Doppio Senso

Chapter 0.1

He couldn’t take his eyes off her from the very beginning. The woman was
wearing a backless black dress that just barely managed to hide her bottom.
Thanks to him, she had exercised to cultivate her captivating curves. Now she
was finally revealing them to him. Below her dress, her curved hips and long
legs were enough to draw the attention of every man at the party.

[May I ask you how long you’ll be in Hong Kong?]

As she pushed her glossy black hair back behind her ears, the woman raised
her champagne flute and wet her lips. Her full lips stained in a deep red lipstick
finally opened.

[I plan on staying for at least two months. I want to relax as much as I can
before I start working. Even though it’s a blessing to be able to have a job right
out of graduation, I won’t be able to take a vacation like this once I begin.]

Her scarlet tongue slipped out and licked the remaining liquor off her lips. The
0.5 carat diamond earrings on her ears sparkled as they reflected the lights in
the terrace. However, these glittering jewels didn’t enter his eyes. The man was
unable to take his eyes off of her tempting tongue.

[Then are you heading back to the United States after your two months are
over?]

This woman had said that her father was Chinese and her mother was Korean.
She also told him that she had gone to school in the States. When it came to
beauty, nationality didn’t matter. She had the beauty to turn the heads of every
man in any country.

[No, the office is located in London. My professor from my graduate university

sent them a well-written recommendation letter.]

The man swallowed, his mouth dry.

[I go to London often. What a happy coincidence.]

The woman’s big, innocent eyes looked at him questioningly. The man quickly
explained.

[I own a gallery. It opened last year, so not a lot of people know about it.]

[How nice. If I ever pass by your gallery, I’ll be happy to see you.]

She added that she didn’t have any acquaintances in London as of yet, so it’d
be nice to see a familiar face. She wrinkled her nose as she laughed
affectionately. The man felt his cock stiffen and barely managed to keep his
cool as he replied.

[Excuse me for being so forward, but I hope to tell you all about London during
your stay in Hong Kong.]

The woman looked at him with her large eyes and blinked. The man wondered
if he was being too obvious. However, the woman gave him a slight smile.

[It would be to my good fortune if you did.]

As the saying goes, a player recognizes a player. When the man saw the
woman’s meaningful look, his heart skipped a beat and he felt heat rush
throughout his body. He felt parched as he began to anticipate this woman’s
body. Knowing that he’d be able to spend the night with her if he succeeded, he
began to speak.

[Wouldn’t I be the lucky one?]

The man spoke faster with anticipation.

[You are so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off you from the moment you
entered this room. There’s no doubt that all the men here are envious of my
position right now.]

[Haha.]

The woman’s clear voice as she laughed softly stimulated his primitive instincts.
Her long, slender neck reminded him of a deer’s. He wanted to dig his teeth into
it and make his mark on her.

[I know you may think that I’m just saying this, but… Honestly, it’s a good feeling.
Am I being too superficial?]
Her eyes looked like black crystals as they sparkled. For a man whose hair was
slicked back, the words that left his mouth were quite unexpected.

[You’re the brightest thing in this room. I often handle jewels, so I should know.”

[…A diamond will always shine brighter for those that know how to appraise it.]

She lowered her head slightly and looked at him. She was exuding sexiness and
grace. Even though she said she graduated from school in the States, her
Cantonese was incredibly proficient, probably stemming from her Chinese
heritage. Her eyes were also very captivating. Additionally, she closed her eyes
whenever she laughed, giving off a childlike impression. This gap between her
innocence and sensuality whet his sexual appetite even more. He wanted to
see her shake her hips like a temptress in bed no matter what.

[It seems that the bartender is a bit busy right now. Why don’t I go and get us
another round of drinks. We’ll both have the same.]

In order to calm his arousal, the man took the champagne flute from the
woman’s hand and raised it.

[May I order a cocktail this time?]

[Of course. Just tell me what you’d like and I’ll bring it to you.]

[Ah, if that’s the case then…]

Her long hair fluttered in the wind and her charming fragrance tickled his nose.
She took a step towards him and gazed at him before clearly whispering…

[I’d like an ‘Orgasm’, please.]

Gulp. The man swallowed. The look in her coffee-colored eyes as she
whispered her order let him know that she wasn’t talking about a cocktail. She
was obviously seducing him.

[My home is only two blocks away from here…]

The woman smiled and tilted her head as if she didn’t know what he meant. If
she was was trying to raise her self-worth by acting innocent, he would play
along.
[My personal bar is quite adequate. Why don’t I make you that cocktail at my
house?]

Seeing the desire in eyes, a smile stretched across her red lips as she let out a
bewitching laugh.

[I think that’s a great idea.]

[Haa…]

As the man entered the limousine, he began to slowly approach her. She licked
her lip as if she was thirsty before frantically kissing him as if she couldn’t take
it any longer.

Even though the separator was up, seeing as how the driver didn’t make a
peep, EunHa realized that she was one of many women that this man had taken
to his home. As the man sucked her tongue, their teeth almost knocked
together in his haste. EunHa was becoming annoyed.

[Hmmm…]

As she let out an enchanting moan, she gripped his shirt. As she slightly pulled
back, she could see that his face was covered in her lipstick. EunHa held back
her laughter and furrowed her brow.

[It… It seems that I’ve had too much to drink tonight. I don’t think I should drink
anymore.]

[We’ll arrive at my house if you wait a little longer. Why don’t you relax for a bit
there?]

His lustful eyes blinked right in front of her. This man was Hong Kong’s most
famous jeweler. Knowing that tons of priceless paintings were kept hidden in
this man’s basement, how could she relax in his house? She had studied the
blueprint to his enormous house for half a month to prepare for this day. She
was now only two blocks away from entering his home.

[I’m sorry for the inconvenience.]

She placed her head on his chest as if she was feeling dizzy. The man’s lips
approached her own as if he had been waiting for this. His excited hands began
to rub her shoulders before slowly lowering to her chest as he began to caress
her breast. She just let him be.

She needed to completely arouse this man. She needed to distract him. Once
they reached his home, she wanted the time they spent in bed to be as short as
possible.

Weewoo, weewoo.

When the man heard the noisy sound of sirens, he stopped moving. They could
see the flashing red lights through the tinted windows of the white limousine.

[What happened?]

[It seems that a small accident has occurred.]

The driver replied. The man began to laugh as if the reassure EunHa.

[It doesn’t look like it’s a big accident. If you’re here with me, you’ll be safe.]

[Alright.]

EunHa put on a relieved expression as she gazed at this man full of bravado.
She wanted to reach his house as soon as possible, but this unexpected
accident was putting her off schedule. It would be troublesome if this shattered
his haze of arousal. She pretended to unintentionally place her delicate,
manicured hand on his thigh. Suddenly…

Vrrrr.

The moment she put a charming smile on her face, her cellphone in her clutch
began to vibrate. EunHa’s perfectly groomed eyebrows twitched. Only one
person would be calling her cellphone right now. This was because only a
limited number of people knew this number.

She almost never had a reason to answer her phone while she was working,
but now that her phone had rang, she couldn’t ignore it. EunHa did her best to
hide her displeasure and took her hand off her target.

[Please excuse me. My parents are quite strict, so they’ll worry if I don’t answer
their call.]
[No worries. Please answer the call.]

The man seemed to be feel frustrated with his bowtie and undid a button on his
shirt. Seeing him barely hold himself back from taking her, she felt a little
better.

[Then…]

She took out the noisily vibrating phone and put it up to her ear. She didn’t
forget to stick a bit closer to the man as she answered the call.

[Hello?]

– Withdraw right now.

Hearing the unexpected order, EunHa’s face hardened. She turned her gaze to
the window as she pressed the phone to her ear. She answered in a calm voice.

“I think the party is going to go on for a little longer.”

The ex-girlfriend of the man sitting next to her had been a Korean model. When
they had been dating, he poured out his money for her. However, after they
broke up, there were rumors going around that he had demanded for his
money back and even hired a lawyer.

EunHa wanted to ask, ‘Just what kind of bullshit are you spewing?’ However,
just in case this man understood Korean, she held it back and kept her cover.

– Hail a cab and go straight to the airport. Once you’re there, someone will be
waiting for you. Your flight is in two and a half hours, so hurry up.

EunHa bit the inside of her cheek. She wanted to scream out in anger, but she
suppressed the urge and clenched her teeth.

“What do you mean? Father has suddenly become ill?”

– I’m telling you to stop what you’re doing and get out of there. Do you not
understand?

She couldn’t accept the sudden change in plans. Additionally, the plan was even
going as planned, so how could she quit now? EunHa’s voice was laced with
unrepressed rage.
“Why are you suddenly being like this?”

– It’s Boss’s orders.

It was a short answer, but enough. She let out an angry curse. She felt the man
next to her flinch. She wasn’t sure about anything else, but he certainly
understood that curse word. EunHa closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
She managed to end the call after saying a few more pleasantries.

[I’m so sorry, but I think I need to head back.]

[What do you mean?]

The man looked at her in disbelief. EunHa understood how he felt. But the
person who felt the most frustrated right now was her. She had to let go of her
prey.

[My parents said that something urgent has come up. I see you another time.]

As she indifferently muttered her excuse, she reached for the door handle.
However, he quickly grabbed her wrist.

[It’s a shame for you to just leave like this.]

There was a savage gleam in his eyes. He had been irked by her tone of voice
as she spoke to him.

[You don’t know it, but I’m extremely upset right now as well.]

If she wanted to catch that flight in two and a half hours, she needed to catch a
taxi right this instant… and even then she might not make it. She snatched her
hand out of his grasp. His anger began to show on his face.

[Are you joking?]

[I wish this was a joke, mister.]

[Just a minute ago, you were seducing me like a hooker. Now just where do you
think you’re going?]

Throwing away his gentleman’s facade, the man began to breathe heavily.
[Just drive.]

He ordered the driver. The driver hesitated before taking his foot of the brake.
He then began turning the steering wheel as they headed into an alleyway. The
car steadily began to move.

“Hey. You’re gonna regret this.”

[What?]

“You put something in my drink back there, didn’t you? Even if you can’t be a
gentleman, you shouldn’t be a thug.”

EunHa looked at him as she spoke in Korean. The man grabbed her long hair.

[What are you mumbling about? Come here right now…!]

Her doll-like face twisted into an ugly expression.

“I guess this bastard doesn’t understand. Now I think I know why you were
dumped.”

EunHa grabbed her clutch and pulled out her lipstick bullet. She pressed one
end of it, and a needle popped out. The man was slobbering all over her neck
as he nibbled it. EunHa quickly stabbed the needle into his back.

[Ugh…!]

As she injected the contents of the syringe into him, the man raised his hand
and groaned. It took a bit of time for the sedative to take effect, so the man
was still alert.

[You crazy… Ugh!]

The man slammed EunHa down onto the seats and began to pull himself down
on top of her. EunHa quickly stabbed his groin with the heel of her stilettos.
Suffering incredible pain, the man forgot how to breathe. EunHa clicked her
tongue.

“You should have let me go nicely. Why’d you have to go and act so indecently?”
[Are you alright, sir?]

After hearing the struggle in the back, the driver stopped the car and looked
back. At the same time, a studded clutch flew into his face.

“He’s probably not alright.”

[Uugh!]

The driver grabbed his nose and groaned. Shocked, he took his foot off the
brake pedal, and the car began to slowly move again. EunHa didn’t hesitate and
opened the car door. She got out and rolled onto the ground.

[Stop the car!]

The man inside the car yelled out through the open door, creating a scene.
EunHa got up from the ground and thought for a second. Then she took off her
stiletto and raised it above her head. Either way, she wouldn’t be able to run
properly in heels like these. She pulled her arm back and threw it. The stiletto
flew through the air and hit the man square in the cheek.

[Hey, stop right there!]

The man got out of the car, but his legs gave out underneath him. he stumbled
onto the ground. The driver got out and was just about to run after EunHa
when he stopped to help his employer.

[I’m fine. Go catch that bitch…!]

As an uproar began to rise in front of the limousine, a police overseeing the

minor crash caused by a drunk driver turned his head and looked over.

[What’s going on here?]

They weren’t happy to see a policeman in this situation. Thankfully, the major
road was currently jammed. EunHa threw her other stiletto away and began to
run barefoot for the major road.

The mermaid-dress wrapped around her legs, making it hard to run. She
stretched out her hand and ripped the slit up further until it reached her thighs.
She was finally able to run comfortably.
“Haa… Haa…!”

Whistle.

A few foreigners standing in line in front of a club whistled at her as they saw
her running past them with her hair flying behind her.

[Where are you going? Let’s have some fun together, baby!]

“Baby? Go fuck yourselves, you bastards!”

She slapped their hands away as they reached for her. She ran around the
corner and came across a juice cafe that had closed due to the late time. She
ran to the building next to it and opened the door. Thankfully, these doors
weren’t locked because of the 24-hour convenience store inside.

She passed a second-hand luxury-brand shop and exited to the alleyway on

her right. She saw a bar that a lot of the Hong Kong businessmen frequented.
There were usually a lot of cabs on standby in areas where the graceful
hostesses sold their bodies. Worried that a cop was following her, she felt the
need to escape before things became even more troublesome. EunHa ran, her
lungs feeling as if they’d burst with exertion.

“Aaah, fuck… Seriously…!”

Was this her punishment for eating a pile of hamburgers for lunch today? She
pointlessly thought as she ran with all her might. She finally saw the blinking
pink sign. She saw a man in a suit and a barely-clothed woman get ready to
enter the taxi. But EunHa didn’t have time to wait for another cab.

[Wait! Oppa! Unnie!]

The couple was about to take the taxi to a hotel. However, EunHa pushed them
away and got into the taxi before slamming the door shut. The couple looked
shocked at having their taxi taken away.

[The airport. Immediately. Keep the change.]

Confused, the taxi driver watched as she took out a wad of bills. He quickly
shifted gears and began to drive.

[What do you think you’re doing?!]

Vrooom.

EunHa lowered the window and looked back at the angrily shouting man. She
gestured to the man with her hand.

[I’m sorry. But ahjussi, your zipper’s open. Wow, you’ve got quite a package.]

[Wh-what?]

[If you’re going to date the pretty unnie next to you, you’re gonna need one
anyway. You pass!]

EunHa’s eyes crinkled as she smiled and she gave him a thumbs up. The man
quickly began to zip up his pants as his neck reddened. EunHa’s ebony hair flew
in the wind. The woman next to him blinked in confusion.

The blue taxi drove through the narrow street as it finally exited the alleyway.
EunHa let out a sigh and leaned back against the headrest. The red-light
district of Lan Kwai Fong was getting further and further away.

Chapter 0.2

Seven hours later.

Incheon, South Korea.

“Shin KyungHyun. Thirty-five. Officially, he’s the executive director of KeumOh

Corporation. He’s only been active for 8 years, but he’s a demon that has
managed to climb up to the top in one swoop.”

The office was filled with the gray smoke of cigarettes. The furniture and
everyone’s clothes were all different shades of black, white or gray. The
windows were closed, making the room seem even more gloomy. The only pop
of color was the bright red heels that were slightly shaking above the ground.

“And I’m sure KeumOh knows where YongSung is getting its money from…”

A man placed a photograph before the people in the room and continued to
explain as he tapped his pen.
“And you know that these investment companies are merely fronts for money
laundering, right?”

“So what are you trying to say?”

The woman in the red heels was EunHa. She sucked a thin cigarette from
between her fingers and breathed out a puff of smoke as she spoke. As she
re-folded her legs, the man’s lewd eyes were drawn to the place between her
thighs.

“Seriously… you fucking bitch, you’re too impatient.”

Half of the man’s head was shaved. He swept his fingers through his remaining
hair a couple times. Her lips were bright red like her heels. They opened as she
slowly spoke in a soft but clear voice.

“You’re explaining something that even all the kids know these days. It’s so
boring. You’re quite stupid, so I understand that you need people to explain
everything to you from one to ten, but not me. Just tell me why you called me
all the way over here in the middle of the night, you idiot.”

“Why you fucking bitch…!”

The man’s face became red. He shot up from his seat and stretched out his
hand to grab her hair, but EunHa was one step ahead. She threw the crystal
ashtray at his shaved head. The ashtray shattered.

“You crazy bitch!”

With blood flowing down his forehead, the man eyes fluttered as he lunged for
her. Suddenly, the man quietly sitting in the back opened his mouth.

“Stop fooling around.”

“…Sorry, Boss.”

The man panted as he bowed his head. He was still glaring at EunHa, his eyes
full of rage. EunHa tapped her cigarette, letting the ash fall on the ashtray
shards scattered all over the floor. Then she slowly lowered her foot onto the
floor and crushed the shards underneath her heels.

Crunch.
They heard the sound of a drawer opening. The man called ‘Boss’ began to
slowly walk towards them. The clean, black leather shoes stopped in front of
the red heels.

“Lee EunHa.”

She could feel cold metal underneath her chin. The man lifted her face up with
a sharp blade of a knife. His sunken eyes stared at her as he commanded her.

“Get up.”

EunHa looked up at him with her large eyes. She slowly got up from her seat.

“Do you not want to work?”

The man’s thin voice sounded nasty. He had a deep scar right above one of his
eyebrows that was obviously a cut from a knife. It seemed to warn everyone
around him of his dangerous past. As she gazed at his scar, Eunha parted her
lips.

“When did I ever say that?”

The man smiled crookedly at her soft, clear voice.

“Your behavior is telling me that you don’t want to work. Stop acting out and
just tell me if you don’t want to do it. Be honest with me. Here at Serim, there
are always people I can send out instead of you. Alright?”

He lowered the blade and tapped her chin with the handle of the knife. If EunHa
moved an inch, the blade would scratch her throat. The ends of EunHa’s red lips
lifted up and trembled slightly. She did her best to hide her shaking eyes and
swallowed, but her mouth was dry.

“I was just irritated because that bastard YongPal seemed to be more

interested in the color of my panties than important work. I just needed to vent
a little.”

“What bullshit is that fucking bitch saying now…?”

YongJoon didn’t dare yell out at her response and merely ground his teeth. The
man still had the blade directed at EunHa’s throat as he clicked his tongue.
“…If you go around wearing clothes like this, it’s obvious that men are going to
be drooling all over you.”

Riiiip.

He lowered the knife to her abdomen. It dug into the cloth of the dress and
glided up. The dress tore up to her neckline. Because this was a backless dress,
there was no support. The silk dress fluttered down and hung on her hips. Not
having worn a bra, her creamy breasts were out in the open air.

The eyes of all the suited men along the walls immediately focused on her. She
could almost hear all of their eyes rolling in their heads as they turned to look
at her.

“It’s not like anything will change just because they get a glimpse of you, right?”

A smile stretched across EunHa’s red lips. She didn’t even think to cover up. She
merely blinked her eyes at SungHo, the boss of Serim.

“Everything you said is correct, Ahjussi. But even if that’s the case, one should
always focus when we’re talking about work. I mean, I’d open up my legs for
anyone that wants it, but…”

Her soft voice rang inside this room full of tough, burly men.

“All these bastards are only thinking with their dicks, so I just thought that they
were being a bit pathetic.”

The knife was roaming around her nipple as if it was going to cut it off. At her
words, it suddenly stopped. The man looked up at her and let out a rough
laugh.

“Our princess is very angry.”

“Should I take off my panties? I’ll do anything to pay for YongPal’s cracked
head.”

YongJoon muttered a curse as he wiped his bloody forehead with some tissue.

“That fucking bitch is seriously…Aaagh!”

The knife suddenly moved, and YongJoon clutched his arm. A long wound had
formed on his arm, and the blood began to drip down. If he hadn’t reflexively
lifted his arm and covered it, his arm wouldn’t have been the only thing that
was cut. His face would have been ripped as well.

“You should watch your language when speaking to a colleague. You shouldn’t
curse like that.”

SungHo waved the knife around as he clicked his tongue.

“I…I’m sorry… Boss.”

The bloody knife was waving around above EunHa’s dress. EunHa didn’t blink as
she stood there, the dress hanging around her hips. Thankfully, the dress
wasn’t white. Wearing a blood-stained dress wouldn’t be a good look.

The bloody knife flew through the air and struck a wooden table. EunHa gazed
at the trembling handle of the knife as it vibrated in the thick wood. The man
walked up behind her and lowered his head.

“The man we just talked about, Shin KyungHyun… Your job is to kill him.”

He whispered quietly into her ear. His lewd voice made her shudder. She felt his
wet tongue lick the nape of her neck. EunHa closed her eyes.

“What do you think?”

“…Sounds good.”

Her hoarse voice slowly left her lips. Unlike her words, her body began to
shudder. The fine hairs on her neck stood up. He licked her once again before a
twisted smile formed on his thin lips. Then he placed his large hands on her
naked breast and squeezed painfully.

“Ugh!”

“The man you’re to kill is quite sharp, so you shouldn’t act like a whore in front
of him.”

His grip was so strong that her breast looked like it was going to burst through
his fingers. Her slender body began to sway. EunHa grit her teeth and chuckled.
“…Just who is this guy that makes you worried enough to warn me? I’m getting
curious and excited.”

“He’s a slippery fellow. So don’t disappoint me.”

“How much time do I have?”

“Three months.”

As he continued to grope her breasts, he whispered into her ear. EunHa

frowned.

“Let’s go to my room. I’ll give you more details there.”

As he spoke, one of the suited men quickly opened a door. The room inside was
a large bedroom. SungHo lifted the hem of her dress and put his hand inside
her panties as he shoved EunHa inside.

“Everyone leave.”

As all the men left, with the bleeding YongJoon leaving last, the door firmly shut
closed. The man pushed her onto the bed before lighting a cigarette. His hands
were impatient as he lit the lighter. EunHa sat on the bed as she glanced at him.

“You look like you’re curious as to why I’m giving you three months to kill a
person.”

The man took a puff of the cigarette as he read her mind.

“I’m sure it’s because the target is difficult.”

“…You’re right. He’s incredibly difficult.”

The man had a strange expression on his face as his lips twisted. EunHa settled
her racing heart and asked a question in an indifferent voice.

“All I have to do is kill him, right?”

“YongSung is currently developing a project overseas. It’s something medical-

related. Once the clinical trial is done, they will release it to the public. I’m sure
their stock prices will soar. And the one who is directing the entrance of this
product into Korean channels is Shin KyungHyun. It’s only natural since he’s the
one who invested all that money in the research.”

“And you want to intercept that.”

“I like that you always catch on quick, Princess.”

The man’s white beard shook as he snickered.

“If I only needed to kill him, I wouldn’t have had to call you in so quickly.”

A peculiar smile stretched across EunHa’s lips as she stared at him.

“I thought it was because you missed me so much, Ahjussi.”

Even though they both knew her words weren’t sincere, the man’s eyes were
filled with lust as he looked at her. The scar above his eyebrow looked even
more menacing.

“You don’t need to butter me up.”

“Even if they’re just words, they feel good. You’re the one who told me that a
woman should be able to lie well to a man.”

The man bit his lips hard at EunHa’s words. As he gazed at EunHa, who wasn’t
trying to cover up her naked chest, he plopped down onto the large sofa next
to the bed.

“You’re right.”

He unbuckled his belt. Once his half-aroused cock was revealed, he gestured to
her.

“You just need to do what you do best.”

EunHa got off the bed and walked over to his side.

As she got closer, step by step, she didn’t show any hesitation. Her beautiful
eyes gazed at his cock as it hardened even more the closer she got.
“Seduce Shin KyungHyun and make him crazy about you. I’d like it if he just tells
you what I want to know with his own mouth, but if you can’t do that, just make
him look away for a little bit while I do the rest.”

EunHa knelt on the floor. Her unblemished skin and her slightly slanted eyes
drew him to her. Her breaths were quiet as she breathed through her tall nose.
Her red lips opened slightly as if to tempt him.

“I’ll do whatever you want, Ahjussi.”

Everyone around her knew that every word that came out of her mouth was a
lie. EunHa’s job was to tempt men with her beautiful body and make them
reveal whatever she wanted to know. Just from blinking her eyes, she could
charm any man. However, when one looked closely, they would be able to see
that there was no warmth there.

Nevertheless, hot blood rushed to the men’s faces anyway. In this moment, she
would tell them the words they wanted to hear, and they couldn’t ignore her
beauty. Her exposed chest would boil the blood of any man. She could draw out
their lust so easily.

“Because that’s what I need to do.”

“Take it all off and kneel.”

Her ruined dress slipped to the floor. As she completely revealed her perfect
body, the man’s eyes sparkled. SungHo gripped his cock and began to pleasure
himself. EunHa knelt next in front of him and sat down. As she watched his cock
move rapidly inside his hand, in her head, she was thinking about the man she
was going to meet, Shin KyungHyun. How long would it take for her to get him to
take his pants off?

She felt that they’d have sex within a week of their first meeting. SungHo usually
didn’t touch her. However, he couldn’t control his thirst whenever they had a
big job to do. Whether it was lust or bloodthirstiness, it usually manifested itself
in a twisted way. His behavior right now was proof that Shin KyungHyun was a
big deal. However, no matter how difficult he was, she was still a pro.

Also, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her. When YongJoon

mentioned YongSung, she couldn’t hide her restlessness. That’s why she
cracked YongJoon’s head.
She had been afraid that SungHo would pick someone else to finish this job
instead. He had never used her for a job within the country until now. And this
was also the first time he had ordered her to kill someone.

Shin KyungHyun.

She felt so thankful to a man she had never met. She would kill Shin KyungHyun
and put SungHo at ease. And then she’d plunge a sword into that old fart’s
heart. If she had to kill Shin KyungHyun to get there, she’d do it.

“Ah, ugh!”

SungHo’s body trembled as he let out a short groan. EunHa saw his spurting
semen and closed her eyes. The dirty evidence of his lust sprayed over
EunHa’s face and hair.

“It has a strong smell. I like it.”

EunHa’s half-lidded eyes watched him. SungHo’s eyebrow twitched.

“You rag bitch.”

“If you don’t have a rag, who will clean up the mess?”

With her face covered in semen, EunHa laughed. SungHo mistakenly believed
that he had been perfectly grooming her for the past 10 years, but she didn’t
really care. Whenever she thought about the day she’d destroy all these dirty
people, she became so happy that she felt like humming. Her eyes narrowed as
she grit her teeth and laughed.

TN: Uhh… whoa. Where to begin with this? This is only the prologue?!

To clear up any confusion, the henchman’s name isn’t YongPal, it’s YongJoon.
However, EH calls him YongPal, and I’m not completely sure why. I think it may be
because YongPal sounds more countrified and less sophisticated (like a pet
name), and therefore sounds more derogatory.

Chapter 1.1

Smash! Smash!
As the racket swung harder, the ball rebounded off the wall even faster. The
man caught the ball in his hand as it bounced off the corner. His forehead was
dripping with sweat.

His tennis shoes squeaked against the wooden floor. His panting breaths were
heated, almost as if he was forcing his body beyond its limits. The man hadn’t
let go of his racket for 45 minutes. Only when his timer alarm went off did he
stride out of the high-ceilinged room.

“Wow. You must have a lot of stress.”

The man had been wiping his sweat with a towel. he turned his head towards
the person speaking to him. A woman with her hair slicked back into a long
ponytail clapped her hands as she spoke. She seemed quite excited.

“I’m sorry if I’m being rude. It’s just that your play was so amazing. I couldn’t
take my eyes off you.”

The man didn’t reply and merely drank his water as he stared at her. He had
long eyes. His dark eyebrows were slightly furrowed. The faint wrinkles
between his brows suggested that he often frowned like this. All this seemed to
be proof of his prickly personality.

“There are only two reasons why I’d be working out at the crack of dawn.”

When EunHa had first seen him in a photograph, the first thought she had was
that he had an incredible figure. However, after seeing him in person, the man’s
features were even more amazing. It was as if he had been cut from stone. His
facial features seemed to enhance this impression. However, that wasn’t what
she noticed first. His incredibly fit physique gave off an intimidating aura that
drew the eyes of every person there. He was definitely going to be a difficult
target.

“……”

The man continued to stare at EunHa as he drank the rest of the water in his
water bottle. He didn’t even seem to blink.

He looked unusually calm for someone who had just finished an intense
workout, and his face wasn’t flushed. It actually looked rather pale. EunHa
flashed her white teeth and gave him a pretty smile.
“Either I feel frustrated because a lot of stress has piled up, or I’m really
nervous about something. I feel so tense that I want to let out some sweat.”

As she chatted with a stranger, she didn’t give off a dangerous vibe. Wearing a
short, white athletic outfit, she looked like a young, bubbly college student.
Seeing that the man in front of her wasn’t responding, she gave a small shrug.

“I only asked because I was a bit curious. You were hitting that ball so violently.”

“There’s a lot piled up.”

After finishing his water, KyungHyun spoke for the first time. His baritone voice
wasn’t loud, but it dominated the entire room. His calm way of speaking also
seemed to suit him. SungHo had a thin voice that didn’t seem to suit someone
like him. He managed to cover it up and make it huskier by smoking cigarettes,
but it still sounded funny whenever he spoke. She didn’t have to worry about
that with this man, though. At this thought, EunHa nodded.

“Aah, like I thought. It was stress after all.”

“…I guess you can call it that.”

He was still staring at her. His gaze made EunHa feel awkward. Since she’d only
seen him in secretly-taken photographs, meeting him in person was a lot more
intense than she expected. She thought that she had gotten used to the gazes
of men, but her palms were currently damp with sweat.

“You must have a stressful job.”

“Is that the case for you?”

He slightly tilted his head as his long eyes looked at her. She felt as if he was
looking at her like a predator would look at its prey.

“I believe I’m the one who asked you first.”

She hid her confusion and grinned at him. He watched her for a little while
longer before slowly opening his mouth.

“…It’s not just because of work.”

“Then what is it?”

“It’s been a while since I’d last had sex.”

As his rich voice said those words, EunHa’s well-groomed eyebrows slightly
lifted. Would you look at that? At KyungHyun’s bold words, EunHa couldn’t hide
the interest in her eyes.

“I thought that it would feel better if I just sweat it out, but thanks to
somebody’s piercing gaze, I think it had the opposite effect instead.”

Underneath his sharp nose, his perfectly symmetrical lips twisted into a sexy
smile. His languid voice flowed out of his lips. EunHa thought she saw his eyes
get darker.

“Is this a good enough answer for the very curious lady?”

“……”

EunHa’s natural, pale face flushed. KyungHyun laughed.

“It seems that it is.”

KyungHyun finally took his eyes off her and began to prepare to leave. He
picked up his gym bag and was just about to pass her when EunHa’s clear voice
asked him a question.

“Then do you want to do it with me?”

KyungHyun’s intense gaze returned to her face. Just a glance from those eyes
were enough to intimidate anyone. With a body built like an athlete, she couldn’t
deny that he exuded sex appeal.

“I don’t do that with young kids.”

“Is age really that important? Just because you’re older doesn’t mean you’re
better at it. At least, not in my experience.”

KyungHyun tilted his head as he looked at her with interest. His relaxed gaze
was watching her as if she were a kitten having a bit of fun.

“You’re not my type. I like glamorous women. Not a fluffy little rookie.”
His slightly hoarse voice tickled EunHa’s ears. Her plump lips pouted.

“You’re quite picky, aren’t you?”

“And it looks like you’re not.”

“Of course. If you’re willing to do it with me, it would be my honor, wouldn’t it?”

The man let out a laugh and licked his dry lips. Even though his expression
seemed to say that this situation was laughable and ridiculous, he couldn’t hide
the excitement rising up his body. He took one step toward her. His voice
sounded dangerous as he spoke.

“Are you serious?”

He’d called her bluff. EunHa shrugged her shoulders playfully and laughed.

“I was only asking if you were up for a game of squash. Do you really need to
ask me whether I’m serious or not?”

At EunHa’s daring reply, KyungHyun frowned as he stared at her.

“If I didn’t know any better, I’d have thought you were talking about sex. Ah, that
is to say, I’m sure you’re quite amazing in that aspect as well.”

After gazing at her for a while, he suddenly burst out laughing. As he continued
to laugh, revealing his white teeth, EunHa thought that his laughter sounded a
lot better than she expected. But seeing his furrowed brow, she could tell that
he was still worked up.

KyungHyun took one step closer to her. They were now only about 30
centimeters apart. EunHa looked up at him, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.

“What’s your name?”

The man brushed his finger across her chin as he asked softly. His adam’s
apple jutted out as he spoke.

“It’s Lee HaEun.”

With this, she had succeeded in catching his interest. Because SungHo had kept
her overseas all this time, her position in Serim was kept in the dark. Her true
identity as Lee EunHa had vanished and, thanks to SungHo’s identity laundering,
she had lived as Lee HaEun instead. In order to keep her records clean, she
had only been been allowed back in Korea a handful of times.

“Shouldn’t you tell me your name now?”

“Do you really want to know?”

KyungHyun gazed at her as he spoke softly. They were the only two people in
the squash courts this early in the morning. No one would notice if they did
something. EunHa gave him a meaningful smile.

“Well, you can just tell me once we’re on friendlier terms.”

She confidently offered him her hand for a handshake. Sometimes a physical
touch was more effective than ten words. He glanced at her thin, outstretched
fingers before making eye contact with her.

“I’m not the type that becomes friendly with women.”

“Why not?”

“I can’t really get to know them very well until we’ve sweat it out at least ten
times.”

EunHa silently smiled as thoughts filled her mind. As if he could read her mind,
he spoke up once more.

“In case you might misunderstand, I’ll be more clear. I’m talking about sex. When
I make the effort to get to know a woman, I do it in bed.”

“…You strike me as a man who is talented in all things, so I’m looking forward to
it.”

“Are you usually this brazen?”

“I’ll take that as a compliment.”

At her unfazed reply, KyungHyun chuckled.

“Are you really not interested in playing a match with me?”

He frowned and gave her a strange smile as he stared at her. Then he turned
his head away from her.

“Why don’t we do that next time we meet. I’m a bit too busy at the moment to
be entertaining a child.”

EunHa’s heart was still racing inside her chest. He was definitely attracted to
her, but he continued to treat her like a child. She didn’t want to lose to this
man.

“I can’t really trust someone who lies, but since you’re busy, I’ll stop bothering
you.”

“…Lies?”

He stopped in his tracks.

“Yes.”

“What did I lie about?”

KyungHyun furrowed his brow. EunHa threw her racket bag over her shoulder
and whispered as she passed by him.

“For someone who isn’t attracted to a rookie like me, isn’t your body’s reaction
a bit excessive?”

Her cat-like eyes traveled down KyungHyun’s body. They lingered on the
obvious bulge pushing up against his dark gray sweatpants before gliding back
up to his eyes. She raised an eyebrow. She didn’t even give him a chance to
respond and brushed past him as she walked away.

“Haa…”

KyungHyun let out a breath as he laughed.

She walked over to a squash court. Then she took out her racket and held it
with both hands before bending down to stretch.

KyungHyun was unable to take his eyes off her and continued to look into the
room. When their eyes met, EunHa lips stretched into an innocent smile.
Smash!

She swung the racket with ease. Her play was good, almost as if to prove to him
that she had the skills to play a match with him. She quickly ran as the ball
recoiled off the wall and hit it harder.

As her shirt rode up with her movements, her slender waist peeked through.
KyungHyun’s mouth went dry. He began to rummage through his bag as he
searched for some water when he remembered that he’d drunk it all a moment
ago. He chuckled.

While he had been playing his game, he knew that somebody was watching him.
But he didn’t pay it any mind. However, when he left the court and opened the
door, he was faced with an eye-catching beauty. And like any man, all the blood
in his body rushed to his cock. The woman joked around like a chirping baby
chick, but if she was only a bit older, he would have wanted to take her right
then and there.

He tried to dampen her spirits, but what he got instead was her glistening, bold
eyes. Just thinking about her reaction made his erection stiffen even more.
Even though she was young, she was quite persistent. The woman continued to
chase after the ball. However, her racket missed the ball by a hair’s breadth.
She looked at the ball on the ground as she panted.

Her flushed face turned around and she met his eyes. She frowned as if she
was having some difficulty. As he gazed at her natural face, he felt a sense of
déjà vu. But that was ridiculous. He would have remembered seeing a beauty
like her before. How strange.

It must really have been a while since he’d last had a woman.

KyungHyun smiled bitterly and turned his head. He was going to have to extend
his workout time.

Chapter 1.2

KyungHyun was walking into his office when he suddenly stopped. His secretary
was on maternity leave, and the woman sitting at her desk was looking up at
him with wide, shocked eyes.
“…Who are you?”

KyungHyun stiffly asked the woman. General Manager Cha spoke up from his
side.

“She is the new secretary that will be assisting you. She was recommended to
us by Secretary Yoon and has just finished her training.”

Under his breath, the general manager murmured, ‘She doesn’t look bad at all.’
Then he addressed the new secretary.

“This man is Director Shin KyungHyun. You will be assisting him, Secretary Lee.”

“I’ll do my best. I’ll be in your care, sir.”

EunHa lowered her head politely. KyungHyun’s eyes narrowed as he watched

her. She was dressed completely differently than when they had met at the
squash courts three days ago. Instead of her light athletic clothes that made
her seem like a bubbly college student, she was now wearing a tight skirt that
stopped at her knees with a cobalt blouse.

Her clothing accentuated her delicate waist and the curves of her bosom so
well that they seemed to be made for her body. Her ankles above her high
heels looked dangerously slender. After he thoroughly looked her up and down,
KyungHyun began to speak.

“Why don’t we talk in my office, Lee HaEun-ssi?”

KyungHyun said this so naturally that General Manager Cha didn’t realize that
KyungHyun already knew her name. KyungHyun disappeared into his office and
EunHa followed after him. The door closed firmly shut behind them.

“Since when?”

KyungHyun rested his elbows on the armrest of his chair and began to
massage his temple. The air in the office suddenly became heavy.

“What do you mean?”

EunHa stared at him with a bit of embarrassment evident on her face, but
KyungHyun didn’t give her the chance to refute.
“You approached me at the squash courts. Since when did you know who I
was?”

“No one would approach their future boss like that on purpose, sir. If I knew
back then, I wouldn’t have acted like that towards you.”

“So it was all just a coincidence?”

One time could be a coincidence, but not twice. From KyungHyun’s experience,
rarely did a person approach him without knowing who he was. At his mocking
glare, EunHa smiled awkwardly.

“I’m pretty unlucky.”

“Do you think you’re making sense right now?”

His low voice asked her slowly. His slow speech made her feel even more tense.
EunHa bowed so low that her silky hair almost touched the floor. She did her
best to keep her voice calm as she spoke.

“Please forgive me for being so rude back then, Director. Please forgive me just
this once. I’ll do my best when it comes to this job, sir. It’s difficult to find a job in
this climate, so I barely managed to get this position through a
recommendation, sir.”

“Raise your head.”

KyungHyun’s voice was still sharp. EunHa kept her head bowed in silence. He
spoke to her again with a cold voice.

“When you tell someone the truth, you should at least look the person in the
eyes when you speak. The same goes for when you’re lying. If you avoid eye
contact, one can’t help but think that you’re hiding a guilty conscience.”

Damn it. EunHa bit her lips before straightening up. As he watched her cat-like
eyes slowly lift up and blink, he spoke in a businesslike tone.

“Do you know what kind of company we are?”

“I heard about it plenty of times when I was in training.”

KyungHyun opened the file that the general manager had sent him and clicked
it open. He blankly stared at the computer monitor and his eyes narrowed as
he focused on what he saw. After finishing high school in the United States, she
went to a college in the same state and graduated. Her parents passed away 10
years ago in an accident. Nothing unusual was on her resume. She graduated at
the top of her class.

KyungHyun’s eyes were glued to one part of the monitor.

10 year ago.

Death by accident.

Something popped into his head. KyungHyun frowned.

“…Your specs are very impressive.”

His monotonous voice murmured. EunHa wasn’t sure whether he was

complimenting her or not. His long fingers went up to his chin as if by habit. His
black eyes darkened as they roamed over her. There was nothing wrong with
her resume and her posture showed her confidence.

‘What is it?’

EunHa blinked quickly. She felt as if the temperature in the room had cooled.
Was she just imagining it? She slightly nodded her head.

“Thank you.”

“Why did you apply to our company? With this resume, you could have gotten
into any company you wanted.”

“There’s something I want to accomplish here.”

“And what is that?”

At his curt question, EunHa looked into his narrow eyes and answered.

“…I’ll only tell you if you promise not to fire me.”

“I can find out on my own by going through your interview notes.”

“You won’t be able to tell whether I answered truthfully or whether I only said
what the interviewer wanted to hear.”

He stared at her for a while before standing up and walking towards her. The
only thought in her head was about how handsome he looked even when he
frowned. His shirt emphasized his broad shoulders, and his vest and suit jacket
made him look like he’d just come out of a men’s fashion magazine.

His amazing physique was hidden under the suit, but she felt that this was the
most handsome she’d seen him. She didn’t feel this much pressure back when
she met him at the squash courts. But having met him now on his turf, the
company known as YongSung, she felt that he could kill somebody with one
look. EunHa kept her head up with much difficulty and spoke in a clear voice.

“I can do the job well. Please give me any task you wish.”

“…Only time will tell whether you can do the job well or not.”

KyungHyun’s voice lowered again. He cocked his head. EunHa was taller than
the average woman, and she was even wearing high heels. Still, KyungHyun was
taller than her, so he looked down at her while he spoke. At almost 190 cm, he
was taller than any of the men she had seen at Serim. EunHa swallowed, her
mouth dry. She looked straight at him. She mustn’t avoid his gaze. She mustn’t
lose.

“I think there is one crucial problem with having you enter this company, Lee
HaEun-ssi.”

He gazed at EunHa as she pretended to stay calm, and his lips stretched in to a
smile. Her heart was beating so fast. Even though there was no way he knew
her true identity, if she were caught, it would be the end for her. Her mouth
went dry. She managed to keep her composure and asked him languidly.

“And what would that be?”

10 years ago, YongSung and Serim made a ruckus on national TV. After this
scandal, these two organizations became enemies. If Shin KyungHyun realized
that she was actually someone sent by Serim, he might strangle her with his
large hands right here right now.
During the scandal, the media reported that there were 30 cases of missing or
dead employees. In actuality, there were more than 100 unreported cases.
Trying to hide her anxiety, EunHa smiled. KyungHyun’s eyes narrowed.

“Your figure is a bit too glamorous for a secretary, Lee HaEun-ssi.”

Gulp. EunHa unconsciously swallowed. She controlled her expression and

awkwardly opened her mouth. It was still too early to relax.

“It wasn’t that long ago when you told me that you preferred glamorous
women.”

“That’s only when it comes to sex.”

He was now extremely close. She could feel his breaths against her forehead.

“I don’t mix business with pleasure. When a woman is in my bed, she never
comes to work with me. I find it hard to focus.”

“…That’s not my fault, is it?

“You’ll find that life is quite unfair when you live long enough.”

Unlike the impression he gave off, his breaths were warm. He must normally
have a high body temperature. This thought popped into EunHa’s head as she
drawled her response.

“You’re a picky boss, aren’t you, Director Shin KyungHyun-nim?”

“Yes. So quit now while you can.”

He spoke as if he was giving her a last chance. EunHa blinked her eyes
charmingly.

“It doesn’t look like that’s the only reason you want me to quit. Am I wrong?”

“No. Good catch.”

EunHa lowered her full eyelashes and softly whispered.

“I will be good, sir.”

“Your eyes.”

She had deliberately lowered her eyes, but when she heard his words, she
flinched and looked up. KyungHyun’s expression was cold, and his eyes were
blazing. He looked at her as if he’d pierce her soul. She felt as if she was being
tied down by an invisible rope. As expected, he wasn’t a man who would
surrender to mere temptation.

“I noticed this the last time we met as well, but you have a bad habit of leaving
important details out, Lee HaEun-ssi. Just what are you going to be good
about? If you aren’t specific, aren’t you worried that I may misunderstand?”

From past experience, EunHa knew how men felt when they wanted her.
Therefore it wasn’t difficult for EunHa to guess that Shin KyungHyun was
worked up as he stood in front of her. She just couldn’t tell whether it was due
to sexual arousal or due to a thirst for violence. Was he thirsty for sex or for
the hunt? For Shin KyungHyun, the two were extremely alike.

“If you’re saying those things intentionally, then you are clearly doing this on
purpose.”

EunHa felt that she couldn’t win him over by seducing him. Back at the squash
court, he hadn’t shown his true self to her. He had deliberately only shown her a
fraction of who he really was. EunHa now remembered that Shin KyungHyun
was a level-headed buisnessman who held a high position in the powerful
organization of YongSung. They committed crimes just as terrible as the ones
committed by Serim. Maybe even worse. Either way, he was just like the rest of
them.

“Do you remember my answer when you asked me why I had such an intense
workout?”

He took out a Zippo lighter and lit a cigarette. He slowly took a drag. His cheeks
sucked in, and the cigarette glowed. His eyes narrowed behind the gray smoke.
He looked at her in the same way a predator looked at its prey. EunHa
swallowed, her throat dry, before speaking again.

“I remember.”

“What did I say?”

“That you had a lot… piled up.”

“And why was that?”

EunHa licked her dry lower lip. She stared directly at him as she replied.

“You told me that you had a lot piled up because you haven’t had sex.”

“Right. With my body in this state right now, having sex with you constantly for 2
nights and 3 days won’t be enough. I don’t want to see a woman like you
running around me. I feel like shoving my dick inside you until you beg for your
life with tears in your eyes.”

As expected… a leopard can’t change its spots. Those vulgar words spilled out
of KyungHyun’s perfectly symmetrical lips. EunHa didn’t blink an eye when she
heard those words. Even though they pierced through her ears like nails, her
sweaty palms were a result of the tension in the air.

“There’s no need to drag this out any longer. Even if you lift up your skirts and
take off your panties right here, right now, it doesn’t matter. I can make it so
that you won’t even be thinking about where we are when I’m finished with
you.”

His long fingers approached her face. Then he used two of his fingers to brush
off some dust from her hair. The smell of cigarette smoke and musk entered
her nose. Even though he didn’t directly touch her, EunHa’s pale face flushed.
Her mouth went dry.

“Basically, you’d be dumping this role play as my secretary and just become my
woman. However, if that happens, you won’t be able to go outside without my
permission. I’m a very paranoid person. I might just confine you in a place no
one else knows and watch you 24 hours a day.”

His voice was terribly low. He barely opened his lips as the cigarette smoke
flowed out. Then in one whoosh, the smoke disappeared into his mouth.

Normally, men didn’t smoke cigarettes like this. His cruel eyes were gazing at
her. He was definitely a gangster. He was probably someone who would get rid
of anyone who displeased him, even if they were women or the elderly.

“If your objective is to have sex with me once, I’m warning you now. It won’t end
there. Unless I find someone else, it’ll be for eternity. If something happens to
me outside and I end up dead, no one will be able to find you, and you will die
with me in your room. There are many people that wish me dead. But I’m sure
you know that. Because you’re quite clever, aren’t you, Lee HaEun-ssi?”

EunHa quickly calmed her heart and bit her cheek.

“If you don’t have the confidence to take your clothes off right now, get out.”

EunHa’s face was expressionless, but a silent chaos was brewing inside her
eyes. KyungHyun had caught all the signals she sent his way to seduce him and
was now giving her a warning. He was telling her not to cross the line. She had a
hunch that many women threw themselves at him. And whenever that
happened, he would set up a trap just like this.

“I want to work.”

EunHa parted her dry lips. KyungHyun glared at her with sharp eyes. She pulled
herself together and repeated herself.

“I came to this company because I wanted to work here.”

“……”

She took advantage of the silence and spoke more clearly.

“I will work hard not to offend you anymore, Director. I don’t want to quit on my
first day of work. I also have my pride, sir.”

His lips slanted as he gazed at her. A haze of desire brushed past his eyes.
Even though the silence was brief, EunHa felt as if she was suffocating.

“You’re pretty stubborn.”

KyungHyun pressed the finished cigarette in the ashtray and murmured. Even
though he knew she approached him to seduce him, he was still incredibly
attracted to her. How ironic. No, maybe that was why he was even more
interested in her.

“I’ll do my best not to disappoint you.”

“Save me…”
For a moment, an old memory rose up in his mind. Someone’s eyes overlapped
with EunHa’s eyes, leaving a bitter taste in his mouth. Why did this woman
approach him? What was her purpose? KyungHyun’s languid voice broke the
silence.

“Lee HaEun-ssi.”

“Yes.”

He leaned back onto his desk and loosened his tie. His Adam’s apple was now
visible and began to move as he spoke.

“This Friday, I am planning on meeting with Mayor Kim MinSuk.”

EunHa widened her eyes as relief spread throughout her body. For now, he
wouldn’t be asking for her employee badge and kicking her out of the building.

“Yes, sir. It scheduled it in this morning. It will be taking place somewhere

around Samsung-dong.”

He slowly watched EunHa’s face as he listened to her report his schedule.

“Compared to the amount of money he received from KeumOh, his results

haven’t been up to par. These men just take our money and don’t even care
about our requests.”

EunHa gazed at KyungHyun as he crossed his arms. She began to calculate

inside her head. Today was Wednesday. And he was going to meet Kim MinSuk
on Friday. That meant that there were only two days. She had two days to win
him over so that he’d trust her.

“I will write a report on the private lives of Kim MinSuk and his family and
present it to you as soon as possible.”

“He’s a rat bastard, so it won’t be difficult to find some dirt on him.”

“If he’s going around receiving bribes, I’m sure he’s made more than a few
mistakes here and there. I will do my best.”

At EunHa’s calm response, KyungHyun nodded. He raised his eyebrows.

“This will be your first assignment as a secretary, Lee HaEun-ssi.”

“I guess I’ll have to get as much dirt on him as possible if I don’t want this to be
my last.”

Hearing her declaration, the ends of KyungHyun’s lips went up slightly.

“…I’ll look forward to it.”

Exiting KyungHyun’s office, EunHa let out a breath. She hadn’t noticed the cold
sweat on the back of her neck until now.

Shin KyungHyun.

The right-hand man of Noh HyungChul, the boss of YongSung. With Noh
HyungChul lying in his sickbed, KyungHyun now represented the company. Inside
the KeumOh building located in the heart of Gangnam, he was the brains behind
all the illegal activities committed by the company.

Three days ago, when she had met him for the first time accidentally on
purpose, he had an easygoing laugh and a more friendly attitude. However, it
all ended up being a joke. In the world of KeumOh, which carried YongSung on
its back, KyungHyun stood at the very top, and he didn’t get there by sheer
luck. Even though she knew this, she had felt nervous about seeing all this with
her own eyes. However, reality turned out to be more intense than expected.

During the time she spent in his office, which only lasted around 30 minutes, she
felt that she was being scanned every second, every moment. Behind his eyes,
which were hazy with lust, she could see a spark of suspicion. And Shin
KyungHyun didn’t even try to hide it.

He let her know that he was sexually attracted to her and didn’t let it become a
weakness. Instead, he was using it to overwhelm her. He didn’t hide that he
would be able to pluck her head from her shoulders if she got on his nerves.
EunHa unconsciously pressed the back of her hand to her cheek. They felt a bit
warm. If she didn’t want to be ripped apart by the beast, she would have to
stay alert at all times.

She quickly returned to her seat and turned on the computer monitor.

“That son of a bitch is a man who has already killed a bunch of people and
buried them. I don’t know why Boss is sending a rookie like you, Princess. It
would have been better if I was sent instead. Fuck.”
She recalled YongJoon’s words as he winced when the stitched wound on his
forehead tugged when he frowned. He was telling the truth. She knew for a fact
that if Shin KyungHyun found out who she really was, she would disappear from
the face of the earth.

Click.

KyungHyun opened the glass door separating his office from the secretarial
office. He went through the doorway with long steps.

“The president has almost arrived.”

An employee urgently spoke up in a small voice. When all the employees in the
secretarial office heard that the president might arrive at headquarters at any
moment, they quickly began to clean up their desks. The president of KeumOh.
The boss of YongSung. When she recalled Noh HyungChul, EunHa’s heart began
to race inside her chest.

She could still recall the screams of her father. Her mother’s blood dripping
down as she fell. The tears spilling from her eyes. EunHa couldn’t forget them.

EunHa closed her eyes as if out of habit. Even though the boss of YongSung
was currently staying at his palatial residence, lying down like a corpse due to
his chronic illness, he was surrounded by militant bodyguards at all times. And
now she was currently in the middle of this impregnable man’s main
headquarters. Her eyelashes trembled as she opened her eyes.

Ding.

When the elevator doors opened, KyungHyun walked into the elevator with
General Manager Cha at his side. While everyone else was busily looking at
their monitors underneath the partitions of the cubicles, EunHa raised her head
and met KyungHyun’s eyes. As they stared at each other, EunHa faintly smiled
and lowered her head.

I will use you in order to have my revenge.

She was told that this man had been active in YongSung for 8 years now. 10
years had passed since she had lost her name and became an orphan. Even
though he hadn’t actively participated in her parents’ deaths, Shin KyungHyun
was still a member of YongSung. Even though she had never killed anyone
before, KyungHyun was supposed to be the first man she was to kill. She would
just think of it as practice for when she killed YongSung’s boss later.

In order to do this, she needed to gain his trust. Not just with her body. She
needed something to catch Shin KyungHun’s interest. She didn’t take her eyes
off him until his blank face disappeared with the closing of the elevator doors.

TN: KyungHyun’s little speech to EunHa is HR’s ultimate nightmare.

Chapter 2.1

Friday night. It was well past midnight, and the taxis were busy in the heart of
the city. The neon signs illuminated the roads in a different way than the sun
did during the daytime. EunHa watched the stumbling, drunk men with tired
eyes. If she could have her own way, she would have lain down on the floor
right this instant.

“Where is your home?”

Her boss, KyungHyun, had just returned from his meeting with the mayor of
Seoul, Kim MinSuk. As he got back into the car, he asked her the short question.
EunHa, who was sitting next to him, gave him her address.

After ordering the driver to turn the car around, KyungHyun kept his mouth
shut. The secret meeting lasted for over two hours. EunHa was trapped inside
the car until the last appointment on his schedule was completed. However, she
didn’t complain or express any discomfort.

“Thank you for taking me home.”

In no time, she saw the apartment building she was staying at. He observed the
simple apartment buildings before speaking in a monotone voice.

“I’ll see you next week at the office.”

“Yes, sir. Please take care.”

“Good work today.”

The moment EunHa’s hand touched the door handle, she heard him softly
mutter those words. She curtly nodded before opening the door and exiting the
car. As her high heels clacked on the pavement, her figure looked upright and
tidy.

KyungHyun recalled how she had knocked on his office door that morning. After
ordering EunHa to secretly investigate Kim MinSuk, KyungHyun ignored her for
two days and treated her if she were invisible. After taking a good look at her
face for the first time in two days, he noticed that she looked quite tired.

“What is this?”

The first page of the report that EunHa had turned in was related to Kim
MinSuk’s youngest son who was diagnosed with epilepsy. EunHa had also
included a record of the travel logs of Kim MinSuk’s wife for the past 10 years.
He didn’t know how she had managed to get her hands on this information.
KyungHyun read through the report carefully, and his sharp eyes narrowed.

“…Mostly the Netherlands.”

“Yes, sir. She left for the Netherlands multiple times with her son, but she’s also
gone there alone. As you know, the Netherlands is a country where cannabidiol
is legal.”

Cannabidiol (CBD). It was a hemp extract that was reported to be an effective

treatment for symptoms of epilepsy or Alzheimer’s. The hemp oil was
administered orally, and would decrease the epileptic seizures. However, in
South Korea, it was considered a psychoactive drug and was therefore illegal
to use.

“You are also aware that an assemblyman affiliated with Kim MinSuk recently
proposed the legalization of hemp for medical purposes to the National
Assembly, right?”

“This information isn’t enough to prove that Kim MinSuk’s wife has been using
hemp to treat her son’s symptoms.”

“But it still gives a strong sense of probability.”

“Even if this was proven to be true, the fact that he was doing this for his sick
son will probably gain him some sympathy points from the voters. People love
emotional dramas.”
Since this was his first offense, his sentencing wouldn’t be harsh. KyungHyun
looked at her as he shook his head. However, EunHa merely shrugged.

“Well, you’re probably right about that. But, Director, there’s more on the back
of the page.”

He didn’t think there was more to the report. He blankly looked up at her
before turning the page. His face suddenly hardened. It was a photograph
taken in a suite room of an expensive hotel. In the picture, many people
dressed in fancy clothing were sprawled out all over the place.

“Over here. The kid on the sofa is Kim MinSuk’s oldest son. He’s now twenty
years old, and he’s as rowdy as they come.”

The dazed people in the smoky room were obviously high. Their eyes were
dilated, and bottles of whisky and champagne were scattered all over the
chaotic room.

“How did you get ahold of this?”

“What do you mean? I met the kid at a club and followed him here. Thanks to
him, I stayed up all night before coming in for work. I thought I’d die of
exhaustion.”

As she obviously expressed her displeasure at all the trouble she had to go
through, the ends of KyungHyun’s lips slightly moved up before quickly
returning to its usual grim line.

“It looks like General Manager Cha didn’t hire you just for your face.”

“Is that a compliment, sir?”

EunHa nodded indifferently before raising her index finger.

“Anyways, this kid was born with a silver spoon and really wanted to pursue
music. However, since his father wasn’t merely a rich man but a rich politician,
he wasn’t able to act as he wished in public. Therefore, he began to steal some
of his younger brother’s medicine to pass the time. Even his mother couldn’t
stop him.”

“Did he tell you all this himself?”

“No. It’s just my guess.”

“What?”

Gazing at KyungHyun’s confused expression, EunHa’s eyes sparkled as if she

had just found a fun toy to play with.

“People may like emotional dramas, but they go crazy for soap operas.”

KyungHyun had only ordered her to find some dirt on Kim MinSuk. However,
she’d gone a step further and made a crack instead. EunHa raised both of her
hands to her chest and pressed them together as if she were praying. She
tilted her head down and looked at him as she whispered, her face full of
confidence.

“Wouldn’t it be fun if I scheduled an interview with a third-rate gossip magazine

and leaked this information?”

“His political career won’t end with this kind of scandal.”

“He’s still going to have to step down as mayor, don’t you think? He was
planning on running as a presidential candidate for the next term, so he
probably doesn’t want any tongues to wag about something like this.”

Recalling her face as she replied so brazenly, KyungHyun laughed silently. He

raised his large hand and rubbed his face. He was tired.

During their dinner, Kim MinSuk behaved as predicted. He avoided KyungHyun’s

demands by claiming they were too risky. It seemed like he was only thinking of
how to deflect KyungHyun by using this excuse over and over again.

“We haven’t seen each other in a long time. Why don’t we just spend this time
having a few drinks together? Is the president still feeling unwell?”

KyungHyun watched him order another bottle of liquor and took out a
cigarette. There was hemp in the cigarette, and as the smoke began to spread
throughout the room, Kim MinSuk finally realized what was going on. His
expression stiffened as he frowned.

“Just what do you think you’re doing in front of me?”

“I heard that you’ve done some good for your party recently. I believe you can
give KeumOh any future business you may have. I will personally see to it that
you get anything you need.”

“Director Shin, are you joking around with me?”

Kim MinSuk swallowed some liquor as he glared at KyungHyun over his glasses.
No matter how much KeumOh had developed as a company, it still had its roots
in the mob. Therefore, affiliating oneself with a company like them was basically
political suicide.

“I heard that you’ve run into some trouble thanks to your son, so I was only
thinking about how to help you out with that.”

As KyungHyun took a deep drag of the cigarette, Kim MinSuk glared at him, his
mouth twisted. His cold voice was full of rage as it shattered the silence in the
room.

“Even if that is the case, it isn’t right to speak of a sick child like that. Director
Shin, it seems that I’ve been mistaken about you.”

“It doesn’t matter to me how you used to see me.”

“What did you say?”

“I was only wondering if your oldest son was also sick. Is that why he’s been
doing drugs?”

At the words that left KyungHyun’s mouth, Kim MinSuk lost his composure.

“Well, I’m sure the doctor will be the judge of that. If he is diagnosed with
extreme depression by a psychiatric clinic, I’m sure there might be some gossip,
but it shouldn’t matter. I’m sure it’ll also help him get out of his military service.”

“S-see here, Director Shin.”

It was smooth sailing from there on out. KyungHyun watched as Kim MinSuk’s
face reddened and smiled comfortingly.

“They say the hardest thing to do in the world is raising your kids. It seems that
those words ring true. Let me pour you a glass of liquor. Like you said, we came
out here to comfortably share a few drinks.”
After that, the conversation with Kim MinSuk flowed naturally. His behavior
suddenly changed, and it was all partly thanks to Lee EunHa. However,
KyungHyun still wasn’t sure whether his decision to keep her was the right one
or not.

“Should we leave now, Director?”

Waiting for his order, the driver cautiously asked. KyungHyun’s elbow was
leaning on the window as his hand held his chin. He was lost in thought as he
shook his head.

“Let’s wait here for a while longer.”

“Yes, sir. That thing you asked us to prepare has just finished.”

“Give it to me.”

The driver handed him a small earphone. KyungHyun put it into his ear and
looked out the window as he lit a cigarette. EunHa’s perfume was still lingering
inside the car. Even as the heavy smoke filled his lungs, KyungHyun felt as if her
smell still lingered at the tip of his nose.

When EunHa opened the door and entered her apartment, she almost let out a
shriek. However, she managed to suppress it as she grit her teeth.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

YongJoon’s large body was stretched out on top of her bed. When she entered,
he got up and began to pick his ears.

“Why are you coming home so late? Have you fucked Shin KyungHyun already?”

“Why are you here? Have you completely lost your mind?”

No matter how stupid he was, this was ridiculous. EunHa quickly ran to the
window and lowered the blinds. Even though it was impossible for someone to
look into her apartment on the 20th floor, she couldn’t be too sure.

“Take a good look at what I’m wearing. You think I’m retarded, don’t you? I know
better than to just walk in.”
EunHa shrugged and looked YongJoon up and down. He was wearing the
uniform of a well-known pizza chain. He was also wearing a cap. Not wearing his
usual suit, YongJoon did look younger. But he couldn’t hide his face, which still
made him look like a thug. As he reached into his pocket to take out a pack of
cigarettes, YongJoon drew in a breath. It seemed that his wound from SungHo
hadn’t completely healed yet.

“Get out right now. Carefully, so that no one notices you.”

