episode_0079

I have no complaints.

That is the biggest problem with the current situation I’m in.

The Hwaryeong affiliates I owned.

Hwaryeong Mulsan and Hwaryeong Heavy Industries, considered the main ones, are in the process of merging with my younger brother Cha Doyeon’s group , which previously split off.

True to the name ‘Hwaryeong,’ these affiliates are so massive that a complete merger and acquisition will take more time, but even that stage is gradually nearing completion.

In truth, all these stages should have been turbulent, both internally and externally, as this was a hostile takeover.

A merger and acquisition between large corporations isn’t something trivial, and there was strong internal opposition, with supporters and opponents divided. However, the fact that it proceeded smoothly was purely thanks to Mother.

Mother, who was virtually at the center, capable of controlling the group.

Thanks to owning , the group’s core, she could have dominantly swayed the group, but Mother remained silent on this controversy.

It seemed she had always been extremely reluctant to get involved in her children’s squabbles, so she quietly acknowledged the separation of the affiliates and remained silent until the very end regarding the subsequent merger.

In other words, she didn’t want to get involved and fan the flames of conflict between her children.

While there was much talk and debate in the media, the work proceeded smoothly, and my younger brother’s actions were quite unique.

First, as per our existing agreement, he allowed me to remain as the head of the affiliates I owned.

Since positions were limited, someone else inevitably had to become the head of , but he appointed the person I nominated, allowing me to still manipulate things as I pleased.

As a bonus, even the debts that weighed down the company vanished entirely under the guise of ‘investment.’

The accounting fraud committed previously was covered up using connections, and continuous investment was even promised to help us reclaim the top spot in the construction industry.

It truly meant all the headaches were gone.

My younger brother, who used to compete with me, turned into a cooperative colleague, leading to everything going smoothly and with unstoppable momentum.

“Huu…”

And this was the biggest problem I faced.

Instead of the problems being cleanly resolved, the established equivalent exchange condition made my head ache.

The precondition for all of this to be possible was none other than having slept with my younger brother.

What’s more… I had already shared a bed with my younger brother three times.

By the number of times it had happened, it seemed to have already exceeded double digits.

‘Ah… I’m really going crazy.’

I know.

This is a disgusting, insane act that siblings could do, one that’s even repulsive to imagine.

Should I say I was forced into it because Doyeon pushed so strongly?

Should I say that in the urgency of the moment, and carried away by the atmosphere, I momentarily lost my mind?

In any case, the deed had been done.

“Haaahh….”

Sighs that only grew longer the more I recalled it.

It was even more maddening because it was something I could never consult or complain about to my subordinates or friends for my entire life.

“Why the long face on such a good day?”

‘…Even if he died and came back to life, he’d never be a proper gentleman.’

As I sipped my wine, lost in reverie, that familiar voice brought me back to the stage of reality.

[Congratulations on becoming a new member of ]

A giant banner hung on the party stage.

Today was none other than a celebration for ‘s successful merger and acquisition.

As mentioned before, the merger was expected to conclude without major hitches.

Since the internal processing was already finished, it was a celebratory banquet where company executives’ families and close acquaintances were brought together to get acquainted and socialize.

It wasn’t an old-fashioned style; grand speeches were omitted, and instead, plenty of drinks and refreshments were laid out for everyone to enjoy socializing.

Perhaps thanks to this relaxed atmosphere, everyone looked relieved.

They laughed and chatted together, seemingly reassured that by attending the party, they wouldn’t be subject to restructuring.

Conversely, I, the ‘former CEO,’ preferred to be alone, morosely drinking in a corner, when my younger brother unnecessarily intruded.

As he approached, waving his arm, I met him with a glint in my eye.

“Why is the star of the party, who should be busy greeting people, here?”

“Oh, come on, who’s the ‘star’ at a party? We’re just mingling here and there.”

“…Is that you gloating after swallowing up my company?”

“Well, the group’s governance structure has changed, but you’re still the president, noona. I still gave you management rights as promised, so why are you sulking again?”

“…….”

It was literally sulking.

He was a younger brother who had given me money as if pouring it all out and even covered up my disgraces, but because I thought deeply about it, I found myself pushing him away even more.

“Enough. More importantly, who’s next to you?”

“Ah, this is─”

“I’m Ryu Sua, a financial supervisor, Cha Hwaryeon-ssi.”

