MS Ch 13 part 2

He blinked repeatedly. It seemed that the pupil she had struck with her phone was definitely damaged. She could also see blood flowing down his cheeks. Euncho quietly looked around, wary of Ki Cheonju as he approached her with staggering steps.

A place to buy some time, a place to hide…

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

It was impossible. This place was a horrible place to hide.

It was an open harbor. All she could see was a few containers that were too far away to reach by foot. The closest thing was a pile of empty boxes that swayed in the wind. If she tried to hide there, she’d most likely get shot.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

“F*ck! I said get over here right now! Are you looking down on me?”

Ki Cheonju’s shout was fierce as it split through the night. Euncho flinched and carefully stepped back to keep her distance. Because the gun was pointed at her, she couldn’t make any abrupt movements.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

No matter how hard she tried to distance herself it was impossible because of the gun. As if to show her that the distance between them would eventually disappear, Ki Cheonju started walking towards her without hesitation. Her heartbeat slowed along with her breaths. She could no longer tell if she was breathing.

Suddenly…

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

Vrooooom—

The two of them froze at the roaring sound of the car exhaust. It was so loud that it created clouds of dust in the air. Suddenly, a car burst out through the pile of boxes.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

The headlights flashed, blinding her vision. Euncho closed her eyes and felt like she was fainting. The wheels of the car slowed for a moment as if it had lost its way. Then it screeched and sped forward. 

“Ugh!”

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

Ki Cheonju’s body hit the hood of the car and floated in the air like a piece of paper before falling back down to the ground. It rolled until it crashed into a long bollard. The impact was so intense that Euncho could hear it make impact with her own ears.

Of course, Euncho didn’t pay him any attention.

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

The backseat door of the can burst open, and the man she had been searching for so desperately came out. 

She remembered his calm voice on the phone.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

But it must have been a way for him to calm himself down because Ki Taeju’s face was anything but calm. Euncho bit her lips as she recognized the desperation in his demeanor, even in the dark. 

Ki Taeju was heading straight for her, but as soon as he saw her condition illuminated by the headlights, he froze. His eyes scanned her over and over again as they trembled. His inner emotions were cracking through the surface.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

Ki Taeju stopped approaching Euncho and turned around to walk towards Ki Cheonju.

“Kaaagh.”

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

Ki Cheonju let out a groan that sounded as if he were vomiting his guts out. It was because Ki Taeju had kicked him in the stomach. The scene that Euncho had only seen on the CCTV footage was replaying before her very eyes. This time, the headlights were so bright, and everything was illuminated and unable to hide, like the sun hanging in the middle of the sky.

Euncho stared at the scene with her heart stuck in her throat.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

It was a face that she had never seen on Ki Taeju before. The corners of his mouth that had always smiled at her were now distorted with fiery rage.

The side of his face was barely visible, but it was filled with a cruel bloodthirstiness that made Euncho shiver, making her unable to step forward and intervene. His behavior verged on madness and insanity.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

It made him seem like a complete stranger.

As if he wasn’t the Ki Taeju she knew.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

Even though she had already confirmed it through the hotel CCTV footage, it was more impactful seeing it in person. 

That’s why Euncho finally realized it now.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

Her excessive capacity to accept Ki Taeju that she herself could not understand.

It was simply because she had never witnessed it with her own eyes. She had never exposed her five senses to this cruelty, this thick tension that seemed to rip the air apart. She had only considered this kind of behavior to be like a passing cloud.

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

Ki Taeju was using his whole body to beat his brother. Then he fumbled around inside his breast pocket and pulled out something black. Bang! The sound that followed made it impossible for her to deny what it was.

Euncho immediately closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she looked down.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

Ki Cheonju’s corpse was hanging limply on the ground. However, Ki Taeju’s gun was still fixed on his brother’s body.

He was already… already dead. He was clearly gone…

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

The gun moved silently. There was a saying that claimed death always came without a sound. Euncho realized it was true when she saw the gun pointed to Ki Cheonju’s head. Firing it now would be like poking a beehive.

Euncho’s focus blurred, and she limped towards him.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

Bump.

Euncho leaned her head against his back and whispered.

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

“S-Stop.”

As she drew closer, she could smell blood on him. It could have been her own, but she couldn’t tell for sure.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

In fact, it wasn’t that important. Euncho closed her eyes tight and rubbed her forehead against his clothes, trying to block out the reality that would surely show up in her nightmares if she saw it up close.

“Stop. I’m scared… That’s enough. Stop it…”

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

Just like how Kang Seora wasn’t a factor when she watched the CCTV footage, Euncho didn’t care whether Ki Cheonju lived or died.

She just couldn’t stand to watch Ki Taeju turn into a hideous monster.

