TMPW Ch 16 part 1

“Last night, during the HyunJin anniversary banquet at S hotel, a video file was released that has been making a huge impact in our country. The video was of Kang Yina, the daughter of KeumYoung, who passed away 13 years ago. This video was on every screen in the hotel. It was also released on the internet. Many viewers are still leaving comments on the post.”

“Yes. 28 years ago, RyuHwa Company and KeumYoung Investments merged to form the powerful investment company R&K. The only daughter of KeumYoung, Kang Yina, and the eldest son of RyuHwa, Min DaeYup were married in order to seal this merger. Although Kang Yina already had a family, her previous husband and her son suffered a fatal car crash. The video revealed that the crash was actually planned by the ex-President Min DaeYup and HyunJin’s President Seo JaeHyuk. As this video spread out to the public, our citizens are in complete and total shock.”

“This is truly a terrifying and sickening story. A premeditated murder and a contract marriage… It’s truly uncivilized and disgusting. How has R&K and HyunJin responded to this?”

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“R&K’s ex-president and HyunJin have both firmly protested and denied these allegations. However, other evidence that says otherwise is beginning to pop up all over the internet. It looks like these two presidents will have a hard time avoiding police questioning.”

“Haa, this story is so tragic that I can hardly believe my ears. But I heard the more pressing story actually involves President Seo JaeHyuk’s son, Directly Seo JoonHun, and Kang Yina-ssi’s daughter, Min Yuan-ssi.”

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“Yes, if we look at their parents, they were supposed to be mutual enemies. However, last April, they celebrated their 2nd anniversary. Will this couple be able to stay married after all this? Many of us are curious about the story behind how they even got married in the first place…”

“Damn it.”

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Eri moved the mouse and turned off the live stream. The room plunged into silence. The sunlight poured over the humming computer. She could hear the children running on the streets outside. To anyone else, this day was an ordinary day like any other. To someone else, her world had completely collapsed.

After Eri closed the browser window, three laughing faces were looking back at her. The photo was of high-schoolers Yuan and Eri, and even TaeKyung was by their side. The picture was taken 10 years ago. Eri saw her own brightly smiling face, Yuan’s slight smile, and TaeKyung’s blank expression on the monitor.

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After staring at the picture for a bit, Eri quickly moved the mouse and began searching for the button to delete the photo. However, the cursor remained on the ‘delete’ button for a while. She had nurtured an unrequited love for one man for so long. She had been disappointed and angry with him before, but she had never hated him.

Eri calmly looked at the man’s face in the picture before clicking the ‘delete’ button. Maybe she should have gotten rid of these feelings a long time ago. Because she wanted to see him, she had chased him all the way back to Korea. And yet these memories were being erased like this.

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Ding-dong. The doorbell suddenly rang.

Surprised, Eri turned her head and looked at the front door. Then she turned back and looked at the small room behind her. The door had remained closed all this time. Yuan had not left the room at all. 3 days had passed since the scandal. Yuan wasn’t eating, drinking, talking, or crying.

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Did Yuan’s husband come for her? Eri quickly ran over to the door and looked through the peep hole. Surprisingly, the man outside wasn’t JoonHun. It was Lee TaeKyung.

– Open up, Eri. I know Yuan’s here.

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Eri looked at him for a while before straightening up. Yeah, she knew he’d show up here eventually. Yuan didn’t have anywhere else to go but here. As soon the door opened with a creak, she saw a restless TaeKyung standing there.

“How’s Yuan?”

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“How do you think she is?”

“Move. I’ll try talking to her.”

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“Where do you think you’re going?”

Eri’s cold voice made TaeKyung stop in his tracks.

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Her expression was so different from usual. Whenever he scolded her, she would pout as she put on a pitiful expression. However, she quickly smiled brightly whenever she looked at him. He didn’t see any of that now. It was almost as if he was meeting a stranger for the first time. Her voice sounded awkward and cold.

“Eri, now isn’t the time to…”

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“What is this the time for, then?”

“Eri!”

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“What are you going to do now? Haven’t you gotten everything you wanted already, Oppa? Stop tormenting Yuan.”

