The next day, I woke up messed up as I didn't sleep well last night. Every twenty minutes I would wake up and the first thing that appeared in my head was that Chunghee had truly left me. It was like a waking nightmare, the pain was so real, and it continued into the next day.

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As I kept thinking about Chunghee who was still completely without news. I wasn't excited to pass the time of day as if I had no passion for life, like someone who got a curse by being ripped off of his soul and lived in a hallow.

I even left the pile of files from the staff on the desk and didn't want to touch them at all.

At work, resting my head on the table, I mutter softly, "Chunghee, why aren't you coming back yet? I can't keep on like this. I miss you so much. Go home now."

While Chunghee left me, all the memories from the first time I fell in love with him seemed to be playing back in my head. It immediately made this excessive pain even worse, rending my heart repeatedly.

In the past, how I chased him and did anything to get his heart was useless today. Stupidly, what I had been fighting for all this time, I had treated like nobody for a while now, and when I regretted myself, he left, and either he would come back or not at all.

It hurt so much, like being stabbed in the same wound.

Was this the feeling he had when I treated him badly all this time? Is it this painful? Or is the feeling more than this?

I've always been selfish and indifferent. Always forcing him to do what he didn't want to do. However, he just kept smiling and saying okay without a refusal so that I wouldn't feel disappointed — all for my selfishness, like ten years ago before he fell in love with me.

At that time, I knew that he didn't love me, but I forced him to fall in love with me. Until now, his feelings were what I forced him to do; forcing him to continue to love me even though I always acted casually regardless of his feelings.

I was a fool. I realized the past when he turned away from me. This regret slapped me on the face countless times.

In the silence, the sound of a knock on the door made me straighten up and pretend to be calm.

Someone immediately entered with elegant footsteps. But, after seeing the face of a person who was already standing in front of me, it made me relax again and leaned my back against the chair. "Ah, Yunhee, it was you. What's wrong?"

Bae Yunhee was my business partner in a different company. I had known him since five years ago and been pretty close since then. We often shared stories about many problems, both on work and personal affairs.

He was also the only person who knew my current relationship with Chunghee and Sunyeon. But, I wasn't the only bastard here as he was the same as me. We were duo bastards.

"I've been calling you during these two days, why do you keep rejecting my calls?" I asked in a clear luscious voice in my throat.

He chuckled. "You called at a bad time." He sat lazily on the sofa and started smoking. "Look at your face, are you arguing again? With Chunghee ... Sunyeon? Or with someone else?"

I let out a heavy sigh, then stroked my hair so restlessly. "Chunghee ...."

"You mean?"

"He left me. While we were arguing, I said inappropriate things, so he left but hasn't returned yet. I'm afraid ... if he goes to Kim's side, the young master of the Kim Family, I've told you about it before, right?"

"Kim Daehyun?"

I nodded weakly.

Seeing that response, he laughed again, slowly then louder. "So, what makes you look so troubled? I guess it doesn't matter if you have other stocks out there."

I glanced at him sharply, frowning at him. "I'm serious. I'm not kidding right now."

"Same, me too," smoked his cigarette, he replied.

I gave no response other than continuing to glare at him, showing seriousness on my face.

Until a few seconds later, he spoke casually, "You know, if I were Chunghee, I would definitely leave you too. Who wants to be raped like that all the time?" still laughing, he continued in a joking tone, "Stop raping him, Lee. That's not good for his body."

I lifted my head, stared blankly at the ceiling of this office. "Fuck you. I only do that when I'm mad at him."

"Stupid. now, you admit it, huh? It's the same thing though. There's no difference, dude," with a pause, he continued, "But, why do you have to make that gloomy face? Don't you still have another toy out there?"

I froze for a moment, sighed silently, and then looked at him coldly. "Bae Yunhee, do me a favor. Help me look for him. I have to find him right away."

Finishing my words, a moment of silence fell in this room. Then, he began to move to put out the cigarette in his hand and began to speak seriously, "If you really love him, you shouldn't be playing around out there. But since it's already done, you don't have to regret it either. He left you, it might be because he was tired of your behavior. And about the affair he had with President Kim ... I ain't sure. But, if he did have an affair with him, I'm sure that he also did it just because he wanted to forget about you. In this situation, you are indeed the one to blame, get it?"

"Hmm, I thought that we were both bad. But, I was wrong. You are even worse than me. I was having an affair, but I would never do such a rude thing to my main lover even if she hit me. You also know that Chunghee is a good person, but you instead treat him like a mistress. As for Sunyeon, you treat him like your lover — you think backward. If you really love him, you can't possibly do something like that to him. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"

I was speechless. It was a truth that hit my head with great force, so that all the abusive treatment I had ever done was played back in my memory, made the regrets pile up even more. Then, in a weak, desperate voice, I said, "Then, help me. I'll pay you a reward — anything — as long as you find him."

"Anything? Are you sure you would risk everything, even if it was your own company?"

Hearing that cold question, I gathered all that confidence and seriousness on my face and stared at him. "In running in the business world, I always use a lot of tactics. You know me very well, right? I've been involved in a serious case with you, we passed it, and during that time I promise to myself that I will never commit default like that again for the company, even my own words."

"So, your decision?"

"If you want that company so badly, I'll give it to you, on one condition that you have to find where Chunghee is."

He grinned coldly, described the sly thoughts that were in his head at this time, and immediately stood up, "Looks like, you're really suffering, Lee. However, the compensation is quite balanced I guess. Just let me think about it then."

Hearing this, I exclaimed, "There's no time! Decide it now!"

Bae Yunhee smirked coldly. "Alright then, if you insist."

He started walking toward the door. And after he opened the door, he saw someone who was also standing outside with his hand about to knock on the door.

For a moment, Bae Yunhee turned to me while smiling with the eyes as if to curse me before he went past someone who was still standing in front of the door, with the hands that he had lowered beside his body.

With a cold gaze, I stared at the man for a long time before speaking in a low voice that sounded cold, "If you just want to stand there, you better get hell out of here. After all, what made you come here? What did I say last night wasn't clear in your ear? Do I need to be violent so you can understand my words?"

After I said that, he immediately walked in and closed the door.

He approached me carefully. He lowered his head slightly, hiding his frightened face. When he was right in front of me, with trembling hands, he put something so familiar on the desk and took me by surprise.

It was the thing that I had been looking for all this time. I never thought that he was the one who took it from me!

I felt my anger had touched my sinciput!