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

It made her tremble in fear more than anything else.

When she tapped her head against him, Ki Taeju didn’t show any reaction. After a while, he threw the gun aside and clicked his tongue. He nodded to the car.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

When he saw the men in black exit the car and approach Ki Cheonju’s slumped body, he looked back at Euncho. The headlights still illuminated every detail of Ki Taeju’s expression.

“…Look at the state of your face.”

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

He quietly drew closer and stroked her. His touch conveyed a mixture of anxiety, regret, and many other emotions all at once.

He took off his jacket and draped it over Euncho’s shoulders. The piercing chill finally went away. No, ever since she stuck to him, she felt like she had regained the body heat she had lost.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

The warmth, the heat, the fever I searched for.

My summer in the wintertime. 

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

Euncho finally let go of the last remaining strand of consciousness and plunged into darkness.

* * *

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

Her whole body felt heavy as if it were crushed by a boulder. 

Even after waking up, she couldn’t come to her senses for a while. She stared listlessly at the white ceiling, the thin curtains hanging from the pole, and the black night sky through the window below. After a long time passed, she finally realized she was in a hospital.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

Her eyes moved from the left to the right. Only then did she discover Ki Taeju.

How long had he been like that?

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

Ki Taeju sat in a chair a little far away and cast a tired gaze toward the bed. There was a strange expression on his face.

It was unfamiliar, but it wasn’t the first time she’d seen it.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

It was the same face she had glimpsed when she had awoken from a deep sleep at dawn back at the villa.

The air around them seemed to have been swallowed into an abyss. The unbearable darkness tore through the silence and made it difficult to speak.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

The pent-up emotions were a tangle of regret, anger, self-reproach, and everything else. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Ki Taeju seemed to be a manifestation of all these things.

“I shouldn’t have appeared in front of you again.”

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

He spoke after a long stretch of silence.

When she heard his heartbreaking words, Euncho felt a surge of tears well up in her eyes.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

“…Why? Why would you say that?”

“Are you seriously asking because you don’t know? Look at yourself right now.”

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

“What’s the problem? I’m fine.”

“You’re fine?”

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

Ki Taeju’s eyes grew cold as if he’d reached the freezing point. Creak. He got up from the iron chair and slowly walked towards the bed. Even though she knew that the murderous aura wasn’t her fault, she couldn’t help but flinch.

“How is this fine?”

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

She couldn’t shamelessly move her lips like before because of the way his eyes oppressively glared at her.

“Can you leave this hospital room without having someone help you?”

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

Just from hearing his question, she could guess that her condition wasn’t very good. She now discovered the cast that was wrapped around her ankle. She recalled the way Ki Cheonju’s foot had violently danced on top of her ankle like a horse that had lost its reins.

At first glance, it sounded like he was asking a question, but the nuance behind it was not a question at all. He was frustrated and distraught by the fact that something like this had happened to her.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

“It was an accident… Accidents happen all the time.”

“Accident? No.”

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

Ki Taeju laughed bitterly. It was a self-deprecating smile that gave the same feeling as if he were pointing a gun to his own temple.

“This wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t met me.”

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

Euncho licked her parched lips. She always thought of him as being hazy and mysterious, but today, everything seemed so clear and transparent.

Because she knew everything now. The reason why he kept dragging himself into ambiguous relationships with other women.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

“Is that why you did it?”

“……”

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

“The reason why you said you had no intention of ending things with Heejin-unnie. The reason why you came back and appeared in front of me with Kang Seora… It was all for that reason?”

She wasn’t asking because she was curious. She was already certain of the answer.

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

Until now, he had been endlessly affectionate with her, but he had given her painless wounds by having strange, ambiguous relationships with other women. But it was all to keep her safe.

Both Heejin and Kang Seora were puppets used to cover Ki Cheonju’s eyes.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

Ki Taeju didn’t answer. An excruciating pain surged from the silence. She felt as if her entire body had transformed into a heart, thumping, beating, intensely pounding from below.

“So?”

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

“……”

“So what are you going to do now?”

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

Euncho frantically stretched out her hand. Since he was standing near the bed, he automatically grabbed it. However, her heart was still beating furiously inside her chest. The feeling of anxiety and emptiness would not go away.

“Are you going to disappear from my sight again?”

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

This was the focal point.

The core of her anxiety.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

Just like that day seven years ago, she was afraid Ki Taeju would disappear again.

Euncho pulled his hand as if she were asking him to deny it. He affectionately allowed her to pull him closer. However, judging from the expression on his face, it was difficult for her to have the slightest hope. He looked defeated, firm and resolute in his decision.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

“I can’t guarantee something like this won’t happen again.”

“……”

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

“But you’re telling me to stay by your side despite that?”

