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Beep! Peep! The irretrievable sound of the beep echoed and her heart pounded as if trying to break a drum. It was 10pm and her husband still hadn't returned home. A tense expression creased Heeju's face as she fiddled absently with her necklace. Am I doing the right thing? N- No... I can do this, right? What had begun with sheer will and stubbornness was about to take shape. But as her carefully laid plans began to materialise, her thoughts began to falter. Her teeth chattered with tension. Maybe I…- 594.0 K • Ongoing
- One wall of the room was completely lined with shelves, densely packed with negotiation materials. Baek Sa-eon had a background that included participation in the FBI Academy training programme during his master's degree in political science and completion of a hostage negotiation course run by the NYPD. When dealing with hostages, nine out of ten trainees became emotionally involved. But Baek Sa-eon didn't flinch, not at the perpetrator's provocations and not at the barrel of a gun. The basis of…
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- "Ha... hah...!" The glass window, already more than half shattered, quickly fell to the ground. After relentlessly punching through the remaining pieces, Heeju managed to crawl out. "Ha... hah...!" She leaned against the twisted bonnet and laughed hysterically. The cold raindrops felt strangely refreshing. "...." There was still a month until her father-in-law's election campaign. A gentle smile appeared on Heeju's face as her eyes fell on her hands. I've had enough! Let's leave this miserable…
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- "What does Hong Heeju have to do with this?" Baek Saeon stared at the sentence on the paper, his face twisting the longer he read. A surge of irrational anger welled up inside him. "Are you out of your mind?" "...!" He shot to his feet and snuffed out his cigarette directly on the incriminating sentence. Maybe it was the nicotine dulling his brain, but impulse overtook him. He could feel his body heating up, his thoughts boiling into chaos. Even he couldn’t fully understand the storm raging inside…
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- -"As a pathetic man hiding in a corner..." The distant voice weighed heavily on the phone line. The biting criticism was eerily reminiscent of her husband's contemptuous remarks. -"You want to play a game of 'who's uglier'?" "The words I said..." -When I see you in court, I'll make sure I treat you well. The call ended as harshly as Baek Sa-eon's cold tone. The feeling of humiliation made my hand and one side of my cheek burn like fire. "Call him back!" "Huh?" "Keep calling...! Until he picks up!"…
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- Seriously... What’s her deal? "..." "..." Baek Saeon watched Hong Heeju’s behavior in silence during a rare appearance at a social party with his parents. Munch, munch, smack, smack— Where had her manners gone? He frowned instinctively. The girl who had been flitting annoyingly around his line of sight had recently begun devouring her plate. Hong Heeju chewed noisily, as if to show off, and made a point of swallowing with an exaggerated gulp. "Ha..." The most ridiculous part was when she…
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- Things past their expiration date inevitably rot. Names were no exception. Living under the name of a dead child, Baek Saeon was festering day by day. Yet he desperately learned and mastered whatever was necessary to avoid Baek Jangho’s notice. Drowning in the river or surviving—those were the only two paths that existed in his mind. To keep from sinking, he always stood on his toes and kept his chin high. He endured the relentless, suffocating flow of each passing day. As a result, he learned to…
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- "...That child should never have been born in the first place." He staggered slightly. "At first, it was cats." The pitch-black riverside made it hard to see Baek Jangho's face. "I was the first to notice that the child was different. After that, I never let him go outside. I thought I could correct it somehow—" "..." "But the only thing that kept piling up was the bags." "..." "Do you know what was inside those bags?" The large, hefty bags that sent up thick splashes when thrown into the…
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- "Spokesperson Baek Saeon’s approval rating is plummeting in real-time due to the scandal—!" "Spokesperson Baek, can you comment on the affair allegations? Is your silence an implicit admission?" "Spokesperson Baek! Over here, please!" "Hurry up and get the shot!" Baek Saeon pushed through the swarm of reporters that descended on him like wasps, making his way into the Baek Jangho Memorial Hall. The flood of calls from his parents remained unanswered. As he moved deeper into the building, the…
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- "Is that all you have to say to me, Sagong Yuk?" "What?" "This isn’t a conversation we get to have often, so is that really all you want to say to me?" "Even now, in this situation, you’re pulling this nonsense?" Heeju’s face twisted with anger. "This call means more to me than anything else," the voice on the line continued. "It’s the only time I can hear Sagong Yuk’s words, thoughts, and opinions without filters or interference." "..." "I will keep searching for Sagong Yuk until the very…
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