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“No. I’m not a minor, so what’s there to worry about? I’m just asking out of curiosity. I was wondering if Father actually knows about my daily life. It would be convenient if there’s no need to report to him separately.”
It was sincere, not an excuse. When I lived as Min Jaehee, I saw countless men who did such things to minors. There was a time when my daily life was surrounded by all kinds of crimes, so compared to then, isn’t my current life quite normal?
“Would you like me to report differently?”
“No, just tell the truth. I don’t want to cause trouble for you, Driver Lee, and I’m not doing anything wrong anyway.”
Lee Gyeongjin didn’t respond to my words. Whenever he withheld his answers, I sometimes wondered if my thoughts were wrong, but I didn’t ask about it.
I leaned back into the plush seat, and Lee Gyeongjin skillfully drove the car without opening his mouth again. The road wasn’t very congested, so we arrived home quickly.
“Don’t come in with me, you can go home.”
“I’ll leave after I see you go in, young master.”
“Okay, sure. See you tomorrow.”
I waved my hand lightly and pressed the gate’s security code. Since I didn’t want to announce my return home after midnight, the gate password I had learned in advance was useful.
I climbed the stairs and quietly opened the front door. Fortunately, there was no sound from inside the house. I took off my shoes and crossed the silent living room. I walked on my tiptoes until I reached the stairs. Thankfully, it wasn’t a wooden staircase that would creak when stepped on.
As I was carefully climbing one step at a time, someone came down from the second floor with heavy footsteps. I gasped in surprise and pressed myself against the wall. At that moment, the sensor light in the middle of the staircase turned on, and the person coming down turned their head towards me.
Damn, it was the little bastard. Doesn’t this guy ever sleep? What is he doing up at this hour? My second brother, who had slowly descended the stairs and approached me, twisted his lips in a smile.
“What’s this?”
After looking me up and down, the second brother sniffed for a moment, then frowned and his face turned fierce.
“After leaking pheromones everywhere, you finally caught an alpha and rolled around with him, I see? Fuck, what is this disgusting smell!”
Wow, fuck. I knew my nose was dull, but I didn’t know other people had such keen noses that they could even smell the pheromones I brought back. More than that, I don’t understand why he’s getting so heated about whether I rolled around or did tumbling.
“Until now you’ve been so cautious, wagging your tail like a puppy, so I didn’t know. Now that you’re twenty, you’ve decided to spread your legs everywhere? You’re just like your father, doing exactly the same things. No wonder you’re of his blood, you male prostitute. You probably enjoyed sucking that alpha’s dick. And he sucked your asshole too. Did you like him fucking you?”
This is outright sexual harassment. Even between siblings, there are things you should and shouldn’t say. Besides, even if I did spread my legs, what business is it of his? He’s truly incomprehensible.
“Hyung, half of my bloodline is still the same as yours. Honestly, how would I know if what I’m doing resembles this father or that father? Judging by the way you talk, I don’t think the other bloodline is much better either. Whether I spread my legs or do the fucking, it’s none of your business. Just take care of yourself. With all this barking, I doubt any omega would willingly spread their legs for you. Then you’d have to use your hand. Isn’t that too uncool?”
“This little shit.”
I ducked down one step to avoid his hand that reached out as if to grab my collar. I quietly laughed at my second brother, who looked at his hand that had grasped empty air as if he couldn’t believe how lightly I had taken him.
“Instead of picking fights for no reason, go get some sleep. You’ll wake up the whole family at this rate. It’s troublesome for someone who knows dignity and culture to behave like this. Isn’t this bringing shame to the family?”
If I’m a thunderbolt brat, he’s a complete hooligan. There’s probably not one properly behaved child in this household. The eldest brother also gives off an intense vibe. There must be something with him too.
I quickly climbed the stairs to avoid my second brother, trying hard to shake off the unpleasant feeling. I had happily had sex and returned home feeling good, but this irrelevant guy made me feel like I’d been smeared with shit. Ignoring my second brother who was standing behind me, seething, I went straight into my room.
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It was a holiday, but for me who played all day, it was no different from a weekday. It was about to be another typical weekend, but today was supposedly the day we visit Grandfather Chairman once a month.
I dressed in a formal suit that merely looked neat but was uncomfortable with no other advantages, and styled my hair. After fiddling with it a few times, I could now arrange it to a roughly tidy level.
