Chapter 1 – The Road to Humiliation, the First Step
An ordinary afternoon. In an ordinary downtown street, an unusual-looking woman was walking down the street. That she didn’t look normal meant that this woman had a beauty that anyone on the road would take another look at.
The woman’s name is Yumia. She is 22 years old. She was a female college student attending a prestigious university that anyone would give her a thumbs up for just hearing her name. But what made her stand out the most was her looks.
The prevailing opinion was that those who could match her appearance could not reach the level of an actress entering the top class in Korea with her beauty. Her body was as good as her face. She is taller than 170 cm and has flawless white skin. Her outstretched limbs. Plump breasts and hips. And a narrow waist. There were also quite a few opinions that her best charm was not her face, but her body. Her shiny, slightly wavy, black hair hung down to her shoulders.
Her top was a white blouse that was a bit loose, and underneath was a light blue pleated skirt that fluttered in sync with her steps. Beneath a short skirt that did not even cover half of her thighs, legs stretched out in coffee-colored stockings.
On her feet were women’s shoes. Although her shoes were low heels, she showed off more attractive legs than any woman wearing high heels. Almost everyone who came across her path turned their head at least once to look back at her eight-headed figure. After her passing, couples were often seen fighting on the streets of her.
“Brother! Why do you keep looking at her?”
“Yes? Did I?”
The man was embarrassed and the woman grumbled. The man sweated to appease the woman.
Some people looked at her with envy, saying, ‘Would you be really happy if you lived with a look like that?’
But she wasn’t happy at all, no, her expression was full of pensiveness. Her cause was in a text message she received after her class. As she was about to return home from her last class, she felt a vibration in her shoulder bag.
‘What letter is it?’
She took her phone out of her disguise without thinking about it and opened her text message. She and she said, ‘Whoops.’ She drew in her breath. The message contained a picture. It was an embarrassing picture to see anywhere. There was a man and a woman in the picture.
Her problem was that the woman was not wearing a single thread on her body and the man was raping her. The bigger problem was that the rapist was her father. Her embarrassment seemed to choke her.
‘What is this?’
Before thinking about what this could be, her cell phone rang again. Her unknown number was stamped on it and she was repeating her vibration as if telling her to get it quickly.
“Hello?”
She answered the phone with a slightly trembling voice.
“Hello. Ms. Yumia.”
A man’s voice was heard. He was a man I didn’t know. But her man seemed to know her.
“Who are you?”
“I don’t know that. The important thing is from now on.”
The man’s tone was polite, but for some reason it seemed to contain a mockery.
“I’m sure you got the picture I sent you.”
Startled, she shook her body. ‘Did this person send me the picture?’
“As you can see, Mia’s father is a rapist. He is also a very unscrupulous rapist.”
“What are you talking about? My father can’t do that.”
She looked around her with her anxious expression on her face. But nothing in particular caught her eye.
“Hoo? Would you say that even after looking at the picture?”
“Nonsense. Something is wrong with this!”
Mia said firmly. But she couldn’t hide the trembling at the end of her words. The man continued the conversation in a relaxed tone.
“Seeing is not worth a thousand words, so I guess I should send more. Just a moment.”
After a while, the phone vibrated a few more times. Mia said, “I can’t do that. No way…” She did, and she muttered, checking the newly arrived messages. It was all pictures. Like her first picture, they were all pictures of her father harassing women. The women were all different people, but the man was her father.
‘What on earth is this?’
A friendly tone came again in her confused mind.
“Do you believe me now?”
Mia took one gulp of her saliva and answered.
“No. It could just be someone who looks like…”
“Your father’s name is Yoo Cheol-ho. Age is 49. I work for a company called XX. His mother passed away 3 years ago and his brother is still not recovering from an illness 3 years ago. Am I wrong?”
‘This man. I know the details of my family.&Quot Mia’s face went pale.
“Miss Yumia. Your father is a rapist. It wasn’t just one or two people.”
“…So what’s the matter?”
“Ruler. How about distributing this photo to your father’s company?”
“Oh? Why would you do that?”
“Then your father will be fired from the company, right? If you don’t, you might end up wearing iron bars. You will bear the stigma of being the daughter of a rapist.”
“Oh, no. That kind of thing…”
Until she was three years old, Mia and her family were happy, if not wealthy. However, her mother passed away in an unexpected accident, and her younger brother fell down with an incurable disease without having time to soothe the grief, and a gloomy light was cast.
In particular, what was difficult to solve realistically was her brother’s hospital bills. Her father told her not to worry about money and to work hard on her studies, but Mia couldn’t let her go, so she had to work part-time while studying. She studied so desperately that she didn’t miss her scholarship.
