episode_0536

After seeing the incoming communication request and being puzzled for a moment, I decided to accept it.

In some ways, my brother was more of an inconvenience and burden than my father, but I couldn’t just ignore the communication request.

So, after much deliberation, I finally accepted the request…

-I’ll be waiting for you in the hotel convention room, so come down.

It was literally a one-sided notification, which was no different from a hand-made notification, and the communication that had been accepted at best was cut off.

Thanks to this, I couldn’t help but feel absurd, as if I had been confused and thought, ‘What’s going on…?’

No, you have to go through all the trouble to make a phone call and come down to the hotel convention room.

It’s not like I’m manipulating my subordinates…

No, wouldn’t subordinates be treated like this too?

‘I decided to quickly change my clothes and join Gaga again…’

There’s nothing we can do when it’s like this.

I have no choice but to get there quickly.

I wanted to just ignore it and write it off as nothing, but from now on, I needed to maintain a relatively amicable relationship with my brothers for the sake of Gaga.

Of course, since they are competing for the one and only position of chairman, it would be impossible for them to form a close relationship like ordinary siblings do.

Anyway, I don’t know what they’re calling me for, but I decided to finish it as quickly as possible and join Gaga in the room where Hayoung, Helena, and that woman were holding out, so I headed to the convention room mentioned in the communication…

“Is it true?”

As soon as I entered the hotel convention room, what I heard were words that I couldn’t understand.

Is it true?

What on earth is true?

If she had kindly added an explanation, she would have answered the question sincerely, but instead, she cut off everything and asked such questions so carefully that I couldn’t come out with a good word.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

That’s what I did to control it in my own way.

What on earth are you doing by calling a busy(?) person…?

It must have been at that moment when I was thinking the same thing.

I don’t know what I didn’t like so much, but my older brother, who was frowning so deeply that a deep furrow between his eyebrows appeared, opened his mouth with a long sigh.

“That means you have a contract with that Su-hyeon or something.”

“···!”

And the moment I heard the words that flowed from between my open lips… a chill ran down my spine, as if I had been covered in cold water.

The feeling of something falling like a thud was a bonus.

To conclude… it shouldn’t have happened.

Instead of freaking out after hearing my older brother’s words, I should have suddenly asked, “What kind of nonsense is that?”

If that were the case, her older brother wouldn’t have become ‘convinced’ after seeing her reaction.

“Looking at your expression, I guess it’s true.”

“···.”

“Does your father know?”

The attack continues before we can prepare our posture.

I couldn’t come to my senses from that attack.

That’s why I couldn’t give him a proper response and had no choice but to keep getting verbally beaten.

“Well, there’s no way you know. If you had known, there is no way in my father’s nature that he would have allowed you two to marry even if there were two heavens.”

“That…that’s…”

I couldn’t bear to deny it.

Because she knew that too.

If her father had known that there was some kind of contract between Su-hyeon and her, he would not have allowed the marriage regardless of whether Su-hyeon saved her life or not.

“I won’t talk too long. Sort it out with your own hands before it gets any deeper.”

“···I just expressed things like etiquette and rules to be observed between a couple as a contract.”

“If that was all it took, Soso, you wouldn’t have been so shaken up as you were just now.”

“···.”

“You don’t want this to come to your father’s ears, right?”

So don’t talk nonsense and do as I say.

I gritted my teeth reflexively at my older brother’s remark, which was practically speaking that way.

It had no choice but to be like that.

Because that was something she could never accept.

What if it was before?

The moment I heard my brother’s words, which were almost like notifications, I would have nodded my head without much hesitation.

Although she may feel a little humiliated by the fact that her older brother, who is competing with her for the position of chairman, caught her in something so unfair, she would have done as her older brother said in the end.

That would have been the case in the past, but not now.

Because we’ve come too far and too deep to sort things out now.

But now you’re ending your relationship with Soo-hyeon?

It was like making a huge hole in her chest with her hands.

Since Suhyeon was the one who filled the hole that originally existed in her heart, this had no choice but to happen.

In the past, I could still survive, but not anymore.

I finally learned how warm and special the warmth that other people give me is, but if I lost it as soon as I found out, there was no way I could endure it.

Because I definitely thought that would happen.

In some ways, I made the decision to stand up to my older brother, who was more fearful and reluctant than my father.

“···I don’t like it.”

“What?”

Did he not like her decision?

The eyebrows of my brother, who was sitting with his arms crossed, twitched greatly.

At the same time, an extremely bloody atmosphere began to cover the entire area.

‘Tsk…!’

Clearly, the spirit of life radiated by the expert above her.

Is it because I have been completely exposed to that life?

My body felt as if it was frozen from the beginning, and I reflexively clenched my teeth… but I had no intention of changing my words.

“Why are you saying this in the first place, what does your brother have to do with that work? That’s just Suhyun and I’s job.”

“Of course there is a correlation. This is because the family’s prestige is at stake.”

“Family prestige?”

“Yeah, I didn’t like that Suhyeon or whatever guy from the beginning. All they have is a paltry amount of military power, and they’re going to bring a guy whose origins are unclear into some kind of family…”

The moment the sound of clicking one’s tongue flowed into her ears, she was a little surprised.

Was it because what I happened to hear was a one-sided criticism of Su-hyeon?

I was moved more than I thought.

Should I say that the back of my head gets hot and sticky, and it feels like if I let my guard down a little, words bordering on abusive language will spill out of my mouth.

So… I bit my lip once to calm down the momentary outburst, and answered my brother’s words in a relatively calm voice.

“You seem to have forgotten, but according to additive law, I have the right to choose my companion. I chose Soo-hyeon.”

So don’t argue about that issue any more.

Did this statement, which was practically speaking like that, get on my nerves?

After frowning for a moment, my brother’s head turned to the side with a sigh.

And then…

“Tsk, you won.”

A voice with a clear hint of disapproval came out of my brother’s mouth.

It was right after that that a familiar voice came from the watch-shaped display on my brother’s wrist.

-I have believed in Soso from the beginning.

Is this voice… Su-hyeon…?

No, what on earth is this…?

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‘Wow, my heart is shaking and I think I’m going to die.’

Although he said to Cheongpung that he trusted Soso, in reality, he was suffering from an incredible nervousness that was difficult to explain in words.

When I think back to what Soso showed me in front of me last night, the possibility of that happening is very low, but you never know the human heart and human affairs.

In particular, in the case of Soso, since his greed for the position of chairman of the Sacheon Group is enormous, I thought that he might answer by saying that he would do as Cheongpung said.

Contrary to my concerns, Soso did not choose that option.

Instead of choosing that side… he seemed to give a little more priority to protecting his relationship with me.

Thanks to this, I felt rewarded for holding on without raising a voice even when I was nervous.

From my perspective, it was worth it because the only thing I bet on Soso was hypnosis related to the contract, and I never touched his feelings for me.

Nevertheless, the fact that she chose that option in the end means that Soso’s feelings for me are sincere.

Is it because I realized that fact again?

“I can’t do it, I’ll go downstairs for a moment and come back.”

I wanted to see Soso’s face right now.