I Became a Villainous Character with a Limited Lifespan - Episode 109

Episode 109

“Can you find someone for me?”

“Suddenly?”

The next day, Jae-young, who woke up a little late, immediately asked his eldest brother Jaeseong, without caring about his throbbing head and bitter stomach. Jaeseong, startled by Jae-young’s serious face, sat up straight.

“Just tell me if you can find them or not.”

“Well… if I try hard, it should be possible. No, even if it’s not possible, I’ll have to make it possible.”

It wasn’t common for Jae-young to ask for something, and his face looked too serious while saying those words, so he couldn’t answer jokingly.

‘There must definitely be something.’

Moreover, even when asked what was going on, he didn’t answer properly, and recently, the number of times he came to the main house had plummeted. Is this finally a chance to hear what he has been going through? Jaeseong sat up straight.

“These days, finding one person isn’t that difficult.”

“……”

“But without any reason… I don’t think I can help. Although it’s not difficult, honestly, it’s not a legal area. I also need to know what this is about to be able to help, don’t you think?”

“……”

Jae-young fell into thought for a moment. Certainly, doing a background check wasn’t a righteous thing, so Jaeseong’s words made sense.

However, he didn’t want to tell others about his story with Seung-hyun. But it’s not like hiding it forever will solve anything. Jae-young hesitated.

‘If I had known this would happen, I should have learned something.’

It would have been nice to have the ability to solve it without asking others. But it was meaningless to regret now.

“This is related to why you’ve been acting suspicious lately, right? Don’t be so frustrating and try saying something. Did you do something wrong? Why are you hiding it like that?”

If he talked about it, it would just become bothersome. And until now, they weren’t in a relationship that he could introduce to his family, so he didn’t talk about it.

Now it was a situation where he needed help, so it would be right to endure the bothersome feeling, but he kept hesitating.

“Hiding it like that makes it even weirder. Did you get into an accident?”

At Jaeseong’s words, Jae-young tightly clenched his fists. Maybe they were all just excuses. He also seemed to be afraid to tell his family that he had come to love an alpha, and not just any person, but Seung-hyun.

“…Han Seung-hyun.”

“Huh?”

When the name of an unexpected person came out, Jaeseong asked back in surprise. He knew that they had been close for a while, but didn’t their relationship go sour and end?

‘No. Maybe something happened to him…’

Jae-young might have also been victimized by the notorious director Han. If that was the case, trying to solve it alone recklessly would only backfire.

“I still have things to say to him.”

“I knew it. But don’t overdo it alone. He’s not someone you can handle by yourself.”

“This is……”

“I’ll solve it for you, so don’t even think about getting involved and just calm your heart. I had a feeling that the atmosphere wasn’t normal lately.”

When Jae-young tried to correct Jaeseong, thinking he seemed to be misunderstanding something, Jaeseong didn’t even give him a chance and just continued with what he had to say.

“I told you. Director Han is not an ordinary person. I knew that, but… I didn’t know he would go this far.”

At Jaeseong’s words, Jae-young’s brows furrowed slightly. Jaeseong, not noticing, continued,

“I wasn’t very interested, but I changed my mind. Someone like Director Han Seung-hyun causes harm just by being in this field. Even though the HJ succession structure has already been decided, it seems he has no intention of leaving this field.”

It was meant to comfort Jae-young and appeal that they were on the same side, but the more Jae-young heard, the more upset he felt.

“…It’s something I have to solve.”

Because he doesn’t know what happened between the two, he knows that it’s something he’s saying for his sake.

If he were to point out the cause, it would be his own fault for not answering persistent questions until the end, but he felt bad. While pondering what to answer, Jaeseong threw in another word.

“I should have stopped you from the beginning, there’s nothing good about getting involved…”

“Stop it.”

I’m not at a young age anymore, but did he treat me too much like a child? Jaeseong finally shut his mouth. But his thoughts didn’t change.

“Tell me roughly what happened. You have to do that to somehow handle it, right? Well, you’re not someone who will shrink forever, so finding him is just a matter of time…”

“I just… miss him.”

