Chapter 162: Chapter 162
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He used to play pranks on her in his own sweet time; however, he showed a cold look when it came to strangers sometimes. He had frigidly and fiercely glowing black eyes under his frosty white hair and spoke with an icy-cold voice that seemed as if it was concealing a knife within it.
Choi Yuri stiffened. She knew who was standing behind her, which made her hardly turn back to see him. The owner of the voice then walked past by her without a hitch and stood beside Ham Donnie. He then grabbed Ham Donnie’s arm and pulled it to his side.
Now that he came in front of her, Choi Yuri could clearly see his face. Jesus… she felt that her vision was blurring.
Who would it be? It was indeed him, Eun Jiho.
He was staring at her with his eyes burning with flames of rage, which something that Choi Yuri never dreamt of seeing. His hand was grasping Ham Donnie’s hand in a rush as if she was a fragile objet d’art. With them before her, Choi Yuri mumbled, ‘Come on, no…’
A cold silence hung among them. Eun Jiho then quietly detached his lips.
“What did you just try to do?” he asked frigidly.
His ice pick-like voice stabbed Choi Yuri’s heart as if it had life. She tried to pull it out of her and let it slide, but it didn’t work. She couldn’t even breathe properly.
‘No… this wasn’t what I tried to do,’ struggling with that thought in mind, Choi Yuri lifted her furiously shaking eyes to look at Eun Jiho.
“Jiho… I… I… it’s not what you’re thinking…”
“You were trying to push Ham Donnie, right?”
“No!”
Choi Yuri shrieked unconsciously. She gasped with her now pale cheeks. ‘No, this isn’t the end for me yet,’ Choi Yuri murmured while clenching her fist. ‘I can still claim what is rightfully mine! I can just make up a story that Ham Donnie was the one who first poured out insults at me.’
The situation was, however, worse than she antic.i.p.ated. Eun Jiho’s remark that came afterward made Choi Yuri’s face pale.
“Since when do you think I’ve heard about your conversation? Almost from the beginning to the end. I don’t know what you are trying to say, but I don’t think I’ve misunderstood. You said that she shouldn’t mess with you. Are you saying that I have some kind of hearing problem? So are you trying to push her down the stairs now? How could you…”
While Choi Yuri stiffened at a loss of words, Eun Jiho wrapped his arm around Ham Donnie’s shoulders before pulling her down the stairs. Ham Donnie stared at him in wonder.
He said, “Hey, Ham Donnie, come on, your ears will rot. You tried to leave, but she kept messing with you from a while ago. Let’s just get out of here and forget about her. It’d be a hundred times more worth it for you.”
“…”
“And Choi Yuri, you… if you try to hurt Ham Donnie again, believe me. I’ll kill you.”
“Ji… Jiho!”
“You told Ham Donnie earlier that she and her family will get paid? I’ll return those words exactly to you. Try to mess with her, and a war will begin between you and me.”
As if she was his little sister, Eun Jiho held Ham Donnie tightly in his arm then strode down the stairs. His pace was fast, which was inconsiderate of how slow Ham Donnie was. She narrowly followed him while leaping down two flights of stairs at a time. Both then turned the corner and disappeared from Choi Yuri’s sight.
Choi Yuri, who was in the dark in her lonesome, was just staring at the bottom of the stairs where silence prevailed.
She then murmured, “What the…”
‘Did Eun Jiho just say that he heard… everything? All the things I said to her? No one came up to the rooftop while Ham Donnie and I were talking; however, Eun Jiho was standing right behind her.’
He might have been in the rooftop for the whole time. As soon as she realized that, a cold s.h.i.+ver rose from her wrist.
Of course, he heard everything from the beginning to the end!
Eun Jiho took Ham Donnie with him and left just a few seconds ago; however, everything felt like a scene inside a dream. ‘No, please… I wish it was just a dream… I wish even calling Ham Donnie to this place could be just a dream…’ That was when Choi Yuri murmured in silence.
A cold hand held her shoulder. Choi Yuri looked back involuntarily with tearful eyes. She then grew speechless again. There stood another familiar face behind her, who she never antic.i.p.ated encountering in this place as much as Eun Jiho.
A boy with big brown monolid eyes was smiling naïvely. The burning sunset showered down on his golden hair. The word ‘angel’ would better suit his pure appearance. When he handed out something with a bright grin, Choi Yuri, however, felt as if she was falling to a bottomless h.e.l.l.
“I think this belongs to someone you know.”
“…”
What Woo Jooin handed out was a coal-black phone without any decoration attached; the text message on the screen was a familiar one.
Sent from: Miss Choi Yuri
Mr. Kang, help me. It’s about transferring a girl to another school; I really need your help.
‘The vibration sound that she heard was real. I wasn’t getting it wrong…’ Looking at Choi Yuri’s hopeless eyes, Woo Jooin still showed a bright smile on his face.
The look on her face changed slowly. First, she displayed a feeling of astonishment, then her expressions scattered away gradually. Now, there was no vestige of emotions left on her face, except for her pale cheeks.
A cold breeze suddenly reached the rooftop and blew away. Choi Yuri’s hair waved a bit, but it soon stayed calm. Meanwhile, she just stared at Woo Jooin.
He was just smiling for the whole time, whereas Choi Yuri remained silent. She feared the unbearable situation. She doubted if he was even a human being. Choi Yuri, however, bit her lips firmly and thought, ‘No, maybe he didn’t know what the text meant yet…’
Choi Yuri said, “Oh, yeah. It’s from someone I know.”
“Of course, it is. This number who sent this message is yours.”
‘Oh, yeah,’ Choi Yuri replied while stretching out her hand with a bitter smile.
“If you give it to me, I’ll give it back to…”
“This is your bodyguard’s phone.”
“…”
Choi Yuri’s face froze. Standing still with her hand stretched out, Choi Yuri lifted her eyes and scowled at Woo Jooin. Gasping and gulping, she snapped at him.
“Did you just peep into someone else’s phone? How can you be so rude?”
“Oh, yeah, it was a bit rude.”
Unexpectedly, Woo Jooin admitted apathetically. What he said next appalled Choi Yuri while shoving her into a deeper shock.
“I defrauded someone else’s phone on purpose, so that could be indeed rude. I mean, it should be more than just being rude, right?”
“What do you mean?”
Tapping his chin with his long white finger, Woo Jooin showed a swiveling smile on his face as if he just concluded his thought process. He then detached his lips.
“I didn’t have a choice.”
“A choice?”
“Creating a haters’ club over Ban Yeo Ryung and laying the blame on Donnie… I couldn’t think of another way to prove that it was you. Except for doing this.”
He replied with a relaxed tone; however, his words seemed like a cold fingertip pressing from her spine to the back of her neck. She couldn’t move as if her whole body had frozen. ‘How could he…?’ Only these words hovered in her head.
How could he? How could he know that she was the one who committed everything and defrauded her bodyguard’s phone? How did he know that Choi Yuri used her bodyguard to plan all these in the first place?
Choi Yuri then bit her lip and wrapped both her arms around her.
The way it took for him to grasp all these didn’t matter. ‘It doesn’t matter, but the problem is…’ She then lifted her eyes. Their eyes met in the air, and Woo Jooin removed the smile from his face for the first time. He now had a stern countenance like that of a wax figure. Under the sunset, he looked even more devilish.
She felt a chill all over her again and shut her eyes tight. The problem now was that Woo Jooin knew everything about this situation.