EunHa snatched his cigarette and broke it in half before tossing it into the
trash bin.

“Hey, do you wanna die?”

Having lost the wind in his sails, YongJoon barked out.

“If you have nothing important to say, listen to your noona and get lost.”

“Aigoo, I just might…”

He raised his hand as if he was going to hit her. However, he held back and
didn’t touch her. He had been expelled before he could graduate middle school
and began working as an underling at Serim ever since. Even though he had
made it all the way up to his position now, he was still one year younger than
EunHa.

Even though he didn’t show it, he had a complex about his young age. EunHa
knew this and constantly pushed his buttons, so he wanted to give her a good,
proper punch. But since he couldn’t do that, he was incredibly frustrated.

“Hey, you. Why did you turn off the bug we planted? Do you know how
frustrated I was all day wondering if something went wrong?”

EunHa scoffed, taken aback.

“Do you think YongSung was born yesterday?”

“It’s dangerous, so I’m telling you to wear it whenever you leave your
apartment.”
EunHa walked over to the end table next to her bed and opened the drawer.
She took out a ballpoint pen that served as a wireless bug. Then she fiercely
threw it at YongJoon. The long pen hit his chest and fell onto the floor.

“If I walk around with this kind of thing on me and get caught, I’ll die a dog’s
death. But I’m sure you’d enjoy hearing my death live, wouldn’t you?”

EunHa spoke sarcastically, and YongJoon’s bushy eyebrows went up as he

fumed. His dark face flushed.

“Fuck, who said we’d leave you like that? You think we’re morons, don’t you?”

EunHa shook her head as she threw her purse on the table.

“If that’s all, get lost. Make sure no one sees you. You’re the one who is putting
me in a dangerous situation right now by being here. You’ve heard of the
saying ‘If your head is bad, then your body will suffer’, right? I feel that I won’t
be able to die a peaceful death if you’re standing around next to me.”

She opened the fridge and took out a cold can of beer. YongJoon watched her,
his breaths puffing in anger.

“Hey. Is that what you say to someone who was only worried about you…”

EunHa opened the can and took a sip of the fizzling beer. She then went over
to the bed and ripped off the hidden cellphone taped underneath the bed. The
phone rang for a moment before SungHo answered the call.

“Ahjussi, it’s me.”

YongJoon flinched when he realized she was speaking to SungHo. His hand
reflexively went to his arm. Ignoring him, EunHa brought the phone closer to her
ear and perched on the bed.

“He met Kim MinSuk for two hours, and no money was exchanged. Judging from
Shin KyungHyun’s reaction, the threat seemed to have worked.”

– Why did the two of them meet?

SungHo asked curtly. EunHa took another sip of the beer before lightly nibbling
on the top edge of the can.
“The employees of the secretarial office only organize the schedule and fulfill
orders given from above. Important files are protected by a password, so only
people like Shin KyungHyun or higher have access to them. And that brainless
general manager who always follows Shin KyungHyun around is completely in
his corner, so I don’t think we’ll be able to get anything out of him.”

– Is that all?

EunHa began to shake her folded legs in frustration as she answered.

“His reputation is exactly what the report stated. He’s a man who is very
suspicious in nature and doesn’t leave anyone to their own devices. He goes
swimming or plays some squash in the mornings to exercise. When he comes in
to the office, he doesn’t even leave the building until the day is over. I’ve been
watching him for two weeks straight, and his routine never changes. Even when
he leaves work, his days seem scheduled. He may meet various people
throughout the day, but the only person that accompanies him is his driver.”

– So in the end, you’re telling me that you don’t know the reason why he met Kim
MinSuk.

Sungo replied bluntly. EunHa slightly frowned.

“Doesn’t everyone know that Kim MinSuk is the father-in-law of the Attorney
General? It’s obvious that they want the support of the prosecutors. In order to
have it, they laundered money and supported his political career, but all he’s
done is take the money and give nothing in return. I’m sure he went out of
touch once the election was over.”

SungHo listened silently as EunHa spoke.

“Additionally, Shin KyungHyun’s date of departure has been set.”

– When is it?

“It’s in 6 weeks, but I think he’ll only be taking those that are close to him. Like
you said, if any information is leaked, they’ll be in big trouble…”

– Once you’re able to join him, let me know.

SungHo cut off her words. He was telling her to use whatever means necessary
to accompany him on that trip. Thanks to all the big and small incidents at
Serim, EunHa knew very well that SungHo’s intuition had become sharp. The
main source of income for the organization was black-market dealings, but
they had already been caught by the police multiple times. Therefore, Serim
needed to find another source of revenue.

SungHo wasn’t going to miss this opportunity to make money through stock
manipulation. He had already bought a large chunk of the stocks of a failing
pharmaceutical company. He had bought these stocks for almost nothing and
was planning on snatching the project Shin KyungHyun was currently
developing. Once SungHo increased the value of the stocks in his possession,
he was going to sell them for hundreds of billions of won and make an
enormous profit.

“Alright. And until I ask for it, please don’t send people to check on me. Shin
KyungHyun is too observant. He’ll definitely catch on that something is going
on.”

She didn’t tell SungHo that she had already tried to follow Shin KyungHyun
several times but was shaken off every time. She was afraid that SungHo would
order her to pull out of this mission if she told him.

“I don’t know how much marijuana he smoked when he met up with Kim MinSuk,
but when he got back inside the car, he reeked of it.”

– So?

“He didn’t look dazed at all and seemed perfectly normal.”

Nine out of ten times, people who smoked marijuana would become lethargic
and relaxed. However, Shin KyungHyun acted as he normally did with EunHa. His
normally low voice only sounded a bit lower, but that was it. She felt that if he
was the type to enjoy drug abuse, she could have taken advantage of it and
seduced him. However, she didn’t think she’d be able to do that with KyungHyun.

– He’s never been an easy man.

SungHo scoffed as his thin voice rang through the phone. EunHa quickly
responded.

“Yes. That’s why I don’t think I should install the wiretapping devices around him.
Even though this isn’t an airport, whenever we scan our employee ID’s, there’s
a machine that takes a full body scan before we enter the offices. This even
applies to all the security guards and janitors that enter the building. If I bring
something suspicious inside, I’ll be taken away before I can even install it.”

– Do whatever you see fit. How will I get in contact you?

“I probably won’t be available for contact very often. I’ll try to talk to you at
least once a week.”

– … Have you slept with Shin KyungHyun yet?

EunHa was just about to hang up the phone when she froze.

“Not yet.”

She could hear SungHo light a cigarette on the other end. She heard him blow
out the smoke before he spoke up.

– That’s so unlike you. What’s the reason for dragging this out?… Are you acting
virginal in order to seduce him this time? A rag won’t become a towel just
because it has been washed.”

EunHa frowned and began to laugh silently. Sex was often an absolutely
necessity when it came to extracting information from a target. EunHa was the
one who usually seduced a man into bed and then stole from him while he was
asleep. Even though SungHo knew this very well, he always framed her as a
whore.

After her parents passed away, she had nowhere to go. The one who came
and held her hand during this moment of vulnerability was SungHo. However,
she had to do whatever he ordered her to do as payment. One could call this a
win-win relationship.

There was no other place that was more secure and effective than Serim when
it came to having her revenge on those that killed her parents. As a puff of
laughter escaped her lips, SunHo spoke up sharply.

– Why are you laughing?

“Because you’re too funny, Ahjussi.”

Even though SungHo always treated her like a whore, he had never actually
had sex with her. After a round of dry-humping, he would always call for a
prostitute and lounge around like a king in his harem. Then he ordered EunHa
to stay by his side and watch. His strange preferences were laughable to her.

– Lee EunHa.

There was a trace of malice in SungHo’s voice. He would definitely have taken
out his knife and held it up to her if he were standing in front of her. Even if he
were to cut off a part of her body, he wouldn’t be able to kill her. This was
because Kang SungHo was a perverse man who enjoyed toying with her life in
his hands.

SungHo didn’t sexually desire her. Sexual desire was just an illusion that made
one think that they completely possessed another person. Whatever it was that
he felt for her, she didn’t care.

“You’re the one who told me not to act like a whore in front of him because he’s
a difficult man, Ahjussi.”

EunHa spoke, her voice full of charm. SungHo’s voice remained hard.

– And you’re not the type of girl to fall for a good-looking guy like Shin
KyungHyun.

“I don’t want to explain my methods to you. Let’s call it my business secret. Well,
I guess it doesn’t matter since I learned it all from you, Ahjussi.”

SungHo chuckled softly, and his voice finally sounded like it had softened as it
rang through the phone.

– Be careful. Don’t trust that bastard.

EunHa crinkled the half-full beer can and scoffed.

“You might as well tell me to trust any son of a bitch I pass by on the streets.”

You son of a bitch, perverted bastard.

EunHa thought to herself and hung up the phone. In front of her, a nervous
YongJoon was standing still, his breathing silent. It seemed that he hadn’t
reported to SungHo about entering her apartment.
It made sense. SungHo would never have ordered him to do something so
dangerous. EunHa went over to her wardrobe and began to take out her
pajamas. She glanced over at YongJoon.

“Aren’t you leaving?”

Tick, tick. EunHa undid the buttons on her blouse and her breasts in her half
cup bra spilled out. YongJoon chewed on his dry lips and let out a curse.

“You fucking… crazy… bitch. Do you take off your clothes in front of anyone?”

As his the words left his lips, EunHa completely took off her blouse and tossed it
into the laundry basket. She was now only wearing her bra and her skirt. As
YongJoon’s breaths became heavier, EunHa slowly walked over to him and
stood right in front of him.

“Why? Are you so aroused that you can’t control yourself?”

“Fuck…”

“Do you want Noona to suck you over here?”

Her hand lightly brushed over the hard bulge in his pants. Even though he was
wearing jeans, her touch was enough to stimulate him. YongJoon flinched.

His large hands roughly grabbed her hair. EunHa’s sharp chin shot up into the
air, but she didn’t make a sound. She was definitely a spiteful woman. YongJoon
frowned and spoke, his voice tight.

“You bitch… Where’s the woman who cracked my forehead for taking a peek at
her panties? You’re toying with me now…”

“I wasn’t able to fuck Shin KyungHyun today, so I’m very wet right now. If I close
my eyes, I won’t have to see your ugly face. I think it’ll work if I just imagine it’s
him.”

“What did you say?”

With his long hair covering his face, YongJoon gloomily stood there like a ghost.
He no longer looked like a seventeen-year-old. YongJoon’s breaths became
heavy, and EunHa’s lips went up into a pout.
“What? You don’t want to be a substitute? Whatever, that’s fine.”

“…Suck it right now, you bitch.”

Even though he felt humiliated, YongJoon’s face was flushed with arousal.
EunHa watched as he hurriedly began to undo his belt. She began to chuckle. A
strange, scary gleam flashed across her sparkling eyes.

“But you know, YongJoon.”

“…Haa…”

“Did you know that I can bite off your dick as I suck it?”

“……”

“If you want to take that risk, take your pants off.”

“Wh-what?”

He was in the middle of hastily trying to take out his erection from his
underwear when he froze. A mix of emotions flashed across YongJoon’s eyes
all at once.

“Isn’t it worth taking the risk? There’s a thrill. This might be the first time we
have sex as well as the last. You’re presenting your dick to me because you’re
prepared to become a eunuch, right?”

As he looked into EunHa’s eyes filled with madness, YongJoon knew very well
that she was dangerous enough to actually go through with it. Her lips stained
with red lipstick now looked terrifying to him.

“Whatever. Get lost, you crazy bitch.”

YongJoon let go of his grip on her hair and quickly pulled his pants back up as
he caught his breath. Just the thought of having his penis ripped off by her
caused cold sweat to form on the back of his neck.

“Pity. I wanted to enjoy it, too. Well, if you don’t want to…”

EunHa flashed her white teeth as she chuckled prettily. She turned around and
unhooked her bra. YongJoon quickly closed his eyes. EunHa heard the front
door of the apartment open and close with a thud. EunHa snickered and
continued to take off her clothes. They fell off her body like a second skin. Then
she slowly made her way to the bathroom.

Whoosh.

EunHa turned on the hot water and became lost in thought as she went over
the day’s events. She recalled the way they stood next to each other as they
spoke in his office. Her body immediately flushed at the memory. EunHa raised
her head and let the water fall on her face.

“Haa…”

Shin KyungHyun’s strangely competitive nature had the strange ability to

arouse people. His bottomless, black eyes seemed to hold so many thoughts.
EunHa chuckled and put some body wash on her bath sponge before slowly
rubbing her body.

TN Update: I believe all the Wattpad authors I contacted took down the
translations. Thank you! They were very cooperative, and I can’t thank them
enough for understanding. Hopefully, these translations will last for a very long
time. Fingers crossed!

Edit: YongJoon isn’t 17. The author is saying he looks 17 because the pizza
uniform he’s wearing makes him look younger. (I was so confused when I first
read this, but EunHa’s age is revealed in the next chapter. She’s 26.)

Chapter 2.2

Fresh out of a long bath, EunHa’s face was flushed as she stepped out of the
bathroom. She went over to her bed and laid down. She noticed then that she
had two missed calls. Two calls within 20 minutes. EunHa quickly called the
number back. Shortly, the voice that had been bothering her all night answered
the call.

– Shin KyungHyun speaking.

“This is Lee Eun…”

She was about to say her real name by accident but bit her lips before she
could finish her sentence.
“This is Lee HaEun. Did you call?”

She’d never made a mistake like this before, so her heart was racing.
KyungHyun drawled his answer.

– I just wanted to make sure that you got home okay.

“You dropped me off in front of my apartment.”

“But I didn’t see you close your door.”

“Then you should just walk me to my door next time.”

She faintly heard KyungHyun’s breaths. She could imagine him laughing silently
on the other end.

“Why are you laughing?”

– I don’t have the confidence to take you to your door and return to my car
without doing anything, Lee HaEun-ssi.

“… What am I supposed to say at times like this?”

– You can say whatever you want. Isn’t that your specialty?

KyungHyun’s voice was low. She didn’t hear anything else in the background.
Suddenly, she heard a faint clanking noise. It sounded like he was drinking
liquor, and the ice was bumping against the glass. It was one in the morning
right now.

Even though she was the one who called him, she didn’t hate the fact that they
were talking this late at night. One’s hidden desires always revealed
themselves in the dark of night. Even if she was seeing a different side of him
at night, there was no need to be scared. EunHa’s voice softened and sounded
bewitching.

“Do you always act like this to all the secretaries, Director?”

– Act like what?

“Calling a mere secretary to ask if she made it home okay.”

– It’s inevitable for those around me to have tiring days. Some of them may
even come across some danger.

“Aah.”

EunHa was going to sweetly whisper her thanks, but KyungHyun spoke up
before she had the chance.

– For example, someone might approach you at your apartment and try to get
to me through you.

EunHa’s lips were open as she was about to reply. Her big eyes blinked. Even
though it was impossible, it almost felt like he knew that YongJoon had come to
her apartment that night. Her body suddenly tensed up and her heart began to
race.

– But this is the first time I’ve ever called someone personally. I usually send
someone to make sure my employees are doing well.

“……”

– So in regards to your question on whether I treat all the secretaries like this,
my answer is ‘no.’

EunHa bit her cheek and took a deep, silent breath. Even though KyungHyun’s
voice sounded as if he was seducing her, he was calm. Almost as if he were
testing her. He was definitely not high on drugs.

– Why didn’t you answer my calls?

“… I was taking a shower.”

– You must be the type that takes long showers. I called you twice in 20 minutes.

“Yes, sir. And after I finish my shower, I’m the type that comfortably goes to bed
without putting on any clothes.”

EunHa wanted to change the subject. Her attempt wasn’t made in vain.
KyungHyun laughed softly. She heard the sound of the ice clanking against his
glass. He was taking a sip of his drink.
– Even now?

“Of course.”

– I’d like to see that.

His low voice drawled into her ear. EunHa swallowed, her mouth dry. She put
her cellphone in her other hand. The hand that had been holding her phone
was now damp with sweat.

“If you were only calling to check on my safety, can we hang up now?”

– Go ahead.

The call didn’t end. It was as if they were both daring the other to hang up first.
The silence lingered. EunHa could have ended the call first, but she didn’t. This
was because she felt that he was hesitating about something as he remained
silent. She was counting to five to keep her mind off the awkward silence when
KyungHyun spoke up.

– I apologize for underestimating you, Secretary Lee. To be honest, that’s why I

called.

“Just because someone has a pretty face doesn’t mean they can’t do a good
job.”

KyungHyun didn’t say anything back. EunHa chuckled softly.

“I was only joking. If you don’t say anything, it makes things awkward.”

– It was the truth, so I had nothing to say.

“… That’s a compliment, right?”

– Why do you ask?

“I was wondering if you were going to fire me for being pretty.”

KyungHyun laughed slowly.

– I was wondering whether I should fire you or not just now. Was I caught?
“If you’re really planning on firing me, you wouldn’t be wondering about it.”

– I can’t think of anything to say to that. My head hurts.

His languid voice sounded as if he were talking to himself. Before this

conversation got any longer and before Shin KyungHyun had another chance to
veer the conversation into unwanted territory, EunHa politely spoke.

“… I’ll bring a variety of pain relievers when I come in tomorrow. I’ll see you at
the office, sir.”

EunHa quickly ended the call. She turned off the lights and got into bed. Then
she pulled the covers up and covered her head. The remedy for a restless
mind was sleep. Just thinking about all the things she had left to do made her
feel muddled. As Shin KyungHyun continued to test her, she could feel herself
waver. If she wanted to properly accomplish her goal, she couldn’t dwell on all
the restless thoughts going through her mind.

EunHa tossed and turned before her breaths finally softened and she fell
asleep. The car that was parked in front of EunHa’s apartment this whole time
finally turned its engine on and disappeared into the night.

“Haaa…”

Inside a desolate, large hotel room, KyungHyun was sitting on a wide couch,
completely naked. His hand was moving. His cock was sticking straight up like a
rod as the blood rushed to it. He felt a tingling sensation travel down his penis
and reach the base of his scrotum.

He was incredibly tired after today and was planning on shutting his eyes as
soon as he reached his hotel room. However, the image of Lee Eunha didn’t
leave his foggy mind. It had been a long time since he felt such a strong surge
of desire.

“I wasn’t able to fuck Shin KyungHyun today, so I’m very wet right now. If I close
my eyes, I won’t have to see your ugly face. I think it’ll work if I just imagine it’s
him.”

He had heard her venomous voice through the bug he had hidden inside her
fire alarm. When he heard her words, he almost burst out of the car and
headed straight to her apartment. If she really planned on having sex with
someone else and he had to hear it, he wouldn’t have been able to stand it.
“Save me…”

Trying to keep her breaths silent, a young girl whispered as tears dripped from
her eyes. That young girl was no longer there. EunHa was now an adult. She
was like a flower that was now freely giving off its fragrance. She made people
want to go easy on her, but she was a flower that was hiding its sharp thorns
of poison underneath its beauty.

Lee EunHa had grown up so perfectly that it almost made one forget the
trembling young girl she used to be. It wasn’t a surprise that he couldn’t
recognize her when he first met her. KyungHyun laughed at himself for not
realizing it.

The movement of his hands became rough, and the noises coming from the
couch were getting louder. The head of his penis repeatedly appeared and
disappeared into his hand. Sticky fluids spurt out from the tip and drenched his
hand before dripping onto the floor.

– And after I finish my shower, I’m the type that comfortably goes to bed
without putting on any clothes.

The moment he pictured her sleeping on top of her sheets naked, his
suppressed desire lurched and burst out of him. After ejaculating on top of his
discarded clothing a few times, he sucked in a deep breath. His trembling body
calmed, and he laughed bitterly to himself.

‘… Just what is she up to?’

One week ago, he noticed that somebody was following him. He thought this
was strange, but he didn’t think anything of it. He was always being followed.

The same went for when he met her at the squash courts. Her bare face
seemed strangely familiar to him, but he couldn’t quite remember who she was.
She was just too different.

However, when he met her at the office, he knew for sure. Something strange
was going on. When he saw that her parents had passed away in an accident,
the old memories slammed into his head like a hammer.

Lee HaEun.
Lee EunHa.

The obvious evidence had slipped right past his nose. After the incident 10
years ago, Lee EunHa was sent to a relative’s house in the suburbs of Seoul.
Not long after that, while she was on her way home from school, she went
missing. That was the last he heard of her. He believed that Lee EunHa was
dead.

“You’re the one who told me not to act like a whore in front of him because he’s
a difficult man, Ahjussi.”

He was glad he had installed the bug inside her empty home. Thanks to that, he
was able to find out that she had been raised as member of Serim by SungHo.
This was a piece of information he hadn’t known until now.

Click.

KyungHyun took a cigarette out of its box and took a long drag. The thoughts
inside his head were too heavy to be called a simple musing. Should he have
paid more attention back then? These regrets were useless now. These events
happened long in the past. KyungHyun leaned his head back as he stretched
out on the sofa. Suddenly, the hotel phone on the table rang. KyungHyun
stretched out his hand and picked up the receiver.

“Hello?”

“You’ve received a call from the Chicolson Company. Would you like me to
connect you to them?”

The hotel employee from the front desk spoke in a polite tone.

“Please do.”

He heard the phone ring for a few moments before the call was connected.

– It’s me.

“I was planning on calling you soon, sir.”

– Instead of waiting for a call from a busy man, it’s better for the man with more
time to call.
“Is there something you’d like to discuss with me?”

– Not really. Thanks to your hard work, Director Shin, things are looking very
good on my end.

At the other end, a rough, thin voice rang through the phone.

– You work too hard, Director Shin. Sometimes I really feel like I’m actually
talking to a man at YongSung. I get confused at times. This is all because of how
amazing you are. Isn’t that right, KyungHyun?

The trace scent of grass permeated from the cigarette as he took another
drag. In one breath, a third of the cigarette turned into gray ash. While his body
was becoming more relaxed with each puff, his mind was still as alert as ever.

“Then please let me return as soon as possible, sir.”

– You want to come back?

SungHo’s voice was full of meaning as he tried to get a feel for what KyungHyun
was thinking.

“Of course I do.”

– Your speech has gotten a lot cockier lately, dear Director Shin.

“It’s because with each passing year, I’m always wondering whether I’ll be able
to return or whether I’ll continue to be stuck over here. I think I’m getting old,
sir.”

– You shouldn’t say things like that when you still have so much work to do.

SungHo lightly clicked his tongue and laughed.

– Everything doesn’t always go as planned. There are too many variables in life.

KyungHyun silently took another drag of his cigarette. He heard the sound of a
lighter clicking on the other end. SungHo had an old habit of clicking the lighter
on and off while he was smoking.

– Once this project is finished, you can come back with a light heart. This is truly
the last one.
KyungHyun’s sculpted lips tilted into a fierce smile. His eyes narrowed sharply.

– Why aren’t you saying anything?

“Are you being serious, sir?”

– Yeah. Your position in Serim has been prepared, so just finish things up well.

KyungHyun furrowed his brow. His cigarette had burnt up to the filter. His mind
got heavier, but his body felt lighter.

“I will do my best, sir. I want to quickly return to my rightful place. I can barely
stand it.”

– Alright. I trust you.

Despite his words, SungHo’s voice sounded suspicious.

“I will also continue to trust in you, Boss.”

SungHo probably interpreted his voice in the same way.

– Nothing else is new, right? Are there any rat bastards hanging around you?

KyungHyun crushed his cigarette onto the ashtray as he responded.

“There aren’t any rat bastards, but…”

Seeing that SungHo remained silent, KyungHyun slowly spoke.

“There’s something strange.”

– What is it?

“I might just be mistaken. I’ll keep my eye on it a while longer before telling you,
sir. I don’t want you to worry over nothing.”

SungHo carefully chose his words before speaking.

– Alright. I know how careful you are, Director Shin.

“Yes, sir. Please rest. It’s not good if the conversation stretches out any longer.”

After telling SungHo that he’d call him back later, SungHo ended the call. A
silence settled over the hotel room once again. KyungHyun rested his elbow on
the back of the sofa and began to massage his temple. KyungHyun focused his
dazed eyes and twitched his finger.

It had been 8 years since he entered YongSung while keeping his true identity
hidden. This wasn’t the first time SungHo had sent someone to keep an eye on
him. Every time he did, KyungHyun tricked them perfectly. He acted as if he
didn’t know when he actually did. Every time a member of Serim came to dig up
any weakness he may have, he made sure never to show them a chink in his
armor.

SungHo was a cunning and nasty man. He was constantly suspicious of

KyungHyun, and KyungHyun worked hard to try and placate that suspicion.

– Once this project is finished, you can come back with a light heart. This is truly
the last one.

KyungHyun’s face turned cold. SungHo’s words, ‘the last one,’ pounded inside his
head.

– Your speech has gotten a lot cockier lately, dear Director Shin.

That was Kang SungHo’s truth. KyungHyun wasn’t stupid. He understood the
meaning behind SungHo’s joking words. SungHo’s distrust in KyungHyun had
finally reached its limit.

KyungHyun got up from his seat and slowly walked towards the bathroom. He
turned the sink faucet and watched the stream of water fall for a long while.
Then he splashed some water on his face. Because he had carelessly rubbed
one out, his clothes were now ruined. Therefore, he didn’t put his clothes back
on and was still in the nude. The cold water trickled down his body.

After washing his face with water a few more times, he looked up at his
reflection in the mirror. The twisted face of an unfamiliar man glared back at
him.

After Serim’s boss passed away, SungHo took over. The first thing he did as the
new boss was start the business in order to stabilize the organization.
However, there was a limit to his influence if he only dealt in prostitution, real
estate fraud, and drug trafficking. On top of that, the new drug enforcement
organization in China had sniffed them out multiple times, causing him to lose a
lot of business.

All the trustworthy members of the organization were arrested, and SungHo
was backed into a corner. Therefore, he made the difficult decision of sending
a young but intelligent rookie as a spy to YongSung. This rookie was KyungHyun.
This was because there was no other person SungHo could send other than
KyungHyun, the new member who was working hard to earn the organization’s
trust.

At the time, YongSung had entered the political circles and was manipulating its
stocks that way. It was on a whole different level than Serim. KyungHyun
entered YongSung and fulfilled his assignment perfectly. Having done well in the
field, he even caught the eye of YongSung’s boss, HyungChul, within the span of
2 years.

As he continued to lurk within YongSung, KyungHyun found out about

HyungChul’s right-hand man’s schemes. This was the finishing blow. It wasn’t
difficult to spot the corruption within YongSung since he had already witnessed
similar corruption in Serim. On behalf of HyungChul, KyungHyun stabbed a knife
into the right-hand man’s back and, in doing so, obtained the confidence of the
boss.

KyungHyun siphoned off some of the funds and sent it to Serim. As the sum of
money grew, SungHo was very happy with him for a few years. The problem
arose when Yongsung began to give KyungHyun more and more
responsibilities. The newly established company of KeumOh piggybacked the
organization of YongSung. Thanks to KyungHyun’s hard work, the company
grew at an incredibly fast pace. This was the only way KyungHyun was able to
gain the solid faith of his new boss without being caught.

The number of men working under KyungHyun increased each day. SungHo
began to have him followed 4 years ago. Even though SungHo was beginning to
dread the amount of influence KyungHyun held within YongSung, he couldn’t
order him to come back to Serim. But after 8 years had passed, SungHo was
suddenly telling him to return.

KyungHyun frowned. Even though SungHo ordered for his return, he sent Lee
EunHa to follow him. Up until now, SungHo sent people to watch his every move.
Even though Lee EunHa wouldn’t be any different, there was something
strange about it this time.
Was SungHo trying to have him killed?

It wasn’t totally impossible. If the person endangering you didn’t die, then you’d
die. He recalled the unwritten rule of these organizations. SungHo was afraid of
KyungHyun, and he was trying to have him killed.

However, why did he send Lee EunHa of all people? Just from one look,
KyungHyun could tell that she was young and inexperienced. Wouldn’t it have
been more effective to send an experienced assassin and plan a sudden
attack?

“Save me… Please… Please…”

He remembered the young Lee EunHa clutching the hem of his shirt as she
whispered in tears, trembling in fear. The people SungHo had sent to
investigate him didn’t know that he was actually a spy from Serim.

After these people returned to Serim without any results, they all disappeared
quietly or were killed in a dangerous mission. This was probably all SungHo’s
doing in order cover his tracks.

If KyungHyun ever recognized these people in the future, it would put SungHo in
a difficult position.

But what about Lee EunHa? How much did she know about him and Kang
SungHo? The brief phone call… Because he had only heard her end of the
conversation, he wasn’t able to fully understand her relationship with Kang
SungHo. Even though she addressed him intimately, KyungHyun could hear the
skillfully hidden chill and condescension in her voice.

A bitter laugh escaped his lips. He felt that things had become a lot more
complicated than expected.

Click.

KyungHyun grabbed the bathroom cabinet and pulled the whole thing with ease.
The sturdy cabinet let out a faint, metallic noise and opened. Instead of the
marbled wall, a small space the size of the cabinet appeared.
After touching the screen to input his fingerprints, KyungHyun swept back his
hair. In contrast to this slow movement, his voice was sharp as he spoke
languidly.

“…This is Shin KyungHyun.”

The dark monitor turned on as words quickly moved across its screen.

EunHa tossed and turned in the dark. She was having a nightmare. Suddenly,
her eyes burst open. It was a little past 4 AM. Her pillow and the bedsheets
were completely soaked with sweat. It felt incredibly uncomfortable.

“……”

It was only a dream. Whenever she felt that the old memories from 10 years
ago were fading away, they would return as nightmares. They were clearly
burnt into her mind as if they had happened just yesterday.

She opened the refrigerator door and took out a bottle of water. She downed
the whole bottle in one go. Click, her hands trembled as she lit a cigarette.

“Whew…”

She opened the window and leaned out so that half her body was outside. She
breathed out the smoke with a long sigh. A light sheen of water covered her
face due to the drizzling rain spraying down from the sky.

Even though it was cold, it made her feel better. The weather was disgustingly
sticky all afternoon, but it seemed that it was only because of the coming rain
this morning.

“Huh? Mom, look! A rainbow.”

Her mother had been tending the flowers when she turned around at EunHa’s
call.

“If you spray water like that against the sunlight, a rainbow will form. Isn’t that
cool?”

“Yeah! I wanna try too.”

Pssh, pssh. A clear rainbow appeared amidst the water particles.

“If you spray that much, you head will get wet.”

“You’re so pretty, Mom.”

“In my eyes, my daughter is the prettiest.”

The setting changed, and she was no longer outside the house. Her smiling
mother now had blood running down her face. Collapsed on the floor, she didn’t
make a sound and merely mouthed the words.

“Go…Run… EunHa, run…”

Her white nightgown was drenched in blood. Her mother had fallen down the
stairs. Her breaths stopped, her eyes still open. EunHa remembered her
mother’s face so clearly as if this had all happened yesterday.

The rain dripped onto her trembling hands, and the cigarette light went out as
it became damp. EunHa brought the damp ciagarette up to her lips and bit
down.

“There should be a kid on the 2nd floor.”

“It’s summer break, so she should still be in the house. She might have hid after
hearing all the noise.”

She was about to go on a camping trip with all her friends from school in the
United States. The quarterback she had a crush on from her school football
team was also going to be there.

However, her parents forbade her from going, saying that it was too
dangerous. She was extremely upset with them. She was already sixteen years
old, and all her friends had already gone on their first dates. The fact that she
was stuck at home and treated like a child was embarrassing.

So she left home in the middle of the night, holding nothing but her cellphone,
and went out to complain and vent to her friend in the United States. She told
her how annoyed she was, how she wished her parents just disappeared.

The last words she had said to her parents were her angry shouts as she
screamed at them to leave her alone. If she knew that those would be her last
words to them, would it have changed anything?
EunHa looked up at the cloudy night sky and laughed. Her wish was granted.
Her parents died, and now she could live her life the way she wanted to.

The tiny rain droplets became bigger. The raindrops splashed onto her cheeks
and trickled down to her chin. It was still going to be a long time before the sun
came up. The sky remained dark.

No star could be seen in the Seoul night sky. She occasionally saw the orange
taillights of the cars crossing the Han River Bridge. In this city that never slept,
nobody knew who she really was.

Sixteen. Lee EunHa basically died at that age, and she was what was left in this
cloudy, dark city. If she suddenly disappeared, nobody would be sad. If she
killed someone, she would be blamed and reproached. But she didn’t care.

An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. She was only living her life according to
Hammurabi’s code.

Chapter 3.1

“Are you feeling unwell?”

KyungHyun asked EunHa in the car as they left the office. He was still looking
straight ahead as he asked her. For a moment, EunHa wasn’t sure if he was
talking to her. She shook her head.

“No, sir. I’m fine.”

“Your face looks thinner than usual.”

KyungHyun turned his head and looked at her. He stretched out his large hand
and touched her face. Taken aback, EunHa closed her eyes and slightly pulled
her head back.

“It’s not my face. It’s because your hands are too big.”

“People are going to think our company starves their employees and forces
them to work.”

“I’ll take care of it.”

“How?”

KyungHyun put his elbow on the car window and leaned his head on his hand as
he asked. Over two weeks had passed since EunHa had become his secretary
at KeumOh. After the meeting with Kim MinSuk, EunHa continued to follow
KyungHyun around as he moved through his daily schedule. However, after that
late night call, he only treated her as a company employee.

“How will you take care of it? Are you going to hand me a report on how you’re
going to go on a strict diet to gain some weight?”

EunHa didn’t know how to respond as her mouth opened in confusion.

“Is that what you’d like me to do?”

“I’m joking.”

EunHa’s pretty brows furrowed as she smiled awkwardly. When he saw that she
was looking at him pitifully, KyungHyun asked.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“I’m only smiling because of your joke.”

KyungHyun burst out laughing and blurted out.

“Lee HaEun.”

“Yes, sir?”

“Do you want to share a meal with me?”

It was currently dinnertime, so this wasn’t an unusual question. Eunha tried to

figure out the true intentions behind his friendly behavior and cautiously
nodded her head.

“Yes, sir.”

“What kinds of food do you like?”

“I like everything. I’m not picky.”

“How does Korean food sound? I like traditional Korean food.”

“Alright.”

KyungHyun ordered his driver to go to the Korean restaurant that he

frequented regularly. The driver turned the car around with ease. EunHa
stared outside as her mind began to fill with thoughts.

2 weeks had already passed since she entered YongSung. Now, only one month
was left before the business trip to Shenzhen, China. Two days ago, General
Manager Cha had checked her passport information. This meant that there
was a high possibility that she was also going to join them.

Because of this, EunHa was trying not to disturb Shin KyungHyun’s mood until
then. EunHa’s mission was to go to Shenzhen and follow KyungHyun to the lab.
There, she would gather data and pass it over to SungHo. SungHo would then
take that data and produce an even better product from the pharmaceutical
company he had bought.

Of course, there was still a huge possibility that foreign companies would
refuse to buy them due to the retribution they might receive from YongSung, so
stealing the new drug samples was also part of the plan. EunHa tried to glean
any information about the new medical company as she worked in KeumOh, but
that information was kept strictly confidential even within the company.

Other than the fact that the new medical company was located in Shenzhen,
she didn’t know anything else. Having dinner with Shin KyungHyun might be a
blessing or a curse. But as she wondered whether she should go through with it,
the car stopped.

Tap, tap.

As they parked in the parking lot, raindrops fell onto the car window. They
were definitely entering into the rainy season now. In the brief moment EunHa
hesitated, the driver got out of the car and opened an umbrella. KyungHyun
received the umbrella and went around the car to open the car door for
EunHa.

“We’re here.”

“… Thank you.”
EunHa grabbed her purse and exited the car. The raindrops trickled down the
black umbrella that KyungHyun was holding. He wasn’t asking her to share his
umbrella, was he?

“Let’s go.”

As if he had read her mind, KyungHyun gestured to her with his chin, telling her
to get underneath the umbrella.

“Yes, sir.”

EunHa walked carefully to avoid the raindrops, and KyungHyun matched her
speed as they walked. Even though the golf umbrella that KyungHyun was
holding wasn’t small by any means, it was still a tight fit due to his size. As
EunHa tried to keep her distance from him, some rainwater wet her shoulder. A
low voice drawled from above her head.

“If Secretary Lee continues to get wet from the rain, don’t you think that I will
feel bad as the one holding the umbrella?”

“… No, I’m fine, so…”

His large hand wrapped around her shoulder and pulled her towards him.
EunHa trembled as she felt the warm hand through her wet blouse. Men
seemed to have higher temperatures than women. As he stuck her close to his
side, KyungHyun whispered from over her head.

“Much better.”

They walked along the large road and passed through a wide yard. They then
turned into a smaller road which was surrounded by acer trees. The short walk
from the car to the restaurant felt long. As his hand continued to hold her to
him, EunHa had no choice but to walk in his embrace.

EunHa’s heart raced inside her chest. Was this a sign of Shin KyungHyun’s
sexual desire for her? Or was he testing her once again? She couldn’t figure
him out.

“We received your call and have been waiting for you, sir.”
As soon as they arrived at a traditional Korean-style house, a woman in a
hanbok came out and bowed in greeting. Only when they had gotten
underneath the eaves did KyungHyun take his hand off her shoulder.

“Let’s go inside.”

The woman received the umbrella and quickly guided them to a room inside. As
the door closed shut, EunHa heard traditional Korean music flow in from
outside. She could only imagine the kind of customers that were inside the
other rooms.

Even though they were in the middle of Seoul, it felt as if they were hidden in
the mountains. This was a perfect place to have secret conversations.

“We need something to clean ourselves.”

As soon as KyungHyun spoke, the employee quickly brought in some towels.

EunHa smelt an aromatic fragrance coming off of the towel as she carefully
dried her damp hair and shoulders.

“You’re quite wet.”

“You’re right. I got wet even though I shared an umbrella with you, Director.”

“Next time, you don’t have to be so awkward and stay so far away. Other
people may think that I kidnapped you and was threatening you with gun.”

EunHa blankly gazed at him and laughed. KyungHyun stared at her and asked.

“Why are you laughing?”

“If I answer honestly, will you not fire me?”

“Go ahead. We’re officially done with work anyway.”

“I laughed because I felt that you’ve carried out plenty of kidnappings before,
Director.”

“Are you talking about human trafficking?”

KyungHyun asked apathetically. EunHa shrugged her shoulders in response.

“Those Serim bastards are the only ones who make money by selling women.”

KyungHyun answered as he threw back a shot of liquor. EunHa couldn’t help but
flinch when she heard the familiar name come out of his lips.

“And only poor, third-rate organizations make money off of things like organ
trafficking.”

As KyungHyun continued speaking, EunHa tried her best to hide her surprise.

“I didn’t know there was a ranking system in this world.”

KyungHyun understood the meaning behind her words. She was saying that he
was a pot calling the kettle black.

“It seems that Secretary Lee doesn’t have much loyalty to our company.”

“Since you told me it was okay to be honest, I’ll say this. I don’t really have a
sense of belonging wherever I go.”

“Then why did you come work for our company? Gangsters are people that
value affiliations more than anyone.”

“Is that so?”

“Ah, and another group values it as well.”

“Who?”

“Cops.”

“Haha.”

EunHa laughed when she heard his curt reply. KyungHyun chuckled as well.

“If I had to chose between the two, I’d choose the capable thugs over the
incompetent police.”

“That’s pretty harsh.”

“Isn’t it pleasing to hear, though?”

“Yeah, it’s not bad.”

KyungHyun emptied his second cup of liquor as he nodded. His complexion

didn’t change at all, but he strangely felt comfortable today. Usually, he seemed
like a man who wouldn’t bleed even if you pierced his skin.

“If you need anything else, please don’t hesitate to call.”

After placing all the dishes onto the table, the waitress closed the sliding door.

“Eat.”

EunHa picked up her chopsticks. She was suddenly thrust back into reality, and
the room felt suffocating once again. This restaurant was basically buried at
the foot of a mountain, and the rooms were so far apart that no one would
know if someone was being killed inside one of them.

However, she also felt that it might be a bit easier to get closer to Shin
KyungHyun here since there were no eyes watching them.

“… The reason why I came to KeumOh is because I wanted to take care of a

personal matter.”

“You said that last time.”

Bracing herself for KyungHyun’s further questioning, EunHa had prepared a

cliché and commonplace answer. However, he didn’t ask her for specifics and
changed the subject instead.

“Whatever the reason is, it’s good to have a goal.”

His words sounded strangely pessimistic. EunHa stared at him before asking.

“Don’t you also have a goal, Director? Isn’t that why you work?”

Whether it was money or something else, there must be a reason why he was
working at a company like YongSung. But for some reason, his expression
seemed to say the opposite.

“No.”

KyungHyun stared at EunHa as she looked back at him with questioning eyes.
“I work because of my affiliation with the organization. The opposite of you.”

“Hmm, that sounds preposterous.”

EunHa murmured softly. She picked off a piece of the perfectly-cooked Korean
pancake and put it in her mouth. Then she stretched out her hand towards the
colorful and neatly prepared dishes. KyungHyun merely watched her eat and
only drank the liquor. He was definitely a heavy drinker.

“This place is delicious.”

“I felt that it didn’t suit the tastes of the young people these days, so I was
worried. I’m glad you like it.”

“Director, do you know that you sometimes speak like an old man?”

“I do?”

“Yes. Let me pour you a glass of liquor.”

KyungHyun had been drinking the liquor all by himself this whole time. She
cautiously took the white gourd-shaped bottle and filled his cup.

“You speak completely different from the way you look.”

KyungHyun downed the entire cup before chuckling at her words.

“I’m nine years older than you. It wouldn’t be completely wrong for you to call
me an old man.”

“Wow. You were so proud of your older age not that long ago. I’m quite
experienced for a twenty-six-year-old, you know.”

“Twenty-six, huh…”

He watched her eyes sparkle playfully before speaking again.

“I’ve killed someone at your age.”

EunHa had been busily moving her chopsticks when she heard those indifferent
words. She froze momentarily.
“And not just a couple people.”

EunHa met his blank eyes. Her heart began to race.

“Sometimes I feel as if the people I’ve killed have come for my neck. If each
person could pierce me one time, I’d definitely be a beehive by the end of it.”

KyungHyun laughed a little. EunHa replied softly.

“… Are you afraid of that? Being punished for all the bad things you’ve done?”

“If that were the case, then I wouldn’t have done all this up till now. I’m quite a
shameless man. I’m good at finding an excuse for my behavior.”

“Then why did you say all that just now?”

“I don’t know. Maybe I’m drunk.”

“To be honest, you don’t seem drunk at all.”

KyungHyun slightly frowned at EunHa’s observation.

He hadn’t gotten drunk for many years now. Even now, KyungHyun’s mind was
on edge as it imagined a mob of men suddenly infiltrate the room with knives.
He couldn’t help himself. It came naturally to him.

“Director.”

He focused his gaze on EunHa.

“Are you still thinking about firing me?”

“… Why are you asking? How could you ask that to someone who is buying you a
meal?”

“It’s just… You look frustrated about something.”

“How funny.”
KyungHyun held the liquor in his mouth as he stared at her. He couldn’t take his
eyes off the woman who was sitting in front of him. Her posture was upright
while her words were brazen. Maybe he was a bit drunk.

“You want to fire me, and you want to keep me by your side. Isn’t that how you
feel right now?”

She might be right. KyungHyun was hoping that she would just give up on her
mission and leave him right now. If she stayed by his side, she would inevitably
run into some danger, so it was only right for her to avoid it while she still could.
That was also a reason why he never got close to a woman.

While this was all true, for the past 2 weeks, he was hesitant to let her go. Why
was that? Was it because he had saved her as a girl back then? Was there
some kind of special meaning behind this feeling? KyungHyun was never this
emotional, so he felt a bit strange.

“Why do I want to keep you by my side?”

EunHa’s lips stretched into a smile. Her smiling face didn’t have any wrinkles, as
if she were still a young child. This was why he was so curious about how she
had grown up.

“How would I know what’s in your heart?”

KyungHyun couldn’t take his eyes off her. She watched him and crinkled her
nose playfully.

“Well, I think I can take a guess.”

As EunHa raised her cup, KyungHyun quickly grabbed the liquor bottle and filled
it. The liquor gave off a fragrant aroma.

“Alright. What do you think is the reason?”

The woman who had led a hard life answered back as if she had lived an easy
life.

“Isn’t it because I’m a magical woman…?”

EunHa’s face contorted as she took a sip of liquor. The liquor burned her
throat. She now realized that the liquor that KyungHyun had been drinking like
water was an incredibly strong Chinese liquor.

“Cough!“

EunHa began to cough as the lethal sip of liquor went down her throat. She
covered her mouth with a napkin and coughed a few more times. She couldn’t
understand the sick, twisted people that actually enjoyed such strong liquor
like this.

“Aaah… I almost died…”

EunHa took the napkin and wiped her eyes which had filled with tears.
KyungHyun watched her, his elbow on the table and his head in his hand. He
began to rub his face with his large hand. Even though his mouth was hidden,
she could tell that he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking. EunHa
fanned her flushed face, and his laughter became louder.

“Here. Drink some water, magical woman.”

“It’s because it got caught in my throat.”

“Did I say anything?”

KyungHyun’s expression returned to normal. He had planned on asking her in an

indifferent voice, but he couldn’t keep the trace of humor from his voice. Seeing
EunHa make a fool of herself while they were having such a serious
conversation made him chuckle.

After that, KyungHyun kept his mouth shut, so EunHa could only focus on eating
for the rest of the meal. EunHa sipped the Omija Tea that was brought in for
dessert. She felt as if her stomach was full to the brim. She couldn’t eat
anymore.

“Thank you for the meal.”

“General Manager Cha will be here soon with the car.”

“Yes, sir.”
Thinking that it wasn’t as late as he thought, he nodded his head and hesitated
before asking EunHa a question.

“If it’s alright with you, do you want to walk around a little while we wait?”

It was no longer raining. After walking out to the back of the parking lot, they
saw a quiet path that was too narrow for cars to access. Streetlights stood
along the path, so it was brightly lit. After looking around and deciding that it
wouldn’t be too dangerous, EunHa nodded. This was a chance to ease the
tension between them. She had no reason to turn down this opportunity.

“Sounds good. I ate too much, so it’s perfect timing.”

She slowly followed KyungHyun. They walked in silence for a while when
KyungHyun suddenly spoke.

“How long have you lived in the United States?”

“… Since 5th grade up until I graduated college.”

She answered him naturally, leaving out the unsavory details in between.

“Then you must feel more comfortable over there than Korea.”

“Not at all. I’ve always wanted to come back to Korea. I was only unable to
return because of family issues.”

He didn’t ask any further. EunHa took advantage of the silence and asked her
own question.

“Director, what did you… No, that’s not it. How did you first come to work at
KeumOh?”

“Why, do I not fit in?”

“No, you look like you were made to enter KeumOh.”

EunHa looked up at him and grinned. Even though she had only been observing
him for a short amount of time, compared to all the other people she’d seen, it
wasn’t an exaggeration to say that KyungHyun was the person most suited for
this kind of world.
He was different from SungHo, who seemed like he was born wicked and nasty.
EunHa could never read KyungHyun’s mind.

That’s right. This was a world where two men could be brothers on one day
and enemies the next. It was a world where people lived as they hid the
darkest part of themselves from others.

“I was just curious about how you reached the position you’re at right now.”

“As I tried to live…”

EunHa slowly stopped walking. Small knats flew around the dim light of the
streetlamps. Maybe because they were in the mountains, EunHa also heard the
faint cry of a bird. Thanks to the recent bout of rain, she could smell the damp
dirt underneath her feet and the fresh scent of the trees.

“By the time I realized it, I was already here.”

KyungHyun came one step closer to her. Nobody was around. Even though they
were still in the middle of the city, their surroundings were silent. Just as his
large hand was about to touch her face, it suddenly whipped away. It was such
a sudden movement that EunHa was unable to react. Her heart was racing
furiously.

“… The mosquitos are out already.”

The faint, high-pitched buzzing noise next to her ear disappeared. KyungHyun
brushed his hand, and a small, black bug fell out like dust. Possibly because of
the way the light of the streetlamp was hitting his face, EunHa thought
KyungHyun looked a bit different.

“Did I surprise you?”

“… Because one would normally think that something different would happen in
this situation.”

EunHa’s trembling lips stretched into a smile. KyungHyun’s bent finger gently
brushed against the spot on her face where the bug had touched. He came one
step closer. They were so close that their chests were almost touching.

“What did you think would happen?”

“… I thought that you looked handsome.”

“From the look on your face, I don’t think that was it.”

“I’m serious. A man who can catch and kill a bug is just my type.”

KyungHyun’s face came closer to hers. He carefully rubbed her pink cheeks,
almost as if he were touching a small animal. She could smell his cologne mixed
with his natural body scent.

“Does Secretary Lee have a habit of saying whatever is on her mind when she’s
nervous?”

“If I tell you what I really think, I’m afraid you’ll get mad, so I’m holding it back,
Director.”

“I won’t get mad, so tell me.”

EunHa looked up at him and slightly opened her moist lips. With her finishing
move, she gazed at him with bewitching eyes.

“…Really?”

“Really.”

“I want to kiss you.”

EunHa whispered softly. He merely smiled dangerously and didn’t say a word,
but EunHa didn’t miss the way his eyebrow twitched. After gazing at his face,
she turned her face to the side. The finger that had been grazing her cheek
now brushed up against her lips. As her breaths fell on his finger, she looked at
him and whispered slowly.

“I was thinking that I wanted to kiss you.”

KyungHyun’s eyes darkened. His arm firmly wound around her hips. Suppressed
desire burst out through the fingertip grazing against her cheek. His warm
hand grabbed her face, his arousal dripped out of his every movement.

“Stop joking around.”

EunHa didn’t do much. KyungHyun had already been looking at her with eyes
that revealed his intense desire to embrace her. She merely fanned the flames.

“I’ll stop if you give me a kiss.”

“I’m going to lose my mind.”

“Because I’m so pretty?”

KyungHyun frowned and let out a laugh. Even though he looked angry, EunHa
had a hunch that he was just incredibly aroused. EunHa’s long eyelashes
lowered as she tilted her face up to him. Her eyes slowly closed. She knew that
he would kiss her. His hand buried into her hair and firmly pulled her head
towards his. Suddenly, they heard a loud noise and saw a bright light appear in
front of their eyes. As the bright light pierced her eyes, EunHa reflexively
turned her head.

Vrooom!

A motorcycle suddenly appeared out of nowhere, its engine letting out a loud
groan. KyungHyun covered EunHa’s body with his as the motorcycle charged at
her. He hugged her to his chest and threw both their bodies onto the ground.

“Agh!”

The motorcycle roughly turned around at the curb. EunHa suddenly got up,
completely dazed. With her eyes wide open, she was just about to run away
when KyungHyun pulled her back to his hard body and embraced her so that
she couldn’t move.

Vrooooom!”

The motorcycle engine groaned again as it began to charge at them. The

wheels roughly scraped the ground as it spun around. The wet mud splattered.

Chapter 3.2

KyungHyun took out his gun from the back of his pants in an instant. EunHa
remained still, petrified from shock. KyungHyun quickly wrapped his arm around
her head and covered her ears as he pulled her to his chest. Then he took aim
and pulled the trigger.

Pew!

Even though a silencer was attached to the gun, the sound of the bullet
splitting through the air could be heard clearly. EunHa reflexively buried her
body into the man’s embrace. Even in the foggy weather, the bullet accurately
hit the front wheel of the motorcycle. Losing its balance, the motorcycle shook
precariously. Shocked, the driver jumped off the motorcycle and flew through
the air.

“Ugh!”

Rumble, rumble!

Before the driver fell to the ground, the motorcycle lost its balance and began
to charge straight for KyungHyun and EunHa.

Shit!

EunHa’s eyes widened. They were going to get hit.

“Aaagh!”

Just as she was about to crawl away to avoid the crash, her body was roughly
shoved to the side. KyungHyun took her in his arms and rolled them onto the
dirt path. The motorcycle charged into a tree a few meters away and crashed
loudly.

“Ugh!”

Debris flew over KyungHyun’s head as he shielded EunHa with his body.

“Haa… Haa…”

Still inside his arms, EunHa looked up. She saw the driver toss his broken helmet
to the ground and run away.

With a frightening expression on his face, KyungHyun aimed his gun at the
driver. His eyes narrowed as he focused, and his thick arm tensed. When Eunha
saw the half-shaven head of the frantically running man, her eyes widened.
Pew!

Having recognized YongJoon, EunHa grabbed onto KyungHyun’s arm right as he

pulled the trigger. The bullet dangerously grazed YongJoon’s arm. He began to
run even faster.

“Damn it.”

Cursing, KyungHyun got up to chase after YongJoon. EunHa could see General
Manager Cha frantically run towards them from the direction of the restaurant.

“Are you alright?”

“I’ll leave Secretary Lee to you.”

“No!”

EunHa tightly grabbed onto KyungHyun’s arm just as he was about to run after
YongJoon. Frowning, he glanced down at her. EunHa let out a loud cry.

“I-I’m scared!”

She could find out why YongJoon did such a ridiculous thing later. She knew for
a fact that if KyungHyun ran after him, armed with a gun, it would only be a
matter of time before YongJoon’s corpse was discovered. If it was a bare-
knuckled fight, YongJoon might stand a chance, but she could tell from just one
look that KyungHyun was extremely skilled with the gun.

“What?”

She couldn’t tell what KyungHyun was thinking from his expression as he asked.
EunHa looked up at KyungHyun, her eyes full of terror.

“I don’t want to be separated from you, Director. I’m scared.”

As she tightly gripped his arm, EunHa’s hands were damp with sweat. She
wasn’t telling a complete lie. She did feel scared. When she saw the motorcycle
charging at them, she really did think that it would crash into her, and that
she’d finally see her parents in heaven.
She couldn’t calm her racing heart as her nerves buzzed. Her body was still in a
state of shock. KyungHyun’s face hardened as he looked at her with a terrifying
expression. He then let out a short sigh.

“… Director…?”

Suddenly, EunHa was being carried. After picking her up and bringing her to his
chest, he began to walk. Confused, EunHa asked that he let her down, but it was
no use.

“I can walk by myself.”

“Stop joking around.”

In the end, KyungHyun carried her back up the mountain path. General Manager
Cha quickly opened the car door. KyungHyun placed her inside before getting in
after her.

“I’ll take a look around.”

Click.

The door closed, and General Manager Cha disappeared. A heavy silence
settled inside the car.

“If it wasn’t for you, that man would have died by my hand.”

His languid voice drawled. EunHa didn’t avoid his gaze as he stared at her. His
piercing eyes seemed to be reading her thoughts.

“Why did you stop me?”

Did he realize that she stopped him on purpose? EunHa silently swallowed, her
mouth dry. Then she parted her trembling lips.

“I wasn’t ready to see someone die in front of my eyes. I just did it instinctively.”

Her voice trembled at the thought of being caught as YongJoon’s accomplice.

She comforted herself by telling herself that it only helped her sound more
terrified.

“You’ve never seen a person die?”

KyungHyun asked in his low voice as he looked into her eyes. EunHa’s breath
caught in her throat. She recalled her mother’s eyes as her bloody body was
stretched out on the stairs. EunHa couldn’t help but close her eyes before
opening them again.

“It’s not something a normal person sees very often.”

Because she always relived her parents’ deaths, she didn’t grow up as a normal
person. As EunHa recalled that fact, she felt herself calm down and her fears
subside. It was more clear than ever why she was in a place like this. Why she
risked danger and approached Shin KyungHyun.

“If it’s for the sake of my own life, I don’t hesitate to kill anyone.”

His voice was cold and cruel as he blurted these words out to her. EunHa
looked at him and whispered softly.

“…I’m glad.”

“About what?”

“…As long as you’re next to me, I feel that I won’t die.”

KyungHyun stared at her before biting his lower lip. EunHa thought she saw the
end of his lips go up for a second.

“Then next time, don’t waste your energy trying to run away and stick right
next to me.”

He was talking about the moment when EunHa was struggling to escape as the
motorcycle was charging at them. When EunHa nodded in agreement,
KyungHyun’s narrow eyes softened a little.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

His indifferent voice returned to normal.

“No, I’m fine…”

As EunHa nodded, a large hand grabbed her leg. Her skin twitched as his hot
hand touched her. When he had carried her earlier, she was too out of it to
notice his body temperature. But now she still clearly remembered his fierce
strength as he crushed her to him.

“Director, I’m really fine.”

“I’ll be the judge of that. You fell hard on this side back there.”

KyungHyun grabbed her ankle as he murmured.

“Why is your ankle so thin?”

“It’s normally that thin for me.”

“It looks like it can break so easily.”

EunHa was about to ask him if this was the first time he held a woman’s ankle,
but she quickly suppressed that urge. This was because his frowning face didn’t
look pleased at all. He was bigger than an average man. Even though their
bodies were bound to be different, it looked like he couldn’t understand that
fact.

KyungHyun silently massaged her ankle, checking for any broken bones. Only
when he saw that she was perfectly fine did he let her go. EunHa thought it was
finally over, but KyungHyun suddenly brushed his thumb over her cheek. A
strange tension filled the air.

What was this? Even though this didn’t seem like the appropriate time to kiss,
nothing was impossible. EunHa slowly closed her eyes.

“……”

She heard a small noise. Instead of lips, something else touched her face. She
opened her eyes to see what it was. KyungHyun was holding a handkerchief. He
had wet the handkerchief with some water from the water bottle in the car and
was using it to clean off the dirt on her face. EunHa blinked, completely stunned.

“Your expression looks frozen.”

KyungHyun rubbed her browline as he looked at her.

“…I was just a bit surprised. That’s all.”

“About what?”

“I didn’t think you’d carry something like that around.”

“…A gun?”

“A handkerchief. It’s quite gentlemanly.”

“Stop saying ridiculous things and keep your mouth shut.”

He folded the handkerchief. He continued to wipe her face, but he was gentler
when he was at her nose and lips. EunHa began to blush.

“Close your eyes.”

His careful hand began to wipe around her eyes. He slowly moved over her
closed eyelids. She could feel his finger through the thin fabric. For some
reason, EunHa felt these simple movements were more sexually provocative
than anything she’d experienced before.

After he finished cleaning her face, KyungHyun folded the dirt-stained

handkerchief and simply put it back into his suit pocket. As she saw his suit
jacket ride up, she saw the gun hanging on his hip.

EunHa felt that the black pistol and the checkered handkerchief smelling of his
musk suited him very well. For some reason, she felt herself blush. It had been
feeling hot inside the car for a while now.

“I’ll open the window for a bit.”

The cool night breeze brushed against her face. She heard a car door open
and close as she leaned her head back. It seemed her body was still high on
dopamine from when the speeding motorcycle almost hit them. She could hear
her heart beating rapidly in her ears.

“Go inside.”

After dismissing the driver, KyungHyun drove EunHa to her apartment himself.
He ignored her protests and her claims of being perfectly fine and walked her
up to her apartment door.

“Thank you for bringing me home.”

“Get some rest.”

His soft, low voice echoed in the empty hallway. EunHa gave him a slight nod.

“Drive back safely.”

EunHa carefully opened her front door and went inside before closing it. The
motion detector lights in the entryway turned on. After checking that nobody
was inside, she finally relaxed and let out a sigh. She was worried YongJoon or
another henchman sent by SungHo would be here. She thought her head was
going to explode with dread as they walked across the parking lot and went up
on the elevator.

Ding dong.

She heard the faint sound of the elevator’s arrival outside her door. Still leaning
her back on the door, EunHa didn’t move. Then she finally began to head for
the bathroom. She turned on the hot water and washed her hands. She took off
her dirt-stained blouse and skirt. She looked into the mirror and saw that all
her makeup had been wiped off her face. It seemed that it had been wiped off
with the dirt when KyungHyun had been rubbing her face with his handkerchief.

After tossing her dirty clothes into the hamper, she walked across the living
room only in her underwear. She took out a bottle of water from the
refrigerator and began to drink it down. She must have been thirstier than she
thought. She finished the whole bottle in one go.

Her temple pulsed due to the quick intake of cold water, but she felt her mind
become clearer. She threw the empty plastic bottle into the trash bin and bit
her lip hard.

‘Just what was that idiot YongPal thinking?’

After finally being able to relax by herself, EunHa was filled with rage as she
recalled YongJoon’s actions. The unexpected dinner with KyungHyun was
nothing compared to the shock she received after the meal. No matter how
much she thought about it, EunHa couldn’t figure out why YongJoon suddenly
attacked KyungHyun like that.

She felt that she needed to tell SungHo about what happened immediately.
Even though she knew that SungHo would be absolutely furious when he found
out, she believed that YongJoon had to stop his impulsive acts for his own
good. If she was one moment too late, that motorcycle would have hit her for
sure. She ground her teeth just thinking about it again.

EunHa walked over to the mattress and began to search underneath it for the
hidden cellphone when she suddenly froze. Due to her dangerous lifestyle, she
had developed an unexplainable intuition. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to make
sure her surroundings were secure before calling SungHo. No, it was probably
the right thing to do.

“……”

She silently walked over to the front door.

Blink.

She carefully brought her eye to the peephole located on the center of the
door. She looked out, but nothing was there. For a moment, she had wondered
if KyungHyun was standing there with his ear to the door. But that was just an
unfounded worry. EunHa let out a long breath.

Ding.

She saw the elevator door open through the small peephole.

When she saw KyungHyun appear through the doors, she didn’t even have time
to be surprised. His face came closer to the peephole in a quick second when
she heard him enter the passcode.

Shocked, her eyes narrowed when the door suddenly burst open. Her hand had
been on the doorknob, so when the door suddenly open, she was pulled outside
and into KyungHyun’s firm chest.

“Haa…!”

She barely managed to get herself together and stepped back. His frowning
eyes were filled with desire as he saw her clad only in her underwear. He
impatiently brushed back the hair that had fallen over his furrowed forehead
with his hand. EunHa tried to hide her confusion and opened her mouth.

“Director, why are you still… Hmm…!”

The feel of his hand on the nape of her neck felt familiar. EunHa’s eyes
widened. KyungHyun didn’t even give her the chance to close her eyes.

His hand felt hot as it traveled from her nape to her cheek. Her skin tingled. He
bit her lips. EunHa hesitated before walking backwards. KyungHyun didn’t break
away from the kiss and stepped forward, following her inside. He wedged his
thick tongue between her lips and entered her mouth in an instant.

