Chapter 12 - Unexpected Encounter

Young-hee shortly left the auction building with Young-men following her closely. Just as she predicted, many people waited at the entrance for an opportunity to form a relationship with Young-mi, but none of them dared to come over when they saw that she was with her.

Just as the two were about to get into the car and leave the premises, a young man's voice suddenly shouted from among the crowd, "Elise!"

The sudden and surprise mention of her previous name suddenly caused Young-mi to halt from her track, even Young-hee was surprised. The two turned around to see who it was, but only to find a young man who seems to be wearing clothes that are the same as the staff in the Pandora Auction House.

Neither Young-hee nor Young-mi could recognise who the young man was or how the young man knew about Young-mi's previous identity. However, what they do know is that Young-mi having her previous name called out won't lead to any good ending.

'Did they find out her identity? But how? I have already hired someone to erase and fabricate all existing records about her, there shouldn't be any problem...' Young-hee pondered to herself, trying to find out where she had made a mistake.

"Elise? Is it really you?" The young man shouted and ran straight towards her with his hand about to hug Young-mi. However, just when the young man was just metres apart from her, two bodyguards who worked under Young-hee immediately tackled the young man to the floor, restraining him.

"Get off me! Who are you guys? Elise!" The young man continued to shout, desperately trying to break out from the two bodyguard's restraint.

"Who are you?" Young-mi asked, although she is doing this to prevent her real identity from getting exposed, she also wasn't lying either; she really doesn't recognise who this young man in front of him is.

"Elise? Do you not remember who I am? I am Dong-Hyun." Dong-Hyun replied, still unable to break his restraint from the floor.

'Dong-Hyun...I believe we went to the same school together' Young-mi thought to herself, but know matter whether she did or didn't go to school with him, she can never admit it in public, "I don't know you and neither is my name Elise."

"What? There's no way, you are Elise! We go to the same school together and we even went out together once!" Dong-Hyun shouted.

"Enough!" Young-hee exclaimed with a threatening tone that caused everyone including Dong-Hyun to freeze for a second.

"Just now, how dare you try to assault my daughter? How dare you spout nonsense towards my daughter?" Young-hee starred at Dong-Hyun with dagger eyes then said, "She is my daughter as well as the young lady of SYC. How dare you try to defame my daughter's reputation!"

Dong-Hyun couldn't believe what he was hearing, but just as he was about to shout again, the crowds suddenly joined in.

"That's right! How dare this imbecile try to assault the young lady Sung?"

"Someone quickly calls the police on him before he tries to do anything else."

"What? Do you think it happened to this young man that caused him to spout such nonsense?"

"Mental health of course; he probably just got dumped by his girlfriend and thinks every young girl is his ex-girlfriend."

The crowds continued to look down on Dong-Hyun with disgust and ridicule him. Dong-Hyun didn't understand why this was happening to him but before he could even refute all of the things said to him, one of the bodyguards covered his mouth preventing him from spouting anything out.

"Come on Young-mi, we should get going now. The police should be able to take care of him, so don't worry." Young-hee said with a gentle voice then added, "You must be shocked from this event; after all your body has only just recently recovered from the illness."

The people in the crowd who heard this became symphetic to Young-mi but increasingly more angry toward Dong-Hyun.

Seeing how everyone is gazing at him with disdain and agitated looks, he knows that no matter what he says now, no one will listen to him even if he could speak right now. No to be more specific, no one would have sided with him in the first place; the people here all wanted to suck up to the CEO of SYC and to possibly gain her favour or at least present their "goodsides" to her.

Soon, both Young-hee and Young-mi got into the car and left the premises, while Dong-Hyun was restrained by other employees from the auction house. They could almost still hear his unrelenting screams from behind, before shortly later the sound of siren took over.