The woman next to Doyeon quickly bowed her head in greeting without needing many words.

A woman with neatly tied brown hair, sharp eyes, and looking quite intelligent… appearing to be in her late 20s.

“This person blocked the audit for your company this time, noona. She’s the one who ensured thorough follow-up so there would be no repercussions later. I thought it would be good for you both to know each other.”

“Ah, so this is the person……”

The amount was so large that it would have been difficult to cover it up with just money.

I wondered how it passed so quietly without a single news article, but it seems he even had such capable connections.

It was a continuous surprise from Doyeon.

Hiding my true feelings as if it were nothing, I shook the hand of the person who had helped me, like a black rose, so they wouldn’t feel awkward.

After exchanging business cards out of politeness, I turned my attention back to Doyeon, as I had a question for him now that he had come over.

“Doyeon, you.”

“Hm?”

“I heard you broke into the place where Soeun’s strange foreign gangster husband is, didn’t you?”

“Huh? How did that rumor reach your ears, noona?”

“I had no choice but to have someone tail you, didn’t I? Because it feels like something big is always about to blow up between you and that crazy woman.”

If the currently successful Doyeon was a scoundrel in the past, then the youngest, Cha Soeun, is truly a crazy woman in her prime.

She’s the kind of woman who, claiming to just love money, met some strange tattooed gang boss while traveling abroad and brought him back, turning her parents’ stomachs upside down. After Father’s death, she promptly went overseas and married him, spitting on Father’s grave and hammering nails into Mother’s heart.

Furthermore, she butchered the company with a knife, letting the organization go to hell.

She’s the kind of woman who managed the inherited affiliates as if wringing a dry rag, sullying the group’s reputation, making one wonder if there could be such a crazy chaebol heir in the world.

In short, she’s a woman who loses all sense when she sets her mind to something, not caring about consequences.

Her specialty is crushing anything from the start if it doesn’t please her, so there’s no telling what she might do.

“Noona, there’s nothing for you to worry about too much.”

In response to my concerns, he grinned mockingly and then,

“It’s just like back when you were younger, educating a foolish younger sibling.”

“……!”

My younger brother grinned slyly.

At that, the events of that night automatically replayed in my mind.

Myself, naked and humiliatingly bowing and begging to my younger brother.

Even wearing a shameful dog collar… that time when I had sex with my younger brother for the first time.

Fragments of a past so shameful, just remembering them made me cringe.

“You… you─”

“Ah~ sorry. I have quite a few people to meet at this event today.”

“Hey!”

I called out, my tongue twisted from being drunk, but he left with the woman who was walking beside him.

He came and went as he pleased, like the tide.

-Is everyone enjoying the party? -Oh my~ Chairman Cha! -Chairman! I heard news of another investment in the company!

To expand his new network, he quickly laughed and chatted with strangers.

The guy who had no interest or ability in management in the past had become the blue chip of the party, blending in like a smooth operator.

‘…More than anything, I truly don’t understand how he changed so much.’

The scoundrel third son, Cha Doyeon, completely changed as if he had been folded up and put into a washing machine and came out.

And thinking about it, it was true.

Perhaps the biggest reason I so surprisingly easily accepted the incest, which would bring a lifetime of physical abuse from others, was his change.

Unlike before, he had become such a different person that I was unconsciously looking at my younger brother from a new perspective.

It had come to this point where perhaps I was overly conscious of it─

‘─!?! That… that bastard!?’

While watching from a distance, my younger brother made another sudden, unexpected move.

Squeeze, squeeze♥

He was… kneading.

He naturally placed his hand on the buttock of the woman he had introduced as Ryu Sua, or whatever her name was, the financial supervisor who was with him.

In this dangerous place where there must be over 200 eyeballs combined, he dangerously kneaded that ‘chunk of flesh’ like a country dog, unable to distinguish the place, as if flaunting their relationship.

His hand went there easily, as if enjoying the thrill of it, even though someone might see.

“……♥”

What was even funnier was the reaction of the woman beside him.

As his large hand touched her buttock, she gathered her hands neatly and became demure.

Even she seemed to enjoy his impolite hand, brazenly laughing and chatting with people like a trained dog.

‘Shit… Is he going to touch every woman?!’

No matter how much he changed, he couldn’t shake his womanizing habits.

No, before, he just paid for prostitutes, but his desire for women seems to have gotten even worse.

