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“It seems Yuseong is getting impatient and keeps trying to contact us. I think it’s because of the duty-free shop tenancy rights for the hotel that will be completed next year. What should we do?”
“…”
“Director Tae?”
Despite Kwon Ki-seon’s call, Tae Mu-jin’s gaze was fixed on the window. Outside the floor-to-ceiling glass of the office, a dazzling city surrounded by the sea unfolded. Here, in Yeongjong Island, there was no business or money flow that didn’t go through Tae Mu-jin. It was practically a small kingdom that Tae Mu-jin had built. It had taken exactly 11 years to rise from the bottom to the current pinnacle.
11 years ago, Tae Mu-jin had to scrape by in the gutter because of one transfer student.
In exchange for touching a gang member connected to the girl, Tae Mu-jin entered the Seowon faction under the lowest conditions. He did menial tasks and was the first to be used as a knife target whenever there was a need for physical labor. Some people scoffed that Tae Mu-jin was a lost cause, but Kwon Ki-seon’s thoughts were different. The surrounding circumstances may have changed, but Tae Mu-jin was always himself, no matter where or when. While rolling in the gutter and getting blood on his hands, he was always silent, cold, and unwavering. Kwon Ki-seon hesitated for a moment, but he trusted his gut feeling, which was a knack for catching people who could make a good hand rather than picking a good hand himself. That’s why he followed Tae Mu-jin into the Seowon faction.
Tae Mu-jin came to the forefront of the Seowon faction when the license for a casino was granted in Yeongjong Island. Rumors spread widely that a resort and casino of the largest scale in Asia would be built around Incheon Airport. The main force behind it was the Seowon faction, a local gang led by Tae Mu-jin. At that time, most people predicted that a low-level local gang would at most build one hotel and put a small casino in the basement.
However, things took an unusual turn.
It was a period when Hong Kong was incorporated into China, and Macau’s black money was left without a place to go. Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea emerged as alternatives to absorb Asia’s black money. Singapore’s strict national regulations were not welcomed by Macau’s big spenders. Taiwan also tried to attract them by offering to drastically ease regulations, but it was foiled by the Chinese Communist Party’s opposition. That left Japan and Korea. Of the two, Tae Mu-jin was the one who moved quickly.
Tae Mu-jin contacted Yoon Seong-hoe, a second-tier local assemblyman, and poured human and material resources into him. In return, Yoon Seong-hoe was elected as the mayor of Incheon, a place he had no ties to, by making casino development his main campaign promise. As soon as the license was granted, the land prices in Yeongjong Island began to soar. Having already secured a large amount of land in Yeongjong Island, Tae Mu-jin bought a small construction company, changed its name, and simultaneously took on and promoted both land reclamation and development.
Resort and casino groups with global chains began to move from Macau to Yeongjong Island one after another. Seven years after the start of the Yeongjong Island project, the taxes collected in Yeongjong Island began to surpass those of Seoul. Yoon Seong-hoe, who had been a mere local assemblyman, became a politician of national standing and was mentioned as a potential presidential candidate for the next term. Around that time, Tae Mu-jin transformed the Seowon faction into a group called Golden Bridge and listed it on the stock market.
Golden Bridge. Due to the explosive increase in traffic, another bridge connecting Yeongjong Island and the mainland was built in addition to the Incheon Bridge. People called it the Golden Bridge because crossing the double-helix structured bridge, wrapped in brilliant lights, made it feel like you were engulfed in golden waves. It was a golden bridge connecting an island that shone with gambling and entertainment.
To the public, Golden Bridge was a large corporation with its origins in construction, encompassing resorts, casinos, and finance. However, it was, in fact, a kind of black bank that laundered dirty money. Tae Mu-jin sucked up Asia’s black money in one go, as if he had pulled the drain plug out of a bathtub.
Tae Mu-jin was scanning the skyline that unfolded outside the window with his eyes. Because of the height restrictions from the Incheon Airport, the buildings on Yeongjong Island were not very tall. Instead, famous architects had designed each building with a different character, and among them, the Golden Bridge headquarters, finished with dark glass that reflected the Yeongjong Island skyline like a black hole, was where Tae Mu-jin, the king of this place, sat. It was also where the gamble of a lifetime for Kwon Ki-seon hit the jackpot.
Tae Mu-jin replied nonchalantly without looking at Kwon Ki-seon.
“Schedule a meeting, and let them know that you’ve already spoken with Madam Kwan. Also, hint at the amount Madam Kwan offered. They’ll try to follow suit somehow.”
The duty-free shop in the basement of the casino that Tae Mu-jin directly managed was constantly setting new domestic sales records. Next year, a hotel with the largest infinity pool in Asia was scheduled to be built there. Companies were fiercely competing for the duty-free shop space that would connect the top five floors of the hotel. Tae Mu-jin was appropriately fueling the competition and raising the bidding price. Thanks to this, there were even group leaders who offered tens of millions of dollars just for one meeting with Kwon Ki-seon, who was known as Tae Mu-jin’s right-hand man, but Kwon Ki-seon had refused them all without hesitation.
“Then when should I reschedule the meeting with Madam Kwan?”
Madam Kwan was a tycoon of a Singaporean resort group, well over sixty, and a business partner who had been with Tae Mu-jin since the very beginning of his career. Tae Mu-jin, who always kept his appointments, suddenly canceled a meeting with her and became unreachable.
While executives were speculating that this unprecedented behavior was a sign that Tae Mu-jin was giving more importance to other partners, Madam Kwan seemed unfazed.
‘Is it because of a woman? Whenever a man has a problem, there’s always a woman involved. I’m curious. Who is the woman that has captivated Director Tae?’
Everyone else thought Madam Kwan’s deduction was a bit sentimental, but Kwon Ki-seon was sweating by himself. He felt that Madam Kwan’s intuition, as a woman who had managed a group on her own and raised it to that level, was truly remarkable.
A while ago, Tae Mu-jin had given a secret order to find a certain person. Since Kwon Ki-seon was in charge of Tae Mu-jin’s private affairs, he readily agreed, but when he heard the name, he couldn’t control his expression.
“Yoon… Yiseo? Yoon Yiseo from Seosang High?”
He caught himself. As he thought of the high school girl in a uniform, he unconsciously spoke informally as if he had gone back to his school days. Kwon Ki-seon’s heart sank at Tae Mu-jin’s chilly gaze.
Kwon Ki-seon immediately collected the information himself. It wasn’t hard to find her. It seemed she had tried to run away by regularly changing her name and address, but to Kwon Ki-seon, whose roots were in the Seowon faction even though he was now a businessman, it was utterly sloppy. If Tae Mu-jin hadn’t intervened after joining the Seowon faction, it would not have been strange if she had been caught and sold off somewhere long ago.
The former classmate he saw after a long time was living a surprisingly ordinary life.
Her residence was a single room in an old multi-family villa complex. After making a fuss about going abroad to study piano, she was working as an administrative assistant at a company completely unrelated to music. As he took dozens of pictures of Yoon Yiseo carrying a convenience store bag and climbing the steep stairs of the villa after work, Kwon Ki-seon sneered.
The Yoon Yiseo from Seoryeong had seemed as sensitive and arrogant as an ice castle that would shatter if someone touched it. But 11 years later, apart from her pretty face, her life was dull and ordinary. After swindling Tae Mu-jin and running away, she was not living a great life. Kwon Ki-seon found the sight of her quite amusing.
He saved the information and photos he had collected over a week onto an untraceable burner phone and submitted it to Tae Mu-jin. As Tae Mu-jin looked down and tapped the screen, his face was, as usual, unreadable, but Kwon Ki-seon assumed he felt a similar emotion.
The shabbiness of the reality she faced would be greater than the beautified memory. The gap would be so large and absurd that he would have a bitter taste in his mouth. A lot of time had passed, and Tae Mu-jin had never mentioned Yoon Yiseo, so Kwon Ki-seon regarded this task as just a random whim or curiosity from Tae Mu-jin.
But Tae Mu-jin’s hand, which was nonchalantly scrolling through the photos, stopped. From a distance, Kwon Ki-seon couldn’t see the screen, but by the movement of his finger, he could guess which photo it was, and his heart skipped a beat.
Yoon Yiseo’s life was ordinary, but perhaps because of her looks, the men who approached her were not bad. The man in the picture with Yoon Yiseo was a lawyer from the company she worked at. The two had talked in a car for 17 minutes after a meeting, and only Yoon Yiseo went up to her house.
The picture Tae Mu-jin was looking at without scrolling was that very scene. Despite it being summer, Kwon Ki-seon felt a chill from Tae Mu-jin’s icy gaze.
Crunch! The phone Tae Mu-jin had crushed broke into several pieces and fell to the floor.
