“Miro-ssi will help Heewoo-ssi get surgery. Did you find matching bone marrow? When I looked it up, they do things like bone marrow transplants.”
“……Jang Miro said he’d help me?”
At Eunchan’s words, Jang Heewoo turned his head and opened his eyes wide.
“He really said he’d give me blood? You heard it?”
“He didn’t say it, but there’s a high possibility he’ll help.”
Like someone who couldn’t believe it, Jang Heewoo kept asking again. Although Miro hadn’t yet clearly promised to give blood, judging from yesterday’s atmosphere, it seemed he would help his younger brother soon. Eunchan waited for a moment for Jang Heewoo to calm down, then continued speaking.
“Instead, revise your will and just answer a few of my questions.”
“Hyung asked you to change the will?”
How should I answer? At Jang Heewoo’s question, Eunchan massaged his stiff neck while pondering how to gloss over it. Actually, the will story was just something he added, thinking it might help Miro who had been busy with company work lately. Since he said shares, the opponent fighting must be Jang Heewoo.
“Well, just.”
“I thought he wouldn’t care about that stuff at all, but I guess he knows he’s human too.”
Wasn’t it company business? What the hell did he write in the will to act like that? Eunchan suppressed his curiosity while watching Jang Heewoo’s smile.
“I’ll just ask a few questions.”
“Why should I?”
“I’ll persuade Miro-ssi to help you. I actually brought it up yesterday.”
He didn’t intend to do it for free, but he still had to receive proper payment. Eunchan told Jang Heewoo the truth and repeatedly asked for answers to his questions.
“I won’t ask much. Just a few.”
“……Try it.”
It was an unwelcoming face, but he didn’t refuse. Eunchan organized in his head what to ask first.
“Do you know anything about Miro-ssi’s stalker?”
“What nonsense.”
“I heard it’s been attached for about one or two years. They even came when Miro-ssi was hospitalized.”
To be honest, it had been a while since he excluded Jang Heewoo from the stalker suspect list. As Hyungsik said, he couldn’t find any suspicious movements, and he was a person busy taking care of his own body in the hospital, so he didn’t seem to have the leisure to spend time elsewhere.
“Really? I guess there’s something that connects those gloomy bastards.”
“You didn’t know?”
“Actually, isn’t he the stalker? It suits his personality perfectly.”
Jang Heewoo leaned his head against the bed headboard and started laughing. His pale face filled with joy.
“There must be a lot of Miro-ssi’s enemies at the company.”
If it wasn’t Jang Heewoo, maybe it could be someone sent from the company. Well, it could be something like factional fighting. There was also the possibility that Jang Heewoo’s relatives, who disliked the adopted child Jang Miro, had commissioned it.
“You don’t seem to know, but that bastard already has the whole company. I’m just a figurehead president.”
Self-deprecating words continued. Even to others, it seemed Jang Heewoo had great regret about not being able to protect the company his parents left him.
“……”
Eunchan was about to say ‘Health comes first,’ but closed his mouth again. He had a difficult-to-treat disease and was a rare blood type that was difficult to receive transfusions. His adopted older brother, though he had his reasons, was ignoring such a younger brother anyway.
“Do you know anyone at the Myeongjin company? I saw flower baskets outside.”
While mentioning the flower basket to change the subject, he casually asked about Myeongjin.
“My father’s company is Myeongjin, my mother’s is JN.”
“What?”
“What?”
At the unexpected words, Eunchan stood up from his seat in surprise. His father’s company is Myeongjin? He had never heard such a story from Miro.
“You inherited JN. Then who inherited Myeongjin—”
“They just divided the shares and used a professional manager. But did you come to investigate assets or something?”
“No, then do you know someone named Han Inju?”
“That crazy bastard?”
He seemed to know. Eunchan calmed his confused mind and thought about Han Inju. Myeongjin and Han Inju. Han Inju, who had personally come to the errand center to request a commission to find the donee and moved with employees, canceled the commission quickly despite his efforts and disappeared after even changing his phone number. Eunchan tried calling the number written on the business card, but it seemed he had changed it in the meantime, as it was guided as a non-existent number.
There are this many people related to Myeongjin around me? Eunchan bit his lips with his teeth and shook his legs in impatience.
“But how do you know Han Inju?”
“I just somehow got to know him.”
Glossing over Jang Heewoo’s question, Eunchan stood up from his seat. There were still things left to ask, but somehow he was afraid to ask. I should go smoke a cigarette. He needed time to calm his pounding heart. Eunchan opened his mouth to ask Jang Heewoo for understanding.
“Just a moment……”
“Is Eunchan here?”
But at that moment, the hospital room door burst open and Miro’s voice was heard. At the sudden appearance, the two stiffened and focused their gaze on Miro.
“What, why are you here? Where did you sell your knock?”
“Eu, Eunchan……”
Although Jang Heewoo frowned and cursed, as if he couldn’t hear at all, Miro walked straight toward Eunchan with big strides. Eunchan unconsciously took a step back, but because Miro reached out desperately first, he was easily caught.
“Miro-ssi.”