“What?”

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TaeKyung glared at Eri with cold eyes.

“Torment? How am I tormenting her? Is it normal for her to be acting like that? Is it normal for her to be lying down like that just because she broke up with that bastard Seo JoonHun?!”

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“Of course it’s normal! Then what is normal to you? She wasn’t able to be with the man she loved… She even hurt him, so how can she act as if nothing’s wrong?”

“Eri!”

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“Oppa! Please, wake up! You and even your dead mother are not normal! Because of your precious revenge, you’ve broken Yuan down to this state. What more are you planning to do? She’s already completely collapsed, so how are you going to fix this?! Oppa, do you think this makes any sense? In order to fulfill her revenge, she locked her daughter in the closet and made her watch something like that! Does that seem normal to you? In order to fulfill your revenge, you destroyed her love and threw it away. So what have you gained from all this? What have you and your dead mother gained from this?!”

“What did you say? What do you know? What do you know anyway? You don’t know the suffering my mother went through… You don’t know how I grew up. How do you know any of it?!”

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“Yeah! I don’t know! How would I know someone else’s suffering? But I know one thing! You and your mother… in order to soothe your hatred, you’ve sacrificed Yuan to get what you wanted!”

“What did you say?”

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Slap! Eri’s head jerked to the side. Both of them were shocked. TaeKyung who had slapped her cheek, and Eri who had been hit. Both were so surprised that they couldn’t speak. Eri’s eyes reddened as she glared at him.

“Ah… Eri… I’m sorry…”

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TaeKyung tried to approach her, but she slapped his hand away as she scowled at him.

“Just what is the difference between you and President Min?”

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“What?”

“You both destroyed another person in order to get what you wanted. What’s the difference between you and President Min?”

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“What did you say?”

TaeKyung paled as he glared at her, but he couldn’t think of what to say. Everything had been done for his mother’s sake. Everything had been done for revenge. However, had Yuan truly wanted that as well?

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“She didn’t tell you not to get revenge! It’s not like she wouldn’t have helped you. But you shouldn’t have taken it that far! There should have been other ways to do it! Did you have to reveal all this to the whole world?”

TaeKyung merely stared at Eri silently.

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“Do you know why Hammurabi’s code says, ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’? You see, humans… they will go further than just an eye in the name of revenge! It’s because they always want more. Just plucking an eye or breaking a tooth isn’t enough. They need to rip limbs and end lives in order to be satisfied. Why didn’t you protect Yuan? Why don’t you know your only sister’s heart? Aren’t you her older brother? You’re her only family!”

Her tears began to flow. But she couldn’t hold back any longer.

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“Do you know love, Oppa? Do you know what true love is? Do you think love lets you do whatever you want? Do you think Yuan fell in love with that person because she wanted to?! She fell in love with the son of the enemy who hurt her mother. How do you think she felt? Do you think she was comfortable? Do you think she liked it? Why can’t you understand that?!”

TaeKyung’s face hardened. He stood still as he stared at Eri. He had believed that he was in the right all this time. He believed that this was the only way to make things right. But he finally realized that he head treated Yuan so cruelly in all this.

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“I don’t know what’s going through your head, but Yuan really likes her husband. That man loves her too. But now what are they supposed to do? How can that man face Yuan now? After all that’s happened between their parents, how can they even look at each other?”

Her tears didn’t stop, and they began to flow down her cheeks.

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“Eri…”

“Enough already. Please, that’s enough. Are you planning on completely burning HyunJin to the ground? 40,000 people work for that company. If you include their families, that’s 200,000 people. Everyone knows how you feel, and everyone knows about your mother’s suffering. That’s enough. So stop here. And leave Yuan alone. Right now, she’s…”

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Eri tried to hold back her tears, but she couldn’t.

“She’s in so much pain that she might die…”

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TaeKyung remained silent.

Thud. The door closed. TaeKyung blankly stood outside. He clenched his fist so tight that he felt as if they’d bleed.

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Yuan was hurting. She was hurting so much that she might die.

“Oppa… Can’t… I be happy?”

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He recalled his sister saying those words.