“Haa…mmm!”

He continued to suck her mouth, completely absorbed in the kiss. He entangled

her tongue as if it belonged to him. One of his warm hands was on her cheek.
The other firmly gripped her bottom, which was only covered by her thin
panties. EunHa was helpless as he pushed her inside her apartment.

Bang.

The door closed shut behind KyungHyun. Beep, beep, beep. EunHa flinched when
she heard the door automatically lock.

KyungHyun pulled her body up against his. EunHa could feel the hard ridge of
his cock push up against her panty-covered mound. As the stiff rod poked her
in a sensitive spot, a moan left her lips. His grip on her began to gradually
tighten.

“Haagh…!”

KyungHyun roughly licked around the inside of her mouth, poking the back of
her tongue. As he sucked on her sweet tongue, she could feel his breaths brush
over her face.

EunHa’s mind went blank as she felt him greedily cover mouth with his. She felt
that she could finally see what was hidden behind Shin KyungHyun’s cold mask
through their kiss. Like a savage beast that snapped the windpipe of its prey,
there was no hesitation in his movements.

“D-Director…Hnng!”

“Stay still.”
He spoke, his lips still touching hers. His voice sounded rough like sandpaper.
The clear, distinct bulge of his penis through his suit pants began to rub up
against her hidden clitoris.

Something deep within her twitched, and a zing of pleasure traveled up her
spine. Soon, something hot dripped out of EunHa and wet her panties.
KyungHyun’s middle finger traveled from her bottom up to the wet spot on her
panties. Then his finger began to rub her above the fabric.

“Hmm…!”

EunHa’s body trembled at the stimulation and began to react. She tried to
press her thighs together to stop his hand, but it was no use. KyungHyun easily
pulled them apart. Then he began to rub her again. In the end, her juices
drenched her underwear and made his finger slippery.

“Hnnng…!”

KyungHyun finally pulled away from her lips, and a soft moan slipped out.
KyungHyun’s eyes darkened as he looked down at her expression.

“Director, can I ask what you’re doing right now?”

“Is this your first time kissing?”

His hot breaths brushed over EunHa’s wet, swollen lips.

“Of course not. What I’m saying is, why are you suddenly doing this to me?”

“This is your punishment for daring to tell me you wanted to kiss me.”

His sudden actions made her heart thump heavily inside her chest. His grasp on
her bottom was so tight that she felt that she’d burst. Her body was tense.
EunHa let out a huff and grasped his shirt.

“Haa… for a punishment, isn’t this too nice?”

KyungHyun frowned at her provocation. His Adam’s apple moved as a rough

groan escaped his lips.

“…You like it?”

KyungHyun put his forearms underneath her bottom and lifted her up. EunHa
wound her arms around her neck for balance.

“Aaah!”

Her surroundings spun. Her back flopped onto the mattress. EunHa was glad
she had asked SungHo to order a premium mattress.

“How did you know my passcode?”

“I had a hunch.”

“Are you investigating me?”

“Did you really not expect that to happen when you applied to a mob
organization?”

She wanted to protest, but she knew that her words wouldn’t get through to
him. KyungHyun took off his suit jacket and tossed it to the ground. He placed
the gun secured to his hips onto the table with a thud. EunHa hid her confused
expression and swallowed.

“Isn’t this all happening too fast?”

“It may seem like that to you, but not to me.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’ve been in this state since you started working half a month ago.”

KyungHyun placed his hand on top of the bulge in his pants and lightly grasped
it. At his gesture, EunHa’s face reddened.

“You have quite a lot of patience, Director.”

“My bedside manners aren’t very good, I’m afraid.”

He slowly walked over EunHa, who was laid out on the bed.

“What’s wrong with your bedside manners?”

“You’re about to find out.”

His black gaze fixed onto her as he slowly loosened his necktie. KyungHyun
swept back the few locks of his hair that had fallen over his forehead. Even
though they hadn’t touched, EunHa felt as if she could feel the heat radiating
off of him.

EunHa finally realized why she tensed up whenever his gaze was on her. She
knew for sure after having shared a kiss with him. His eyes were very similar to
his kiss. They both had the ability to make a person drown in them.

“… Are you going to kill me?”

“I don’t know. What do you think?”

Tap, tap.

The buttons on his white shirt fell away all at once. He tore open his shirt and
took off his top all at once. His rugged muscles were revealed.

EunHa reflexively drew her breath. How much did a man have to exert himself
to obtain such a perfectly muscular body? She saw a tattoo stretch across his
left chest back around his shoulder. However, she didn’t have a chance to see
where the tattoo ended. KyungHyun approached the bed and gripped her hips.
Suddenly, her black, silk panties were lowered to her knees.

“Ah, ah!”

She didn’t have a chance to hide herself. She had planned to give him a
striptease to make him lose his mind with lust, but those plans flew out the
window.

KyungHyun watched as EunHa squirmed in shock before wrapping his sturdy

arms around her thighs and fixing her so that she couldn’t move. Then he
crashed his mouth to the area between her thighs. As she felt something hot
and wet brush against her sensitive spot, a moan automatically burst out of her
lips.

“Aaah…!”

EunHa lifted her hips, bringing it closer to his lips. He didn’t caress her clitoris
gently with the tip of his tongue. Instead, his thick tongue licked across her
entrance and her clitoris in long strokes like a beast.
He found the spot that gave her the best pleasure and furiously sucked. Once
her slick juices trickled out, he plunged his tongue into her entrance.

“Ah, aagh. Direc…tor… Aaaah…!”

She couldn’t stop the wave of pleasure. EunHa sat up and tried to push him
away, but her weak protests only provoked him even more.

“Ugh!”

Both of her legs were suddenly lifted up so that they were now right in front of
her face. She had basically been folded in half. In this positilon, her entrance
was brought out in clear view. She didn’t have time to feel embarrassed.
KyungHyun pressed down on her thighs and didn’t take his face away from her
entrance. His tongue continued to plunge into her.

His wet, hot tongue lapped at her before it eventually traveled down and
brushed past her anus. A sharp cry burst out of EunHa’s lips.

“No… Hnng!”

Slick with her juices, his lips went back up to her clitoris and began to suck. He
simultaneously rubbed her entrance, and soon the room was filled with
embarrassing wet sounds. EunHa’s face turned bright red.

There was no hesitation in the man’s movements. EunHa couldn’t show her
bewilderment at his smooth actions. He had always treated her like a child, and
EunHa didn’t want to be treated like one in bed as well. EunHa grit her teeth
and let out a groan.

KyungHyun’s love play was as persistent as his personality. As the blood

continued to pulse through her core, her wet entrance twitched and began to
contract. EunHa’s toned thighs began to tremble. She reached her peak without
any warning.

“Aaah, aagh!”

EunHa twisted her head into the pillow as she cried out. Her sensitive sex
trembled as a transparent fluid flowed out, dripping onto the cotton sheets on
the mattress. Her swollen breasts were still in her half-cup bra and moved up
and down with her panting breaths.
KyungHyun slid his hand behind her back and took her bra off. EunHa was now
completely naked. KyungHyun looked down on her nude body with appreciation
in his eyes before he wiped his wet lips and with his hand and licked it.

“You’re pretty tasty.”

EunHa’s delicate body was pressed down by the man’s warm, hard body.
KyungHyun’s low voice spoke up as he lay over her. She could feel the sticky
sweat where their bare skins touched. She could feel the rapid heartbeats
vibrate through their skin. She didn’t know which heartbeats were hers and
which were his.

Chapter 3.3

“I’d love to suck you some more, but I’ve reached my limit.”

KyungHyun raised his hand and rubbed the tears away from her eyes. Drunk on
pleasure, EunHa only then realized that her eyes had filled with tears.

“Ha…Haha…”

EunHa wasn’t sure if she was crying or laughing. KyungHyun’s large hand
squeezed her voluptuous breast. Even though he was squeezing it so hard that
it felt like it’d burst, the pleasure overrode the pain.

“You look like you regret seducing me.”

“No, you’ve misunderstood.”

“Then what are you thinking?”

“I was thinking that it’s the first time I’ve been aroused to tears.”

EunHa’s whispering voice sounded sensuous. Her clear face was without
makeup. A deep blush had risen on her cheeks. Watching her laugh with tears
in her eyes, KyungHyun was incredibly turned on.

“Director, your body feels very hot… It feels nice.”

EunHa’s slender fingers grazed his spine.

“I hate being cold.”

At her light touch, KyungHyun’s remaining patience flew out the window.

“Ah, aaagh!”

He squeezed her breast and nibbled and sucked on its peak. EunHa’s breath
caught in her throat. The sound of KyungHyun’s mouth on her breast rang
throughout the room. KyungHyun unbuckled his belt, took his pants off, and
threw them onto the floor. His boxer briefs were taught as his cock stood up. It
looked angry, as if it was impatient to enter the soft body underneath him.

“Please… Let me suck you too, Director… Aagh!”

EunHa reached down and hooked her fingers under the bands of his
underwear to lower them. However, she wasn’t able to do it. KyungHyun had
squeezed her breast in his large hand and began to massage it as he bit down
on her perky nipple.

“Don’t get cheeky, kid.”

Actually, he just couldn’t take it any longer. The veins on his cock were pulsing,
and the tip was already wet with cum.

Before his dinner with EunHa, when they were walking to the restaurant
underneath the umbrella, he was already heavily aroused. If it wasn’t for the
unexpected entrance of the unwanted guest after the meal, he would have
kissed her. There was a chance that he wouldn’t have been able to control
himself, and he might have ripped her clothes off outside and taken her then
and there.

The fantasies of having sex with her played on repeat inside his head. The
settings would change from the squash courts, his office, and inside the car. He
recalled all the places where he had his way with her in his fantasies.

“Relax and open your legs as wide as you can.”

KyungHyun’s hot voice whispered into her ear as he parted her legs with his
knees and settled himself between her thighs.

“Do you really think I’m a kid?”

“What do you mean?”

“This isn’t my first time, haa, so you don’t have to be so careful with me.”

At EunHa’s murmur, a sexy smile stretched across KyungHyun’s sweaty face.

“…Alright, then.”

After the abrupt kiss, EunHa was dazed from all of KyungHyun’s caresses, so
she hadn’t had a chance to see his package. The swollen head of KyungHyun’s
penis entered her wet entrance. As she felt him begin to slide in, her red lips
parted in surprise as her pretty eyes narrowed.

“Haaaa…!”

EunHa’s body trembled. It wasn’t that she was in pain. It was just that his thick
rod was filling her so completely that she felt as if she couldn’t breathe. Her
whole body was silently screaming as he continued to enter her. Stretched to
the limit, her walls tightly gripped his cock. KyungHyun licked the tender skin
under her ear and murmured in a husky voice.

“Are you always this tight? I can barely get in.”

“No, it’s not me, it’s… Aaagh!”

“See? You’re gripping me so tight and won’t let me go.”

It wasn’t like she could control it. EunHa gasped as she struggled to
accommodate him. KyungHyun suddenly frowned as he quickly thrust his hips.
His thick penis was now completely inside her.

“Haagh!”

“I’m about to come. You need to relax.”

“Then just get it over with.”

EunHa was being honest. She was drowning in the most intense pleasure she
had ever experienced. It made her feel a sense of dread. KyungHyun caressed
her cheek with his hand.
“I can’t do that. We just started.”

His cock was completely wrapped up inside her, and it was rubbing up against
her sweet spot. Even though he hadn’t started moving, just his penetration
alone made EunHa feel as if she was about to tip over the edge. She wrapped
her arms around him and pulled him to her.

“Haaagh… Haaa…”

KyungHyun brought his face up to hers. Her face was flushed as she gasped for
breath. His hard body was pressing down on her.

“It will be best if you don’t drive me crazy. You won’t be able to handle me.”

If she were with any other man, she would have tempted him with her usual
bewitching words. But for the first time, she was at a loss for words. At the rate
this was going, she felt that she really wasn’t going to be able to handle this.
Her instincts were on edge as if she were in danger. This… wasn’t a joke.

Slap! Slide. Slap!

His hips pulled out before slamming back in. It was so fierce that it gave off a
sound. As his hips began to pump, EunHa could feel him pierce through her
walls. His thrusts were so powerful that every time he entered her, he would
crash into her clitoris, making a surge of pleasure run up her spine. She felt as
if the temperature inside the room had gone up. Her whole body felt as if it
were burning.

She couldn’t control herself as she felt the pleasure pile up. Every time his cock
rubbed inside her, she was in ecstasy. Every time he thrust into her, he would
hit her sweet spot as well as her clitoris, making her body scream silently.

“Aaah! Haa, nnng!”

EunHa cried out as the pleasure gradually built up.

“Don’t close your eyes. I want to see you feel it.”

Every time her eyes were about to close, he would bite her lips and kiss her.
And so her eyes stayed open. KyungHyun was pumping into her from above. His
large hand was holding her face. His face looked terribly powerful, and it only
served to excite her even more.
“I like your expression the best when you’re feeling it.”

KyungHyun spoke as if he were talking to himself. He crouched down and raised

her hips, trying to get even deeper inside her. His began to pump furiously
inside her as his pace sped up. The sound of their bodies slapping gradually got
louder. EunHa’s moans became more choppy and rough. KyungHyun’s penis
glistened as it continued to pump into her. Suddenly, a creamy substance began
to burst out of her entrance.

“Aaagh! Aaaaaagh!”

EunHa buried her nails into KyungHyun’s back as she cried out. He plunged into
her completely before moving more slowly. As another powerful wave of
pleasure went over her, EunHa shook her head and moaned. As her orgasm
spread through her, KyungHyun captured her lips and began to suck.

“Hmm…!”

Her breaths puffed through her nose. When their lips parted, EunHa tried her
best to think clearly through the haze of her climax. This man was dangerous.
This was the first time she couldn’t think straight while having sex with
someone. If she didn’t get the upper hand in this relationship soon, she was
going to completely collapse.

“Director.”

“What is it?”

He began to squeeze her breast, causing EunHa to gasp.

“I want to, hnnng, be on top now…!”

As soon as she finished her sentence, KyungHyun flipped them over with his
cock still inside her. He sounded like he was completely drunk with lust as he
whispered.

“…Ah, you like it this way?”

She didn’t have a chance to sit up and ride him because KyungHyun tightly held
her to his chest. Once he steadied his feet on the mattress, he began to
violently pump his hips up as he thrust into her.
“As you wish.”

Her entrance was still twitching from her climax, but KyungHyun’s cock began to
hammer into it once again. As he had warned her earlier, KyungHyun didn’t go
easy on her. As the wet sounds fill the room, EunHa’s bottom reddened as it
continuously slapped against KyungHyun’s hips. The throbbing pleasure rolled
through EunHa’s body once again, and her muscles began to stiffen. Her heart
raced so fast that it felt like it would burst.

“Aaaagh! Aaahng!”

KyungHyun searched for EunHa’s breast. When he found it, he covered it with
his mouth. He grabbed it with his hand and sucked on the peak. Her climax hit
her body and spread. Even though EunHa was the one who was riding
KyungHyun, KyungHyun was the one who was invading her.

Her whole body was trembling as her arousal boiled over. The pleasure spread
from her fingertips to the tips of her toes. In the midst of all this, her mouth had
gone dry. She felt as if fireworks were going off in her head. Thanks to their
position, she could feel KyungHyun’s cock go deeper inside her.

This didn’t make sense. This really didn’t make any sense.

“Hnng, hnnnng!”

EunHa began to move her hips up and down in order to facilitate KyungHyun’s
climax. Slap, slap, the sounds of their bodies smacking together began to get
louder as it rang in the room. A groan slipped through his clenched teeth as he
looked up at her.

“I told you not to drive me crazy.”

“Aaah!”

His large hand smacked her bottom. At the tingling shock, her body began to
tremble. He didn’t hit her that hard, but having her bottom slapped as if she
were being punished felt humiliating. Her face began to turn red. However, she
also felt something else stir inside.

KyungHyun squeezed her bottom with both of his hands so that she wouldn’t be
able to run away. Then he violently began to pump into her from below. He was
moving too fast. Every time he plunged into her so deeply, more fluids leaked
out of EunHa’s entrance. The fluids dripped down and drenched his pubic hair.

“Nng! Hnng! Aaagh! Aaah!”

“Open your eyes. Don’t close them and look at me.”

“Can’t, aaah, hnnng!”

KyungHyun crashed his lips onto hers once again, and EunHa couldn’t help but
open her eyes. He was truly a man with a terrible personality. His black eyes
pierced through her as she was being shaken up and down with the force of his
thrusts. The moment their eyes met, all thoughts flew out of her head. She only
wanted to fly over the edge of the approaching hellish climax.

Eventually, EunHa began to suck on his tongue as she cried out. Her slender
body trembled as a fierce orgasm rushed through her.

“Haa… Haa…”

EunHa felt as if her body had become boneless. KyungHyun embraced her and
began to rub his chin on the top of her head. Having experienced multiple
orgasms in a row, EunHa’s entrance continued to contract and relax as it
milked KyungHyun’s cock.

“I’m not finished yet.”

EunHa’s hot breaths brushed against his wide chest as she tried to return to
her senses. When she heard KyungHyun’s words, she looked up. Possibly
thinking that she was going to try to escape his embrace, KyungHyun slid inside
again with a strong thrust.

“You’re really… amazing.”

EunHa swallowed, her mouth dry. Even though her words were said in true
admiration without any sarcasm, KyungHyun didn’t seem to take it that way.

“It doesn’t seem to be a compliment.”

“Are you usually slow to climax? Or is it that I’m just not to your taste?”

“Of course not. I’m delaying it on purpose.”

KyungHyun carefully brushed EunHa’s wet hair from her forehead as he
whispered. Even though he was still slowly rocking into her, each thrust was
fierce as he bit and sucked on her breast like an animal. EunHa felt her head
become muddled.

“Do you want me to finish quickly?”

“It’s nice if we both feel good. What’s good is good.”

She didn’t know what she was saying right now. KyungHyun wrapped her legs
around his hips and turned them to their sides.

EunHa didn’t like doing it on her side because it felt a bit ticklish to her, but at
this point, she wanted KyungHyun to quickly finish and leave her alone. After
multiple orgasms, she had cried out so much that her throat hurt.

Chu, chu.

KyungHyun pressed his lips to hers a few times before moving to the side. His
hot breaths blew over the tender spot below her ear. EunHa reflexively shrank
back. KyungHyun’s mouth moved and sank his teeth into the nape of her neck.
EunHa’s body tensed up once again.

“I believe I already told you at the squash courts about how I have a lot piled
up.”

“But this is a bit much.”

“Just what are your standards, then?”

Even if he had a lot piled up, the sex was just too long and persistent.
KyungHyun pressed a kiss to her soft cheek and murmured.

“Don’t compare me to the other rookies you’ve been with.”

“That’s not… hnng… what I…!”

“Then quit saying things like that and just feel this. I’ll get you to the peak
again.”
EunHa shook her head as she felt this horrible man’s cock slide in and out of
her.

“No more, that’s enough…Hnnng!”

His fingers began to flick her swollen nipples. Her breasts already felt sore
from being treated so harshly by his mouth. She bit her lips as she tried to hold
back her moans. As he watched her, his eyes were still full of unsatisfied desire.

“If you say you like it, then take me until the end.”

“It’s good. It’s good, but I’m so tired…!”

“Can’t you tell that I’m going easy on you for your sake?”

“Go easy my ass…!”

EunHa furtively glared at him with red eyes. She tried to settle him a bit with
her sharp eyes, but KyungHyun became even more riled up instead. Every time
KyungHyun’s hips pulled back, the muscles above his firm bottom twitched.

“Haa, hnnng! Not so deep… Aaagh!”

EunHa’s moans began to get louder again. Once again, her body began to
betray her reason. Her slick entrance welcomed KyungHyun’s intrusion and
began to suck him in.

“So you like it hard. You’re giving me a stronger response now than when I was
going easy on you.”

KyungHyun stretched out his hand and began to rub her clitoris.

“It’s very wet…”

Every time KyungHyun’s cock drilled in, she got wetter and wetter. Because of
their position, she could only look straight at his face. KyungHyun opened is
eyes sensuously and gave her a faint smile.

“Listen to the sounds it’s making.”

EunHa’s breath caught in her throat as she felt the blood rush to her face.
“Pervert.”

“Correct.”

KyungHyun agreed with her and lowered his head for a kiss. His tall nose
bumped against hers, and their tongues tangled. She couldn’t think straight
again. As his cock plunged deep inside her, she felt as if her walls had all
become sensitive. Their bodies were sticky with their sweat, their fluids, and
their saliva.

She had never had such intense, sensual sex before. EunHa acknowledged that
KyungHyun wasn’t bluffing when he warned her before. Having sex with
KyungHyun was enough to knock her out.

“Aaagh, enough. Don’t suck there, aaah, anymore, aaaah!”

KyungHyun put more strength into his thrusts. He brought EunHa to the cliff
once again and mercilessly threw her off. The pleasure built up like a snowball
rolling downhill before ultimately exploding inside her.

“Aagh…!”

KyungHyun watched her squirm in pleasure and finally reached his limit. He
flipped EunHa over. Like a dog, EunHa was now gripping the mattress as
KyungHyun pounded into her from behind.

“Nnng!”

His hot hands wrapped around her hips as he began to piston into her. EunHa’s
mind went blank. She could barely breath as she felt his penis reach deep
inside her with every thrust.

“Ah, aaah!”

Her arms gave out. She couldn’t hold it any longer. EunHa buried her face into
the fluffy pillow as she sobbed. Instead of slowing his pace, KyungHyun began to
increase the power behind his thrusts.

“Hold on a bit longer.”

Sweat dripped from KyungHyun onto EunHa’s pale bottom. KyungHyun’s eyes
traveled to his glistening rod that was currently thrusting in between her
bottom cheeks.

“…Looks good. Very good.”

Even if KyungHyun hadn’t mumbled those words, EunHa knew just what her
body looked like at this moment. The point of their connection was already a
mess as it was covered in a creamy fluid from all the friction. The swollen walls
of her entrance continued to squeeze him as it followed him in and out.

She felt the familiar ecstasy begin to rise from her lower abdomen. Her body
twitched as if an electric current was running up her spine.

“Please… Please, Director… Haagh… Please…!”

Her body was shaking from her climax as her begging became louder.

“Please what? What do you want me to do?”

KyungHyun’s breaths were choppy as he bit out his reply through clenched
teeth. At this rate, EunHa felt that they would have sex throughout the night.
Her shrill voice split through the hazy room that smelt like sex.

“Come for me. Right now…!”

“Haa, what?”

KyungHyun’s voice sounded hoarse. KyungHyun turned his face to her. His frown
was scary to see, but he couldn’t hide the intense arousal in his terrifying
expression. He was incredibly turned on by her words. EunHa narrowed her
eyes and licked her lips.

“Director… I want you… to come… in me… inside me. Please… Hnnng!”

Silent fireworks burst within KyungHyun’s eyes as he buried himself inside her.
His heavy body pressed down onto her. He grasped both of her hands in his.
Her walls were milking him so fiercely that it felt like he was being completely
sucked in.

“Ah! Aaah! Aaagh!”

After opening her taut thighs with his knees, KyungHyun inserted his slick cock
between them and began to rub furiously. Feeling as if her whole body was an
instrument for his pleasure, EunHa cried out and began to tremble. He raised
her face from her pillow and caught her lips with his own. With eyes wide open,
EunHa watched his face as his climax ripped through him.

“Ugh…!”

A sticky, warm fluid spurted between EunHa’s thighs and bottom. The insides of
her thighs were trembling from the friction. They were covered in semen and
her own fluids. The small tremors traveled up her body until they reached the
top of her head.

There was no sense of relief now that it was finally over. Her mind had gone
completely blank, and no thought entered her head. She felt as if her body
wasn’t her own. The aftershocks of her multiple orgasms were still buzzing
through her body.

“Come here.”

After thrusting between her thighs a few more times, KyungHyun finished
spending himself. He gathered her boneless body to him. Boom, boom, EunHa
could feel his racing heart against her cheek.

He pulled the crumpled sheet up over her body and began to rub her arm with
his large hand. EunHa’s panting breaths gradually calmed.

“…Have you settled down a bit?”

EunHa’s lips let out a weak sigh.

“Now you ask? After everything you did to me?”

She could feel his puff of laughter against her skin. EunHa drowsily turned her
head to look at him.

“I’m serious. Don’t you feel embarrassed asking me a question like that?”

“That’s why I gave you plenty of chances to run away from me. You shouldn’t
have hung around me like a mischievous kitten in the first place.”

“I didn’t know I’d be completely outmatched in your bed, Director.”

“It’s fine. Now you know.”

KyungHyun’s lips stretched into a smile as he met her eyes. His expression still
looked cold, but he looked a bit more relaxed than usual. EunHa thought it
might have be due to the disheveled locks of hair that fell onto his forehead.

Having sex with Shin KyungHyun was definitely a part of her plan. Normally, at
this point, she’d feel that she had successfully infiltrated the man’s defenses
and fall into a relaxed sleep.

“What are you thinking about?”

“…Guess.”

“Do you regret sleeping with me?”

“If that was the case, I would have pushed you away.”

So many thoughts were flying through her head. The images of what they had
just done continued to invade her thoughts. KyungHyun’s hand slowly rubbed
her body as he murmured.

“Then why does your face look like that?”

“What’s wrong with my face?”

“You look frustrated.”

KyungHyun was lying on his side as he he watched her drowsily. He lightly

tapped her forehead with his finger. EunHa’s face unconsciously stiffened as he
treated her like a child.

“When you’re in bed with me, don’t think of anything else other than sex.”

“…I’m human, so how can I do that?”

“Should I make it so that you can’t think of anything else?”

At his loaded question, EunHa quickly shook her head.

“No, I’ll have to refuse for now. I’m seriously about to lose my mind. I never
thought that I needed to work out more, but I feel that way now. I think I need to
try harder. I need to register at a gym and get my stamina back up…”

“Are you nervous right now?”

KyungHyun pressed her head against his chest and slowly whispered. EunHa
swallowed.

“No, why?”

“Whenever you’re nervous or confused, you talk a lot. Like a loud baby chick.”

“…Have you ever seen such a large baby chick? Maybe a hen is more apt.”

KyungHyun’s shoulders shook lightly. Strangely, EunHa didn’t feel like leaving his
embrace. She felt as if a heavy, warm blanket was covering her.

“Alright, so don’t think of anything else and go to sleep.”

Would she be able to fall sleep next to this man? She had seduced this cold-
blooded man and finally had sex with him. He wasn’t going to make it easy for
her to leave him. Even though things were going according to her plan, EunHa
couldn’t shake off this sense of foreboding. Her whole body was sending her
alarms of impending danger, and Shin KyungHyun had noticed. She knew well
enough that this man wasn’t going to be easy to handle.

As her eyes traveled to the gun on the table, EunHa reminded herself that she
mustn’t show him any crack in her armor ever again.

“I can hear the gears in your head turning.”

EunHa flinched at KyungHyun’s voice before tightly shutting her eyes. She could
hear his steady breaths behind her back. As she waited for his breaths to
relax, EunHa ended up falling asleep.

Chapter 4.1

Not a lot of people frequented the connecting powder room of the women’s
bathroom on the top floor of the department store. A young woman wearing all
brand-name clothing was fixing her makeup before she exited the bathroom.
Nobody was left inside the room, and only the soft piano music could be heard.
EunHa quickly took out a cellphone from her purse and quickly pressed the
speed-dial button. The phone rang ten times before someone answered.

– Hello?

“Are you crazy?”

She could hear the loud sound of a television in the background when
YongJoon answered the call. He answered her as he dragged out his voice.

– Is that how you start a phone call? What kind of bullshit is this?

EunHa bit her lips and lowered her voice to a whisper.

“Why did you appear all of a sudden two nights ago? I told you not to appear in
front of me as much as possible, didn’t I? Were you really trying to run me
over?”

Two days had already passed since the night YongJoon had charged at EunHa
and KyungHyun with his motorcycle.

– You and Shin KyungHyun looked so awkward, so I just added fuel to the fire.
Thanks to me, you and that bastard fucked like rabbits, so what are you
bitching at me for? You’re pissing me off.

“I can do everything fine on my own. Why did you go and do something you
weren’t even ordered to do? Does Ahjussi know you’re going around acting like
a complete idiot?”

As EunHa spoke sharply in utter disbelief, YongJoon began to raise his own
voice.

– If Boss didn’t order me to do that, why would I have done it? Don’t you know
that the son of a bitch almost killed me?

– Hey, let’s keep it down. We’re all watching TV here, jeez.

– Fuck. Hey, you old geezer, shut your trap! Or else you’re dead meat!

YongJoon shouted threateningly. EunHa frowned as she stood completely still.

“What did you just say?”

– I almost went to see my maker, didn’t you see?!

“I saw it very clearly. I also saw you running away with your tail between your
legs. But are you serious? Did Ahjussi really order you to do that?”

One week ago, she contacted SungHo to give him her report, and he hadn’t
said anything in particular. He only ordered her to thoroughly investigate the
people that Shin KyungHyun had met with. As always, the pervert asked if she
had slept with KyungHyun yet. EunHa merely told him that she was going to take
her time capturing him. He didn’t say anything else about it.

So why?

Whenever they were carrying out a plan, it was an unspoken rule that every
participant had to inform each other of what was going on. If there was even
one little hiccup in the plan, it could cost someone their life, so it was very
important. EunHa’s brows furrowed.

– Yeah, fuck. Thanks to you, I even got shot. I didn’t want it a big fuss from the
cops, so I couldn’t even go to a hospital to get it checked out. I’ve been feeling
like shit because of that. How was I to know that the crazy bastard was going
to shoot at me in the middle of Seoul?

EunHa swallowed when she heard that he had been shot. She clearly recalled
the way he had looked as he pulled the trigger. If she hadn’t grabbed his arm,
would YongJoon have made it out alive?

“Are you badly hurt?”

At EunHa’s question, YongJoon dragged out his answer.

– It just grazed my arm.

Figures. If it was serious, he wouldn’t have answered the phone like this. EunHa
felt relieved. But that didn’t change the fact that SungHo had acted
independently without telling her. Something felt off, and EunHa was feeling
frustrated.

“If something like that happens again, give me warning beforehand.”

– I wasn’t planning on attacking you. Boss just told me to scare him and provoke
a reaction out of him. But that bastard went ahead and started shooting at me,
so…

YongJoon’s breaths became choppy as he remembered the events of that

night. EunHa spoke to him in a calm voice to soothe him.

“There’s such a thing as being team player. If you warned me beforehand, you
might not have gotten hurt, and I wouldn’t have been so surprised.”

– …Were you very surprised?

YongJoon’s voice sounded faint as he asked awkwardly. EunHa shook her head.

“It’s fine, so just shut up and get treated. And don’t go scaring people around
you either.”

– Alright. I’ll let you know next time so stop your nagging.

“Noona will be grateful if you do.”

YongJoon suddenly yelled out as if he remembered something.

– ‘Noona’ my ass. Ah, now that I think about it, you’re the one who told me not to
appear in front of you or contact you! Ah, go easy on it, lady! You’re not just
disinfecting it, you’re making the cut even worse, fuck!

EunHa could hear the surprised nurse drop something, causing a metallic clang
to ring through the receiver. Suddenly, she heard the murmurs of a woman and
child come in from outside the bathroom.

It was time for her to leave. EunHa swallowed and lowered her voice as she
quickly whispered into the phone.

“I’m scheduled to attend the KeumOh founding party today with Shin
KyungHyun.”

Actually, this was the main reason she called YongJoon. Having received this
unexpected information, YongJoon’s voice also lowered a bit.

– Founding party? Where?

“I don’t know. I only heard about it today.”

– Are you okay going alone? Have you reported this to the boss?

“No, tell him for me. Because of his efforts, I fucked my brains out with Shin
KyungHyun. Thanks to Ahjussi, I think it’ll be easier for me to get some
information out of him.”

EunHa ignored YongJoon’s reply and ended the call. After taking out the SIM
card, she threw the phone into the garbage bin. At the same time, a mother
entered the bathroom with a stroller. EunHa quickly exited the bathroom.
General Manager Cha was looking at his watch to check the time. When he
caught sight of EunHa, he looked exasperated.

“The Director is here. Hurry up.”

“Yes, sir.”

EunHa followed him into the elevator. Ding, the elevator stopped and the doors
opened. As she exited the elevator, EunHa let go of the SIM card. The card
slipped through the cracks of the elevator doors.

All of the people near KyungHyun were issued company cellphones, and as a
member of the secretarial department, EunHa wasn’t an exception. Even
though she was throwing away the only cellphone given to her by SungHo, it
would be too dangerous if Shin KyungHyun caught her with two cellphones.

KyungHyun was more of a thorough perfectionist than she thought. She had
expected him to relax a bit in bed, but she had been mistaken.

Two days ago, EunHa had unknowingly fallen asleep after having had sex with
KyungHyun. She woke up in the middle of the night. Making sure she didn’t
disturb KyungHyun, EunHa began to carefully get up. Suddenly, she heard a
voice from her side call out, ‘Where are you going?’ She answered back that
she was going to the bathroom. As she walked over the the bathroom, he
followed her inside.

“… I want to close the door.”

“I don’t want that.”

In the end, she used the toilet in front of Shin KyungHyun. She didn’t think
anything would come out, but she tensed her stomach for a bit and managed to
get a trickle. Once she could get a trickle, the rest followed easily. She finished
cleaning up and flushed the toilet. KyungHyun leaned on the doorpost and
calmly gazed at her.

“You have strange tastes.”

She suppressed the embarrassment and awkwardness deep inside and looked
up at him in disbelief. KyungHyun suddenly picked her up.

“This is what happens when you have people around you that you can’t trust.”

EunHa fell asleep in his arms for a few more hours before waking up again.
Making sure that he had truly fallen asleep now, she snuck out of the bed. She
kept her eye on him in the dark, but KyungHyun remained still.

She saw his cellphone next to the gun on the table. Believing this was the time
to find some information, she began to head for the bathroom. She was
planning on taking Shin KyungHyun’s cellphone later.

Just as she was about to open the toilet tank lid to grab the equipment hidden
there, she had a strange feeling that she was being watched. She quickly
turned around. She almost let out a shriek. Shin KyungHyun was leaning his head
on the doorframe and watching her with his signature blank expression. She
had been listening for any noise outside, and she hadn’t heard any sound of his
movements at all. She could only imagine what would have happened if she laid
a finger on his cellphone.

“Do you use the bathroom this often?”

“I… wanted to take a shower.”

“It’s 3 in the morning right now.”

“Because of someone, my body is a mess and feels sticky. I can’t fall asleep.”

KyungHyun’s expression slightly relaxed. Before EunHa could feel relieved,

KyungHyun entered the bathroom and grabbed her hand.

Whoosh.
He turned the shower valve and hot water poured out of the shower head.
EunHa felt the water spray down on her. Before she knew it, KyungHyun had
grabbed her bath sponge and pumped body wash onto it.

“There’s no need to put that much…”

“It’s for two people.”

KyungHyun chuckled as he rubbed the foaming bath sponge over her body.
Even though the water was still pouring over her body, the soapy foam didn’t
wash off very easily due the vast amount of body wash KyungHyun had poured
onto the sponge.

“Turn around.”

KyungHyun began to rub her back. The bath sponge had already been tossed
onto the floor. His warm hand rubbed the rose-scented soap onto her back. His
other hand traveled to the front of her body and began to slowly rub her
breasts.

“Hnng…!”

EunHa took a step forward to avoid his wandering hand. The water fell right
onto her face, so it made it hard for her to breathe. The moment she turned
her head to the side, his lips covered hers. She pretended to deepen the kiss
before sharply biting KyungHyun’s lower lip. KyungHyun softly laughed into her
lips.

He grabbed her lower stomach and pulled her to his body. She could feel his
body temperature against her back. His penis was fiercely poking against her
bottom. In an instant, KyungHyun’s cock slipped between her thighs and easily
entered inside her. EunHa regretted leaving the bed. She had basically taken
one step forward and two steps back.

“Haaa, nng!”

Thanks to their slippery bodies, KyungHyun easily moved in and out. He grabbed
her breast with one hand and teased her clitoris with the other. He pumped his
hips behind her, and the sound of slapping wet skin began to grow louder. The
bathroom was now full of steam. EunHa’s cries became more frequent.
Eventually, KyungHyun turned her into his embrace and pinned her to the wall.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and wound her legs around his hips. Her
body frantically shook as she met his thrusts in midair. Only after reaching her
pitch-black climax did she finally leave his embrace.

“Do you think you’ll be able to fall asleep now?”

His languid voice sounded so annoying to her at this moment. She couldn’t hold
it back anymore and replied.

“I think you’re also having a hard time falling asleep, Director.”

EunHa stood in the bathroom with trembling legs. She wrapped her hand
around his still-erect penis. KyungHyun didn’t reject her advances. Instead, he
lowered his head and buried his face into her chest. He took turns sucking on
her neck, her chest, and her nipples. Thanks to his ministrations, EunHa’s was
unable to keep her mind on his cock in her hand.

She felt a shiver of fear run down her spine. If she nodded off for a moment,
she was afraid she would be eaten alive by this man. Suddenly, a dizzying
climax rolled over her. She felt as if she was riding a never-ending
rollercoaster ride. As the ride became more thrilling, the climaxes became
greater and greater. KyungHyun began to pump his cock into her hand as if he
were having sex. After leaving numerous red marks on her pale body,
KyungHyun finally exploded.

The soap had long been washed away from their bodies. KyungHyun grabbed a
large towel and wrapped it around her. Like last time, he lifted her into his arms
and walked her to the bed.

The next day, when EunHa woke up, she felt as if her body had been beaten to
a pulp. She barely managed to open her eyes. KyungHyun was immaculately
dressed as he sat at the table and drank his coffee from a to-go cup.

“When did you bring your clothes?”

“Last night, I asked General Manager Cha to leave a bag of my clothes hanging
outside your door.”

“I never heard you call him.”

EunHa spoke with an awkward smile.

“I sent him a text. I was thinking about calling him, but since you seem to be such
a light sleeper, Lee HaEun-ssi, I decided not to.”

He wasn’t wrong. EunHa was a very light sleeper. Especially when she was
sharing a bed with somebody else. She was never able to completely relax, and
she considered this to be something that just came with the job. If it were with
any other man, she would have noticed when he left the bed, but she hadn’t
been able to feel KyungHyun moving at all throughout the night.

‘It’s probably because I was so tired.’

She told herself that it was an incredibly persistent and fierce bout of sex.
After consoling herself, she got into his car and they both went in to the office
together. Thanks to a few cups of coffee, she managed to finish up her work.
EunHa was worried that he would take her up to her door again for repeat of
last night. As if he read her mind, he drove her to her apartment and drove off
with a refreshed expression on his face.

Feeling a deep sense of relief, EunHa returned to her apartment alone.

However, for some reason, she still couldn’t shake off the feeling that
something was off. So that night, EunHa stayed up searching around her
apartment.

She thought that there was a huge chance Shin KyungHyun had installed a
surveillance camera or a listening device while she was asleep. She checked
the bathroom mirror, the air conditioner, even the fire alarm on the ceiling. But
she wasn’t able to find anything. The cellphone taped under the mattress was
still there, and the equipment wrapped in plastic inside the toilet tank hadn’t
been touched.

Still, something felt strange. So she threw away the cellphone given to her by
SungHo. She thought things would get easier once she finally managed to sleep
with Shin KyungHyun. She was wrong.

Now she knew. He was a crazy man in bed, and instead of loosening his
suspicions on the woman he slept with, he raised his defenses instead.

I can’t show any weakness in front of him.

If he caught her trying to copy data off his cellphone, the gun that had aimed
for YongJoon’s heart would have instead been aimed at her head.
“Director, when did you arrive?”

“Just now.”

EunHa, who had been lost in thought, looked over at General Manager Cha as
he bowed to KyungHyun. The man who had been in thoughts all this time was
finally here.

Instead of the usual elegant black suit that he wore, he wore a more formal
navy suit with a gray handkerchief peeking out of his left chest pocket. He was
dressed for the founding party scheduled for today.

Even though he looked like a skilled, level-headed businessman, inside his outer
shell, he was still a thug who committed violent crimes. EunHa preferred that
side of him. It wasn’t a crime to do bad things to a bad man.

“What would you like me to do here?”

“Go shopping.”

“What are you looking to buy?”

“I want to buy some clothes for the party today.”

“Um… I think the clothes you’re wearing right now look amazing enough,
Director.”

EunHa wasn’t lying. He looked like he had just gotten out of a magazine
pictorial. KyungHyun shook his head.

“Not for me. For you.”

EunHa now realized why KyungHyun had called her here to the department
store. The clothes she was wearing right now wasn’t quite appropriate for a
party.

“How fun.”

“Do you like shopping?”

“Spending money is the best.”

“Alright. Pick whatever you want.”

“Wow. It’s been so long since I bought something without looking at the price.
My heart is racing. It’s even better because I’m not even spending my own
money.”

KyungHyun chuckled. If this is how he wanted to show off in front of her, she’d
take it anytime. On top of that, today was KeumOh’s founding party. All the
executives and associates at KeumOh would be there. Today, she had been
sent out on an assignment in the morning, so she wasn’t told where this party
would be held yet.

She had a strong feeling that she would be able to see YongSung’s boss, Noh
HyungChul, at this party. She would possibly be making her first impression on
him, so it was very important that she did her very best to catch his eye. As
long as she caught his eye, everything else would naturally go her way.

She aggressively began to shop. She picked out two dresses. KyungHyun
ordered her to quickly change into one now since they didn’t have enough time.
EunHa followed his command and went inside a changing room to change.

“That looks nice.”

EunHa had changed into a fluttering, elegant, cream-colored dress. KyungHyun

nodded in approval. However, EunHa changed her mind and changed into a
black dress instead. Seeing her exit the changing room in a dress with a
plunging neckline, KyungHyun’s eyes narrowed. He slightly bit his lips and didn’t
say anything.

“I’ll go and buy the shoes now.”

She went inside a brand-name shoe store and found a pair of heels embedded
with crystals. She put the sparkling shoes on. She even bought a thong so that
the panty line wouldn’t show through the thin material of the dress. Behind her,
General Manager Cha handed the store employee a credit card on behalf of
KyungHyun.

“There isn’t much time, so wouldn’t it be better for you to change your panties
here as well?”
Following the pervert’s orders, EunHa changed her underwear. Then
KyungHyun ordered her to buy a matching purse. EunHa picked a small, bright
clutch that was on display at the store.

“Put your things inside the purse. I’ll send someone to take the rest of your
things and send it to the office.”

EunHa felt relieved when she heard KyungHyun’s words. She thanked the
heavens that she had disposed of SungHo’s cellphone earlier. She opened her
purse. She reached her hand inside the bag to grab her wallet and pouch, but
her hand touched something heavy instead. EunHa brought her hand out of her
purse and saw that a bright, diamond pendant was dangling in her hand.

When did she put this in here?

The perfectly-cut gems were sparkling as it refracted the lighting in the room.

“I chose the jewelry according to my tastes.”

The price of this necklace would definitely overshadow the price of the dress,
shoes, and purse combined. The necklace was extravagant but elegant. It
looked dreamy. If he truly did pick this according to his tastes, then he was into
high-end products. EunHa quickly blinked her eyes, feeling a different type of
giddiness than when she stole something.

“Come here.”

When EunHa didn’t move, KyungHyun took the necklace into his hands and went
behind her. He lowered his head. A pleasant weight pressed down onto her
chest. Then she heard a small metallic click. His breaths on the back of her neck
felt hot. Recalling how hot this man’s body was despite his cold facial
expressions, EunHa’s heart began to beat faster.

“It suits you.”

KyungHyun went back around and took a good look at her. His eyes lingered on
her in appreciation.

“Are you really giving this to me?”

EunHa looked up at him as she asked, one perfect eyebrow raised up.
“Why? You don’t like it?”

“What woman would reject a gift like this?”

“Good. I spent a long time deciding on this necklace. I was going to get annoyed
if the recipient didn’t like it.”

“Is this compensation for sex?”

EunHa looked at him and asked defiantly as she laughed. Because General
Manager Cha was standing a few paces away as he kept a lookout, she wasn’t
afraid to ask KyungHyun now. KyungHyun gazed at her and answered her
question in his usual languid voice.

“I’m not so needy that I need to give a woman money for sex.”

“It might mean that sex with me was just that good.”

KyungHyun slightly swept his tongue inside his mouth. His black eyes darkened.
As EunHa watched his reaction, she whispered softly.

“It wasn’t that great for me, though.”

He frowned at EunHa’s words. He looked down at her and then began laughing
in disbelief. A breathy groan escaped his wide lips. Feeling that she finally
landed a small but direct blow on him, EunHa shrugged her shoulders.

Chapter 4.2

“Then shall we go? General Manager Cha has been looking at his watch for a
while now.”

“Alright.”

KyungHyun lightly placed his hand on her hips. Even though he was only placing
his hand there to escort her out, EunHa felt as if her skin was burning as she
felt his heat through the thin fabric of the dress. EunHa quickly followed his
steady strides to the parking garage.

“We’ll be departing now.”

The car wasn’t the usual sedan that KyungHyun usually rode. This time, they
were getting into a black van. The driver was already waiting inside.

“Is General Manager Cha going to follow us in a different car?”

At KyungHyun’s affirmative reply, EunHa asked another question.

“Why?”

“There’s a lot of people that follow my car around. If they catch on to me, I’ll
have to take a detour.”

Their conversation was short, and the car door closed shut. A silence settled
inside the car. Eunha glanced at him a few times before looking at the seat
next to her. She finally spoke up.

“If I knew I was going to be attending today, I would have paid more attention to
my makeup.”

“You don’t have to pay attention. You look fine as it is.”

KyungHyun was looking at his tablet as he replied. Were those empty words a
compliment? She couldn’t tell because he was continuing to browse through the
tablet with a serious expression. EunHa changed the subject and asked an
earnest question.

“Where is the founding party going to take place?”

“Bucheon.”

EunHa tilted her head. The company didn’t have anything to do with that town.

“We’re going all the way to Bucheon?”

“It’s best that we go to a place where we won’t be seen by a lot of people.”

KyungHyun murmured in reply.

“If a bunch of gangsters in suits are gathered together, it will catch a lot of
eyes.”
This meant that they were being very careful with security for this event. It was
understandable. The executives of KeumOh were meeting with the gangsters
of YongSung in one place. Nothing good would come out of having this location
leaked. EunHa disguised her voice to sound nonchalant as she asked another
question. Her eyes were full of curiosity.

“Does that mean we’ll be seeing the president as well?”

KyungHyun took his eyes of the tablet screen and looked at her. EunHa didn’t
look away from his sharp eyes and laughed innocently.

“He’s an incredible person. They say he doesn’t make a lot of public

appearances, so I just wanted to know what kind of person he was.”

“Today will be the same.”

EunHa swallowed back the disappointment that rolled over her. Even though it
wasn’t a part of SungHo’s mission, it was a part of hers. She wanted to meet
Noh HyungChul as soon as possible.

After being attacked by a gangster a few years ago, Noh HyungChul now only
met with a few select people that he trusted. And one of the few people that
he met with was sitting right next to her. Shin KyungHyun.

She thought that if she got closer to KyungHyun, she would be able to find a
chance to approach the president. However, it looked like that was going to
take more time. If she was going to have some pillow talk with KyungHyun, she
needed to make him completely fall for her… But as she recalled their sexual
intercourse from a few days ago, EunHa let out a heavy sigh. Would she even
be able to get KyungHyun to completely lose his mind?

‘What should I do?’

“What are you thinking about?”

EunHa, who had been completely lost in thought, flinched when she heard his
voice. She turned her head. She could see that KyungHyun’s eyes were glued on
her. The tablet in his hands had disappeared at some point. With his elbow on
the headrest, KyungHyun was rubbing his lips as their eyes met. Reflexively,
EunHa turned her head back forward.

“Why are you avoiding my eyes?”

EunHa became flabbergasted at his words. It was because his sharp gaze
looked as if it was reading her thoughts.

“Do you have something to say to me, sir?”

She turned her eyes back to his and replied to him with an indifferent and
polite tone. KyungHyun’s eyes slowly lowered and stopped at her chest. They
gazed at the sparkling diamond necklace hanging from her neck. EunHa
couldn’t tell if he was looking at the necklace or at her chest, but she didn’t feel
embarrassed at his direct gaze.

“Not really.”

“Then why are you looking at me like that?”

His deep, dark eyes met her eyes once again. Usually, they never listened to
anything in the car when they were going somewhere. However, today, the
dreamy voice of a jazz singer flowed out of the impressive speaker system.

Maybe it was because they were dressed differently than usual, or maybe it
was because of the slow music floating around her ears, but EunHa felt as if
she and KyungHyun were currently sitting at a high-end bar. KyungHyun stared
at her as he murmured in a low voice.

“I’m looking because I like what I see.”

“Of course you do. You chose it yourself. I like the necklace as well.”

“Not the necklace. You. The more I see you, the more you’re my type.”

EunHa silently blinked. KyungHyun was still calm and composed. His long fingers
stopped rubbing his lips and moved to his temple. His eyes were still on her.
EunHa watched him and spoke in a low voice.

“On my first day, you warned me not to tempt you. If you come on to me like
this, I can’t help but feel that it’s cheating.”

From her experience, the more she pushed a man away, the more he would be
drawn to her. This man in front of her should be no different.

“Are you saying that I’m tempting you right now?”

He was testing her again. EunHa carefully smiled back at him.

“People usually don’t gift something like this to a mere friend.”

As EunHa looked down at the diamond necklace on her chest, KyungHyun’s lips
slightly went up.

“You might be misunderstanding it.”

“Or I might not.”

“What do you think?”

“If I’m being honest, it’s a bit intimidating.”

“At the squash courts, you’re the one who hit on me first.”

“That’s because I didn’t know what kind of position you held and what your
personality was like.”

“Really? What do you think about me now?”

“You told me that your woman will be confined for 24 hours and won’t be able
to go outside. I’m an incredibly free spirit, so that sounds scary to me. I hate it.”

“Then you shouldn’t have thrust yourself at a man on a rainy day and asked him
to kiss you.”

EunHa shrugged.

“Maybe the liquor was too strong that night.”

“I don’t fuck women who are black-out drunk. It’s too boring.”

As KyungHyun said this indifferently, EunHa’s cat-like eyes widened. Even

though music was playing inside the car, it wasn’t loud enough to drown out
their conversation. They weren’t the only ones inside the car. The driver was
still here. Seeing that KyungHyun wasn’t paying any attention to him, EunHa
realized a gangster would always be a gangster.
“There’s no way a youngster like you forgot about how we had sex all night a
few days ago.”

“Director, isn’t it a bit misleading to say that what happened a few days ago
was of my own will?”

“So did you hate it?”

KyungHyun’s languid voice asked her. If he wasn’t so skilled in bed, she might
have laughed at him. Disappointed that she couldn’t do this, EunHa answered in
a quiet but clear voice.

“Well, it was okay.”

KyungHyun blankly stared at EunHa before sweeping his face with his hand.
EunHa could see him smile behind his fingers as he rubbed his lips. He flashed
his teeth and lightly bit his bottom lip. Just as she was wondering what was so
funny, he suddenly stretched out his hand, wrapped his arm around her hips,
and pulled her to him.

The familiar scent of his body that she had come to know so well lingered at
the tip of her nose. She could even smell the scent of his sweat on his warm
body. EunHa’s mouth went dry. She swallowed and barely managed to open her
lips.

“…What are you doing?”

“I know I’m not the type to be considerate of others. However, your lukewarm
reaction isn’t pleasing to hear.”

“You know your enemies very well. If you knew me that well, you’d be
completely invincible. It’s okay. Just try a bit harder next time.”

“You had better stop chirping or I’ll kiss you.”

“I’ve already done so much more with you, Director. Why would I be scared of…”

Before EunHa could finish, KyungHyun placed his hands on her cheeks. The back
of her head was pushed back to the headrest. KyungHyun’s lips suddenly
crashed into hers.
As if punishing her, he tangled her tongue with his and sucked. As he sucked
her lower lip, the memories of that night filled her head. Remembering the
intense pleasure, EunHa’s body automatically began to react. A shiver ran
down her spine and her lower stomach twinged.

“Haaa…”

When their lips parted, EunHa gasped for breath. Even with lipstick smeared on
his lips, KyungHyun looked incredibly sexy. Is this why famous makeup brands
used men for their advertisements? As ridiculous thoughts filled her mind,
EunHa tried to get a grip. KyungHyun watched her struggle to come to her
senses and gave her an order in a low voice.

“Spread your legs.”

“What?”

“I need to check something. Raise the hem of your dress and spread your legs.”

“I… I don’t think that would be proper to do that in a place like this.”

“Is there a reason why I have to act proper in here?”

Even though it was true that he was the highest ranking person in here, it still
wouldn’t be right. Just as she was about to reply, KyungHyun’s hand pushed
between her thighs and spread her legs. As he looked into her eyes, a long
finger brushed against her black thong.

“You’re already wet.”

She tried to close her legs and move his hand away, but she failed.

“Are you always this wet for someone you think is just ‘okay’?”

As he threw her lie back in her face, KyungHyun began to grope her sex without
any hesitation. His long middle finger rubbed her clitoris before lowering to her
entrance. As he repeated this motion, a hot fluid began to flow out of her
opening.

“This is the softest and the most honest part of your body.”
KyungHyun wrapped his arm around her shoulders and softly whispered. He
spread her juices around her clitoris like a lubricant and rubbed it fiercely.

“As much as I like it when you’re dripping wet, it’ll be troublesome if you ruin
your dress.”

“Then you… hnng, shouldn’t put me in such a troublesome state, Director. Don’t
you think?”

Trying to hold back her moans, EunHa blurted out her response through her
teeth. However, KyungHyun’s hand didn’t stop.

“I don’t think so.”

“Why not?”

“Because I kind of don’t want to.”

His long middle finger slipped inside her drenched entrance. EunHa bit her lips
and held back her moan.

“Your personality… haa… is absolutely terrible.”

“I’m making you feel good right now, so how can you say that?”

The wet noises began to grow louder. As he softly rubbed inside, her climax
rolled over her in an instant. KyungHyun’s hot, dry lips brushed against her ear
as he asked.

“You know your body is making some good sounds. Can’t you hear it? Just be
thankful I didn’t lay you down as soon as we got inside the car.”

Even if the car was large and there was more distance than usual between
them and the driver, there was no way the driver didn’t notice the heated
exchange coming from the back of the car. Even though it was impossible for
them to have car sex in a situation like this, EunHa had a feeling that she
wouldn’t be able to avoid sex when it came to KyungHyun.

If the end result was going to be the same, then she needed to capture him
perfectly now. EunHa frowned at KyungHyun and whispered softly.

“Do you like it when other people watch?”

“Does it bother you?”

KyungHyun followed her gaze and glanced at the driver as he asked.

“It’s not my style to be watched. It’s a different story if we’re all doing it
together, though.”

“Stop joking around.”

Even though he knew she was only saying it to provoke him, KyungHyun sharply
glared at her. Even though he knew who she really was, he couldn’t help but be
fiercely drawn to her. His body reacted whenever he saw her. It was too
intense to blame it on their past history.

KyungHyun had guessed that there was only one way to solve this problem. As
long as he had sex with the object of his desire, his heart would settle and his
sexual appetite would be satisfied. That was why he continued to embrace this
young girl in her twenties. Their first time was done on purpose, but in the
middle, he lost all reason and the flames continued to blaze.

“Are you not interested in having a threesome?”

And it was all because of this woman in front of his eyes who asked such a
fearless question. KyungHyun let out a sigh. He took out his wet finger from
inside her and swept back his hair.

“Park the car.”

“Yes, sir.”

The driver answered immediately and suddenly stopped the car on the
shoulder of the road. If they continued on like this, it was obvious to KyungHyun
that he was only going to be thinking about this for the entire duration of the
party. He knew he wasn’t acting like himself, but his patience had already hit
rock bottom.

Concerned that she might be hiding a weapon underneath her clothes, he had
ordered her to completely take everything off and change into new clothes.
However, at a certain point, he had completely forgotten the purpose of this
and began to enjoy it himself. When he saw her captivating appearance, all the
blood rushed to his lower half. He barely managed to calm down, but as she
continued to act like a mischievous puppy in front of him, he couldn’t stop the
urge to pull her into his embrace and tease her.

“Aren’t we in a hurry?”

EunHa corrected her rumpled clothes and took out a compact mirror from her
purse. He probably instinctively knew that things would turn out like this. When
he met her again after 10 years, he hesitated having sex with her and even
tried to scare her away.

In everything he did, he needed to always expect the unexpected and assume

the worst. All these thoughts began to get tangled up in his head. After having
spent so many years in this organization, he had adapted his mannerisms to
their ways. So when Lee EunHa suddenly appeared before him, he didn’t realize
that he was beginning to act unreasonable.

Having lived up till now with his walls up against women, he had gone
completely crazy for Lee EunHa’s body. It didn’t matter, though. What he knew
for certain was that he only had an intense desire to completely dominate this
woman in front of his eyes.

Living a life of order and routine, KyungHyun just wanted to survive. Because of
this way of life, he had never desired anything so desperately before. However,
now that the target of his desire was this woman, he was incredibly aroused.

“Get out of the car and wait outside.”

EunHa watched in disbelief as the driver silently left the car without a word,
leaving the engine on. Without a chance to ask what was happening, EunHa was
suddenly pulled towards him. At the same time, KyungHyun pushed his face
between her legs like a dog. He grabbed a hold of the band of her thong and
pulled it up to her bellybutton. It pushed against her hidden clitoris and caused
it to throb. Suddenly, a hot tongue pressed against it.

“Haaa…!”

The thick piece of flesh wiggled around as it dug into her. KyungHyun began to
suck. EunHa wanted to at least take off her underwear, but KyungHyun didn’t
allow it.

“My underwear… is getting wet!”

“It doesn’t matter whether you wear something this or not.”

This pervert, who wouldn’t know anything about the purpose of a woman’s
underwear, began to push and pull on her panties, mimicking the motions of
sex. He continued to stimulate her clitoris as he plunged his tongue inside.

Chuu, chu, the embarrassing sounds rang inside the car. All she could see was
his wide back as he sucked the fluids that were flowing out of her.

EunHa’s thighs began to tremble. KyungHyun’s finger moved her irrelevant

panties to the side. His lips and tongue surrounded her soft entrance. Like iron
powder gathering around a magnet, EunHa felt a tickling sensation overwhelm
her body.

“Aaagh!”

As KyungHyun continued to suck her as if he was trying to absorb her, EunHa

couldn’t stop a groan from escaping. She pushed against his shoulder with her
bare foot. KyungHyun lifted his head.

“Why are you pushing me?”

His perfect face was covered in her juices, and it looked dirty and erotic.

“The stimulation was too…strong.”

“So you came?”

EunHa gasped for breath. She felt an electric current run down her lower half.
Her entrance throbbed painfully. After being stimulated by his thick tongue, her
sex seemed to be crying out for more.

“I’m completely turned on right now. Because you were so tasty.”

He began to tease her sensitive spot with his finger again. As if taunting her, he
whispered dirty words into her hear.

“Did you know that your whole body is just like you? Your pussy. Your nipples.
They all look sexy. Just like your lips.”

“What… do you mean when you say they look sexy? What does that mean?”
EunHa babbled her question in confusion as she gasped for breath. He lightly
bit her earlobe and whispered in a hoarse voice.

“It means that I want to put my lips on it.”

“Haa…”

“I means that I want to bite, lick, and suck it.”

EunHa flushed when she heard his languid voice. She fumbled around in search
of his cock. As expected, it was straining underneath his pants, pushing up
against the fabric. Hmmm, the man’s husky moan rang in her ear.

“I want to do it.”

“Do what?”

He calmly asked back. While his voice was calm, his erection underneath her
hand was as hard as a rod. It made her desire to win grow stronger.

She had the urge to see him lose all his composure as he took her like a beast
again. Even though this feeling probably only arose due to her own arousal, she
didn’t care. Her throbbing entrance wanted a deeper stimulation.

“I also…”

EunHa began to grope his cock with her slender hand as she licked her red lips.

“I also want to eat you, Director. Put your thing inside me.”

“Are you running your mouth again?”

“I’m serious. I want to do it. Right now.”

“It’s not good to be so honest. You shouldn’t overdo it.”

He stroked her plump lower lip and murmured. His breaths were more strained
as he tried to suppress his own desire.

Chapter 4.3
“That’s unfortunate. Then I have no choice but to ask the driver outside to help
me…!”

Suddenly, two of KyungHyun’s fingers entered her mouth. His forefinger and his
middle finger began to rub against her tongue.

“You’re doing that on purpose, aren’t you?”

Unable to speak, EunHa groaned. Her saliva welled up at the back of her throat.
She could smell the slight smell of cigarettes mixed in with his body musk on his
hand.

“Huu…”

“If you’re trying to make me jealous, you have succeeded.”

KyungHyun spoke languidly. Desire dripped out of his eyes as they narrowed.
His fingers were drenched with her saliva. Suddenly, EunHa heard the
unbuckling of a belt and the sound of a zipper. KyungHyun wrapped his wet
fingers around his erection and pumped up and down a couple of times.

“Haaa…”

EunHa gasped for air once his fingers left her mouth. KyungHyun took the
remaining high heel off her foot and tossed it onto the floor of the car. EunHa’s
knees touched the floor next to the seat. When KyungHyun pressed down onto
her back, EunHa raised her head. KyungHyun was also on his knees, and his
cock was now right in front of her face.

“Hmmph…!”

Unlike his fingers, his cock was much bigger as it entered her mouth. She wasn’t
even able to brush her tongue across his tip to taste the precum. Like the rest
of his body, KyungHyun’s penis was big and stiff as the veins throbbed.

“I’ll make it so that you can’t think about anyone else’s dick but mine.”

“Hmm…!”

KyungHyun’s hands that had been softly stroking her head now moved down to
cover her cheeks. It was already difficult to fit him inside her mouth, but now
KyungHyun began to move in and out. EunHa frowned and did her best to suck
on his cock. She felt his hand tense up on her cheeks.

“Hmmph!”

As he reached the back of her throat, more of her saliva leaked out and
dripped down his penis.

“If you keep doing that, it’ll only get more difficult for you.”

