Chapter 172: Chapter 172.
The man’s voice was familiar. Gyeonhui’s eyes widened when he saw the man’s face. It was the man who beat up Ojae last time.
“You… you are…”
“Yes, it’s me. I told you that I’m going to bring you down.”
Woochang kicked and knocked down Gyeonhui. Gyeonhui tried to avoid the kicking, but he just brutally kept hurting him with his boot.
“Hey, stand up! Why don’t you talk shit like you did before, huh!?”
Whenever he said a word, he kicked Gyeonhui.
Gyeonhui rolled over on the ground, screaming in pain.
“I love it! Wow!” Woochang cried while wiping his sweaty forehead.
“Stop… stop it, please…”
Gyeonhui begged him in a raspy voice.
“What? What do you mean? I haven’t started anything yet.” Woochang started kicking Gyeonhui again.
“I said you only needed to give the money to me. It was such a simple thing to do. You’re annoying me like crazy!”
Curling up his body and enduring the kicking, Gyeonhui hardly looked up at Woochang.
His lips were crisp and bloody, and he was utterly exhausted and drained like he didn’t even have the power to move his own finger.
“… I’ll give you the money as much as you want, so, please… don’t hurt her.”
When Woochang heard Gyeonhui, he stopped kicking.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t let you leave here alive because you already have seen my face.”
Woochang picked up a metal pipe and lifted it high to finish Gyeonhui.
As he watched Woochang, Gyeonhui’s eyes were filled up with desperate hopelessness.
“The money’s all wasted, but I can’t help it. It’s better to kill you here than to rot in jail for the rest of my life.”
Woochang swung the metal pipe with all his might.
On the ground, Gyeonhui couldn’t avoid Woochang’s strike and just closed his eyes tightly.
“No!!!”
However, at that moment, Sun threw her own body in front of Gyeonhui to shield him.
‘Puck!’
The metal pipe struck her head with a deafening sound.
“Sun… Sun!!!!”
Almost at the same time she was hit, Gyeonhui screamed as well.
“What… What the hell was that?”
Woochang was embarrassed and laid himself open to attack.
Gyeonhui grabbed Woochang’s foot and brought him down.
The big man fell backward immediately, and Gyeonhui quickly stood up and started beating him.
“I’m going to kill you!!! Ah!!!”
Gyeonhui beat him up with all his might.
When Woochang was passed out, Gyeonhui hurriedly went to Sun and held her in his arms.
“Sun!!! Are you okay?”
Although Gyeonhui cried, Sun wouldn’t wake up.
“Please open your eyes… please!!!”
His desperate screaming echoed through the air in the dark night.
***
In the alley near the warehouse.
“Umm…”
Ojae woke up, and he opened his eyes.
“Ow…”
The back of his head still was painful since he was walloped by something.
“… It was definitely him…”
Ojae recalled Woochang, who struck him with a metal pipe. Ojae quickly stood up.
When he left the alley, and came out to the main street, he saw a car that had crashed in the distance.
“What’s… .that…”
Ojae’s eyes widened.
“Please open your eyes… Please!!!”
At that moment, Ojae heard Gyeonhu’s desperate screaming.
***
The emergency room of the hospital in Paju city.
“An emergency patient!”
The nurse’s urgent crying echoed into the emergency room.
Gyeonhui, Ojae, and the emergency medical technician also came into the room, pushing the cart.
“Sun… please wake up. Please, Sun!!!”
Gyeonhui kept saying the same thing to Sun while holding her slender hand.
“Let me check on her, please.”
A doctor in a white gown came to her.
The doctor skillfully checked on her pupils.
“She’s been stuck on the occipital region by a metal pipe.”
“By a metal pipe!?”
The doctor was surprised and quickly checked on the back of her head. The wound looked very serious, so the doctor looked at the nurse and started giving her orders.
“She’s bleeding a lot. Take a CT scan immediately and get ready for the surgery right now.”
Gyeonhui panicked when he saw the doctor’s firm expression.
“Sir… will she make it? Please tell me that you can save her…”
“I’ll do my best. Nurse!”
The doctor gave the nurse a sign with his eyes and checked on Sun again.
“Are you a guardian for her?”
“Yes.”
“Do you know what her blood type is?”
“Her blood type… Umm…”
Hearing the nurse, Gyeonhui came to his senses right away.
“It’s RH-AB.
“RH-AB?”
Hearing Gyeonhui, the nurse was surprised and asked him again.
“Yes, is there any problem?”
Over Gyeonhui’s questions, the doctor and the nurse exchanged a sigh with their eyes.
“Do we have enough?” The doctor asked.
“No, we don’t. Actually we have almost none. Would you like me to check on the other hospital?”
The doctor shook his head. “No, it will take too long. We need it right now.”
At that moment, Gyeonhui stopped them.
“… I’ll provide the blood for her. My blood type is also RH-AB.”
“Are you sure?”
Instead of answering the doctor, Gyeonhui showed him his blood identification. When the doctor confirmed it, he nodded like he was relieved.
“We need to move faster. Take his blood quickly to make up for it.”
Hearing the doctor’s order, the nurses started moving fast immediately.
“Excuse me, sir.”
The two nurses took the cart away from Gyeonhui.
Gyeonhui’s hand, which was holding Sun’s hand, was forcefully loosened up.
His gaze was only on her while she was being delivered to the operation room.
***
In front of Gyeonhui’s place.
Sitting in the back seat, Eunwoo looked at Chaekyeong, talking with Gyeonhui’s housemaid.
After a while, Chaekyeong came back to the car and started speaking.
“She said, Gyeonhui left his place in the morning, and hasn’t come back yet.”
There was no way for Eunwoo to find out where these two people had gone. Eunwoo’s face was more subdued.
“I’m sure he is with number sixteen…”
“How long are you going to call her that?”
“What? You mean, number sixteen?”
Eunwoo only looked at her without saying anything.
“Alright. I won’t call her that anymore. You’re ridiculous.”
Chaekyeong turned her face against Eunwoo while pouting her lips.
Eunwoo took out his phone and called someone.
“Who are you calling?”
“Eunyoung.”
“Eunyoung? Another girl of yours?”
“Sun’s colleague.”
Eunwoo answered with a sigh of frustration. However, Eunyoung was on the phone with someone.
Eunwoo put his phone down with a severe face and asked Chaekyeong while looking forward.
“Where do you want me to drop you off?”
“What do you mean, drop me off?”
“I’m going to go to Sun’s place just in case.”
Chaekyeong looked at him quietly with a straight face.
She started speaking slowly with a sour expression.
“Do you really have to do that? Are you really serious about her?”
“What do you mean?”
“Nothing. I just don’t feel great.” She paused for a moment, but soon she started speaking again. “I’m going to go with you. Gyeonhui might be there too.”
Eunwoo started the car without answering.
“Did you…” Chaekyeong spoke again. “Did you look for me like this when I disappeared in the past?”
“No.” Hearing Eunwoo’s bold answer, Chaekyeong smiled bitterly. “…This is nothing compared to what I did to find you.”
Hearing Eunwoo’s unexpected answer, Chaekyeong’s eyes widened.
Eunwoo still didn’t look at her and started the car. The awkwardness laid down between the two in the car.
At that moment, Chaekyeong’s phone started ringing. When she confirmed the caller, her eyes widened.
“It’s Mr. Kwon.”
Speaking to Eunwoo hurriedly, she quickly took the call.