[We take care of everything. Trash should be dealt with by trash!]
It was just a single sentence. Yet it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that sentence saved one person’s life. If, at that moment, on Hannam Bridge—where he’d gone after deciding to kill himself—he hadn’t seen that phrase, “Trash disposal—handled by trash!”, then Do Si-in, a city dweller, would have fallen into the Han River…
—Where’s the proof that the child was mine?
He would’ve died just like that man he’d carried in his heart for a month, loved for a month… the child of the man he had believed in.
No—he wouldn’t have died.
He would’ve been killed.
And now that he knew all the secrets, he couldn’t die anymore.
Why should he die because of that bastard?
He was the one who had ruined him completely, driven him so miserable he wanted to die, and even killed his child.
So now it was time to return everything.
Exactly as much as he had suffered at the hands of the bastard he’d thought he loved—Choi Suho.
“Welcome. Your name is… Do Si-in, correct? Family name Do, given name Si-in?”
At the deep, gentle voice that accompanied the business card extended toward him, Do Si-in—who had been hanging his head—flinched. He lifted his gaze, met the eyes of the man sitting across from him, and his mind went blank.
That beauty… really works in this line of business?
No matter how he looked at him, that smiling face was exactly that bastard Choi Suho’s type.
“I hear I’m Choi Suho’s type, so it’ll be easier for you to entrust this to me?”
“Huh… what?”
“Haha. Since you contacted us by phone first and deposited the ten million won in advance, I looked into Choi Suho a bit. Surprisingly easy. After all, I’m his type.”
“Ah……”
His face was undeniably the type. Delicate features, pretty, pale—an unmistakable beauty. And on top of that…
—Haa, Si-in. If only you were taller than me and had a bigger build… that would’ve been even better…!
Choi Suho’s voice seemed to echo by his ear, and Do Si-in slammed his hands against the sides of his head.
Get away, get away, get away! Get out of my ears!
“Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!”
He screamed—agh, agh, agh—while striking his ears with both hands. It was a symptom he’d developed after being forcibly hospitalized in a closed psychiatric ward for two years because of Choi Suho. There were several other symptoms as well…
“What exactly would you like us to return to Choi Suho?”
Panting harshly—huff, huff—Do Si-in stammered through trembling lips, another one of his symptoms.
“Tw-twice what I suffered—no, three times……”
“That won’t be possible.”
The man, who had maintained his gentle smile until then, crossed his legs, rested his hands on his knee, and cut him off with a cold face and voice.
“I only handle jobs on the condition that we return exactly what was done.”
“Why?!”
In his agitation, Do Si-in slammed his hand onto the table where the business card bearing the phrase “We take care of everything. Trash should be dealt with by trash!” lay. The card bounced once. The man, his brown hair neatly slicked back, idly moved the hand resting on his knee. As if playing piano keys, he tapped—tap, tap—and his lips slowly curved.
“Because when it goes too far, it stops being revenge and becomes retaliation. And that always comes back to harm the person themselves.”
“Because of that bastard, I was raped at university, forcibly impregnated, lost my child in a traffic accident, suffered organ damage that led to my uterus being removed, and was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward for two years! And you’re telling me you’ll only return that much? What about the psychological trauma I endured…!”
“I’ll return exactly that much.”
Unable to hide his shock, Do Si-in spoke in a shaking voice.
“B-but Choi Suho is an al—”
“I know.”
The man replied with a smile, his tone flat and uninflected.
“But what does it matter if he’s an alpha?”
“He’s not just any alpha! Choi Suho is a dominant alpha!”
Do Si-in was in a state of extreme agitation. He couldn’t help it. He had come here believing in this one place alone, handing over his entire fortune—four hundred million won. He had deposited fifty million as an advance payment, then, upon arrival, had been asked to bring the remaining three hundred and fifty million in cash—and he had. And now he was being told they’d only return exactly that much.
He had come here hoping to return to Choi Suho far more than what he had done to him—twice, three times, four times, five times over.
“Because of Choi Suho, my life was destroyed.”
The man smiled, but his voice remained dull, bored, and utterly uninterested.
“Most people who come here say the same thing. That because of that person, they lost everything and their lives were ruined.”
“I’m serious! You’re making light of—!”
“I’ve never taken it lightly, Do Si-in.”
For the first time, the man showed emotion toward the agitated Do Si-in. It was empathy—you’re not the only one. Everyone who comes here is the same. And I understand you. Not because I don’t know—but because I do know you. At his warm, gentle gaze that seemed to say all that, tears welled up at the corners of Do Si-in’s eyes.
“Because of Choi Suho… my father died……”
“Then we’ll take care of that as well. Coincidentally, I hear Choi Suho’s father, Chairman Jang Yuguk, is in the terminal stages of heart disease.”
The man smiled, propping his chin on his hand as he spoke.
“Now then—what do you think would happen if the son he intended to leave at least one affiliate to, even if he was born out of wedlock, suddenly became a recessive omega and returned home pregnant with the child of a man he didn’t even know?”
Do Si-in’s chest pounded. Not from excitement.
“And what if he lost that child after being gang-raped?”
This was……
“Ah, no—that’s not it. What if, just before being gang-raped, he lost the child after getting hit by a car while trying to escape?”
It was his story.
“You… how much do you know?”
The man tilted his clear brown eyes—lighter than Do Si-in’s—and then folded them into a gentle smile.
“Come to think of it, my introduction is overdue.”
He pulled out a business card holder from his jacket and took out a different card, handing it to him. Do Si-in’s eyes widened slightly when he accepted it.
“This is a card given only to our clients. Please contact us there from now on.”
“…You really will return to Choi Suho exactly what I suffered?”
“Of course. That’s our motto.”
Leaning back against the luxurious leather sofa, the man spoke in an elegant voice.
“After all, trash should be dealt with by trash. When ordinary people do it, contaminated waste ends up spilling out—and the planet becomes endangered.”
“……”
“We take care of everything. Trash should be dealt with by trash!” The shop’s owner, Ji Haesu, smiled.
“I’ll personally take charge of Choi Suho, so please don’t worry. Do Si-in, you should simply enjoy the rest of your life.”
After Do Si-in left, Ji Haesu remained alone in the office and briefly organized the acts of revenge he would carry out against Choi Suho.
- Choi Suho will be raped by Ji Haesu.
2. Choi Suho will be forcibly transformed from a dominant alpha into a recessive omega.
3. Choi Suho will be impregnated with Ji Haesu’s child.
4. Choi Suho will be made to suffer up to the brink of gang rape and then forcibly miscarry.
5. Chairman Jang Yuguk of Free Enterprise will be informed of these facts, causing Jang Yuguk to die of a heart attack.
6. Choi Suho will be institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital……
Having written that far, Ji Haesu stared at the Korean document file where the cursor blinked, then removed the glasses hanging from a chain around his neck. The glasses swayed against his chest. Resting his chin on his hand, he stared blankly at the laptop, then pulled up the photo of Choi Suho he had investigated in advance.
As expected of the mixture of Jang Yuguk and that dominant omega famed for his beauty—he was a remarkably handsome man. The rare sight of a man radiating a cold aura, staring boldly into the camera with an arrogant smile playing at his lips.
“Hm……”
Ji Haesu murmured, looking at the laptop screen reflected in his own face.
“But work is work.”
He turned back to the cursor and continued typing.
- Choi Suho will be institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital.
That was the full list of the “things” Choi Suho had done to Do Si-in—and now it was Choi Suho’s turn to be revenged upon by Do Si-in.
Because Choi Suho was garbage.
And someone who belonged in the trash.