Kwon Ki-seon forgot to breathe for a moment and swallowed hard.
Whether Tae Mu-jin was a low-level thug in Seoryeong or the king of Yeongjong Island, he never showed his emotions in any situation. But at the mere picture of Yoon Yiseo lightly kissing a man, his face was filled with murderous intent. The next picture was even one of Yoon Yiseo turning her head away with an annoyed expression to avoid it.
Surely not, he still feels… It might have made sense in Seoryeong, but there was no woman the current Tae Mu-jin couldn’t have. What on earth was Yoon Yiseo?
As if answering that question, Tae Mu-jin stomped on the broken phone and said,
“Find out everything related to Yoon Yiseo and report it to me.”
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Yiseo struggled for a long time in front of the elevator button. No matter how much she pressed it, the light still wouldn’t turn on. The fingerprint recognition device suggested that only people with registered fingerprints could use it. Haah, she sighed, but then the elevator arrival sign blinked. A tall man in a black suit stepped out. Yiseo’s brows furrowed at the familiar face.
“Kwon Ki-seon?”
She was flustered as he bowed respectfully at a 90-degree angle.
“If you need anything, please let me know. I will go get it.”
“No… it’s not that I need anything, but I want to go outside…”
Kwon Ki-seon’s eyebrows drew together in a look of difficulty as he replied.
“Director Tae said not to escort you outside. Instead, if you need anything, I will get it for you.”
“How long do I have to stay here?”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know that.”
“When is Tae Mu-jin… no, Director Tae coming?”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know that either.”
Haah, Yiseo was starting to feel speechless. A month had passed since their nightmarish reunion, but she hadn’t been able to take a single step outside of Tae Mu-jin’s house.
Tae Mu-jin’s house was a structure that connected the two top floors of the building. The upper floor seemed to be the garden and Tae Mu-jin’s private space, while the lower floor was a maze of endlessly connected rooms, a reception hall, and a living room with floor-to-ceiling windows. Other than the cleaning lady who came once a day and Tae Mu-jin, no one came and went. Even Tae Mu-jin only came home in the middle of the night and often didn’t come home at all. This time, he hadn’t come for a week.
Yiseo gave up on the elevator and walked through the long hallway into the interior. She was about to go up to the roof when the cleaning lady called out to her.
“Come and eat lunch. You don’t seem to be eating well, so I prepared a pine nut poached egg soup you can easily scoop up.”
“Oh… I’m sorry, but I’m not hungry right now. Just leave it, and I’ll eat it later.”
“Are you going to just have one or two slices of bread again? You have to eat one proper meal a day, or it will upset your stomach.”
When the cleaning lady pulled out a chair and gestured to her, Yiseo couldn’t refuse and sat at the table. The lady immediately placed a bowl on the table. In the white porcelain bowl, seafood like shrimp, abalone, crab meat, and scallops were neatly arranged with pear, chestnuts, cucumber, and a poached egg. Pomegranate seeds were scattered on top like jewels. The lady poured the milky pine nut broth over the ingredients until they were just submerged. When Yiseo popped the poached egg and took a spoonful of the pine nut sauce seasoned with vinegar, the subtle savoriness mixed with the acidity stimulated her appetite. It was a luxurious flavor that took a lot of effort to make. It was a dish Yiseo also enjoyed before her father passed away.
Her mouth was enjoying the luxury, but her heart was heavy. What right did she have, being unable to even pay off her debt?
“Ma’am, how do you get in here? The elevator button doesn’t work for me.”
“Well… Managing Director Kwon brings me and takes me home…”
The way the lady’s words trailed off awkwardly showed that this conversation made her uncomfortable. One uncomfortable person was enough. Instead of asking more questions, Yiseo finished her pine nut soup.
Yiseo finished her meal and headed to the dressing room. The dressing room was filled with new clothes of various brands in Yiseo’s size, as if an entire boutique had been moved in. Did he get a new hobby of playing with dolls while she wasn’t looking? Yiseo gave a bitter smile and took out the most ordinary-looking jacket from among the hung clothes. She went to Tae Mu-jin’s room, pulled out a book, and headed to the garden.
Tae Mu-jin’s house, in terms of size, facilities, and interior design, was on a level that was hard to see even when Yiseo’s father was alive, but it was cold and desolate. That’s why Yiseo would go out to the garden whenever she had a chance, even in the middle of winter.
It was only when she saw the garden during the day that Yiseo realized Tae Mu-jin’s position.
In front was the sea, behind was the dazzling skyline, and airplanes flew low as if they would brush against the buildings. Yiseo had heard of it, too. Golden Bridge. The island of gambling and entertainment that appeared like a mirage one day. She had no reason to go there, but she had sometimes heard her colleagues bragging about their vacations there.
While she had fallen, Tae Mu-jin had risen as dramatically as this garden suspended in the air. That was a relief. Yiseo sincerely thought it was a relief. The thought of Tae Mu-jin left behind in Seoryeong had choked her up, like swallowing a hot stone. Now, pitifully, the volume of her guilt had decreased. And… a cold and dark emotion began to slowly fill that empty space. Yiseo shook her head from side to side. She found it ridiculous that she still had the pride to feel miserable.
She lay down on a sunbed next to the swimming pool and turned the pages of the book. It had been read so many times that some pages opened on their own. It was a book of proverbs, and her eyes were drawn to a phrase in the middle.
[Nothing is more pleasant in this world than love. And next to love, the most pleasant thing is hatred. - H.W. Longfellow]
Did Tae Mu-jin also read this passage? A corner of her heart felt cold, so Yiseo put the book on her chest and closed her eyes.
“What’s the reason for sleeping in the coldest place?”
Yiseo opened her eyes at the long shadow cast over the sunbed. Her body reacted first when she saw his narrowed eyes, which held a look of displeasure. The hand on the book trembled slightly. It was a tremor of either welcome or unease.
“…It’s warmer than you think next to the heated pool.”
Tae Mu-jin clicked his tongue in disbelief and turned his back. Seeing him walk away, Yiseo hurriedly got up and followed him inside. There was an unfamiliar suitcase in a corner of the room, and Tae Mu-jin began to take suits out of the closet and put them in it.
“Where are you… going again?”
“A business trip. A short one this time.”
She had only just seen him for the first time in a week. Yiseo’s heart grew anxious.
Tae Mu-jin would come home in the middle of the night and take her in a casual manner. It was different from the first night, with no other intimacy except the stimulation of her genitals. After several releases were over, he would leave the room, leaving Yiseo exhausted from the night-long ordeal, like a limp condom. The act of being held was humiliating, but as time passed, she began to wonder. Did Tae Mu-jin really intend to collect the debt this way?
“Then what about me? How long do I have to stay in this house? I’d rather go back to work. How am I ever going to pay off the debt like this?”
Tae Mu-jin’s eyes, as he looked back at her, were so cold that Yiseo clamped her mouth shut.
“Do you remember? The women from the businesses in Seoryeong you hated even looking at.”
“What does that mean… it’s not that I hated looking at them, but rather I felt sorry for them…”
“Felt sorry for them.”
Who are you to feel sorry for them? Tae Mu-jin sneered, and Yiseo’s face became stiff.
“Do you know what those women spend most of their time doing to make money? Spreading their legs? Sucking dick?”
“Tae Mu-jin!”
“No. Most of their time is spent waiting until someone buys their bodies. They sit in the store half-naked all day long. They don’t get to lie around and sunbathe like you, with your lucky life.”
Yiseo’s chest sank with a chill. Only then did she understand the meaning of the time Tae Mu-jin had kept her confined in his house and made her wait for him. He was making her painfully and clearly aware that she was in a position where she had to sell her body to pay off a debt.
She had been momentarily deluded by the luxurious environment. No, was it hope?
The hope that the debt was just an excuse and that Tae Mu-jin might… still… want to keep her by his side.
Hope and disappointment intertwined, and something surged up in her chest. She gritted her teeth and said to Tae Mu-jin’s back as he was about to leave with a new suitcase.
“Then I’ll call Managing Director Kwon.”
Tae Mu-jin’s steps, which were about to leave the room, stopped dead.
“I’ll call Managing Director Kwon while you’re gone and try to make up for the debt a little.”
Thump, the sound of the suitcase falling to the floor made Yiseo immediately regret her words. The new jacket he was wearing twitched along with Tae Mu-jin’s back muscles. He twisted his body and roughly pulled down his tie.
“Since you’re so desperate to sell yourself, I can’t leave you empty-handed.”
“Aah! Tae Mu-jin!”
Her arm was grabbed in an instant, and she was dragged into the bathroom.
