Chapter 13
While Ji-i was startled, Dong-in suddenly cornered her.
Something to check before marriage?
“What?”
I’ve never heard of such a thing…!
Holding her breath, Ji-i looked up at him.
His intimidating presence was no joke.
As if that weren’t enough, she even swallowed hard.
Not enough oxygen. I’m dizzy.
At that moment, the man’s scent suddenly enveloped her.
What should I do? What am I supposed to do in a situation like this?
She had practiced self-defense for two hours every day for several years and had it ingrained in her body. Normally, she would have immediately remembered how to escape from a situation like this. But for some reason, her mind seemed to have gone completely blank, and she couldn’t think of anything.
On top of that, the location was what it was, and now that she had been pushed into a corner, even breathing was difficult. Apparently, because she had never been this overwhelmed by a relatively large man in prison, Ji-i couldn’t think of a way to escape.
“Don’t you remember?”
“Ah….”
What do I do? What am I really supposed to do?
Araang had never told her much about Heo Dong-in. Not the kind of things listed in a report, but things like the fact that he had such an overwhelming aura.
While being completely overwhelmed and unable to move, Ji-i suddenly felt her ears grow hot.
“Who are you?”
But at his next low question, she experienced the strange sensation of all the blood draining from her face through all five senses.
“……”
“I asked who you are.”
Did he find out?
“Song Ji….”
In the confusion, she was about to confess everything, but she suddenly flinched.
Phew, that was close.
“…Song Ji?”
This man is not ordinary. I almost confessed everything without meaning to.
Just imagining what would have happened afterward made her knees weak.
“Ru.”
Ji-i barely managed to finish her name.
“Song Ji-ru?”
His aura was one thing, but unlike a flower that only looked pretty without any fragrance, the sensuality this man gave off was incredibly strong.
According to the report, Heo Dong-in was a man very closely associated with words such as impenetrable, arrogant, indifferent, blunt, aloof, and prickly. The report said he was practically an impregnable fortress.
But the man standing right in front of her now certainly seemed arrogant, indifferent, blunt, aloof, and prickly. Yet an impenetrable barrier or impregnable fortress seemed quite far from him….
“Hm?”
Rather, he was actively closing the distance himself, little by little.
This was hopeless.
Crushed by Dong-in’s charisma and sex appeal, Ji-i found it even harder to breathe and unconsciously began to gasp.
“Then you’ll remember.”
Remember what?
“……”
“It was only a few days ago.”
What? What exactly? I don’t remember anything! I didn’t hear you!
“Th-That’s obvious….”
Her mind still wasn’t working properly.
His tone was so arrogant and rude that normally she would have thought, This guy really ruins everything the moment he opens his mouth. But right now, it wasn’t helping her escape this situation at all.
“I have the gynecological health certificate.”
Ah, that? I thought he meant something else. Phew….
“……”
Secretly rubbing her chest in relief, Ji-i forced herself to quietly inhale.
But before she could exhale, her breath caught again.
Because of Dong-in’s absurd next words.
“And you’re going to check whether I can or can’t.”
Huh? Can? Can’t? What is he talking about?
“……”
“It would be better to check right now.”
Check? What? No, check what exactly? Wait, could he mean that?
“……”
“What do you think?”
That’s it. That’s what he means.
“……”
Ji-i now had to think about what she should do.
“Hm?”
That is, if only her brain would work properly.
But there was one thing her unconscious mind kept reminding her of.
For the sake of revenge, I won’t refuse anything, even if it’s something I don’t want!
Anyway, Ji-i was standing at a crossroads.
After doing what this man’s words meant, she would confirm for Araang whether this was possible or not, and then decide whether to go through with the marriage.
With her thoughts tangled and her mind creaking under the strain, Ji-i squeezed out every bit of reasoning she could.
What were the chances that this man had realized that Araang and I had switched identities?
In conclusion, she judged that the possibility was low.
Before reaching that conclusion, Ji-i desperately rummaged through her memories.
More than a decade ago, when she had rescued Im Sang-ah and Heo Dong-in from the kidnapping scene, she was certain that she hadn’t had the chance to tell them that she had an identical twin.
And according to the report Araang had given her the previous day, Heo Dong-in had left the country after that kidnapping incident and had only returned to this country occasionally.
Therefore, aside from the fact that Ji-i and Araang were identical twins, there was a strong possibility that he knew absolutely nothing about the circumstances surrounding the two of them.
Phew. Then that was a relief.
However, Ji-i had no way of knowing whether Araang’s adoptive parents had discovered the existence of Song Ji-i, her identical twin, while adopting Song Ji-ru.
But that didn’t mean she could simply go to Araang’s adoptive parents and interrogate them out of nowhere.
Still, since Araang had never mentioned anything about it to her over the past decade or so, Ji-i vaguely concluded that everyone involved with Im Sang-ah during the process of changing identities at the time of the adoption did not know that she and Araang were identical twins.
No need to think about it for long.
Go for it, even if I have nothing to lose. For revenge.
In any case, Ji-i had already decided that she would somehow marry this man to reclaim what Araang had taken from her.
If that was the case, what difference would it make whether she did it now or after the wedding?
Ji-i finally decided to actively seduce Dong-in.
“I think so too.”
“You think so too?”
Ji-i grabbed the lapel of his suit jacket and rose onto her toes.
“I think it would be better to check first whether you can or can’t.”
Then she took the initiative and kissed him.
“What….”
Regardless of whether Dong-in flinched, she attacked without hesitation.
At first, he thought his promiscuous prospective fiancée was crossing far too many boundaries.
Then he simply blinked.
Is it normally this soft?
Next, Dong-in thought blankly.
Just when he suddenly felt it was difficult to breathe, his prospective fiancée’s lips began taking over his.
His eyes widened.
What the hell!
Finally, he was dumbfounded, disgusted, and furious all at once.
Yet in the middle of all that, his prospective fiancée’s lips moved extremely rudely, as if they were going to swallow him whole.
Damn it, why is she so good at this?
As he had said repeatedly, he already knew that Im Araang was not innocent.
Since she was his prospective fiancée, he had always kept in mind the possibility that she might be capable of something like this. So he also knew that the health certificate alone would not be enough.
In the end, the only person he could trust was his grandfather.
Unfortunately, Dong-in essentially lived with his days and nights reversed.
And because of that, he still hadn’t had a chance to ask his grandfather to investigate Im Araang.
