Episode 457
Because Lee Jae-heon’s consciousness was intact, the process of settling matters was easy.
“You, you bastard! uh?! “Did I tell you to do it in moderation or not?”
“Uh oh… I hurt my back, don’t touch my back…!”
“I heard you suggested it first and they took the back part! Why are you whining about the pain you brought on yourself? “Oh my, I’m really burning up!”
“Ahhhh…!”
Lee Jae-hyung, who had been working fine and suddenly came running when he heard the news of his younger brother’s accident, slapped Lee Jae-heon on the back as soon as he saw him. The doctor who brought the patient became restless due to the caretaker’s lack of common sense towards the patient, but the sound was only loud and it wasn’t particularly painful.
Of course, on the surface, it was domestic violence, so the expressions of the doctor and secretary Jeong Eun-woo became clouded. Lee Jae-heon heard Jeong Eun-woo muttering very softly, ‘You bastard whose conscience was stolen…’
“Huh… okay…”
Perhaps due to the intense movements and emotions, Jaehyung Lee was out of breath and stroked his hair.
“So what’s going on?”
“Are you done already?”
“Now that it’s over, please explain.”
“My brother isn’t the same as before. “Look at me panting.”
“Jae-heon, who do you think I’m running out of breath for now?”
“Since when did you become so affectionate?”
“Do you think this is a matter of affection?”
“Probably not…?”
“If you know, please explain.”
Jaeheon Lee pierced his earhole.
“Didn’t you hear the explanation from the people behind you?”
“I heard it, but I’m not sure if what I heard is right.”
“Uh… I guess that’s right….”
“This crazy bastard really is.”
“Ahh, I’m a patient right now…!”
Lee Jae-hyung hit Jae-heon Lee on the back again, and only after seeing blood did his domestic violence stop.
Lee Jae-heon realized once again that his brother was truly a bastard and obediently accepted the doctor’s treatment.
“Do you use it if a person who came to visit the patient sees the patient’s blood?”
“You just need to be a little less fussy.”
“Damn….”
“Did you just say this to your brother?”
“eww.”
“I told you not to openly hate me.”
Jaehyung Lee took a deep breath and asked again.
“So why did you really do that? It is said that everyone in the industry, including writers, has at least one secret weapon. “The bastard named Seong Dae-young… that was his body.”
“Did I know that far?”
“I heard that student Song In-myeong gave a general warning. “But you didn’t bother to do something to Seong Dae-young on your own and made such a fuss that you ended up in this sad month.”
“So it was a mistake.”
“Ha… Lee Jae-heon….”
Lee Jae-hyung continued, holding his head as if his entire back was in pain.
“I’m not telling you what you usually do. If you’re going to enjoy something like that, at least you shouldn’t get hurt. huh? “Why did you proceed with the task on your own even though you all know that the opponent is not in the right weight class, and then end up like this?”
Jaeheon Lee also had a clear reason for that.
‘If I put you here, what will happen to my chicks?’
It was Lee Jae-hyung who approached Jung In-ho with all his might just because it was already difficult to control ‘Lee Jae-heon’. I’ve maintained the image of ‘Even if I’m a serial killer’s bud, I’m still your small and delicate youngest brother~’ and it seems to have improved a bit now, but it was still unreliable.
This incident was an effort to prevent the newly introduced chicks from being threatened further. In the process, if it was discovered that Lee Jae-heon was truly caring about their safety, the probability and the chicks were also a problem. In a family like this, being caught being sincere was no different from showing weakness.
“Uh…”
So how should I explain this?
“What? Are you worried? “Just spit out whatever comes to mind, you idiot.”
“What do I trust… and ask for… from you, brother?”
“What dude?”
“No, honestly, you usually act like that even when you don’t do anything special…”
“Is that what you’re going to say to the family that’s visiting you right now?”
“Then you saw the blood on my back because you saw me as a patient?”
“You brought this on yourself.”
“This is why I don’t talk to my brother.”