EunHa ignored him and brushed her tongue over the base of his penis and
began to fiercely suck. Watching her suck his cock with reddened eyes,
KyungHyun couldn’t stop the surge of desire from welling up in his. Having lost
all restraint, KyungHyun pushed deeper into her mouth. It felt as if he were
being sucked into her body.

“Hmmph! Hmph!”

Drip, drip. As KyungHyun thrust his hips, tears began to flow out of EunHa’s
eyes. KyungHyun quickly grabbed his penis and pulled out. EunHa gasped and
whispered in a hoarse voice.

“It was just getting good, so why did you stop?”

“I thought I was going to come in your mouth.”

She gave him a strained smile. KyungHyun laid her out on the seat. Then he
covered her body and whispered into her ear.

“It felt too good.”

He placed a kiss next to her eye and opened her legs with his knees. The inside
of her thighs were drenched as her fluids dripped down. KyungHyun mercilessly
widened her legs and easily entered her.

“You feel very hot inside. Did you get aroused just by sucking my dick?”

“Haahng! Nnng!”

Instead of answering him, EunHa let out a moan. Just as he said, her whole body
was incredibly flushed. As her walls made a way for his penis to enter, they
automatically began to milk him as they throbbed and tightened around him.
“Wasn’t it hard?”

“I-It was hard…!”

“Do you like doing things the hard way?”

His stiff rod rubbed up against her walls as it began to pull out. EunHa’s mouth
went dry at the incredible pleasure the motion created.

“I just like… strong men. Hnng, that’s all.”

KyungHyun licked his lips and laughed softly.

“I like strong women too.”

As KyungHyun covered her body and thrust into her, EunHa wrapped her legs
around his sturdy hips. When she lifted her hips to get closer to him, KyungHyun
brought his hands to her bottom and lifted her off the seat before ramming
into her. Their gasps and moans rang within the tinted windows of the car.

“Haaagh!”

He was so deep inside her. Every time he thrust inside, EunHa felt as if she was
so full that she couldn’t breathe. She almost couldn’t believe how good this felt.
She felt as if the car was shaking with every thrust he made.

“You’re eating me just like you wanted. How does it feel?”

“Nnng! Haaahng!”

“Is it so good that you can’t even speak?”

He wasn’t wrong. Due to the intense build-up of pleasure, she couldn’t answer
him properly through her panting breaths. She wanted to grab onto his shirt,
but she was afraid it would wrinkle, so she wrapped her arms around his neck
instead.

KyungHyun almost pulled out entirely before plunging back inside to the hilt. He
repeated these motions like a piston. As they continued to merge their bodies
together, their pleasure began to build up.
KyungHyun brought his lips to her earlobe and then moved them behind her ear
to lick the tender skin. The last time they had sex, he learned that this spot was
sensitive for her. However, the more he teased her there, the more aroused he
became.

“Don’t do it so hard…!”

“Why not? You like it like that.”

“If you do it that hard, then it’ll leave a mark…Hnng!”

“If people know that I’m the one who left that mark, then all those bastards
won’t dare stick so close to you.”

“Are… you doing this on purpose?”

“I can’t stand watching those sons of bitches drooling after my woman.”

“But I’m not your woman, Director.”

She wanted to keep a straight face, but as she felt him suck her skin, a surge of
pleasure shot up her stomach.

“Whenever you’re having sex with me, you are my woman.”

KyungHyun slid his hand inside her dress and began to caress her back and her
chest. Constrained by her bra, EunHa felt pleasure spread out through her
body like electric currents.

“You won’t be able to think about anything else other than what we’re doing
right now.”

“Don’t be… ridiculous…!”

As EunHa shook her head, KyungHyun buried his face even deeper into her
neck.

“Let’s see if I’m being ridiculous or not.”

As his penis continued to throb inside her, the wet sounds of their mating grew
louder and louder. Every time his cock rammed into her, his scrotum fiercely
slapped against her bottom, making it turn red.
Having softened due to the stimulation, her walls welcomed its guest as it
repeatedly contracted and relaxed around his penis. Glistening with their fluids,
his cock disappeared then reappeared as it pumped into her entrance.

“You said you didn’t want it, and yet you’re squeezing me so tight right now. Is
this your MO?”

“How, hnng, did you know?”

“Seeing as how you’re still joking around, I see that I’m not working hard
enough.”

Without taking off any of his clothes, KyungHyun began ramming into her with
his pants and underwear lowered to his thighs. He had pinned her thighs back
so that every time he thrust in, his pubic bone mercilessly hit her clitoris. EunHa
couldn’t stand the sensations climbing up her body. He continued to violently
rock in and out of her body.

“I think I’m going to come. Haaa, ah… I think I’m coming… Hnng!”

“Should I make you feel good?”

His perfectly styled hair had become disheveled, and a few locks fell onto his
forehead. He whispered to her in a hoarse voice. EunHa felt as if she was
already going crazy with pleasure now. How much more could he give her?
Hazy with desire, she gasped for breath as she nodded her head.

“Yes, please do it…!”

KyungHyun tightly grabbed her squirming body. Then he began to focus his
thrusts so that he continuously stimulated the upper portion of her entrance.

Thanks to their sexual encounter at her apartment two days ago, it seemed
that KyungHyun had perfectly memorized her body. He knew where to touch
her to make her moan. He knew where to thrust in order to bring her the
greatest pleasure that brought tears to her eyes. How else was he able to turn
her into such a complete mess?

“Don’t come yet.”

“It isn’t something… I can… hnng…. control.”

She gazed at him with resentful eyes as she gasped for breath. Suddenly,
KyungHyun put his hand underneath her hips and lifted her up on top of him.

“You haven’t ridden me yet.”

KyungHyun placed her on his lap and began to thrust up into her. Thankfully,
they weren’t in the usual sedan, and the roof of the car was higher. If it weren’t
for that, EunHa’s head would have definitely banged against the roof of the car.
EunHa’s plump bottom began to bounce up and down above his cock.

“Hnng! Aaagh!”

KyungHyun continued to raise his hips as their skins slapped. Their fluids
splattered in all directions, and EunHa’s eyes welled up with tears. It was just
like the first time they had sex. The pleasure was so intense that she almost
felt afraid.

“You like doing it this way.”

“Ah, aaaah!”

As a tingling climax spread throughout her body, EunHa began to wriggle her
hips as she moaned. Her panting breaths brushed over KyungHyun’s neck. Her
entrance contracted due to the climax and milked KyungHyun’s penis. A groan
burst out his lips.

“Huu, does it feel that good?”

“Haa…”

EunHa looked down at KyungHyun and grabbed his cheek with a trembling hand.
She did this instinctively due to her sense of fear. She felt that if she didn’t do
this, she would be completely dominated by this man.

With reddened eyes, she looked into the deep abyss of his eyes and lowered
her head for a kiss. She sought his tongue and began to fiercely suck.
KyungHyun’s eyes narrowed. EunHa unconsciously shut her eyes. She felt as if
his eyes could read her mind, and she wanted to avoid his gaze in this moment.

“Open your eyes and look at me. Show me how much you feel it.”
“I don’t want to.”

She rejected his command and brushed his lips with her tongue. She kissed his
face before burying her lips into his neck. She bit down hard into his neck and
sucked, just like he had done to her earlier. She could smell his cologne mixed in
with his manly scent. KyungHyun’s chest underneath his clothes felt taut and
hard.

Still sitting on his lap, EunHa began to move her hips. KyungHyun’s chest
suddenly rose up and down. The man’s arousal could clearly be seen on his
face.

“Huu…”

He let out a husky moan and pressed his hand down on her hips.

“Haaagh…!”

His penis had reached so deep inside her that EunHa let out a cry. His large
hand was restraining her, so she couldn’t escape. The veins throbbed in his
neck as he ejaculated.

“Ah, hnng!”

He pulled back as if he was going to leave her, but then he thrust back inside.
Her body trembled. As he continued to spurt inside her, EunHa was trapped in
his arms and couldn’t do anything else but moan.

They were finally finished having their combative bout of sex. EunHa’s foggy
mind began to clear.

“…Are you trying to get me pregnant?”

Completely exhausted, she asked KyungHyun in a reproachful voice.

“Haha, of course not.”

KyungHyun furrowed his brow and let out a faint laugh. Still inside his embrace,
EunHa began to move as she tried to leave. KyungHyun shook his head.

“If you move now, it’ll all drip out and ruin your clothes.”
Just like he said, as soon as she moved, a cream-colored fluid began to leak
out. Seeing their pubic hair stuck together due to their fluids, EunHa frowned.

“That looks crazy sexy.”

As if he read her thoughts, KyungHyun murmured in a husky voice. EunHa

helplessly lowered herself onto his cock once again. and her breath hitched.
Unlike last time, KyungHyun had ejaculated inside her.

“If I’m pregnant, you need to take responsibility.”

“Are you telling me that you want to have sex with me until you’re pregnant?”

KyungHyun reached into his pants pocket and took out a a packet of long pills
inside a silver wrapper. EunHa frowned and snatched the packet of
contraceptive pills. She wondered when he had gotten ahold of this, but then
she remembered how he had snuck the necklace into her purse.

“So you weren’t satisfied from just rummaging around someone’s purse. You
had to steal too?”

“It would be troublesome if you were addicted to drugs, so I just needed to

make sure.”

Even though she wasn’t in a position to rebuke someone for their terrible
habits, EunHa couldn’t help but feel annoyed. She glared at him. She didn’t like
how he looked so satisfied. Like a beast that had just returned from a
successful hunt.

“Aren’t we in a hurry?”

“Lie down for now.”

After laying her down, KyungHyun finally pulled out of her. Then he began to
clean up the mess between her thighs, treating her carefully as if she were a
child. EunHa tried to stop him, but he was stubborn.

“I’ll get changed. Thankfully, we bought two dresses.”

She was about to take out the fluttering cream-colored dress from its paper
bag, but KyungHyun stopped her.
“No, this dress suits you much better.”

“…Every dress suits me.”

“Don’t twist my words. I like the one you’re wearing right now.”

“Why?”

It was true that he had extravagant tastes. As EunHa pondered this, KyungHyun
calmly answered her.

“This dress smells of sex. It’ll distract me from the boring party, so I think it’ll
make the time go by faster.”

“Director, I’m sorry to say this, but…”

EunHa spoke with a bitter expression on her face.

“Say it.”

“Has anyone told you that you have strange sexual preferences?”

“No.”

“How strange. I wonder why no one told you. The comment you made just now
makes you sound like an absolute pervert.”

When EunHa stressed the word ‘pervert’, KyungHyun laughed softly. At the
strangely friendly atmosphere, EunHa coughed awkwardly.

“There wasn’t a woman who could say something like that to my face. Until
now.”

“Mm… Then do I need to risk death and strike you across the cheek?”

“What do you mean?”

“When a sharp-looking man like you tells a woman that she’s the first to do
anything, it usually means that he’s falling in love.”
KyungHyun’s face strangely went stiff before a loud laugh burst out of his lips.
Raising his chin as he laughed, KyungHyun looked like he was truly laughing and
having a good time. Was it that funny? EunHa blinked her large eyes.

“Do you want to strike my face once and see? Let’s see what will happen.”

“I’ll have to reject your offer. I don’t want to die before I turn thirty.”

“Good thinking.”

Still chuckling, KyungHyun opened the car window and called the driver who was
standing 10 meters away. The driver wore sunglasses as he entered back
inside. He seemed to have smelled the lingering scent of sex and hesitated
before smoothly driving them away.

It seemed that this was how KyungHyun was announcing to everyone that he
had made the new recruit of the secretarial department his woman. If he didn’t
want his plans to be ruined, it was better off this way. Insects were always
attracted to beautiful flowers, and the Lee EunHa at his side was definitely a
seductive woman.

KyungHyun gazed at EunHa’s profile as she looked out the window. She was lost
in thought. KyungHyun wanted to know how the sixteen-year-old EunHa had
fallen into the clutches of Kang SungHo. How had she become one of Serim’s
people? He read the report that he had received a few days ago, but all he
could find was that Kang SungHo had thoroughly hid her from outsiders.

It wasn’t impossible. She was just a young girl when she had been kidnapped. He
couldn’t cross out the possibility that she might have been hypnotized or
exposed to violence, causing her to become brainwashed. Living abroad and
operating in foreign countries, no one would know that this female member of
Serim was actually the missing Lee EunHa.

What should he do now?

EunHa felt his intense gaze and turned her head. She gave him a silent grin.

“I understand that you’re quite fond of me, but…”

“…But?”
“If you keep looking at me like that, I feel like you’re going to drill a hole into my
face.”

“How cold-hearted.”

“I didn’t say anything that bad.”

If Kang SungHo had truly ordered her to kill him, then she was going to attack
him soon. KyungHyun thought that it might be for the best. If she revealed her
sharp claws in front of him, KyungHyun felt that things would get a lot easier. If
she wanted to scratch him, he was even willing to present his back to her. If it
would make her trust him, he’d do it.

“You’re pretty.”

Holding her gaze, KyungHyun apathetically opened his mouth.

“…I know.”

“Are you bored of hearing that so often?”

KyungHyun gazed at her calm expression as he asked.

“Well, I guess so, but also…”

“Also?”

“They say that a beauty’s fate is filled with misfortune. Many beauties in history
haven’t met a very good end.”

“It’s because they all met foolish men.”

EunHa’s shoulders trembled as she laughed in disbelief.

“Why are you laughing?”

“Do you really think that?”

When KyungHyun glanced at her from the corner of his eye, EunHa let out an
exclamation of wonder.

“Wow. You’re really macho.”

KyungHyun frowned. He wasn’t sure if that good or bad. When he saw EunHa’s
giggling face, he realized that it was probably the latter. Not knowing how to
answer her, he kept his lips shut.

As their car raced down the road, KyungHyun realized why Kang SungHo had
sent her instead of his many other underlings. Kang SungHo knew without a
doubt that Lee EunHa’s strength was making a man become obsessed with her.
KyungHyun suddenly felt something hot rise up inside him.

“…What’s the matter?”

When she heard KyungHyun curse, EunHa asked him with wide eyes.

“Do you hate hearing me call you macho that much?”

“…Yeah.”

“I really like macho men.”

KyungHyun’s serious expression relaxed, and he let out a sigh. He forced his
eyes off of her pretty smile. The desire to quickly finish this project grew
greater and greater. This was the first time he had wanted to reveal his true
identity to someone and approach them honestly.

“We’ve arrived.”

Just as KyungHyun had reached a conclusion on what to do next, the car had
arrived at their destination. EunHa had opened the car door and was just
about to exit the car when KyungHyun grabbed her hand. The necklace suited
EunHa perfectly as it sparkled on her chest.

“Should we head inside?”

“Yes, Director.”

An 8-story building stood in front of them. It didn’t seem to fit in with the
abandoned factories around it. A colorless sign coldly stated that this dark
building was a wedding hall. In some ways, it looked like an abandoned motel.
Because it didn’t have a parking lot, a group of black sedans were parked in an
empty lot outside.
EunHa didn’t hesitate as she stepped into the place where all the YongSung
members had gathered. Her long hair flew in the chilly wind.

Chapter 5.1

90% of the guests at the KeumOh founding party were obviously YongSung
gangsters. They were all wearing black suits as if it was a uniform and had
thug-like faces. They might as well have stuck signs on their foreheads that
said ‘I am a gangster’.

The gangsters of YongSung and the drug traffickers all had distinctive features
that set them apart from the normal employees who worked in front of
computers in the KeumOh office building. Having seen enough of these kinds of
people at Serim, EunHa wasn’t scared. She was merely struck with awe as all
these men lowered their heads when KyungHyun passed by.

“Straighten my tie for me.”

After sitting down at their table, KyunHyun looked around the room and took a
sip of wine. Then he lowered his head to EunHa’s ear.

“It looks fine.”

EunHa distanced herself from him a little before tilting her head. KyungHyun
clicked his tongue and brought his head close to hers once again.

“Just do as I say.”

EunHa helplessly straightened his tie and his shirt collar. She glanced at the
white, folded handkerchief in his breast pocket. She recalled where it had been
used and felt a rush of embarrassment flood over her.

“Can’t you please take this out?”

“Didn’t you tell me that it was gentlemanly for a man to carry around a
handkerchief?”

“But it isn’t supposed to be used for that.”

“Why is it okay to use it to clean your face but not other places?”
KyungHyun gave her a languid smile. A few days ago, when KyungHyun had used
his handkerchief to wipe the dirt off her face, EunHa had called him a
gentleman. If she could take back her words now, she would have.

Even though they had sex in the car just moments ago, KyungHyun kept a
straight face as he greeted the guests. As expected, EunHa merely smiled
prettily like a mannequin and played her role at his side. Instead of his
secretary, EunHa felt as if she were playing the role of Shin KyungHyun’s
woman. It was a strange feeling, but she couldn’t show her discomfort.

All the men’s glances that had come her way subsided in an instant when she
sat down next to KyungHyun. They didn’t even greet her. While it was
refreshing to be treated like an invisible person, it also blocked any opportunity
for her to approach someone else to obtain more information. EunHa smiled
bitterly.

“Good work, Hyung-nim.”

A man lowered his head and spoke in a country accent. KyungHyun raised his
liquor glass in the man’s direction.

“I also heard that you’ve been through a lot lately.”

“I shouldn’t have used part-timers in the first place. Who knew those young
bastards would take the gold and run? I heard they’re in prison right now, but
I’m thinking of tightening the screws on them as soon as they get out.”

“It’ll be dangerous, so stay low for now. I heard there’s been an emergency in
the Japanese customs, so they’re cracking down pretty hard.”

“Yes, sir. I wanted to thank you for blocking the efforts of those bastards at the
Yamamoto-gumi…”

“It’s fine. Don’t worry about any of that and just eat and drink before heading
back down.”

Many more men took turns coming up to KyungHyun’s table and bowed their
heads. Sitting next to him, EunHa held her champagne flute and ate her food as
she looked around the room.
Even though it was formally called a founding party, everyone here was eating
and joking around noisily. Korean food and western food, Chinese food and
Japanese food. The cuisines of many different countries continued to be
brought out haphazardly. Tables were full of wine, soju, whiskey, beer, rice
wine, sake, and kaoliang liquor.

The chandelier sparkled, and the elegant banquet hall was filled with cigarette
smoke. Instead of classical music, the sexy song of a popular girl group was
playing inside this sophisticated space.

This atmosphere didn’t seem to match the gloomy wedding hall situated in the
middle of the ruins of a construction site. It also didn’t seem to suit the
sparkling KeumOh building that stood in the middle of Gangnam either.

“Hyung-nim! Let me pour you another glass!”

KyungHyun didn’t reject his underlings’ offer and received it. As time passed by,
the atmosphere in the room began to lift.

“How it it? What is your impression of our company’s founding party?”

KyungHyun shrugged his shoulders as he watched EunHa take a bite of the slice
of cake next to the salmon sushi.

“I can’t tell if it’s a picnic or a party, but I don’t think it’s bad at all. Everyone
seems to be having a good time.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I thought the president would come out and give a speech, but it seems
that he isn’t. That’s a bit surprising.”

KyungHyun moistened his throat with some liquor as he listened to her

indifferent voice.

“Didn’t I tell you before? The president doesn’t come out in public very often.”

“But isn’t today a bit more important than usual?”

“A few years ago, at a party where all the gangsters were gathered together,
someone brandished a knife.”
Eunha looked at him and silently swallowed. In this moment, she was about to
hear whether the rumors were true.

“…Who was the attacker?”

She wanted to grab this person by the throat and ask why he couldn’t kill him
with one stroke of the blade. But she suppressed this urge and asked
cautiously.

“The president’s nephew. In other words, it was a coup d’état.”

“…And he ultimately failed.”

“Yeah. I got stabbed instead, and, with the knife still lodged in me, I killed the
guy.”

EunHa’s eyes silently trembled. Looking into her eyes, KyungHyun put a
cigarette into his mouth and lit the lighter with a click. EunHa’s view became
cloudy as the cigarette smoke slowly flowed out of his mouth. KyungHyun’s eyes
narrowed as he spoke in a low voice.

“Thanks to him, I made it all the way up here.”

“…I see.”

“If you risk your life, most people will trust you.”

“…So you’re saying that in order to gain your trust, one would have to risk their
life.”

KyungHyun took a deep drag of the cigarette and chuckled.

“And what would you do after having gained my trust?”

“I don’t know. I don’t think I want to go through the trouble of obtaining it.”

EunHa let out a refreshing laugh and raised her liquor glass.

“I’m someone who values her life more than anything else.”

“That’s good.”
KyungHyun raised his own glass and clinked it against hers. His gaze on her
seemed to grow deeper. Without looking away from her, he downed the liquor
in his glass in one go.

“Director.”

General Manager Cha, who had been sitting at another table, came over to
them and bowed.

“The room has been prepared.”

EunHa pretended to be disinterested and glanced away. However, she read

General Manager Cha’s lips as he whispered to KyungHyun.

“It’s about the matter at Shenzhen…”

KyungHyun glanced over at EunHa, and she quickly placed her eyes back on her
plate. He straightened his clothes and got up from his seat.

“I’ll be right back, so wait here.”

“Yes, sir. I’ll do that.”

EunHa obediently nodded her head. She pretended to be calm, but her heart
was rapidly beating inside her chest. She had definitely heard General Manager
Cha say ‘Shenzhen.’

Shenzhen, China. This was where the medical headquarters was located. This
was where they were developing the new drug. Even inside KeumOh, this
project was kept top-secret, so it was difficult to find any information on it. No
matter what, she needed to eavesdrop on this conversation.

“Let’s go.”

KyungHyun took General Manager Cha and exited the venue. EunHa sat at the
table by herself and sipped her wine. Then she pretended to go to the
bathroom and got up. The corridor was full of men passing through, and the
lights flickered on the walls. General Manager Cha and KyungHyun had
disappeared and were nowhere to be found. In order to avoid any attention,
she went to the bathroom. She turned on the faucet and washed her hands.
“Where is the Boss? Shouldn’t he be here to raise the atmosphere a little? He’s
having Director Shin do everything for him. What if something goes wrong? I
don’t know what he can be thinking, seriously.”

“Things have been looking good for Director Shin. I’m almost certain Director Im
went down to Busan because he couldn’t stand to see it any longer.”

“Makes sense. Not that long ago, everyone crawled on their knees whenever
Director Im said anything. But now that Director Shin is treating him like an
underling, it’s weird to see.”

“Hey, you bastard. Now that Director Im isn’t here, look who’s talking big. If you
go around talking like that, you’ll vanish off the face of the earth one day, you
idiot.”

“A guy saw Director Im before he left for Busan and told me.”

She could hear the drunk voice coming from the men’s restroom next door. The
subject of their discussion, Director Im, was the former deputy director in
charge of Busan and Kyungnam.

When she had been gathering information about YongSung, she found that this
man had the most men under his authority before KyungHyun had taken power.
Even though the profits gained from his nightclubs and show business ventures
had gradually shrunk, many still followed him in the name of old glory.

“Still, how can he not show up on a day like this?”

“If Director Im came, would he or Director Shin be able to fully enjoy

themselves?”

“I guess so. Since Boss isn’t even here, I guess there’s no point in spoiling the
mood.”

Anyone could tell that KyungHyun and Director Im didn’t get along very well
within YongSung. After storing this piece of information inside her head, EunHa
exited the bathroom. It wouldn’t be good if she ran into another gangster when
KyungHyun was gone. She began to quickly walk away when she heard the
other man’s voice ring in her ears.

“I don’t know. I think Boss might be here.”

“What bullshit are you saying now?”

EunHa stopped dead in her tracks.

“He might not be up out front, but he’ll probably be watching everything
through a screen. I heard it from our hyung-nim, so I’m pretty sure that’s the
case.”

“Why is he hiding around like a cop? It’s not like he’s watching us play around.”

“I told you to fucking watch your mouth. It’s because he’s that careful that our
organization is still afloat, you bastard. If not for him, those Serim sons of
bitches would have infiltrated by now and killed us all.”

The men’s voices came closer, so EunHa went back and hid behind the
bathroom wall. Her heart began to beat loudly. If what they said was true, then
the head of YongSung was currently in the same building as her. She tried to
calm down by telling herself that there was a chance it wasn’t true.

“I’ll be right back, so wait here.”

She recalled what KyungHyun had said. If he had to get up from his seat to meet
someone, then it meant that this person had to have a high position. It couldn’t
hurt to make sure. EunHa left the bathroom. Instead of heading back to the
banquet hall, she silently began to walk around the first floor.

Even though there were may event venues on this floor, all the doors were
locked. She couldn’t hear anything inside these rooms either. Was she
mistaken? EunHa pondered this as she walked back to the banquet hall. She
walked towards the back entrance and saw that the party venue was still noisy
and full of cigarette smoke. She still couldn’t see any sight of KyungHyun.

“……”

She stopped in her tracks. A red ‘X’ was sprayed onto the iron doors of an old
elevator to indicate that it wasn’t operating. However, she saw someone push a
cart inside and disappear.

There was no way someone outside of YongSung was in this building. All the
gangsters were gathered in the banquet hall on the 1st floor.
There was no reason for the female employee to be pushing a bar cart full of
liquor anywhere else. After the elevator doors closed, EunHa quickly found the
emergency staircase.

Holding her high heels in her hand, she ran upstairs. Pant. Pant. She needed to
move faster than the elevator in order to find out which floor it was going to.

3rd floor.

5th floor.

8th floor.

Damn it. Was this all because she had picked the Wheel of Fortune card at a
tarot stand at the beginning of the year? Was it a sign that the wheel would
continue to turn until her death? EunHa felt that she had been running
constantly since Hong Kong. Just when she almost lost her breath and her legs
had become tense from all the blood rushing to it, the elevator finally stopped
with a ding.

“Haa…Haa…”

Just as the doors opened, EunHa quickly hid in the stairwell and panted silently.
The corridor was absolutely silent. Afraid that her rapidly beating heart would
be heard, EunHa took in a deep breath and closed her mouth. The female
employee pushed the cart across the dirty carpet of the corridor and finally
stopped in front of a door at the end. She knocked on the closed door. EunHa’s
eyes narrowed in the darkness.

A familiar face answered. It was the face of General Manager Cha, who had
disappeared together with KyungHyun. This meant that KyungHyun was in there
as well.

The female employee pushed the cart full of liquor inside, and after about 5
minutes, she came back out. The employee got back on the elevator, and
EunHa waited for the doors to close shut. She slowly exited the stairwell and
stepped into the corridor. A long sign with ‘SECURITY’ written across it was
hanging next to the closed door. She could smell the faint scent of cigarette
smoke coming from inside the room.

“When did you say you were leaving the country?”

She could hear the faint voice of a man. EunHa lowered the sound of her
breaths and brought her ear closer to the door.

“In one month, sir.”

“I expect the factory to run at full speed now.”

“It will, sir. I’ve already told them that they won’t get any money if the drugs
aren’t of the same quality as the samples. And they don’t want to lose a
customer who will want to purchase their product in bulk.”

“As expected, we need to see it with our own eyes when it comes to this
amount. It’s not like we’re running a charity here.”

“I think it’ll be dangerous for you to come to the site, sir.”

“I’ll have you there with me, Director Shin, so what do I have to worry about?”

EunHa couldn’t completely understand what they were talking about. She got
even closer to the door and stuck her ear up against it as she frowned. The
conversation continued on.

“And there’s no issues with customs?”

“Yes, sir. After the ship departed from Shenzhen, it was scheduled to go
through Hong Kong before coming to us. I’ve already met with Kim MinSuk and
guaranteed that we won’t be facing any obstacles.”

“Make sure no one catches a whiff of it and comes running over. The men who
are the best at smelling money are the ones in politics.”

“We’ve already obtained the medical contract, so they won’t be able to say
anything.”

EunHa heard a someone’s low laughter.

“As expected, those Chinese bastards… Who else could have thought to
establish a medical company in order to legally sell medical
methamphetamines? And not even domestically but internationally.

EunHa’s expression stiffened.

“They declare themselves to be a research lab but boldly produce ice by the
tons. Who could have imagined something like that?”

Methamphetamines. In slang, it was called bbong, ice. Black ice.

Philopon.

EunHa’s pupils dilated immediately. Her mouth went dry at this unexpected
information. Her heart began to race as it had when she had run up the stairs.

If what they said was true, then SungHo had completely misunderstood the
situation. The new medicine that Shin KyungHyun was developing was all fake. In
actuality, they were planning on smuggling in a huge amount of drugs into the
country. She now realized the true reason why KyungHyun had met with Kim
MinSuk. By appeasing him, they had managed to find a way to get through
customs and pave a path for their shipment to come through.

“If those hyena bastards at Serim realize what’s going on, they’ll come after us
with their eyes wide open, so be careful.”

“I’ll take care of that, sir. Leave it to me.”

KyungHyun wasn’t wrong. Once SungHo knew the truth, they’d have to modify
their plans. That greedy man would definitely try to snatch this away. This
wasn’t something she could do on her own. She needed to get out of here and
quickly let SungHo know what was really going on. EunHa’s hands were damp
with sweat.

“One more thing, Director Shin.”

“What is it, sir?”

“I don’t see the woman who came with you to the party venue on the screen.”

Damn it. EunHa swallowed, her mouth dry. She needed to get back to her seat
before KyungHyun went searching for her.

“But I see that she’s been caught doing something useless on this floor’s
corridor camera.”

EunHa quickly lifted her head and clearly saw the security camera on the
ceiling.
“…Let me go out and take a look, sir.”

There was no time to think. Just as she was about to run away, someone burst
out of the room. She bit the inside of her cheeks and swallowed a curse.

“What’s going on?”

She looked up at the large man in front of her and blinked her eyes, fluttering
her eyelashes, as she put a confused expression on her face.

“I came up to take in some fresh air on the roof, but I heard voices coming from
here. Sorry.”

“You fucking bitch. Get inside for now.”

The moment the man snatched her neck, EunHa didn’t hesitate and kicked his
groin with all her might.

“Omo, what do you think you’re doing?!”

“Uugh!”

The large man grabbed his groin and let out a low groan. He still managed to
grab her arm and dragged her into the room.

“Let me go. My shoes are coming off…!”

Her voice became shrill as it got louder. She tried to catch her balance as she
gave another kick. Behind the large frame of the man, she saw a middle-aged
man sitting in the back of the room.

“……!”

This was the man whose photo she had seen so many times that she had lost
count. YongSung’s president, the man who had ordered her family to be
massacred. This man was gazing at her. Next to him, KyungHyun and General
Manager Cha were frowning in surprise as they approached her. However, in
EunHa’s eyes, only Noh HyungChul existed.

Her mouth went dry, and her face turned as white as sheet. Tears glistened in
her eyes like glass beads.
“…You fucking bitch!”

“Stop!”

Just as the man was about to hit her, KyungHyun yelled out. EunHa didn’t waste
the opportunity that presented itself as the man hesitated. She grabbed the
gun that had been lodged inside the waistband of his pants and took it out. The
moment she saw Noh HyungChul’s face, everything she had worked for had
finally settled into place. Now all she had to do was kill the man who had killed
her parents with her own hands.

Bang!

She didn’t have time to think before she pulled the trigger. Due to her trembling
hands, the bullet missed its target and lodged itself in one of the screens
behind Noh HyungChul. EunHa’s pulse began to race faster. YongSung’s head
looked at her and let out a relaxed laugh.

“…How can such a pretty lady hold such a dangerous thing.”

“Go spew your bullshit in hell.”

EunHa’s finger tensed as she was about to pull the trigger once again.

“Lower the gun.”

She felt something touch her temple. KyungHyun was at her side as he aimed
his gun at her. EunHa’s lips turned blue as her face paled.

“Seeing as how a rookie like her was stuck to your side… It seems that our
Director Shin is finished as well.”

Hot tears dripped down EunHa’s cheeks. Seeing Noh HyungChul laugh as he
scratched his white beard, EunHa felt as if her heart was burning with rage.

“Lower your gun. Now!”

KyungHyun spoke softly once again. EunHa looked at the screen showing the
surveillance recording of the party venue. After hearing the gunshot, the
gangsters suddenly halted in their tracks and began to leave the room in a
hoard. This was YongSung’s base. Having shot a bullet at its leader, she was as
good as dead anyways.

EunHa’s cloudy eyes narrowed as she smiled at her target. It wasn’t difficult to
settle her heart. It was just like she practiced all those times at the shooting
range.

“Lee EunHa!”

Bang!

Bang!

“Uuugh!”

The moment she pulled the trigger, Noh HyungChul’s fallen bodyguard fired his
gun at her from behind. In one moment, two bullets left its respective guns as
the sound rang in the room. EunHa felt a burning sensation run through her
shoulder. The gun she had been holding fell to the floor. As she fell down, she
saw Noh HyungChul grab his chest as he collapsed.

“Get away from her, Director Shin!”

The bodyguard yelled out as KyungHyun crouched over EunHa’s fallen body.
The bodyguard couldn’t shoot freely because KyungHyun was too close to her.

“Damn it…”

KyungHyun cursed through his teeth and raised his gun as he took aim.

Bang! Bang!

He shot at the lights on the ceiling and completely destroyed them. The room
was suddenly enveloped in darkness. KyungHyun covered EunHa’s body and
began to fire several shots inside the room.

“What’s going on?!”

The door burst open, and the gangsters began to flood into the room. Bang!
Bang! As the sound of shots rang inside the room, the gangster’s cries followed
as they collapsed. As the windows shattered and the bottles of liquor crashed,
an array of glass fragments shot out in every direction.
In the midst of all this pandemonium, EunHa began to crawl. She was in so much
pain that she could barely breathe. Hot blood drenched her dress as it flowed
out. A few seconds later, a silence settled inside the room. KyungHyun lit his
lighter with a click.

Bang! Bang!

As the light cut through the darkness, KyungHyun fired his gun again, and two
more men collapsed.

“Uugh!”

KyungHyun grabbed her and softly yelled out.

“Stay awake, Lee EunHa… Lee EunHa!”

General Manager Cha quickly rushed over to KyungHyun’s side and hurriedly
asked.

“What should we do?”

She could hear General Manager Cha’s voice. KyungHyun gave him an order in
a low voice.

“Get Lee EunHa out of here. I’ll take care of the rest.”

“Yes, sir.”

She was being lifted onto someone’s back. Her blood dripped down constantly
as they went down the emergency staircase. The image of the blood-drenched
2nd floor carpet of her house kept overlapping with her vision.

“EunHa… No… Don’t come…!”

Recalling her mother’s eyes wet with blood, EunHa closed her eyes and lost
consciousness.

Chapter 5.2
– Hey, Lee. Isn’t it dangerous to be out this late at night?

Amy, EunHa’s best friend, sounded worried. Having talked for so long, EunHa’s
phone felt hot in her hand. She looked down at it and frowned.

[Yeah, my battery’s about to die anyways. I think I need to head back now.]

– That’s probably for the best. When did you say you were coming back again?

[If it were up to me, I would fly back as soon as possible. No matter what, I’m
going to do everything I can to get on the plane next week. You’ll be the first to
know when the exact date has been decided.]

EunHa let out a deep sigh and scratched her head. She wanted to hang out with
her friends, but as soon as her school break had started, she had to fly to
Korea. She didn’t like this from the start. Because she was the only Asian at
school, she was treated like an alien sometimes, but thanks to her personality,
she managed to make new friends fairly quickly.

– Okay. Jason asked about you. He was checking to see if Lee was going
camping with us.

On top of that, she even had a crush who made her heart race everyday. A
blush formed on her face as she thought about Jason’s smile. Because he was
the school quarterback, he was popular at school.

[Ah, really?]

– It looked like he was really looking forward to seeing you there.

[Amy, I’m going to look up plane tickets as soon as I get home.]

– You need to persuade your parents first since they’re very strict, Lee.

[If they don’t give me their permission, I’m going to tell them that I’m going to
sneak off to Philadelphia and join a female gang.]

– A female gang? I’ve never heard of those before.

[Of course you haven’t. I’m going to establish the first one.]

– Haha, as expected of you, Lee. You’re so much fun.

Amy’s laugh made EunHa burst into laughter as well. She finally let out a soft
sigh.

[Emily’s older sister said she’d go as the chaperone, so I don’t know why my
parents were so against it. I mean, I knew they were strict, but I don’t think
there are parents out there in the world that are more strict than mine. At
times like these, I wish I was an orphan.]

– Don’t get too worked up and try to persuade them. Good luck.

[Okay. I might call you again later.]

After they said their goodbyes, EunHa ended the call. EunHa begrudgingly
began to walk back to her house. The houses in this neighborhood were lined
up along the slope and had tall walls. Her house was the one at the very end of
the street.

EunHa complained in her heart with every step. Ever since she was young, her
parents were very protective of her. ‘Strict’ didn’t even cut it. Ever since
elementary school, her mother always waited for her at the school gates at the
end of every school day. If EunHa wanted to go over to friend’s house, she
always needed to get her parents’ permission beforehand.

When she was in 5th grade, she moved to the United States. Her father stayed
behind to work in Korea, so EunHa felt a little bad leaving him, but EunHa was
excited to finally have some breathing room of her own.

While she was in the United States, a Mexican woman was hired to take care of
her. The woman was funny and kind. The other children were wary of her at
first, but they were all nice.

Since she was the only Asian in the neighborhood, she always stood out
whenever she went out. However, her life was less restricted here than in
Korea. Therefore, whenever she returned to Korea during her breaks, her
parents’ overprotection seemed even more severe to her.

After finally reaching her house, EunHa made up her mind. She was going to let
them know how she felt no matter what. She took out the round sensor key and
held it up.

What the…
The front gate was slightly open. EunHa frowned. Did she forget to close it
properly when she left? As she pondered this, she went inside and closed the
gate. She carefully lifted her feet as she walked. There was no sign of their
family dog, Fluffy. The hunting dog was usually very energetic and always
wanted to play. It was past midnight now, so maybe he didn’t want to get up.

EunHa fidgeted with Fluffy’s treat inside her pocket as she made her way
across the yard. The moon was hidden behind the clouds tonight. The
neighborhood seemed quieter than usual. Maybe it was due to the time of
night.

“……”

The front door was open, and there was dim light coming from the living room.
EunHa’s frown became even deeper. Something was wrong. Did her parents
find out that she had snuck out of the house?

Her mother always woke up throughout the night and opened her bedroom
door to check up on her, so it was a possibility. That’s why EunHa had thrown
her teddy bear underneath the sheets before she left. But it seemed that it
wasn’t enough and she’d been caught.

She was going to get a good scolding as soon as she went inside. EunHa was
sure of it. And this was all after she had just argued with them about the
camping trip. EunHa knew what she was going to say.

How long were they going to keep treating her like a child?

EunHa mumbled to herself and took off her shoes. She tossed the keys into the
basket next to the door. Then she turned into the decorated corridor. She was
imagining the looks on her parents’ faces as they sat on the sofa in the living
room. Just as she was about to turn into the lit room…

“……!”

EunHa quickly hid behind the cupboard. She covered her mouth with both hands
because she couldn’t stop her teeth from trembling. She bit the inside her
cheeks very hard as she tried to mute the noise.

Robbers.
She saw someone in black go up the stairs. She felt as if her heard had jumped
up to the back of her throat as it pounded inside her chest.

‘What… What do I do…?’

A robber had definitely broken into the house. The house had a private
security system installed. If someone was monitoring the situation through the
security cameras, they would be sending help within 5 minutes.

Her mother had collected priceless paintings and ceramic works and spread
them throughout the house. It would take the robber more than 5 minutes to
take all of it.

EunHa believed that all she needed to do was wait for the security guards to
come. Suddenly, she heard a cry come from the room connected to the living
room.

“Aaagh! Wh-Who… are you… Aaaagh!”

EunHa’s pupils dilated. While she was in the United States, she had always talked
to her father at least once a day, so there was no way she didn’t recognize his
voice. Her tears flowed down her hands that were still covering her mouth. This
man wasn’t simply a robber.

She needed to get out. She needed to run away right now, but her legs had
turned to stone and wouldn’t move.

“Aaaagh!”

EunHa’s head shot up. She heard her mother’s scream followed by something
crashing and stumbling onto the floor.

“Haaagh! Aaaagh!”

Every time EunHa heard the desperate wails of her mother, her heart skipped
a beat and trembled. Her mind went blank, and she couldn’t think.

“Hm…Hmm…”

EunHa’s cries leaked through her hands as they continued to cover her mouth.
She needed to hold it back. She was so scared that she didn’t even realize that
her cellphone was in her pocket. EunHa didn’t move one step and continued to
hide behind the cupboard.

“Hyung-nim, it’s done.”

“There should be a kid on the 2nd floor.”

A door opened and someone walked out. EunHa shut her eyes.

Mom, Dad. What am I supposed to do now? I’m scared. I’m scared! I’m scared!

“There was no one else. The kid’s mother was the only one.”

“It’s summer break, so she should still be in the house. She might have hid after
hearing all the noise.”

EunHa trembled as she kept her eyes shut. How could this be happening to her
family? A shiver went down her spine. This definitely wasn’t a dream.

Mom, Dad. Save me. What do I do?

“Have you checked under the bed? Inside the closet?”

“Ah, that is… The mother wouldn’t cooperate…”

Tssk. EunHa heard someone click his tongue.

“I’ll go with you.”

She heard their footsteps on the carpet. EunHa’s face was covered in tears
and snot and was a complete mess. She finally stepped out from behind the
cupboard.

“…Haah!”

The carpet that her mother had cherished was drenched in blood. Her mother
was collapsed on top of the stairs. Red blood flowed out endlessly from her
mother’s body and dripped down the stairs.

“M…M…Mo…!”
EunHa held out a trembling hand towards her mother. Her frozen legs finally
moved. She took a step closer to her mother. Even though her eyes were
blurry with tears, she finally saw her hand grab her mother’s.

‘Don’t… come… EunHa…’

Her mother’s face was warped with pain. She didn’t make a sound and only
moved her lips at EunHa. She could hear the men ransacking her room as they
flipped all the furniture.

“M…Mom…”

“Go… Run… EunHa, run…”

Her mother barely managed to speak. She coughed and some blood burst out
of her lips. EunHa watched her mother die with her eyes still open and
collapsed onto the floor.

“She’s not in the bathroom either. Just how many bathrooms are in this damn
house? Just how much money did they blow through all these years?”

“Keep searching the 2nd floor. I’ll go back downstairs and check there.”

EunHa heard the steady footsteps go down the stairs. When she heard the
squeaking shoes on the hardwood floor, her chin began to tremble. She grit her
teeth and bit her cheek as she crawled into the master bedroom. She didn’t
have enough time to run across the living room and reach the front door.

“Uugh…!”

Her father was spread out on the bed, drenched in blood. He wasn’t moving. His
red blood had spread throughout the white sheets and was dripping onto floor,
making a small puddle. EunHa gripped her hair so tight that it felt like she was
ripping it out of her scalp. She didn’t understand how this could be happening to
her. If this was a nightmare, she prayed that she would wake up. Please. Please!

Ding-dong.

Suddenly, her cellphone in her pocket let out an alarm. Terrified out of her wits,
she grabbed her cellphone and pulled it out.

“Haa… Ah…”
With trembling hands, she turned off the phone. But it was too late. It seemed
that the man outside had heard. The footsteps came closer. Suddenly, she
heard a door burst open. One by one, the man opened the door to her father’s
study, then the guest room, then the dressing room. EunHa tightly gripped the
cellphone and trembled.

Dad… Save me… Save me, Dad…

Finally, the master bedroom door opened. EunHa pressed her back against the
wall behind the door. She bit her lips and held her breath.

“Maybe I misheard. Shit.”

She heard a man’s voice behind the intricately carved wooden door. If she was
caught now, she’d die. EunHa continued to hold her breath. Each moment felt
like an eternity.

“Where is our princess hiding…”

Her tears silently dripped down her cheeks. EunHa couldn’t even blink. EunHa
heard a ringing sound as the man let go of the doorknob. When she heard the
footsteps fade away, she rushed over to the bedroom window. There was no
time to waste. If she stayed here any longer, she’d die.

“Huuu…”

EunHa held back her cries and tried her best to quietly open the window. As
she was about to go over the windowsill, the moonlight shone over her father’s
closed eyes and illuminated his body. A family portrait of her father, her
mother, and EunHa hung on the wall.

Mom, Dad…!

EunHa tightly shut her eyes and jumped out the window. When her feet landed
on the ground, she felt a spark of pain go through her ankle. However, if she
stayed here, she’d be stabbed to death.

EunHa got up and ran across the yard with all her might. She now saw Fluffy’s
legs poking out of his doghouse.

“Huu… Ugh…”
As soon as she ran out the gate, a sob escaped her lips, but she still couldn’t
cry out as loud as she wanted to. With tears pouring out of her eyes, EunHa ran
down the slope. There was no one on the slope surrounded by tall walls. She
just needed to reach a major street. Just get to a major street…!

As she ran, someone popped out of an alleyway. EunHa crashed into this
person.

“Aagh…!”

Just as EunHa was about to tumble down, the person firmly grabbed her
shoulder. It was a tall young man wearing a black cap.

“Huu… Save… Save me…”

EunHa clung onto him and sobbed.

“Please… Please, save me…”

Her body wavered like an aspen tree. She begged him in a whispering voice as
she wet her pants. She fainted, and when she opened her eyes, she was in the
hospital.

TN: OMG 😭 FLUFFY! Of course, EH’s parents too. All so tragic!

Sorry! I’m not sure if you guys noticed, but I mistranslated a past chapter. EunHa
didn’t sneak out and go over to a friend’s house. She went out and just called
her friend to complain. I’ve fixed that previous chapter (ch 2 pt 2) accordingly.
My bad! Sorry about that…

Chapter 6.1

EunHa’s eyes burst open. Tears were running down from her eyes.

“Are you awake?”

A tired woman was sitting by her side. She got up and approached EunHa.

“…Where am I?”
EunHa frowned as an unfamiliar voice left her throat. When she tried to move,
her whole body throbbed and ached as if she had been beaten all over. EunHa
let out a soft groan. The unfamiliar woman kept her eyes on EunHa as she
made a call.

“Lee EunHa-ssi is awake.”

EunHa looked around with hazy eyes. EunHa was currently in a dull room that
barely had any furniture. She thought she was in a hospital when she saw the IV
in her arm, but the white clothes she was wearing didn’t have a hospital logo.

“Tell me. Where am I?”

EunHa looked at the unfamiliar woman and asked again.

“You’re in a hotel.”

The woman was wearing a short dress and had a lot of makeup on. Her flashy
clothes didn’t seem to match her manner of speech and facial expression, but
EunHa felt that she was telling the truth.

“What happened?”

The moment EunHa asked this question, the door opened and a man in a suit
came inside holding a briefcase. He put the briefcase on the room-service tray
and began to take out medical instruments.

“How do you feel?”

The man didn’t look like a doctor, but he held up an instrument to measure her
blood pressure as he asked. When EunHa didn’t respond, he spoke up.

“Thankfully, the gunshot wound hit your shoulder, so it didn’t wound any organs.
You’ve had surgery, so please don’t move your right arm until everything heals.
Let me take a look at the wound.”

The unfamiliar woman, who had been standing silently to the side, came up and
began to unbutton EunHa’s clothes and lowered it to reveal one shoulder.
EunHa tilted her head and saw that her shoulder was wrapped in bandages.

“I’ll change the bandages.”

Whenever the man moved his hands, she felt a cold prickle of pain run through
her arm, but it allowed her hazy mind to gradually clear up.

EunHa began to go through the events that she still remembered. Before she
lost consciousness, she was attending YongSung’s founding party. She followed
KyungHyun and eavesdropped on his conversation.

Drugs. She had overheard that they were smuggling in Philopon and had gotten
caught in the process. She was just about to run away when… She saw Noh
HyungChul. And she shot him. At the same time, she’d been shot as well. The
room had gone dark and chaos ensued. She had been carried out of the
building by someone, and that was all she remembered.

Click.

The man finally finished dressing her wound and wrapped it in bandages. He
took out a syringe and a small, glass medicine bottle. EunHa shook her head.

“No.”

“I need to inject the antibiotics.”

“How can I trust that you’re going to give me antibiotics?”

Click. The door opened. EunHa turned her head to see KyungHyun enter the
room.

“If we didn’t plan to treat you, we wouldn’t have given you surgery in the first
place.”

EunHa stared at him silently with her pale face.

“How do you feel?”

KyungHyun asked her. EunHa continued to stare at him blankly before she pried
open her dry lips.

“How did you know my name?”

KyungHyun merely stared back at her. He didn’t reply.

“When I fell after being shot, you called me ‘Lee EunHa’.”

“……”

“And that woman also said my name when she called someone on the phone.”

When KyungHyun continued to stare at her in silence, EunHa looked into his
black eyes and asked him again in a hoarse voice.

“Did you know who I was from the start?”

“Yes. Although, it was a surprise to find out that you worked for Serim.”

A silence settled in the room after KyungHyun’s reply. A frown gradually spread
on EunHa’s blank face.

“…How did you know?”

“I heard you speaking to Kang SungHo in your apartment.”

There was no way that was true. She had only spoken to SungHo in her
apartment a few times, and she’d only done it right around the time she started
working at KeumOh.

“If there was a listening device, there’s no way I wouldn’t have seen it.”

“You’re right. The day I stayed over at your place, I got rid of them while you
were asleep.”

EunHa’s white teeth fiercely bit down on her lips. She felt a hot flame blaze
from within.

“You knew… You knew that I was from Serim and you kept me by your side?”

“Yeah.”

“Why…?”

EunHa’s eyes narrowed. A prick of red bled through her newly-wound

bandages before spreading throughout the fabric.

“Please don’t get worked up. You need to remain calm.”

The doctor in the suit softly whispered, but EunHa didn’t pay any attention. She
shook her head and glared at him with all the rage in her heart.

“Why did you do that? You don’t seem like a man who has the time to fool
around with a spy from a rival organization.”

EunHa raised her voice as KyungHyun remained silent.

“Did you bring me to the party so that you could execute me in front of all
those people?!”

The unfamiliar woman who had kept silent throughout all this stepped forward.

“Lee EunHa-ssi, please calm down.”

“And who are you? Are you this man’s lover? I don’t care if you are, but could
you mind your own business for now?”

“We are police, Lee EunHa-ssi.”

The woman cut her off as her face hardened.

“What?”

EunHa looked up at her in disbelief as she frowned. No matter how one looked
at her, the woman didn’t look like police. No, if this woman was police, it didn’t
make any sense that she could stand to be in the same room as Shin
KyungHyun. The type of people that couldn’t stand to breathe the same air as
gangsters were the police.

“What bullshit is that?”

“You heard it correctly.”

KyungHyun replied indifferently. Seeing that EunHa was completely

dumbfounded, the unfamiliar woman explained.

“I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of special forces within the police, but we
specialize in infiltration.”
EunHa silently looked the woman up and down. Then her eyes went past the
waiting doctor holding the syringe and went to General Manager Cha before
finally landing on KyungHyun. She murmured in a hoarse voice.

“What are you all trying to do? If you plan on killing me, just do it. My identity
has already been revealed, so what’s the point of putting on this show?”

“You’re right. Everyone in YongSung now knows your identity, so why do you
think I would put on this show?”

KyungHyun’s black gaze captured her. EunHa frowned and bit her lip. She felt as
if everything in her head was tangled up. She had a bad feeling about all of this.

“Are you telling me that you’re police?”

“Gangsters are people that value affiliations more than anyone.”

“Is that so?”

“Ah, and another group values it as well.”

“Who?”

“Cops.”

She briefly recalled their lighthearted conversation at the traditional Korean

restaurant. KyungHyun gave her a blunt affirmation.

“Yes.”

“Not the mob… but the police.”

EunHa looked up at KyungHyun in confusion. This man, who she had thought was
born to be a gangster, was actually police. For some reason, she felt more
betrayed than shocked. She thought she was deceiving this man. However, it
turned out that she was perfectly deceived instead.

“Haha…”

When KyungHyun saw her laughing at herself, he spoke up.

“For over 10 years, I’ve committed plenty of illegal acts, so it wouldn’t be
completely wrong to say that I’m a gangster.”

The unfamiliar woman at his side coughed awkwardly with an uncomfortable

expression on her face. EunHa glared at them and spoke in a cold voice.

“Explain it to me so that I can understand. Right now.”

The woman stepped forward and cautiously began to tell their story.

“As you may know, Lee EunHa-ssi, Serim and YongSung are the longest-
operating criminal organizations in Korea.”

“And I’m sure the responsibility to enforce the law on them lies with the police.”

The woman didn’t seem bothered by EunHa’s mocking reply.

“Up until now, there were many instances and opportunities, but because of
their illegal financial dealings with politicians, they were able to escape police
capture. Because of this, prosecutors and police alike were frustrated.
Extremely frustrated.”

“Even in our organization, everyone’s interests aren’t the same.”

At KyungHyun’s meaningful words, the woman briefly stopped speaking before

continuing.

“12 years ago, right around the time when the election was drawing near, we
received orders from the higher-ups to apprehend these mobs en masse. We
were also told to insert one of our own to gain information from the inside. And
back then, the team leader, Superintendent Shin, was selected to be the double
agent. And that’s how it all started.”

“…12 years?”

EunHa furrowed her brows.

“That’s right. It’s been a long time.”

KyungHyun nodded his head. EunHa looked at him and shook her head. That
meant that KyungHyun had hidden within the mob for 12 years as he pretended
to be one of them.
“Do you think that makes any sense?”

“I never thought it would last this long when I first started. When 5 years had
passed, we had an opportunity to completely capture the leader. However, in
the middle of all this, the political arena had completely shifted and everything
we had worked for blew away with the wind.”

“…It had to do with the higher-ups, so there was nothing we could do.”

The woman lowered her head to KyungHyun with a stiff expression. Without
responding to her, KyungHyun narrowed his eyes as he gazed at EunHa and
continued to speak.

“When I first received my assignment, I was sent to Serim, not YongSung. After 4
years had passed, Kang SungHo sent me to YongSung.”

“…What did you say?”

EunHa’s voice trembled. Her temples throbbed, and she began to get a
headache.

“It was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse. This was a chance for us to know
everything about both organizations. Even our higher-ups welcomed it with
open arms.”

“Bullshit.”

EunHa softly mumbled. YongSung’s Shin KyungHyun was a man working for
Serim? She had been in Serim for 10 years, and she’d never heard of this.

“Around that time, I was a rookie who had just entered the organization. All the
members in the organization that knew me were sent to the countryside
because Kang SungHo didn’t want any information to be leaked out.”

“But Kang SungHo wanted me to…”

EunHa didn’t finish her sentence. KyungHyun looked at her and calmly asked.

“Did Kang SungHo order you to kill me?”

EunHa looked at him in shock. KyungHyun didn’t look disturbed at all. He merely
looked at her with distant eyes as he continued to speak to her. Her uneasiness
continued to grow.

“As I continued to move up in YongSung, Kang SungHo began to grow suspicious

of me. What I’m telling you is that you’re not the first person he sent to spy on
me.”

“There were seven people, Lee EunHa-ssi. After they returned to Serim, they all
went missing.”

“Nine in total. Two of them died by my hands.”

KyungHyun corrected the woman. EunHa’s mouth was dry, but she still
swallowed. There was still one thing she couldn’t understand.

“Then why did you continue to keep me by your side even though you knew I
was sent from Serim with orders to kill you?”

“……”

KyungHyun didn’t answer her question. Instead, the woman spoke.

“Lee EunHa-ssi, YongSung’s project of developing a new drug is actually a front

to smuggle drugs into the country.”

“…So?”

Before she had shot Noh HyungChul, she had already overheard this piece of
information.

“We believed that if Lee EunHa-ssi told Serim about these plans, Serim would
definitely intervene. With that amount of Philopon being smuggled in, it would be
enough for us to capture both YongSung and Serim in one go.”

“Then couldn’t Shin KyungHyun have told Kang SungHo directly himself?”

“…If Kang SungHo trusted me, he wouldn’t have sent you from the start.”

“Haha.”
EunHa laughed bitterly. She felt that she finally understood what they were
saying now.

“So what you’re saying is… you were just using me.”

The reason why he kept her by his side even though he knew she was from
Serim was because he wanted her to cloud SungHo’s judgement. Realizing that
she was being used this whole time felt more wretched than expected. Why
was she so disappointed? She was planning on using him as well anyway. Her
cloudy eyes became fierce.

“You must be frustrated that I’ve ruined everything. If everything went

according to plan, I was supposed to relay this information to Serim. Am I right?”

KyungHyun, who had been silent, spoke up then.

“Why did you try to kill Noh HyungChul?”

“Is he not dead yet?”

“He’s been hospitalized and is currently hooked to a respirator.”

EunHa bit her lips until she felt them sting. If she hadn’t been shot in the last
moment, she would have been able to successfully hit his heart. If she had only
been a second faster, she would have been able to kill him. Even if she died in
the process, she would have dragged him to hell with her. She would have
laughed at his miserable face.

“There’s no way Kang SungHo ordered you to kill Noh HyungChul. He knows
more than anyone that it would cause a war between the two organizations. So
why did you do it?”

KyungHyun asked again in confusion. EunHa answered him with a gaunt, cold
face.

“I… have no interest whatsoever in any of this that you’re all doing. Serim,
YongSung… It’s all none of my business.”

KyungHyun let out a heavy sigh as his eyes gleamed. As he had been heading
over to the founding party with EunHa, he went through all the possibilities. He
had originally planned to take her to China with him to leak some of the
information about their smuggling plans. However, he decided it would be
better to let her listen in on his conversation instead of telling her directly, so
he let her follow him.

He had also set the 8th floor corridor security camera at an angle so that she
wouldn’t be seen so easily. The GPS he had installed in her diamond necklace
showed that she was coming closer and closer.

“Are you wondering why I shot that old grump?”

“You could have been shot and killed. Do you know that?!”

As he bellowed this, the woman at his side quietly blocked him.

“Lee EunHa-ssi is a patient.”

“Shut it.”

KyungHyun didn’t even look at his junior and spit out the order between gritted
teeth. His previously blank face was now filled with rage. Even though he
recognized that he was overwhelmed with fury, he couldn’t calm down. He had
also considered the possibility of Lee EunHa getting caught. If she had been
caught by Noh HyungChul’s bodyguard, he was going to step up and claim her
as his woman to protect her.

Being the shrewd actress that she was, he trusted that she would play along. If
Noh HyungChul acknowledged her as his woman, having her come with him to
China would seem more natural. However, KyungHyun never expected her to
behave so recklessly in a place filled with YongSung’s men.

“I’m asking you why you did something so suicidal and idiotic!”

“Because that bastard killed my parents.”

EunHa’s thin voice suddenly caused a heavy silence to fall inside the room.
Everyone’s faces hardened as they stared at her.

“My father was a member of Serim who was killed by that bastard.”

Not only her father, but her mother too. Her young self ran away when she saw
the corpses of her parents. But not now. Her eyes became sharp as she
smirked.
“I wanted to twist a knife in his stomach, but I wasn’t able to. What a shame.”

The woman next to her hesitated before speaking.

“Lee EunHa-ssi…”

KyungHyun raised his hand and stopped her. The woman shut her mouth.

“Did you come to YongSung as a spy because of Noh HyungChul?”

“Yes.”

EunHa sharply raised her eyes. Her eyes glistened as they filled with tears.

“Not because Kang SungHo sent you?”

“I did everything he asked. I waited for the day he would send me to YongSung. I
imagined ripping that old man apart hundreds of times for killing my mom and
dad.”

KyungHyun’s black gaze on her deepened.

“But when I saw Noh HyungChul with my own eyes, I almost lost it. Serim or
YongSung… Whether the organization kills me or whether everyone dies… It
doesn’t matter, you see.”

Her tears clung onto her long eyelashes.

“But… What should I do… I wasn’t able to kill him in one shot… And I messed up
like a fucking idiot…”

Her hot tears finally flowed down her dry cheeks. Watching her mock herself,
KyungHyun spoke bitterly.

“I think… I understand now.”

“Mr. Policeman, can you tell me where that son of a bitch is?”

“Lee EunHa.”

“…Just tell me where he is. I’ll do whatever you want. Please?”

KyungHyun, who had been quietly watching EunHa become hysterical, finally let
out a heavy sigh.

“The man who killed your parents wasn’t Noh HyungChul. It was Kang SungHo.”

EunHa looked at him, her mouth open in shock. Her pupils wet with tears
suddenly dilated. Her pale, blank face looked like that of a corpse.

“What?”

KyungHyun finally solved the puzzle. He finally understood why she had stayed
in the hands of Kang SungHo, the man who killed her parents.

“Just now… What… What did you… just say… What kind of bullshit are you…”

EunHa’s pale lips trembled as she hastily glued her eyes to him.

“It’s just as you heard. Serim’s previous leader, President Jang, had great trust
in your father, Lee EunHa-ssi. If everything went according to plan, the next
leader would have been your father. Kang SungHo couldn’t accept that, so he
murdered your parents himself and set your house on fire…”

“Don’t be ridiculous!”

EunHa shouted. The unfamiliar woman shut her mouth briefly before she calmly
continued.

“After killing your parents and setting your house on fire, he presented false
evidence and framed it on YongSung. That was the beginning of the conflict
between the two organizations. In the process, many men were sacrificed.
After Kang SungHo killed his own boss, he was finally able to obtain the position
he has now.”

“Lie… Don’t lie…”

When EunHa mumbled hysterically, KyungHyun replied in a soft voice.

“It’s the truth.”

“Do you have proof? Proof… I’m asking you if you have proof!”

EunHa looked at him in disbelief. KyungHyun’s voice became lower.

“That night, the one who turned you over to the police was me. I was the one
you ran into on the street.”

EunHa frowned. Suddenly, like a crazy woman, she began to laugh in a shrill
voice.

“Haha, hahaha! Shove your bullshit up your ass. Aah. You’re all so funny. What
are you saying? Everything was a lie from the very beginning!”

KyungHyun took out a picture from the inside pocket of his jacket. As she fixed
her dizzy eyes to it, her shoulders began to sporadically shake.

“These are the belongings that fell out of sixteen-year-old Lee EunHa’s pocket.
A cellphone with a dead battery and a dog treat. Your last call was to Arizona,
USA.”

“Save me… Mister… Please, please save me… Huuu…”

There was no way. The sharp face that gazed at her from underneath the
black cap perfectly overlapped with KyungHyun’s. EunHa frantically shook her
head.

“No!”