After coming down to the first-floor living room to wait, family members who had finished their preparations gathered one by one. The eldest brother and his wife came down, the second brother came too, and finally, both fathers filled their seats.
Alpha Father looked around at everyone to confirm that preparations were complete and moved his steps as if to say let’s depart. Beside him, Omega Father’s complexion wasn’t very good, which reminded me of what I had heard at the previous gathering.
“Everyone knows your father secured his position by getting pregnant with a child. It’s a well-known rumor that the Hosan Hospital chairman swore not to leave a penny of inheritance to your father and you.”
It’s been twenty years since Cha Sukyung was born, but could the relationship between Grandfather and Omega Father still be bad? Is that why they don’t live together? Is his poor complexion today also because of that? All sorts of thoughts arose, making my head complicated.
Should I pretend to be friendly and say I’m glad to meet Grandfather for the first time, or should I shut my mouth and read the room? Considering Cha Sukyung’s personality, there’s a 99% chance he would have kept his mouth shut and looked miserable. Since this is my first meeting, I should just observe the situation first.
As we left the gate, black sedans were waiting in a row like sausages. I held back a laugh that was about to burst out and made an effort to create a solemn expression.
The two fathers got into the car at the very front and departed, then the eldest brother and his wife got into the next car. The second brother got into the car after that, and the last car that approached was mine.
“Hello, Driver Lee.”
I got into the car, greeted him lightly, and burst into the laughter I had been holding back. Lee Gyeongjin, who was answering with “Yes, young master,” glanced at me through the rearview mirror, wondering what was going on.
“No, the situation just now was so funny. The black cars lined up looked exactly like Vienna sausages.”
Lee Gyeongjin laughed along with me, his eyes crinkling though he couldn’t make a sound at my chuckling remark.
No matter how I think about it, it’s inefficient. One van would be enough for all six family members with room to spare. Even though a sedan might be cramped for all, with two cars, we could have a driver for each and split three people per car, which would be more than enough. It is comfortable to ride alone, but it also seemed ridiculous.
“I’m glad you’re in a good mood today.”
Lee Gyeongjin followed the cars that had departed ahead closely and turned on the latest pop music at an appropriate volume. It was the latest popular song that I had actively recommended to Lee Gyeongjin because I disliked the silence during car rides. My shoulders involuntarily bounced to the rhythm flowing out. Music from idols is really the best, so exciting.
“I’m not in a particularly good mood, but I did laugh from the start.”
“And you’re not nervous?”
“Rather than nervousness, it’s more like I’m concerned about what attitude I should take since I don’t know how I’ve been getting along with Grandfather all this time.”
“I’m sure you’ll have a good time. Young master has the ability to make people around you feel good.”
“That’s something I’m hearing for the first time. Why are you praising me so much today, Driver Lee? Have you done something wrong to me? Hmm? Is this a smokescreen in advance?”
When I poked Lee Gyeongjin’s shoulder and asked, he immediately replied, “Not at all.”
“You seem to worry sometimes about past events you don’t remember, that’s why.”
Actually, since I’m not really suffering from amnesia, I’m not worried about when my memories will return, but rather concerned that people around me might find it strange that the current me is so different from the previous Cha Sukyung. But what’s the point of worrying? Cha Sukyung and Min Jaehee are different in every aspect, and even Omega Father seemed to have completely given up.
Whether I tried or not, I couldn’t and wouldn’t appear like the previous Cha Sukyung. There are no memories to return anyway, and what I need now is just to make the people around me give up and accept me as I am. So I’ve abandoned a nonexistent elegance and dignity, continuing to live like a thunderbolt brat.
“No, no. I’ve decided not to worry about that anymore. After all, I was Cha Sukyung before, and I’m still Cha Sukyung now, so.”
“That’s right. I don’t know what you were like before, but I think your current self is plenty good.”
“Wow, Driver Lee is really praising me a lot today. If I have a good time at Grandfather’s house, it’s all thanks to you. Got it?”
“Just hearing you say that makes me happy.”
Looking at Lee Gyeongjin, who was smiling as if he was truly happy, I felt, “Ah, this person is really a good person.”
If we could get along this well, why did Father prevent Cha Sukyung from getting close to the employees? If he had at least attached to the employees around him, it might have helped Cha Sukyung’s depression a little.
“Still, I hope we just eat and come back quickly.”
“Do you think it will be uncomfortable?”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