The context may be a little different, but it wasn’t a lie. Both as a member of the party and as a family, Lee Jae-hyung and Lee Jae-hee were the type of people that were difficult to fully trust. Lee Jae-heon thought that the distrust would be the same even if he was a serial killer sprout.
Lee Jae-hyung gaped at that, as if he was at a loss for words.
“You really… even if you say it…”
“What did I say…?”
“…Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….”
Lee Jae-hyung sighed deeply, and Lee Jae-heon looked back at Jeong Eun-woo and the doctor who were standing in the back with a questioning look on their faces. Jung Eun-woo had an expression that said, ‘I knew that would happen,’ and the doctor had an expression that said, ‘So when will that domestic violence criminal disappear?’
uh? wait for a sec.
“…?”
The doctor and that guy are acting so insincere as if they will start crying if you touch them, and the way they look at their boss is beyond your imagination.
I wondered if he, a doctor, cared about his patients when he was more fearful than a newborn lamb. I don’t know if I gained courage that I didn’t have before or if my wit was revealed.
“…Anyway, why are you doing that?”
When I asked Lee Jae-hyung, whose face still looked like he was struck by a stroke, he slowly opened his mouth.
“…Our Jaeheon won’t come back later to put a knife in his back, right?”
“Why me?”
“…Okay then, that’s it….”
“It’s not the right face.”
“I’m just trying to be satisfied with that.”
“What on earth is this?”
Lee Jae-hyung immediately got angry at Lee Jae-heon’s blatant question.
“No you! Fuck! we! You fed us, put us to sleep, and raised us, but is that the only thing you have faith in us?! uh?!”
“Hey, I’m surprised. Why is this guy acting like this all of a sudden? “When did you guys raise me?”
“Ah, did you think we couldn’t get rid of a bad writer in good faith? “Why can’t I say just one word and make my body suffer like this?”
“yes? what? “No, they’re angry because I did something.”
“When I see your face, I get angry like never before, you bastard!”
“Isn’t that just because you have a bad personality?”
“If you can’t even talk! uh?! “If you can’t even talk!”
Seeing him behave like this, I guess Lee Jae-heon’s behavior is ridiculous.
‘I think I’ll get less criticism if I voluntarily pay my taxes in advance.’
Lee Jae-heon had already heard all kinds of trivial nagging just because of the problem in his back. Because of my condition, it would be difficult to go to work right away, and more than anything, I had to ask teacher Lee Yun-byeol to work overtime because I had a child at home. The information would spread from her, so I couldn’t hide it until I was healed.
In that case, it would have been a wise decision to admit that I had crawled into the grave I had dug and been beaten, even now, right after finishing the work. As I was thinking about the chicks and listening to Lee Jae-hyung’s nagging, I suddenly realized something.
‘…Are you making more calm judgments?’
If it had been Lee Jae-heon before the Bluetooth connection with the ghost police, he would have hid it as a nag or something, but now Lee Jae-heon is even seriously considering paying his taxes voluntarily. Lee Jae-heon thought that this change in behavior might cause a sense of discomfort, but he thought it was not that bad and thought about it for a moment.
“You’re not listening to me right now.”
“Oh, that can’t be possible. “The words of our heavenly brother.”
“It’s like a baby whose mouth will float if you drop it in the sea.”
“If you talk, I really feel like I’m going to miss it, so please stop. “I am now a patient of mental and physical weakness.”
“What are you talking about that makes you feel mentally and physically weak?”
“Then take out the core and use Shinmi Yak.”
“Seeing you talking nonsense makes me feel like you’re out of your mind… I don’t fucking know.”
He sighed again, nodded and stood up.
“Go to sleep. Sleep well and recover. “It will take some time for her to come back because she is away on a business trip, but she will see your face as soon as she gets to Seoul.”
“That guy goes on business trips as president.”
“Why are you so sad that you didn’t come and see me right away?”
“…?”
“…How should you react when you look at me like that and say something like that?”
“Oh yeah….”
“That’s it, that’s it. Anyway, I have completed my duty as a brother.”