Tae Mu-jin sat Yiseo in the bathtub, which was carved from marble. He then took off his jacket and pulled the sleeves of his shirt up to his elbows.
“Aah!!”
Yiseo’s mind was numb from the water that was suddenly sprayed on her. Tae Mu-jin sat on the edge of the bathtub and aimed the showerhead at her.
“W-what are you doing! Oh…”
The wet dress was pulled over her head by Tae Mu-jin’s hand. The wet panties were also roughly pulled down from her hips and rolled up to her knees. Tae Mu-jin held the center of her panties and lifted them all the way up to her head. This left her with her knees pressed against her chest and her vulva fully exposed to the ceiling. Her vulva, which had been chilled by the water, was twitching from the cold. Seeing her butt muscles twitching, Tae Mu-jin sneered. And then, he immediately turned the faucet all the way to maximum and held the showerhead directly to her vulva.
“Aah! Aah-uung!”
The pelting water pressure hammered her pleasure spot.
Tae Mu-jin’s bathroom had a whirlpool spa bathtub, and the showerhead had strong water pressure. Hundreds of thin, strong jets of water mercilessly hammered her vulva as if piercing it.
For a month, Tae Mu-jin had only stimulated the parts that made Yiseo feel things, and thanks to this, her body, now sensitive, was easily aroused by the sudden shock. Yiseo twisted her body at the gushing pleasure, but because of the panties held by Tae Mu-jin’s hand, she was only shaking her butt. When she shook her pelvis to escape the strong stimulation, the showerhead followed her like a snake.
“Now you’re even wagging your tail, asking to be fucked.”
Tae Mu-jin sneered and shook the showerhead as if he was lashing her with it from top to bottom. The jets of water hit her vulva like a whip.
“Aah-uh, ah! Aah!”
Yiseo twisted Tae Mu-jin’s wrist, which was pressing her knees with her panties. But as the water whipping only grew stronger, she hung onto his arm and trembled. Her vagina, gasping from excitement, drank in the gushing jets of water. As her vagina opened wide, the water that plunged inside scraped against her inner walls. When she convulsed from the indescribable pleasure, Tae Mu-jin finally took the showerhead away.
“Haah… haah, aah…”
The breath she had been holding burst out. She barely lifted her head, thinking it was over, but Tae Mu-jin was adjusting the showerhead. The jets of water that had been pouring from hundreds of tiny holes merged into a single stream. Her spine shivered from the stream that surged up like a drill.
“Aah, no… I don’t want it anymore. I can’t!”
“But your pussy is twitching for more, isn’t it?”
The stream of water was aimed precisely at Yiseo’s clitoris. As the strong jet of water hammered her clitoris, Yiseo shrieked and rolled around on the bathroom floor. The stream of water dug into the surrounding flesh, exposing the sharply raised mound. When the swollen clitoris was hit accurately, Yiseo’s body convulsed. A pleasure that felt like pain violently poured over her. Her pussy widened, as if to spew out the overstimulated sensation. The bright red opening pushed out the stream of water that had entered her vagina along with her fluid.
“Aah! Aah!! Aah-ng!”
A cry-like moan echoed in the bathroom. Because of the steam that filled the bathroom, Tae Mu-jin’s face seemed distant. The sight of it made her burst into tears.
“Tae Mu-jin, stop… ugh! Ugh… stop it, please… ugh!”
“Don’t cry. You’re the one who begged for it. This hasn’t even started yet.”
Tae Mu-jin held the showerhead close to her vulva and shook it. Aah! He pressed the showerhead against Yiseo’s swaying pelvis to hold it in place and took out his phone from his pocket.
“Kwon Ki-seon, come to my bathroom right now.”
The sound of the call being disconnected made her mind go clear.
“No way! Who did you call just now?!”
“The way you’re twitching, Kwon Ki-seon can just come and fuck you.”
“Are you crazy?! No, Tae Mu-jin!!”
Just then, there was a knock on the bathroom door. A voice called out, “Director Tae,” and goosebumps stood up all over her body. Yiseo hugged Tae Mu-jin as if to hang on to his arm. She shook her head madly, her eyes wide as if they would tear.
“No, no! Don’t do that!! Don’t do that, please.”
The knocking on the bathroom door, calling for Director Tae Mu-jin, grew more intense.
“Haah, Yoon Yiseo. You begged for Managing Director Kwon so much, and now I’ve called him. Which tune should I dance to, huh?”
“Ugh, you know I just said that, right? I didn’t mean it seriously!”
“But your pussy seems serious. The way you’re gushing. Managing Director Kwon, come in!”
At the same time, the doorknob rattled. Yiseo screamed and struggled. Her back slid down the smooth marble, and she thrashed in the empty bathtub as if she were drowning.
“Director? The door is locked. Are you alright?”
However, the doorknob rattled but did not open. Realizing the door was locked, Yiseo lay on the floor and glared upward. The narrow, dark eyes of the man standing outside the tub, looking down at her, curved into a thin smile.
“What should I do? Should I open it?”
“Hmph… Do you really… have to go this far?”
“Tell me clearly. What do you want? Should I fuck you, or not?”
“Tae Mu-jin… I don’t want… anyone else… but you.”
Was it her imagination that the fierce look in his eyes subsided at that moment? Tae Mu-jin pulled at his twisted lips and said,
“Then do it yourself. Whether it’s Kwon Ki-seon’s dick or your own hands, if you fuck yourself with anything, I’ll count it towards the debt.”
Yiseo bit her molars in shame. Tae Mu-jin’s expression didn’t change, as if he was serious. She reluctantly lowered her hand. She just wanted it to be over quickly.
She put her hand deep between her legs. The vulva she felt was plump and swollen, about to burst from the moisture and stimulation. The swollen labia majora and minora felt foreign, like someone else’s flesh. Cautiously, she parted her labia minora and pushed a finger into her vaginal opening. She had only put in one knuckle, but she could feel the relaxed vaginal muscles clenching around her finger. Surprised, she pulled her finger out, and Tae Mu-jin shook the leg he was holding. When she pushed her finger in again, the inside of her vagina squeezed it from all sides, kneading it. A rush of heat surged into Yiseo’s face. She had never imagined that there was such a place in her body.
“You have to thrust it. Yoon Yiseo. I didn’t fuck you that half-heartedly.”
“Ugh…”
Remembering the petting Tae Mu-jin had given her, she lightly moved her finger in and out. As she pistoned, she could feel the water and fluids that had been inside her vagina splashing onto the back of her hand. The inside, which had been thoroughly heated by the water stream, was quickly filled with pleasure, making her lower belly slosh.
She moved a little faster and deeper. But no matter how much she thrust, the pleasure never exceeded a certain point. Compared to what Tae Mu-jin had done, the thickness and length of her finger and the pressure were all woefully insufficient. She was out of breath, like a person who couldn’t get to the surface of the water no matter how hard they swam.
“Ugh… hoot… haah…”
Tae Mu-jin, covered in steam, blurred like he was submerged in water, looking at the surface. Splash, splash, splish-splish-splish. Her hand movements had become faster. Yiseo panted and maximized her speed. All her senses were concentrated on her finger and the vaginal opening it was plunged into, and she became immersed in the pleasure she was giving herself. At some point, her eyes met Tae Mu-jin’s. Was it her imagination that a fire-like heat flickered in his black pupils?
“Aah!”
Her pelvis was thrown into a chaotic state by Tae Mu-jin’s face, which suddenly plunged down without warning.
Tae Mu-jin’s wide-open mouth covered everything between her legs. The strong suction felt like it was going to pull her insides out. His thick tongue licked vertically, passing through the gap in her labia minora all the way to her clitoris. Her toes, suspended in the air, involuntarily curled up from the rush of foreplay. Ugh, ugh, haah. Her moans hit the marble wall and returned to her eardrums, sounding like the cries of a cat in heat.
His tongue, which had been licking her for a long time, landed on her clitoris. It toyed with the swollen, pointed bump, making her gasp. “Aaaah!” Yiseo covered her mouth to muffle the sounds, worried that they might be heard outside. The rattling of the doorknob sped up, matching the movement of his tongue.
“Ugh, haaah.”
Suddenly, his tongue entered her vagina. The thick, powerful tongue stirred inside her walls like a drill. Yiseo trembled, hanging onto Tae Mu-jin’s hand. Tae Mu-jin held Yiseo’s body upside down and began to thrust his tongue. The thick and long tongue poked at her pleasure spots with precision, as if reading a map.
Yiseo’s most sensitive spots were clustered deep inside, near the cervix, and near the vaginal opening. Tae Mu-jin mercilessly rotated his tongue, concentrating on the area near the opening. The climax that wrapped around her fell from top to bottom like a waterfall. Her breath stopped for a moment, as if she were drowning in pleasure. A blackout flashed before her eyes, and the fluid that burst from her vagina splattered everywhere.
