normal relationship with her child, Woo-jin? She already has everything she can’t do She’s a child who’s experienced it?”
To give you an example…
When a person who always ate meat was told to stop eating meat and eat only vegetables, the logic was such that he could live on only vegetables.
“And don’t you know because you’ve been through it too? How important it is to remember…”
“What?”
Lee Tae-seong opened his eyes as if he had remembered something.
“How did you… From Sia… Hear about the wife?…”
The story of Lee Tae-sung’s wife is a story that only Lee Tae-sung and Shia know.
If Sia hadn’t told her, she had no way of knowing.
“Nope.”
“Then how…”
“My partner told me.”
“Partner?…”
“There is such a thing.”
“…”
Lee Tae-seong looked at Joo-won with an uncomfortable expression.
“I understand what you are saying. But if you do that, I will have no face in seeing you face to face. And above all… I have to protect my family. Because his prophecies have never been wrong…”
Joo Won knew about the prophecy of Lee Tae-sung.
[If you buy his anger, you will not be safe.]
Because Shia and Lee Tae-sung told me.
“If that’s the case, don’t worry.”
“What?”
“So… [Hermes. Ignore the boy’s prophecies. I will restrain his wrath, and his wrath in the underworld will yield to my power.] My partner wants me to tell you.”
After hearing Joo-Won’s words, Lee Tae-Sung is seriously thinking about something.
There was a moment of silence, then…
“Then your partner… No, is that the person who blocks the wrath of the prophecy made by Her?”
“Rather than being partners… Um, my partner and I are all in harmony? Should I say Should it be said to be one entity? I feel like I’m a partner and my partner is me…”
Joo-won tells an unknown story.
Even Joo Won, who was speaking, hesitated as if he didn’t know what to say…
After a while, as if everything had been sorted out, he opened his mouth.
“So I can stop it. The prophecy.”
“…”
Lee Tae-seong stands still with his mouth open.
It seems that he was shocked by Joo Won’s words.
Lee Tae-seong keeps his mouth open, but as if thinking of something, he closes his mouth and is silent…
“Then what do you wish for?”
“Please do not stop Sia. I will keep my promise to the president. A promise that I won’t touch Shia after I achieve my goal. But like I said before, if Sia approaches me, I won’t reject her. I hope the president won’t interfere in the process.”
After finishing the story, Joo-won drank a glass of water and stood up.
“The decision is up to the president.”
That’s how Joo Won tried to leave his shop.
“You can really stop the wrath of the prophecy?”
“Yes. I am almost certain.”
After saying that, Joo Won disappeared from the room.
Lee Tae-seong is alone in the remaining room.
“Haha…”
Lee Tae-seong started to laugh dejectedly with a complex and subtle expression.
