But he tried to stay calm. If he were to show his feelings as they were, he thought she might not be able to handle it.

The hope that she would not push him away again was the strongest.

Soon, Ha Joon’s lips softly landed on Seo Ah’s pure white neck.

But this gentleness only served to confuse Seo Ah more.

Her long eyelashes, tightly shut, trembled.

She clenched her fists as she could not keep her feet still, but to no avail. A moan involuntarily escaped from her lips.

Even so, Seo Ah had no intention of pushing him away.

A thrilling shiver ran through her, whitening her mind, but she held him even tighter.

When the drops of water that formed at the corners of her tightly closed eyes rolled down her cheeks, Ha Joon wiped away her tears with his lips, as usual.

Then Seo Ah slowly opened her eyes. She liked the warm, soft touch of his lips, and was curious about how he was looking at her.

When Seo Ah, who had always kept her eyes shut, opened them, Ha Joon stopped his movements and met her gaze.

Soon, he brushed away the hair tickling her face with one hand.

And he whispered.

“Do you hurt?”
When Seo Ah shook her head, Ha Joon lightly pressed his lips against her nose.

“If you’re uncomfortable, tell me.”
This time, when Seo Ah gently nodded, Ha Joon held her close again.

But unlike usual, his overcautious attitude irritated Seo Ah, and without realizing it, she wrapped herself around his body.

At her action, Ha Joon’s patience reached its limit.

((()))

Like always, Ha Joon bathed the exhausted Seo Ah and laid her on the bed.

Staring at the deeply sleeping Seo Ah, it occurred to him that there might be a text from Seok Hoon, who went to Haenam, so he picked up his phone.

It was because he had asked Seok Hoon to leave a message about how it went, no matter how late.

Ha Joon’s expression hardened as he checked the message.

[It seems like this one isn’t the helper either. I tried to persuade him that I would repay him if he could help, but it seems like he genuinely doesn’t know. I told him to contact me if he remembers something or changes his mind]

If there was really no one who received the chocolate, then only one possibility was left.

And he wished it wasn’t true…

((()))

Young Joo took a can of beer out of the fridge and opened the wardrobe door.

Pushing aside the hanging clothes, she pushed the back of the wardrobe and a new space opened.

In the space of about one pyeong, there were two computers and a printer on a desk, and a photo printer, and on one wall was a whiteboard with the names and photos of people from chaebol families close to Seo Ah and Ha Joon arranged around their photos.

Young Joo, who was carefully examining the whiteboard, looked at the large safe on the other wall.

Soon, she pressed a sixdigit password and the safe opened, inside was a huge amount of cash.

This cash was the money she had received from various people since she started working at Yu Young Group.

The requests were diverse.

From smuggling confidential documents of the Yu Young Group to obtaining information from other groups she could access, she did not hesitate to do anything that could make money.

And also, the request to stop the marriage of Seo Ah and Ha Joon…

It all started eight years ago.

Young Joo, who was an orphan, was living in an orphanage, and she was hopeless as she had to be independent soon.

Then, the director of the orphanage enticed Young Joo.

He showed her a photo of Seo Ah, who was 15 at the time, promising to make her money.

She was the daughter of a chaebol, and she would soon be in a traffic accident. You have to save her and get injured instead. It will just be a minor accident, so you don’t have to worry too much. They’ll definitely want to compensate you for that. Turn down the compensation, instead say that you want to work at Yu Young Group. Act as pitiful as possible, say you’re an orphan with nowhere to go. That way, you can secure a stable job and earn pocket money as long as you do what I ask.

At that time, Young Joo was swayed by the promise of a stable job, and therefore accepted the principal’s proposal.

But the accident was quite serious.

The principal initially intended for the accident to be serious enough that Young Joo wouldn’t die. It had to be that severe for the Yu Young Group to feel obligated to feed, house, and employ Young Joo.

The closer the relationship between the Yu Young Group and Young Joo, the more money she could make.

Everything went as the principal planned.

After completing the treatment safely, Young Joo was able to work as a resident helper at Seo Ah’s house, help Seo Ah with her studies as she was good at studying, and even became her school companion.

From then on, when the principal received the offerings, Young Joo put them into action and shared the money.

However, the principal’s life was short.

He had a bad heart, but he couldn’t quit drinking and smoking, and he passed away not too long ago.

All this while, Young Joo, who had been living in anxiety about being caught, thought it was a good thing and was planning to live abroad with the money she had saved up…

But she was too late.

One by one, the people who had deals with the principal started to threaten Young Joo.

The principal had collected only the contract money here and there and left the world.

There were things that could somehow be managed, but there was one thing that was difficult.

The task of stopping the marriage between Seo Ah and Ha Joon.

That was because at that time, Seo Ah had planned to divorce after marriage.

In the end, Young Joo had no choice but to make a new proposal.

She promised to somehow get them divorced after marriage.

After all, the principal and Young Joo had dealt in cash, so there was no evidence, and she could have said that it was none of her business,

But this was also an addiction that she could not quit.

If she could get them divorced after marriage, she could earn more money than she had saved up now.

There were many people who were impatient to damage the image of the Tae Sung Group and Kang Ha Joon, more than the Yu Young Group.

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