“Haah, ha… ugh…”
Only then did the arms wrapped around her waist lose their strength, and Yiseo slowly sank to the bottom of the bathtub.
“Director? Director, Mu-jin! If something’s wrong, I’ll get the master key!”
“Managing Director Kwon, go outside and get the car ready.”
“Huh? Ah, yes! Understood.”
Tae Mu-jin pulled down his shirt sleeves to the rhythm of Kwon Ki-seon’s footsteps fading away. He buttoned up his shirt, shook the water off his shirt and pants, and wiped the moisture from his mouth with a towel. He was quickly back to his cold and polished self, as if nothing had happened.
“I’ll be back the day after tomorrow, so wait quietly. I’ll count the waiting time towards the debt.”
Tae Mu-jin curled his lips into a smirk as he looked at Yiseo, who was sprawled and limp in the bathtub. And then he immediately turned his back on her. His receding back looked as if he had just spit on her and walked away. Yiseo reached out with a trembling hand and grabbed the showerhead.
Whoosh. His footsteps, which were heading towards the bathroom door, stopped. Tae Mu-jin’s eyebrows furrowed as he turned around. Water dripped from his drenched shirt, which Yiseo had just sprayed.
“You don’t have to… count the waiting time towards the debt. This is for the shirt.”
“Ha…”
Tae Mu-jin laughed as if he were dumbfounded.
Her heart pounded at the sight of him laughing so widely that his teeth were visible, a sight she hadn’t seen in a very long time.
Something that she hadn’t felt in a long time since reuniting with Tae Mu-jin, something she thought was dead, was slowly rearing its head. It was a twisted pride. No, it was defiance. No, no… it was closer to something more ungrateful.
“People don’t change easily. You’re just as bad at knowing your place as you were back then, Yoon Yiseo.”
Tae Mu-jin was also as accurate at reading people as he was back then. She was indeed bad at knowing her place.
She felt betrayed. How could Tae Mu-jin, of all people, do this to me? and such.
Yiseo got up from the bathtub and took the panties, which were rolled up on her knees, off her legs. Crossing her arms in an X shape, she pulled off her wet bra over her head. Then she approached Tae Mu-jin, and his long, black eyes narrowed.
“This is me knowing my place. You said I should pay off the debt properly.”
She put her hand on the collar of his shirt, which was chastely wrapped around his neck. The luxurious texture of the shirt fabric brushed her fingertips. She unbuttoned it. She could feel his chest rising with a short snort of laughter, mocking her, but she immediately undid the second button.
When they had sex, Tae Mu-jin would undress her obscenely and demand humiliating positions, but he himself was always perfectly composed. Aside from his fearsome erection, he didn’t look like a person having sex at all. The gap between them was so sorrowful and unfair that Yiseo continued to unbutton Tae Mu-jin’s shirt.
Above all, she had a strong desire to confirm something again. She wanted to see the heat that had flickered in his eyes when their gazes met during her masturbation. Contrary to her intentions, her hands kept slipping. In a hurry, she pulled hard on his shirt. Rip, a button was torn off, and through the opened shirt, his clearly defined muscles twitched.
She didn’t even know how to heat a man’s body. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva. She took a deep breath. She brought her face closer to bury her lips in his perfectly crafted, interwoven muscles.
“Oh…”
But she stopped just before their bodies made contact.
What filled her vision were countless knife wounds. Yiseo’s eyes trembled uncontrollably. Scars of different sizes and lengths were carved onto Tae Mu-jin’s body like statues.
“H-how… could you… have so many…”
With a trembling hand, Yiseo traced the scar below his rib cage, which was easily 20cm long, like braille. The stitches left a centipede-like mark and looked like they would burst open at any moment. It looked like a blood-red mouth, gaping open, about to swallow her into hell. The past she had run away from and ignored was raining down on her from every part of Tae Mu-jin’s body, judging her.
These were marks that hadn’t been on his body 11 years ago. As she witnessed the pain he must have gone through because of her, the sense of betrayal she had felt just moments ago stabbed her like a boomerang.
“How could you… Tae Mu-jin, I… I…”
Yiseo sobbed, stroking Tae Mu-jin’s wounds. Tae Mu-jin stroked Yiseo’s hair and said in a bored voice,
“Yoon Yiseo. You’ve got the wrong address. Way, way wrong. That’s not my erogenous zone at all.”
“Ugh!”
Tae Mu-jin snatched Yiseo’s arm, turned her around, and pushed her against the wall. He held her wrists behind her back as if tying them together, and her face was pressed against the large mirror that covered one side of the bathroom. She heard the sound of a belt being unbuckled and pants being pulled down behind her. Gasp! Her breath caught in her throat at the sudden pressure of his cock as it plunged into her vagina. With his cock inserted, Tae Mu-jin took out his phone, pressed a few numbers, and said in a suppressed voice,
“Cancel this business trip.”
The sound of the call being disconnected echoed coldly in the bathroom.
“I was getting my hopes up when you tore my shirt.”
Tae Mu-jin put his arm under Yiseo’s knees and lifted her up. The woman in the mirror was suspended in the air, her legs spread wide open by a huge man. Between her spread legs, her vulva, which was being penetrated by a cock the size of a baby’s arm, was vividly reflected. The red opening, spread wide like a pair of wings, was writhing as it accepted the difficult size. Immediately, the dark-red column began to mercilessly move in and out of the opening.
“Ugh! Aah!! Aah, Tae, Mu-jin! Aah-ng!!”
“If you want to pay off the debt properly, don’t cry and just suck and fuck this dick with your mouth or your pussy.”
She didn’t want to watch, but her eyes wouldn’t close because of her violently shaking body. The woman in the mirror was being fucked, her chest bouncing up and down.
She could see her messy, wet pussy clearly. The long cock came out of her vagina, revealing its glans slightly, and then plunged all the way back in to its base. Every time he thrust his hips up, his round scrotum slapped her pale butt. Thwack, thump, thump, the thick sounds echoed against the marble walls, filling the bathroom.
“Aah-ng!! Ungh! Ugh, haah!!”
Her body, which had already gone past one orgasm, quickly heated up again. She didn’t want to feel it. But contrary to her mind, her body reacted honestly and simply. Every time his cock hit her deepest pleasure spot, her knees, which were hooked over Tae Mu-jin’s arm, tingled. Her mind exploded into a white haze, like the frothy white bubbles forming at her vaginal opening.
Tae Mu-jin’s thick and long cock quickly hammered the pleasure spot deep inside her vagina. As Yiseo twisted her body spasmodically, Tae Mu-jin pressed the tip of his cock against her spot and shook his body in short bursts.
“Aah-uung!!!”
Through her blurry vision, she saw the woman in the mirror with her mouth open in a state of ecstasy, her entire body trembling. The second orgasm was especially long and deeply penetrated her body. It was a searing pleasure, almost like pain. Unable to bear it, she reached back and grabbed Tae Mu-jin’s neck.
And Tae Mu-jin… the Tae Mu-jin reflected in the mirror was standing behind the woman, who was convulsing as if engulfed in flames, mechanically thrusting his hips. His eyes were emotionless, not at all like a person having sex.
“Ugh… hmph… ugh!!”
As she moaned as if crying, Tae Mu-jin chewed on her earlobe as if to bite it off. Her earlobe felt a sharp sting, and then she heard the sound of Tae Mu-jin gnawing and spitting out something. When Tae Mu-jin’s face pulled away, the piercing that had never been taken out of her ear was gone.
“Aah! No, not that!!”
“Whew, I thought it was cheap, and it was indeed fake. A diamond wouldn’t break this easily.”
“Aah… aah.”
“Should I put a real one in?”
Tae Mu-jin bit her earlobe and lifted Yiseo’s legs higher. The perfectly interlocked genitals were reflected in the mirror. She saw Tae Mu-jin’s hand fumbling with the flesh below. When Tae Mu-jin gently pulled out her labia minora, which were crushed by his huge cock, Yiseo’s knees went limp, and she swayed in the air.
“How about I put one in this earlobe? Huh? If I put a real diamond on each side, it would look pretty nice, dangling every time I thrust.”
“Ugh, that’s ridiculous…! Aah!”
“Or should I put rings on both sides? With a lock, it would be a sight to see, huh?”
Tae Mu-jin put her labia minora between his fingers and rubbed them as if to crush them. Yiseo screamed in terror that he would tear off her flesh.
“Aah! I-I don’t want it!! Stop it, Tae Mu-jin!”
“Then you won’t be able to ask someone to come fuck you while I’m on my business trip, at least.”
“Ugh, ha! Aah… ugh!!”