This couldn’t be. She was definitely mistaken. EunHa tried with all her might to
forget that night. Her cluttered mind was filled with fog, making everything
hazy. If this was true, then she wouldn’t be able to sleep anymore. Her eyes
shook as she lost focus.

“Do you really not remember? Kang SungHo was one of the men that entered
your house!”

KyungHyun spoke through his teeth in frustration. He held her back as she tried
to escape. Suddenly, all the terrible memories from that night that she had tried
so hard to forget began to flood her mind. Squeak. Squeak. The sound of shoes
walking across the hardwood floors were so clear. EunHa’s chin began to
tremble so hard that her teeth chattered.

“Where is our princess hiding…”

Tap. Glazed in fear, a teardrop fell from her eyes without warning. In the room
where her dead father laid, EunHa was hiding behind the wooden door as the
terrifying voice tore through her mind. Within the memories that she had tried
so hard to forget, a thin voice whispered in her ear.

“Princess, from now on, all you have to do is follow Ahjussi’s orders.”

This was SungHo’s voice. The one she had heard countless times. EunHa shook
her head and let out a piercing shriek.

“Aaaaagh!”

EunHa fiercely pulled at the IV in her arm. She grabbed the bottle and
shattered it before taking a broken shard.

“Lee EunHa-ssi!”

“Lee EunHa!”

All the eyes on her widened in shock. EunHa didn’t hesitate as she pierced her
jugular with the shard. She wanted to die.

Chapter 6.2

EunHa exited her school in her gym uniform. Her skirt had been slashed to
shreds by a box cutter and was now inside her backpack. Within a week since
she had transferred into this school, she had become an outcast. This was
because she had consistently ignored any kid that came up to speak to her.
When a clique of them began to provoke her by asking her if she thought she
was too good for them, EunHa went to her homeroom teacher and reported
them, and so they retaliated several-fold.

Three days had passed since all her textbooks had gone missing. Today, she
discovered her uniform skirt slashed to shreds in her locker. Even though she
desperately wanted to return to the United States, the distant relatives that
took her in were not financially stable.

Should I just quit school?

She wanted to quit school and earn money to leave this place. She no longer
wanted to stay in the place where her parents had died, and it was becoming
difficult to continue to receive her relatives’ dissatisfied looks. Just as long as
she could purchase a plane ticket, she’d make it work. As she was thinking this,
someone called out to her.

“So you’re EunHa.”

EunHa raised her head and looked at the person who spoke. She stared at the
person who had a scar on his brow and stopped in her tracks.

“……”

“Do you know who I am?”

She had never met this man before. Wearing a black coat and leather gloves,
the man grinned at her. Observing his sharp face, EunHa had a feeling that she
shouldn’t get close to this man. She answered softly.

“…No, I don’t.”

“I’m your father’s friend. Don’t you remember me?”

“…I didn’t see you at the funeral either. How can I trust that you’re actually my
father’s friend?”

EunHa shook her head. As he gazed at her, a strange smile stretched across
his lips.

“You really don’t recognize me.”

“If you come near me, I’ll call the police.”

As her hair fell and covered her face, EunHa murmured softly. 6 months had
passed since she had witnessed her parents’ horrifying deaths, but she still had
a difficult time speaking with people. She had developed sociophobia.

“Here. Will you believe me with this?”

The man held out his cellphone to her. EunHa’s eyes lowered to the screen. She
saw a picture of her father and this man.
“Go ahead and swipe through the rest.”

EunHa remained where she was and didn’t move, so the man touched the
screen himself. She saw many photos flash by.

“I thought I wouldn’t have any photos of us together, but there were more than
I expected.”

What he said was true. She saw many pictures of her father with this man in
many locations. Some pictures showed them with other people, and there was
even a photo of them together at a fishing hole.

The last picture was a group photo. At the center of a group of men in suits,
her father was in a tuxedo as he stood next to her mother in a wedding dress.

Tears began to well up in EunHa’s black eyes. She thought that she didn’t have
any more tears left to shed, but her heart still twisted whenever she saw a
picture of her parents.

“You were still in your mother’s belly here.”

The man’s eyes became cloudy as he recalled the past with a smile.

“We were so shocked when he suddenly told us he was getting married. We

were still so young back then, and we didn’t have anything to our names. When
you father told us your mother was pregnant, we were all so surprised and
happy for him. I remember we got insanely drunk that night.”

“…I think I’ve seen enough.”

EunHa quietly murmured, and the man put his cellphone back into his pocket.

“Then are you willing to talk to Ahjussi for a little bit?”

“About what?”

Even though she was still eyeing him cautiously, she no longer avoided his eyes.

“About your parents’ deaths.”

The playground was empty. Only the sound of the wind whistling through the
leaves could be heard.
Sitting on a paint-chipped bench, the man was smoking a cigarette. EunHa sat
by his side in silence when the man didn’t begin speaking. Suddenly, she broke
the silence.

“If it’s about that night, I’ve already told the detectives everything I know. I don’t
know anything. I didn’t see the men’s faces.”

The man took a deep drag of the cigarette before letting out a long sigh,
blowing out the smoke.

“The most incompetent organization in Korea is the police.”

“……”

Unable to agree or disagree, EunHa just stared at him quietly. The man finally
finished his cigarette and threw the cigarette butt on the ground before
fiercely grinding it with his shoe.

“I didn’t come here to ask you about that day.”

“…Then why did you?”

“The man who was your father… He was like family to me. For 15 years, we
served the same boss and went through all sorts of hardships together.”

“…So you’re also in the mob?”

EunHa raised her head and asked him. Even though her voice sounded
indifferent, her black eyes widened as they slightly trembled.

“So you knew what kind of work your father did.”

“I heard the detectives talking about it.”

EunHa pleaded to the detectives to catch the people who did this, but they
brushed off the murders to be a result of a conflict between two gangs. Even
though her father was a man of few words, he was an incredibly tender man
when it came to his family, and he was the smartest man in the world. To think
that the office he had been pouring his heart and soul into was actually a
criminal organization. That was the first time EunHa had heard about this.
“So do you hate and fear the fact that I’m also in the mob?”

EunHa silently shook her head.

“You can be honest.”

A black van rolled up to the front of the playground. When the driver lowered
the window and stared at him, the man raised his hand and gestured for him to
wait for a while longer.

“Well, my father was also a member of the mob. And you’re also a friend of his.”

The man looked at her and grinned. The scar on his brow deepened.

“How fortunate.”

“…What is?”

“Nothing. I’m just glad that this neighborhood is so quiet. It’s perfect for
conversations like this.”

The wind blew against the old swings, making them creak. A dry, dull leaf
fluttered down and flew away with the wind. EunHa wet her dry lips and called
out to the man.

“Ahjussi.”

“Hm?”

“Do you know who killed my mom and dad?”

“…And what if I do?”

“Can you tell me who it is?”

SungHo bit his lip. When he didn’t answer, EunHa raised her voice a bit more.

“Ahjussi, you said you were my dad’s friend. Please tell me.”

EunHa’s eyes filled with tears once more. With his hands in his coat pockets, he
merely stared at her with steady eyes.
“The detectives won’t tell me anything. They told me that it’s best if I don’t know
these things because I’m too young. It doesn’t make any sense. My mom and
dad died… They died right in front of my eyes…”

A tear dripped down EunHa’s cheek.

“What killed your parents was ‘YongSung’.”

YongSung.

EunHa blinked when he finally answered her.

“Yong…Sung?”

“Yeah. YongSung’s leader, Noh HyungChul, ordered for the death of your father,
our leader’s right-hand man, in order to start a conflict between our two
organizations.”

YongSung’s leader. Noh HyungChul.

EunHa bit down on her lips until they bled. She carved that name into her brain.
Her eyes were red from crying.

“Our organization will avenge your father no matter what. So there’s no need
to worry.”

“…I want to help too.”

SungHo looked at her with a blank expression. The sunken scar on his brow
deepened.

“What did you just say?”

EunHa grabbed on to the hem of his coat. Her white, thin hand was shaking. Her
long hair was stuck to her wet cheeks. Looking a mess, she pleaded once again.

“I want to do whatever I can to help. Please, even if it’s just cleaning. So can’t I
just go with you, Ahjussi?”

The man burst out laughing as he lit another cigarette.

“Please, Ahjussi.”
An indescribable gleam entered the man’s eyes as he looked at her.

“…You are very much like your father.”

Another hot tear traveled down EunHa’s cheek. She rubbed it away with her
hand.

“Your father was incredibly smart and talented. He was a bit stubborn, but… it’s
such a shame that he went like that. If he were alive, he would definitely have
made it to the top of Serim.”

SungHo bit the cigarette and got up from his seat. He began taking off his
leather glove.

“Once you hold this hand, you will become a part of my family.”

He blocked EunHa as she held up her own hand without hesitation. Whoosh, the
cold wind rustled her hair making them stick to her wet cheeks.

“Before you hold it, think carefully. Becoming a member of my family means that
you must follow my orders no matter what.”

“…All right.”

“If you betray me, I’ll kill you. Just because you’re my hyung-nim’s daughter
doesn’t mean you’re an exception. If you’re scared, run away now.”

EunHa shot up from her seat and snatched his hand. SungHo laughed in his thin
voice. His damp, cold hands tightened on hers. It felt as if she were holding a
slippery snake in her hands.

That day, only her backpack holding her shredded skirt was left behind on the
bench, and EunHa had disappeared. Before she had gone missing, an
eyewitness claimed to have seen her getting into a black van of her own
accord. But other than that, no one could find any trace of her.

KyungHyun rushed to her bedside and grabbed her wrist. A sob tore out of
EunHa’s mouth.

“Let go… Let go!”

After SungHo had taken her away, a bloody war had begun between Serim and
YongSung, just like he told her. Ultimately, both organizations had lost hundreds
of men, and the conflict had come to an end.

The leader who SungHo had served died, and SungHo took his place. He then
sent her to the United States and ordered her to study there. It seemed that he
had bigger plans for her than having her clean. However, she didn’t hear any
news of the death of Noh HyungChul, YongSung’s leader.

“Get ahold of yourself, Lee EunHa!”

“What do you know… Let go, let go of me!”

SungHo had told her that it was too dangerous to attack Noh HyungChul now,
and when EunHa had screamed and cried at him, he put her in an underground
warehouse for three days where she saw no light. She thought she would
starve to death, and in the haze of fear, EunHa realized what position she was
in.

If she didn’t follow SungHo’s orders, he could kill her. She wouldn’t be able to
escape, and even if she did, he’d catch her and kill her. Once she realized this
truth, EunHa’s attitude changed.

“I want to die… I’m going to die!”

She did everything he ordered her to do. She picked up many languages and
learned to seduce men. She didn’t decline the missions where she was told to
extract information in bed. If he told her to crawl on all fours naked, she
crawled. If he told her to lick the floor, she licked. In order to gain his trust, she
did everything so that she could avenge the death of her parents.

However, for 10 years, she never knew that the man right in front of her eyes
was the man who killed them.

Her whole body trembled with shame. It would be better if she just died. Her
hand began to bleed as she tightened it around the glass shard in anger. The
blood ran down and dripped onto KyungHyun’s hand on her wrist.

“Now that you know who actually killed your parents, shouldn’t you fix your
gaze onto him? Knowing you, that’s exactly what you should do!”
KyungHyun bitterly hissed through his teeth as his eyes turned pitch black.
Captured by his gaze, EunHa screamed.

“You don’t know anything, so don’t give me that bullshit!”

In the meantime, KyungHyun’s grasp was gradually tightening. It felt like he was
really going to snap her wrist.

“Ugh…!”

In the end, EunHa dropped the bloodstained glass shard onto the bed.
KyungHyun didn’t let go of her wrist. Because the blood wasn’t circulating
through his grasp, her hand began to turn white. Tears continued to drip down
her face. As he watched her bite her lips, KyungHyun lowered his head to hers
and whispered.

“I’ll help you kill Kang SungHo.”

“Superintendent Shin… That’s…”

“Don’t butt in.”

The woman stepped back and shut her mouth.

“That bastard fooled you for 10 years. Isn’t it a waste to just die now?”

Her tears continued to roll down her cheeks. She felt as if her head was going
to explode. She didn’t think she could stop the urge to bite her tongue and die
right here, right now. EunHa shut her eyes and spoke through her gritted teeth.

“Knock me out.”

“…What?”

“Make me sleep. Let me go to sleep!”

“Sedative.”

She felt a stinging pain on her arm. As she panted for breath, EunHa began to
count backwards from ten. When she got down to five, everything was still
clear. She felt as if her body would burst into flames from her anger at Kang
SungHo.
“Give her another one.”

“But sir…”

“Do as I say!”

Still trembling, EunHa counted down to three. Her mind turned black, and
everything turned dark. As she lost consciousness, she wished she would never
wake up.

Chapter 6.3

“What are you going to do now, Sunbae-nim?”

KyungHyun gazed at EunHa. She had finally fallen asleep after receiving the
sedatives. He raised his head. He had lost weight in the past few days.

“…I need to give Kang SungHo a call.”

He took out his cellphone and left the room. His colleagues followed behind him.

“What are you going to say to him?”

Lieutenant Cha JoongWon, who had been standing outside the room, looked at
him with worried eyes. He was KyungHyun’s police subordinate and the man he
had become accustomed to calling General Manager Cha.

“Now that the patient has woken up, I should report it.”

KyungHyun pressed the speakerphone button and placed the cellphone on the
table. He then leaned on the sofa and took out a cigarette. As expected,
SungHo answered the call as soon as it started to ring. He had definitely been
waiting for KyungHyun’s call.

– What a pleasant surprise. Director Shin has decided to call me for a change.

“Things have been happening on our side lately.”

Biting his cigarette, KyungHyun crossed his legs.

– Really? What happened?

“Three days ago, one of my newly recruited employees came to the YongSung
founding party and shot Noh HyungChul.”

– And why are you telling me such an important thing now?

SungHo’s voice over the speakerphone sounded sharp, but it didn’t sound
surprised. No matter how hard KyungHyun tried to keep the word from
spreading, there was no way SungHo hadn’t heard about such grave news
within YongSung.

“I needed to check something first.”

– Check what?

“I needed to know who was behind this. It might have been the work of another
mob organization, but I couldn’t rule out the possibility of another coup from
the inside.”

– …Then wouldn’t torturing the bitch who shot the gun do the trick?

“I never said it was a woman. You’re very intuitive.”

There was a moment of silence. Everyone listening to the speakerphone on the

table had grave expressions on their faces. KyungHyun didn’t wait for SungHo’s
answer and languidly spoke.

“Anyways, even if I wanted to torture her, she got shot in the process and
fainted, so that wasn’t an option.”

– …Did she die?

SungHo’s soft voice sounded serious as he asked.

“No. She woke up just a while ago.”

KyungHyun took a deep drag of the cigarette as he observed the tension. Even
though there was no sound coming from the speakerphone, SungHo had not
ended the call.
“As you said, we did some work on her. And she told us that she worked for
Serim.”

– What a wicked bitch. I don’t know anything about this.

As SungHo feigned ignorance, KyungHyun slowly exhaled the cigarette smoke.

His dark eyebrows went up. He had already expected SungHo to react like this.

“Then it shouldn’t matter if I kill the woman. I understand. There are still things I
want to figure out, so I’ll spend a bit more time with her before I take care of
her.”

General Manager Cha and Lieutenant Han caught their breaths. They didn’t
know why KyungHyun was speaking like this to SungHo.

– Director Shin.

“Yes, sir?”

They heard the clicking of a lighter through the speakerphone. SungHo cleared
his throat and exhaled the cigarette smoke.

– That bitch. Send her to me.

KyungHyun had a blank expression on his face as he coldly replied.

“You just told me that she has no connection to you, Hyung-nim. Didn’t you?”

– KyungHyun.

The intervals between the clicking of the lighter gradually became shorter.

– It’s true that I sent her to help you out as a colleague because you had a lot
on your plate. I was planning on telling you a bit later.

“Is that so?”

KyungHyun’s indifferent tone seemed to suggest that he didn’t believe SungHo.

– You don’t think that I ordered that bitch to shoot Noh HyungChul, do you? If I
wanted that, why wouldn’t I just send you?
When KyungHyun didn’t respond, SungHo raised his voice.

– Send that bitch back. If she has to die, I’ll be the one to kill her. The crime of
putting our dear Director Shin in an awkward position is a serious one.

“I’ll think about it, Hyung-nim.

– What?

SungHo’s thin voice cracked unpleasantly. KyungHyun took another drag of the
cigarette, which had now been burned to the filter. He let out a long sigh as he
exhaled the smoke before pressing the cigarette butt onto the ashtray.

“Did I stutter?”

– So now you’re arguing with me?

KyungHyun could hear SungHo grind his teeth with rage.

“In a situation like this where you’ve put a tail on me because you can’t trust
me… Don’t you think I have some questions as well? I’ll take full advantage of
having a woman from Serim in the palm of my hands.”

– Just now… you dare to… Are you telling me that you’re going to go against
me?

“You can think whatever you’d like.”

A cruel gleam flashed across KyungHyun’s eyes as he calmly replied.

“I’ll talk to you another time, sir. Goodbye.”

Without waiting for SungHo’s reponse, KyungHyun ended the call. He could
clearly imagine SungHo’s furious reaction right now.

“What do you plan on doing now? If you turn your back on Kang SungHo now,
things will get difficult.”

After making sure the call had definitely ended, General Manager Cha
cautiously spoke to KyungHyun.
“We’ve both reached an understanding a long time ago. We just didn’t say it out
loud. Let’s plan our operation on Serim once this matter is over.”

“Sunbae-nim, why don’t we just win over Lee EunHa and send her back to
Serim?”

KyungHyun shook his head at Lieutenant Han’s cautious suggestion.

“If Lee EunHa sees Kang SungHo right before her eyes, she’ll try to kill him.”

Judging from her attempted suicide just now, KyungHyun wasn’t wrong.
However, if they could convince EunHa to work with them, they might be able to
turn this messed up situation around.

“But…”

Lieutenant Han was about to try and convince him otherwise, but KyungHyun
cut her off.

“Well, it might actually be better off that way. Rather than following after the
gangs for 10 years and cleaning up after their shit in the name of justice, it
might just be better to kill off the leader of the organization. Don’t you think?”

“Superintendent Shin.”

General Manager Cha spoke up softly when he saw that Lieutenant Han was
too dumbfounded to say anything.

“I know. We’re police. Not thugs.”

“……”

“I will act according to protocol, so don’t worry.”

“…I apologize if you thought we were worried.”

“No need to apologize.”

Click. KyungHyun lit another cigarette and bit down on it as he chuckled. His
exhaustion could be clearly seen on his weathered face. His colleagues
understood very well how he felt.
Korean history has shown that there was a long-standing union between the
mob and national politics. Every time their superiors changed with the political
climate, the end goal of their mission would slowly get pushed back. Whenever
this happened, they would have to replan everything, and the one who was in
the most danger at these times was the man in the front lines, KyungHyun.

At the beginning, he wasn’t the only one who had been planted. KyungHyun, who
had graduated the academy at the top of his class, had been picked alongside
five veterans of the violent crimes division.

However, everyone but KyungHyun had been exposed or killed. There was no
way KyungHyun was the only lucky one to escape unscathed.

Nevertheless, KyungHyun was able to frequent both YongSung and Serim for 12
years. And he managed to get these results by sheer willpower. He made
decisions that decreased the possibility of making mistakes and didn’t show
any weakness. Anyone watching over KyungHyun couldn’t deny his incredible
talent.

3 years had passed since Cha JoongWon had been planted in YongSung. He
was often thankful for starting his life as a cop instead of a gangster.

“What should we do about the public sentiment within YongSung?”

“Let the word out that Lee EunHa will die by my hands and that she’s a spy sent
from Serim.”

“And what will happen if the people at YongSung go after Serim? It’ll become a
huge fiasco.”

Lieutenant Han recalled the massacre that took place 10 years ago and spoke
up with a grave expression.

“Until Noh HyungChul recovers, no one will make a move just yet.”

This meant that the gangsters of YongSung wouldn’t be making any rash
decisions while their leader was lying in his sickbed. General Manager Cha
nodded his head.

“Understood, sir. Also, Im SungJoon came up from Busan last night. Please be
careful.”
Im SungJoon, the man in charge of the operations in Busan and Kyungnam, was
another man who had Noh HyungChul’s trust and confidence. He usually didn’t
leave his territory, but it seemed that he hurried up here when he heard of the
attack on his boss.

“We’ll figure out what to do about the Shenzhen matter now. If Im SungJoon
notices anything, it’ll be troublesome.”

Im SungJoon didn’t like how KyungHyun had gained so much influence and
power within YongSung so quickly. On top of that, he was a very observant
man, so it would be best for them to lay low for now.

“Yes, sir. I’ll prepare everything accordingly.”

“Also, Lieutenant Han.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Get in contact with Kim MinSuk’s advisor and leak out the fact that Noh
HyungChul is currently hospitalized after having been attacked.”

“What good will come of Mayor Kim knowing about this? The possibility of him
backstabbing Noh HyungChul is high.”

Lieutenant Han anxiously spoke up, but KyungHyun looked at her with a cold
gleam in his eye.

“That’s exactly what I want.”

Noh HyungChul was a man who knew very well how much corruption Kim MinSuk
had taken part in all this time. Noh HyungChul had made illegal donations to Kim
MinSuk in order to keep his self-interests intact. In other words, they shared a
symbiotic relationship. However, if Kim MinSuk planned to run for the
presidency, his most dangerous liability was Noh HyungChul.

Kim MinSuk hadn’t been happy with YongSung’s most recent demands, but he
complied because he was afraid their connection would be revealed to the
public.

Up until now, KyungHyun had done his best to gather the evidence of Kim
MinSuk’s illegal activities and corruption, but Noh HyungChul never showed the
specifics of these activities to anyone.
“If Kim MinSuk decides to take the bait, this might be our only chance to tie him
to Noh HyungChul and take them both down. Since Noh HyungChul is currently
bedridden and can’t leave his hospital bed, we need to find another way to
prosecute him. If an irrefutable piece of evidence comes to light, even the
prosecutors who are turning a blind eye to all this won’t be able to sit still.”

Having Noh HyungChul leave the country was a crucial step in this project,
which they had been developing with the cooperation of the Chinese police.
Before he became the leader of YongSung, Noh HyungChul did time for 10 years
for embezzlement and conspiracy to murder in his early thirties. Nowadays, he
was very reluctant to personally go out and do the dirty work.

After he was released from prison, he expanded his business to illegal stock
manipulations and investments. However, only his subordinates were charged
for petty offenses.

Because of this, for half a year, all the team members began to plan a massive
bust of the illegal dealings of Philopon in the black market. They did all this to
draw out the elusive leader of YongSung into a place where they could arrest
him. Now that this was all water under the bridge, they needed to modify the
plan. And it was up to KyungHyun to do this.

“Do you have a plan in mind?”

“Even if I don’t, I need to make one.”

KyungHyun bit his cigarette as he murmured. Lieutenant Han and General

Manager Cha gave each other a look. Their boss’s unwavering attitude in the
midst of this crisis gave them a bit of comfort.

“Understood, sir.”

“Then you may leave.”

They were currently in the penthouse of the hotel owned by KeumOh.

KyungHyun had been living here for a few years now. It was the safest place to
be in order to avoid any suspicions, but they still needed to be careful because
the whole building was crawling with YongSung’s gangsters.
After giving a short greeting, General Manager Cha left first. Dressed as a call
girl, Lieutenant Han began to follow after him, but she stopped when she got to
the door and turned around.

“Superintendent Shin.”

Smoke flowed out of the cigarette held between KyungHyun’s long fingers. The
man seemed to perfectly suit this dreary, colorless room. He opened his mouth
and let out a short reply.

“What?”

“…About your decision to keep Lee EunHa from returning to Serim… Is there
another reason for that decision?”

KyungHyun tilted his head as he gazed at Lieutenant Han before answering

indifferently.

“What do you mean?”

“I was just wondering if you had a personal reason for making that decision.”

“What personal reason?”

When Lieutenant Han hesitated, KyungHyun answered for her.

“Are you talking about romantic feelings?”

“I didn’t mean to pry into your personal life, but…”

“If you want to report it to my superiors, go ahead.”

When KyungHyun scoffed, Lieutenant Han quickly raised her voice.

“That’s not what I meant. We’re all on the same team. I only wanted to tell you
that there’s a high chance you’ll be in danger, Superintendent Shin.”

KyungHyun stared at her as he languidly murmured.

“I feel like an incompetent boss for making my subordinates worry.”

“…I apologize if I crossed the line.”

KyungHyun silently gazed at Lieutenant Han as she lowered her head. He
understood her worries very well. As a newcomer to this team, she was
stressed about having to completely modify a plan they had been working on
for half a year.

“Lieutenant Han.”

“Yes, sir?”

“Lee EunHa told me this not too long ago. She said that when it came down to it,
she’d rather choose the capable thugs over the incompetent police.”

Lieutenant Han’s brow slightly twitched. KyungHyun continued as he mocked

himself.

“Don’t those words hurt your pride?”

“…Yes, sir.”

“Even if it’s for my own ‘personal reasons’, I want to show Lee EunHa.”

“Show her what?”

“That the police haven’t been doing nothing. That we have been working on this
for the past 10 years. That we’re still working on it.”

“We’ve never done nothing about this, sir.”

“You’re right. So I want to show her that we’re going to end those bastards on
our terms.”

“Is it… because of the guilt you feel for having been unable to protect Lee
EunHa-ssi’s family 10 years ago?”

Lieutenant Han had a strange ability to catch someone off guard with her
observations. This skill shone the brightest when she was interrogating a
suspect for their special crimes unit. Feeling as if he was being treated like a
criminal, KyungHyun felt bitter inside.

However, KyungHyun also couldn’t help but chuckle at his lieutenant’s attitude
as she carefully tried to warn her boss about his decisions.
“I can’t say that I don’t feel any guilt. However, that’s not the only reason.”

He felt that it would be for the best to answer truthfully instead of making up
an excuse. If he didn’t give a justification for his behavior, there was a chance
this competent subordinate of his would defy his commands.

“Do you know how Lee EunHa’s face looked as she pulled the trigger to shoot
Noh HyungChul?”

“How did she look?”

“She looked exactly the same as when she escaped the murder at her house 10
years ago. She was trembling in fear, but she still shot him. Even with a gun at
her head. Even though she knew she’d surely die.”

Lieutenant Han blinked in silence. Her eyes looked unfocused as if she were
looking at something far away. Then her expression turned dark.

“Lee EunHa proved to us herself that she is no longer the child who ran away
from violence.”

“…Most humans grow up and adapt.”

“You’re right. Lee EunHa grew up very well. When I saw her, all the guilt that lay
deep down in my heart flew away in an instant, but…”

KyungHyun wet his dry lips.

“…When Lee EunHa was shot down in front of my eyes, I almost lost it. I felt as if
I’ve failed her again.”

“…Failed her?”

Lieutenant Han thought that these words were very unlike KyungHyun.
KyungHyun looked up and met her eyes.

“10 years ago, after that incident, when Kang SungHo found her and kidnapped
her, I already failed her once.”

“Superintendent Shin.”
“When I heard that Lee EunHa had gone missing, I believed that Kang SungHo
had ultimately killed her.”

“I do believe that he found Lee EunHa-ssi to get rid of her, but don’t know what
made him change his mind in the last moment.”

“That’s exactly what’s bothering me so much.”

When Lieutenant Han looked at him in confusion, KyungHyun spoke again in a

languid voice.

“If I stopped to think about it, I could have figured out that Kang SungHo would
find Lee EunHa and kill her. I knew that he was a man who would dig out any
possible threat by its roots. And yet, I remained an onlooker in all of this.”

After turning her over to the police, he should have put her under police
protection. If he had done this, the following events would never have taken
place. No, if he had only kept a better watch over Kang SungHo at Serim, would
he have realized that Lee EunHa hadn’t died and was still alive? That she was
actually operating as a member of Serim all this time?

“You didn’t do that deliberately. Every human makes mistakes. Police are human
too.”

Lieutenant Han spoke clearly as she defended him. KyungHyun frowned as he

chuckled.

“I don’t want to make another mistake when it comes to Lee EunHa. I’d rather
be stabbed with a knife than be incompetent in her eyes once again.”

“…I understand, sir.”

Lieutenant Han quickly recognized what was going on from her short
conversation with KyungHyun. He would never put Lee EunHa in any danger,
and that decision would never change.

“It doesn’t matter if you report this to my superiors.”

“I won’t report it, sir. I understand.”

“I didn’t say anything important, though. Weren’t you curious about whether I
had any personal emotions when it came to that woman?”
When KyungHyun calmly asked her, Lieutenant Han shook her head.

“…You don’t have to tell me, sir. I don’t think I need to know any more than what
you’ve told me.”

“Did I answer your question then?”

“Yes. It was sufficient.”

Lieutenant Han nodded at him. When KyungHyun had told her that he didn’t
want to let Lee EunHa down again, his brooding face gave her the answer she
was looking for. What one saw was often more powerful than the words one
heard.

He had always been a cold man, and no one could figure out what he was
thinking. She had her suspicions when she asked him why he was showing such
strange emotions and treating Lee EunHa like a victim. Even if he did feel
something for her, she never expected KyungHyun to answer so openly.

‘He’s a pretty straightforward guy.’

Thinking that it wasn’t so bad to see a human side to this man, Lieutenant Han
finally exited the room.

Click.

When KyungHyun heard the door close, he raised his hand and pressed his
temple. Just behind his wall, there was a young woman lying there who made
his nerves bristle. As he recalled the moment when this woman had been shot,
all the blood rushed to one side of his head, giving him a migraine.

Bang!

The moment he saw the dark red blood burst out of EunHa’s body, his body
moved faster than he could think. Even though he knew it was dangerous, he
shot the gangsters of YongSung, including Noh HyungChul’s bodyguard.

“……”

There were many times when KyungHyun had to make an independent decision
while carrying out an operation. However, he had never made such a decision
for the sake of someone else before. He had always made it for his own
wellbeing. This was because if he ever died in the middle of the operation, all
the hard work that the team had put into this mission would disappear in an
instant. KyungHyun believed this would be the most harmful outcome.

‘It’s dangerous. As expected.’

KyungHyun thought to himself and smiled bitterly. Until a few months ago, he
never would have thought that he’d have to modify his plans for the sake of
one woman. It didn’t make any sense for him to disregard the danger and risk
his own life.

‘Am I being punished?’

In the past, he never understood how his subordinates could tremble in fear
because of their lovers, and he’d laugh at them. If his past self could see him
now, he’d be absolutely dumbfounded. He had also felt annoyed whenever one
of YongSung’s men would take a glance at her. He had even childishly thought
that it would have been better if Lee EunHa was less beautiful.

He bent over to extinguish his cigarette, and he caught sight of his reflection on
the glass table. With a big hand, he rubbed the anxious expression on his face.

‘Why are you holding back?’

Actually, since a while ago, he constantly wanted to see that woman’s face. As
soon as Lieutenant Han left the room, his heart wanted him to rush over to the
bedroom next door and burst through the door. Even though he knew she was
safe, he wanted to make sure with his own two eyes. If he could, he wanted to
keep her in his sight until she fully recovered.

No, actually, he already decided to do just that. Ever since he infiltrated the
organization, he always practiced restraint. But for the first time, he didn’t care
if he broke this rule that no one else had enforced on him. He would have to be
responsible for his own behavior, but wasn’t that always the case?

After he realized that there was no need to hold back his feelings, KyungHyun
burst out of his seat and walked towards the bedroom without hesitation. He
felt that he would only be satisfied when he saw the object of his desire.

Chapter 7.1
EunHa slowly lifted her heavy eyelids. She had finished dinner and had been
thinking absentmindedly when she fell asleep without realizing it.

The room she was in wasn’t that dark, even at night. Next to the bed, there was
a large window without any curtains or blinds. She could clearly see the
headlights of the cars driving across the bridge.

“Phew…”

EunHa wet her dry lips and let out a deep sigh. Ten days had passed since she
was locked up inside this room against her will. If she included the days she had
been unconscious from her gunshot wound, it was closer to 2 weeks.

The doctor in the suit who was disguised as an office worker had come to her
room at the same time every day to check on her. 4 days ago, he declared that
she was on the road to recovery and hadn’t returned since. Therefore,
KyungHyun was the one who came instead to disinfect her wound. He also
washed her in the bathroom once a day, taking care to keep her bandaged
arm dry. She tried to refuse, but it was no use. Thanks to him, she realized that
it was a lot more comfortable to use both hands when washing her hair.

He was also the one who took care of her meals. If she whined about not
wanting to eat anymore, he pretended not to hear her and shoved the spoon
into her mouth. Therefore, EunHa helplessly ate all her meals regularly and ate
the same amount as he did. Thanks to him, she felt that she had gained some
weight while she was locked up in this room.

Clink.

When EunHa unconsciously moved, the lump of metal at her wrist rattled
against the iron pole of the headboard. Two days ago, while KyungHyun was
out of the room to talk on the phone, she had attempted to escape. He caught
her and handcuffed her to the bed.

Frowning, EunHa grabbed the bell on the table and angrily rang it. Soon, the
door opened and KyungHyun came inside holding a glass of whiskey.

“What?”

EunHa silently glared at him as he stared back at her. He indifferently asked

her a question when she didn’t say anything.
“Bathroom?”

Instead of responding, EunHa bit her lip in frustration. He sat down by her bed
and began to unlock the handcuffs. Whenever she had the chance, EunHa tried
to attack him, but KyungHyun always subdued her easily. It didn’t take long for
her to realize that it was pointless. She silently watched him as he unlocked her
handcuffs.

Cling. A metallic noise sprang from the handcuffs as they became undone.
EunHa sprang up from her seat and walked towards the bathroom. Before
KyungHyun could follow behind her, she closed the door. She proceeded to do
her business as slow as possible.

Just when was he going to let her out of here?

The back of her shoulder still throbbed, but she could move her arm just fine.
As if he had read her mind, he always kept her handcuffed to the bed
whenever he had to leave or if she was ever alone in the room.

EunHa took her time as she washed her hands in frustration before turning
around to leave the bathroom. As soon as she opened the door, she saw
KyungHyun standing there, keeping watch. Behind him, the door leading to the
living room was tightly shut as always.

They were currently in a room on the top floor of a hotel that KeumOh owned.
She knew that this was where KyungHyun lived from when she had initially
investigated him. Back then, she had planned to infiltrate this personal space of
his by seducing him, but she never imagined she’d end up here like this.

Judging from the size of the bedroom, living room, and study alone, this room
seemed to be the size of a penthouse. However, because there was only a
handful of furniture inside, it looked desolate and dreary. The living room only
had a treadmill and a weight training bench, a long sofa, a cabinet, and a safe.
That was it.

The bedroom where EunHa stayed was even worse. There was only a single
bed with an iron headboard, a square table that looked like junk, and a
backless chair. It was as if the room itself didn’t realize it was at the top of a
35-story hotel. Instead of a bedroom, it was more like an interrogation room or
a prison cell.
Still, she hoped to be able to sneak into the safe and find a weapon in there.
However, she came to the conclusion that she’d never have the time to do this.
But maybe she could grab his gun whenever it was in sight.

If nothing else worked, she planned on running into the kitchen. Even if it was
merely a decoration at this point, wouldn’t she still be able to find a kitchen
knife on a shelf somewhere?

If she could only fend off KyungHyun’s hand-to-hand combat for a little bit, she
might be able to escape this hotel after all.

Her heart began to race. She pretended to follow him obediently before she
ran towards the door like a crack of lightening. As soon as she exited the room,
she realized something. She didn’t have the time to search for a knife in the
kitchen. This large room was extremely wide, almost as if it was using up the
entire floor. The moment she opened the door to the kitchen, his large arm
wrapped around her hips.

Curses burst out between her teeth. She had believed that she couldn’t lose to
anyone when it came to running, but it seemed that all those hours KyungHyun
spent on the treadmill every night weren’t for nothing.

“Ugh…!”

“It seems that your recovery is getting better every day.”

KyungHyun easily lifted her into his arms and walked across the living room
towards the bedroom. Unlike her panting breaths, KyungHyun’s breathing was
calm and steady.

After having entered the bedroom, KyungHyun laid her down on the bed. When
her back touched the mattress, he gently took her wrist and put it back into the
handcuffs once again. EunHa heard the familiar click of the handcuff locking
into place.

“Good night.”

KyungHyun picked up the glass of whiskey he had placed on the table and
began to leave the room. Suddenly, EunHa spoke up in a hoarse voice. Her
heart was racing so fast that she felt as if it was going to burst out of her
throat.
“…Let’s talk.”

KyungHyun stopped in his tracks. This was the first time he had heard her voice
in ten days. He slowly turned around with a calm expression on his face.
Because her wrist was restricted by the handcuffs, she moved awkwardly as
she tried to get up from the bed. KyungHyun walked up to her bedside and
tenderly helped her sit up before sitting down next to her.

“I thought you went mute from the shock.”

“I just needed some time to sort through everything in my head.”

“So did you sort some things out?”

EunHa nodded.

“For the most part.”

“Good.”

KyungHyun spoke apathetically next to her side. His hand was still on her hip,
and she could feel his heat through the thin fabric. She could smell the faint
aroma of whiskey.

“Is that Irish whisky?”

“Yeah.”

“Can I have some?”

“A patient isn’t allowed to drink alcohol.”

She wanted to ask him if it was okay to handcuff a patient as well, but she
suppressed that thought and softly spoke about something else instead.

“Fine. Then can you at least take these off?”

“Do you need your hands to talk? It’s not like I blocked your mouth.”

“I feel like I’m being interrogated, so it doesn’t feel that great. Please take them
off.”
She lowered her eyes as she pleaded, but KyungHyun merely stared at her with
his signature blank expression as he gave her a meaningful smile.

“Are you going to run away if I take them off?”

“I won’t run away.”

“Then what were you trying to do just now? Were you playing a game of tag at
this time of night?”

“I just wanted to make you feel a bit nervous, that’s all. It’s no fun if I’m too
quiet.”

KyungHyun chuckled. He felt relieved to hear her voice after ten days, but he
also felt the slow stirring of desire in his gut. Instead of staring blankly at the
ceiling for hours on end, having her look straight back at him and running her
mouth seemed to suit her a lot better.

“How do you feel?”

KyungHyun suppressed the urge to embrace her until her body almost broke
and tried to calm himself.

“It hurts so much that I think I’m going to die.”

“The doctor said you were recovering well. Actually, he said you were
recovering faster than normal.”

She thought that he was the type of person who wouldn’t understand when she
was being sarcastic, but he took it in stride and gave her a dry rebuttal. She
held back her own comeback and merely stared at him unhappily.

He was only wearing dark gray sweatpants. It looked like he had just gotten out
of the shower because his hair was still damp. He wasn’t wearing a top.
Because of this, she could clearly see his muscled chest and the tattoo that ran
across his forearm to his back. She could tell that the tattoo hadn’t been
achieved in a day. What was he thinking as he got that done?

“You’re pretty sharp. No wonder you’re police.”

“Do you feel repulsed now that you know I’m police?”
KyungHyun wet his lips with the glass of whiskey as he asked her.

“Yes, I don’t like police all that much. They’re so full of themselves.”

“What a pity.”

The ends of his lips calmly lifted as he stared at her. He didn’t look regretful at
all. Even thought it seemed as though he’d loosened up in his personal space,
he was still full of himself, and his attitude hadn’t changed. Now that she knew
he was police, his personality seemed even dirtier than when she saw him as a
gangster.

“What will happen to me now?”

“What do you think?”

She still didn’t like the way he looked at her… as if he was trying to figure her
out. EunHa slightly pulled her head back.

“Will I be taken into custody? For the crime of shooting a gang leader?”

“You won’t go to prison. What you did is off the record.”

“Then let me go.”

“What will you do if I let you go? Are you going to return to Serim and shoot at
Kang SungHo this time?”

“No.”

“Your eyes tell me the opposite.”

“I won’t use a gun. I’m going to stab him with a knife.”

“……”

“I’m going to hack and slash a few times. Just like that bastard did to my
parents.”

KyungHyun’s smile faded, and his brows furrowed. A silence settled in the room.
Clink. He placed the glass of whiskey on the table, and the sound of the rattling
ice rang inside the room.
“What happened to your parents is a shame. Along with everything else you
had to go through after that.”

His Adam’s apple shook as he spoke. KyungHyun looked a bit more earnest now
than he had just a moment ago. Did he pity her life? Yeah. Most people would
be sympathetic of someone who had been living as a puppet for a man who
had killed their parents.

Even though she knew he wasn’t a man who was easily overcome with emotion,
she was grasping at straws right now. EunHa’s eyes tilted down as she looked
at him before letting out a sigh.

“Then, can’t you… help me?”

She put her hand on his arm as she pleaded in a pitiful voice. She moved her
fingers along the dragon on his arm as if she were counting each delicate
scale. As her slender fingers moved down his arm, the veins in his neck became
more pronounced.

“Don’t move your wounded arm.”

EunHa ignored his husky voice and slowly moved her free hand down his body.

She swept her palm down his hard, muscular chest. His skin felt hot and stiff. His
long eyes narrowed and seemed to grow darker with desire as they watched
her. EunHa softly whispered to him.

“You definitely said so. You said you’d help me kill Kang SungHo… Were you lying
to me?”

“No.”

“Then let me go. I’ll do whatever you say.”

EunHa’s voice sounded pitiful as she gave him a feeble look.

Please. Please, just… fall for it. Shin KyungHyun!

“No.”

“…Why not? Why can’t you let me go?”

“Now isn’t the right time.”

Damn it. EunHa’s pitiful expression that seemed to suit a female lead of a tragic
romance suddenly twisted and became fierce like an angry, wild animal. Her
fingers clenched into a fist and she punched him hard in the chest.

“Don’t get too worked up. You’ll open your wound.”

She continued to punch him with all her might, but it was like punching a boulder.
KyungHyun’s body didn’t move at all, so she became even angrier.

“I can deal with you acting like a spoiled child, but if you keep punching me like
that, you’ll only hurt your hand.”

All the rage and fury she had been bottling up inside for the past ten days
came bursting out. EunHa glared at KyungHyun’s calm face and grit her teeth
as she spit out her response.

“This is why I hate the police. Only lies come out of their mouths, and all they
care about is looking good in front of their superior officers. They’re all
incompetent morons. How are you any different from all the thugs who cater to
their bosses and obey them like dogs? ‘The people’s protector’ my ass. You can
all die for all I care. I just told you I’d do the things you guys can’t do. I told you
I’d kill those evil bastards and follow them all to hell!”

KyungHyun watched coldly as EunHa continued making her biting remarks.

“After enduring it all for 10 years, you can’t even wait the small amount of time
it takes to lay a trap?”

“…What do you know? How dare you talk back?”

EunHa’s lips began to tremble on her pale face.

“Do you even know what I did these past 10 years?”

“I know.”

“If you haven’t seen it with your own eyes, you don’t have a right to say you
know.”
KyungHyun held her spiteful gaze and spoke in a low voice.

“I fully understand. When I joined the criminal organization, I had to do many

dirty things as well.”

“How are you and I… even in similar situations? You chose that life, but I didn’t!”

“No, you did choose it.”

EunHa’s eyes filled with rage as her sorrowful tears began to drip out. These
weren’t tears to entice him. These tears were truly filled with the unfairness
she felt in her heart.

She chose it? When did she do that? Was he telling her that she chose to hold
Kang SungHo’s hand and follow him without realizing he was her parents’ killer?
She was overwhelmed with rage and humiliation that she began to grind her
teeth. KyungHyun stared at her as he continued speaking in his low voice.

“You chose to survive.”

“…What?”

“You escaped that house with your own two feet. In order to live. You didn’t
even realize that your ankle was half-broken and ran out of the house as if
your life depended on it.”

He was talking about the incident 10 years ago. When she had risked her life to
escape the house her parents had been murdered in. The tip of her small,
sharp nose felt cold. Her eyes became cloudy as she looked up.

“You and I both decided to survive no matter what, so we came all the way
here kicking and screaming, refusing to die.”

Even though KyungHyun’s expression was cold and his voice was like ice, his
gaze on her seemed to be bursting with fireworks.

“So don’t treat that body you’ve worked hard to protect so poorly. I’ll help you.
I’ll help you get your revenge. I’ll do it.”

His voice sounded sincere as he repeated himself. EunHa shook her head as if
to shake that thought out of her head. Her bloodshot eyes glared at
KyungHyun.
“You said that you were working at Serim around the time of my father’s death.
Doesn’t that mean you were also a part of it?”

“I never knew Kang SungHo would kill your father.”

EunHa snorted and shook her head at his answer.

“Liar.”

“Do you really think Kang SungHo would have given an order like that to a
rookie who just joined? Kang SungHo killed all the underlings he took with him
that night. Because he wanted to conceal his involvement and frame it on
YongSung.”

“…Then why were you there that night?”

EunHa’s voice trembled towards the end of her question.

“I heard that Kang SungHo was moving in the middle of the night. It was strange,
so I decided to run after him. When I finally realized what was going on, it was
already too late.”

KyungHyun carefully answered her questions one by one. His expression looked
serious, but he couldn’t shake off EunHa’s suspicions very easily.

“But if that bastard ordered you to kill my parents, you would have done it.”

KyungHyun immediately began to shake his head.

“I wouldn’t have done it.”

“If you’re going to lie about it now, forget it. Now that we know each others’
identities, there’s no need for you to try to look good in front of me.”

“There’s also no need for me to lie to you or make excuses. I’m only telling you
the truth.”

As KyungHyun frowned, his long eyes sharply tilted up. His normally calm voice
now sounded furious.
“If I had known about Kang SungHo’s plans ahead of time, I would have subtly
placed the evidence before your father and tried to take down the
organization from the inside. Because that would have been an opportunity to
destroy Serim in the long-term.”

EunHa began to bite her lips when she heard his answer. His large hand
approached her, and his thumb touched her lips.

“Whether you believe me or not, that would have been my choice as a

policeman.”

He grabbed her face and clearly repeated himself once more.

“I’ll let you kill Kang SungHo.”

“Don’t give me that bullshit.”

EunHa scoffed at him with wet eyes. KyungHyun could understand why she
didn’t believe him. However, that didn’t change anything.

“On the day of the founding party, I killed the bastard who shot you along with
fourteen more of YongSung’s men.”

But he didn’t know whether telling her this would change her mind.

At the mysterious expression on KyungHyun’s face, doubt flashed across

EunHa’s eyes. While she realized that it was thanks to KyungHyun she had been
able to escape that situation with merely an injury, she hadn’t known that he
had shot at the gangsters.

Why did he do it? Instead of shooting off her head and ending it once and for
all, why did he risk revealing his true identity and do something like that?

“Do you still think I’m talking bullshit?”

“…Do you want to hear me thank you for saving my life?”

“I didn’t do it to receive your gratitude.”

EunHa silently listened to his languid voice and became lost in thought.
KyungHyun hadn’t been able to easily kill her because he was police. Just as he
had 10 years ago when he instinctively saved her due to his profession.
“But if I ask for it, will you give it?”

KyungHyun swallowed, his throat dry. His Adam’s apple moved slowly. His naked
upper chest was in full view because he didn’t have a top on. Every time he
took a breath, his wide, hard chest rose up and down.

He was almost acting like a predator who was observing his prey. It was as if he
was trying to figure out the right time to hunt. That’s right. Whether he was
police or a thug, his sexual appetite hadn’t changed.

“……”

The moment she realized this fact, EunHa felt as if the temperature inside the
room had risen. Her long eyelashes fluttered as she blinked and cast a shadow
on her bare face. EunHa raised a hand and began to undo the buttons of her
white, patient gown.

“What are you doing?”

KyungHyun’s low voice became even lower as it rang inside the room. Inside this
large bedroom located at the top of this grand hotel, on top of the lonely bed…
There was only the two of them.

“I want to pay you back for saving my life. Didn’t you just say that you wanted
my gratitude?”

Pop, pop. Once the buttons became undone, the gown began to slide off,
revealing her milky breasts. KyungHyun didn’t take his eyes off her chest as he
asked.

“What do you mean by this?”

“…You want it right now. There’s no need to act innocent after everything
we’ve done together.”

She wasn’t so naive as to misunderstand the gleam in a man’s eyes when he

desired a woman. Whether he was a gangster or a policeman, it didn’t matter.
The only thing that was definite in this moment was that he desired her.

“Do you think that the price of saving your life is just one round of sex?”
His voice and his breaths betrayed his arousal. He frowned at her as he
chuckled.

“It doesn’t matter to me. Take it or leave it.”

EunHa raised her hand and began to fondle her breast. With moist eyes, she
sent him a tempting look. Her perky nipple thrust up between her fingers.

“Don’t just rake your eyes over it. Come and touch it yourself.”

“Is this how you want to repay me?”

“Yes. I don’t like living in debt, you see.”

As soon as her whisper faded away, KyungHyun, who had not budged an inch all
this time, slowly began to lean into her. The mattress began to sink, and the old
springs began to creak.

“All right, then.”

He took one of his long fingers and slowly traced her face.

“If that’s what you want.”

As expected. EunHa slowly closed her eyes and opened them before giving him
a faint smile.

“I want it.”

She felt that having a round of sex in exchange for saving her life wasn’t a bad
deal. Her body would just rot and return to the earth once she died, so using it
to the max would only raise its value.

“…Is that so?”

KyungHyun wet his dry lips and replied in a husky, hoarse voice. She could feel
his arousal through the heat coming from his finger on her cheek.

“I think I’ll also have to receive interest for saving your life 10 years ago. Is that
okay?”

“Do whatever you want.”

“You’re quite generous, aren’t you?

“I’m not a stingy woman.”

She had already experienced his stubborn bedside manners in the past. How
long would this bout of sex last this time? It didn’t matter, though. She’d repay
him with this, and she felt that things would work in her favor if she just did
what Shin KyungHyun wanted for now.

“Since you’re offering, I’ll happily take it.”

His proud nose tilted, and his eyes on her deepened.

“I’m not an idiot who rejects a full course meal, you see.”

“Yes, all right.”

EunHa slowly blinked her eyes and gradually brought her face closer to his. No
matter how many times she looked at it, his face was always attractive. If she
did it with him, she wouldn’t be suffering a loss. His perfectly symmetrical lips
began to move.

“But I’m very selfish, so there’s something I need from you.”

KyungHyun caught her gaze. His alcohol-laced breath smelled fragrant. EunHa
opened her red lips and let out a soft sigh.

“I’ll do whatever play you want.”

“You won’t regret it?”

“Do you want me to pinky promise?”

“No, a kiss will do.”

EunHa lightly pecked his lips. KyungHyun let out a laugh.

“That’s good.”

“Tell me what you want.”

EunHa whispered as if she were a good child receiving a reward. KyungHyun
answered in a soft but clear voice.

“From now on, until the day you die…

“…Hmm?”

“Don’t have sex with any other man but me.”

Chapter 7.2.

KyungHyun brushed his tongue over her frozen lips before he continued
speaking.

“Whatever play you want to do… Only do it with Shin KyungHyun. What do you
think?”

Unable to answer the unexpected question, EunHa merely stared into the deep
abyss of his eyes.

“Seducing someone with a kiss, shaking your hips on top of a man, and
ultimately sex… You’d do it all only with me.”

A peculiar feeling came over EunHa. Her throat was dry as she swallowed, and
her heart began to race inside her chest.

“As for the threesome or swapping that you’ve mentioned before… Any third
party is forbidden. I don’t like sharing my food. I’ll work harder to make up for
the extra person, so give up on that idea.”

“Excuse me…”

When he heard her anxious voice, KyungHyun pressed his lips to hers and
chuckled.

“Are you shocked?”

EunHa then realized that he was just telling a bad joke, but she wasn’t able to
come up with a rebuttal as she normally would. KyungHyun’s gaze on her was
as intense as always, but something felt a bit different. It was sticky… like sugar
water.

“Do you have to be so frozen over something like this?”

“……”

“You’re the one who said you wanted to pay back your debt. If you act like this, I
feel like I’m threatening you or something.”

He lightly bit her lips and plunged his tongue between them. The kiss didn’t feel
any different than usual. However, something felt off. It felt strangely soft.
EunHa pulled back her head and gave him a confused look.

“Uh… hmm…”

She didn’t have a chance to think of what to say. KyungHyun swallowed her lips
again and entwined his tongue with hers. He caressed her face as he began to
suck. After he rubbed her earlobe, he moved his finger behind her ear and
brushed against the sensitive skin there. With his other hand, he pushed aside
her undone gown and began to grope her exposed chest.

“Hmm… Mm…”

He put her nipples between his fingers just as she had done and began to
stimulate them. At the same time, he massaged her breasts. The taste of
whiskey began to slowly mix into her mouth. Like a graceful snake, KyungHyun’s
tongue began to move inside her mouth. EunHa reflexively sucked.

“W…Wait a minute…”

She tried to push him away with her free hand, but he easily grabbed her wrist.
KyungHyun took his lips off hers and looked at her with his terribly deep eyes.

“Why?”

Her heart began to race once again when she looked into his gaze. She was
used to seeing the eyes of bewitched men. Whenever she saw it, she felt a
sense of accomplishment or victory. However, when she saw them on Shin
KyungHyun, she didn’t feel it at all. Instead, she felt strange.

“Why are you stopping me?”

KyungHyun brought his lips to the wrist he was holding. His lips pressed against
her racing pulse. EunHa felt as if that spot was burning. There was still a faint
bruise on the wrist from when he had tried to stop her from harming herself.

KyungHyun swept his tongue over the blueish bruise. She felt something warm
and wet brush against the delicate skin, and it tickled. She felt strange. She
hadn’t felt like this before.

“Does it hurt a lot here?”

“…I thought my wrist was going to snap.”

EunHa tried to hide her nervousness by speaking curtly, but KyungHyun’s reply
was soft.

“Isn’t it better to have a broken wrist than to die?”

“What are you talking about…”

“You can’t die. Not after everything I went through to save you.”

As he looked up and spoke in his languid voice, EunHa felt the blood rush to her
face. Was it because it had been a while since they’ve done this? She couldn’t
stop her heart from pounding inside her chest. No, more importantly, why was
he acting so differently today? Didn’t his usual sex pattern start with him
removing her clothes and going down on her?

EunHa swallowed as KyungHyun repeatedly pressed kisses onto her wrist. He

asked her as she continued to frown at him.

“Are you scared of me?”

“…No.”

“Then why are you so tense and trembling?”

She was probably feeling strange and slightly trembling because of everything
she had gone through recently. There was nothing deep when it came to sex
with no strings attached. EunHa comforted herself as she murmured.

“Wh…Whatever, just do it.”

“Alright, then.”

Her gaze got caught up in his deep eyes. She felt as if she were drowning in
them. KyungHyun met her eyes and lowered his head. He thrust his face into her
exposed chest. The lips that had been licking her slender wrist now fell onto
her breast. He took out his long tongue and wrapped it around her dusky nipple
that was peeking through his fingers.

At that moment, the light from the windows fell onto his face. This man looked
incredibly sexy as he looked at her with his burning gaze, his mouth caressing
her breast.

“Hnng…”

A faint moan escaped EunHa’s lips as the tip of his tongue teased her nipples.
One of her wrists was handcuffed to the bed, and the other was gently within
his grasp. Therefore, she couldn’t even grab onto his head.

“Please…”

“Huh?”

KyungHyun flattened his tongue over her nipple as he asked. With her sensitive
nipples teased so unbearably, EunHa thought she’d go crazy from the tickling
sensation. She gasped for breath and spoke with a flushed face.

“Please suck it.”

She wanted to be sucked hard. Just like he usually did, she wanted him to grab
both breasts in his hands and squeeze them as if they’d burst. Then she
wanted him to nibble them before fiercely sucking them. However, KyungHyun
was only softly licking them as if he were teasing her.

“Where?”

“M…My chest…”

KyungHyun’s grasp on her breast slightly tightened. EunHa felt something warm
trickle down from between her legs, tickling her. Her body began to tremble.

“If I suck it for you, will you do as I asked?”

“What do you mean?”

Even his hot breaths on her chest stimulated her. As she panted, KyungHyun
softly replied.

“I asked you to only fuck me.”

“……”

“Why are you making me repeat myself?”

A faint smile stretched across his indifferent face. All the words coming from
his sculpted face sounded ridiculous to her.

“You asked me to suck it. Then it’s only fair that you only suck me.”

EunHa felt as if nothing mattered anymore. She nodded her flushed face and
said what he wanted to hear.

“All right. Either way, I can only do it with you in this situation, so hurry… Hnng…!”

He fiercely sucked her perky nipple. He gave her breast a hard squeeze as if
he’d been waiting for this. His tall nose pressed into her as he buried his face in
her chest and began to suck.

“Haa, aagh…!”

The dizzying sensation coming from his tongue and teeth felt good. As she
panted for breath, EunHa’s body began to shake. KyungHyun gave his attention
to each breast repeatedly. Only when her nipples were tingling from his
sucking and nibbling did KyungHyun finally lift his face.

“…Did it feel good?”

“What are you doing right now?”

EunHa asked as she gasped for breath. Her already-sensitive nipples began to
throb as KyungHyun teased them between his fingers. She felt her panties
sticking to her skin as they became drenched in her juices.

“What do you mean?”

“Hnng, why are you dragging this out?”

“I’m trying to figure out what you like.”

“Yeah, I’m asking why you’re doing that all of a sudden. You can just do it the
way you normally do, hnng…”

KyungHyun pressed his fingers together. She felt as if he had pinched all the
nerves in her body as the nipple between his fingers was squeezed. Her heart
raced inside her chest and her mouth went dry. While she did feel like she’d
lose her mind when he ripped off her underwear and licked her entrance, it
was also very torturous when he went with the slow burn.

“We can’t have that.”

“I’m asking you why… Hnng…!”

“I want to make it so that you can’t reject me.”

KyungHyun’s black eyes contained a gleam of possessiveness and desire.

“But I’ve never rejected you.”

EunHa had to hold her breath from time to time in order to keep herself from
moaning out.

“All right. Why don’t I put it this way. I want to make you want me.

Because she didn’t easily trust others, it wouldn’t be easy for her to open her
heart to him. KyungHyun knew this very well.

“I think it’ll be pretty difficult, but I don’t think it’s impossible.”

EunHa frowned. She didn’t know what he was talking about.

“What are you saying…right now?”

“Just enjoy it. It’s fine if you don’t know.”

KyungHyun languidly murmured. For now, he wanted her body to open up only
to him. So that she wouldn’t think of anything other than wanting to have sex
with him.

While it wasn’t a very heroic thing to do, he never claimed to be a gentleman,

so he didn’t really care.

He licked her wrist that was still handcuffed to the bed. He pressed his teeth
onto the delicate skin and began to suck. EunHa couldn’t stop the moan from
escaping her lips. When he finally lifted his lips, a red mark was left behind. She
felt as if every spot he touched had turned into an erogenous zone.

“Let’s kiss, EunHa.”

KyungHyun leaned in closer to her face and whispered in a soft voice. Hearing
the way her name came out of his lips surprised her, but it also captivated her.

“If I kiss you… will you take off the handcuffs?”

She asked calmly as she tried to settle her heart. KyungHyun laughed softly as
he gazed at her.

“We’ll see.”

“Haa…”

EunHa tangled her tongue with his. As if he’d been waiting for this, KyungHyun
followed her lead. It didn’t take long for the kiss to turn heated. As their teeth
and tongues meshed together, their mouths began to make wet sounds.

As EunHa swallowed, she heard KyungHyun let out a husky groan. As they
gazed into each other’s eyes, their tongues tangled together. It felt incredibly
sexy. EunHa felt all the blood rush to her face.

“Ha, haa…”

Some saliva dripped down from her mouth. KyungHyun rubbed his thumb over
her jaw before licking it off. She felt dizzy. As his eyes became hotter and
hotter, she felt as if her mind was going blank and her body was melting. He
plunged his tongue back inside her mouth and nibbled on her lower lip. EunHa
didn’t see an end in sight.
As the kiss grew longer, EunHa felt the spot between her legs grow wet. This
was the first time she had become this wet just from a kiss. As her body
shivered, she heard a soft metallic cling by her ear. KyungHyun had unlocked
the handcuffs.

“It was good.”

KyungHyun wrapped his hand around her face as he murmured. EunHa decided
to postpone her plan of running away as soon as she was released from the
handcuffs. With both of her hands now free, she wrapped them around his neck
and pressed her lips back onto his. She did this instinctively.

She felt KyungHyun’s breaths become choppier and his hand tighten on her
face. EunHa felt relieved. That’s right. I want you to go crazy for me.

“Haa…”

When he lifted his lips off of hers, EunHa frowned as she panted. She didn’t
want to think about anything. Her heart had become uncontrollable since a
while ago and was now pounding against her chest almost to the point of pain.
Her underwear was soaked, and she felt a throbbing ache between her thighs.

“I want to do it.”

This was the truth.

“Let’s do it now.”

“Not yet.”

KyungHyun shook his head as he interrupted her. Then he lowered his face to
the sensitive spot behind her ear and kissed down her neck. EunHa mewled like
a kitten and felt the him suck harder. Red marks trailed along the collarbone
and shoulder of her uninjured side.

“Why… Why… Hnng…”

When she moaned out resentfully, KyungHyun slid his hand inside her pants. Her
underwear was already a mess due to her juices. He lifted her underwear and
pushed his hand inside. KyungHyun stroked her soft, hot entrance.

“You’re drenched.”
“Are you, hnng, teasing me right now?”

EunHa flinched and trembled as she mumbled. KyungHyun frowned as he

laughed. He lightly tapped his fingertips against her, causing her to melt.

“No. I want to ram inside you so hard that it’s driving me insane.”

“Then can’t you just do it…?”

When she asked him in disbelief, KyungHyun finally began to caress her swollen
clitoris.

“Tonight is our first night together, so I can’t do that.”

Unable to understand his choice of words, EunHa frowned in her aroused state.
They’d already slept together twice, so what did he mean by ‘first night’? No,
more importantly, they didn’t have the type of relationship where they had a
‘first night’.

“This is the first time we’re having sex after we’ve bared everything to each
other and have nothing left to hide.”

As if he’d read her mind, KyungHyun softly murmured as he lightly pressed her
sensitive clitoris.

“What… a… ridiculous… hnng…”

“Like you said before, despite how I look, I’m quite old-fashioned. Something like
that hits hard with me.”

Warm fluids continued to flow out of her damp entrance. EunHa’s mouth went
dry as her body burned.

