“Kang Hae-na… Are you only telling this to me?”
“What… what are you talking about?”
"....Can you keep it a secret?"
"Oh, so what is it?"
"Can you promise me?"
"Oh, I'll do it!!! Just try to do it without making a big deal 💢"
Hannah grumbled for no reason, but tension flowed from the fact that Sanghyuk had finally started to speak.
Sanghyuk paused for a moment and took a deep breath.
As if he had made a deep decision about something.
“I’ll tell you only… Actually, I’m the hidden child of the Daemyung Group...”
Hannah was speechless for a moment.
Because Daemyung Group was the undisputed best conglomerate in South Korea.
"Wh... What?? D... Daemyung? Hey, don't joke around..."
“My father is the chairman of Daemyung Group.”
"But why do you live like that...? Huh?"
"Ah...like that...??!"
"Ah.. No, that's not what I meant.. As you said, he's a hidden child of Daemyung Group, so shouldn't he have at least one knight??"
“Because I was the illegitimate child of that group… My father was always ashamed of me… I was ignored by him since I was little… Because of that, I always had low self-esteem and felt like my existence was being denied.”
Hannah's heart ached at the worsening situation. She couldn't imagine the difficult childhood Sanghyuk must have endured.
“Then, why am I under this kind of surveillance(?)…?”
"My father is already obsessed with the company's wealth and prestige. Lately, he's been deeply involved in private loan sharking and detective work... He always told me I should grow up to be his 'puppet.'"
"What...? Then..."
“I had to do things I didn’t want to do, and I didn’t have time to think about what I was being asked to do.
In the end... my father..."
"thee...?"
“I tried to raise him as a killer of Daemyung.”
"Haha...killer???????"
"That's right. I had neither the strength nor the means to rebel. My father wouldn't allow me to rebel, and I didn't even have the courage to do so."
"Uh...how..."
"In the end, I had no choice but to live according to my father's plan, according to their wishes. Only then would they accept me."
“...So, you’ve decided to live like that?”
"It's an area I can't decide on... andI always had someone following me. My father kept me under surveillance, monitoring my every move. There was no room for me to... rebel."
Hannah's head sank when she heard his words. She couldn't imagine all the suffering Sanghyuk had endured since childhood.
'What did I just hear...?'
"however...
Recently, a variable called you has appeared. You keep... jumping into my daily life as a variable...
...I'm worried that the danger might reach you as well."
"......."
“That’s why I couldn’t tell you. I was afraid you’d be in danger… That’s why I didn’t want to tell you.”
“Then why are you telling me now?”
"that....!"
"What is it?"
"You keep... keep catching my eye"
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Sonting ⏱️