Tae Mu-jin spread Yiseo’s legs as wide as possible and pressed her against the mirror as if to flatten her. The cold mirror pressed against her forehead, nipples, stomach, thighs, and calves. Every time Tae Mu-jin thrust from behind, her vulva would hit the mirror, stimulating her clitoris at the same time. It shouldn’t be coming this quickly. It felt like a switch in her body had been flipped. Once flipped, the switch wouldn’t turn off and just kept her body constantly heated. The heat that boiled over the limit melted everything. Shame and humiliation melted away, and guilt flowed out.
The only thing left was pleasure. Yiseo barely kept her blurry eyes open and looked at the woman in the mirror. Her eyes were clouded with climax, her body was bright red, her chest was bouncing chaotically, and her messy, wet pussy was exposed. Overwhelmed by the past she had ignored, the woman kept moaning, “Ugh, ugh.”
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Tae Mu-jin pulled his cock, which had just ejaculated, out of her vagina. A red hole appeared in Yiseo’s groin and then slowly closed. Yiseo was motionless, as if she had lost consciousness.
Tae Mu-jin put his hand on the back of Yiseo’s head and lifted it slightly. The head he was holding up had no strength in it at all. He parted her lower lip, which was covered in semen, with his thumb, and held a cup to her mouth, pouring in water mixed with glucose.
“Uhm… uh…”
Even in her hazy consciousness, Yiseo began to drink the water little by little. Tae Mu-jin waited patiently, slowly tilting the cup until it was empty. Once the cup was empty, her small red tongue licked her lips and then closed again. Tae Mu-jin was about to lower his head to her water-soaked red lips, but just before touching them, he lifted his upper body. He caressed Yiseo’s lips with his thumb and smiled at the corners of his mouth.
Just as Yoon Yiseo had said, her hands trembled as she unbuttoned his shirt for the first time. Yet her eyes, which met his, were provocative. When he recalled her glaring at him with her eyes raised, heat rushed back to his core. The girl in the school uniform from 11 years ago was still the same even after all this time.
“You still have a long way to go. To completely break you.”
Her inborn, high-handed pride would not easily break, even after all the humiliation. Tae Mu-jin stroked Yiseo’s hair to tidy it up. He took a good look at her face in reality, a face he had only seen in photos and videos until now. The same question he always had when he saw the Yoon Yiseo in the pictures came back to him. Why does a heart, once fixed, not move? Letting her go nicely was enough for one time.
The cool light of dawn was seeping into the room. He finally turned away and headed for the bathroom. After fucking her relentlessly for three days straight, even cancelling an important business trip, it was time for him to go back to the office.
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“Are you up? Come have breakfast. I was worried since I hadn’t seen you come down for the past few days.”
Yiseo’s face turned red as the cleaning lady greeted her warmly.
For three days, Tae Mu-jin had held Yiseo day and night, ordering room service for meals to be delivered to the door. When she woke up, he would force her to eat a spoonful, and when her energy returned, he would hold her again. It was literally three days of eating, sleeping, and having sex.
“Did Tae Mu-jin… no, did Director Tae go to work?”
“Oh, I didn’t see him leave, but… I think Chief Choi will know.”
“Chief Choi?”
“The person who newly came in place of Managing Director Kwon. You haven’t met her yet, have you?”
The cleaning lady smiled and pressed the intercom to call someone. A young woman with a tall build, who looked good in a black suit, entered the dining room.
“From now on, if you need anything, please tell me.”
The woman smiled and bowed respectfully to Yiseo. Yiseo was speechless at the sudden change to a female bodyguard.
“Don’t stand there, have a seat. You seem to have lost more weight since I last saw you.”
“Oh, no…”
“I boiled some rice porridge. Director Tae sent some good ginseng, as if he was worried. It’s best to boil ginseng into porridge…”
The lady trailed off and fell silent as if she had realized her mistake. Even though she worked in Tae Mu-jin’s house, the lady was reluctant to talk about him. Watching the lady stir the pot in silence, Yiseo sat at the table. Soon, a yellowish porridge in a porcelain bowl was placed in front of her.
“Can I… learn how to make this porridge?”
“Huh? Why do you want to? I can make it for you. Preparing ginseng is quite tricky.”
“There’s someone I want to learn to make it for.”
The lady cheerfully replied that she would teach her anytime if that was the reason.
Yiseo took a spoonful of the porridge and put it in her mouth. A bitter taste lingered.
It tasted similar to what Tae Mu-jin had fed her a few times. As her taste buds were stimulated by the bitterness, she recalled his eyes looking down at her. His eyes, which had looked down at her while holding her face between his thighs and ejaculating into her mouth, had been cold to the very end.
For three days, Tae Mu-jin had held her like an animal, but when she woke up in the morning, she was always alone in bed. When she took off the sheet that was carelessly thrown over her body, she would see the semen stuck to her and her swollen vulva. He never slept with her after sex. As if he had completely released his sexual desires and was done with her, he would leave her alone.
And yet… in his absence, everything in the house was prepared for Yiseo with care and detail.
It was hard to read the emotions of the Tae Mu-jin from Seoryeong, but at least the direct look in his eyes when he cornered people was vivid. But the Tae Mu-jin now… was well-groomed and pleasant to look at, like this large and luxurious house, but he was cold and difficult to understand. Was it hate, contempt, or as he said, just an emotionless creditor-debtor relationship? Or, was it something else…
The lady told her to finish the porridge quickly before it got cold, as it was good for her body. Yiseo picked up her spoon and diligently emptied the bowl. If Tae Mu-jin wouldn’t tell her, she had no choice but to find out for herself.
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Tae Mu-jin returned home two days later.
“Did you have a good business trip?”
Tae Mu-jin’s eyebrows went up as he saw Yiseo greeting him as soon as he entered the front door. She had been waiting for him all day in the lobby connected to the entrance.
“Are you tired of the rooftop now? Why are you out here?”
“Yeah. As someone said, it’s too cold to be there anymore.”
Answering obediently, Yiseo put her hand on Tae Mu-jin’s jacket. Tae Mu-jin’s eyebrows raised again, but he let Yiseo take off his jacket. When she untied his tie, Yiseo held out her hand. Tae Mu-jin looked at her with a displeased expression, but as she kept her hand out, he handed her the tie. And then, he twisted his lips up and said, “It won’t work.”
“There’s no point in doing things you’ve never done before. You can’t go outside until you pay off all your debt.”
“I know. I don’t really plan on going out either.”
Tae Mu-jin’s eyes narrowed as if trying to figure out her motive. The feeling she had barely managed to summon was dying down under his still-cold and dark gaze. Yiseo took a deep breath and said the words she had prepared.
“I’ll take care of the housework from now on. I’m not very good at it, but still…”
“No.”
Tae Mu-jin said that one word again and took a long stride. Yiseo scurried behind him, trying to keep up with his large steps.
“Who told you to do that?”
“You don’t have anything to do at home anyway. I’ll stick to the lady for a while and learn.”
“There’s something else you should be sticking to and learning.”
Heat rose to Yiseo’s face at Tae Mu-jin’s slowly curling lips.
“The lady has a hard time managing this big house alone. And also… oh, the debt! You told me to pay off the debt. I’ll try my best no matter how much you pay me…”
She was desperately trying to come up with reasons, but Tae Mu-jin’s eyes became heavy.
“I was wondering why you were suddenly doing things you’ve never done before. It means you want to get rid of me as soon as possible, doesn’t it?”
“No! That’s not it…”
“Sure, try your best. I’ll pay you at least minimum wage. You’ll find that sucking a dick once is better than sweeping and cleaning all day long.”
Her heart went cold at Tae Mu-jin’s back as he sneered and turned away. He assumed that everything she said and did was a calculation. Of course, it was understandable… Yiseo bit her lower lip and grabbed Tae Mu-jin’s arm as he walked away.
“First, let’s eat. I’ve prepared dinner.”
“….”
She couldn’t hesitate here. Yiseo pulled his firm arm. If she didn’t approach him first like this, she would never be able to understand his heart, just like his deep, dark eyes.
“I learned how to make rice porridge with ginseng from the lady. She said that this simple way of cooking is easy to eat and has no nutritional conflicts with the ginseng.”
She placed the porcelain bowl, where the creamy porridge sloshed around, in front of Tae Mu-jin.
The table was also filled with other dishes the lady had prepared. Fortunately, Tae Mu-jin tasted the porridge first without saying a word. Since he continued to eat silently, it didn’t seem to taste too bad. Phew, what a relief. As Yiseo’s lips curled up in a faint smile, Tae Mu-jin asked,
“What about you?”
“Huh?”
“You have to eat dinner too, don’t you?”