“I’ve never felt happy since the moment I was born. I feel like my whole life is just one big tragedy. As if I was born just to be punished. I’ve lived each day feeling that way. Every single day was painful. Can’t I just live the way I want to live from now on? Can’t I just have the things I want? I love that man.”

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She told him, her eyes filled with tears. Why did those words sound so hateful back then? Why did he feel so betrayed?

It was because he was the same as Yuan. From the moment he was born up till now, TaeKyung had never tasted happiness. Everyday, in his heart, his father died and his mother was raped. They lived in suffering together. However, Yuan was now telling him that she wanted to be happy on her own.

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He absolutely hated it. He could never forgive her for it.

So he wanted to destroy that happiness.

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Using revenge as an excuse, he wanted to shatter Yuan’s happiness.

Aaah, how wicked was he? How disgusting was he? Eri was right. Because of this hatred, he had become a twisted man.

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TaeKyung crouched down and wept. His body shook with grief, and pain pressed down on him. As he tried to suppress his sobs, Eri was leaning on the other side of the door. Inside the small room, Yuan was also crying as she crouched down next to the window right above the front door. She had heard everything.

When would this punishing suffering disappear? When would they escape this immense hatred and truly be free? No one knew.

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The next morning, they received news of President Seo JaeHyuk’s suicide.

“What?”

Yuan sat up and asked again. The room was spinning before her eyes. Shocked, Eri approached her and hugged her.

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“Yuan, calm down.”

“What are they talking about? Suicide?”

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“I was surprised to hear it too. This morning, in his home…”

She couldn’t finish her sentence and tell her that he had hanged himself. Yuan didn’t move. She remained still as if she hadn’t heard anything. Suddenly, she stood up.

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“I need to go.”

She needed to see JoonHun.

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“Yuan!”

“I need to…”

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However, she hadn’t eaten these past few days. She crumpled to the floor. Unaware that her knees had taken a bad hit, Yuan stood back up and struggled to walk.

She needed to leave. Suicide… She knew what it felt like when a parent committed suicide. She wanted to see JoonHun right away.

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“Yuan!”

But even if she went… What would she say?

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Yuan suddenly stopped. She felt a chill spread through her body. She clearly recalled everyone’s faces as they looked at her at the party. The astonishment and shock! Her stinging cheek where Yoon HeeSoo had slapped her. She remembered it all vividly.

She had basically ended Seo JaeHyuk’s life. She had basically killed him. How could she offer up her condolences to that family? How ridiculous would it be?

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“Hmm, hmm…”

A sound left Yuans lips. Was she laughing or crying?

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“Ha…Haha…”

She crouched down and burst out laughing.

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Mom, look at this. In the end, everything went your way. Take that man’s soul and drag it to hell.

“Yuan.”

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Eri worriedly grabbed Yuan by her shoulders and shook. Yuan’s whole body began to tremble. She couldn’t stop the tremors. A wail crawled up her throat and burst out with her laughter. Shocked, Eri cried as she hugged her. However, it wouldn’t stop.

How much had she cried? How much had she struggled? Yuan finally passed out. Scared, Eri called an ambulance. The red and blue lights blinked one after the other. The loud siren seemed to shake Yuan’s head. Everything was shaking. And finally, everything came crashing down.

Yuan’s body was being swallowed up into the dark abyss. In the darkness, she saw her mother. Her mother stayed still and simply stared at her. She also saw President Min. And President Seo.

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Like empty shells without souls, they began to sway and floated away into the air. Like a jellyfish in the sea, they began to slowly float away.

Then she saw JoonHun. How he had looked when her mother’s video was being played. He was staring at her. Finally, he began to walk towards her. But he passed by her and got further away.

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JoonHun-ssi.

Yuan called out to him.

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Joon-Hun-ssi, wait!

She needed to tell him… She wanted to tell him that she tried to cover up the truth… That she hadn’t wanted him to suffer like this… She needed to tell him that she had wanted to give up on this revenge plan. That she wanted to stay by his side…

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He got further away. He kept drifting away from her.

JoonHun-ssi…

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Yuan screamed out his name.