Prey - Chapter 55
He must be happy.
At a point where everything had collapsed, he received massive support.
Along with the tremendous backing of Cheonkyung.
Using this wedding as a pretext, he would start even more businesses.
All the while, he wouldn’t feel a hint of guilt for selling off his daughter.
And then, he would fall.
The descent would be as long as the climb was high, when he soared without knowing his limits.
Completely unaware of the endless fall to come, Seol Hee-nam, who was smiling as if he owned the world, was smiling with a disgustingly bright grin.
“The bride has arrived.”
At those words, I suddenly turned my head.
Seol Suhyeon, dressed in a wedding dress, was walking toward the entrance arch.
“……”
I gazed blankly at the bride’s appearance, which until that moment had been of no interest to me.
The wedding dress, prepared to match the grand occasion, was one I had never seen before. Several staff members followed behind, holding the hem that spread like a wave of sleek, shimmering white fabric.
Seol Suhyeon walked straight ahead, lightly holding the dress hem, meeting my gaze.
Her face, without the slightest tension, seemed even more dazzling than when I saw her at the hotel that day, perhaps due to the makeup.
“……”
I felt a slight tension in my brow bone.
Just a moment ago, I had been captivated by Seol Suhyeon as she walked toward me.
That bothersome fact made me narrow my brow in discomfort.
Perhaps it was because I sensed that after this day, everything would be shaken by just this one woman, Seol Suhyeon.
The moment I saw the beautiful Seol Suhyeon, from whom I couldn’t take my eyes off, I felt it.
That my future would be completely shaken by the very person who was supposed to be nothing more than a pawn for revenge.
After the wedding, once the important guests had been seen off, I turned my head.
Seol Suhyeon was standing quietly in her reception dress.
Pointing to the car in front of her, I said to her,
“Go ahead first.”
Her eyes widened slightly, perhaps at the unexpected words.
“What about you, Do Jeonghan?”
“I have to go to the company.”
“Oh… I see.”
Seol Suhyeon nodded and quietly walked toward the car where the chauffeur was waiting.
“……”
I watched her get into the car before turning away. I walked toward the car that Chief Joo had prepared for me.
As soon as I got into the car, I spoke to Chief Joo.
“Take me to the office.”
Chief Joo looked at me through the rearview mirror.
“Wouldn’t it be better to rest? You just finished the wedding…”
“I have things to take care of.”
Speaking in a low voice while leaning my forehead slightly against my hand, Chief Joo soon nodded.
“Understood.”
Without further objection, Chief Joo drove the car to the company.
After arriving at the office and entering my study, I walked toward the front window. Standing by the window, I quietly looked outside.
It was the time when darkness gradually descended, enveloping the buildings in a deep blue.
They call it the time between dog and wolf.
I thought it was quite fitting. The time when it’s hard to distinguish whether it’s a dog or a wolf in the descending darkness. It must be crouching somewhere on the mysterious boundary between blue and black.
Something that’s hard to tell if it’s human or beast.
Today, I married Seol Hee-nam’s daughter.
Today would be the happiest day of Seol Hee-nam’s life…
“It’ll be the last happy day for him.”
I muttered coldly, staring out the window.
Not yet.
For now, I had to give him time to enjoy his current happiness and the flood of investment proposals coming from all directions.
The higher you rise, the greater the fall.
Seol Hee-nam needed time to soar, without knowing how high he had climbed. He wouldn’t even dream that he would experience a fall so great, it would feel several times higher than his current rise.
“……”
I took my gaze off the window and walked to the desk.
After pulling out the chair and sitting down, I cleared my thoughts and started to work.
When I returned home at dawn, Seol Suhyeon’s shoes were placed at the entrance on the third floor.
I stared at the shoes for a moment with a sense of unfamiliarity.
Ah, Seol Suhyeon.
I reminded myself that they were the shoes of the woman I had married the day before, technically yesterday. I stepped out of the elevator.
This house was a mansion Chairman Do had specially prepared before I returned to Korea. I remembered Advisor Kim Jeong-cheol whispering to me that Chairman Do had been unusually meticulous to the point where people around him found it a bit excessive.