Thinking he meant they should eat together, Yiseo quickly took out a sandwich from the refrigerator that the lady always had ready. She took a bite from the corner, but Tae Mu-jin was frowning as he watched her.
“You’re just going to eat bread again.”
The word “again” brought back the taste of the sandwiches he used to get for her in Seoryeong. And… her heart ached a little at the thought that Tae Mu-jin hadn’t forgotten it either.
“I had it for breakfast, but I really can’t eat two meals.”
“Why not? It’s not bad.”
“It’s not bad, but… the taste is a bit… similar to that one…”
“That one?” Tae Mu-jin raised an eyebrow, stopping his spoon in mid-air.
“…The one you used to feed me.”
Tae Mu-jin’s spoon paused in the air for a moment. Yiseo avoided his hardened face and took a bite of her sandwich.
“It seems you’re doing well. You’re getting cheeky.”
Haah, Tae Mu-jin let out a short sigh, but there seemed to be a hint of amusement in his gaze. Yiseo’s heart fluttered. Tae Mu-jin tasted another spoonful, made a face as if to say, “Is this what it really tasted like?” and finally put down his spoon.
That was the end of their conversation. The only sound at the dinner table was the clinking of spoons. But for Yiseo, it felt like she had returned to Seoryeong after a very long time.
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“Oh… haah… I- I can’t do this anymore…”
Yiseo was flustered, squatting on top of Tae Mu-jin’s body. The cock she was trying to position at her vaginal opening showed no sign of going in.
Tae Mu-jin, on the other hand, was lying relaxed on the bed, with his hands under his head like a pillow. He looked up at the struggling Yiseo, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
“You came at me so boldly, but you can’t even get it in properly.”
Just as he said, penetration wasn’t easy.
At the dinner table, the sharp distance Tae Mu-jin had maintained seemed to have softened a little, just as Yiseo had hoped. She wanted to bring that feeling to the bedroom. Not the kind of one-sided sex where Tae Mu-jin would thrust like a machine and she would be mentally lost and in disarray underneath him. Yiseo wanted to see it too. Not the cold, sunken eyes, but the dark, glowing eyes that had looked at her in Seoryeong. Even if it wasn’t as hot as it was back then, she would be happy with a small spark of stimulation.
So when Tae Mu-jin finished his shower and sat on the bed, toweling his wet hair, Yiseo climbed onto his firm thighs. Tae Mu-jin’s eyebrows raised in a crooked line. He let out a short, snorting laugh but allowed Yiseo to do as she pleased. He leaned back against the headboard, looked at Yiseo languidly, as if to say, “Go on, try it.”
Yiseo swallowed a dry mouthful.
She parted the lapels of Tae Mu-jin’s bathrobe. The sight of his rock-solid, chiseled muscles sent a shiver down her spine. She hesitated for a moment but then slowly brought her tongue to him. First, to the long scar under his ribs. The moment her tongue touched it, his chest seemed to inflate like a balloon but then quickly deflated. Taking it as a simple change in his breathing, she licked the scar again.
The feeling of another person’s skin adhering to her tongue and lips was foreign and alluring. She licked it for a long time and kissed each of the scars etched on Tae Mu-jin’s body. Her body’s response came quickly, as always. The dark-red cock, which she wasn’t wearing any underwear to cover, was hard and erect all the way up to her belly button, peeking through her open robe. She wrapped the glans in her hand, and her palm quickly became wet with precum.
She worked her mouth on him diligently, but when she glanced up at his face, she saw no signs of excitement. Yiseo slowly lowered her body and took his erect cock into her mouth. But she couldn’t even fit it halfway and could only gnaw on it. She bobbed her head up and down for a while, but then she heard a low voice giving a command to someone.
“No, you know that price is not enough. Tell them that the bid is also difficult.”
Tae Mu-jin was on the phone, as if he didn’t care about the fact that she was giving him oral sex.
Am I not an attractive woman? This thought, which occurred to her for the first time, dragged Yiseo down to rock bottom. She had never thought about whether she had such charm, as there had always been many men who approached her first. Now that she was in this situation, the confidence she didn’t even know she had was crumbling.
When she pulled his cock out of her mouth, her chin was covered in saliva mixed with precum. Only then did Tae Mu-jin turn his gaze to Yiseo. Yiseo stared intently into his dark pupils, trying to find even the smallest spark of fire. But what she found in his lazily narrowed eyes was a clear smirk.
“Bidding with that kind of petty cash, huh. Tell them it’s hard to get it up, let alone bid.”
Tae Mu-jin grabbed his cock and patted Yiseo’s cheek with it.
Shame filled her, replacing her fading confidence. There was a little defiance mixed in with the shame that was crawling up her body. Yiseo moved away from between Tae Mu-jin’s legs. She put her knees on either side of his waist and spread her legs.
Squeak, her labia majora parted with a sound. She placed his thick and firm dick between her parted lips and slowly lowered her hips. She was now on top of his cock, which was lying all the way up to his belly button. The heavy pressure on her vulva made her vagina contract immediately, and it started to leak fluids. When she awkwardly moved her hips back and forth, her vulva was rubbed vertically by his cock, and a jolt of electricity shot through her. Precum also dripped from Tae Mu-jin’s glans as if he was about to cum. Her pelvis moved on its own, slipping on his cock, which was made wet by the mixing of her fluids and his precum.
“Aah, ugh… aah-ng…”
Her vaginal muscles, which Tae Mu-jin had tamed for a month, reacted instantly. Her vaginal walls twitched as if they wanted to swallow what she was sitting on. At the same time, her thighs tightened. This made her pelvic movements more fluid.
The sound of their bodies rubbing against each other became more thick and juicy. A thrilling sensation shot up her spine, and Yiseo’s upper body leaned forward. She put her hands on Tae Mu-jin’s abs to keep from falling over. His rock-hard abs were twitching. She heard a short laugh and lifted her head.
“Managing Director Kang must have been quite in a hurry, too. Look at the way you’re shaking your hips without being able to do it properly.”
Yiseo bit her lower lip and lifted her hips. She wanted to somehow snatch even a small bit of excitement from Tae Mu-jin’s relaxed face. She moved her hand down and grabbed his dick. She stood on her knees on the floor, but since Tae Mu-jin’s cock was so long, it wasn’t enough. In the end, she put the soles of her feet on the mattress, awkwardly lifted her butt, and put the tip of the glans on her vaginal opening. The stimulated vaginal opening gaped open, but it was still no match for the size of a child’s fist. She sat on it, positioning the opening, and relaxed her thighs.
“Aah-uung… ugh, hoot.”
A moan escaped her on its own. It had only gone in a little, but the pressure was overwhelming, as if she had been stabbed by a club. Tae Mu-jin had always stimulated her erogenous zones like crazy with his hands and cock before mercilessly thrusting into her, so she hadn’t known that insertion would be this difficult. He was right. She knew nothing about sex. It was ridiculous that she had tried to gain even a little bit of an advantage over him.
Yiseo groaned, unable to lower or raise her hips. Her thighs, which were tense in the horse-riding position, trembled. Unable to endure it any longer, she was about to fall forward, but a hand rested on her chest.
Tae Mu-jin, who had finished his call at some point, grabbed Yiseo’s breasts with both hands and supported her so she wouldn’t fall. Her large breasts, in contrast to her thin body, fit perfectly in Tae Mu-jin’s large hands. Tae Mu-jin pressed her nipple gently with his thumb. A tingling sensation flowed down to her core. She realized that this was the first time Tae Mu-jin had touched her anywhere other than with his cock.
“Ugh… haah.”
Held in that awkward position by Tae Mu-jin’s hands, Yiseo pushed the glans into her vagina and moved her hips. She wanted to widen the opening a little to get it in further. She wanted to push away the tight pressure and fill it with pleasure instead. The ambiguous state she was in was unbearable. But her first attempt at insertion only managed to fill the opening, and she couldn’t go any further.
“Aah-uung!”
Tae Mu-jin flicked her nipple with his thumb. A short breath escaped her as she felt a pleasure she had never felt in her breasts before. Yiseo grabbed Tae Mu-jin’s wrists with both hands. His firm wrists didn’t budge, and in an instant, he squeezed Yiseo’s breasts tightly, as if they were about to burst. At that moment, her vaginal fluids gushed out like a dam breaking. In that gap, the glans slipped a little further into her vulva.
“Ah… aah-h, please… do something for me. Tae Mu-jin, please, I can’t do this anymore.”
Unable to endure it, Yiseo finally surrendered. Her vaginal muscles chewed on the sudden intruder. Pleasure pounded in her heart, but the pressure was equally great. She felt like if she sat down like this, her body would be skewered by a long, sharp stake.
