Finding Answers (Mature Content)

Once they arrived back at the company, Soohyun separated himself from the team and informed them that he had something to do. Since it was lunchtime, there is no problem to excuse oneself from the company as long as the person returns when lunch is off. Soohyun took his car and drove off from the company.

"Kwangsoo Hyung," Soohyun called through his car phone.

"Neh boss," Kwangsoo replied immediately.

"Can you track Hyosung now?" Soohyun pulls over at the side of the road, "There is something I need to confirm."

"Alright, give me a second," Kwangsoo replied as he does his magic. Kwangsoo is one of the few people that know about Hyosung. "Well, she is in her apartment right now."

"Alright, Hyung," Soohyun quickly heads over to Hyosung's place. He leaves his disguise in the car and heads into the apartment to which he is greeted by the front desk, and for the first time, he replied with a smile. Soohyun stopped for a bit in front of the elevator after realizing what he just did. Normally, he would just ignore the person when he's greeted but this time he genuinely smiles and nods back.

"Oh boy, this role is starting to get to me," Soohyun is starting to realize that in just two weeks, his manners are starting to change even though his sharp tongue still gets the better of him like earlier today with Yoo Jae Suk. Being the nice Byung Joon must have taken a little change his usual character.

He makes his way through the familiar hallway to Hyosung's apartment and he punched in the code for her apartment. Once inside, the first thing he hears is a familiar moaning sound of a woman. Sounding louder than usual coming from the kitchen. He walks slowly further into the apartment as the moaning gets louder. "Ohhh fuckk me oppa! ahhhhh yessss yessss," There Soohyun could see the backside of a naked man tugging a girl's hair as he thrusts his hips to bury himself deep into the woman Soohyun usually spends time with, but now it seems like he isn't the only one. As he scans the room, their clothes are scattered everywhere starting from the front door. The clothes he noticed are the same clothes that he saw when he first met them at the mall. There is no need to look at the man's face when Soohyun knows already who it is.

Soohyun took no time to stick around as he sneaks out the door again unnoticed when the last sound he hears was Hyosung moaning louder. He trudged to the elevator and goes back down to the lobby. Once again he returned the greeting of the lady behind the front desk of the apartment before leaving. "Hyung?" Soohyun called Kwangsoo again once he is inside the car.

"Yes, boss?" Kwangsoo replied.

"Can you find out any connection Hyosung could have with Ju Ji Hoon?" Soohyun says so as he starts the car, preparing to go back to work, "Can I have the report by tonight?"

"Alright, I'll see what I can do? Thank you, Hyung," Kwangsoo who heard Soohyun thank you to him for the first time was stunned for sure.

"Did you just...." Soohyun hangs up the phone the moment he just said something that he rarely really said to anyone. Today's discovery is weighing at his mind once he arrived at K Inc. Before getting into the building he made sure to put on his disguise.

Once back inside, he resumes his work with this team. Spending the next several hours discussing and planning for their presentation next week. And Soohyun finds himself satisfied with their discussion that they finished. "With this, we have a big chance to win!" Wooyoung exclaimed as they enjoyed snacks from the company's big pantry.

Soohyun finds himself smiling at the scene. How his subordinates enjoyed a good time after a long day of discussing, made him feel like he's in a different environment even though it is the same scene that he sees in his company. However, when he is the one sharing it with his team has it's own satisfaction as it unfolds in front of him. This very scene, 2 weeks in the making, has made him see how messed he has been as a CEO. Though the success of his company is no longer a question, he realizes that being the kind of CEO he was is something very different than what JiU does. From that realization, Soohyun's respect for her grown exponentially.

Two weeks spent, though he's got nowhere to what he wants in getting a 1 on 1 moment with JiU, he still got the chance to observe the way she works and how her company runs. Few things he noticed that are naked to the eye are how much she treasures her employees and how they also respected her. In those two weeks, Soohyun witnessed how she would leave the building a few hours earlier than usual only to return a few hours later. Soohyun had Kwangsoo track her car to find out that she visited a hospital and stayed there for a while before coming back to work. As Kwangsoo searched for details, it was known that she had visited one of her employees who got into an accident earlier today and how she paid for everything regarding her employee. She spends time talking to the employee who was lucky enough to survive the deadly accident with a broken leg rather than her own life.

To his eyes, JiU is the complete opposite of who he is when leading their own respective companies. He leads with an iron hand and will kick away anyone who failed to compensate the expectations he set while JiU leads with a complete balance between grace and order plus how her employees respect her is already a positive thing in its own right.

As Soohyun sits to watch his team interact with each other, his phone buzzed. Fishing it out of his pocket, the caller ID says that it is Kwangsoo. He walked out of the room to answer the call, "Yes, Hyung? What do you have for me?"

"Umm so I look into both Hyosung's company and Ju Ji Hoon's," Soohyun could hear keyboard keys being tapped before Kwangsoo continues, "3 days ago, they finalized their merger, but it wasn't made public yet until tomorrow."

Soohyun stood in the hallway while shaking his head in disappointment, "What else do you know, Hyung?"

"Well.. from a piece of insider news, Ju Ji Hoon will be the CEO of this newly merged company while Hyosung will be his Co- CEO," Kwangsoo explains, "This merger is quite the move, boss. They can actually stand a chance against Kim Corp and K Inc if they choose to go public with their stock and taking into the international market.

Soohyun was about to utter a reply when the elevator, from the far side of the floor, opened. Soohyun hides behind a pillar and peaks to see who it was coming out that elevator since all he knows for these past two weeks that the elevator is broken. The person coming out of the elevator is none other than JiU. "Boss? you still there?" Kwangsoo calls out the still ongoing call.

"Hyung, I'll call you later," Soohyun shuts down his phone and puts it back into his pocket as he quickly follows JiU. This could be the chance he's been waiting for. He follows her quietly from behind but he soon realizes that he never ventures to this area of the building since he's always cooped up only in his office with his team rather than looking around the floor. And as he follows her, she stopped in between two pillars with only a single door.

"That's odd," Soohyun whispered to himself. JiU opened the door and a bright light immediately brightened a portion of the pillars. As she entered, Soohyun is close behind to follow. He holds the door by hand carefully as he watches in awe to see a flourished garden. JiU walks on before making a turn to the right. Soohyun slipped through the door and gently closes the door before finally getting a better look at the beautiful garden that grows around the side of the 15th floor. But cutting his awe short, he proceeds to look for JiU by following the direction she went to earlier.

Soohyun makes the same right turn that JiU made to only find a long bush of red roses. He keeps going to hear a faint sound coming from ahead of him. At first, he couldn't distinguish what sound it was until he got closer to realize that it is the sound of a woman crying. He keeps going forward as the sound gets louder. Soohyun leans against the wall of the building since there's another opening after the roses. As he creeps closer to the source of the sound, he finally finds himself hearing the crying sound as if right next to him on the other side of the wall. He decides to peek from his side of the wall take a closer look at the girl crying.

Peaking his head out, he is met with teary-eyed JiU looking right at him. He failed to realize that she leaning on the other side of the wall, just right next to where he was leaning. Hence, now they are looking at right at each other. Both stunned, Soohyun stunned the most, JiU speaks, "Who are you?" she says through her a shaky breath laced with tears.