Soo-hee House, Gangnam, South Korea.
Jae-young turned on the computer and across the screen, he saw that a new network had been detected.
He tried to analyze the existing IP address, and it turned out it was connected to a house in Los Angeles.
"Sok-ji already installed it," Jae-young raved.
"Is it connected?" Lay asked.
Jae-young nodded, "I think so, but Soo-hee hasn't entered the access code yet. So I can't see anything yet."
Tring~
Sunny is connected, Jae-young smiles a little seeing that Sunny is fine, especially now that Sok-ji is there to accompany her. When they looked at each other through the screen. Both seemed to know each other's heavy burden.
"Hi, you okay there?" Jae-young asked.
"Annyeong Jae-young ah, I'm fine here, everyone is taking good care of me."
"Ah sorry but I don't think we can make small talk now. Kang Soo-hee when can I get you in Korea?"
Jong-gi was the only one who ruined the mood that day, no one wanted to discuss it, they knew they had to discuss it but this time they were just friends who had just seen each other after 6 months.
Sunny doesn't like seeing Jong-gi in her house, it makes her uncomfortable, how could it not be, even though that person is NIS she can't believe it yet. There are still many things that bother her.
"Actually, who holds the keys to my house?" Sunny asked. She chose to talk about that rather than about her feelings.
"Me," answered Lay and Jae Young at the same time.
"You merge the servers?"
"Yeah I think there are no more secrets between us so I think it's fine."
"I don't have any secrets anymore, I gave you access to the entire server including my family data and assets, but Jae-young, you have never given me access to anything about your life."
Jae-young closed his eyes, yes he knew what Sunny meant. He hasn't talked about it until now.
"You know, it's not that I don't want to, but I'm not ready. I'm sorry, before Lian and now, I have hurt you so many times."
"The fact that you are Han Suk-jin's child? Second generation owner of BLK Company which was formerly Jeonggi Group. Your mother was also an actress and now it is not known where she is, or even that you are the third heir?"
"You know that much apparently. I'm sorry."
"I know a lot about your company because they are involved in the same type of business as JL Enterprise, but I don't think that a child who has never been revealed to the public is you."
"Soo-hee ya.."
"I still don't know what your father's relationship is with Park Suwon, I also don't understand whether they work together, and I don't think you know for sure about that either, right?"
"I may not know for sure, but I'm sure that when you were immediately taken to the Prosecutor's office there must have been some involvement."
"We don't know yet," Sunny interrupted. "Tae-guk told me that the police car was already downstairs and took me to the Prosecutor's office. While I was there Hyun-jae told me that I had been blacklisted from the media. Everything happened very quickly and it's been a long time, we don't know for sure."
"I know exactly what happened, so you need to go home now!" Jong-gi said.
"Hey! Watch your words. You know where you are now, right?" Sunny answered.
"I know, I know where I am, and I don't have time to play deduction games with you, we have a lot of work, you started 5 years ago so you should be aware of yourself and finish it now."
"Lee Jong-gi, you are standing in my house, you can't talk carelessly, and believe me I know what I'm doing."
"You don't want to help me? OK, should I announce to the media that your mother killed your father?"
"Lee Jong-gi!" Jae-young shouted.
"Shut up! Or should I also tell people who your father is?"
Lay grabs Jong-gi and slams him against the wall. "As long as Sunny isn't here, it's my job to protect all the information of every member of the special team. So I warn you, shut your mouth!"
"Lay let him go," said Sunny.
"Sun."
"Let me talk to you like this. Do you want to tell the public that my mom is the one who killed my dad? Do it, do it, and you will have business with the CIA, do you want that? Another biro gets mad because of you? Do you wanna do it? Try it, and tell me what will happen to you after that."
Lay let go of Jong-gi and he advanced towards the screen in front of him. "I know the risks, but I won't stop until you cooperate with us. I hate to say it but we need you, need the resources and information you have."
"I told you at that time. I don't want to, you sent Sok-ji to L.A. hoping I'd play along, and you think you can change my mind? Tell the Director of Intelligence, I don't want it, you can find another one or collaborate with other resources."
Sunny turns off the video call. Jong-gi squeezed the back of his neck in annoyance, while Jae-young was silent, leaning his head as if he was thinking.
"Why did you say that to her? Do you know how heavy the burden was 5 years ago?" Lay said.
"You do know what? Everyone carries the same burden," said Tae-guk.
"Are your burdens heavier than mine?" Min-tae asked.
"If I didn't threaten him, you think he would obey," Jong-gi was at a loss for words.
"Prosecutor Lee, I know what happened to you, but you can't think that you are the only one who is hurt the most here," said Lay irritably. They all don't know, they don't know what happened 5 years ago.
"Then, tell me what is more painful than losing a child who is still in the womb?" said Min-tae while looking at them with a deadly gaze.
No one could answer, because no one knew what could be more painful than that.
Jae-young muses he can't think of what he should do, in his head this time there are only thoughts of how upset he is because this name ended up destroying him again for the umpteenth time.
He just wanted to escape the shadow of his family and the shadow of this name. The surname Han seemed very scary to some people, but he had enough of it.
A name he had always hated, and didn't like. Everyone always thought that he couldn't live without that name, even though for 30 years of his life, he just wanted to live as himself.
Even though he himself knew, he couldn't possibly let go of the name that would forever be attached to him. Because that's a family name that might one day also be passed on to someone else.
And maybe later his child will also feel the same way.