“Why are you here? I to, told you to stay home and even prepared breakfast……”
“I came out for work for a moment,”
“This isn’t Eunchan’s workplace.”
With his wrist caught, Eunchan had to stand in front of Miro like someone being interrogated and make excuses. Jang Heewoo looked at the two alternately and then opened his mouth.
“What are you two doing?”
“I, I need to talk to Heewoo. Eu, Eunchan, just outside for a moment.”
As if Jang Heewoo wasn’t even visible, Miro only spoke to Eunchan. Miro, who pulled Eunchan to bring him close to his embrace, asked for Eunchan’s understanding, saying they had something to discuss between the two.
As if he had brought a secretary, Miro handed Eunchan over to a man standing in front of the open hospital room door. Until yesterday, Eunchan had asked him to help Jang Heewoo, and since the two brothers were going to talk, there was no reason for Eunchan to stop them. Miro seemed very uncomfortable leaving Eunchan with the secretary, constantly blinking and moving his lips.
Miro, who had been stroking Eunchan’s shoulders and cheeks, soon left a message asking him to wait just 5 minutes and entered the hospital room. Eunchan, who had been driven out of the hospital room unexpectedly, was blankly staring at the closed door when the man beside him led him to a chair, telling him to sit comfortably here.
“Shall I bring you a drink?”
“……No, I’m fine.”
Sitting in a lobby chair a bit away from the hospital room, Eunchan dry-washed his face. He had picked up the connecting link called Han Inju, but he was dizzy not knowing what to connect it with. Could there be some connection with Miro? Han Inju had never mentioned Miro, and it seemed Eunchan also hadn’t told Miro about what commission he had taken or about Myeongjin.
“Shall I bring you a snack or something?”
“No, it’s fine. Please sit next to me.”
Eunchan, who felt burdened by the employee standing in front and continuously offering things, pointed to the seat next to him.
“I’m more comfortable standing.”
“……Are you Miro-ssi’s secretary?”
“Yes, I’m late with introductions. I’m Park Hyunseo. Nice to meet you.”
“Ah, yes. I’m Kim Eunchan.”
He was in the appearance of an office worker wearing a suit and tie. Thanks to the information he just obtained and Miro’s appearance, he was confused and couldn’t even exchange greetings. Eunchan stood up and exchanged greetings with Miro’s secretary. He was a different person from the employee who had brought clothes when Miro was hospitalized. After that, the secretary acted like someone anxious that he couldn’t take care of even one more thing for Eunchan, just like Miro, and Eunchan had to break out in cold sweat for a while, burdened by such behavior from the secretary.
Miro, who had left Eunchan outside the hospital room and closed the door, held his breath for a moment and listened carefully. Only after hearing the secretary’s guidance and the sound of Eunchan’s following footsteps did Miro turn around.
“Are you even dating him?”
Jang Heewoo’s mockery filled the hospital room, but as if he didn’t hear it, Miro settled into the chair where Eunchan had been sitting.
“You’re giving me blood. I guess something in the will did prick your conscience.”
“Tiresome……”
Sitting slumped down, Miro couldn’t overcome his boredom and let out a languid sigh.
“Tiresome? You find this tiresome?”
Seeing Miro with a nonchalant face holding his lifeline, Jang Heewoo couldn’t contain his anger and struck the table next to him with his fist. A loud bang echoed to the ceiling, but Miro still had the same languid face.
“I, if you keep luring him out like this, it’s troublesome.”
Fidgeting with his fingers, Miro warned his younger brother. As if treating him like someone who lured out an innocent kid, Jang Heewoo answered with a full frown.
“Did I call him? He came. To ask you to change the will. He knows you’re a murderer.”
The company was just something with his name on it.
What he wrote in the will was only a request for reinvestigation of his parents’ accidental death. It was a suspicious accident that occurred on the day the adoption annulment was decided. Jang Heewoo still couldn’t erase his suspicion of solicitation to murder. Jang Miro was more than capable of doing so.
“You took everything. Are you still not satisfied? Do I have to die completely for you to feel better? Fuck, what did we do wrong? You took everything you were going to take too!”
If it hadn’t been our house, it was an obvious fate that you would have rotted in an orphanage. Jang Heewoo gritted his teeth and glared at Miro, filled with anger.
“How much did you tell Eunchan?”
“I told him everything, including that you’re a psychopath. Why?”
Miro straightened his back and sat properly. He wanted to bite his nails, but since he was taking care of his body to look good to Eunchan, he shouldn’t make unsightly wounds.
‘Because Eunchan believes my words.’
Yesterday’s confession was still warmly filling Miro’s chest. Miro looked down at the floor with empty eyes.
“Rather than dying, it’s better to live as if you’re dead.”
“Are you threatening me right now?”
“If you just die, it would be more convenient……”
“You son of a bitch.”
He eliminated their parents’ people one by one, separated one affiliate company, and grew his power enough to devour the main company. He even pushed away their aunt who cherished him and fired all the bodyguards stationed in front of the hospital. In front of Miro, who played with his life by giving blood little by little as if he would let him live or not, Jang Heewoo always had to become powerless. Because even if he was servile, surviving was the most important thing.