“I want to make you lose your mind. So that you can never forget me.”

“Then don’t just tickle me slowly… And just…”

“Do you want me to put my finger inside? Or do you want me to put my lips on
you and suck?”
Her juices had already dripped down onto her thighs. There was no way
KyungHyun didn’t know what she wanted at this point. Her walls were throbbing
and aching inside her, screaming out for some kind of stimulation.

“Put… your finger inside… immediately.”

EunHa grit her teeth and blurted it out. KyungHyun chuckled softly.

“What… What’s so funny?”

“I just thought that you were cute to be giving orders at a time like this.”

As he said these ridiculous words, KyungHyun pulled off her underwear and
pants in one fell swoop. Just as EunHa was thinking that anything would be
good as long as he penetrated her throbbing entrance, KyungHyun lowered his
head and pressed his soft tongue and lips against her instead of inserting his
finger.

If he was going to do this from the start, why did he even ask her to choose? A
cry left her lips.

“Hnnng…!”

His lips and tongue weren’t rough as he began to suck at juices. Like a child
licking candy, he softly lapped at her entrance.

“Ah…!”

EunHa clearly felt her insides quiver as she grew wetter. As her entrance
twitched, it began to open and close repeatedly. KyungHyun continued to make
wet noises as if he were doing so intentionally.

As his lips and tongue continued to brush against her, EunHa felt an
unbelievable pleasure run up her body. She felt that if he only sucked a little
harder, she’d be able to reach her peak… At that moment, KyungHyun took his
lips off of her.

“Should I put my finger in now?”

“Haa… Seriously, why are you doing this to me?”

EunHa looked like she was going to cry. KyungHyun stuck out his long tongue
and began to lap at her juices like a dog.

“If you don’t like it, should we stop?”

With his mouth wet with her juices, KyungHyun had the audacity to say those
words. She wanted to smash his smirking face. That wasn’t a bad idea. EunHa
frowned as her face flushed with frustration.

“If you’re going to be like that, just stop… Hnng!”

Suddenly, KyungHyun inserted his finger inside her.

“Here.”

Although she was furious that he was acting like an adult who was putting
candy into a child’s mouth, EunHa couldn’t push him away. His long middle finger
plunged inside her wet entrance and softly caressed her. EunHa’s hips twitched.
Her walls were squeezing his finger so tightly. KyungHyun spoke up in awe.

“You feel incredibly hot and soft right now.”

With his finger still inside her, he raised his body over hers. He was careful not
to completely put his full weight on top of her because of her injured shoulder.

“Are you this aroused because you want me?”

“Hnng…!”

Too tired to beg, EunHa turned her face away from him. She saw the veins
bulging on his arm as he gripped the edge of the mattress. Even though she
was sure he was completely delirious with desire, she didn’t know why he was
acting so relaxed.

“Are you upset with me because I got you worked up?”

KyungHyun inserted another finger.

“Don’t be mad. If you make that face, it only makes me want to see you cry out
even more.”

“You… haa… have a horrible personality. You know that, right?”

Every time his fingers moved inside her, EunHa heard wet noises fill the room.

“You’ve been teasing me all this time, so now it’s my turn.”

KyungHyun placed a kiss on her cheek and whispered into her ear.

“…Do you know who cleaned every nook and cranny of your body while you
were unconscious?”

EunHa felt that she knew the answer. Instead of answering, she let out a sigh.
KyungHyun pecked her face as he continued speaking.

“I almost forgot you were a patient and nearly jumped on top of you.”

He plunged his fingers into her so deeply that his knuckles almost disappeared
inside her. KyungHyun softly wiggled his middle finger and his ring finger.
EunHa’s hips flinched and began to shake. As he stimulated her walls, EunHa
wanted to cry out from the intense ecstasy. Her entrance tightened around
him.

“I wasn’t able to hold myself back and kissed you over here.”

KyungHyun’s voice was slightly tinted with laughter. As she imagined him
burying his face between her legs while she was asleep, EunHa’s body flushed.
As expected of a pervert.

“Even though you were asleep, you were as wet as you are now. It was difficult
to pull myself away.”

“Hnng…!”

As he pulled out his fingers, a groan burst out of her lips. KyungHyun licked and
sucked his fingers that were drenched with her juices. Realizing that the
peculiar smell filling the room was coming from her own body, EunHa felt as if
she was going to lose her mind.

“I’ve been wanting to do this for the past ten days you didn’t talk.”

He murmured in a husky voice.

“Every time our eyes met, my body would tense up because it wanted to have
sex with you.’

“You already had me in handcuffs. Haa, why didn’t you just force yourself on
me?”

EunHa stared at him as she panted. She watched as he took off his sweat
pants. After he had taken out his fingers, she almost couldn’t bear the empty
feeling inside. KyungHyun tossed his pants and underwear beneath the bed and
began to approach her. His cock angrily stood out from his course pubic hair.

“I’m not a thug. I’m police, so I don’t take women by force. I don’t want to ram
into a dry, stiff pussy either.”

“Haa…”

He sure as hell sounded like a thug right now. But because this man had a bad
temper, EunHa was afraid he’d stop his movements if she said anything, so she
kept her thoughts to herself. As his knee pressed between her thighs, EunHa
readily opened her legs for him. When his stiff cock brushed against her damp
entrance, Eunha’s body trembled in anticipation.

“But I did relieve myself in other ways.”

The head of his cock was already wet with precum. He continued to rub it along
her seam as if he were assessing her reaction.

“As I imagined you crazy from wanting me, as I recalled how it felt when I thrust
and ground myself into you… I jerked myself off. Morning and night.”

It didn’t matter what he did anymore. EunHa felt as if she’d lose her mind and
moaned through her teeth.

“Ha, uh…”

“EunHa.”

KyungHyun softly whispered in her ear as she struggled for breath.

“Should we do it now?”

She felt as if her whole body was burning.

“Should I put it in? Is that what you want?”

His penis continued to rub against her entrance. With a flushed face, EunHa bit
her lip and nodded. KyungHyun laced their fingers together with both hands. His
hands were damp with sweat.

“Tell me you want me.”

His low, baritone voice captivated her. EunHa put their hands straight above
her head. She looked up at him with her reddened face and panted out a
whisper.

“Excuse me…”

“Yeah?”

KyungHyun’s lips stretched into a smile. EunHa narrowed her eyes and spit out
her words.

“…If you’re not going to put it in right this instant, can you get lost? I’ll just do it
myself.”

While it was a far cry from what he had ordered her to say, it was enough to
make him lose his last shred of reason.

“…What?”

“Guys aren’t the only ones who can do it on their own, you know.”

Chapter 7.3

KyunHyun let out a hiss through his teeth. Once the lewd picture popped into his
head, he couldn’t control himself any longer. Even if other people mocked him
and said that he was whipped by a young woman, he wouldn’t have anything to
say.

“I’ll definitely have to see that for myself next time.”

“I said get lost…!”

Unable to take it anymore, EunHa glared at him. KyungHyun roughly captured
her lips and began to suck. At the same time, his throbbing cock entered her
damp entrance in one thrust.

“Hmm…!”

A muffled cry escaped EunHa’s lips as her body shook. As he felt her squeeze
him, KyungHyun let out a groan as his tongue invaded her mouth.

Her soft and sticky walls sucked him in. KyungHyun was no longer in a playful
mood. As he began to thrust in and out, EunHa automatically lifted her hips to
receive him.

KyungHyun slid out and rammed back in to the hilt. Even though he hadn’t been
thrusting for too long, his penis was already drenched in her fluids as it grew
thicker.

Because he was moving slowly, her walls felt each stimulation very clearly. As
he repeatedly pressed into her and slowly rubbed her as he pulled out, EunHa
felt the pleasure build up in her lower belly.

“Ah, aaah…!”

Her inner thighs began to tremble. As she struggled to tightly hold on to him,
KyungHyun’s hands, which were still intertwined with hers, tightened their grip.

“Don’t move your arm. It’ll hurt because of the circulation.”

Because he wasn’t pressing down on her with his weight, their hands and their
lower halves were the only points of connection between them.

“I’m fine, so… hnng…”

Unable to finish her sentence, EunHa let out a moan. KyungHyun slowly pumped
his hips into her as he whispered in a hoarse voice.

“I’m holding back the urge to ram into you right now. It’s almost unbearable. But
this feels crazy good too. I can feel every single one of your reactions so
clearly.”

“Hnng, aaah…”
Was this what it felt like when your body was boiling? Instead of holding onto
him with her arms, she wound her legs around his hips and pressed him closer
to her. KyungHyun slid even deeper inside her, and she could feel him lightly tap
against her sweet spot.

“You like it here.”

“Aahng! If you keep pressing there like that… Aaah!”

Pleasure zinged up her body as his blunt tip continued to rub that spot. EunHa
let out a lewd cry. Covered in a creamy fluid, KyungHyun’s penis was gripped so
tightly that KyungHyun couldn’t help but let out a hoarse moan.

“Hm…”

“Hnng, aahng, aaah!”

As she looked up at him with a flushed face, she gasped for breath. KyungHyun
sucked her lower lip as he continued to thrust into her. Then his soft tongue
entered her mouth and entwined with hers.

As they sucked each others tongues, EunHa swallowed. KyungHyun tilted his
head, and their lips fit together perfectly. Neither of them closed their eyes.

As the sound of their wet kissing filled the room, moans continued escaping
from between the seam of their lips. Their movements were in sync as the
pleasure built up inside both of them. KyungHyun tightly held onto her hands as
he began to suck harder. Their breaths mingled together.

They kissed until their faces were completely flushed. KyungHyun gave her a
final wet kiss before parting his lips from hers. No, that wasn’t completely true.
He continued to press his wet lips against her flushed face as he began to
sprinkle light kisses.

EunHa couldn’t remember how many times they’d kissed tonight. Since before
they began having sex, she felt that the time his lips were on her skin was
longer than the time it wasn’t.

“Haa…”
KyungHyun let go of one of her hands and slipped his hand underneath her. His
hand felt hot as it gripped her bottom. Once he was completely inside her, he
began to piston in and out without pressing down onto her upper body.

“Ah, aah… Nng…!”

With every thrust, their combined fluids began to run down his penis. EunHa
was so wet that her juices slid down her bottom and dripped onto KyungHyun’s
fingers.

“Do you like it that much? Why are you so wet?”

“Isn’t it better for you if I’m wet?”

EunHa gasped out. Her unfocused eyes delighted KyungHyun. He pressed even
deeper inside her and whispered hoarsely.

“It’s better. It feels so good that I think I’m going to lose my mind. This is the first
time I’ve felt like I’ve completely melted.”

Even though the lights were turned off, EunHa could clearly make out his face
thanks to the city lights coming in through the window. Like him, the room was
desolate. Inside this empty room, KyungHyun didn’t hide his desire for her. For
some reason, this felt so sensual to EunHa.

“Did you fall for me?”

KyungHyun asked, causing EunHa to frown. It was true that her body was
burning to the point of insanity. KyungHyun pulled her flushed earlobes into his
mouth and began to suck. EunHa stuttered out her reply.

“Haa, I… honestly like, hnng, the sex.”

Sweat dripped down KyungHyun’s forehead as he continued thrust into her.

“Just the sex?”

“Haahng! Y…Your face too.”

“What?”

His eyes narrowed as he smiled.

“I’m pretty superficial, so… I’m picky, haa, about people’s looks… Hnng!”

KyungHyun had lowered his lips from her ears down to the sensitive part of her
neck, causing EunHa to moan at the end of her sentence.

“I like everything about you.”

She felt his breath brush her sensitive skin as he spoke in a captivating voice.

“I think I’m going crazy because of it.”

His thrusts quickened, and EunHa’s mind began to go blank. As her entrance
repeatedly opened and closed in on his penis, she continued to drench him with
her juices. With hands damp with sweat, they frantically held on to each other.
Every time KyungHyun rammed into her, his coarse pubic hair rubbed against
her throbbing clitoris.

“Ah, aaah!”

EunHa’s inner thighs trembled. The orgasm that suddenly ripped through her
was deep and long. KyungHyun ground himself deeply into her a few more
times. When he saw the pleasure ripple through her face, KyungHyun finally let
go. As their hot breaths brushed over each others’ necks, the evidence of their
pleasure flowed out of her entrance.

Even though the handcuffs were gone, EunHa couldn’t lift a finger. All she could
do was gasp for breath as she lied on the bed. It seemed that she had lost a lot
of stamina due to being in bedridden for a few days. After ejaculating a few
times, KyungHyun got up and disappeared into the bathroom. He came back out
with a damp towel. He began to clean her between her legs. The damp towel
felt soothing.

“I can do that myself.”

“Stay still.”

“Excuse me?”

“Stop squirming.”
After wiping her clean, he began to clean his wet penis as well. He carelessly
tossed the towel onto the table after he was done. Still nude, KyungHyun lied
down next to her on the bed. The old mattress let out a soft groan.

“Excuse me, there’s not a lot of room here.”

“This is actually my bed, you know.”

For the past ten days, he had given EunHa his bedroom and slept on the sofa
bed in the living room. However, he didn’t plan on doing that anymore.

“Then I’ll leave. I can’t sleep in such a narrow bed like this.”

“Then do you want to sleep on top of me?”

“What are you saying…”

Clink, the handcuffs were put on her once again. This time, she wasn’t cuffed to
the bedpost. Seeing that her left hand was now handcuffed to KyungHyun’s
right hand, EunHa frowned.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“It’s best if you don’t move around too much until you’ve fully recovered.”

“If you wanted me to make a full recovery, you shouldn’t have had sex with me
like that.”

“Aren’t you the one who started it?”

KyungHyun laughed softly in the dark. Unable to say anything to that, EunHa
kept her mouth shut.

“Whatever the case, it was good.”

EunHa didn’t reply to him and merely swallowed. It was good for her as well. She
had been mindlessly drunk with pleasure.

She could feel his gaze on her without having to turn her head. She wanted to
turn the other way, but because of the handcuffs, she wasn’t able to. In
addition, the bed was so narrow that she might have fallen off if she did.
“I’m beginning to think that this is the reason why you saved my life.”

EunHa mumbled.

“What do you mean?”

“Haa… Aren’t you planning on tying me down like this and satisfying your lust
until you get tired of me?”

KyungHyun’s lips stretched into a smile in the dark.

“Do you think you’ll get tired of having sex with me?”

When EunHa hesitated to answer, KyungHyun didn’t wait for her response and
continued talking.

“I don’t think I’ll get tired of it. The more we do it, the more our bodies sync
together. It feels good.”

“…The official term for that is sexual compatibility.”

“So?”

A hint of laughter could be heard in his voice. However, EunHa didn’t catch that
and frowned.

“Has anyone ever told you that you have a sex addiction? That you lose focus
at the weirdest times…

“No, this is the first time I’m hearing of it.”

“How strange. At this rate, I don’t think any woman will want to be by your side.”

“It’s probably because you’re so addicting that you make a man lose his focus.”

EunHa let out a sigh. Having been locked up in here for the past two weeks, her
reflection in the mirror showed an empty shell of a person as if to prove that
beauty was a sin. Her appearance didn’t look close to sexy. However, it seemed
that this man definitely had strange tastes.

“You had many opportunities to have sex with me until now. Why didn’t you take
them?”
“Why? Are you disappointed that I haven’t been cultivating our sexual
compatibility for the past couple of weeks?”

“Have you lost your mind? I was just wondering how you were able to bear it
these past several days.”

KyungHyun laughed softly as he looked into her glaring eyes. Inside this moonlit
room, KyungHyun’s laughter resounded off the walls. As the naked couple stuck
to each other in the narrow single bed, the mattress creaked.

“Seriously, that’s not true.”

She had been thinking of nothing but running away once she could think
straight, but now what was this pervert talking about?

“All right.”

He gazed at the huffing woman next to him, and there was still a lingering laugh
in his voice.

“Didn’t I tell you the reason why I endured it?”

He had said that he didn’t force himself on her because he was police, but then
he… Either way, before curses left her lips again, EunHa quickly spoke up to
intercept those thoughts.

“Fine. I remember.”

KyungHyun softly touched her handcuffed hand. He brought her cold, slender
hand into his warm one and began to knead it.

“While you were asleep, the doctor asked me to avoid having any intense
exercise with you for a while.”

“Does the whole neighborhood know that you’re sleeping with me?”

“The people that work with me are incredibly observant and cunning.”

“They sound reliable.”

This was the honest truth. Given that this man next to her was their leader, it
was obvious. At her lingering words, KyungHyun replied in a low voice.

“I had to restrain myself because I was afraid I’d be too rough with you once I
got started.”

“Well… your style just now was quite soft. Except… at the end.”

EunHa replied as she stared up at the ceiling. KyungHyun asked back.

“So did you hate it?”

As he listlessly watched her, EunHa felt that she didn’t have to see his face to
know what he looked like right now. Without waiting for her answer, KyungHyun
spoke once again.

“I liked it.”

“……”

“It was pretty unbearable because I had to hold back a lot, but your reaction
was hot. Just putting it in felt electrifying.”

Just as she thought, he was definitely a pervert. Even though she didn’t want to
think too much into the ridiculous words he was saying, something felt off since
a while ago. Even after they finished having sex, he insisted on staying right
next to her as he commented on how good it felt. It felt awkward and odd. The
same went for the way he was massaging her hand with his, the way his warm
hand felt on hers. EunHa blinked and opened her mouth to change the subject.

“…Then undo these handcuffs as my reward.”

“Why? So that you can play tag in the middle of the night again?”

His hand tightened on hers.

“Be honest. I’m not being much of a help by staying here. If anyone from
YongSung finds out, it’ll only put you in a difficult position.”

“Officially, we’ve told them that you’ve killed ten of YongSung’s men at the
founding party, and that you were brought over here to me so that you could
be eliminated.”
Basically, he had announced to them that she was going to die. She suddenly
felt as if all the air had left the room. EunHa breaths became silent as the
temperature dropped.

“Does… Kang SungHo also think I’m dead?”

“No. He knows that you’re alive.”

“……”

“For now.”

EunHa swallowed when she heard his ambiguous words.

“Don’t think about going back to Serim.”

KyungHyun spoke softly as if he’d read her mind. EunHa quickly turned her head
and looked at him. Now that her eyes had become accustomed to the dark, she
could clearly see KyungHyun’s sharp face. KyungHyun looked back at her
unblinkingly and repeated himself.

“I have no plans of sending you back to that bastard.”

“…Why not?”

“Because it’s dangerous.”

There was only one reason why KyungHyun told SungHo that EunHa was still
alive. It was to warn him of what was to come.

It wasn’t that SungHo didn’t want to tell KyungHyun to return to Serim, it was
that he couldn’t. KyungHyun had already grown in power, and SungHo was
starting to feel afraid. The animosity between them had already reached its
limit, and it was only a matter of time before the bubble burst.

KyungHyun actually thought that it was for the best. It was better that they had
this happen before his trip to China. It would be easier to begin an outright
attack on SungHo as an enemy.
As KyungHyun brushed away these thoughts, he tightened his grip on EunHa’s
hand as she tried to pull it away. Clink. The metallic ringing of the handcuffs
filled the room.

“…If I don’t go back, I won’t be able to kill him.”

“I’ll capture Kang SungHo and bring him to you. I promise.”

“I don’t trust anything the police says.”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me. Either way, you won’t be going back
to Serim.”

She felt as if she was speaking to a wall. EunHa’s raised her voice in frustration.

“…Why are you doing this to me? Why does it matter to you whether I live or
die? Don’t tell me it’s because you’re police. You told me yourself that a
truckload of people have died by your hands already!”

KyungHyun looked at her in silence. Not wanting to lose, EunHa glared into his
intense gaze.

“Do you really not know the reason?”

KyungHyun finally opened his mouth. EunHa frowned. She took a deep breath as
she glared at him.

“You have a good head on your shoulders. You’re pretty smart, so why can’t
you figure it out?”

“I don’t know.”

“I told you I don’t want you to be in danger.”

“I’ve lived my life like that way before I met you.”

“Then stay in my shadow and live in safety.”

“And why do I have to do that?”

EunHa asked in disbelief. His hand felt hot as it grasped hers. Their bodies were
sweaty, but because they were stuck together, she couldn’t tell where the
sweat was coming from. KyungHyun kept his deep eyes on her and replied. He
murmured in a soft voice as his gaze intimidated her.

“I’ll only say this once, so listen closely.”

“……”

“You asked me why I cared whether you live or die even though I’ve killed a
truckload of people. Isn’t it obvious? How could your life possibly compare to
the lives of thug bastards?”

She didn’t understand his shameless words. Being a member of Serim, she
hadn’t lived a clean life either. She had probably done all the things any
member of YongSung had done as well. When he saw that she was still looking
at him in confusion, KyungHyun let out a long sigh.

“I have romantic feelings for you.”

What was this man saying all of a sudden?

EunHa frowned at his unexpected words.

“For the first time in my many years of life, I’ve finally met a woman I want to be
with. Do you think I’m the type of guy who’s okay with letting his woman get into
any danger? Well, I don’t think I am.”

EunHa’s lips slightly parted. She couldn’t think of anything to say in this situation.
KyungHyun spoke in a calm voice.

“Are you shocked? You look troubled.”

EunHa’s frown was still frozen on her face. KyungHyun looked at her and
brushed his tongue over her lips. With his eyes still on her, KyungHyun spoke up
in a husky voice.

“Do you not like me?”

EunHa blinked furiously, completely at a loss for words. She didn’t know how to
reply to his confession. Before she first approached Shin KyungHyun, this had
been her plan. She was trying to make him fall for her completely so that she
could get information out of him.
However, everything had failed, and things were different now. The reason why
she couldn’t scoff and tell him to stop joking around was because she could tell
that KyungHyun was completely serious. Knowing him, he was being like this
because he didn’t want her to claim that he was making a bad joke.

“…Whether I like you or not, I don’t have any romantic feelings for you,
Director.”

EunHa barely managed to open her mouth and reject his feelings, but
KyungHyun merely chuckled. With his free hand, he wrapped it around her hips
and embraced her. He nuzzled her ear with his tall nose.

“You must be very surprised. It’s been a while since I’ve heard you call me
‘Director’.”

EunHa then realized that she had been so shocked that she had called him by
his fake title.

“You didn’t even blink an eye when I asked if you wanted to have sex, but now
that I’m asking you if we can go out, you’re acting as if you’ve been burned.”

Stuck in his embrace, she could hear the sound of a pounding heart. Was this
her own heartbeat or was it coming from this smiling man?

“We don’t have to date, so have sex with me one more time, EunHa.”

“……”

“Even if you don’t like me, you said you liked the sex.”

Was that really okay with him? Even though he’d been rejected, his face didn’t
show any sign of disappointment as it approached her own. Bewildered, EunHa
pulled her head back. His hands wrapped around her cheeks.

“You said that you at least liked the way I looked.”

With her own words thrown back at her, EunHa couldn’t think of anything to say.
His hot breaths puffed against her neck before his lips pressed onto the
sensitive skin. Once again carried away by his hands, EunHa could only blink in
confusion.
“It doesn’t matter if you have romantic feelings for me or not. I don’t feel the
same way.”

“Did I say anything?”

KyungHyun asked calmly. EunHa was at a loss for words. She also felt that it
would be ridiculous to reject having sex with him because of a few trivial
words.

“Do you feel frustrated because your heart is beating like a little kid’s after
what I said?”

“…Of course not.”

As KyungHyun lowered his handcuffed hand, the metallic chains clinked

together. He gazed at her softly and whispered in a low voice.

“Then just act like you always do. Don’t be so frozen stiff.”

She could feel his desire through his hand. She let out a helpless laugh.

“All right.”

Such a one-sided confession. She felt that it suited a man like him. She softly
grasped his penis that was already wet with precum. As she slowly caressed it,
KyungHyun bit his lower lip.

“Ha… Feels good.”

She found it laughable that she didn’t hate how he bared all the hidden
darkness inside of him for her to see. After making sure he was completely
erect, she climbed on top of him.

“What’s so good? Me?”

She blurted out the words that had been troubling her since a while ago.
KyungHyun groaned in a hoarse voice. He grabbed her bottom with his free
hand.

“Come here. Stop fooling around.”

Having lost all composure, he spread her open and rammed into her. EunHa
laughed as she began to slowly rock her hips. Even though this was all
unexpected, it didn’t feel that bad.

“Since when?”

“What?”

“Since when did you start liking me?”

“Why do you want to know about something like that?”

“I’m curious about stuf like that.”

As she panted above him, KyungHyun pulled her down to his chest as he
continued to thrust inside her. EunHa was now lying on top of him, face-to-face.

“Guess.”

“When I asked you to kiss me at the traditional Korean restaurant?

“Before that.”

KyungHyun ground into her as he licked her lips. EunHa’s eyes widened as she
stared down at him.

“Before? When?”

“…When you first started working.”

“But you were glaring at me so fiercely in your office as you threatened me.
That’s when it happened?”

“I wasn’t threatening you. I was warning you. So that you wouldn’t seduce me.”

“You’re the one who fell for me all on your own, so why were you blaming me?”

With his lips pressed to hers, KyungHyun chuckled softly.

“That’s not when I fell for you.”

“Then when was it? That was my first day of work.”

“It was when I overheard you say that you were very wet because you weren’t
able to fuck Shin KyungHyun through the bug in your apartment.”

She remembered saying that to YongJoon in order to excite him. But who knew
that KyungHyun would fall for her instead?

“I thought I’d go crazy. From wanting to do this.”

He was definitely a strange man. KyungHyun seemed to become more aroused

as he thought about that time. Still inside her, he flipped her body over so that
he was now on top.

“You’ve endured it well.”

KyungHyun laced the fingers of their handcuffed hands together.

“Do you want to know how I endured it?”

Without waiting for her response, KyungHyun lowered his forehead onto hers.

“That night, after I called you, on the sofa…”

He began to whisper the events of that night. After he told her how he had
masturbated to her on her first day of work, EunHa quickly covered his mouth
with her hand.

“How much longer will I have to listen to what you did when you were alone?”

He pulled one of her fingers into his mouth and nibbled it.

“I did that for half a month. I thought I was going crazy.”

“So?”

“After I fed you that night, I planned on taking you back to the hotel.”

“So when you asked me to eat dinner with you, that was a date?”

“Did you really not know that?”

He spoke so certainly that EunHa scoffed in disbelief.

“I thought it was just a company dinner.”

“Then why did you seduce me on our walk?”

“Because it felt dangerous. When you caught that mosquito, I thought you were
going to kill me instead.”

KyungHyun caressed her hips with a warm hand as he laughed.

“That night, I planned on sleeping with you no matter what. And you seduced me
by asking for a kiss in that situation. Then some son of a bitch came and ruined
the mood by making us roll around in the dirt. Can you imagine how pissed off I
was?”

Just when EunHa was going to ask if his behavior of bursting into someone
else’s apartment was any better, KyungHyun swallowed her lips. Her breaths
mingled with his. The handcuffs connecting their hands together continued to
rattle throughout the night.

Chapter 8.1

During the past 3 weeks of EunHa’s recovery, KyungHyun only left her a total of
seven times. Whenever he did leave her, he made sure to handcuff her once
again and sent General Manager Cha to keep watch over her.

EunHa had tried to seduce General Manager Cha as well, but he didn’t fall for
any of it. It seemed that he was an old-fashioned, diligent public servant.

With the exception of her request to be set free, KyungHyun fulfilled all of her
wishes. He had even gone and bought her some women’s underwear on his way
home. When he was home, he was either lost in thought for long stretches of
time or spoke in a serious tone with General Manger Cha outside the room.

However, when the sun set, he always embraced her without fail. EunHa had
complained that she would lose stamina due to being locked inside this room,
and so KyungHyun kept her panting and sweating through sex.

Thankfully, after the night he confessed to her, he never mentioned it again.

Instead, KyungHyun passionately embraced her every night. When the light of
dawn began to creep into the room through the windows, he embraced her
from behind and slipped his hand into her panties, effectively waking her up.

There was even a time when he had been watching her shower as he leaned
on the doorframe, smoking a cigarette. Then he walked into the shower, still
clothed, and began to have sex with her, not caring about the water drenching
his clothes.

After that strange ‘first night’, KyungHyun took every opportunity he could to
explore every nook and cranny of her body with his tongue, driving her into a
frenzy.

“Shin KyungHyun-ssi, I’m sorry to ask, but were you always a man with this much
free time?”

“I have enough time to roll around with you.”

“Why don’t you do it on your own sometimes?”

“Are you asking me because you want to see me masturbate? I have some time
now to satisfy your curiosity.”

“…No thank you. Don’t do it. I won’t look. Ah… Please.”

As the time EunHa spent within this room grew longer, the more anxious she
became. On the other hand, KyungHyun seemed more relaxed as he calmed
her down. After a long round of sex, he would embrace her limp body and enjoy
some listless afterplay as he told her stories she didn’t ask to hear.

For example, he told her a story of the time when he had just joined Serim and
was sent out into the field. He had never used a weapon other than a gun
before, so he had been very confused when he had to use a knife, hammer, or
a club to fight his way out of a brawl. However, when he realized that he was
actually pretty good at it, he told her that it didn’t feel bad at all. EunHa listened
to his absurd stories and felt that they seemed to suit him perfectly.

“When did you get this?”

Inside the bathtub, EunHa rubbed the tattooed waves on his upper chest.
KyungHyun was holding her as they faced each other. He was stroking her
bottom, and whenever he moved his arm, the dragon on his arm twitched as if
it were alive.
“Immediately after I graduated the police academy and was assigned to
infiltrate Serim.”

“Did your superiors order you to get something like this?”

“Someone said something in passing that pissed me off, so I put in a lot more
effort than necessary. But even then, I never expected it to turn out like this.”

“What did they say?”

“I heard someone say that I didn’t look like a thug but more like an arrogant
member of the elite and that I needed to change up my style.”

EunHa frowned as she snorted.

“…Elite?”

“Why? You don’t believe me?”

KyungHyun asked calmly. EunHa didn’t doubt that he could do his work well.
Whatever he did, he did it perfectly. It was just that…

“It’s just… I can’t imagine you wearing a police uniform.”

Wearing his expensive suits with a cold expression on his face, he seemed to
be a businessman who committed crimes as naturally as he ate food.

“Same here. It was so long ago.”

“Maybe this was your calling instead of being a policeman.”

“Maybe.”

KyungHyun faintly smiled. Even though his smile was cold, his body felt
extremely hot. Even now, EunHa felt that she was only seeing one side of this
man. No, could anyone truly know someone completely? She hadn’t even known
the truth about her family even though they had been extremely close.

“…I want to ask you something.”

EunHa hesitated before asking.

“What is it?”

“When you first entered Serim…”

Her voice shook slightly due to her anxiety. She had wanted to ask him this for
a while now, but she had always held back.

“Did you see my dad often?”

KyungHyun remained silent for a moment before opening his mouth.

“I was always out in the field, so I didn’t have a lot of opportunities to see him.
Your father’s position was too high for him to come out very often. My team
was also observing someone else at the time.”

“Ah, I see.”

Her voice carried a slight hint of disappointment. KyungHyun pulled her closer
to him and rubbed her hair which now smelled like his shampoo.

“Are you curious about what your dad was like in Serim?”

“…Yes, you’re right. When I was young, I never even imagined that my dad was
in the mob. Honestly, I can barely even imagine it now.”

“He definitely gave me the impression of being someone who was far removed
from the rest of the thugs. That’s probably why he was mainly in charge of the
business side of things. Even on our side, he was second on the list of people to
keep our eye on. The first being the leader. He was even above Kang SungHo.”

EunHa let out a deep sigh as she listened carefully. This was the first time she
was hearing about how her father was the the criminal organization from
someone other than SungHo.

“But you father wanted to give up on everything a few times.”

“…What do you mean?”

Hearing this for the first time, EunHa’s eyes widened as she stared at him.
Recognizing the longing inside her eyes, KyungHyun slowly replied in a soft
voice.
“Your father was two positions above the man we were watching.”

“…So?”

“He said that your father was a man who constantly talked about his family.”

EunHa, who had been pretending to stay calm, stared at him as her eyes began
to tremble. She wanted to hear more about this side of her father that she
never knew.

“In the beginning, he had nothing, so he came to Seoul and entered Serim. He
did everything he was told to do, but… After a certain point, he was constantly
scared something would happen to his family. Whenever he got drunk, I heard
that he always joked about retiring early and setting up an orchard
somewhere far away.”

“EunHa, should we move here? Do you want to live here? Then we can eat all
the fruit that you like so much.”

EunHa bit her lip as she remembered a memory from long ago. Her family had
gone somewhere for vacation. How had she answered that question? It was an
island that was only accessible by plane, so she probably shook her head and
told him that she didn’t want to leave her friends.

“Your father was too skilled and had too many followers to just quit. The boss
of Serim back then wouldn’t have let your father go too easily. And Kang
SungHo was there to witness it all. He probably felt jealous and a sense of
defeat at the time.”

EunHa’s eyes began to water. She kept her eyes wide open to hold back the
tears as she let out huff of laughter.

“I guess being too talented can be a problem. In the end, he was stabbed to
death by a fellow member of the same organization.”

KyungHyun looked at her as she scoffed. He caught her eyes and began to
speak slowly but with conviction.

“Your father only thought about his family until his dying breath. That much is
definitely true.”
“…But he was still just a gangster in the end.”

“Just because they’re in the mob doesn’t mean that they don’t hold anything
dear to their hearts. For your father, it was his family.”

EunHa felt herself choke up. Her eyes began to redden as she looked up at him
with a silent smile. KyungHyun lightly swept his hand across her face as she
tried to hold back her tears. He softly pressed his lips against hers. When he
tried to thrust his tongue inside, EunHa pushed him away and asked him a
question.

“…What is it for you?”

“What do you mean?”

KyungHyun brought her finger to his lips and lightly bit it. Even thought it was
covered in soap bubbles, he didn’t care. He pulled her to his chest, disturbing
the water that filled the tub.

“What’s dear to your heart?”

“That? I can’t think of anything.”

“Then why are you doing something so dangerous like this?”

“After I became a policeman, this was my first assignment.”

It was such an expected answer from him that it was almost disappointing.

“…Do you have any family?”

“I do.”

At his curt reply, EunHa looked up at him with confusion.

“Do your parents know you’re doing this kind of work?”

KyungHyun pressed her fingers to his lips as he smiled faintly. Did he have a
complicated home life that forced him to join the police force? Was he working
because he needed the money? EunHa did a double take. She suddenly didn’t
want to hear his melodramatic life story.
“My father has probably received a report from someone about my situation
by now.”

“…What do you mean?”

“My father used to be the previous police commissioner. Even though it’s been
a while since he’s retired, he still has some pull around here.”

EunHa blinked. KyungHyun wiped a drop of water running down her face and
spoke calmly.

“You seem surprised.”

“…I’m as shocked as I was when I first heard you were police.”

“Is this something to be so shocked about?”

His wet hair was swept back, revealing his forehead. Even though he was
completely nude, he still looked neat and impeccable.

“I never expected you to be born with a golden spoon.”

“I remember our household to be pretty average.”

Yeah, right. EunHa looked at him with disbelief as KyungHyun murmured.

“The title seems pretty lofty, but the salary wasn’t as big as you’d think.”

“Okay. We’ll just say you were born with a silver spoon instead of a gold one.
Even if your father was dedicated to his job, wasn’t he reluctant to let his son
join such a dangerous mission?”

Seeing all the members of the National Assembly fret about not being able to
expedite their children’s mandatory military service on the news, EunHa
couldn’t understand KyungHyun’s father.

“In my household, there are three sons. Because our house is filled with men,
everyone’s pretty indifferent about each other.”

“…Fine, let’s leave your father for now. What about your mother?”

“My mother passed away when I was seven.”

When he replied indifferently, EunHa asked another question.

“What do you brothers do?”

“My older brother is a human rights lawyer. My younger brother is a war

correspondent photographer, so we don’t know where he is exactly at the
moment.”

EunHa stared at him in silence. She tried to imagine the life of Shin KyungHyun. A
sigh left her lips.

“That’s seriously so crazy.”

“What is?”

“His son might die any minute, but the police commissioner father is completely
fine with that. I can’t understand it.”

“Because a parent can’t live their children’s lives for them.”

KyungHyun smiled faintly. Even since he was little, every member of his family
did everything on their own. Their taciturn personalities and lack of emotion
was probably genetic. His father didn’t concern himself with the lives of his
three sons.

“My brothers knew what they wanted to do at a young age, but nothing seemed
to interest me.”

“Then did you choose to join the police force because of your father?”

“I guess you can say that. Even after graduating high school, there wasn’t
anything I wanted to do. There wasn’t anything I wanted to study in college
either, but… I thought that if I became a policeman like my father, it would give
me more of a thrill.”

“…Thrill?”

EunHa frowned.

“Yeah. I felt that my life was pretty boring when I was young. I guess another
way of putting it is that I didn’t feel a sense of accomplishment. Even though
there was no one there to praise me, when I did get any praise, it didn’t
particularly like it or anything. Everything seemed useless… Now that I think
about it, I might have been emotionally dense.”

“Excuse me. Did… anyone ever say that you were cold as a child?”

“…From time to time.”

“Or that you were full of yourself? Or rude little bastard?”

“……”

Judging from his blank expression and the fact that he wasn’t denying it, he
had definitely heard it before. Of course. EunHa scoffed as she continued
speaking.

“I got goosebumps when you told me they called you a member of the elite, but
I think this is a bit more believable.”

“What is?”

“The rude, arrogant, twenty-year-old Shin KyungHyun. I imagine you were a lot
worse when you were younger.”

KyungHyun chuckled, but he didn’t say anything.

“Anyways, you ended up living a life full of thrill just like you wanted.”

“You’re right. Seeing people die in front of my eyes and having my life
constantly in danger, I don’t have time to be bored. I thought I was getting on a
thrilling rollercoaster, but it turned out to be a train to hell instead. And I
couldn’t get out.”

She couldn’t tell what he was thinking about from his languid voice.

“I felt that there was no other choice but for me to survive, so I did my best. But
sometimes I got confused on whether I was actually a thug or police.”

Having lived undercover for so long, it was understandable that he

experienced an identity crisis. His large hand softly rubbed her shoulder. The
temperature of the bath had gone down a bit, but her body was still warm.
EunHa stared at him as she opened her mouth.
“So did you make an effort to remind yourself that you were police every day?”

“…Is there something you want to say?”

KyungHyun’s eyes narrowed. EunHa grabbed his hand as he began to slide it

into her cleavage.

“Your room doesn’t have any curtains. If someone told me it was a prison cell,
I’d believe them. And yet you lived there without buying any furniture for many
years. Was it because you were trying to remind yourself that you weren’t the
director of KeumOh but a policeman of South Korea?”

“…Are you interrogating me right now?”

KyungHyun’s brows furrowed as he smiled.

“I’m just telling you what I think. It didn’t seem like you were enjoying your
reality.”

EunHa hesitated before continuing.

“…It seemed like you were afraid you’d enjoy it.”

She thought she felt KyungHyun’s pulse race through his hand. His hand tensed
up.

“It’s true that I was nervous I’d end up a thug to the bone at the rate I was
going.”

To hear this cold-blooded man admit that he was nervous sounded strange.

“At first, I consciously made an effort. How would a gangster talk? How would
he act? Every moment, every second, I thought before I acted. Because I didn’t
want anyone to suspect that I was a cop. So that they wouldn’t even question
what I was doing there.”

“…Because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t survive.”

EunHa murmured as if she was talking to herself. She thought about the term
‘effort’. How much effort did he put in so that he wouldn’t get caught in this
game of life and death?
“It wasn’t too bad when my efforts became a habit… But before I realized it,
when I looked in the mirror, I saw a gangster drenched in blood staring back at
me. From that point on, I began to feel afraid. Afraid that I’d disappear at any
moment.”

EunHa asked in a soft voice.

“How did you overcome those moments?”

“I ran until I couldn’t run anymore. It reminded me of the times when I was being
trained in the academy, and it made me feel better. It also got rid of any trivial
thoughts.”

EunHa recalled how he had kept the ball in play for 40 minutes at the squash
courts and chuckled.

“Then why did you act like a sexually deprived gangster when I met you at the
squash courts?”

“That was the truth.”

“…What was?”

“I think you know better than anyone the sexual attraction I felt for you.”

EunHa didn’t bother denying it and blurted out her reply.

“You’re right. I thought you were full of yourself, telling me that I wasn’t your
type when your lower half was standing up like that.”

KyungHyun’s lips stretched into his characteristic languid smile as he stretched

out his hand and slipped his fingers between the cheeks of her bottom. He
began to rub her soft spot, causing the water in the tub to ripple. The sound of
the bathwater crashing against the bathtub walls echoed in the room.

“I didn’t want to fall for a young woman and make a fool of myself. I didn’t have
time for that.”

“Then are you here with me because you suddenly have the time now?”
“I can’t help it anymore. Whenever I’m with you, I go crazy because I want to
have sex. Even though we do it multiple times a day, I’m always hard.”

“Don’t you feel embarrassed when those words leave your mouth?”

“Not really. It’s the truth.”

As he continued to rub the place he had countlessly licked and penetrated, he

felt the blood rush through his body.

“I’m not only fond of your face. Everything about you is my type. You’re smart,
incredibly observant, and have good intuition for a kid.”

“Does it make you feel better when you stress my age and emphasize how
you’re older than me?”

“You’re my guilty pleasure.”

KyungHyun softly whispered. He brought his face close to hers and flashed his
milky teeth as he smiled. His sexy smile caused the area between her legs to
grow wet.

The normally cold, expressionless face was now flashing her a languid smile.

EunHa felt that this was probably Shin KyungHyun’s true face. She had never
met this person before, and she would probaby never meet him again.

If KyungHyun hadn’t gone undercover in the criminal organizations, their paths

would never have crossed like this. If that were the case, how would she have
felt about him?

“Even if you’re my type, I didn’t plan on embracing such a rookie like you.”

Whatever the case, she probably wouldn’t have felt such an intense attraction
to him as she did now.

“How is a twenty-six-year-old a rookie?”

“That’s the way it is for me.”

She turned her head in disbelief. KyungHyun looked at her profile and wrapped
his hand around her cheek.
“And if that woman approached me to kill me, shouldn’t I have been more wary
with her?”

As he licked her lips, she could feel his arousal. His wet face was stuck to hers.

“Losing my mind and having sex with a woman in the middle of my assignment
should have been impossible for me…”

He lightly bit her lower lip.

“Whenever I’m with you, all the rules I’ve kept seem to collapse.”

He had told her that he had been afraid of losing who he was while he lived as
a gangster of a criminal organization. EunHa felt that it was an unnecessary
worry.

“…So is that why you’re so turned on?”

For an adrenaline junkie, danger made of his own doing would probably bring
him the most thrill. The languidly smiling man in front of her was someone who
would never kill himself. His ego was too great for that to happen.

“How’d you know?”

EunHa met KyungHyun’s gaze and let out an exasperated sigh.

“I’ve been thinking this for a while now, but do you know that you have an
incredibly perverted personality?”

“I agree.”

He bumped his sculpted nose to hers as he faintly smiled. When she felt his
finger penetrate her wet entrance, she quickly tried to push his hand away with
all her might.

“Enough. If we do it again today, I think I’m going to faint.”

EunHa lifted her head and complained as she glared at him reproachfully.

“Isn’t it ungentlemanly to rile up a woman and just leave her like this?”
“It’s fine…”

“I won’t drag it out.”

Instead of replying, EunHa glared at him. KyungHyun took his hand away from
between her thighs and clicked his tongue in disappointment.

“You have so little stamina for such a young kid.”

“Excuse me, just taking you as much as I have is…!”

He suddenly picked her up and lifted her from the water. She had told him
multiple times not to carry her like this, but KyungHyun continued to carry her
around like a parcel. KyungHyun whipped a towel off the rack and wrapped her
dripping body in one swoop. After drying off most of the water, he laid her
down on the bed.

Because it was the middle of summer, the sun was still up in the evening sky.
Even though the strong rays shone into the room, EunHa had been locked up in
here for almost a month now. She couldn’t tell the change in season happening
outside.

Having left the warm waters of the bath and now lying on the cool, crisp sheets,
EunHa enjoyed the pleasant sensation. KyungHyun lied down next to her with
his arm underneath his head.

“What about you?”

“What?”

“What did you do to endure the hard times?”

The last time KyungHyun had seen her was 10 years ago. Because she had lived
under her overprotective parents, her mental age seemed to be younger than
her sixteen years.

And that girl had developed into a woman who KyungHyun had almost not
recognized. In that long stretch of time, many things would have happened to
her. KyungHyun knew that things weren’t always happy for her.

“Unlike other people, I joined the organization at a young age, so it wasn’t that
hard for me.”
As KyungHyun watched her calmly reply with a straight face, KyungHyun’s black
eyes softened.

“I’m glad.”

“…But there were times I was a bit tired.”

“What did you do then?”

“I watched movies.”

“Do you like movies?”

“More specifically, I like going to the movie theater. When all the lights go out,
my heart races. Because I like it so much.”

“Why do you like it?”

EunHa momentarily stopped speaking when she saw his face filled with
confusion.

“…For that short moment, I feel like I’m completely taken out of my reality.”

Her voice slightly lowered as she mumbled distantly.

“What about when the movie ends?”

“It’s like coming back from a short vacation. Back to my real life.”

“If your reality is shitty, you wouldn’t want to come back.”

EunHa rised her voice as she shrugged.

“That’s why I always stay seated until the very end. Even after the credits have
finished rolling, I stay in my seat until the lights are completely turned on.
Sometimes there’s a scene at the very end too… and it feels like someone left a
secret present for those that stayed. It feels good. As if I was invited to a
special play.”

“……”
“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“I’m trying to imagine how that feels, but I can’t figure it out at all.”

EunHa laughed softly.

“Of course. I don’t think I can imagine you sitting in a movie theater either.”

If it was Shin KyungHyun, he’d be wearing his expensive suits and sit
uncomfortably in the seats. He also seemed to be the type of person who
would get up as soon as the movie ended, almost as if he’d been waiting to
leave.

“Should we go see a movie together next time?”

At KyungHyun’s question, EunHa looked straight at him and shook her head.

“I don’t want to.”

“Why not?”

“I just told you. I’m the last person to leave a theater. I don’t think someone like
you can endure the boredom.”

“I’d be looking at you the whole time, so why would I be bored?”

“…You’d look at me in a movie theater instead of watching the movie?”

“Yeah.”

EunHa frowned in disbelief.

“Then why would you even go to a movie theater? It’s dark, so you wouldn’t be
able to see very well. You can just look at me as much as you want in a bright
place. Here, you can see me now.”

“I want to see what you look like when you’re really happy.”

EunHa had been bringing her face closer to his when she suddenly stopped at
his reply. She bit her lips. He brushed her forehead as he continued to speak.
She felt her pulse speed up when she felt his large hand softly touch her.
“I’m curious about the way you look when you’re completely drawn to the
screen, and I’m also curious about how you look when you’re disappointed at
the end of the movie to the point where you don’t even want to leave your
seat.”

“……”

“Up until now, I haven’t even stepped anywhere near a movie theater, but now I
feel the sudden urge to go.”

In a dark room where his vision wasn’t perfectly clear, he wouldn’t be able to
fend off any surprise attacks, so it was dangerous. No, he couldn’t even
imagine doing something for personal pleasure. After getting used to this
lifestyle, he had never even felt that kind of desire. KyungHyun brought his face
close to hers before pressing a kiss onto her lips.

“You’re like a summer cold.”

“…Are you reciting a poem right now?”

“Are you saying I’m poetic? What an honor.”

“I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t think you have any talent in that field.”

KyungHyun chuckled at her declaration.

“It just means that I never thought I’d catch it. I usually don’t catch colds.”

“……”

“I never thought I’d be defenseless to a woman like you. I never knew that it
was possible.”

“Hmm… you don’t come across a woman who looks like me very often, do you?”

“A woman with your personality isn’t common either.”

Being a man who didn’t know how to joke around, he answered her honestly.
Uncomfortable with the tickling sensation in her heart, EunHa attempted to
frown, but it was in vain.

“The more I get to know you, the more feverish I become.”

His deep gaze sucked her in.

“But I don’t hate it.”

Chapter 8.2

His body gradually became warmer. EunHa gave a ‘hmph’ and coughed
awkwardly.

“I’m sorry to say this, but… Because you’re keeping me locked up in here, I don’t
feel like your words are credible.”

“This is the safest place for you to be.”

KyungHyun got on top of her and pressed his lips behind her ear. She could
hear the sound of his wet kisses. Her body trembled automatically as she felt
his body heat on her skin. EunHa tried her best to return to her senses as she
asked him something she had been wondering about every single day.

“How much longer do I have to stay here like this?”

“Just endure it until this is all over.”

His answer was just as she expected. EunHa drew in a breath when KyungHyun
grabbed her breast and popped her nipple into his mouth. Knowing him, this
would all be over only when the leaders of YongSung and Serim were put in
prison.

Because of that one goal, he had hidden his identity for such an unbelievably
long time, working inside this criminal organization as a gangster.

“Until I return to my rightful spot, all you have to do is stay here.”

“Won’t it take a long time?”

KyungHyun sucked her breast even harder. EunHa recalled her first day of
work when she was called into his office. He told her to be prepared to be
locked up for 24 hours a day if she ever became his woman. She thought it was
an empty threat, but she was wrong.
When he believed himself to be right, he was not willing to budge. He had told
her the truth, which had stemmed from his dogmatic and stubborn personality.
She began to realize with more clarity that Shin KyungHyun had the ability to
keep her locked up in here the whole time.

EunHa’s sigh gradually turned into a breathless moan. After leaving countless
love bites on her body, KyungHyun pushed himself up and covered her body
with his.

He dug his fingers into her hair and began to kiss her as she stared at him with
distant eyes. EunHa felt that it was time to make a decision.

Honestly, the Shin KyungHyun in front of her was a charming man. That night, as
she was running barefoot in the streets after witnessing her parents’ murders,
KyungHyun was the one who had saved her. However, it wasn’t enough to make
her feel any romantic sentiment towards the man.

He was just a man who closely embodied ‘strength’ in EunHa’s mind. A man
overflowing with testosterone. As she spent more time with this charming and
strong man, it was only natural that she was being drawn to him.

EunHa wasn’t going to deny these feelings, and she didn’t feel the need to. This
man always flipped her expectations upside-down, and she wanted to know
more about him.

It was also true that she felt excited knowing that KyungHyun knew her history
and her identity. The sixteen-year-old EunHa who had been trembling in fear
wasn’t completely dead.

When he had told her that he had persistently given his all to survive up to this
point, she never expected to be caught up in the strange emotions that
overcame her.

This policeman told her that he had done everything he possibly could to
survive. He honestly told her of the times he felt tired and nervous. While it felt
awkward and fascinating to listen to, she also felt that this side of him suited
him pretty well.

Until now, EunHa had constantly hid her weaknesses from others. She felt that it
was the right thing to do if she wanted to survive. She didn’t have the courage
to honestly reveal her past and show others her weaknesses.
Would there ever be a day when she could be frank with somebody and talk
about the old days with them? When all her revenge had been fulfilled and she
revealed everything about her bloodcurdling past, was there a man in this
world who had enough guts to say ‘Ah, really?’ as he sat by her side and
listened to her…

“What are you thinking about?”

“I’m thinking about a guy.”

KyungHyun stopped in the middle of a deep kiss and sighed. His lips began to
form a smile, but his fierce glare said otherwise. Possessiveness and jealousy
spread across his sculpted face.

“Will you tell me his name?”

His easygoing and languid voice reached her ears.

“Why?”

“So that I can shoot him down.”

EunHa let out a groan as she laughed before hooking her arms around his
neck. She reached up and gave him a wet kiss. The veins in KyungHyun’s neck
bulged at her small action.

“Just embrace me for now.”

“Didn’t you say that you’d faint if we had sex one more time?”

“It’s fine if you don’t want to.”

At EunHa’s whisper, KyungHyun lost the last of his composure. His sturdy knee
opened her thighs.

“You say that because you know it drives me crazy, right?”

“Hng… I don’t…know. Does it really?”

His erect penis slid into her. Now familiar with this sensation, EunHa’s body
automatically sucked him in. He pierced her deeply as his thighs tensed.
“I get even more aroused whenever you push me away.”

“I know.”

“You know?”

“Yes. Everyone’s the same. You’re not the only one who’s like that.”

EunHa wrapped her legs around him and whispered in a tempting voice.
KyungHyun scoffed bitterly.

“I believe I already told you that it’s taboo to compare me to other punks.”

“Then make it so that I can’t compare you to them.”

Whenever she was with KyungHyun, EunHa felt as if she were playing a
dangerous game. Her opponent had a strong hand, so she tried to bluff her
way out. However, he didn’t even understand what a bluff was. On top of his
constant poker face, he had the confidence of a man who was always willing to
go all-in.

“Don’t regret those words.”

A strong man was breathtakingly splendid, and EunHa’s eyes were caught by
the splendidness. Suddenly, his thrusts became fiercer. Covered by his sturdy
body, EunHa moaned as a thought popped into her head. No one else could kill
Kang SungHo for her.

For the past 10 years, there had been times when things got so difficult that all
she wanted to do was curl up and cry. However, she had never thought of
ending her own life. Just for revenge, EunHa felt that she needed to live on. She
could tell herself that her life had worth. And because of that, she was able to
laugh.

“Don’t think about anything else while I’m holding you.”

Shin KyungHyun was a very observant man. He was as possessive as she

expected him to be, but he drew her to him more than she thought.

“Don’t… let me treat you harshly. Don’t let me break you.”

His warm, large hand caressed her small face. Pinned underneath his body,
EunHa gave him a faint smile.

“I’m not a woman who breaks just from being mistreated.”

KyungHyun silently looked at her for a moment before letting out a hot breath.
Even though he didn’t say anything, his eyes were filled with countless, dizzying
thoughts. Her cheek began to shake slightly. EunHa reached up and covered his
beautiful, long hand as it trembled on her cheek. Then she softly whispered to
him.

“I thought you already knew that.”

Black fireworks went off in his eyes. He began to sprinkle hot kisses over her
cheeks and lips. As he began to pound into her harder and harder, EunHa felt
her body move up the mattress.

“What…should I do with you?”

Just as EunHa was about to hit the bedpost, KyungHyun wrapped her head with
his hand and placed a kiss onto her hair. At his rhetorical question, EunHa
chuckled.

“Do you, hnng… Do you like me that much? To the point of ruining me?”

“Don’t joke around.”

“Your arrogant, blank face is quite handsome, but as expected… You look the
sexiest when you lose your mind like a beast in bed. I think the gap between
those two faces excites me. Maybe that’s why I like having sex with you so
much.”

“Fuck…”

A curse hissed through his teeth. The only time KyungHyun let out a strong
curse like that was when he was losing control. His ears began to redden.

EunHa raised both arms and tightly wrapped them around his back as she
pulled him towards her. Every time his cock penetrated her drenched entrance,
wet sounds endlessly echoed in the room. Her circulation sped up as the
dizzying pleasure zinged through her body. Although her whole body was
damp, her lips were dry. As her tongue stuck to the roof of her mouth, EunHa
felt a surge of thirst.

This was the first time she felt such a strong attraction for someone. This
‘romantic feeling’ he indifferently blurt out was something she never
experienced, and she never wanted to.

With other men, she felt excited whenever she was the dominant one. However,
that feeling didn’t last very long. But with KyungHyun, it was different. She was
drawn to his strength. If she did as he said and obediently stayed hidden as she
waited, Shin KyungHyun was a man who could possibly bring her whatever she
wanted.

However, she wouldn’t be satisfied with just that. She didn’t want to be spoon-
fed. Having lived her whole life for the sake of revenge, she needed to be the
one who stamped the period at the end of her revenge story. That was the
only way she’d find a purpose in this life she’d run with gritted teeth.

“I told you not to think about anything else. You must really… want to get
disciplined by me.”

KyungHyun spoke in a hoarse voice as he panted for breath. As she gazed into
his lustful eyes, EunHa whispered dazedly.

“…You won’t even discipline me properly.”

“You don’t think I can? Now that I’ve fallen for you, you must see me as a
retarded blockhead.”

“Try it then. Let’s see what you… Aagh!”

KyungHyun bit down painfully on her neck and sucked. It was enough to bring
out a cry from her. EunHa frowned as she laughed. She never liked besotted
men because they seemed mentally weak, but it ironically felt good whenever
KyungHyun held her so tightly that she felt like her bones would shatter.

It wasn’t too difficult to find the reason why. It was because she was drawn to
him. As EunHa’s entrance squeezed his cock, KyungHyun’s body shivered.

“Ugh, good… Good…!”

As he blurted out his honest appreciation, he drew in a shaky breath and began
to place damp kisses on her neck and shoulders. As he sucked her skin, his
cock began to pump harder as the rhythm sped up. EunHa felt her body melt
once again.

“Hng, hnng, aaagh, ugh, aaah…!”

No matter how many times she went through it, she never got used to this
feeling. The intense pleasure caused her body to shake. She pondered about it
one more time. In order to seriously consider her relationship with Shin
KyungHyun, she needed to put an end to the past.

EunHa raised her head when she heard the bedroom door open. The person
who entered was a woman EunHa had seen once before. Lieutenant Han.

“How do you feel?”

“I feel a lot better now.”

Unlike the call girl outfit she had been wearing before, Lieutenant Han was now
wearing simple pants and a suit jacket. The name of the hotel was
monogrammed on her left chest.

Her hair was fixed into a twisted bun and she was wearing horn-rimmed
glasses. She looked completely different from when EunHa had first met her.
While Lieutenant Han seemed to suit this style, EunHa felt that Lieutenant Han’s
personal style was probably closer to this disguise than the last one.

“I’ll be in the living room, so please call me if you need anything.”

“You’re Lieutenant Han, right?”

“Yes.”

Lieutenant Han slightly raised her horn-rimmed glasses with her finger. It was a
small and modest movement.

“Can you talk with me for a little bit?”

At EunHa’s request, Lieutenant Han slowly walked over to the table and sat
down on the backless chair. She gazed at EunHa as if inviting her to say what
she had in mind. EunHa looked back at her and waved her hand. The handcuffs
on her wrist rattled.

“As you can see, I’m currently being held in custody like this. When the person
who did this to me is out, I have no one to talk to. It’s incredibly difficult to stay
inside this room all day with nothing to do.”

“…Superintendent Shin is worried about you, Lee EunHa-ssi.”

Her curt, businesslike reply was acknowledging that it was frustrating for
EunHa, but that it was the only way to keep her safe.

“Even if that’s the case, this isn’t the way to do it. I feel like I’d rather be locked
up in a jail cell instead.”

“There’s nothing I can do about my superior’s decisions.”

EunHa let out a short sigh. Then she lifted her head and looked at Lieutenant
Han.

“Lieutenant-nim, can you come a little closer? It’s already depressing being
locked up like this, but when you’re putting so much distance between us, I feel
like I have an infectious disease.”

Lieutenant Han hesitate for a moment before she eventually got up and walked
to EunHa’s side. KyungHyun was a sunbae who was many ranks above her. Even
though she respected his decisions, KyungHyun had been inside the criminal
organization for a long time now. He had developed a strange side to him.

Even if it was for her safety, to think that he had handcuffed this woman inside
this room for almost a month. But it wasn’t like the person receiving this
treatment was taking it obediently either. Lieutenant Han dragged the chair to
EunHa’s bedside and sat down.

“Now, what would you like to talk about?”

“If I ask you a question, can you give me an answer?”

“I’ll do what I can.”

“How much longer will I be trapped in here?”

“I don’t think I can give you a definite answer. That’s something for
Superintendent Shin to decide.”

EunHa nodded at the obvious answer before asking another question.

“According to him, he told me he’d let me go once everything was over. Do you
know when it’ll be over? Don’t you know what he’s thinking since you’re both in
the same team?”

“If everything was going according to plan, the d-day would have been in half a
month.”

Even though she had said this calmly and politely, her words were laced with
thorns. EunHa blinked at her. Lieutenant Han then continued speaking with a
blank expression.

“If the leaders of YongSung and Serim had gathered at Shenzhen, we would
have been able to arrest everyone.”

EunHa counted the days in her head. She then realized that KyungHyun’s
planned business trip to China was coming closer. Even though she had been
locked up, the days seemed to pass by surprisingly faster than she thought.

“That is… if Lee EunHa-ssi didn’t shoot Noh HyungChul at the founding party.”

EunHa looked into the sharp eyes behind the glasses and changed her mind
about trying to gain Lieutenant Han’s sympathy. This woman showed no crack
in her armor, which seemed to be a characteristic of anyone who worked with
KyungHyun. EunHa decided it would be better to try and break her facade
instead.

“I didn’t say this to blame you, Lee EunHa-ssi. I just answered the question you
asked me. I apologize if I hurt your feelings.”

Lieutenant Han took EunHa’s silence as a sign of disappointment. EunHa quickly

shook her head.

“No, you didn’t hurt my feelings.”

“I’m glad.”
“You’re right. I was the one who acted unpredictably and ruined your plan. I
apologize for making your situation more difficult. You all probably prepared
for this for a long time.”

There was no criticism or condescension in EunHa’s voice. Lieutenant Han’s

voice became a bit softer.

“I’m glad you understand.”

“There’s one other thing.”

“Yes, please say it.”

“Why don’t I fix the plan that I’ve ruined?”

Lieutenant Han’s neat eyebrow rose up. She blinked as she waited for EunHa to
continue, so EunHa opened her mouth and spoke earnestly.

“I still remember what you said that time.”

“What did I say?”

“That you planned to use me to leak the information about the drugs to Kang
SungHo. You said that it was your original plan.”

“That was our original plan.”

She tried to hide it, but Lieutenant Han’s stiff tone was laced with
disappointment.

“I can still do it.”

At EunHa’s careful words, Lieutenant Han tilted her head in confusion.

“Lieutenant Han, try and persuade Shin KyungHyun to send me back to Kang
SungHo.”

“…I’ve already suggested it to Superintendent Shin already.”

EunHa frowned when she heard Lieutenant Han’s reply.

“And?”
“He told me he’d find another way.”

“Why?”

Lieutenant Han looked at EunHa as if to say the reason was obvious. She then
answered her in a dry tone.

“Superintendent Shin is worried you’ll be put in danger. In this current situation,

you will be in danger if you return to Serim. That’s the truth.”

