Chapter 148 – Lee Junseo (Son) – I’M This Guy’S Owner
* Lee Junseo (Son) – I’m This Guy’s Owner (6)
I shouldn’t have fainted!
I shouldn’t have fainted!
I shouldn’t have fainted!
Shouldn’t have!
I should have just closed my eyes and extended my arm!
A flood of regret, regret, regret, regret, regret…
As consciousness returned, I realized I had made a mistake.
“Aaaaargh!!!!”
I’d rather be dead!
I should have!
“Hah… huh…”
When I opened my eyes, with a splitting headache, it was already the middle of the night. Strangely, I remembered exactly how much time had passed while I was unconscious. Not even a full day had gone by, the commotion hadn’t died down, and I was in a hospital.
‘I tried to break through this situation by causing a stir with attempted murder in court… I expected it, but I didn’t think that crazy little bastard would attack me… That, that, that son of a bitch! Wasn’t he something important to the village?! Why did he attack me! How are they going to fix this?! Why was that bastard so angry that he tried to destroy me?!’
She still maintained the attitude that she really didn’t know why Junseo was angry. No one who wasn’t an idiot would not know, but this was an attitude only Jo Yeonmi could have. She stopped thinking about why Junseo attacked and raised her hand to touch the injured area.
“Ugh!”
A part of her hair was cut off. There was a stitched wound and gauze stuck there, showing that she had almost been killed by a blunt object. Usually, she should be happy about the injury since she had gone from being the perpetrator to the victim, but Jo Yeonmi’s face turned increasingly pale.
‘I failed! How much anxious time did I spend for today! I even expected an attack and was ready to step back, but that crazy bastard had to attack me!’
The words ‘big trouble’ flashed through her mind countless times. She had planned to incite the protesters today and make things uncontrollably big. A perfect live broadcast right after leaving the court, at a time when no one could touch her. That was the picture she had drawn, but now, not only was there no one around, but people’s attention would be focused on Junseo’s attempted murder in court.
‘I don’t have time to be here. By now, their influence will have taken hold, so it’s almost impossible to go to the broadcasting station and demand a re-broadcast.’
That’s why she had gathered several places at once.
She had even prepared an internet broadcast.
‘I have to run away…’
Forcibly ignoring the throbbing in her head, especially the injured part, she lifted her torso. Only then did she realize that something was rustling next to her.
“?!”
A flinch!
“Auntie.”
“J-Junhyuk?!”
She was on edge, thinking they might be some thugs who had crawled out of the village, but she was quickly relieved to see a familiar face.
“I didn’t see you there… When did you come…?”
“I was outside from the beginning. The situation became like this, and I didn’t know what to do, so I came now…”
“You weren’t there when I was looking for you…”
“I never thought you would do that, Auntie. You were nice to me, but when I saw you messing with my older brother and sister, my position became strange. So, I had no choice but to stay quiet.”
Even in this situation, Junhyuk calmly peeled a pear and took a bite. However, Jo Yeonmi didn’t seem to be in the mood and slapped it away with her palm. Junhyuk muttered that it was a waste as the fruit piece rolled onto the floor.
“I went to the trouble of peeling it… That girl… She’s got a bad temper…”
“You were here too…?”
It wasn’t just Junhyuk; an old man she knew was there as well. He wasn’t wearing his usual fishing clothes. He was dressed in a suit, even though he hadn’t participated in this trial, and appeared from a dark corner of the hospital room.
“With things like this, what can I do? I went and begged Madam.”
“What did that old hag say?”
“She said she hated the sight of that Moon San kid and that he got what he deserved… I didn’t expect to be praised, so it was surprising… The only scolding I got was for helping that Chinese beggar crash his car into the young master…?”
He chuckled, but his face wasn’t smiling.
Why was that?
The answer was in his raised right hand.
“Look at this. I was forgiven with this, so it’s fine.”
Kim Yongshin’s right pinky and ring finger were missing. They were wrapped tightly in bandages, as if they had been cut off recently. He didn’t say a word about why they were gone, but everyone knew the reason.
“It’s so like you to slip away alone in the middle of all this.”
