Yo-han stopped hitting the balls and turned around to see Kim Hyun-Jun. he stared for a short while before he spoke.
"Shoot!" He said.
Kim Hyun-Jun smiled weakly and shortly after, he cleared his throat and began to speak. "Mit-Eum is my half-brother and he was always a great competitor when it comes to who will take over KimJin. It would have been very difficult to decide who will succeed my father if Mit-Eum was a legitimate child but since he wasn't born a Kim, but rather the son of my mother, my father deemed him unrightful to take his place, hence I had the upper hand."
"We both grew up always competing with one another even with the age difference and it became a daily routine for us to provoke one another and because he was the illegitimate child, he always ends up submitting to me because he wouldn't want my father's interference. We took the habit of going against one another until we grew up and the only difference was that we didn't tussle anymore but still we had the same resentment towards one another."
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Some weeks before Mit-Eum died, A Monday morning.
Kim Hyun-Jun sat in his office and opposite him was Park Mit-Eum. The two gave off the same cold expression on their faces which portrayed their hatred for one another. No one could bear to stay in the same office with them because it always felt like the heater becomes faulty in their presence. They were both hot tempered but they emit chills instead of heat.
The room was so tense and the two men fixed the one, his gaze on the other. It was a long glare battle, a frosty cold one.
Just as always, Mit-Eum gave in after a while and cleared his throat then he said. "I... I need to liquidate my mother's shares of the company." As he spoke, his eyes wandered around the room to avoid coming in contact with Hyun-Jun's.
Kim Hyun-Jun frowned when he heard Mit-Eum's words, he sneered at the fellow before he said his words. "She is our mother not yours alone, therefore you can't take away her shares. By the way, I thought you said you won't rely on KimJin to make a living, why the sudden change?"
"Hyun-Jun, You already own KimJin and I don't intend to contend with you over it at all anymore. You have more than several folds of what I am asking for, why do you care so much?" Mit-Eum retorted in a serious manner.
"Because she is also my mother, it's only right that I get a share of what is hers." Kim Hyun-Jun snapped at Mit-Eum. He eyed the fellow up and down and added. "If that's what you came here for, you can leave because my answer is no." He said and continued flipping through the documents in front of him.
Park Mit-Eum sighed helplessly and said. "I need it for charity, I ..."
"Charity?, Not even Business?, How do you expect me to give you such a huge amount of money because of charity?, Mit-Eum please get lost." Hyun-Jun said and buried his head in his work once again.
Hyun-Jun's attitude vexed Mit-Eum so much that he slammed his hands on the table. He stood up and declined his upper body over to Hyun-Jun's side with his two palms resting on the vintage hardwood desk. Their faces were about a feet apart and they both gave each other an angry glare. Mit-Eum's anger suddenly dissolved and his lips curled up into a wicked grin.
"Hyun-Jun, do you know that I have been seeing Min Ju-Eun for the past eight years?, Infact we have gone deeper than you can imagine and the first night we spent together was a Romantic and hot one. I really did enjoyed myself and I will continue to." He licked his lips as he spoke, winked at Hyun-Jun and continued "You can keep the money." He said and straightened his back and without further ado, he left the office.
Kim Hyun-Jun froze and remained fixed on the spot for a short while. Mit-Eum's words taunted him so much.
He could not believe that for the past eight years, his b*stard half-brother had been seeing the woman he loved but could not have, behind his back. How could they do such a thing to him.
"It can't be true, Ju-Eun loves me, she can't love anyone else, she won't betray me like this, it's impossible." He shouted angrily. He stood from his seat and paced back and forth through the office.
Mit-Eum's words kept sounding in his head and it taunted him like crazy. He angrily swiped everything off his desk and they all crashed to the ground.
To vent his anger more, he found a baseball bat at a corner of his room and started smashing things with it.
"Mit-Eum, you dare play around with the woman I love, I will make sure to do the same to the woman you love, You B*stard!!!."
Hyun-Jun picked up his smashed phone from the mess and luckily it was still working. He made a call and when the line went through, he angrily gave an order.
"Seize Choi Min-Ji!!!".
His order rang loud at the other side of the line and they all spun to action immediately. As a big boss that he is, his orders were weighty and everyone puts their all into making things happen quickly because the big boss is very impatient.
It took only about 12minutes before he received a confirmation that they have captured Choi Min-Ji. It was only then that he stopped smashing things, relaxed and started reasoning on what to do with Min-Ji.
Should he ask his guys to r*pe her, that would be to cruel on the lady. Should he frame her of a serious crime?, She would have to live all her life in jail, Mit-Eum wouldn't really be affected, he can even defend her at court and dismiss the case. That's not ambiguous enough. Should I just sell her to the red Phoenix mafia. They would know what to do to her. But that's too risky, what if she escapes and the she reports to the public?, How will KimJin manage to survive?, We have only just cleared the suspicion towards us concerning the Mari Laboratories water pollution scandal even though it's uncle's handiwork. I can't bring KimJin to the spotlight again.
He deliberated for a long time but every single thing he thought about did not seem to be worth the rightful revenge on Park Mit-Eum, hence he looked for his uncle to ask for advice and this was about five days after capturing Min-Ji.
"Rest assured, just handover the girl to me, I need her at the moment." Was what his uncle told him. Unknown to him that the man was plotting Mit-Eum's death.
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"I handed Min-Ji over to uncle Jin, it was him who plotted with the other families. In other for Choi Mu-Young to rescue his daughter from Jin Beom-Seok, he had help with the plan. I only discovered all this after everything had happened but I want you to know that I feel extremely sorry for my decisions back then. I never had it in mind to kill him and I didn't. Concerning Mit-Eum's death, I was not a part of the instigators, I am clean." Hyun-Jun explained.
Yo-han closed the gap between himself and the man a little and asked. "How do I believe everything you said?" He wasn't really convince by the story at all.
"The fact that I, Kim Hyun-Jun dropped all my pride at home just to make up with you is enough. I wouldn't lie for any reason." Kim Hyun-Jun replied and turned to leave. He felt like it was really impossible to win Yo-han over. In truth, Yo-han is really more stubborn than his evil twins combined. He just couldn't handle male youngsters, this days, they are just too obstinate.
Just as he was about to walk away, Yo-han suddenly thought of something and stopped him in his track. "Wait a minute, the Jin Beom-Seok you mentioned earlier is your uncle? Isn't he supposed to be Kim Beom-Seok instead?"
"Hmm, their is no such person as Kim Beom-Seok, I can only mention his full name because you are a Kim, you should know about the Jin family, they are just like Park Mit-Eum, they are not really a part of us. The Jin family are the illegitimate generation from my great grandmother. As you can deduce, every loveless marriage in the Kim lineage always results with an illegitimate child. I guess it's a curse, hehehe, but as for you, I want to make you a true Kim, only if you will let me. As for the Jin family, they have been in the shadows of the Kim family since the day the first Jin was born. It's one of the things no one knows about the Kim family. I am telling you because I am accepting you into the family." Kim Hyun-Jun said and turned around once again and left.
Yo-han stood there with no special emotions shown in his composure. He turned around and continued playing the golf. He didn't care one bit about all what Kim Hyun-Jun said about accepting him into the family. He only held unto the piece of news about the Jin family. The mystery he had been unable to solve. At least he knows the name of the man that formed an alliance with the other families to kill his father. Hence he knows his target, but the Kim family will not go unscathed unless...