EunHa silently drew in a deep breath. Her eyes reddened as she looked at
Lieutenant Han.

“…Kang SungHo can’t kill me easily.”

“That’s what you think, EunHa-ssi. The rest of us don’t feel the same way.”

“For the past 10 years, I’ve been by that man’s side. I know better. That man
won’t be able to kill me easily.”

“How can you be so sure, Lee EunHa-ssi?”

“Between Kang SungHo and me… We have a long history together.”

Lieutenant Han looked at EunHa in silence before opening her mouth with much
difficulty.

“…Even if Kang SungHo and Lee EunHa-ssi have a close relationship, it’s still too
dangerous right now.”

EunHa’s eyes darkened at Lieutenant Han’s reply. Lieutenant Han spoke very
directly and didn’t beat around the bush. EunHa didn’t hate it, but she could tell
what she was thinking. Once she realized this, a chill ran down her forearm
underneath the patient gown. EunHa cleared her throat with much difficulty.

“If I were lovers with Kang SungHo, you may be right. However, that man and I
have a way more complicated history together.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Lieutenant Han glanced at EunHa with suspicious eyes and asked. EunHa looked
like she had just spit out some bitter medicine as she answered back.

“Kang SungHo… is a crazy bastard who gets his rocks off by seeing me crawl on
the floor for him.”

After finding out the truth about her parents’ murder, EunHa finally understood
SungHo’s behavior. He had murdered the rival he had been unable to beat, and
now his dead rival’s daughter had pledged her allegiance to him. How laughable
and satisfying was this situation for him?

She finally realized why he had never completely devoured her. No, it wasn’t
that he didn’t do it. I was that he couldn’t. Because her face looked just like her
father’s, he felt too uncomfortable sleeping with her. What SungHo wanted from
her was complete obedience. He wanted nothing more than to completely
dominate her.

EunHa felt as if her throat was closing up. She swallowed, but her mouth was
dry.

“I know what excites that man. Therefore, there’s no need to worry for my
safety.”

“All right. Let’s say that Kang SungHo keeps you alive. Then what about Lee
EunHa-ssi?”

“What do you mean?’

EunHa frowned, unable to understand Lieutenant Han’s question.

“We don’t want to put you in a position where you will attack Kang SungHo
without a care for your own safety. Serim won’t collapse just because Kang
SungHo dies. It doesn’t pull them out by the roots. We need to capture Kang
SungHo, make him admit to his crimes, and pick off all the other higher-ups
within the organization to completely put an end to Serim.”

Thanks to KyungHyun’s efforts, Serim had shrunk in size. However, this criminal
organization had a long history, and pulling it out by the roots was going to be
a difficult endeavor. As Lieutenant Han explained this to her, EunHa raised her
voice as she replied.
“…I’m happy with one failure under my belt. I won’t be charge in recklessly. I’ll
help you guys capture Kang SungHo.”

“Why?”

Lieutenant Han looked at EunHa and asked calmly. If she wasn’t sure of her
motives, she wouldn’t be able to trust her.

“Why are you willing to put yourself in danger to help us, Lee EunHa-ssi?”

“That’s…”

“Lee EunHa-ssi.”

Lieutenant Han watched as EunHa chewed her lips in frustration. Then she
calmly opened her mouth and continued.

“We have been preparing a long time for this. We are as capable as you when
it comes to capturing both Kang SungHo and Noh HyungChul. Also…”

Lieutenant Han hesitated for a moment.

“More than anyone, Superintendent Shin wants to quickly finish this so that he
can return to his rightful place. I believe you can guess why he’s so anxious, Lee
EunHa-ssi.”

“……”

“This morning, Superintendent Shin notified Kang SungHo of your death.”

EunHa’s eyes twisted and trembled silently.

“Even though Kang SungHo told us that you were a member of Serim, we
disregarded that and even rejected his order to return you to him. And now
that we’ve told him of your death, we have basically declared war on Kang
SungHo.”

“…I’m not so stupid as to not understand what that means.”

EunHa’s voice had slightly softened, but her eyes on Lieutenant Han became
more intense.
“Then let me ask you one more question.”

EunHa asked with a shaky voice, and Lieutenant Han nodded.

“Go ahead.”

“Do you believe Superintendent Shin’s decision is the best decision he could
have made?”

At EunHa’s sudden question, Lieutenant Han remained silent. After a moment,

she answered back in a steady voice.

“Our jobs require us to trust in the decisions made by our superiors and do our
best to make it happen together.”

“How can you trust someone just because they’re your superior?”

“Superintendent Shin is someone with a lot of talent. The basis of my trust lies in
my experience with him until now.”

“But statistics aren’t always correct.”

“The 12 years of proof that Superintendent Shin has shown us is too difficult to
ignore.”

EunHa couldn’t refute anything Lieutenant Han said. She frowned and let out a
sigh.

“Now can I ask you a question, Lee EunHa-ssi?”

EunHa looked up at Lieutenant Han in surprise. Lieutenant Han didn’t wait for
her answer and continued on with her question.

“Your life has been saved twice thanks to Superintendent Shin, Lee EunHa-ssi.
Both times, Superintendent Shin risked blowing his cover and saved you from
the clutches of the criminal organization.”

“…So?”

“Why is it that you can’t trust Superintendent Shin?”

EunHa looked at her for a moment before flashing her teeth in a smile.
“It’s not about whether I trust him or not.”

EunHa spoke in a clear voice.

“I just feel more comfortable doing things on my own.”

She was saying that she trusted in herself more than she trusted others. Even
though it could have sounded arrogant, EunHa shrugged her shoulders and
didn’t seem to be saying this from a place of overconfidence.

“I’m grateful that he saved my life, but I don’t think that gives him a right to
grab and shake my life as he wishes.”

Lieutenant Han’s lips went up slightly. Seeing this, EunHa felt that she was in
agreement and raised her brow.

“Don’t you think?”

She was right. Lieutenant Han nodded her head.

“Yes. I understand what you’re saying, Lee EunHa-ssi. However, I don’t think I’ll
be of much help to you, so I apologize.”

“That’s okay. I already knew it was going to be difficult to persuade you

anyways. Smart and beautiful women tend to be stubborn.”

“……”

“I’m like that, you see.”

Lieutenant Han watched as EunHa winked at her. She felt like she could vaguely
understand why KyungHyun was so drawn to her. There was something unique
about Lee EunHa. Although she was quite strong for her age and could appeal
to one’s sympathy with her acting, she was not the type to drown in self-pity.

“Thank you for understanding.”

“No, thank you for chatting with me.”

“If our chat is finished, I’ll be outside. Please call me if you need anything.”
“Alright, I’ll do that.”

Just as Lieutenant Han got up from her seat, EunHa suddenly spoke up as if she
just thought of something. Something had caught her eye for a while now.

“Lieutenant Han, do you have a dog?”

“…Why do you ask?”

“I think something’s in your hair.”

There was no way that was possible. Lieutenant Han touched her perfectly
coifed hair with a frown. EunHa naturally raised her hand and brushed her hair
with her fingers.

“Not there, over here. Wait…Ah!”

Feeling a tug on her hair, Lieutenant Han reflexively snatched EunHa’s hand.
When she saw a long, white hair in EunHa’s hand, she relaxed.

“Ah, sorry.”

“That’s okay. I overstepped because I could tell you had a tidy personality.
What breed is your dog?”

Seeing that EunHa wasn’t displeased as she asked her question, Leiutenant Han
awkwardly answered.

“A samoyed. I like everything about them, but they shed quite a lot. You’ve got a
good eye, Lee EunHa-ssi.”

“We used to have a dog a long time ago.”

“Ah, really?”

“Yes. But it died by Kang SungHo’s hands.”

“……”

“After that, whenever I see dogs, they’re so cute to look at, but they only serve
to remind me of our Fluffy, so…”
EunHa’s sentence trailed off. Lieutenant Han raised her glasses and coughed
softly.

“…I’m sorry.”

She said this honestly. EunHa shrugged and gave her a faint smile.

“It’s all in the past. I’m sure he’s crossed the rainbow bridge by now and is
playing with all the other dogs.”

“Yes.”

“I hope we can meet somewhere else next time. I’d like to hear stories about
your dog, Lieutenant Han.”

“…Let’s do that.”

EunHa nodded as Lieutenant Han left the room and disappeared.

Click.

The bedroom door closed shut, and EunHa could hear another door close
outside. EunHa didn’t move for a long time. Suddenly, she slowly unclenched her
fist. A bobby pin that had secured Lieutenant Han’s hair in place fell from
between EunHa’s index and middle finger into her palm.

Thanks, Fluffy.

EunHa muttered softly as she leaned back onto the bedpost.

Chapter 9.1

KyungHyun entered the hotel room and stopped in his tracks. His sharp eyes
looked around the room, but it was deserted and bleak. Just as it had been
when he left it in the morning.

“……”

He loosened the tie that seemed to be choking his neck. He took off his jacket
and undid the cufflinks on his wrists. The splatters of blood were vivid against
his white shirt. It must have happened when he fought off the surprise attack in
the elevator just now.

His opponent was definitely a henchman sent by SungHo. Even though he was
disguised as a hotel guest, this man couldn’t hide the sense of danger that was
exuding out of him due to his many years of being a gangster.

As this man charged at him from behind to stab him with a knife, KyungHyun
kicked him down right away. Inside this narrow elevator, he had to conduct
hand-to-hand combat. When the elevator door opened in the middle of this, a
normal guest caught a glimpse of the bloody man and screamed, so KyungHyun
had to stop.

He left it to the hotel manager to call the police and settle this matter before
heading up to his room. Thanks to Lieutenant Han, who had alerted the police
beforehand, KyungHyun didn’t have to be called in to fill out the tiring report.

“Whew…”

KyungHyun angrily swept his hand through his hair. It was difficult for someone
to attack him in the hotel because it was crawling with YongSung’s men.

However, SungHo had sent an expert assassin anyway. The reason was simple.
Realizing that KyungHyun never left the hotel, SungHo believed that Lee EunHa
was there as well. Only half a day had passed since KyungHyun had reported
her death to him in the morning. However, SungHo was already on the move.

‘…Is it because he doesn’t believe me?’

KyungHyun walked into the kitchen as he recalled the way SungHo had
screamed curses at him through the phone. He poured himself a glass of water
and gulped it down. Something felt strange since a while ago. After slowly
emptying the glass, KyungHyun slowly walked around the spacious living room.
He didn’t see any hidden intruders.

Holding the empty glass, KyungHyun sharply glanced at the closed bedroom
door. Because of the sudden appearance of an unwelcome guest, KyungHyun’s
body was still tense even though the scuffle had ended. He didn’t like that. He
placed the glass cup on the marble island counter and walked towards the
bedroom EunHa was staying in.
He felt that once he saw her safe and sound inside the room, he’d feel better.
Once he opened the door, he finally realized the cause of this strange feeling.

“You’re back?”

Unlike him, Eunha looked relaxed as she sat inside the room. However, she
wasn’t sitting on top of the bed.

“Lieutenant Han left urgently, so I thought something happened. You’re back

earlier than I expected.”

Perched on the table, EunHa pressed a long cigarette down onto the ashtray as
she grinned at him. KyungHyun frowned and took a step towards her. Suddenly,
EunHa picked up the handgun on the table and held it up. It was the handgun he
kept in the safe.

“If you come any closer, I’ll shoot.”

Her lips stretched into a smile. KyungHyun’s heart raced inside his chest and the
blood rushed to his temples.

“Do whatever you want.”

KyungHyun didn’t stop and continued to take slow steps towards her. His dark
eyebrows furrowed as his cold face twisted into a frown. He didn’t even want
to know how she had gotten out of her handcuffs. How she had managed to get
his handgun out of his safe wasn’t important either.

“I’m not going to shoot you. I’m going to shoot myself.”

KyungHyun stopped in his tracks as EunHa raised the muzzle of the gun so that
it pressed underneath her chin. She gave him an innocent smile.

“If I shoot from this distance, I’ll probably blow my head off, right?”

“…Don’t do anything dangerous.”

KyungHyun’s face twisted horribly as he spoke in a soft voice. His head

throbbed and he felt like he was going to vomit. His mouth was completely dry.

“Yeah, I don’t really want to do it either. So if you have any guns on you, place
them on the ground now.”
“I don’t have any.”

“Take off your jacket.”

KyungHyun didn’t hesitate and did as he was told. After taking off his suit
jacket, he raised his hands up above his shoulders and turned around in a
circle.

“You really don’t.”

After making sure KyungHyun didn’t have any guns on him, EunHa chuckled.

“If you’re doing this because you feel frustrated from being locked inside, this
isn’t a good idea.”

EunHa raised an eyebrow.

“Superintendent Shin, are you very shocked right now?”

KyungHyun frowned. He wanted to get that muzzle away from her chin, but he
couldn’t charge at her right now. He was afraid she would accidentally pull the
trigger if he tried to take it away by force. His heart raced so hard in his chest
to the point of pain. As his mind was in turmoil, EunHa looked at him and spoke
up.

“If I truly wanted to escape, I would have gotten out of the handcuffs, grabbed
the gun, and escaped before you returned. Don’t you think?”

KyungHyun swallowed, and his Adam’s apple slowly shook. The thoughts in his
mind flew around at a dizzying pace. The solution to this problem didn’t come
easily to him.

“Then what do you want?”

He needed to think. If her wish wasn’t to leave this place, then what did she
want? KyungHyun’s brows furrowed even deeper.

Did she want to kill him?

It was possible that she had come to hate him because he had ignored her
pleas to leave and kept her confined in here for nearly a month.
“I want to talk to you.”

Every morning and evening, he held her and gave her pleasure, causing her to
moan in a shrill voice. In the end, he’d continue to hold her until she’d meet his
eyes and tell him she wanted him in panting breaths. He’d thought that they had
bared themselves to each other in the most primitive way, but was it all a lie for
Lee EunHa?

“What do you want to talk about?”

KyungHyun scolded himself for thinking about useless things at a time like this.
He bit his lower lip. If EunHa laughed at him and called him an incompetent
police at this moment, he wouldn’t be able to refute it.

“Why don’t we sit over there?”

EunHa pointed the gun over to the bed. It was about 1 meter away from the
table. As KyungHyun moved, he thought about snatching the gun away from her.
However, he was too afraid an accident would occur in the process.

It wouldn’t be too difficult to take the gun away from her, but if she got hurt in
the process… The moment of opportunity passed by as he hesitated, and
KyungHyun sat down on the edge of the bed. The mattress springs let out a
soft groan underneath his weight.

“Well done. Thank you.”

EunHa smiled prettily. She spoke to him as if she were complimenting a child.
She began to shake her crossed legs.

“Did Lieutenant Han unlock the handcuffs?”

“Of course not. I tried to make her feel bad for me, but it didn’t work at all. As
expected of your subordinate.”

He didn’t think Lieutenant Han would have done something like that either.

“Then?”

“That’s a business secret, so I can’t really tell you.”

“Why didn’t you run away as soon as you got out of the handcuffs?”

“Are you being like this because you can’t shake off your cop habits? I’m the
one who wanted to talk, so why do I feel like I’m being interrogated right now?”

“It’s because I can’t understand why you’re being like this.”

KyungHyun crouched down and placed his elbows on his lap and licked his dry
lips. Acting relaxed, KyungHyun folded his hands together to hide his damp
hands. He couldn’t figure out what it was that she wanted.

“Send me back to Kang SungHo.”

As EunHa cut to the chase, KyungHyun looked up at her and frowned.

“…I don’t think you need my permission in a situation like this.”

Just as she said before, if she had wanted to leave and go back to Kang
SungHo, she would have escaped the hotel before he’d returned.

“No, I need it.”

“Why?”

“Because when you’re carrying out a plan, you need to communicate with your
colleagues.”

KyungHyun’s frown deepened at her unexpected answer.

“Colleagues?”

“Yes, colleagues.”

“Why are you saying this?”

“I want to move on with your plan. I’ll pretend I escaped from here and return
to Kang SungHo. After telling him about your plans, I’ll draw him out to China. As
you know, Serim needs money right now, and… there’s no way Kang SungHo will
let an opportunity of this size slip by. He isn’t going to want any room for error,
so there’s a high chance he’ll go there personally. Then you can be on site and
arrest him. Isn’t that what the police wanted?”
KyungHyun’s eyes pierced into EunHa, unable to understand the gist of what
she was saying. EunHa turned over KyungHyun’s gun in her hand as she looked
it over. Then she continued to speak.

“No matter how much of a rat bastard Kang SungHo is, Serim and Kang SungHo
won’t be able to weasel out of it if he’s caught red-handed in the middle of a
black market drug trafficking site. If you’re worried that I’ll go back and kill
Kang SungHo, don’t worry. I won’t do that.”

“…So what’s in it for you?”

KyungHyun asked her a question similar to the one asked by Lieutenant Han. At
his soft question, EunHa took her eyes off the gun and looked straight at him.
There was a strange gleam in her eyes.

“I’d get my revenge. I thought about it, and if I kill him with one stroke of a knife,
I’d be relieved, but I’d also be a bit disappointed. Compared to the 10 years that
bastard toyed with me, it’s too light of a punishment.”

“…So?”

“I imagined the shocked face he’d make when he realized I stabbed him in the
back. Then I came to the conclusion that this route would be much more
satisfying. How would Kang SungHo look like when he realized that the little child
he thought was in the palm of his hand was the one who turned on him? Just
thinking about it makes me giddy. Haha.”

KyungHyun watched her eyes sparkle as she laughed like a lunatic. He

wondered whether she was telling the truth or not. He couldn’t tell if she was
being honest at all.

“Even if that’s what you want, returning to Kang SungHo in this situation is
extremely dangerous.”

“I won’t die.”

EunHa looked him dead in the eyes as she smiled.

“And I’ve decided that there are some things I want to try with a man named
Shin KyungHyun in the future, so I refuse to die just yet.”

“…Don’t play with me.”

KyungHyun blurted out bitterly. His eyes trembled imperceptibly. EunHa had dug
into the crack between them without realizing it.

“Use me. I’ll help you return to your rightful place.”

“Why would you do that?”

“Because I want to.”

A peculiar gleam entered KyungHyun’s eyes as he looked at her with his cold,
smooth face. It wasn’t because EunHa was now pointing the gun at him. His
head felt stuffy and dizzy. KyungHyun swept his face with his large hand.
Covering half his face behind his hand, his black eyes looked up at her.

“You look very confused.”

“I am confused.”

“You said you had romantic feelings for me.”

“Yeah.”

It was the truth.

“Can’t I feel the same for you?”

That was a lie. But why does my heart waver and my mind turn into a mess at
your obvious attempt?

KyungHyun frowned as he reproached himself when EunHa interrupted his

thoughts.

“I’m not saying that I’m crazy in love with you or anything.”

Even though it was disappointing to hear, it sounded a lot more credible.

KyungHyun gathered his hands as if he were praying and began to press his
index fingers together.

“But I do think that I want to have a fresh start with you.”

EunHa looked straight into his eyes. Like a suspicious cat, her eyes had been
glancing around the room this whole time, but now they were clearly looking at
him.

“I think I want to get to know you better.”

KyungHyun felt that this wasn’t a lie. Feeling a migraine wash over his temples,
he grit his teeth.

“But in order to do that, I need to end this ill-fated connection between me and
Kang SungHo.”

“Didn’t I tell you I’d make that happen? I never say anything I don’t mean.”

His voice was now so low that it sounded husky.

“Yeah, so there’s no need to walk in circles to get there. There’s already a trap
that has been set thanks to all your time and effort.”

As EunHa spoke to him softly, KyungHyun took a deep breath. As his wide
shoulders went up and down, his eyes were boiling as if they were on fire.

“I want to see Kang SungHo gnash his teeth from the betrayal. I want him to
trust me until the very end. So that when he finally realizes that I’ve stabbed
him in the back, he’ll want to kill himself from the shock of it.”

“It’s too dangerous.”

“I’m not as inexperienced as you think. I think it’s time I show you that.”

EunHa held on to the gun as she jumped off the table. Then she slowly began to
walk towards him. She placed the muzzle of the gun onto his forehead.
KyungHyun stayed absolutely still. He merely pierced her with his characteristic
gaze. His symmetrical lips began to move.

“Kang SungHo will kill you as soon as you return. Are you telling me to just sit
back and watch that happen?”

“I won’t die that easily.”

With the gun still on his head, EunHa slowly lowered her face to his. Her lips
almost touched his.
“Haa… Really…”

Letting out a sigh that almost sounded like a moan, EunHa began to rub him
through his pants with her free hand. A muffled groan escaped KyungHyun’s
lips.

“How can you be aroused in a situation like this?”

EunHa asked as she laughed. She lightly pressed her lips against his. His cock,
which had been at half-mast, was now fully erect. KyungHyun remained on the
bed and was as still as stone. He didn’t lay a single finger on her.

“Seriously… You’re not a normal man.”

EunHa spread her legs and plopped onto his lap as she faced him. KyungHyun’s
muscular body was hard and tense. As the mattress began to sink, KyungHyun
raised his knees so that she wouldn’t fall off.

“Do you remember how you put the gun up against my head like this at the
KeumOh founding party?”

Along with her whisper, KyungHyun could hear the small sound of her finger
tapping against the trigger of the gun. The handgun in her hand was loaded. If
she accidentally pulled the trigger, it would blow off his head.

“But you didn’t shoot in the end. I wonder why.”

“…I never intended to shoot you from the beginning.”

He had only meant to scare her, but he never expected her to act out like that.

“So I’m asking you why.”

“……”

“Because you had already fallen for me by then.”

EunHa answered for him as the veins in KyungHyun’s neck stood up. Feeling the
hardness underneath her, EunHa grinned.
“You’re starting to like me more and more, aren’t you? No matter how many
times we have sex, it’s not enough. And you don’t want to let me out of your
sight, isn’t that right? If you can be aroused in a situation like this, aren’t you
confused about the loose screws inside your head?”

When he didn’t respond and merely frowned at her, EunHa began to rock her
hips as if she were on a swing. His racing heart now felt like it was going to
explode out of his chest.

He wasn’t sure if he was so aroused because of the thrill of the moment or if it

was due to her body rocking on top of him. It might have been both.

“I understand. You’re not the first man to act like this in my life, you see.”

EunHa wrinkled her cat-like eyes at him, and KyungHyun felt hot desire pulse
through his blood stream. He finally realized what it was. The reason why his
heart raced like crazy in side his chest and why his blood boiled inside his veins
was because of this woman in front of him. This suffocating feeling inside his
chest was definitely jealousy. He felt like he’d become a childish man who
couldn’t stand it when another man was mentioned from her lips.

“…So let me go back.”

KyungHyun raised his chin, and his hard chest rose and fell with every heavy
breath he took. He lifted his hand and tightly grabbed her bottom.

“Huh?”

EunHa flinched as she let out a short exclamation. EunHa frowned when she felt
his body heat through her clothes.

“I’ll shoot if you move.”

“Then just go ahead and shoot.”

KyungHyun murmured in a husky voice. This kind of behavior from him made
her flush. Instead of grabbing her bottom, he could have disarmed her by
grabbing her wrist, but KyungHyun didn’t do that. Whether it was because he
was completely relaxed or because he was very bold, she didn’t know.
However, her breath caught in her throat. His dark eyes bound her to him like
rope. EunHa sighed and let out a soft laugh.
“Other than you, I know one more person who becomes incredibly excited in
the face of danger.”

“Who is it?”

“Kang SungHo.”

His sculpted face frowned terribly. His long eyes gleamed dangerously.

“In your eyes, am I the same as Kang SungHo?”

“No, you’re the exact opposite.”

“Then what did you mean by that?”

KyungHyun spit out his question. EunHa felt his heavy breaths puff against her
face as he tried to hold back his anger.

“Kang SungHo tried to kill me, and you tried to save me.”

“……”

“But how can the two of you be so alike?”

EunHa faintly laughed. Her eyes gleamed like a wild cat that had caught its
prey.

“You both started out in opposite places, so isn’t it obvious that I will react to
you two differently?”

“…Seriously, what should I do with you?”

KyungHyun mumbled bitterly in a pained voice. EunHa lowered her forehead to

his.

“Of course, you look a lot better than him too.”

“…Are you joking around with me right now?”

KyungHyun frowned and bit down painfully on her lips. EunHa pitifully brought
her hand to her bitten lips.
“I’m serious.”

EunHa lowered her hands after rubbing her lips a few times.

“Here. Will this be proof enough?”

She took his hand off her bottom and placed the gun in his hand. KyungHyun’s
eyes narrowed.

As soon as he gripped the gun, KyungHyun released the magazine and let it fall
to the floor. Then the empty gun followed after it. EunHa shook her open hands
as she held them up for him to see.

“Now I don’t have anything left. If you want to handcuff me again, do it. Both
hands, both feet, it doesn’t matter.”

“……”

“But next time, I won’t give you a farewell.”

KyungHyun wasn’t so naive as to not understand what EunHa was saying.

“This is your only chance to make a decision. I’m telling you this now.”

KyungHyun’s sharp jaw tensed.

“…Who taught you to threaten a policeman?”

“Whether you’re police or a gangster, it doesn’t matter to me. I’m just giving
you a chance to make a choice. Even though you’re a bit arrogant at times, I’d
be a bit disappointed if I never saw a man as handsome as you ever again.”

“You’re joking around until the end, aren’t you?”

KyungHyun wrapped his arms around her back and embraced her as he bitterly
murmured. EunHa shrugged her shoulders and laughed innocently.

“That’s why you fell so hard for me.”

Chapter 9.2
A muffled groan escaped the seam of KyungHyun’s lips. Suddenly, he quickly
lifted her up with his hands. In no time, EunHa found her back against the
mattress, caged within his arms. As his arms tensed up, they began to tremble,
causing the mattress to vibrate as well. He seemed to be at a loss for what to
do next, so EunHa lifted her head. Once, twice… EunHa pressed her lips to his
stiff face.

“I won’t die. Such an amazing policeman has my back, so how can I die so
easily?”

Chu, chu. EunHa whispered between kisses. When she finally got to his lips, he
swallowed hers. EunHa didn’t reject his rough kiss. Instead, she reciprocated as
he began to suck on her tongue and wound her arms tightly around his neck. A
warm hand pushed aside her clothes and slipped inside. Just as he had done
countless times before, KyungHyun began to sweep his hand along her soft
skin.

“I’m going to put a GPS tracker on you… So that I can check your location at any
moment.”

As a man who was never willing to compromise, KyungHyun’s declaration was

as close to an approval she was going to get. EunHa readily accepted.

“Okay.”

EunHa nodded happily and kissed him again.

“Don’t be so happy when you don’t even know how I feel. It’s pissing me off.”

“I’ll just think of it as being with Shin KyungHyun for 24 hours a day.”

“I want to embrace you.”

KyungHyun let out a deep breath, his voice hoarse. His eyes were blazing with
desire.

“I want you. Right now.”

“Same here.”
EunHa slipped two slender hands between the buttons of his shirt and ripped it
open.

Clatter.

The buttons on his white dress shirt scattered all over the place as they were
ripped off.

“Oh dear. I’m sorry. It looked expensive, too.”

Taking off his ruined shirt and tossing it away in one breath, KyungHyun licked
his wet lips and narrowed his eyes.

“Of all the things you’ve done today, I liked that the best.”

“But I’m just getting started.”

Seeing how KyungHyun was flushed with arousal, EunHa pushed him down and
began to kiss his neck and chest.

“Thank you. For going against your stubborn nature.”

When she stamped her lips onto his heaving chest, KyungHyun let out a groan
through his teeth.

Just as he was about to flip her over and get on top, KyungHyun froze when
EunHa licked the skin underneath his bellybutton.

“Hng…”

EunHa’s face went lower, and she began to unbuckle his belt. As soon as she
unzipped the zipper, his straining erection burst out from underneath his
underwear. EunHa lowered the band of his underwear, and his swollen penis
popped out in front of her face.

“This is really…”

As if boasting of its size, his throbbing penis stood up from the dense thatch of
pubic hair right in front of her eyes. EunHa frowned as she smiled.

“Do you know that it’s so big that it’s almost disgusting?”
“If you don’t like it, there’s no need to take such a close look.”

KyungHyun grabbed her shoulders and tried to bring her up. However, she slid
his erection right into her mouth. KyungHyun’s eyes narrowed in pleasure as his
brows furrowed. Watching his reaction, EunHa slowly raised her head and
sucked on the tip. She popped him out of her mouth, making a wet sound. His
penis bobbed up and down.

“Did I ever say that I didn’t like it?”

“Haa…”

“It’s big and fierce. Just like you. So I actually quite like it.”

She stuck her tongue out. Precum was already seeping out of the tip of his
penis. She could smell the thick scent coming from him.

“It tastes weird.”

She slowly slid her tongue over the tip and tasted the evidence of his desire.
She mumbled her observation, and KyungHyun’s face twisted. He slid his hand
into her hair as she chuckled.

“I’m at my limit. If you’re going to do it, do it. If not, then come up.”

Holding onto her head, he rubbed his thumb over her eyebrow. EunHa
swallowed him into her mouth once again.

“Ah…”

EunHa heard his ragged breath. She gripped the root of his penis as she began
to pump him in and out of her mouth. She felt the ridges of his veins against her
tongue. Her cheeks hollowed as she sucked on him, and she could see his
abdominal muscles twitch right before her eyes.

“…Enough.”

As she coyly stared up at him, KyungHyun frowned as he felt his climax

approach.

“Are you doing this on purpose?”

EunHa took his cock deep into her mouth in response. Even though half of his
penis was enough to fill her mouth, she lowered her head and almost took him
in to the root. The head of his penis slid down her throat. Her eyes reddened at
the discomfort, but she didn’t stop. KyungHyun couldn’t endure it anymore.

“Damn it…”

He grabbed her head and began to lift his hips.

“Hm…! Mmm…! Hmm…!”

KyungHyun pumped his hips as if he were having sex. Even though she felt as if
she’d suffocate, EunHa felt herself gradually grow wet. Seeing him so
overwhelmed with arousal, EunHa couldn’t help but get excited herself.
Therefore, right before he came, she sucked his penis in to the root one last
time.

“Ah…Hng…!”

She felt the warm seed spurt onto the roof of her mouth a few times. EunHa
swallowed before getting up and taking off her clothes. KyungHyun watched as
he panted for breath. Now completely naked, EunHa climbed on top of him and
covered his body with hers. She felt his warm hand on her back. Because no
light was turned on, the room was completely dark. However, their eyes were
clear and bright. As she felt his chest still heaving with his breaths, EunHa asked
him a question.

“Did it feel good?”

“Are you seriously asking me that right now?”

“It was good for me too. Even though the end was so-so.”

“Then why did you swallow it?”

EunHa looked at him and licked her lips.

“I thought it would excite you even more.”

“There’s no need to do something like that. Whenever you look at me with

those eyes, I instantly get hard.”
“So did you hate it?”

EunHa opened her legs and began to rub herself on his half-stiff penis. His
warm hand slid down her back and gripped her bottom.

“Did I hate it?”

She momentarily stopped rocking her body. A moaning laugh burst out of her
lips.

“Ha… No way… Hnng…”

“Does this answer your question?”

Even though it hadn’t been that long since he came, his cock had hardened and
tensed up as it poked against her. EunHa grabbed his head with both hands.

“How can you react so quickly?”

“Isn’t this what you wanted?”

“I guess, but… Hnng!”

After rubbing against her slick entrance, his penis found her opening and slid
completely inside in one thrust. His cock hardened even more inside her.
Feeling him fill her up so completely, EunHa moaned. Hearing her reaction,
KyungHyun licked her lips.

It felt as if his cock had also entered her mouth. KyungHyun moved his tongue in
and out of her mouth like he was having sex. As his tongue almost reached the
back of her throat, a ragged groan escaped his throat. As if she’d forgotten to
breathe through her nose, EunHa panted for breath. KyungHyun wrapped the
root of her tongue with his and began to suck. Then he licked her wet lips and
spoke up in a low voice.

“There’s… one thing you should know…”

“What is it?”

“I… don’t usually go easy on anyone.”

“So?”
“But I can’t seem to do that with you. I can’t act the way I want to act. It’s driving
me crazy.”

He wondered where such a nuisance of a woman had come from. KyungHyun

embraced her and began to fiercely pump his hips into her.

“I locked a woman away by handcuffing her inside, but she escaped anyway.
What am I supposed to do to catch a woman like that?”

“…You just have to make it so that the handcuffs aren’t necessary.”

She gazed at him as she gave him her answer. He grabbed her hand. His hand
was damp with sweat, but she didn’t take her hand back.

“I know that I’m going to regret my decision, but I don’t know what else to do.”

His stiff rod ground into her drenched entrance. He was so deep inside her that
his scrotum pressed against her. His hand gripped hers a little tighter.

“Haa…Haa…”

It was deep. Even though he was pressing so deep inside her, EunHa didn’t
reject him. Panting for breath, EunHa buried her face into his chest. She could
hear his heart racing through his skin. She could hear his truth through his
body.

“Why did you appear in front of me and make me like this?”

He slowly slid out and thrust back inside. As their hips bumped together, the
sound of their slapping bodies filled the room. EunHa rocked her hips and
helped KyungHyun.

“Should I apologize?”

“After the way you’ve toyed with me, I think I definitely deserve one.”

With a pained look on his face, KyungHyun grit out the words through his teeth.
As she met his thrusts according to his rhythm, his hips pumped harder and
harder. Her body flinched in reaction.
“I can take whatever you dish out, so I don’t want to send you away. To that
disgusting place… I don’t want to… Haa, damn it…!”

As EunHa squeezed him, KyungHyun raised his chin and let out a groan from
under her. EunHa sprinkled light kisses along his taut neck.

“I know.”

“What do… you… know…”

He hoarsely whispered as he grabbed onto her bottom and began to slide in

and out with sharp thrusts. EunHa licked the beads of sweat on his forehead as
her eyes watered. She wasn’t sure if it was because she was so aroused or
whether it was due to a different emotion.

“I know it was a difficult, hnng, decision…”

KyungHyun sat up on the bed. Facing her, he sprinkled kisses on her forehead,
eyes, nose, ears, and cheeks. The wet noises coming from their lower halves
became louder and clearer.

“EunHa.”

He called out to her as sweat rolled down his forehead. He captured her with
his deep, dark eyes once again and spoke in a clear voice.

“Stay by my side.”

EunHa looked at him, completely breathless.

“I’m by your side right now, so what are you talking about?”

“When this is all over, don’t go anywhere and stay by my side. Let’s date like
normal people.”

EunHa gave him a strange frown. Her twisted face reddened like a ripe apple.

“Do you know how normal people date?”

When she saw his jaw tighten, she realized that he was feeling very helpless at
this moment.
“…They go out for coffee, watch movies, eat together, have sex when they feel
like it… something like that?”

“People that are in a ‘some’ do that too.”

Unable to take this tickling sensation, EunHa blurted these words out.
KyungHyun gave her a light frown. EunHa wondered if she had hurt his pride by
rejecting him. KyungHyun hesitated before answering back.

“…What’s a ‘some’?”

“It’s how the young kids date these days. You haven’t heard of it?”

So this is what he looked like when he was embarrassed. Even though his
expression didn’t change, his ears slightly reddened. EunHa opened her pouty
lips as she explained. KyungHyun buried his face into her neck and sharply bit
down.

“Then do it with me. Whatever you called it. ‘Some’.”

After having her sensitive skin sucked, EunHa heard KyungHyun’s low voice in
her ear. Her shoulders trembled as she laughed. He sharply bit down on her
round shoulder.

“It’s embarrassing, so don’t make me repeat myself.”

He slid his penis back into her. EunHa liked hearing his cold voice waver with
desire. A tingling sensation traveled up her spine and spread throughout her
body. As she felt him press and grind into her, EunHa grabbed onto his wide
back and brought him closer to her.

As his tempo and the power behind his thrusts increased, she was no longer
able to laugh. She felt as if she was hanging onto him as the world spun around
her. In the midst of all this, KyungHyun consistently hit her sweet spot over and
over again.

“Ah, nng! Nnng! Haahngg… Aagh!”

EunHa fell onto her back. KyungHyun grasped her breast and squeezed it
harshly. His slippery, hot cock pumped into her wet entrance with increasing
speed. She felt the pleasure gradually build up in her lower stomach.
“Haagh… Hnng… Hng, aah!”

Tears began to flow out of her eyes as the intense pleasure overcame her.
KyungHyun lapped her tears like a dog as he held her trembling body in his
embrace.

Towards the end of her climax, EunHa kept her eyes shut as her body
continued to quiver. She felt as if the pleasure burst out of her body, vibrating
from her head to her toes. KyungHyun sucked on her lips as he placed a kiss
there before murmuring in a low voice.

“Did you cry because it was difficult? Or did you cry because it felt good?”

“Haa… Why does that matter?”

“I don’t want to be a bastard that makes a woman cry by making it difficult for
her. If you cried because it felt good, that’s fine.”

EunHa laughed as tears continued to flow out. This man was being serious. She
felt that she could tell whenever he wasn’t telling the truth. So this is how it felt
to have sex with an honest man.

“I cried because I was disappointed. I felt that the night was too short.”

“You’re not going to regret those words, are you?”

“Of course not. How could I not know my lover’s bedside manners?”

He looked at her strangely before frowning as he laughed.

“Then can this lover reveal a lot more to you?”

“…Why are you suddenly asking… Aagh!”

EunHa’s words ended in a moan. KyungHyun had lodged his teeth into the nape
of her neck as he thrust inside her once again. Every time their lower bodies
bumped into each other, the mattress springs creaked loudly. Their panting
breaths and moans, the sound of their skin slapping together… These noises
filled the room.

It was a long time before the dim sunlight entered through the windows and
illuminated the disappointed lovers.
Nineteen hours later.
Incheon. Chinatown.

Crack!

A welt appeared on EunHa’s shoulder before the blood burst out. SungHo used
his leather belt like a whip, causing her skin to rip open. Her beige slip was
already covered in blood.

EunHa looked up at SungHo with dazed eyes. This time, a thick hand flew in from
the left and struck her cheek. As the inside of her cheeks hit her teeth, bright
red blood began to drip out from between her lips.

Smack!

SungHo’s hand came down on her head, causing her body to stumble before
falling onto the ground. The dust on the carpet of SungHo’s office flew up in a
puff.

“Get up.”

Throwing the leather belt onto the floor, SungHo grabbed her by the hair and
pulled.

“Boss, at this rate, she might really die.”

YongJoon approached the panting SungHo and spoke up in a strained voice.

When a taxi had stopped in front of the building and obnoxiously honked its
horn, he didn’t know what to expect. But it wasn’t this.

Just as SungHo had sent him down to find out what kind of crazy bastard was
brave enough to do something like this, he saw none other than Lee EunHa
step out wearing a slip dress.

As soon as he saw her, SungHo burst out of his seat and began to beat her.
YongJoon didn’t even have a chance to hold him back. Even though her body
was now covered in welts and bruises, SungHo didn’t relent.

“You fucking bitch… If you came here with your own two feet to meet your
death, then I’ll gladly give it to you. Isn’t that right, Lee EunHa?”
His large hand grabbed the nape of her neck. Unable to breathe, EunHa
frowned as she she gasped for breath. As the blood rushed to her face, her
pale complexion instantly turned red.

“You shitty bitch… How dare you disregard the grace you’ve received as I
raised you. How dare you go and do something like that!”

EunHa’s slender hands flayed about before she grabbed onto SungHo’s jacket.
Just before she fainted, SungHo finally relaxed his grip on her.

“Haa…! Cough… Cough, cough…!”

Tears poured out of her bloodshot eyes. SungHo’s other hand was still grasping
her hair.

“Bring me my knife. Let’s cut ourselves some fresh sashimi.”

Without looking back, SungHo barked out an order. YongJoon hesitated and
called out.

“Boss.”

“Fucking bastard, go and get it right this instant!”

SungHo’s voice tore through the silence as he roared. YongJoon helplessly

walked over to the desk and took a knife out of the drawer. As soon as SungHo
received the knife, he held the sharp blade up to EunHa’s face. As she felt the
familiar glide of the knife on her cheek, EunHa began to gasp for breath. Her
pupils were dilated as they shook.

“If you have anything you’d like to say before you die, say it. Try to give me any
excuse you can think of before I slice your pretty face open, you bitch.”

“What…What do you want me to say?”

EunHa blurted out bitterly, reigniting SungHo’s fury. The veins in his hand
throbbed as he held the knife to her face.

“Is that all you’d like to say as your last words?”

“I shouldn’t have… shot at Noh HyungChul. But you never told me I wasn’t
allowed to… Ugh!”
“Do you think you’re making sense right now?! Because of you, we almost got
drawn into this mess, completely unprepared!”

SungHo yelled as he punched her stomach. Covered in tears, EunHa’s face

crouched down as she gasped for breath. She couldn’t say anything through
the pain. Holding herself up with her hand on the ground, EunHa began to blurt
out one word at a time.

“I did everything… you asked me to do, Ahjussi… But… Ugh… He’s the one who
killed my parents… So isn’t alright… If I just put one bullet in him?”

A strange gleam flashed across SungHo’s eyes. Up until now, EunHa had never
gone against his orders. When he had heard that she had shot Noh HyungChul
at the KeumOh founding party, he couldn’t help but be suspicious of her.

However, he was able to understand why she wasn’t able to sit still when she
saw her parents’ murderer right before her eyes. And seeing how she
continued to speak nonsense, it seemed that she hadn’t realized the truth of
what had happened 10 years ago.

His suspicions towards EunHa began to shrink, but it didn’t completely

disappear. SungHo sucked in a ragged breath and held the knife up to her neck.

“Why did you come back? What did Shin KyungHyun order you to do? Did he tell
you to kill me? Was that the reason why he let you go?”

“Ahjussi… Do you think I came back… because Shin KyungHyun let me go?”

EunHa’s eyes gleamed from behind her tangled hair. SungHo brought his face
closer to hers. As the knife pressed into her neck, red blood began to seep out.
He took the bloody knife and tapped it against her lips.

“If you keep talking bullshit, I’ll rip your pretty lips all the way up to your ears.”

If Lee EunHa actually betrayed him after working for him for 10 years, SungHo
was going to do much worse. As he whispered his threat, EunHa helplessly
mocked herself.

“I was locked away, handcuffed inside… and I risked my life and escaped… But
as soon as I come back, I’m treated like this. I feel like my life is fucked up at this
point…”
Her tears poured out and ran down between her tangled hair, dripping onto
the silver blade of the knife. SungHo glanced at her wrist as her hands grasped
the floor. There seemed to be a bright red mark on it, but she didn’t seem to be
hurt anywhere else.

A scar from a bullet wound was left on the back of her shoulder, but it was
clear that it was properly treated. When she appeared in this office, she
seemed perfectly healthy, almost mocking the state that he had been in for the
past few days. Seeing her glossy skin obtained from eating healthy meals,
SungHo felt the rage boil inside his stomach.

“I asked you what that poisonous bastard ordered you to do by letting you
free. I won’t ask you a third time, Lee EunHa. Think clearly before you answer.”

“Shin KyungHyun… that crazy bastard is probably fuming right about now after
discovering my absence.”

EunHa’s eyes narrowed as KyungHyun’s name left her lips.

“…What kind of game are you playing at this time, hm? Shin KyungHyun did
what?”

“It’s just as I said. He wouldn’t have even imagined I’d be able to escape, so he’s
definitely furious.”

The one who had taught her the ways of a Serim gangster was SungHo himself.
There was no way he didn’t know EunHa’s MO. Tricking a man was something
she did best.

TN: ‘Some’ in Korean is short for ‘something’. In English, I guess the closest
translation is to ‘have a thing’ for someone. You’re not officially girlfriend or
boyfriend, but you still have a thing with each other. Unofficially official.

Chapter 9.3.

“It will be in your best interest not to do anything useless.”

“I’m only telling you the truth.”

Just as EunHa mumbled in a low voice, the cellphone from SungHo’s desk
vibrated loudly.

“Boss, it’s a call from Shin KyungHyun.”

After checking the phone for the caller ID, YongJoon called out. The scar on
SungHo’s brow twitched as he frowned. EunHa let out a raspy laugh as the
blood continued to drip out of her swollen lips.

“I didn’t just shoot Noh HyungChul. I did everything you asked, Ahjussi. I put my
heart and soul into it and managed to seduce that bastard. Just like you
wanted, that man is now completely crazy for me.”

Vrrr. Vrrr.

The phone continued to vibrate on the desk and almost fell off. YongJoon
grabbed it and walked over to SungHo as he asked.

“What should I do?”

“Turn it off.”

YongJoon did as he was told as SungHo’s lips silently stretched into a smile. His
snake-like eyes sparkled as they looked at her. His slitted eyes gazed down at
her as he spoke in a thin voice.

“…Tell me everything the bastard did to you from start to finish.”

“What are you going to tell Kang SungHo when he asks you why I didn’t kill you?”

“I’ll tell him the truth.”

“Which is…?”

“Shin KyungHyun-nim has completely fallen for me. So even though he knew I
was a spy sent from Serim, he didn’t kill me and kept me locked away in the
hotel as he licked and sucked me day and night.”

“Lee EunHa-ssi.”

EunHa looked SungHo dead in the eyes and spoke to him in a steady voice.
“After being shot and losing consciousness, I woke up and found myself at the
hotel. At first I thought they were going to kill me, but that wasn’t the case. Shin
KyungHyun kept me locked away in the hotel and embraced me every single
day. Half the time, we had sex twice a day. No, it was even more than that.”

SungHo’s eyes gleamed at her, almost as if he wanted to choke her. However,

EunHa continued to speak with even more vigor.

“You ordered me to make him fall for me completely, and I followed your order
word for word, Ahjussi. Shin KyungHyun is absolutely crazy about me, and I even
got him to shoot his own men at YongSung!”

“Do you think Kang SungHo will believe you?”

“Um… probably?”

SungHo took a cold finger and slowly drew it down her face. His thin lips smiled
crookedly.

“Our little rag princess… were you born with the talent to seduce men?”

EunHa didn’t avoid his finger even though it felt like a cold bug crawling down
her cheek.

“I learned it all from you, Ahjussi. How to survive, how to tempt men, all of it.”

“Then you should have just lived next to Shin KyungHyun’s side. Why did you put
yourself in such danger by coming all the way over here? Did you not enjoy
living as his lover? Was his dick ramming into your loose lips not enough for
you?”

As SungHo continued to press her with questions, EunHa let out a dejected
laugh. Her watery eyes gave off a dim glow.

“Having sex is something I can do with anyone. Every son of a bitch will move
their dicks around until they’re satisfied and leave when it’s over. But…”

“…But?”

“No matter how much of a mess I become, I only have one home to return to.”
“Lee EunHa-ssi, you cannot approach Kang SungHo when your safety isn’t
guaranteed.”

“Just like you said, Lieutenant, I know what excites Kang SungHo. I know it very
well.”

EunHa silently gazed at SungHo as a nasty smile stretched across his face.

“Shin KyungHyun told me that everyone in YongSung believes I’m dead. He told
me nobody from Serim was looking for me. He told me not to even think about
going back.”

EunHa blinked her large eyes at SungHo. Behind her tangled hair, SungHo saw
two large eyes staring back at him. It reminded him of when he met her as a
little girl.

“I thought it was all bullshit, but…”

EunHa’s eyes filled with tears. SungHo watched her as he stretched his hand
out to grab a cigarette from the desk. After lighting it, SungHo let out a long
breath through his teeth. EunHa continued to mumble through the smoke.

“I… I thought I only had this place to return to, so I came back. But should I have
not come back after all?”

EunHa mumbled with blood still running down her lips and her throat swollen
from SunHo’s hand.

“My parents are dead, and when no one stretched out their hand, the one who
saved me was you, Ahjussi… Serim is now my home… If I come back home and
you ask me what I’m doing here, how am I supposed to answer that?”

The tears that had been welled up in her eyes finally began to trickle down.
EunHa grit her teeth. Frowning, SungHo stared at EunHa as she blurted out her
words. Her voice sounded thin and hoarse as it wavered.

“I really thought you believed I was dead. I thought that there was no way you
wouldn’t try to get me out if you thought I was still alive. I thought you’d get me
out no matter what.”

“Hey, it’s not like Boss didn’t send anyone all this time…”
Crash!

YongJoon stopped talking as the crystal ashtray and liquor glass smashed onto
the floor. After flipping over the entire table, SungHo bit down on his cigarette
as he took a deep drag.

“I thought that after Shin KyungHyun had his fill of me, that bastard would just
kill me like an animal. So… I barely managed to escape, but… I thought I’d try and
get any information I could while I was locked away, but… was it all for
nothing…?”

EunHa bit her lip and cursed under her breath. SungHo watched her, but his
expression remained the same. EunHa took a deep breath.

“Maybe it would have been better if I just died there.”

She murmured with dazed eyes. She grabbed SungHo’s discarded knife off the
dirty carpet. Suddenly, someone grabbed her hair and pulled her head up.

“Aagh!”

She felt like her hair was being pulled out by its roots. She trembled in pain as
SungHo asked her a question in a gloomy voice.

“What information did you get out of that bastard Shin KyungHyun?”

“It doesn’t matter anymore, right? You won’t even trust whatever I say.”

Her sharp eyes were filled with resentment as she murmured bitterly.

“I trust your skills. Who do you think raised you?”

“……”

“The young brat who didn’t know how to do anything but cry… Who do you think
raised her and cared for her up until now?”

“Kang SungHo is the most excited whenever he feels superior. He gets his rocks
off whenever he steps on his opponents.”

“Answer me. Before I rip your scalp off your head.”

EunHa winced in pain as she answered him.

“The business YongSung is developing in China isn’t a new type of medicine.”

“…Then what is it?”

“Philopon.”

“What?”

Suddenly, SungHo’s brows furrowed deeply and the scar on his eyebrow
twitched.

“They combined forces with the Chinese mafia and established a lab in
Shenzhen. Now they’re developing the drug in large quantities. YongSung is the
one funding it, and they’re planning on smuggling it in before distributing it in
the country. That’s why they met with Kim MinSung. They’re going to ship it in
containers, and they needed him to deal with customs.”

SungHo’s stare pierced through her in silence. She couldn’t tell what he was
thinking.

“I overheard it before I shot Noh HyungChul. Originally, Noh HyungChul was

planning on going to Shenzhen as well. However, now he’s lying in the hospital,
so I think Shin KyungHyun will be going alone…Agh!”

SungHo’s grip on her hair tightened.

Damn it. Doesn’t he believe me?

EunHa swallowed, but her mouth was dry. Suddenly, he pulled her into his arms.
EunHa panted for breath as she was pressed into his embrace.

“Aah… This is why it’s always best to talk to someone directly…”

SungHo mumbled softly as he rubbed her bloody, beaten skin. For EunHa, being
in his embrace at this moment was even more unbearable than when she was
being beaten to pulp. She felt the desire to stab SungHo’s neck with the knife
boil in her belly.

“Our princess almost got into a lot of trouble just now… Hm?”
EunHa had never felt so shaken as she heard his thin voice murmur languidly.

“If you had only told me sooner, you wouldn’t have had to go through such a
painful ordeal. Isn’t that right?”

SungHo’s scar twitched. His dry face cracked as his lips stretched into a smile.

“If I had only known about this earlier, I would have answered Shin KyungHyun’s
call and listened to what he had to say. Haha. That would have been fun.”

His thin lips opened as he cackled.

“Historically, once a man falls in love with a woman, only humiliation awaits him…
Isn’t that right, YongJoon?”

“…Yes, sir.”

Standing stiff like a screen, YongJoon answered curtly with his hands behind his
back. SungHo licked his dry lips. He rubbed his hand over EunHa’s head with
satisfaction.

“Good work, Lee EunHa. Well done.”

EunHa’s body shook inside his embrace. He had been beating her like crazy just
a moment ago, but now he was patting her back like a complete lunatic. She felt
as if her body was going to burst into flames with rage. She raised one of her
arms and hugged him back.

“Eugh…”

A suppressed cry burst through EunHa’s gritted teeth.

“Are you that upset that I didn’t trust you?”

“Ugh…”

“Haha. It’s been a while since you cried like a young brat. It’s okay. It’s all over
now. You’ve endured it well.”

Her ten fingers pressed into his back and trembled. She bit her lips as rage and
sorrow mixed together, causing her to moan out. She couldn’t stop the cries.
She couldn’t control herself anymore. As SungHo caressed her open wounds
with his hands, he felt a burst of desire.

“YongJoon.”

“…Yes, Boss?”

“Since our princess has come back after having worked so hard, why don’t we
have a party at someplace nice today?”

His voice sounded bright and satisfied. EunHa held back the urge to bite her
tongue and continued to repeat the same thing over and over to herself.

This is all for her own purposes. This was all the steps necessary for Kang
SungHo to feel the intense shock at her betrayal. The ending credits weren’t
rolling just yet, and her revenge was currently in progress. Her life wasn’t some
new-school drama. It was a satisfying action movie. It wasn’t a tragedy. It was a
comedy. So she still had the ability to laugh whenever she wanted.

“How does that sound, Lee EunHa?”

“…I’m looking forward to it.”

EunHa’s voice was hoarse, and her face was covered in tears and blood.

“Take her away and let her gussy up. She needs to live up to her title as Serim’s
princess. Call Madame Jung and tell her I’ll be heading over in the evening. Tell
her to prepare ten girls for me.”

SungHo’s lips pressed onto her forehead. EunHa felt as if a centipede was
crawling on her skin. She tightly shut her eyes.

“…Are you alright?”

Seeing that EunHa was being dragged to a different location, General Manager
Cha suppressed his anxiety and asked quietly. The owner of this old building
was suspicious when they offered to rent out this mold-infested room, but
when General Manager Cha took out the bundle of cash, the owner
immediately handed them the keys.

“I’m fine.”
Focusing the gun on Kang SungHo’s head through the window without moving a
muscle, KyungHyun suddenly got up from his seat. His white shirt was drenched
in sweat.

“Let me go and get you something to drink.”

“Why?”

Even though cold sweat was dripping off the sharp lines of his face, KyungHyun
didn’t realize his current state. He continued speaking in a low voice.

“If you go out now, you might be caught by the men at Serim. We’ll move once
the sun goes down.

If they were worried for her safety, following EunHa to this place was
something they shouldn’t have done. They had injected a tracker into EunHa’s
inner forearm, and they thought their surveillance of her would end there. No
one expected KyungHyun to follow after her himself.

When Kang SungHo took off his belt as soon as he caught sight of her, General
Manager Cha immediately glanced at KyungHyun. Aiming his gun, KyungHyun’s
shoulders stiffened.

When Kang SungHo turned off his phone at KyungHyun’s call, the air inside the
room froze. The verification chip in EunHa’s body didn’t have an eavesdropping
function. KyungHyun threw his phone onto the ground and aimed his gun at
SungHo’s head. His expression looked like he was ready to kill at any moment.

“General Manager Cha.”

KyungHyun took a drag of his cigarette and slowly parted his lips. His voice was
as steady as always, but General Manager Cha could tell that he wasn’t happy
at all.

“Yes, what is it, sir?”

“I heard that you applied to this team because of Lieutenant Han.”

“…That’s true, sir.”

“Haven’t you ever thought of quitting this dangerous work and just going back
home?”
He was speaking about the fact that General Manager Cha and Lieutenant Han
had been engaged for 6 years but haven’t gotten married due to their work.
General Manager Cha hesitated before answering his question.

“…It’s not only up to me, and the other person isn’t planning on doing that
anytime soon.”

KyungHyun exhaled the gray smoke as his eyes narrowed.

“If something happened to Lieutenant Han, I know that you won’t be able to
bear it even more, General Manager Cha. Not with your personality. Is that
okay with you?”

After entering Serim, KyungHyun was sent into YongSung and found his footing
in KeumOh. Around this time, his superiors ordered for someone else to go
undercover and assist him by his side. The frontrunner for this position was
Lieutenant Han, a police officer who had majored in criminal psychology as a
profiler.

However, team member Cha JoongWon stepped up and vehemently

volunteered. It turned out these two had been in a long-term relationship
starting from their 20’s. When the superior officers learned of this, they tried to
change their decision.

“No, of course not.”

There was no way he was okay with that. KyungHyun knew this answer, but he
still asked the question. General Manager Cha realized why and spoke up.

“But since this is what Lieutenant Han wants, there’s nothing I can do about it.”

“Isn’t that frustrating?”

“Even if it is, there’s nothing I can do about it.”

General Manager Cha looked at him and smiled bitterly.

“I’m the one to blame for liking a woman like that.”

KyungHyun knew this feeling very well. He leaned his head back onto the wall
and took another deep drag of the cigarette. Intense agony was mixed in with
the thick, gray smoke as it left KyungHyun’s lungs.

“I think Lee EunHa-ssi is doing a good job.”

General Manager Cha earnestly spoke up. He noticed this during their
emergency meeting last night as they were figuring out their plan. Lee EunHa
had nerves of steel and was intelligent and incredibly observant.

“There’s one thing I’ve been wondering about.”

“What is it?”

“General Manager Cha, are you dating Lieutenant Han?”

EunHa suddenly asked this unexpected question while they were in the middle
of planning their next move. Everyone was taken aback.

“I think that question has nothing to do with our work…”

“Ah, I was right. I was just curious, that’s all.”

Lieutenant Han frowned and KyungHyun covered half his face as he silently
laughed. Grabbing her fourth slice of the pizza they had ordered through room
service, EunHa didn’t seem nervous at all even though she knew she would be
put right in the middle of danger. It was truly a shame to let her rot under Kang
SungHo’s thumb.

“Call Shenzhen and tell them I want to move the date closer.”

KyungHyun’s soft murmur broke General Manager Cha out of his thoughts.
Their actual D-day was in 2 weeks.

Lee EunHa’s job was to get Kang SungHo to take the bait. When Kang SungHo
left the country, the surveillance on EunHa would lessen, allowing them to
extract her. It wasn’t that General Manager Cha couldn’t understand
KyungHyun’s desire to take her out of a dangerous situation as soon as
possible, but this plan was risky.

“Shin KyungHyun-nim, Im SungJoon might find that suspicious. He’s very

observant.”
Even though the boss, Noh HyungChul, was currently in critical condition in the
hospital, leaving the country now was unreasonable. Right now, Im SungJoon,
the one in charge of operations in Busan and Kyungnam, had sent his men to
aid in the caretaking of the boss along with KyungHyun’s men.

Once Noh HyungChul gained consciousness, he didn’t enforce disciplinary

action on KyungHyun. Instead, he decided to send Im SungJoon to Shenzhen
along with KyungHyun. On KyungHyun’s end, it was actually for the better. Even
though he had lost considerable influence within YongSung, Im SungJoon was
still a force to be reckoned with and was an important figure within the
organization.

“It doesn’t matter. Even if he finds it suspicious, there’s nothing for him to find
out.”

“I understand. I will request the cooperation of the Chinese public security

department and the Hong Kong police.”

KyungHyun seemed to be set on this decision, so General Manager Cha merely

nodded his head and walked out of the room.

Whoosh, whoosh. The ceiling fan blew a soft breeze into the room. KyungHyun
leaned his head against the wall. His racing heart didn’t show any sign of
slowing down. His hands were damp with sweat. He felt that he had sweat so
much that his underclothes were drenched as well. The blood was circulating
so quickly in his body, and his lips were dry. KyungHyun swept his face with his
hand.

General Manager Cha wasn’t wrong when he said EunHa was doing a good job.
The problem was KyungHyun himself.

“……”

Until now, he had never completely put himself into something. Afraid of
becoming addicted as a gangster, he cut off alcohol, drugs and gambling. He
made an effort so that he wouldn’t get too involved in one thing or another.

Like a butterfly risking its life as it threw itself into the flames, this woman was
being beaten to pulp by Kang SungHo. In the final moments, KyungHyun watched
as she was pulled into SungHo’s embrace with tears rolling down her face.
KyungHyun felt his blood run cold. No, maybe it was the opposite. He felt rage
flow through his veins, and his blood felt like it was going to boil out.

This is a serious sickness.

Even though he had asked EunHa to refrain from killing Kang SungHo, he was
the one who had been pointing a gun at his head, ready to blow it off at any
second. To be honest, his hands were still shaking as he suppressed that urge
even now. Until now, he had killed many men in order to progress with this
mission. What was adding one more to the list? KyungHyun seriously considered
this.

Revenge was Lee EunHa’s life. He could imagine how she felt when she had
realized the truth after enduring everything for 10 years. This was the only ting
that kept him from completely losing his reason.

He wanted to give her anything she wanted. However, if he had to witness

something like that with his own eyes again, he didn’t think he could endure this
any longer.

KyungHyun moved his piercing gaze to the building next door, and a mumble
left his dry lips.

“…It’s crazy to feel jealous in a situation like this, right?”

He didn’t want to act like a besotted punk, but it was easier said than done. Is
this what it felt like when one’s reason and body no longer functioned
together? His heart continued to race inside his chest.

“I… knew that you’d end up making me crazy in the end.”

He didn’t have the luxury of being disappointed with himself. He didn’t care
about this mission anymore. All he could think about was how to extract EunHa
out of that dangerous situation.

“Fuck…”

His body throbbed, and he felt like his head was boiling. It seemed that he had
completely lost it now. KyungHyun shut his heavy eyelids and put his forehead
against the dirty window. He thought to himself.
Don’t make me endure this for too long, Lee EunHa. Don’t make me completely
lose my mind.

Chapter 10.1

EunHa gulped down a shot of gold whiskey in one shot. The warm liquor burned
her throat as it went down. One wasn’t enough, so she filled her glass back up
to the brim.

“Aagh! Aahng! Haa!”

On the opposite sofa, a naked woman was pressed down by SungHo as her
shrill moans filled the room. The two other hostesses rubbed their exposed
chests on him as they caressed him.

“Quit your moaning and shut your mouth.”

SungHo had been pumping his hips violently but stopped and took out his cock
before pushing the woman underneath him to the side. Then he grabbed
another woman who had been sitting on the sofa and placed her on top of him.
He lifted her hips and began thrusting again.

‘Fuck…’

EunHa swallowed the curse back down and smiled seductively at SungHo. The
large room was illuminated by red lights and was currently a complete mess.
The madame of this establishment was familiar with SungHo’s preferences and
continued to send in naked women for him.

“Don’t breathe so hard, you fucking bitch. It ruins the mood, fuck…”

SungHo growled out the words and grabbed the woman’s hair and pushed it
away from his shoulder. His eyes turned to EunHa, who was sitting on the
opposite couch, drinking her liquor. EunHa had already experienced this kind of
situation multiple times before, but it was nauseating every single time.

