By Zephyria In contrast to Yu-jin, Winston was full of composure. He took a puff of cigarette smoke and chuckled. The moment he felt a sense of dread, Winston opened his mouth.
“I saw the child’s birth certificate.”
Yu-jin was startled by his slow tone and asked.
“You investigated me?”
Winston twisted his lips and sneered.
“Isn’t that obvious? Did you still think I would be played by you?”
The initiative had completely shifted. But Yu-jin did his best to deny him.
“How, how much can you know with just a birth date? Don’t, don’t be ridiculous!”
He felt like he was digging his own grave as he spoke. His voice was trembling, and he was stuttering, it was terrible. Not even a three-year-old would trust Yu-jin as he was now. Of course, it was even more out of the question for Winston Campbell.
“Honey.”
Winston narrowed his eyes mockingly and asked sweetly.
“You don’t think I expected you to act like this?”
His relaxed appearance made Yu-jin even more uneasy. Winston offered in an unchanged, gentle voice to Yu-jin, who flinched for a moment.
“If you’re going to play dumb like that, there’s nothing I can do. Let’s get a DNA test.”
Yu-jin turned white in an instant. A DNA test?
“Yes.”
Winston smiled faintly as if he had heard Yu-jin’s inner cry.
“It’s the most certain way, after all? If I’m wrong, the results will prove it. Wouldn’t that be good for you since it would be evidence? If what you’re saying is really true, that is.”
Yu-jin’s mind was not working properly due to the unexpected situation. Winston pushed him without giving him time to think.
“Of course, that doesn’t mean you have any chance of winning.”
He continued in a smooth tone without hesitation.
“If we go to court, you’ll lose 100 percent? No, 1000 percent. You’ll have the child taken away and be left penniless, can you handle that? You’re quick with calculations. You don’t think you can win against me, do you?”
Yu-jin had a blank expression as if he had received a shock. Is he serious? Did Winston really find out?
If he does a DNA test.
Everything went dark before his eyes. What would happen if evidence came out that Angela was Winston’s child?
‘You didn’t think I’d leave my child with you, did you?’
The words he had just heard vividly came back to his ears, and he felt goosebumps all over his body from fear. Yu-jin would never be able to see the child for the rest of his life.
The thought of never being able to see the child who was his everything made it feel like the world was collapsing.
What, what should I do?
His mind wasn’t working properly. He never thought this would happen. He shouldn’t have come here in the first place. He regretted it, but it was already done.
“Are you, are you threatening me? Are you going to take Angie away from me?”
His voice was terribly shaky. Winston’s face became almost expressionless as he looked down at Yu-jin, who was screaming in a metallic voice as he stood up urgently. Yu-jin didn’t realize the subtle change in his reaction.
“I wouldn’t put it past me.”
“No, Angie is my daughter. I can’t live without her!”
Winston slowly opened his mouth to Yu-jin, who was screaming with a metallic voice as he stood up urgently.
“You want to protect the child?”
Tears quickly welled up in Yu-jin’s eyes. Winston, who had been quietly looking into his shaking eyes, got up and headed for the desk. He took only three or four steps to reach his destination and picked up a piece of paper.
“Sign here. Then that child is yours.”
He didn’t even need to read what Winston was holding. Yu-jin’s mouth felt dry and burning. Winston continued coldly to him, who was frozen with a pale face.
“You just have to marry me and have ‘my child’. And after a year, we get divorced and it’s all over.”
After emphasizing the words on purpose, he added casually.
“It’s simple.”
He wasn’t wrong. There was no easier and simpler way to execute the will. If he dragged it out, Winston’s mind might change. He was saying that he would leave Angela to Yu-jin, at least for now.
How benevolent.
This was exactly the opportunity Yu-jin had wanted so badly.
But…….
Nevertheless, it was impossible to accept this contract. There was something Winston didn’t know yet. How would this man react if he found out? Yu-jin was so afraid, but he couldn’t help but bring it up.
“…I can’t.”
Winston frowned at the voice that barely squeezed out. Yu-jin confessed with a trembling voice.
“I can’t have, your child.”
“Ha.”
What came back to his difficult confession was a sigh as if he was dumbfounded. Winston swept back his neatly combed hair with an annoyed gesture. Just as Yu-jin was about to speak again, hesitating, Winston suddenly slammed his fist on the desk.
Yu-jin was startled by the loud bang and shut his mouth. Winston opened his mouth, looking at him, who had quickly become frightened. Still in a quiet voice.
“You can have my father’s child but not mine?”
“…What?”
Yu-jin was bewildered by the unexpected words. What did he just say?
“…Harold’s child?”
Winston spat out roughly to Yu-jin, who blankly repeated his words.
“Don’t you remember what we’ve been talking about so far? Should I tell you everything from the beginning again?”
“Ah, no, that’s not it.”
His mind finally started working again. Yu-jin realized then that their conversation had been wrong from the start.
He doesn’t know.
A chill ran down his spine. Winston doesn’t know. He found out the birth date, but the conclusion he drew from it was completely wrong. Why did he make such a mistake, that Winston knew everything?
That man doesn’t trust me at all.Suddenly, his heart pounded like crazy. His deep-seated distrust of Yu-jin had actually turned out to be a great stroke of luck for him.
He couldn’t possibly imagine that Angie was his child.
Yu-jin hastily clasped his hands behind his back. This time, he was trembling for a different reason. It was too early to relax. He tried his best to calm his excitement. Winston could reach the truth at any time. Yu-jin had only bought himself a brief reprieve.
If Yu-jin refused to marry him to the end, Winston might actually do a DNA test. If that happened, he would find out that Angela was his child, not Harold’s, and if that happened…
It would be the same as having already fulfilled the terms of the will.
He felt the blood draining from his feet. The exact wording of the will was “to have a child within one year of marriage,” but that could be interpreted differently. McCoy could find loopholes in the will with his wordplay. The result was all too obvious. Once again, a terrible imagination revived, and Yu-jin turned pale.
I have to think, quickly. How can I use this situation to my advantage?
There was only one way. Yu-jin barely opened his mouth, but it took even more courage to make a sound.
“…I’ll marry you.”
He barely managed to utter those words in a hoarse voice. Once the method came to mind, his body no longer trembled. He quietly released his clasped hands and took a deep breath.
“I’ll marry you.”
For now, he had to buy time. Quietly, he would obey as much as possible and behave himself. Until Winston was off his guard. And when that time came…
A faint sneer appeared on Winston’s lips. Staring straight into the man’s cold purple eyes looking down at him, Yu-jin made up his mind.
He would run away with Angie.
Yu-jin’s parents died in an unexpected accident long before he even entered elementary school. He drifted from relative’s house to relative’s house before naturally being placed in an orphanage, where he grew up for several years. Many children younger than Yu-jin were adopted and left his side.
It was rare for someone of Yu-jin’s age to be adopted, and Yu-jin also left the orphanage for a different reason, though not through adoption. A wealthy businessman from abroad took him away. He didn’t know what procedures were involved, but Yu-jin didn’t have to wait long to leave the orphanage. And he finally entered the grand mansion called ‘The Most Perfect Delight.’