I heard before that he was targeting the entire family, including Mother.

I couldn’t bring it up because there was a woman next to me whom I had just met, but his going to meet the youngest, Cha Soeun’s, husband must have been partly for that reason too.

A younger sister crazy for money, and a younger brother crazy in a different way.

‘Shit, should I just get married to spite that bastard dog?’

I had that thought because I was somehow enraged.

“Huuuuh….”

However, that thought quickly folded with a sigh.

Because the whispers I’d heard during blind dates slowly resurfaced.

[She feels like she’ll devour me] [Her aura is so strong it’s hard to talk to her] [She gets angry too easily, it’s overwhelming]

These were all things I heard during meetings with men.

I had made an effort to put on makeup and act fake on the first meeting, but the feedback was always the same.

Whenever I went on blind dates with other chaebol or men of appropriate status, the gossip about ‘Cha Hwaryeon being overwhelming’ never stopped.

『Shit, how long are you going to do this?』

『Hmph… Just like you, noona. That’s why I like Hwaryeon noona?』

『Keuk…♥』

Therefore, this was the first time I had ever heard such an assessment.

Every day, I heard a string of reviews calling me ‘overwhelming,’ but this comment, which I first heard when I had sex with Doyeon, lingered.

Gulp!

“Huu!”

I swallowed more alcohol.

I don’t know.

Now, whether it was incest or management, I just didn’t know what was what, so I just drank heavily the free alcohol that was being poured.

* * *

“Wake up, noona.”

“Ung?”

“Try to sober up. Seriously… why did you suddenly chug so much alcohol?”

At his words, I slowly lifted my eyelids, and instead of the ceiling, I saw Cha Doyeon.

My younger brother’s handsome face was blurry at first, but slowly came into focus.

I lightly turned my head and saw I was on a bed, in a rather cozy room, seemingly a separate hotel room he had booked.

…It seems I blacked out.

Having exceeded my limit, I must have caused a scene at the party, so my younger brother apparently put me in a separate room.

I had shown a shameful side of myself.

But strangely, the first words that came out of my mouth were these:

“You, you slept with the woman you came with, didn’t you?”

“Huh?”

When I accused him of touching her buttock, on his bewildered face,

“Ah~ You saw that?”

He just laughed.

As if he had no intention of hiding his womanizing habits, he readily admitted to having been in a relationship with her for a while.

“…Shit. It seemed you also slept with that traitorous bitch, are you okay with any woman?”

“Hmm… Not just any woman. Only if she’s useful or if she catches my eye?”

“Hey, how many do you have to sleep with for your nature to be satisfied?”

“What is it, is Hwaryeon noona getting jealous now?”

“…….”

It was an absurd sophistry.

But the very act of nitpicking and questioning him like that made it look exactly like jealousy.

If I really wasn’t interested, I wouldn’t have chugged alcohol at the sight of him kneading someone else’s buttock, or interrogated him one-on-one like this.

Moreover, as if he read my mind, he pressed his body against mine, acting charmingly.

“Still, family is my top priority. If family is by my side, of course I should take care of family first.”

“…You’re completely crazy.”

“If I weren’t crazy, would I have gone this far with you, noona?”

And then he… steered the atmosphere in that direction again.

As soon as he saw me sprawled out from drinking, he pressed his body close again, perhaps trying to set the mood.

‘Damn it, he’s… touching me.’

I hated it.

I hated it, but the alcohol was still swirling in my head, and my mind was hazy.

“Uugh… Ah, aaah…♥”

I hated it, but I liked the touch that felt like he knew my body so well.

I hated it, but I liked the cool sensation I felt when he stripped off my clothes, and the sense of liberation appealed to me.

‘I really shouldn’t just allow him so carelessly….’

It was another instance of simply allowing my body.

The pattern of pretending to hate it, but ultimately giving in.

If I think about it, he’s the only one with whom I can share the secret of incest.

As my clothes were stripped away, it felt like the suffocating knot in my heart was unraveling, so I easily gave in.

I thought that.

“Noona.”

However, that bastard Cha Doyeon had no ordinary bone in his body.

“There’s something I want to ask of you, noona.”

“Wha- What…?”

Instead of answering, he suddenly rubbed his face against my chest, acting charmingly.

At the same time, he wrapped his arm around a certain line of my neck, and whispered with a faint scent of alcohol.

“Bear my child, noona.”