At those words, Jeong Eun-woo, who was standing behind him, once again expressed his doubts and the doctor seemed shocked, but for the safety of both, Jae-heon Lee decided to keep that fact to himself. Lee Jae-hyung’s image management is strict, but his back end is very long, so seeing those facial expressions was not good.
Lee Jae-heon grabbed his relative’s sleeve to prevent Lee Jae-hyung from looking at him.
“Are you going?”
Jaehyung Lee blinked at that.
He seemed surprised or confused. Even though he doesn’t know whether it’s rejection or something else, he slowly catches Lee Jae-heon in his eyes. As I frowned at that sight, a reaction befitting my own flesh and blood finally came back.
Lee Jae-hyung shook off the sleeve that was caught and furrowed his brow.
“What kind of disgusting thing is a grown man doing? Won’t you let go?”
“Isn’t it okay to just ask you if you’re going?”
“….”
“…Brother?”
Lee Jae-hyung, who was looking down at Lee Jae-heon with a complicated face, sighed again.
“What…? Then I’m blessed. “Stop sighing.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“…Why don’t you mistreat me?”
“You really have a knack for making people speechless.”
“yes?”
What can I say after leaving it alone?
Lee Jae-heon looked at Lee Jae-hyung’s back as he left the hospital room accompanied by two men.
“….”
“Mister? What are you doing?”
“…Uh, no, just….”
After they left, I couldn’t think of a sentence to reply to Song In-myeong, who came in late. Lee Jae-heon, who muttered for a while, managed to speak awkwardly.
“…I was wondering who would take Lee Jae-hyung’s place when he gets old.”
“What do you mean?”
“That’s right.”
Really, why are you like that?
* * *
On the way back to work.
Jaehyung Lee, who was sitting in the backseat, opened his mouth to Eunwoo Jeong, who was holding the steering wheel.
“Did I do this wrong?”
“I’m not sure what you’re talking about, Director.”
“Don’t leave it out even though you know everything. “Is this my fault?”
“….”
“…I’m going crazy.”
Jaehyung Lee was currently experiencing confusion.
“…I didn’t know it would be like that…”
He cared for his younger brother in his own way.
It is true that I have played a lot of practical jokes in the past, but no one said that it was a bad thing. Even Lee Jae-heon, the person involved, accepted it as nothing more than an annoying prank, so no one took issue with his ‘education’ or ‘affection’ toward his younger brother.
But today, seeing my younger brother’s unexpected weakness made me feel strange.
“I know that? “This is the first time he caught me first.”
“…okay.”
“If you think about it, that bastard has never asked me for help. My sister and I wanted to give her pocket money first, and when it came to buying new clothes, finding a house, or finding a job, we went first…” That was true, it was affection for my younger brother
. I didn’t mean to deny that.
“….”
“….”
However, it was my first time holding my sleeve to tell me not to go like that, so I felt a little nauseous.
“…We are really good brothers….”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Ha no, it’s true. “It’s true that we get along really well.”
My head was busy.
For Lee Jae-hyung, his younger brother was ‘something I had to take care of’, and recently, he was ‘a clever guy who hid his tastes from his family.’ Even though I felt a little betrayed when I found out that my younger brother had an unexpected lack of character, I wasn’t worried about him.
On the contrary, I thought it was quite heterodox and I liked it. My younger brother always said the same soft things to me, which made me anxious and irritated at times, but it was nice to feel like family in some way.
“…Whew….”
But when the realization hit me that it was they who created that lack of character, I felt strange.
That was different from regret. It wasn’t even a funny feeling of guilt. Even when it felt unpleasant, it felt pleasant, and when it felt frustrating, I felt a sense of stability. Perhaps because it was a topic I had never thought about before, I couldn’t easily come to a conclusion on this issue.
“…I don’t know. Oh, I don’t know.”
“Director?”
“When will the Chairman come?”
“I think he will arrive by this evening.”
“I’ve done all the nagging, so tell them not to be harsh.”
“Yes, Director.”
Lee Jae-hyung decided to just ignore the strangely twisted feeling.
That was a very familiar thing.
(Continued in the next part)