Jaeseong, not understanding Jae-young’s words, froze on the spot. What was I talking about? Jaeseong, briefly looking back, asked again,

“Who do you miss?”

Even looking back at the conversation so far, he couldn’t guess. Who does he suddenly miss? What nonsense is he saying after talking about Seung-hyun?

“Who else? There’s only one person we’ve been talking about.”

Jae-young answered with a slight smile. Certainly, it’s not something that will be solved just by hiding it.

He doesn’t know how his relationship with Seung-hyun will end, and because of these words, he might be teased for several years, no, several decades, but it didn’t matter.

Didn’t he know best that there’s no use in just hiding things, that it only makes you frustrated?

“I’m looking for him because I miss him, so don’t say useless things.”

“Uh, that…”

“I don’t like him hearing those things.”

Jaeseong stammered for a moment, not understanding. Is he saying he wants to see him once and get back at him for what he did? But then, didn’t he say that what he said about Seung-hyun was unpleasant?

‘It can’t be.’

Jaeseong shook his head, trying hard to ignore the answer that popped into his mind.

“I’m… a bit of a headache right now, so can you explain it simply? Somehow…”

“I like him. That person.”

But at the words that returned clearly to the point where he couldn’t even deny reality, Jaeseong shut his mouth again. What nonsense is this? He thought it might be a joke, but his face that was serious to the point of looking somewhat refreshed made it impossible to deny this situation any further.

“……”

But he still couldn’t understand. He couldn’t even guess how Jae-young got involved with Seung-hyun of all people in the world, and of all things, got involved with that most tiring emotion that makes people fools.

“It’s a bit urgent for me to explain at length. Just… I still have things to say to him.”

“……”

“There’s a limit to finding him alone. Rather than wasting time clumsily, I thought it would be better to ask someone who knows well.”

It would have been nice if he could solve it himself. Even though he had been living thinking he was a pretty decent person, ever since he got to know Seung-hyun, Jae-young was always realizing how lacking he was and how comfortably he had been living.

He wanted to become a better person, a more capable person. All his thoughts and wishes were revolving around Seung-hyun.

Even if he receives incomprehensible gazes countless times in the process, even if his family tells him he’s gone crazy, it’s fine. If he doesn’t do his best now, he will surely regret it later.

“You, this… if Mother… No.”

Jaeseong sighed deeply after stammering, not knowing what to say. There were so many things he wanted to ask that he didn’t know where to start.

“…I won’t tell Mother, so don’t give it away.”

However, one thing was certain: if Representative Ju found out about this, it wouldn’t end with just the family being in an uproar, so Jaeseong first made Jae-young promise to keep his mouth shut and sighed deeply again.

“Ha…”

He couldn’t ignore the request of his youngest brother, who hated the interference of his family, in several years. After worrying for a long time, Jaeseong nodded.

“…Okay. I’ll… try my best to find him. But there’s a condition. Whenever it is, after the situation is over, you’ll have to properly explain what happened.”

He felt like he needed to hear properly what had happened. He thought Jae-young, who he had raised well, didn’t know the world was scary and was a bit out of his mind after hearing the news of his first love’s marriage, but he might have his own circumstances.

‘He’s really not a kid anymore. Yeah, he won’t have false hopes if he ends it properly.’

“I’ll decide whether to tell Mother after that, so don’t give it away. I’ll also… quietly look for him.”

Jaeseong, who reluctantly nodded, urged again. Jae-young nodded.

He felt that he would no longer hesitate because he cared about others’ gazes or was worried about the future. Regardless of what anyone says, aren’t Seung-hyun’s heart and his own heart more important?

‘I don’t care if you call me foolish or tiresome, I need to hear it directly from you.’

The things he heard from Wonho made his mind complicated. Things like hospice care, until he hears it directly, he couldn’t accept it. Until he hears it directly, it’s just an assumption, isn’t it?

So Jae-young started chasing Seung-hyun’s traces again. However, contrary to expectations, finding Seung-hyun’s whereabouts was not so easy.