Chapter 160
Yoo Siwoon slowly released Eunseong whom he had been embracing with all his strength. The bedding that had been covering Eunseong slipped down, revealing the naked body he had desired and entered. Eunseong was staring intently at him.
He maintained his gaze on Yoo Siwoon, who had frozen and couldn’t even respond.
“Am I just your breeding vessel?”
“…What are you saying?”
Eunseong pulled the fallen bedding back up to cover his body, clutching it to his chest. Gripping the bedding tightly with both hands, he moved away from Yoo Siwoon. Yoo Siwoon remained frozen in the same position as when he had been holding Eunseong. He stared blankly at Eunseong, who was now distancing himself.
“I’m asking if I’m just your breeding vessel.”
“…What on earth are you talking about?”
“From now on, don’t answer my questions with questions.”
Eunseong spoke firmly to him. He bit his blue, cold lips tightly. Something was welling up inside him, causing his pale face to flush red.
“You know my biological parents, don’t you?”
“…”
“My father… he’s not my real father, is he? Is Park Myung-hoon really my biological father?”
“…”
“I know everything, so tell me the truth from now on, no more lies. My father, the one I knew, isn’t my biological father, and Park Myung-hoon is my real father, right?”
“…Yes, that’s right.”
“It’s true? That man, Park Myung-hoon, is really my biological father?”
“Yes.”
Yoo Siwoon swallowed hard before answering. Eunseong’s lips trembled sharply each time Yoo Siwoon confirmed as truth what should not have been true.
“Then you’re not even my relative.”
“…”
“We’re not related at all, are we? Then why did you bring me here pretending to be my relative? When we’re not related at all?”
Yoo Siwoon belatedly realized his mistake.
“Did you kill my biological parents?”
“…”
Yoo Siwoon couldn’t answer and gazed at Eunseong with vacant eyes. His expression showed that he now understood why Eunseong was behaving this way. Though he didn’t know how or through what channels Eunseong had learned everything, he realized that Eunseong now knew it all. This explained why Eunseong would violently retch as if about to expel his internal organs when seeing him, why he kept his distance saying he couldn’t stand the smell…
And Yoo Siwoon vaguely surmised what misunderstanding Eunseong had. A feeling of powerlessness swept over him, as if all strength was draining from his body. The air suddenly seemed to gain weight, pressing down on his shoulders.
“Answer me. My biological parents, Oh Yunhee, Park Myung-hoon—people I’ve never seen, never touched, never even heard their voices… did you kill them?”
“…No.”
If only he had told the truth from the beginning. Even if he’d been treated like a madman, even knowing he couldn’t make Eunseong understand, if only he had told the truth.
He already knew what Eunseong was going to say. As he expected, Eunseong’s thoughts were flowing in that direction.
“Did you kill them? My biological parents?”
Eunseong’s eyes were pleading for him to say no. He felt that if it were true, if the person he loved had killed the parents he had never even seen or felt, he wouldn’t be able to breathe anymore.
“Did you kill them, my biological parents?”
Gazing into Eunseong’s reddening eyes, Yoo Siwoon shook his head and answered.
“No.”
“What about Seo Jeong-gi… the father who raised me, my dad? You killed him too, didn’t you?”
“I didn’t kill him.”
“You didn’t? You really didn’t kill him?”
“…I didn’t kill him.”
“Then who killed them? My biological parents, the father who raised me—who killed them?”
“…”
“If you didn’t kill them… who did?”
“…”
This time Yoo Siwoon couldn’t answer. Eunseong had hoped he would deny this too, but he remained silent. No matter how many times Eunseong asked, he wouldn’t open his closed mouth.
Watching Yoo Siwoon unable to firmly deny it, Eunseong heard the collapse of his last lingering hope—the hope that it was all a misunderstanding, that it was deception and fraud by those trying to drive a wedge between them.
The direction of his questioning had been wrong from the beginning. He asked again to the man who claimed he hadn’t killed anyone. His voice trembled as it approached the truth.
“…My biological parents died because of you, didn’t they?”
“…”
“My father too… he died because of you, right? To have me, to bring me here and rape me—my biological parents, my father, all of them… they died because of you, right?”
“…”
Unable to answer, Yoo Siwoon’s eyes began to tremble. Looking at Yoo Siwoon’s wavering pupils, Eunseong realized his suspicions were true.
