When did I say I could go?
Cheon Ji-yeong arrived at the hotel where Boshilai's inauguration party was being held.
The guard at the hotel entrance spoke to her.
"Please give me an invitation."
Cheon Ji-young took out an invitation from her small handbag and handed it to the guard.
"It has been confirmed. You cannot bring bodyguards."
Cheon Ji-young said with a troubled expression at the guard's words.
"Can't I take you with me? They are people who can't leave my side······."
"I'm sorry. No one is exempt."
At the guard's firm answer, Cheon Ji-young had no choice but to nod.
Cheon Ji-young received the invitation from the guard again and put it in her bag, then spoke to the bodyguards behind her.
"The guard told me to wait outside. Please wait here."
"We are the ones who have been ordered to guard the young lady."
"But since you said there are no exceptions, there's no way. And since you said my brother is inside, there shouldn't be any big problems."
The bodyguards also already knew that Kim Moo-hyuk was attending the inauguration party.
Cheon Ji-young was the first to strike, looking at the bodyguards exchanging glances.
"I came here without telling you, so please take care of me. And I won't go alone either."
"······Okay, I understand. Just this once, Miss."
Cheon Ji-young responded to the security team leader's words with a bright smile.
"thank you."
Cheon Ji-young took out her cell phone and made a call to someone.
"Sister. Where are you? Huh? It's a little late, so you want me to go in first? I don't know anyone, so what am I doing alone? Oh, okay. Come quickly."
Cheon Ji-young ended the call so that everyone could hear, left her bodyguards waiting outside, and went inside.
People who recognized her from the hotel lobby glanced at her.
She headed to the banquet hall with her face hidden by dark sunglasses.
She entered the party hall and looked around to find Kim Mu-hyeok, but he was nowhere to be seen.
Luckily, I saw a place inside the party where some Chinese celebrities I knew were gathered.
She walked towards him.
"hello."
The Chinese actors turned their heads at Cheon Ji-young's greeting.
Cheon Ji-young took off her sunglasses and smiled elegantly.
"I don't know anyone, can I join the conversation?"
"If it's you, Chin Ji-young, we're honored."
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The actors did not reject her. On the contrary, they welcomed her.
"Are you starting your activities in China again?"
"I think so."
"I would like to work on the same project."
"me too."
Cheon Ji-young waited for the group while talking to the actors.
As we chatted over glasses of wine, the atmosphere continued to heat up.
Some of the actors I was talking with met partners and went elsewhere, and now there are only a few left.
At that moment, a man approached Cheon Ji-young.
"Who is this?"
Cheon Ji-young turned her head toward the voice and furrowed her brows.
"I told you to have a meal together, but you're rejecting me like that? It's not fun."
Cheon Ji-young ignored his words and spoke to another actor.
But the other actor turned his head away from her.
It seemed like he was afraid that the sparks would fly to him for no reason.
At that sight, the man opened his mouth even more proudly.
"Are you ignoring what I say?"
"I have no intention of eating with you. So don't talk to me."
Cheon Ji-yeong sighed and said so, and Wi Jeong-seong glared at her answer.
"What?! You want to end your life? Do you know who I am and are talking like that?"
"It doesn't matter who you are. If you want someone to play with, look elsewhere. I'm not interested."
After finishing speaking, Cheon Ji-yeong glanced at Wi Jeong-seong and turned away coldly.
However, Wijeongseong, unable to contain his anger at the look in his eyes that seemed to be looking at trash and the treatment he had never received before, raised his hand.
Then he turned around and grabbed her wrist, shouting.
"Why are you acting so expensive when you're on a different topic!"
He held her slender wrist with such force that the area where he held it quickly turned red.
Cheon Ji-young couldn't bear the pain and eventually screamed.
"Ahh!"
"Follow me! I'll tell you who I am today."
The power of the position of the leader gave him strength and pulled Cheon Ji Yeong towards him.
"Let go! Let go!!"
Cheon Ji-yeong shouted, but no one came to help her.
Those who recognized the legitimacy of the situation only began to back away one by one.
"Shut up! Who the hell are you to act so expensive! Don't you know who I am?"
As she was being dragged away and saw people turning their backs on her, Cheon Ji-young began to feel afraid.
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I didn't know what would happen to me if I was dragged here, where no one would help me.
Just as Cheon Ji-young was about to scream again, someone approached.