However, that alone was not enough, and her position gradually declined. Her brother’s prolonged hospitalization and his father, unable to afford his hospital bills, turned to gambling and eventually borrowed money. There have been a few times when moneylenders have turned the house into a mess for money.
But still she loved her father. Up until three years ago, her relationship with her father was very good. Although her home had been strained by her gloom, her father was the only pillar she could lean on. I couldn’t even think of life without my father. In modern times, this man was now even holding onto his father.
“Whoops. Listen to me. Miss Mia. If you don’t want to see something like that, listen carefully to what I’m saying from now on and follow it.”
“What… ?”
“Go to the subway right now. And get off at XX station. If you get off, I’ll call you again later. Of course, bring no one and come alone unconditionally.”
“Four? Why go there…”
“Ruler. Add one more condition. From now on, I won’t ask any questions. Then I will spread the picture right away.”
“…”
“Why don’t you answer? Ruler. Don’t just stand there, move quickly. Classes are over, what are you going to do at school until now?”
‘Ugh. Are you looking at me?’
Mia looked around her in surprise. But all she could see were people walking around the peaceful campus. Where is she hiding in a building?
“There is no use in looking around. Move fast. Quickly.”
“Oh okay.”
“Like. We will call you back when we arrive.”
After hanging up her phone, Mia moved her leg. She and she went to the nearest subway station and she got on the subway. The XX station the man mentioned was quite far from the center of the metropolitan area. She reached her destination after quite a while and she immediately uploaded her cell phone.
“Take Exit X, walk five blocks and you will see a small park. Please wait there.”
Mia was on her way to that park now as the man instructed.
‘Someone must be looking at me.’
She kept looking around her with anxious eyes, but she didn’t see anyone suspicious. No, she made everyone look suspicious.
As the man said, she walked five blocks and saw a small park. She entered the park and sat down on a bench that caught her eye. It was a quiet park with no people. Mia sat down on a nearby bench. Before she knew it, she was slowly passing over Seosan.
‘What kind of people are they? Can I follow you like this?’
Mia, preoccupied with her concerns, heard her trudging steps.
“Are you Yumia?”
She looked up and saw her neatly dressed man in his forties standing in front of her, looking down. His outward appearance was neat enough to be thought of as a business man.
“Yes Yes. Yes.”
The man in the suit lowered his head and spoke politely.
“Sorry for making you wait so long. Then come with me.”
Her polite demeanor made me feel rather offended.
“Where are you going?”
“You will know when you go. Didn’t the person on the phone talk? I would have told you not to ask questions.”
He spoke politely but with a slightly intimidating look and intonation. Mia, slightly frightened of her, replied, shrugging her shoulders.
“Yes, yes.”
“Okay then, let’s go.”
The man stretched out one arm to the side of the road as if to escort him. And he smiled kindly. Rather, that appearance made her Mia more anxious.
The two continued walking without speaking. It felt like going to a remote place. The number of buildings that catches the eye has decreased significantly, and the roads have become narrower and narrower. Did it take quite a long time? The man in the suit opened his mouth.
“I think so.”
When we arrived, there was a shabby, small two-story building. It was a place with few people. On the building, there was a writing that said XX trade.
‘A trading company?’
On the outside, it was an ordinary company. He took her Mia and went to the second floor. And opened the office door.
“Then let’s go in.”
He also escorted Mia into her office. Mia flinched.
‘Can I come in here? Couldn’t I come out again if I go in?’
The man’s eyes were urging him to go in quickly. No, ‘If you don’t go in quickly, take a picture right away…’ And seemed to be threatening.
After some hesitation, Mia moved her feet to the floor of her office. Ahn had the appearance of an ordinary office. A few desks, computers, cabinets, and a refrigerator or water purifier caught her eye. There was also a door that was closed on one side.
“Well, then how now, oops!”
As she tried to turn around to talk to her, she suddenly felt a tingling sensation in the side of her neck. She felt something prick her.
“Ah? Alas.”
Mia grabbed the side of her neck and looked behind her hastily. The man in the suit was holding a syringe in one hand and laughing meanly.
“Wait, what the hell. Eww. Ugh…”
I couldn’t keep up with her. Her vision blurred and her legs gave out. I tried to support her body on the desk near her, but her arms were shaking.
‘Click!’ I heard the office door lock. The man in the suit spoke to Mia, who was leaning against her desk and barely supporting her body.
“It’s nothing. It’s just an anesthetic. Don’t worry, you won’t die. It will work out on its own with time.”
The man spoke slowly and walked towards Mia. The shoes he is wearing make a squeak. The sound of those footsteps was now the most terrible sound to Mia. She tried to move somehow, but neither her arms nor her legs listened to her. The man who had come up to her nose held out her hand to her missing child.
Mia, she said, should never have entered. When she set her foot there, her shameful life began.
