Bound by a Ruthless Contract - Chapter 66
Even down to how their mere gaze could bind and constrict her entire body.
“…I understand your meaning clearly.”
It meant to keep her mouth shut.
To stay silent and not breathe a word to Si-heon.
The implications were crystal clear – if he were to find out, she would have to face the consequences.
“Si-heon is destined to stand at the peak of Hwanhee and lead it to its summit.”
The chairman’s pride and faith in his eldest grandson were clearly deep and vast.
Ah, so that’s it.
The chairman came to tell me this.
That this marriage cannot be.
As if reading her thoughts, Kwon Soon-yeol spoke.
“I hear you’re an illegitimate child.”
“…”
“With a brain-damaged aunt. At Doguk General Hospital, was it?”
Ga-eun tightly clasped her hands together under the table.
“Am I wrong?”
“…No. Everything you said is true.”
“Hmm.”
Kwon Soon-yeol nodded his head a couple of times.
Ga-eun couldn’t help but think.
That Si-heon seemed to have the same habit.
“This too, Si-heon doesn’t know.”
“What do you mean by that…”
“Si-heon believes you to be the biological daughter of Gye Young-cheol and Woo Ji-hyang. He doesn’t know about your aunt. Just like the people around you.”
Kwon Soon-yeol looked straight into her eyes and spoke.
“Because I hid it.”
Why on earth?
Though he saw the question written across Ga-eun’s face, Kwon Soon-yeol merely lifted his teacup and savored its fragrance.
“What did Si-heon say when he proposed marriage?”
Ga-eun traced her memories, trying to relay his words as accurately as possible.
“He said he got promoted, so his workload increased, and he didn’t want to waste even a minute. Instead of going through the trouble of finding someone, he was giving me the first opportunity…”
“And in return, he’d get rid of your marriage prospects and help rebuild your family?”
“…Yes.”
“I see. Such a deal was made.”
Kwon Soon-yeol chuckled and took a slow sip of tea. Oddly, he didn’t seem displeased.
“Was there nothing else?”
“No, nothing else.”
Kwon Soon-yeol smiled with satisfaction.
Naturally, his eldest grandson hadn’t shown his cards to a woman.
If it had been his second grandson, Kwon Si-jung, he would’ve surely fallen for Ga-eun’s pretty face and slender figure, spilling everything.
Then, falling prey to pillow talk, he would’ve done numerous things advantageous to the woman and completely useless to himself.
His father, the second son Kwon Jae-sung, had been the same, Soon-yeol was certain.
He remembered his late wife weeping before him, beating her chest, asking how the second son and grandson could be so identical to her wastrel brother who died away from home.
“That’s exactly right. Our Si-heon has no time to waste on unnecessary things. So you must have anticipated it too. That this marriage won’t last long.”
“…”
“And that it would be in your best interest to withdraw cleanly when the divorce comes.”
Ga-eun, who had been quietly watching Kwon Soon-yeol make his gentle-faced warnings, pulled something from her bag and placed it on the table.
“I didn’t hear anything else from Mr. Kwon Si-heon… but I received this.”
Kwon Soon-yeol’s eyes widened.
What Ga-eun presented was his eldest grandson’s business card, personally crafted with 18K gold dust.
“I heard… with this, I could even push back against you, Chairman.”