“You can’t even suck a dick head properly, can you?”
Tae Mu-jin said in a low voice and brought his hands to Yiseo’s butt. Yiseo’s upper body bent forward, and her long hair brushed against Tae Mu-jin’s chest. Tae Mu-jin grabbed Yiseo’s butt as if to support it and pulled it wide apart. Her vulva, spread to its maximum, slowly swallowed his cock, but he still hadn’t penetrated even halfway.
Please do something for me, Tae Mu-jin, please. Yiseo cried out frantically and shook her pelvis violently. But Tae Mu-jin just kneaded her butt as if it would burst and didn’t do what she wanted. Hmph, tears finally fell.
Yiseo reached out her hand and touched her clitoris. She remembered what Tae Mu-jin had done and rubbed her clitoris as if rolling it.
“Aah, ahh, haa-uung.”
As her clitoris was stimulated, her vaginal muscles rippled and widened. A strong stimulation that made her hips shake spread through her body like a drug. Her stomach muscles tightened, and Yiseo’s already thin stomach became hollow. Her breasts swayed and bumped against each other as she shook her body.
Yiseo squeezed her eyes shut and focused on the sensations that swept through her entire body. The excitement swept through her body rapidly but couldn’t cross a certain point. It was nowhere near what Tae Mu-jin had done for her. She quickly rubbed her clitoris up and down, and then, finding that wasn’t enough, she started spinning it in a circle. Her vulva, which had swallowed half of his cock, also moved up and down, left and right. Eventually, she lost speed and direction and just shook chaotically. She wanted to fill her insides to the point of bursting with Tae Mu-jin’s cock, quickly, somehow, quickly. She no longer had the composure to look at his face.
Thwack!!! Her whole body was pierced by a pleasure that made her feel like she would faint. With a powerful thrust from Tae Mu-jin that came without warning, Yiseo screamed in pain and fell backward. Their positions were reversed in an instant.
“Shit! Where did you learn that…”
Tae Mu-jin let out a suppressed curse and began to violently thrust into Yiseo, who was underneath him. Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack. The merciless sound of their bodies hitting each other filled the room.
“Ah, aah! Ugh!! U-huh, ah!”
“You’re already a mess, Yoon Yiseo.”
As he hammered her exact pleasure spot, her vision became blurry. It felt like firecrackers were constantly exploding in her head. This was no different from their previous sex. No, the piston-like thrusts were even more merciless than before, shaking her head so much that she couldn’t think straight.
“Ah, ugh! Tae, Mu-jin!! Aah! S-slow, down, ugh! Slow… ugh.”
“Whew, you were begging me to fuck you fast, hmph, you were sucking and shaking your pussy on my dick.”
“Ugh! Aah…! That’s not… ugh! Haah!”
At that moment, she thought her chest was being torn off. Tae Mu-jin lunged at her and buried his mouth in her swaying breast. He opened his jaw wide and sucked hard. When he lifted his head, her breast was pointed like a cone. Thwack, thump-thump. Every time he sucked hard and lifted his head, her breast, which had come out of his mouth, made a sound like a baby sucking on a bottle. When he scraped her nipple with his teeth as if to chew on it, Yiseo let out a shriek of a moan from the intense stimulation.
The thrusting into her pussy continued. Yiseo was pushed to the edge of the bed by Tae Mu-jin’s pelvis. Yiseo’s head hung off the mattress and tilted toward the floor. Her lower body was still trapped and being fucked by Tae Mu-jin. Thwack, thwack, thwack. Every time Tae Mu-jin mercilessly thrust his hips, it felt like a stake was being driven into her vulva and hammered with a mallet. She felt a dizzying sensation, as if she was plummeting to the ends of the earth.
“Aah, aah, aaah!”
Yiseo shrieked as she experienced pleasure that was falling endlessly into an abyss. She thrashed her arms in the air. Tae Mu-jin grabbed Yiseo’s arms and pulled her. Settling back on the mattress, Yiseo took a ragged breath. The area under Tae Mu-jin’s eyes twitched. Fuck, he cursed lowly, drove his dick all the way in to the base, and shook his hips. At the same time, he grabbed Yiseo’s ankles and began to lick her feet voraciously.
“Ugh, don’t… do that! Hmph, it’s dirty.”
“Haah, you got a little comfortable, huh, and now you’re acting up, Yoon Yiseo.”
Tae Mu-jin put his tongue between Yiseo’s toes and moved it like a piston. The hot membrane stimulated the most distant peripheral nerves. Hmph, the pain-like tickle maximized her pleasure. Her toes curled up as if they were being crushed. She felt like she would burst like a balloon from the pleasure that filled her from head to toe.
“Whew, if I chew on you from head to toe, will your trivial pride finally break, huh?”
Tae Mu-jin twisted his head, put her anklebone between his teeth, and gnawed on it. “Aah!!” As Yiseo struggled, he wrapped his arms around her thighs as if to crush them and rotated his hips. As the inside of her vagina was stirred by his large cock, Yiseo’s chest heaved. When the glans, which had filled the deep inside, almost to her belly button, crushed a certain spot, her whole body contracted with pleasure. It was a suffocating orgasm. Yiseo could only let out gasps of moans through her choked throat. Water streamed from between her tightly shut eyes.
“Haah… aah… ugh…”
When she opened her eyes again, Tae Mu-jin’s face filled her blurry vision.
She finally got to see his face. For some reason, she felt a sudden surge of sadness, and her tear ducts burst open. At the same time, a gush of fluids shot out from her vagina.
“Haah… Tae Mu-jin… ugh…”
“Whew…”
Yoon Yiseo. She thought he had whispered her name like a sigh, but she wasn’t sure. Tae Mu-jin thrust his hips hard and simply looked down at Yiseo. Yiseo blankly stared at his black, glossy pupils that seemed to have absorbed all the darkness. It was hard to read his expression in the dark, but Tae Mu-jin’s face looked strangely unfamiliar. He wasn’t bored and apathetic like before, but he also wasn’t showing any heat. Was it because she was still being fucked and shaken? Tae Mu-jin’s eyes looked confused.
“Tae Mu-jin… Mu-jin… Mu-jin.”
When she mumbled his name, Tae Mu-jin’s face slowly came closer. Just like the countless kisses they had shared in Seoryeong. As his hot breath touched her face, Yiseo closed her eyes and opened her lips.
“Ugh!!”
But Tae Mu-jin’s mouth touched her slender neck, not her lips. Yiseo’s head dangled loosely, like a small animal with its neck bitten by a carnivore. Tae Mu-jin sucked on her collarbone and began to thrust his cock hard again. He pulled the glans all the way out and immediately drove it all the way to the base. Her numb vulva boiled with pleasure again. Shaking from the pleasure that was rushing over her again, Yiseo wrapped her arms around Tae Mu-jin’s back. She could smell his unforgettable body scent from his hair, which was tickling her chin. Now, it didn’t matter what his eyes looked like. It was enough that they could finally hold each other tightly, with their bodies perfectly intertwined for the first time.
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The next day, Yiseo woke up to a little bit of noise. When she got up, her whole body screamed in pain. When she recalled the reason for this, her face felt hot. Last night, Tae Mu-jin had held Yiseo all night long, as if he was broken. Yiseo’s switch also seemed to be on and wouldn’t turn off, so she had to continue to experience extreme pleasure. At some point, she fainted and lost consciousness, but when she opened her eyes again, she was still being fucked. It continued until dawn, and at some point, she seemed to have completely lost consciousness.
Tae Mu-jin had left her alone, as usual, but she didn’t feel abandoned in a strange way. Her whole body was red and bruised, with almost no visible bare skin. They were kiss marks that Tae Mu-jin had made all night long. The pattern was like blooming flowers, and Yiseo’s lips curled up in a smile. Tae Mu-jin’s way of having sex was still rough and coercive, but for the first time, she felt like she had finally connected with him.
When she came out to the living room, the lady immediately brewed her a warm cup of coffee. Chief Choi approached and greeted her respectfully.
“Is it a bit noisy? The workers for the rooftop construction have arrived.”
“What kind of construction?”
“The director asked them to build a greenhouse on the rooftop garden. So you can use it warmly even in winter.”
“Oh…”
“A famous landscape artist is in charge of the construction. They said they’re going to decorate it like a botanical garden.”
The lady’s eyes widened as she pointed her finger outside to the garden.
“You mean that white-haired foreign man, right? The one who was in charge of the Seoul Metropolitan Arboretum construction. I saw him being interviewed on TV a few times.”
“Yes, he doesn’t usually take on private projects, but he’s making a special exception at the request of Director Tae.”
Yiseo’s eyes turned to the garden outside the window. The garden, which had always been empty, was bustling with construction workers for a change.