Cheon Ji-yeong barely held back her tears as she checked the face of the man who was twisting the arm that was holding her wrist.
"Oh, brother."
* * *
The fact that Cheon Ji-young, who shouldn't be there, was right there was a secondary problem.
The sight of his actions trying to drag her away and the fact that no one stopped him made me so angry that my eyes went blank.
"How should I kill you so that people will say I killed you well, Wijeongseong?"
"What? This kid! Are you the one who wants to die? Police! Police, what are you doing! This kid is threatening me."
As Wi Jeong-seong shouted, the police guarding the party venue approached.
"What's going on?"
"Arrest this kid right now!"
But the police checked my face and did nothing.
Since the central government and even Bo Xilai had guaranteed my safety, the public security forces could not harm me in any way.
"What are you doing! What are you doing! Can't you hear me?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. I don't think this is something we should be involved in."
The police officers spoke with embarrassed faces at the pressure of the government.
"What? Hey, don't you know who I am?"
"I know, but he's not someone we can do anything about."
The police officer looked at me with his answer. I also glared at him with murderous eyes, not giving up.
"Is that the end? If there's anything else you want to do, do it."
I walked towards the palace. At the same time, the bodyguards who had been staying nearby also came to me.
"Authenticity. It doesn't matter to me who you are. Even if you are President Hu Jintao's son, it doesn't matter."
"······Are you crazy?"
I walked up to the president and grabbed him by the collar.
The strangled Wijeongseong struggled, but he ignored her and lifted the arm that was holding Cheon Jiyoung's wrist.
"Is this the hand? The hand that dared to grab my brother's wrist."
Wijeongseong flinched at the cold voice and ominous atmosphere.
"What should I do? Should I blow this handcuff off? Or······."
I deliberately trailed off and looked down at his groin with emotionless eyes.
It would be right to cut out the useless parts so that something like this never happens again.
Wi Jeong-seong, who read the meaning in my eyes, called the police almost screaming.
"Hey, crazy bastard! Police! Police!"
But the one who arrived was Bo Xilai, the police chief.
After seeing Wen Jiabao off to the hotel entrance, Bo Xilai returned and called me with an embarrassed look on his face.
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"President Kim Mu-hyeok."
I didn't let go of his hand, but just turned my head and looked at Boshirai.
"There are many eyes watching."
"Sir, did you know that my younger brother is attending today?"
Boshirai nodded.
"Yes, I knew."
"But why didn't you tell me? Did the party secretary invite you?"
"No. I just found out today. I would rather ask. Of course you knew, right?"
Didn't Boshirai invite Cheon Ji-yeong?
When I glanced at Cheon Ji-young, the bodyguard that she always told me to bring with me was gone.
Who on earth called Cheon Ji-yeong? She even made her bodyguards leave.
"······Rather than that, let's let go and try to resolve this through dialogue."
At Boshirai's request, he roughly released Weizheng by the collar.
As soon as he left me, the authority raised its voice.
"Look! What are you doing! I am being humiliated like this right now, what are you doing!"
"Jeongseong. Do you have any ill feelings toward me?"
But instead of comforting him, Boshirai glared at him with cold eyes.
"What the hell are you talking about! When you know how much I try for you."
"But why are you acting like this on a day like today?"
"······Are you scolding me because of that guy?"
"Go back for now. We'll talk later."
Look at this? Who would want to send it as they pleased? I interrupted the conversation between the two.
"Chief Party Secretary. Who are you sending away just because you want? When did I say I could go?"
Boshirai turned his head towards me at my words.
"President Kim Mu-hyeok!"
"Keep your voice down. I don't compromise on matters concerning my family. You know that. If it were any other matter, I would respect the party secretary's wishes, but this is out of the question."
"Brother. I'm okay."
As the atmosphere gradually became tense, Cheon Ji-young quickly grabbed my arm.
"Where are the bodyguards and are you alone?"
"The bodyguard said he couldn't attend, so I told him to wait outside the hotel. But Director Ma and······."
Cheon Ji-young looked at Director Ma and my bodyguards with a puzzled look.
Then he shook his head and opened his mouth again.
"That's not important, I'm fine."
What do you mean, okay? When I checked Cheon Ji-young's wrist, there was already a dark bruise on the hand that had been caught.
"I'm not okay. You stay still."
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I spoke to Boshirai again.
"That guy can't go anywhere until I tell him to go."