“Hng! Nng!”

She found it laughable that Kang SungHo wasn’t able to become aroused unless
he was having this kind of abnormal sex. EunHa’s shoulders shook as she
laughed. SungHo’s movements became more rough and wild.
Click.

The last woman left the room, and SungHo began to smoke a cigarette. As soon
as EunHa put a cigarette into her mouth, SungHo leaned towards her and
lowered his head. SungHo transferred the orange glow at the end of his
cigarette to hers. EunHa drew her head back and took a deep drag. SungHo
swallowed to moisten his dry throat and began to speak.

“You look like you’re having a good time.”

“What’s there to dislike? I’m drinking some good liquor.”

EunHa answered nonchalantly. YongJoon had rubbed some medicinal salve on

the places where SungHo had beat her, but the skin still prickled.

“Good. Drink until you get sick of it.”

EunHa nodded at SungHo’s words and filled her empty glass to the brim once
again.

“About Shin KyungHyun.”

SungHo observed EunHa’s reaction as he brought up the subject. EunHa’s

expression reflected on the shiny table surface didn’t change.

“Yes?”

“Just how much did he tell you about himself?”

EunHa shot down the liquor as she wet her throat. She answered in a
straightforward manner.

“Everything.”

“Tell me.”

“He told me that he was originally sent from Serim. That you were the one who
placed him inside YongSung. At first, I thought he was just talking bullshit, but
the more I listened, the more I realized that there was no reason for him to lie
about that.”
“That bastard told you all that?”

SungHo frowned before laughing in a hoarse voice. He let out a breath through
his thin lips.

“He seriously lost his mind to a woman.”

“Yes, he laughed mockingly as he told me that Kang SungHo was a talentless

bastard who merely got to the top but was wasting away all of the resources
of his organization.”

Crash! SungHo threw the glass in his hand at the TV monitor.

“That fucking bastard…”

SungHo bit the inside of his cheek. EunHa reached out and flipped over a new
glass that was placed upside-down on the iron tray in front of them. After filling
it with liquor, she pushed it over to him.

“So… Aren’t you curious?”

“About what?”

“Whether I really sent Shin KyungHyun to YongSung? Whether he was telling the
truth?”

“It doesn’t matter. Either way, that bastard is no longer a part of our Serim
family. I’m sure he wasn’t one of us when you first sent me over to him, and you
wouldn’t have ordered me to kill him if he was.”

SungHo silently observed her to see if she was being completely honest. Then
he slowly opened his mouth.

“Why didn’t you kill Shin KyungHyun? I’m sure you had many chances to do it.”

Ba-dump. That question caught her off guard. EunHa’s heart raced inside her
chest. She didn’t show her restlessness and looked straight at him.

“…If I did try, do you think I’d still be sitting here right now?”

“……”
“He would have been a complete gentleman if he merely broke my ankles. In
truth, with his personality, he would have probably killed me instead.”

“If Shin KyungHyun wanted to kill you, he would have. Seeing how he hasn’t, it
seems that he has completely fallen for just like you said.”

EunHa raised her eyelashes as she sensually revealed her black eyes.

“That was only when I didn’t betray his heart, I’m sure.”

Her voice was wet with liquor and sounded cold.

“Proud men aren’t used to being rejected.”

SungHo laughed. There was some truth to EunHa’s words. Even if Shin
KyungHyun was completely in love with a woman, he wasn’t so careless as to
lay down his life for her.

“It seems that I need to personally take a trip to China for this matter.”

The long-awaited words finally left SungHo’s mouth. EunHa quietly lowered her
eyes as she silently listened to those words.

“I’m going to personally put a knife through that son of a bitch’s throat, so you
stay out of town until this is all over.”

“The moment Kang SungHo leaves the country, I’m going to send someone in to
extract you.”

KyungHyun and his team members believed that Kang SungHo wouldn’t send
EunHa to China. Unable to completely shake off his suspicions, Kang SungHo
would go to China himself after extracting information from her. That was their
guess, and their guess turned out to be correct.

However, they failed to consider one thing.

“I want to do this with you.”

What they failed to consider was the magnitude of her hatred for Kang SungHo.
EunHa needed to see the end of Kang SungHo with her own two eyes.

“What?”
“I won’t make a mistake this time. Please give me another chance to regain your
trust.”

SungHo looked at her with his sunken eyes as he took a deep drag of his
cigarette. From here on out, EunHa was on her own.

“I have a plan.”

“As expected, our princess is highly educated. You’re very different from the
other gangster bastards around here.”

“What do you think I did during all that time I was locked away in Shin
KyungHyun’s hotel room?”

“Okay. Why don’t you tell me this amazing plan of yours?”

SungHo stroked his short beard as he feigned nonchalance. EunHa drew in a

short breath before she began to explain.

“Those punks who are currently producing the drugs and doing business with
YongSung are a mafia group from Macau.”

“I’m sure they are. So?”

“Please send me to China as early as tomorrow. Before someone from

YongSung arrives, I’ll talk to the leader of the group and begin laying down a
foundation. Once I find out the exact time and location, I’ll relay that information
to you, Ahjussi. You can come to China once I’m finished.”

“And when will we come into contact with those dirty Chinese sons of bitches?”

“There’s no need for you to meet those bastards, Ahjussi.”

SungHo slightly pursed his lips at EunHa’s declaration.

“Why?”

EunHa smiled confidently back at him.

“I’m going to let YongSung make the deal. We’ll make them pay for it. They don’t
have the balls to scam the Chinese kids, so they’ll certainly pay the price.”
“Hmph. If they do try something funny, they’ll end up as fish food in the Pacific.”

“Yes. So all we need to do is swoop in and snatch the product from those
YongSung sons of bitches once the deal has been struck..”

SungHo’s thin lips stretched into a smile. He took a sip of whiskey and gazed at
her with slanted eyes.

“All we have to do is let the bear perform its tricks while we go around and
simply sell the drugs.”

SungHo blew out the cigarette smoke before grinding his finished cigarette in
the ashtray. He grabbed a piece of green melon that was placed there purely
for decorative purposes. He threw it into his mouth and began to chew. Then
he gestured at EunHa to come closer.

“…Yes?”

EunHa bent her hips from the opposite end of the table. SungHo grabbed the
nape of her neck.

“Hmph…”

Suddenly, the chewed up remnants of the melon entered her mouth. She could
taste the sweet fruit as his warm tongue entered her mouth. EunHa tightly shut
her eyes as she held back her nausea. She let out a moan as SungHo’s mouth
lifted from hers.

“Did I ever tell you this?”

“…What?”

“I like you better than your father.”

EunHa’s strained smile slightly trembled. She laughed forcefully before taking
another shot of whiskey. It burned as it went down, but this was the only way
she could stop the nausea that was welling up inside her.

“That’s a compliment, right?”

“Of course. If your father could see you know, he’d be so proud of you.”
SungHo patted her head with his cold hand. His snake-like eyes were filled with
desire. EunHa felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.

“Once this matter is finished, let’s go somewhere warm for a nice vacation.”

“…With you, Ahjussi?”

“Yeah. Think of it as a reward. We’ll go to a good place and eat good food and
drink good liquor. What do you think?”

EunHa’s red lips slowly stretched into a smile.

“There’s something I really want.”

“What it is? Just say the word.”

“If I tell you, will you let me have it?”

“If you get the drugs, we’ll be sitting on piles of money. There’s nothing I won’t
be able to get you. What do you want?”

“I want you, Ahjussi.”

SungHo had been lifting his lighter when EunHa said those words. He froze for a
moment. EunHa didn’t take her eyes off of him and continued to speak.

“I want to be the person that stays by your side until the very end, Ahjussi.”

The cigarette between his lips shook. After he finally lit it, SungHo managed to
answer her.

“Well… You’re quite cheeky, aren’t you…”

EunHa didn’t move a muscle and continued to stare at him.

“Once this is over… take me someplace warm and embrace me.”

Dry coughs burst out of SungHo’s throat. The coughs gradually became
laughter. His cackling laughs filled the room with cigarette smoke.

“Haha… Our rag princess.”

SungHo looked at her, his eyes wrinkled with laughter. He continued to click his
Zippo lighter in his hand.

“All right. If that’s what you really want, I’ll do it.”

She could clearly see the satisfaction that shone on his face. SungHo hadn’t
embraced her because of the memory of her dead father.

SungHo agreeing to her request revealed a lot of hidden meanings. He truly

didn’t think she knew about the incident that had happened 10 years ago. Riding
the high of knowing that she had nowhere else to go other than back to him,
SungHo spoke up in a dirty voice.

“It’s putting me in an awkward position when it comes to your dead father, but
if that’s what you truly want…”

That’s right. Be happy to your heart’s content. Get your rocks off as you see
the daughter of the man you stabbed look at you with yearning in her eyes.

“It’s what I want.”

EunHa looked at him with a happy smile. Her wet eyes shook with emotion.
Seeing her expression, SungHo became even more excited and let out a
booming laugh.

She did feel sorry towards Shin KyungHyun, but this had always her plan from
the very beginning. She was going to take Kang SungHo to an unknown location
and kill him in the most gruesome way she could think of. EunHa imagined
seeing his face filled with utter betrayal in his final moments, and her eyes
gleamed.

KyungHyun took out a cigarette from its case and lit it. General Manager Cha
stood in front of the desk and checked the time. Then he spoke up in a low
voice.

“He will arrive in 5 minutes.”

“Okay.”
KyungHyun turned his chair and stared out the glass window. Even though it
was now September, the sunlight was still strong. The windows of the
skyscrapers in the city all reflected the light.

“Director, are you alright?”

“Why are you asking?”

KyungHyun rested his elbow on the armrest and held his chin. General Manager
Cha approached him with worry in his eyes. KyungHyun didn’t even look up at
him and asked back. There was cold sweat on his temples. The whites of his
eyes were bloodshot as he continued to stare piercingly ahead of him.

“About your current condition…”

“I’ve felt worse before.”

KyungHyun had always been too stubborn to speak about how he felt, so when
these words left his mouth, it meant that he wasn’t doing well at all. General
Manager Cha thought that KyungHyun hadn’t been looking too good for a while
now.

He had been assisting KyungHyun for 3 years. Other than the time he had
received injuries from a surprise attack, he had never seen KyungHyun look
sick. However, as soon as General Manager Cha saw KyungHyun’s sunken eyes
when he got out of his car, he knew that KyungHyun wasn’t okay.

“Should I call them and tell them to push back the appointment…”

Before General Manager Cha could finish his sentence, the heavy door of the
office burst open. It was pushed back so forcefully that the doorknob banged
into the wall, giving off a thud.

Chapter 10.2

“Wow, YoungGi. Look at the size of this room! It’s killer! What kind’a organization
fucks ’round like this?”

The voice boomed from behind them as it spoke in a country accent. The
untimely appearance of the person they didn’t want to see made KyungHyun
frown immediately. The lines in his forehead deepened before they gradually
disappeared. He turned his chair around and looked over at Im SungJoon and
his lackey who had followed in after him.

“How rare of you to come on time.”

“Of course. I could barely get a wink o’ sleep ‘cus I wanted to see my dear
Director Shin so badly.”

“You seem quite energetic for someone who couldn’t get any sleep. As
expected, you must love being back.”

Wearing a white three-piece suit that almost seemed to be fluorescent in its

brightness, Im SungJoon bared his teeth like a crocodile and widened his eyes.

“Yer right. It is nice to be back. But what have ya been doin’? Eatin’ all the dust
in Seoul? Yer face is all shriveled up like a tiny dick.”

KyungHyun remained silent at the obvious ridicule and narrowed his eyes as he
exhaled the cigarette smoke in his lungs. Im SungJoon rubbed his hands
together and began to speak in an excited voice.

“What, are ya worried now that our boss has woken up? Been thinkin’ ’bout yer
future, have ya? Do ya want me to get ya some of them medicinal tonics? This
place next to the sauna I go to makes some fabulous restorative pills. Pretty
cheap too. Probably ‘cus the owner doesn’t have a traditional medicine license.
I’ll get some for yer servant here while I’m at it. What d’ya think?”

At his offensive words, General Manager Cha frowned behind his silver-framed
glasses. Im SungJoon had an ability to push the buttons of anyone he met.
Unlike his usual outward behavior of acting like he had a loose screw in his
head, he was actually very cruel on the inside.

When KyungHyun had first entered YongSung, SungJoon never took a liking to
him. Even now, SungJoon had tried numerous times to kill him in secret.

“Hey, now. Lookit how this bastard’s glarin’ at me. ‘Thank you fer the favor,
Hyung-nim.’ It’s only proper ya say somethin’ like that. Who taught you yer
manners, ya sumbitch?”

Im SungJoon raised his hand to his hips and began to walk towards General
Manager Cha. KyungHyun got up from his seat and stepped in between them.
“Don’t do something absurd by picking on General Manager Cha so early in the
morning.”

“Hey, when did I ever pick on him? We’re all part o’ the same family, aren’t we?”

KyungHyun’s lips stretched into a cold smile as he looked at Im SungJoon.

“If you came here to speak with me, then talk to me.”

“Alright. But can ya give me a smoke? I came in a hurry to meet’cha that I

forgot mine.”

“That will be a bit difficult.”

“What’d you say?”

Im SungJoon dug his finger into his ear as he asked.

“I said I can’t give you a cigarette.”

“Why? Are ya bein’ cheap?”

Im SungJoon looked at him as he snorted.

“My office has a no smoking policy.”

As KyungHyun softly replied, gray smoke flowed out of the cigarette between
his fingers. Im SungJoon slowly tilted his head.

“…Fuck, since when?”

Im SungJoon’s voice lowered an octave as it left his throat. His small eyes
narrowed into crescents, but everyone in that room knew that he was no
longer smiling.

“Hyung-nim, let me give you one.”

Im SungJoon’s lackey, Baek YoungGi, stood in front of the door and watched the
scene unfold. He didn’t hide his disbelief as he hurried over to them. KyungHyun
took a deep drag of his cigarette and burned it down to the filter. He breathed
out the the smoke as he answered SungJoon’s question.
“Since just now.”

Baek YoungGi held out the cigarette to his own boss, but KyungHyun lowered
the butt of his cigarette and pressed it onto the back of YoungGi’s hand.

“Agh!”

As the cigarette burned into his hand, YoungGi let out a cry in shock and began
to shake his hand to cool the burn.

“Ah, hot…!”

“Why ya fuckin’ bastard…”

Im SungJoon’s thick hand flew out and hit Baek YoungGi’s cheek just as the
cigarette hit the floor. Im SungJoon yelled out at his lackey whose head had
flung back from the blow.

“YoungGi, didn’t ‘cha hear him say that smokin’s not allowed?”

Thud!

“Yes, Hyung-nim!”

Thud! Thump! The sound of Im SungJoon punching YoungGi’s head filled the
room.

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Isn’t that right?!”

“I’m sorry, Hyung-nim… Ugh!”

“No smokin’. No smokin’, ya bastard!”

After hitting YoungGi’s head and face a few more times, Im SungJoon finally got
up and dusted his hands. Baek YoungGi also stepped back and soothed his
burnt hand as he clenched and unclenched it. He looked up at KyungHyun and
General Manager Cha with a fierce gleam in his eyes.

“Aah, how embarrassing for this to happen right in front of Director Shin. Our
YoungGi just became a daddy, ya see, so he’s been under a lot of stress havin’
to take care of his baby. Don’t mind him too much, alright?”
“If I tell you that it’s not all right, are you going to kill him?”

KyungHyun looked at him and slowly spit out the words. Im SungJoon chuckled.

“Ha, our Director Shin is such a punk. Jokin’ around like that.”

Im SungJoon gave him a pat on the shoulder. KyungHyun turned around and
walked back.

“Well, let’s sit down and continue our chat.”

The two of them sat at opposite ends of a long table. General Manager Cha
called for a secretary outside to bring in some tea. When the secretary came
inside and began to place the tea on the table, Im SungJoon swept his beady
eyes down her backside and stuck out his thumb.

“Wow… Seoul gals sure develop nice. Must be somethin’ they eat while they’re
still growin’.”

“Secretary Song is from Daegu.”

KyungHyun answered in place of the flustered secretary, and Im SungJoon

slapped his knee.

“Ah, of course! Our Daegu ladies are noticeable from a mile away. My third wife
was from Daegu. Does our baby here have a boyfriend?”

“Let’s end the questions here.”

KyungHyun blocked him with cold eyes. Im SungJoon widened his eyes as if he’d
been waiting for this moment.

“Why? I know someone here was so busy boinkin’ a secretary that he couldn’t
tell her apart from shit. You couldn’t even tell if she was a barmaid or a Serim
spy and just let a cat enter the fish market. So shouldn’t I at least check out this
much?”

KyungHyun glared at him as he leaned back on the sofa before smiling bitterly.
Im SungJoon had scheduled an appointment with him to pick a fight. The
secretary finally finished setting down the tea and stood back awkwardly, not
knowing what to do. After receiving a glance from General Manager Cha, she
quickly left the room.

“Fuck, that bitch might be a spy too. What if she put some cyanide into the tea?
Isn’t that right, YoungGi?”

“You don’t have to worry about that.”

“Why not?”

KyungHyun poured the pu’erh tea into his tea cup and gulped it down.

“Even a cat that enters a fish market doesn’t pay any attention to lumps of
shit.”

“Lumps of shit?”

Im SungJoon frowned. KyungHyun nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders.

“I’m talking about myself. Like you said, Director Im, I fucked that woman to my
heart’s content. She had many chances to kill me, but I’m still here, aren’t I?”

“……”

“Please have some tea before it cools. It came directly from China.”

KyungHyun lightheartedly gestured to the teapot with his hand as Im SungJoon

glared daggers at him. Im SungJoon calmed himself down before grabbing the
teacup and gulping it down. The hot tea burned his throat and caused him to
flinch in shock.

“Ah, that’s hot, fuck.”

He wondered how this arrogant punk had been able to drink the tea so
smoothly as he shook his head at KyungHyun.

“It’s a shame. Because that bitch is dead, I can’t even interrogate her for
answers. But I heard some rumors that Director Shin didn’t want her to be
gangbanged, so you killed her peacefully inside a locked room. Is that true?”

KyungHyun slowly turned the teacup in his hand as he replied in a cold voice.
“Did I have such a romantic image inside YongSung?”

“Romantic my ass…”

Im SungJoon scoffed at KyungHyun and frowned. Shin KyungHyun had entered

YongSung through the recommendation of another YongSung gangster he had
met in prison. From the first moment Im SungJoon laid his eyes on him, he
immediately didn’t take a liking to him. Even though KyungHyun had a pretty
face, he didn’t even flinch as he slit the throat of someone right in front of him.

If he had lowered his head to Im SungJoon, it would have been another story.
However, even back then, KyungHyun didn’t lower his eyes as he blatantly
looked at him condescendingly.

Even though Im SungJoon did everything he could to get rid of this suspicious
man, Shin KyungHyun managed to gain the leader’s trust. Because of this, Im
SungJoon was humiliated as he was forced to pull back.

Years ago, when the leader’s nephew, who was ranked as one of the
commanders, brandished a knife against his uncle, Shin KyungHyun took the
blow instead and took down the attacker. This event clinched KyungHyun’s
place within the organization. However, Im SungJoon believed that it was Shin
KyungHyun who controlled the actions of the nephew from the shadows.
Because the nephew had completely lost his mind to his drug addiction, this was
very possible.

He tried to shake him down, but that slippery bastard got away. And now
suddenly, the boss had been attacked again. On top of that, the bitch who had
shot the gun was none other than Shin KyungHyun’s woman. Im SungJoon felt
that his day had finally come.

He wanted to see Shin KyungHyun fall from his high horse and get on his knees
as he begged for his life. Only then would he be satisfied.

“Well, if that were true, it’s quite a tearjerking story.”

KyungHyun looked bored as he lowered his indifferent eyes to his teacup.

Tears? This bastard probably only cried once in his life, and that was on the
day he was born. That was how dry and stiff he was. Im SungJoon grinned as he
vowed to see tears of blood pour out of his eyes one day.
“And not only that. After killin’ that bitch, I heard that ya were in shock and
stayed holed up in yer hotel room. Ya didn’t even leave to go to work… like a
fuckin’ wastrel. At least, that’s what I heard.”

KyungHyun raised an eyebrow as he frowned. A bark of laughter left his lips. Im

SungJoon laughed as well.

“That sound funny to ya?”

“Yes. Doesn’t it sound funny to you, Director Im?”

Im SungJoon licked his bottom lip as KyungHyun mocked him. From his sarcastic
voice, SungJoon couldn’t hear an ounce of sympathy in KyungHyun for his dead
woman. Draping his arms over the armrest, with his head leaning back,
KyungHyun truly looked like he was enjoying this conversation as he laughed.
Seeing this arrogant punk in front of him, Im SungJoon felt anger begin to boil
up in his gut.

“Yeah, I died of laughter. Stupid bastards. If you were ever a man capable of
havin’ regrets, you wouldn’t have even killed her in the first place. All those
bastards laughed and wondered whether you were just keepin’ her holed up in
your room to fuck her as much as ya wanted. YoungGi, you sonuvabitch. You
fucker. You laughed, didn’t you? Answer me!”

KyungHyun watched as SungJoon picked on his lackey. He opened his mouth

and languidly spoke up.

“I’ve already taken care of the corpse, so I can’t show it to you as proof. Would
you like me to take you up to my hotel room to see if a rat bastard is living in
my home?”

“No need to go that far.”

Im SungJoon looked at him and waved his hand as he declined. Even though his
suspicions hadn’t completely disappeared, that fox-like bastard probably
covered up all of his tracks. SungJoon felt that even if he wanted to dig deeper,
he would only come out empty-handed. He decided to give up on this useless
endeavor and just go straight in on the offensive.

“Anyways…”

“Yes, what is it?”

KyungHyun crossed his long legs.

“I saw that ya decided to expedite your trip to China by one week.”

“Yes, I did.”

KyungHyun answered curtly.

“Why’d ya do it?”

Im SungJoon asked in a sing-song voice as he picked at the dirt underneath his

fingernails. KyungHyun stared at him and answered steadily.

“There’s no reason to drag this out any longer. I thought it would be best to
take care of it quickly before all the hyenas caught wind of the rumors going
around.”

KyungHyun knew that Im SungJoon had barged in here for this exact reason.
This business with China was originally led by KyungHyun. Changing the date of
departure wasn’t a big deal for Im SungJoon. He was only doing this because he
wanted to pick on KyungHyun’s every move within YongSung.

“Director Shin, I’ll let ya in on a little somethin’ I’ve learned as I’ve lived my life.
As a sunbae who has many more years on ya. When people do business, they
have to move according to the plan. If ya quickly change things around like an
order at a dirty Chinese restaurant, people might lose faith in you. Hm?
Honestly, it’s the same at those dirty Chinese restaurants. If ya go in and order
a jjajang, then change it to a jjamppong, then again to chili shrimp…”

Showing one’s irritation in front of Im SungJoon only served to further egg him
on. Usually, KyungHyun would let it go in one ear and out the other. However,
KyungHyun had felt feverish since a while ago and no longer had the patience
to do so.

“Director Im.”

KyungHyun cut off the rambling voice. Im SungJoon, who had been spitting out
his lecture, stopped and looked at him.

“Yeah?”
“Did you just say ‘faith’?”

KyungHyun poured more tea into his teacup before raising it up.

“Yeah, ‘faith’.”

KyungHyun looked over at Im SungJoon with his sharp gaze. He gulped down
the tea in one go and smiled crookedly at him.

“Who are you saying will lose faith with whom? I don’t think I understand you.”

“…I wonder why you’re askin’ me this kind of bullshit. Is there somethin’ ya
wanna say?”

“The one who laid down the foundation for this deal and the one who built it up
was me. If I’ve done this much, don’t I have the right to change the travel dates
as I please?”

Im SungJoon’s brow slightly furrowed underneath his slicked back hair.

However, KyungHyun didn’t stop there.

“Or… are you…”

KyungHyun gestured to Im SungJoon with the hand that held the small teacup
before folding his arm back and gesturing to himself.

“…speaking of the faith between you and me?”

“What a funny, little bastard you are…”

KyungHyun watched as Im SungJoon raised his eyebrows in disbelief. He let out

a low laugh.

“It’s funny for me as well. I’m talking about the fact that you’re commenting on
the faith between us. To be honest, we don’t have the type of relationship
where we will both go to a Chinese restaurant to enjoy a meal together, are
we?”

“So? Are ya tellin’ me to keep my mouth shut like a mute idiot and let ya do
whatever ya want?”
Im SungJoon was still smiling, but his voice was not. KyungHyun slowly lifted his
cup and wet his throat with the tea. His long, sharp eyes stared piercingly at Im
SungJoon.

“Didn’t you realize this would be the case when you were coming to take a
portion of my business?”

“Fuck, what did ya just say?”

Im SungJoon’s brows slanted up crookedly. At that moment, General Manager

Cha looked down at the cellphone in his hand before looking up with a grave
expression. He quickly walked over to KyungHyun and called him in a soft voice.

“Director.”

“What is it?”

“Take a look at this.”

“Ya bastard. Who do ya think you’re interruptin’?”

KyungHyun raised a finger and gestured to the growling Im SungJoon to wait.

General Manager Cha saw this and lowered his head. After reading the
message on the phone, KyungHyun’s face hardened. At the same time, Im
SungJoon blew up as he watched KyungHyun blatantly ignore him.

“You sons of bitches, I went easy on y’all, so now y’all are treating me like dog
shit, is that it?”

He threw his teacup full of tea straight at KyungHyun’s head.

“Director… Ugh!”

General Manager Cha quickly blocked it, and the teacup hit his back with a thud
as the tea spilled all over him. Black fireworks went off behind KyungHyun’s
eyes.

“Move.”

KyungHyun pushed General Manager Cha to the side and snatched Im

SungJoon’s collar.
“Hyung-nim!”

The lackey who had been standing in front of the door held up a handgun at
KyungHyun as if he’d been waiting for this moment. As expected, General
Manager Cha snatched his own gun out of its holster and aimed it the lackey
from the floor. The tension filled the air inside the director’s office in an instant.

“You fuckin’ sonuvabitch… Let go!”

Even though their builds were similar, Im SungJoon was unable to shake off
KyungHyun’s grip. KyungHyun dragged Im SungJoon over to the glass wall by
the collar and held him against it. Im SungJoon glanced down at the floor and
his body tensed up. Hot breaths hissed out through KyungHyun’s clenched
teeth.

“We’ll depart on the dates I’ve picked. I have no desire to change it, so please
keep that in mind. If that was all you came here to discuss, you should leave
now.”

“Hey, how long do ya think you’ll last acting like a know-it-all?”

Im SungJoon looked down at KyungHyun and smirked. KyungHyun’s grip on his

collar tightened. Im SungJoon felt his feet slightly lift off the floor, but he didn’t
stop his provoking remarks.

“When Boss wakes up, he’ll throw away people like you. And when that happens,
you’ll really die by my hands, ya fucker.”

KyungHyun challenged Im SungJoon with a sharp glare as he spit out his curses.
His black eyes were gleaming.

“Should I kill you first?”

“What did ya say?”

“Have you gone deaf with age? Instead of sending you off in an elevator,
should I just throw you out the window?”

“Yer true colors are finally showin’. Ya sonuvabitch…”

Im SungJoon’s bulging eyes looked up and down as he took a deep breath.

“I feel pretty shitty right now, so get lost while Boss is still treatin’ you nice.”

“Hyung-nim! Are you okay?!”

Baek YoungGi kept his gun aimed at KyungHyun’s back but made note of
General Manager Cha’s gun aimed at him. KyungHyun didn’t move a muscle.
Instead, he mocked Im SungJoon in a low voice as he continued to hold him up
by the collar.

“Tell him to shoot. This building was built by your shitty construction company,
so it’s probably going to collapse. Fuck, just hitting a window with a golf ball will
probably destroy one side of the building. I’ll send you off to hell. We’ll go
together to make it fair. How does that sound?”

Im SungJoon saw the look in KyungHyun’s eyes, and his smile slowly
disappeared. In its place, a different emotion appeared. KyungHyun’s body was
incredibly hot, almost as if it were burning. The rage in his eyes was no joke. A
murderous spirit was bursting out of his eyes. This could only be seen in those
who had faced death before.

“Lower your gun, YoungGi!”

Im SungJoon shouted, startling his lackey. YoungGi withdrew his gun. General
Manager Cha continued to aim his gun at him. Just one mistake, and everyone
in this room could die. Im SungJoon feigned nonchalance on his stiff face and
placed his hand on KyungHyun’s shoulder.

“It seems that my underlings are lacking discipline. My bad, Director Shin.”

“I apologize for being a bit sensitive today.”

Despite these words, KyungHyun’s hands were still holding on to Im SungJoon’s

collar.

“I didn’t understand your heart of wantin’ to finish this business deal as quick as
possible.”

“Thank you for understanding it now.”

KyungHyun glared at him and spit the words out.

“Let’s do well. We’ll work hard in China.”

KyungHyun loosened his grip. Finally back on the ground, Im SungJoon dusted
off his wrinkled clothes and swept his hands over his temples.

“This deal needs to be successful so that our boss can let go of his anger and
our Director Shin can have a promisin’ future, right?”

“Open the door. Director Im is leaving.”

Even if KyungHyun hadn’t barked out this order, Im SungJoon didn’t feel like
staying any longer anyways. He hid his burning rage and quickly walked across
the room. His lackey waiting at the exit opened the door with a stiff face.

“Ah, hey, YoungGi.”

Im SungJoon stopped right before exiting through the door as if he’d just
remembered something. He looked at his lackey and held out his hand.

“Give me your gun. You shouldn’t have something so dangerous. I told you so
back at the gates.”

“Yes, Hyung-nim.”

“…General Manager Cha, duck.”

In that moment, KyungHyun had an ominous feeling and lowered his body. Bang!
The sound of a gunshot rang inside the office. The lackey who had been
holding the doorknob slid down onto the floor. Dark red blood began to spread
onto the carpet.

“Director Im, what do you think you’re…!”

Unable to hide his shock, General Manager Cha began to speak when
KyungHyun suddenly raised his hand and stopped him. Im SungJoon still had the
smoking gun in his hand. Im SungJoon looked over at them and shrugged his
shoulders as his eyes bulged dangerously.

“There’s no use for undisciplined punks. If yer head’s bad, ya should just die.
Don’t ‘cha agree? Even if it looks like I’m about to be thrown from the 40th floor
of this building, how dare he point a gun at ya, Director Shin.”
The lackey he had just shot and killed was a man who had worked underneath
Im SungJoon for 5 years. If one included the years he’d been in jail, he had been
a loyal henchman for almost 10 years.

Through the open door connecting the room to the secretarial office, they
could hear the shrieks and gasps of the employees. Even though the company
of KeumOh had its roots in the mob, no one expected to hear a gunshot in one
of the skyscrapers of Gangnam in the middle of the day.

“Then I’ll see ya at Shenzhen. Bye. Zài jiàn.”

Im SungJoon grinned as he left the office, not caring for anything KyungHyun
had to say. Looking down at the corpse as the red blood bled through the
carpet, General Manager Cha had mixed feelings as he chewed his lip.

“…I’ll take care of this, sir.”

It was a shame that they didn’t have any cameras installed in KyungHyun’s
office due to security concerns. There was no way Im SungJoon didn’t know
about this, which was why he freely did what he did.

As if he’d been thinking the same thing, KyungHyun let out a harsh sigh as he
grabbed his tablet. KyungHyun bit his lip when he checked on EunHa’s location.
The last place her GFP signal had pinged was at Incheon Airport.

“She hasn’t moved from this location for two hours.”

“……”

KyungHyun slowly closed his eyes before opening them again. He had a bad
feeling about this. His neck tie felt suffocating, so he quickly loosened it.
General Manager Cha could imagine how he was feeling.

“The chip we installed on Lee EunHa-ssi was specially made, so she won’t be
able to pass through airport security with it still inside her body.”

“She can if she dug it out.”

KyungHyun spoke in a low voice. General Manager Cha frowned.

“There’s no way…”
She wouldn’t have been able to take it out unless she took a knife to her own
flesh and dug it out. However, seeing as how she was willing to risk her own life
to shoot Noh HyungChul, she was definitely a woman who could do it.

“Contact Lieutenant Han and tell her to call airport security.”

“Yes, sir.”

KyungHyun took a deep breath as he quickly paced around his office. Although
there was no expression on his face, his head was currently a mess. He felt as
if he’d explode at any moment. Lee EunHa had extracted the GPS from her
body and left for the airport. What did this mean?

If she left the country, it would be nearly impossible to chase after her. They
needed to catch her before she passed through airport security.

Chapter 10.3

Vrrr.

Suddenly, the phone inside KyungHyun’s suit pocket began to vibrate. It was an
unknown number, but he felt like he knew who was calling. KyungHyun’s dark
eyebrows twisted.

“Hello?”

– It’s me.

KyungHyun took a ragged breath when he heard EunHa’s voice. The hand
holding the cellphone began to shake.

“…You, what are you trying to do?”

– I’m busy, so I’ll just get straight to the point. I’m on my way to Shenzhen right
now. Once the date of the business deal has been determined, Kang SungHo will
take note of the situation and follow me to China. So far, he’s only sent one
other person to keep watch over me.

“I asked you what do you think you’re doing right now!”

KyungHyun roared into the phone like a furious beast. General Manager Cha,
who had been in the middle of a call as he stood in front of the corpse, quickly
hurried over to the door and closed it so that none of the other employees
could see what was going on.

Boom. Boom. His heart raced so fast that it felt like it was going to burst out of
his throat. Unlike his voice filled with white, hot rage, EunHa’s voice over the
phone sounded calm.

– All Superintendent Shin has to do is follow everything according to plan. Once

you secretly meet with the Chinese mafia and decide on the secret location,
you said that the detectives will move in on site, right? That’s how you’re going
to catch the YongSung head from Busan and the the Chinese police are going
to capture the Chinese mafia. That was the plan.

“Did Kang SungHo, that fucking bastard, send you to China?”

KyungHyun ignored her and began to girnd his teeth. Knowing Kang SungHo, he
wouldn’t put it past him to send a woman out on a dangerous mission.

“That fucking son of a bitch… That fucking bastard… I’m going to go and shoot
him to death right now.”

His true thoughts burst out of his lips without hesitation. There was a moment
of silence before EunHa replied.

– No.

“What are you talking about?”

– I’m the one who offered to go. Kang SungHo didn’t send me.

“Fuck, why?!”

KyungHyun’s bloodshot eyes trembled.

He definitely told EunHa not to leave Korea. Because it was dangerous. Once
Kang SungHo left the country, he was going to extract her. So why? Why was
she making him lose his mind? Why?

– I’ll tell you the details when we meet.

He liked this answer. His rage was boiling inside of him like a volcano that was
about to erupt, but he managed to suppress it. With a trembling hand, he held
the phone up to his ear and murmured.

“I’ll go to you immediately, so don’t take another step. Don’t move a muscle.”

– I’m getting on the plane in 5 minutes.

Shit. She had already gotten past the security. His twisted expression suddenly
disappeared from his cold face. EunHa lowered her voice even more and
quickly spoke.

– In the pleasure district of downtown Shenzhen, there’s a bar called ‘Egoist’. I’ll
be there.

“What?”

– I’ll be waiting.

The call ended. KyungHyun’s hand trembled as it gripped his hair wet with
sweat. It was his mistake believing Lee EunHa would obediently follow his
orders.

“Damn it…!”

The cellphone and tablet flew across the room and rolled onto the floor. Unable
to hold back his rage, his eyes looked around the room and settled on the golf
club leaning against a corner of the room. KyungHyun grabbed the club and
flung it in the air. The club hit the glass wall that faced outside and shattered it
with a loud crash. The alarm on the ceiling went off and a siren began to ring
deafeningly throughout the room.

“Superintendent Shin.”

General Manager Cha, who had always called KyungHyun ‘Director Shin’ for
security reasons, was so shocked that he called him by his true title. Taken
aback by this unexpected situation, General Manager Cha let out a ragged
breath. He couldn’t even approach KyungHyun. Having worked with him for for
many years now, General Manager Cha could say that he had seen many sides
to his boss.
When he was angry, he would suppress that anger and turn it back on the
opponent. He had even seen KyungHyun break someone’s spirit just through
violence alone. Even while doing all these things, KyungHyun remained aloof and
cold, to the point where it would bring a chill to General Manager Cha’s spine.
However, the KyungHyun right now was far from cold.

“What is the matter? Is everything… okay?”

Having heard the alarm, security guards opened the door and crowded into the
room. They saw the mess in the office and stopped in their tracks. General
Manager Cha gestured to them with his eyes and quickly commanded them to
leave. And like that, the door closed, and they were alone once again.

“Haa… Fuck…”

He had been on edge when he had been speaking with Im SungJoon, but
KyungHyun managed to hold it back. However, when he found out that Lee
EunHa had gone AWOL, he finally lost all reason. This was the first time General
Manager Cha had seen KyungHyun be so reckless. Standing in front of the
shattered window of the top floor of the building, KyungHyun panted as breaths
hissed through his clenched teeth.

“I’m the fucking retard… I am…”

KyungHyun felt shame burning through his body. It was a horrible feeling. Even
though he knew there was a chance EunHa would take out the chip they had
installed inside her, why didn’t he do anything about it?

The answer was simple. He had completely fallen for this woman to the point
where half of his brain was broken. His desire to trust her had completely
blinded his eyes and his reason.

“It’s dangerous if you stand there. Please step back, Director.”

KyungHyun didn’t move a muscle despite General Manager Cha’s warning.

Instead, he looked back at him with bloodshot eyes and issued a command.

“Look for the fastest flight to China.”

General Manager Cha clenched his fist and hesitated. Im SungJoon wasn’t the
only one keeping a close eye on KyungHyun’s every move. They had pulled
forward the schedule once already. If they moved it again, even their partners
in China would begin to become suspicious.

“Didn’t you hear me?”

“…Yes, I’ll do that, sir.”

In the end, General Manager Cha could only helplessly nod to KyungHyun. He
knew KyungHyun wasn’t the type of man to change his mind easily once he had
come to a decision.

“Will you leave immediately?”

“I’ll stop by Noh HyungChul’s hospital before I leave.”

“I’ll go with you.”

“No. You stay with Lieutenant Han and observe the situation here. If Im
SungJoon and I both leave Seoul, Mayor Kim will definitely come for Noh
HyungChul. Don’t miss this opportunity.”

“Understood. Then what about our colleagues in China…”

“I’ll contact them. Either way, Im SungJoon is the one who is in charge of
preparing the money. I’ll just go early and tell them I’m sightseeing.”

“If Im SungJoon finds out you left early, he’ll probably follow after you.”

“Then it’ll be for the better. It’ll only quicken our work.”

There was no hesitation in KyungHyun’s cold voice. He was overcome with

sudden rage, but it seemed that his judgement hadn’t abandoned him. With that
thought, General Manager Cha was secretly relieved.

“While Im SungJoon is in China, you stay here and request an arrest warrant for
him. The charges are rape, blackmail, embezzlement, smuggling drugs, and now
the murder of Baek YoungGi. Make it so that no lawyer will be able to worm him
out of it this time.”

“But the evidence…”

“I’ll personally step up as a witness.”

General Manager Cha’s eyes widened in surprise. By stepping up publicly in
court, he was basically agreeing to reveal his true identity. It meant that he
would quit his 12 years of undercover life. KyungHyun was determined to
conclude everything with this final project. General Manager Cha tensed up at
KyungHyun’s words and swallowed, but his mouth was dry.

“Then Kang SungHo… What will you do about him?”

A terrifying gleam flashed across KyungHyun’s eyes. He tightly clenched his fist
and spit out his next words in a bitter tone.

“Keep surveillance on him 24 hours a day. If he shows any sign of leaving the
country, report it to me immediately.”

“Understood, sir.”

“But don’t let the superior officers know.

“…Excuse me?”

General Manager Cha asked in a low voice. Up until now, there had never been
a time they didn’t report their every move to their superior officers. This was
the first time KyungHyun had ordered him to do something like this.

“What do you mean by that, sir?”

General Manager Cha swallowed down the anxious feeling that was rising in his
chest. KyungHyun swept his hair back with his large hand, the shapes of the
knuckles clearly showing through the skin. He continued to look down the
building but suddenly turned around and met General Manager Cha’s eyes. His
voice remained steady without any tremor.

“I’m going to take care of that bastard on my own.”

General Manager Cha’s eyes slightly shook behind his glasses. KyungHyun
wasn’t joking. He had already decided to end Kang SungHo on his own terms.

“I feel like a fucking idiot for having dragged this out for so long.”

KyungHyun mocked himself in a cold voice.

“Superintendent Shin.”

General Manager Cha called out to KyungHyun in a trembling voice. KyungHyun

glanced back at him. KyungHyun’s usually cold eyes were now filled with a mix
of unrecognizable emotions.

Within his black eyes, General Manager Cha could see rage, disappointment,
and exhaustion. They silently seeped out of his eyes. No less than 12 years. Year
after year, all the emotions that had piled up were now on the verge of
exploding. General Manager Cha understood. Lee EunHa was merely the fuse
as the first woman KyungHyun had shown any interest.

General Manager Cha knew this emotion very well and was very sympathetic.
Having joined the police force himself for the sake of his childhood sweetheart,
General Manager Cha understood most of what KyungHyun was going through.

“If you have nothing else to say to me, move.”

KyungHyun looked at him with sunken eyes and spoke.

“…Don’t you think you should at least go get checked out at the hospital? You
don’t look very well.”

General Manager Cha’s voice was filled with genuine concern. For the past
three days, KyungHyun had been suffering from a bone-breaking ache. His
whole body was boiling hot, and his body looked noticeably weaker.

“There’s no need to go to a hospital for a mere cold.”

“…People die of mere colds all the time.”

General Manager Cha looked beseechingly at KyungHyun, but KyungHyun just

pat him on the shoulder and walked past him.

“I’m fine.”

“Please take care of yourself.”

“Just worry about your own woman. Don’t be a fucking retard like me and
regret it.”
KyungHyun’s steps were resolute as he walked out of the room. There wasn’t
any time to waste. From here on out, he wasn’t going to let Lee EunHa out of
his sight. One mistake was more than enough. He banged his head against the
elevator wall. Cold sweat trickled down his neck and wet the collar of his shirt.

The announcement giving the final warning for boarding the flight rang
throughout the airport. When EunHa finally left the restroom, YongJoon
frowned anxiously.

“Hey, why did you take so long? Are you constipated?”

“Where did all your manners go? Up your ass? You shouldn’t ask a lady
something like that.”

“Fuck, humans and animals alike eat and shit, so why’s there a need for
manners? Are you some kind of goddess who doesn’t poop?”

Despite his words, YongJoon coughed awkwardly as he scratched his head.

There was a slight dent on the right side of his half-shaven head. It was a scar
from when she had hit him on the head with an ashtray two months ago. That
small circular scar remained hairless on his head. It looked kind of cute.

“Don’t smile like that. You look like a crazy bitch.”

Cursing for no reason, YongJoon began to rummage in his pockets. He stood

still and glared.

“Huh?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Where’s my phone?”

He definitely had it with him when he had gone to the smoking room for a
cigarette. But his pockets were now empty.

“Hey, did you do it again…”

YongJoon had a frustrated expression on his face as he turned to EunHa who

had already started walking towards the boarding gate. He grabbed her purse
and looked inside, but it was empty. He had thought that her sticky fingers had
taken his phone, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
“Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Do you wanna die?”

EunHa gave YongJoon a fierce glare.

“Fuck… Where did it go?”

How strange.

“Did you drop it while we were shopping?”

That truly seemed to be the case. Lee EunHa, being the superficial person she
was, insisted that she needed to buy some high-end products while she was
working abroad in a foreign country. YongJoon had no choice but to fulfill her
demands.

Declaring that good shoes would lead a person to a good place, EunHa bought
him a bunch of brand-name products that didn’t even seem to suit him. That’s
where the problem began.

“Fuck, it’s all your fault! Thanks to your shopping spree bullshit, I lost my phone!”

It was time for take-off, and they needed to board the plane now. They didn’t
have the luxury of going back to the shops to look for his phone. Frustrated
beyond belief, YongJoon roared at EunHa. Thinking nothing of it, EunHa glanced
at him.

“Is it a crime for a noona to buy her younger brother some nice shoes?”

“That’s funny. I’m the one who paid for it!”

“But I picked it out for you. Because your eye for design is dogshit.”

“Is that why you bought your things with my card, too?”

“You’re so stingy for a grown-ass man.”

“Ah, fuck. My phone!”

A flight attendant watched them squabble with a troubled expression on her

face. Just from the look of these two, they didn’t look like they were flying for a
normal reason. She had trouble speaking up to them due to YongJoon’s
buzzcut and scary outfit. EunHa grabbed YongJoon by the collar and fiercely
tugged.

“I can buy you a new phone when we land, so what’s the big deal? Don’t make
any more trouble and get on the plane.”

“Don’t you dare spend money like crazy in China.”

YongJoon grumbled with a red face. Behind him, an old lady exited the
restroom and began to push a trolley full of souvenirs. EunHa thought that
even if YongJoon’s cellphone was discovered halfway around the earth, it
wouldn’t be too much of an issue. Her newly-purchased heels shone in the light
as they moved.

“EunHa, look at your mom.”

“You need to wear good shoes to go to good places. I’m serious.”

“You’re only saying that because you like buying heels, honey…”

In her distant memories, her mother scowled at her father from the corner of
her eyes. Her father looked back at her lovingly. Looking at her loving parents,
EunHa shook her head from side to side.

“You’re sending off your one and only daughter to study abroad right now. Why
are you doing this in front of me?”

“Our lovely daughter, fighting!”

After escaping from the house where her bloody parents lay, EunHa only wore
good heels from then on. She eagerly waited for the day she could avenge her
parents and step out of this sewer hole of a life. And now, D-day was slowly
approaching.

Chapter 11.1

68 hours later.
Shenzhen, China. Pleasure district.
The red lighting shone down in the dark bar. Now that it was closer to midnight,
it was bustling with customers. The price to enter wasn’t cheap, and it only
served the best liquors, making it a luxury bar. The person sitting opposite of
KyungHyun filled his cup to the brim with liquor and continued to speak
excitedly.

[I heard bits and pieces of what happened in Korea. Things like that can happen
when it comes to business between men. I don’t think such a big deal needs to
be made over something like that.]

KyungHyun smiled and tossed back the strong liquor he had been offered. He
felt the aromatic liquor go down his throat and spread out through his nose
and head.

[I apologize for any worries the disgraceful scandal may have caused.]

The man who was sharing drinks with KyungHyun was the leader of the largest
cartel in China, Li Kahui. With his origins in Macau, the organization had grown
into a large mafia group that spread its influence by smuggling drugs.

Because their headquarters were thoroughly hidden and secured and because
they alternated their activities between Hong Kong and mainland China, the law
enforcement authorities had a difficult time catching them. The Chinese police
force was frantically trying to find a way to apprehend them.

[Although it’s unfortunate that the one in charge of this deal has been replaced
in the middle of our trade agreement, as long as everything goes off without a
hitch, it doesn’t matter to us.]

He was talking about Noh HyungChul’s decision to include Im SungJoon in this

transaction. Up until now, they had only interacted with KyungHyun when it
came to this business partnership. Because they highly prioritized their
security, it was only expected that they would be unhappy with the addition of a
new face.

[Since we only saw Director Shin up until this point… There is a Chinese saying
that goes like this. If you meet someone three times, they are considered an old
friend. Since this is our third meeting, we won’t needlessly worry.]

The young drug dealer spoke fluent English and smiled meaningfully. At first, his
words may have sounded friendly, but it was obviously a veiled warning to
KyungHyun. If anything went wrong with the deal, KyungHyun would be the only
one to blame.

[My organization is a strong believer in obeying the commands of the superior,

so thank you for understanding.]

He needed to reassure Li Kahui. After specifying that the entrance of Im

SungJoon wasn’t his own decision but a command sent from above, KyungHyun
emphasized that this wouldn’t affect their business deal in any way. If Li Kahui
decided to back out now, all of their plans to apprehend them would be tossed
out the window.

[Of course I understand. Why do you think I left my old organization and went
off on my own?]

Li Kahui took out a sharp cigar cutter to cut his finished cigar. The thick cigar
cleanly snapped off with a cheerful click of the cutter.

[Even if the pick is in the pocket, it will always poke out.]

Watching his confident expression, KyungHyun’s lips slowly stretched into a

smile. As if he wanted to bring up the mood, Li Kahui grabbed the liquor bottle
engraved with dragons and filled KyungHyun’s glass up to the brim.

[Here, business is business. We came out to share a drink, so let’s enjoy it. I
must wholeheartedly receive our guest who has come such a long way. You
have a long road ahead of you tomorrow, isn’t that right?]

KyungHyun clinked his glass with Li Kahui’s. The bitter liquor burned as it went
down his throat and emptied into his stomach.

Two days had passed since his last phone call with EunHa. Tonight would make
the night of the third day. It wasn’t difficult to find the place she had mentioned.
Egoist was the most famous brothel in Shenzhen. As soon as he landed in China,
KyungHyun had basically set up camp here, but he didn’t see the one he was
waiting for.

As more time passed by, KyungHyun felt as if his blood was drying up in his
veins. Around this time, Li Kahui appeared. It was a chance meeting, but it was
more likely that Li Kahui had been keeping an eye on him ever since he landed.
Just like General Manager Cha said.
[If there’s a girl who catches your eye, just say the word. This place is also
under my jurisdiction.]

At KyungHyun’s questioning gaze, Li Kahui grinned.

[There’s no need to separate alcohol from sex. Where there’s alcohol, there
needs to be women. And where there’s pleasure, there’s money. I have an
incredible nose for money, you see.]

Li Kahui was not merely a VIP member of this establishment. He was actually the
business owner. The fact that Lee EunHa had chosen this pace was a crazy
coincidence. Those that dabbled in dangerous work lurked in dangerous places
like ghosts. KyungHyun swallowed his scoff as the instincts he had honed as a
member of a criminal organization proved to be right once again.

[It seems that the show is about to begin.]

Suddenly, the room was plunged into darkness. Men began to whistle
throughout the room. A drum began to pound slowly but gradually quickened.
Suddenly, a line of hostesses walked onto the stage from both sides. Other
than the red lipstick, make up, and the long strings of pearls hanging from their
necks, these slender beauties were all naked.

[What do you think?]

[Not bad.]

KyungHyun spoke indifferently as he breathed out the cigarette smoke. Every

night at midnight, the show would begin. Instead of entertainment, this was
more likely a dispatch of ladies to pick up potential customers for the night.
Just to be sure, during the past two nights, KyungHyun had kept an eye out for
her, but she wasn’t one of them.

[A new girl comes out every Thursday night…]

The beating of the drum suddenly stopped. The spotlight was focused on the
center of the stage. The sounds of whistling men and appreciative claps began
to grow louder.

“……!”
KyungHyun focused his gaze on one point. Someone was slowly walking into the
spotlight. The woman was wearing very high heels and a Chinese dress. All of
the eyes inside the establishment were drawn to her. It wasn’t solely because
she was the only one clothed in a group of naked women.

[The qipao seems to suit that beauty very well.]

Li Kahui laughed in satisfaction as he took out a cigarette case. The white

powder that had been prepared beforehand spilled out. KyungHyun bit his
lower lip as he gazed piercingly at EunHa as she walked on the stage. He felt
like his head would explode with the urge to grab her wrist and drag her
outside.

[She’s like a red rose. Especially that thorny gaze.]

After snorting the drugs, Li Kahui sniffed and coughed like a dog. KyungHyun’s
eyes shook dangerously as they remained glued to the stage. Her white face,
her blood-red lips, and her long hair swept up securely on top of her head.
Thanks to that, her distinct facial features seemed even more pronounced.
Every time she took a step, the diamond earrings hanging down like teardrops
shimmered in the light.

[Here, I’ve prepared this especially for you.]

KyungHyun didn’t even look at the drugs that Li Kahui handed over and
accepted them. Once the white powder had completely disappeared from the
iron plate, it fell onto the table. It felt like being doused in cold water. His mind
seemed so clear in an instant, and his heart began to race inside his chest.

His vision clouded over for a moment, but suddenly, everything seemed twice
as clear as it did before. EunHa lightly sat down on the chair that had been
brought onto the stage. Normally, the slit ran up to the thigh on an average
qipao. However, on the dress she was wearing, the slit ran all the way up to her
waist.

As if returning to his senses, a man began to beat the drums once again. At the
same time, EunHa spread her legs underneath the spotlight. The short skirt of
the dress began to ride up her thighs as she slowly opened them, and a thick
tension filled the room.
Every man caught their breaths. All the dark eyes glistened as they filled with
desire for her. The drumming became louder and faster as did their
heartbeats.

The person with the drumsticks in both hands continued to pound on the drum.
Following the rhythm, the women on both sides of EunHa silently fell to their
knees.

The garter belt holding up EunHa’s stockings appeared with her movements.
The drumbeats stopped, and the sound of the wooden drumsticks clacking
together rang inside the room. At this sound, EunHa frowned. As soon as her
legs were completely open, her hand went to her side and ripped off the skirt.

Underneath her dress, there was only her garter belts and stockings. There
was nothing covering her between her legs.

Click.

Suddenly, the lights turned off.

“……!”

After a moment of silence, someone’s shout seemed the rouse the rest of
them. Overwhelmed with lust like savage dogs, the men noisily raised their
hands.

[Now, it looks like tonight’s auction will begin. A deal between gentlemen needs
to be done silently. Please present your price to the nearest employee near
you.]

Once the lights came back on, the men scrambled around with their fingers
raised. Standing sporadically across the room, the employees kept exchanging
hand signals with them.

[It seems that one of the girls has caught your eye.]

Li Kahui chuckled as he looked at the frowning KyungHyun who seemed to be at

a loss for words. For the past two days, he secretly watched KyungHyun enter
this establishment. However, Li Kahui never saw him leave with any of the
women. KyungHyun would merely drink liquor until closing time. It seemed that
this picky man had finally found someone who interested him.
Suddenly, KyungHyun ripped his gaze away from the stage and slowly turned to
Li Kahui. His movements were too smooth to say that he was completely high
from the drug. However, his eyes told a different story. He looked like a
madman as he bit down hard on his lower lip. His low voice seemed to rumble
out of his throat.

[How much for the rose?]

“Fuck, seriously…”

As soon as she got off the stage, EunHa was taken somewhere else, and the
door was locked from the outside. Unable to hide her shock, EunHa let out a
curse. This place was the only club EunHa knew of in the area.

A few months ago, while working the job related to the jeweler, she had
overheard someone talk about this place at a party. It was only 30 minutes
away from the Shenzhen-Hong Kong ferry and was even connected by land.

‘Why here of all places…’

EunHa hurriedly paced around the room. In order to gain Kang SungHo’s trust,
she told him she’d approach the drug traffickers. In order to do that, she
needed to pretend to apply for a job here. She planned on working as a
bartender as she waited to make contact with KyungHyun, but she never
expected things to turn out the way it did.

This high-class bar operated on a membership basis. If she had known that this
establishment was a well known brothel, she would never have picked this
place.

For the past three days, from the moment she opened her eyes in the morning
until the moment she closed them late at night, she was busy receiving beauty
treatments on her whole body. Therefore, she didn’t even have the time to go
to the bar. In this building, one entire floor was transformed into a beauty salon
where the women could take care of their looks from head to toe.

Normally, she’d hum as she went along with it, but she was incredibly busy right
now. She didn’t want to bother focusing on anything else other than her mission
for even one hour. She tried to contact KyungHyun multiple times. However,
worried that the phone was bugged, KyungHyun had thrown it away and
changed his number. Therefore, when she tried to call, all she got was an
empty message telling her the number she tried to call was no longer in
service.

‘This is why doing your research is important, you idiot.’

She gripped her glossy, well-treated hair and almost pulled it out of her scalp
as she berated herself. However, this wouldn’t change anything. She was about
to receive her first customer.

After telling YongJoon that the leader of the drug trafficking organization
frequented this bar, he unpacked their luggage at a nearby business hotel.
YongJoon didn’t understand a lick of Chinese, so he had no choice but to
believe whatever she said.

The problem was that she didn’t have the luxury of being locked up in here for
too long. And she definitely didn’t want to be pinned down underneath a fat-
bellied, Chinese millionaire.

[Please enjoy your time.]

She heard the voice of the waiter outside the door. Her eyes widened in shock.

Damn it. Was it already time?

She didn’t have much time to ponder over this. When she heard the door open,
EunHa moved quickly. Past the big bed and strange lights, she saw a bathroom
in the corner of the room.

Click.

As soon as she ran inside, she heard someone enter the room. EunHa hurriedly
turned the shower faucet. As the sound of rushing water filled the room, she
sat down on the toilet and bit her lips.

‘What should I do?’

Plan A. She could go out and attack the Chinese millionaire. It would be a
godsend if he wasn’t a pervert who brought someone else along to share the
bed, but if things got noisy, it would be quite troublesome.

Then the only option left was Plan B. She needed to escape without getting
caught. However, she was completely trapped in here, so how? EunHa raised
her head and let out a deep breath. As she hopelessly looked around the room,
she finally saw a small window on the other side of the bathroom.

Please… please…

Stepping onto the sink, she went up and slightly opened the window. A bright
smile illuminated her face. The window wasn’t barred and opened with a creak.

When her feet finally managed to land on the ground, EunHa let out a sigh of
relief and looked around. She was in a dark, narrow alleyway. She couldn’t even
see the hazy light of the bar sign. She saw a narrow door next to her. She
believed it was a door leading to the kitchen of a restaurant. The heap of fruit
peels and empty bottles seemed to confirm her suspicions. Even though this
city was packed with bright signs and buildings, she had still managed to find
herself in a dark pocket of the city where no light was in sight.

“They didn’t even give me my daily wage. And now what have I gotten myself
into?”

She spoke aloud the thought that had been running through her head as she
crawled down the drainpipe. EunHa reached up and pulled out the red hairpin
that was securing her hair in place. Her long hair fell down and covered her
face. She could see a large street at the end of the alleyway. For now, she
needed to find a 24-hour convenience store and find something to wear as a
disguise. Then she planned on hiding herself somewhere nearby.

The reason why she didn’t leave this place immediately was that there was
someone she needed to meet. If it wasn’t for that, she would have gone to the
hotel where YongJoon was waiting for her and move on to the next step in her
plan.

Where could he be?

She never even imagined that KyungHyun wasn’t here. She had even
accommodated the bar manager’s order to go on the stage in order to find
him. However, she wasn’t able to see him because he was in the 2nd floor VIP
room with Li Kahui.

EunHa began to walk quickly as she took out a small cellphone and some money
hidden inside her bra. She had argued with the manager furiously when he
ordered her to go on the stage naked just so that she could keep this with her.
Only when she showed the scar from the gunshot wound and the scar from
digging a knife into her skin to take out the GPS chip did the manager angrily
agree and give her some clothes.

[Just what did you do before you rolled in here?]

[Everyone has at least one story that they cannot tell without shedding tears.]

Thanks to that, she was able to hide her necessary items and keep them with
her. Just thinking about how close she had been to escaping in the nude put a
bad taste in her mouth.

EunHa angrily flipped open the old cellphone. YongJoon answered as soon as it
began to ring.

“It’s me.”

– Hey, what happened? You suddenly disappeared from the stage.

EunHa put a hand up to cover her mouth and the receiver as she answered in a
soft voice.

“I’ve successfully made contact.”

– Is the bastard who bought you the leader of the cartel? He stayed in the 2nd
floor VIP lounge and never came out, so I didn’t get a look at his face. Well, I
guess it would be strange for a leader of such a large organization to be out
and about without his lackeys around.

He was normally a dull-witted person, so she didn’t expect much from him.
However, he surprisingly went along with the script in her head and managed
to follow her into the bar. It seemed that all these years in the mob had
thickened his skull but broadened his mind. She never knew that not having to
explain herself was this nice.

“You’re right. I was lucky.”

– That Chinese son of a bitch… That rich ingrate. Is it that easy to blow $20,000
dollars for one night?

YongJoon scoffed. EunHa stopped in her tracks and frowned.

“How much?”
– He paid $20,000.

As soon as she heard the number, EunHa felt her insides begin to grow warm.
Used as other men’s entertainment only to squeeze herself out of a small
window to escape… EunHa felt a sense of disappointment burn in her gut.

“Those fucking bastards.”

– Hey, why are you cursing all of a sudden?

As soon as YongJoon expressed his anger, EunHa brushed off the regret and
shook her head.

“Whatever. I need to stick by those sons of bitches and get more information,
so just wait for my call. If you hang around the bar, you might catch someone’s
eye.”

– You don’t know the date of the transaction yet?

“I’ll probably find out sometime this week.”

EunHa didn’t know that KyungHyun had pulled the date forward. YongJoon
spoke up as if asking for a favor.

– Boss said he would arrive tonight. Make sure you don’t make any mistakes.
Don’t make him mad like you did last time. If you mess up this time, Boss really
won’t let you off easy…

At YongJoon’s words, EunHa froze. The wind brushed against her cheeks, and
she felt a shiver run down her spine. Kang SungHo was coming to China. This
meant that they were now entering the final act. EunHa glared into the distance
and chuckled.

“Just mind your own business, you bastard.”

– Hey, you fucking…

“I can’t talk for long. I’ll call you later.”

Before YongJoon could reply, EunHa ended the call. After taking out the
cellphone’s battery, EunHa threw it into the sewer hole. She was just about to
exit the alleyway when…

“Hmm…!”

Somebody suddenly covered her mouth with their hand. Her eyes widened in
shock.

Damn it. Had she been caught already?

Even the idiot YongJoon had managed to successfully figure it out. This large
establishment had its roots in the mafia. EunHa fumbled with the garter belt on
her thigh. She had brought the hairpin with her just in case. Who knew that
she’d be using it here? It was made of iron, so it might not be able to pierce
through the skin, but she could still poke it in someone’s eye.

“Wait. Let’s talk this out, hmm?”

Once she grabbed the hairpin, she raised her arm with all her might. At that
moment, her body was flipped around and her back was pressed against the
wall. The man holding both of her arms was panting. EunHa relaxed her arm
and the red hairpin fell to the ground.