“It’s also amazing that you can still be so loud in the middle of all this.”
Kim Yongshin wasn’t being sarcastic; he was genuinely impressed. Even though her ex-husband’s fingers had been cut off, she could still look at it and say he slipped away. Moreover, it sounded like she hadn’t given up yet, and the sound of her mind working echoed throughout the room.
“How is he?”
“The young master is going to jail for attempted murder in court. There were too many eyes, so we couldn’t cover it up. Haha, should I congratulate you in advance?”
“For what?”
“What you initially aimed for was for Junhyuk to become the village chief. You were going to act like a good person while trying to marry our daughter to Junhyuk, who became the chief. After that, you planned to eat away at the village from the inside…”
“You were going to do that to me?”
“……………”
“Life doesn’t go your way, does it? With this incident, Junseo will be pushed out of the village chief position, and Junhyuk will take over. But you’re in a life-threatening situation right now. Isn’t it funny? Everything you wanted to happen, but you’re the only one left out.”
Kim Yongshin laughed heartily, but neither Jo Yeonmi nor Junhyuk could laugh. Junhyuk, in particular, looked displeased, as if he hadn’t expected things to turn out this way.
“I still don’t understand why he did that. Why him specifically? There are so many other people?”
“My brother hated that village. He said he felt disgusted by this incident. So, he did it to both smear his grandmother’s face and screw over the auntie who kidnapped his sister. It was his way of telling both of you to get lost.”
“He tried to screw both of us over?”
“Yes.”
“What kind of pervert who sleeps with his family…”
Jo Yeonmi remembered the words she had heard before she took out the blunt object. It was as if he would have helped destroy the village if she had just told him from the beginning. At first, she hadn’t thought much of it, but she belatedly regretted that he might have been serious.
‘Hmph, now it’s too late.’
However, she realized it was useless regret and maintained her usual attitude of mocking the other person.
“Attempted murder, so five years? If you reduce it as much as possible, maybe three years? Three years after causing that commotion in court, you guys are really something.”
“Everyone around will testify that the young master was drunk, so we can get benefits from that. Even if we reduce the sentence as much as possible, he’ll be out in about three years, just like you said.”
“With your connections, can’t you get him probation? Why are you trying to end the story with him being imprisoned?”
“Because my brother doesn’t want that. He’s planning to rot there for a few years. It’s his way of saying, please leave his family alone and don’t bother them.”
“He’s someone I don’t understand.”
“From my brother’s perspective, the village and you are the same kind of trash.”
She was about to retort at that treatment, but she held back and changed the subject. That wasn’t important now. There was something more important she had to ask.
“What’s going to happen to me now? The fact that you two are here means you’re going to let me go, right?”
Whether she would live or die.
The most important question.
She asked with a hint of expectation, but the answer was cold.
“Are you crazy? Junhyuk and I are here to give you a final farewell. Don’t even dream of living.”
“You’re going to kill me? I was still your wife, though?”
“If we weren’t careful, all the guys who had taken root in this country would have fallen from the tree. We won’t make you into a product. You’re too dangerous, so we’ve decided to dispose of you immediately. So, keep that in mind.”
‘I knew it…’
It was like the tone of announcing a pig’s slaughter. A chill ran down her spine, but she didn’t show it. While she was wondering if she could escape through the two people’s encirclement with her injured head, Kim Yongshin moved towards the door.
“Are you going to do it? You were tricked into marrying me, so it wouldn’t be bad for you to do it.”
“Of course, it’s not me.”
“Then who?”
“Of course, it’s the young master.”
‘Can he come here in this situation?’
As she blinked, the door opened, and the footsteps of the protagonist who had caused a stir in the morning with attempted murder in court could be heard. In the current situation, there wouldn’t be time to even make a phone call, even at this time of night. Not only did he not call, but he came in person and was acting natural, making her realize once again how rotten this country was.
‘They’re letting a guy who did that roam free like this. My life was ruined because of that rotten human, and now I’m failing because of his son.’
Whether he knew her anger or not.
Junseo, as if nothing had happened, spoke first.
He calmly recited it.