Eunseong was dumbfounded. His throat burned. A lump of emotion like bile surged up. He clenched his fists so tightly that the knuckles protruded white. His fists, gripping the bedding, trembled.
Yoo Siwoon believed it was all for Eunseong’s benefit. He hadn’t told him because he thought it was better for Eunseong not to know, that since he would have to leave anyway, there was no need for him to know about such absurd things.
Though it had happened long ago and Yoo Siwoon hadn’t been directly involved, he couldn’t deny that it was the doing of his family, and Yoo Siwoon was of their bloodline.
It was true that they had died because of that.
“I heard that if you have me, you get to own all of Seongha Group. Is that not true either?”
“…”
“Tell me it’s all not true.”
Yoo Siwoon’s expression painfully contorted. He couldn’t answer. Eunseong’s chest burned as if on fire. A dry tear streamed down his cheek.
“…Was this what you meant by being ‘trash’?”
“Eunseong.”
His voice was choked as he called Eunseong’s name.
“You really are trash. So it was all… true. That I’m just your breeding vessel.”
“No.”
He shook his head adamantly, denying it. Yoo Siwoon’s eyes were reddening.
“No? Then what am I?”
“…”
“What am I to you, then?”
“…You are my partner.”
Yoo Siwoon’s hand tenderly cupped Eunseong’s tear-wet cheek as he spoke affectionately. Eunseong stared at him with disgusted eyes.
“I’m… your wife?”
“Yes, you are my wife. The one I’ve waited for my entire life…”
“…So that’s why you made me smell that scent? Do you think I don’t know that you came looking for me with that filthy grass smell to rape me?”
“…”
“And you kept making me smell it. While keeping me from leaving this place.”
Yoo Siwoon’s eyes froze in shock. His hand, which had been caressing Eunseong’s cheek tenderly, slowly fell away. Eunseong backed away even though Yoo Siwoon wasn’t approaching him. He cowered, shrinking his whole body as if he might scream if Yoo Siwoon came even slightly closer.
“Where is my father now? Where is my dad?! What did you do with him after killing him? Go ahead and lie again about cremating him. Did you think I would never know there was nothing in that urn? Did you think I would never… never know that you used me? You thought I would keep believing you, didn’t you? Right?”
“…”
“And without knowing any of this… I… I thanked you for sending me to him then… thanked you for letting me meet him, not knowing you had killed my father, I… I said thank you… I said he wasn’t a bad father… I said those things! Thinking my father was there, not knowing you had killed him, I said those things! Hnngh… ungh.”
Eunseong sobbed violently, clawing at his body. He tore at the bedding, tore at the pillow. He ripped at everything viciously until his nails lifted. Then he began throwing everything he could get his hands on.
“You held his funeral without me knowing! You said you cremated him and placed him in a columbarium. You made it seem like I was all alone in this world, like I had no one to lean on except you!”
Books and cups flew at Yoo Siwoon, scratching his cheeks and forehead before falling to the floor. His face was cut, blood beaded and streamed down his cheeks in red trails.
After looking at Eunseong, who was crying as if vomiting blood, Yoo Siwoon stood up. He left Eunseong’s room, leaving behind the screaming sobs.
Outside the door, he encountered Director Nam, who was standing with a shocked expression. Unable to enter, he had been anxiously waiting outside, and now his eyes widened at the sight of the wounds on Yoo Siwoon’s face.
“…What happened?”
“…”
“CEO, what happened? What are all those things he’s saying? Huh?”
“…He knows everything.”
“Knows what? You mean Eunseong knows everything? How?”
Director Nam grabbed Yoo Siwoon’s arm and shook him, telling him to come to his senses. He gripped his shoulders and shook him. Yoo Siwoon’s vacant eyes, which had been wandering elsewhere, finally focused on Director Nam who was urging him.
“…He asked if he was just my breeding vessel.”
“…What?”
Director Nam froze with his hands still gripping Yoo Siwoon’s shoulders. They stared blankly at each other’s faces with vacant expressions.
“That I… that I killed his biological parents and Seo Jeong-gi… that I killed them to make him my breeding vessel…”
“…”
“Since it’s true they died because of me… since it’s true our family killed them, I couldn’t answer.”
“…How did, how did Eunseong…”
“I don’t know.”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