His hand went up. It wrapped it around Euncho’s wrist as she held onto the hem of his clothes. He gently pulled her hand away. This act in and of itself bruised her heart.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

“Why don’t you just tell me to hang myself and die?”

His words…

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

It was a confession, but it was no different from a farewell. His words relayed the stress and fear that he felt. That’s why Euncho couldn’t breathe. However, she shook her head. Even if it suffocated her, she couldn’t let him go.

“No.”

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

“……”

“I’m telling you I don’t want to.”

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

This time, Euncho grabbed him with both hands. Through yearning alone, she managed to sit up. Because of the sudden movement, her eyes spun as she grew dizzy.

“Ki Taeju…!”

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

But now wasn’t the time to be worrying about her physical condition. If she wasn’t careful, she’d lose him. She moistened her lips. Tears burst out of her eyes without her realizing it as if they also wanted to hold onto him.

Because she was worked up and sobbing, she started to feel feverish and dizzy. As the dizziness grew worse, her breaths began to quicken.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

Ki Taeju didn’t seem to know what to do. He quickly grabbed Euncho’s shoulders as she gasped for breath.

He laid her down on the bed and pressed the button to call the nurse. After the nurse injected her with a sedative, Euncho’s body grew limp and sleepy, unable to overcome the drug’s effects as it coursed through her body.

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

Ki Taeju gazed at her pale, sweat-drenched face before lowering his eyes.

He stared at her small pale hand that still held onto his sleeve, afraid that he’d disappear when she wasn’t looking.

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

He drew closer to the bed and swept Euncho’s disheveled hair away from her forehead. He wiped the tears from her cheeks with the back of his hand before silently sitting back down in his chair.

Suddenly, a small laugh burst out of his mouth.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

He wasn’t even able to resist and shake off that small hand.

‘Try grabbing the head.’

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

The words that the old man said when he was still alive rang in his ears.

‘How much longer are you going to do the work of cleaning the bottom of this pit?’

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

It was a secret meeting held under the old man’s orders. The old man was basically his biological father. He said these words as he offered him a glass of liquor. The meaning behind his remark was obvious.

‘What, are you telling me to catch and devour my older brother?’

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

‘Cheonju, that punk. He’s good at business. He does everything well.’

‘……’

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

‘But his methods are too dangerous. Right now, it looks like he has wings on his back and is soaring high, but in the end, it’ll backfire on him.’

Ki Taeju merely sipped the liquor without saying a word.

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

He already knew.

This was a world where gangsters and thugs gained power solely through acts of violence within the shady dens in the dark. However, they had long since come out into the sun, disguised as businessmen, to gain greater profits and establish themselves as a corporation. Ki Taeju’s family was no different.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

The old man was your typical boss. Instead of rushing in taking all the spoils that was produced by destruction, the old man was obsessed with protecting what he had by building higher and stronger walls.

Because of this, he did not like the way his eldest son, Ki Cheonju, handled things.

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

This was especially true in light of recent events.

The viper-like Ki Cheonju began to get involved in the illegal drug trade in order to make more money.

Support us by visiting our official site at lilyonthevalley.com

‘He has been blinded by short-term profits and has begun a foolish endeavor. Heh. In the end, it will only come back to bite him. However, that punk is my son, so if he is creating enemies here, I can no longer sit by and watch.’

Ki Cheonju, the one who was obsessed with killing anything in front of him with his poison, had lost favor with their father. As the current managing director of the company, Ki Taeju was busy working under his older brother, the executive director. What the old man was demanding of him was clear.

Please visit lilyonthevalley.com to support the translator

‘You know when to stretch. You’ve always been this way since you were young. While Cheonju was consumed with selfishness and paranoia, devouring all those who were below him, you crouched down and managed to avoid the poison in your own way. Some may say it was an act of cowardice, but I do not think so. That was just your method. And to make our company prosper in the future, it will be through your method, not Cheonju’s. So I’m telling you to grab the head.’

The old man was a prolific womanizer, and as expected, he had many mistresses. He had countless children with these women, but that was all in the past. As the old man mentioned, Ki Cheonju had slit all of their throats.

Read the complete chapter at Lily on the Valley without random text

Father and older brother. He had a feeling that conflict was brewing between the two. In the end, the day had finally come.

Since the order came directly from the old man, he had no choice but to make his move.

Visit Lily on the Valley to read full chapter without gibberish

If he wasn’t careful, if Ki Cheonju’s venomous eyes caught on and attacked first, the entire company would become Ki Cheonju’s world and kingdom.

The thought of his hysterics, extreme business methods, and foolish paranoia getting worse gave him a headache.

For the best reading experience, visit lilyonthevalley.com

If that were to happen, his path would surely lead to the afterlife.