"President Kim Mu-hyeok. Even if it's you, that guy······."
"Look at it."
When he was called by his name instead of his title, Boshirai was startled as if he had been struck by lightning.
"I said no."
"······."
"It was you, Boshirai, who asked me to come to you in person. How can you invite a guest and act like this?"
"I apologize like this. I don't know anything about the government······."
The atmosphere was strange, so Wei Zhengcheng approached Boshirai.
"Who the hell are you to be acting so weird? You're just a Korean."
"Please shut up."
"What? Don't you see that this kid is the Shanghai Party Secretary? Shut up? Who ordered you to shut up!"
Wei Zhengcheng was also a member of the Crown Prince Party, and his father was a top official in the Chinese Communist Party.
He started a business with the support of his father and received various special privileges, eventually becoming the owner of one of the leading construction companies in China.
And he was using his enormous financial power to provide political funds to Boshilai.
"Authenticity!"
The two men looked like they were about to argue again.
But I had no intention of watching a ridiculous farce.
"Look. I'll take care of it."
"······."
"Can't you do it even if I ask you to?"
"Then let's move to another place for now······."
Boshirai sighed deeply and looked around the banquet hall.
I also followed him and looked around the banquet hall.
There were so many eyes watching inside the banquet hall.
As I nodded, Bo Xilai took Wei Zhengcheng to the room where he was talking to the Prime Minister.
The people who had been watching this side also started talking among themselves again when Boshirai and Wijeongseong disappeared.
"What? How on earth did you get here?"
"Surprise! Are you surprised?"
"······Do you really want to get in trouble?"
"Ah, relax your face. You're making me look scary."
Cheon Ji-young spoke cutely and smiled brightly.
It was clear to see that he was enduring the pain in his wrist.
"I guess that's because I'm feeling down," he said, sighing deeply at her efforts to lighten the mood.
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"Ha······. How did you get here? Boshirai said he never invited you."
"I came because an older sister I know asked me to come with her. I was going to decline, but my brother said he was coming too, so I did it anyway."
"······Do you know that older sister? Who is that older sister you know?"
"Oh, you're even trying to manage my friend! There you are! My sister who does business in China."
"Where did that person go and is he alone?"
"He hasn't come yet. He should be here soon······."
Cheon Ji-young looked around as she spoke. Then, she opened her mouth in delight, perhaps because she found the person she was looking for.
"Sister! Over here, over here!"
Cheon Ji-young waved her hand behind me.
As I turned my body to check the direction Cheon Ji-young was looking at, my face hardened without me realizing it.
"Sister! Why are you so late?"
"Sorry. Something came up suddenly. But is this guy? Your brother?"
"Yeah! Isn't he handsome?"
"Hmm······. It's not too bad."
I stared at her as she evaluated my face.
"What! Oppa?"
As I was just looking at her in silence, Cheon Ji-young spoke in a puzzled voice.
"Hello. This is Yeshaotong."
I continued to stare at her in silence as she introduced herself in broken Korean.
As I stared at her without answering, her eyes filled with doubt and she asked me.
"Do you know me?"
"Oh, sorry. I was thinking about something else. This is Kim Moo-hyuk."
As I spoke in Chinese, she started speaking in Chinese too.
"Haha. Jiyoung kept bragging about it, so I wanted to see it once."
The illegitimate child of Chief Woo Jung-sik.
Yeshaotong stood before me as Tian Zhiying's friend.
She couldn't not know me either. But she was pretending not to know me.
"I see. I didn't know Jiyoung had such a pretty and close older sister."
It was just a compliment, but she said it with a captivating smile.
"Is that a compliment?"
"sure."
Why did Ye Xiaotong approach Tian Zhiying? How long had their friendship been going on?
My mind was complicated, but I didn't show it.
"I'm sorry for meeting you so soon, but I'll take care of something and come back later."
"Brother!"
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"I'm talking. I'll be back."
Cheon Ji-yeong stomped her feet behind him, but he left her behind and headed towards the room where Boshirai had entered.
After the two were far enough apart, he gave instructions to Director Ma.
"Send someone right away to check with Cheon Ji-yeong's bodyguards to find out when and how he met Ye Xiaotong."
"Yes, boss."
Director Ma, who had lowered his head, turned around. Now, Director Ma will ask for the information.
I opened the door in front of me to start solving what I could.
< When did I say I could go > End
< Go out and kneel down and pray >