‘Why did you choose to sleep in the coldest place?’
Yiseo wrapped her arms around her body, pulling her cardigan tighter. A warmth, like the touch that had covered her with a blanket when she was dozing off in Tae Mu-jin’s small room in Seoryeong, enveloped her body. Tae Mu-jin really hasn’t changed. Yiseo enjoyed the rare sunlight and looked at the garden. Chief Choi continued,
“And you have dinner with Director Tae tonight. Please get ready, and I will come pick you up.”
“Then… are we going out?”
“Yes. We’re scheduled to leave at 6:30, so please call me when you’re ready.”
A look of joy spread across Yiseo’s face.
She immediately went to the dressing room and started choosing a dress. She took out a dress, put it on, and stood in front of the mirror.
The brightly dressed woman in the mirror felt foreign. The woman’s face was flushed with excitement. She tried tying her hair up and then letting it down. I must have changed a lot since high school. She stroked her cheeks, which were red with anxiety and excitement. For dinner, she chose a wine-colored dress that was simple in its lines but elegantly revealed the curve of her body.
It had been so long since she had looked in a mirror and dressed up like this. After running away from Seoryeong, her life had always been tight, and there was no one she wanted to look good for, so she hadn’t paid much attention to her appearance. But tonight… she wanted to look her best in front of Tae Mu-jin.
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That evening, Chief Choi drove Yiseo to a parking lot of a unique building with a spiral exterior. The letters at the entrance were familiar to her. It was a hotel that had become a landmark as soon as it opened, with a casino, a duty-free shop, and an infinity pool on the rooftop. Her colleagues used to boast about going there for vacation, but since a one-night stay would cost her entire monthly salary, Yiseo just listened to them nonchalantly.
Chief Choi escorted Yiseo to the 27th-floor restaurant. The black and gold interior was very luxurious, and the guests’ attire was just as extravagant. A small orchestra was performing live in the center of the hall, and the solo violinist was a famous musician who had won a competition a few years ago and whose tickets were hard to get. Yiseo’s shoulders hunched as she crossed the hall. If it weren’t for the dressing room full of clothes that Tae Mu-jin had prepared for her, she would have been overwhelmed by the luxurious atmosphere. Chief Choi guided her to a private room, which seemed to have been reserved in advance.
“Director Tae’s schedule is a bit delayed, so he will be here in about 30 minutes. Would you like to order any drinks or food while you wait?”
“No, that’s okay. I’ll order with him when he gets here.”
Chief Choi bowed respectfully and left the room. Yiseo got up from her seat and went out onto the terrace connected to the room. The cold weather meant there were few people out there. She went to what looked like a smoking area, took out a cigarette from her coat pocket, and put it in her mouth. It was one she had taken from the drawer in Tae Mu-jin’s study. The bitter air filled her lungs for the first time in a while. Strangely, she didn’t feel like smoking when she was with Tae Mu-jin.
“Yoon… Yiseo?”
She turned around at the voice calling her name. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly at the unwelcome face. She remembered him mentioning that he had finally registered for a membership at this hotel and asked her to go with him once. He had told a nonchalant Yiseo that there was absolutely no other meaning behind it and that it was fine even if they just had dinner.
Yiseo lightly pushed away Jong-hoon’s shoulders as he rushed to hug her.
“Yiseo! What happened? Do you know how much I looked for you after you just suddenly disappeared like that?!”
“You didn’t look for me, you reported me missing.”
Jong-hoon’s face hardened at Yiseo’s words. Jong-hoon had treated the loan shark’s call as a simple phishing scam and had only said that he would report them to the police before hanging up.
It was understandable. Even more so considering Jong-hoon was a lawyer. But if he had even for a moment thought that she might be in real danger, would he have been able to hang up the phone like that? Yiseo looked down and snuffed out her cigarette in the outdoor ashtray. She was not shocked, let alone hurt, by Jong-hoon’s last call. She didn’t think they had that kind of relationship. It was different from how she would get hurt by a single word or gesture from Tae Mu-jin.
“I… I’ve handled countless cases like that because of my job. I couldn’t have reacted any other way in that moment. But then I couldn’t get in touch with you, and when I asked the company, they said you had been automatically terminated because of your sudden unauthorized absence. I was going crazy!”
“I know, I’m not blaming you. I just… no, never mind. I have someone with me, so I’ll go back inside.”
“Wait, Yiseo. How can you just leave like this? How are you doing now?”
Jong-hoon grabbed Yiseo’s arm as she was about to go inside.
“You don’t have to worry, Jong-hoon. I’m doing well enough.”
“Haah, don’t worry, you say. How can I not? What about your brother?”
“...”
Jong-hoon quickly continued when he saw her reaction to the mention of her brother.
“What on earth has your brother been up to? I thought he just had a loan shark debt, but what kind of a relationship does he have with the Seowon Gang?”
“...What?”
A subtle crack appeared in Yiseo’s face.
“Your brother came to see me a few times. He told me not to tell you, so I couldn’t say anything until now.”
“Haah, Yoon Yihwan. Seriously.”
“After you went missing, I found the loan shark from what your brother told me. Of course, being a gambling addict is wrong. But Yiseo, think about it. Doesn’t it seem strange that they lent that much money to your brother, who has a bad credit rating and hasn’t had a proper job for years, just with a single IOU? There’s no way they could collect it.”
Seoryeong, Seowon Gang, Tae Mu-jin… The familiar connections made Yiseo turn her gaze to the brightly lit restaurant inside. Tae Mu-jin hadn’t arrived yet, and she couldn’t just brush off what Jong-hoon was saying.
“...It’s not good to talk here, let’s go somewhere else.”
“Okay! I’ve booked a room on the floor below. Let’s go talk there.”
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Ten minutes after entering Jong-hoon’s room, there was a frantic knocking on the door.
Sitting on a single-seater sofa, Yiseo was biting her nails blankly as she listened to Jong-hoon’s story. Jong-hoon frowned at the rough knocking sound and headed for the door. “Who is it?” Jong-hoon asked, but instead of an answer, he heard the sound of a card key unlocking the door.
“Huh? What the… you! Who are you to just barge into my room…!”
Chief Choi, pushing past a protesting Jong-hoon, rushed into the room. He bowed deeply in front of Yiseo, but he was breathing heavily and sweating on his forehead, as if he had come in a hurry.
“Director Tae asked me to bring you back immediately.”
“…Okay.”
Yiseo bit her lip and stood up. When Jong-hoon tried to follow her, Chief Choi blocked him. Yiseo immediately took the elevator to the restaurant. She hesitated for a moment, her hand on the doorknob of the reserved room. She could feel her heart pounding in her temples. She couldn’t tell if it was anger, disappointment, or the truth she didn’t want to face. When Yiseo just stood in front of the door, Chief Choi, who had followed her, opened the door for her.
Through the open door, Tae Mu-jin was visible, sitting back deep in the chair. He wasn’t looking at Yiseo but was examining the menu in his hand. Yiseo walked in decisively, sat across from him, and immediately asked,
“Was it you, Tae Mu-jin, who lent Yoon Yihwan the money?”
“The menu has gotten quite shabby since I last came here.”
Tae Mu-jin stroked his chin as he looked at the menu.
“I thought something was strange too… I-hwan has no credit or collateral to borrow a hundred won from anywhere. How could he have borrowed that much money with just an IOU? But it’s a different story if a member of the Seowon Gang was behind the loan shark who lent the money. I heard they told the loan shark to lend I-hwan as much money as he wanted.”
“I should have them redo the entire kitchen. Trying to act high-end with shabby ingredients just ruins the palate for nothing.”
“But when the due date came, the Seowon Gang didn’t contact them, and the loan shark just wanted to threaten me and I-hwan to get back at least a little bit of the money. According to the loan shark, the Seowon Gang member they had contact with had a snake tattoo on the back of his hand. Isn’t that… Kwon Gi-seon?”
“Yes.”
Yiseo’s breath caught in her throat at his nonchalant answer.
“Why on earth…”
Tae Mu-jin glanced up with his pupils. The gaze they met felt like a deep, black cave she couldn’t escape from, and she felt like she was falling.
“The question ‘why’ is not appropriate. From the beginning, Yoon Yihwan just shouldn’t have gotten into gambling debt. And as for you, Yoon Yiseo.”
The corners of Tae Mu-jin’s lips twisted up. His clear sneer stabbed Yiseo’s heart like an ice pick.
“You shouldn’t have looked for me. You held out your hand and asked me to grab you, and now you’re blaming me for doing it? Wouldn’t that make me feel like shit?”
Yiseo’s tightly clenched fists trembled slightly.
Every time Tae Mu-jin had ridiculed her like a prostitute and treated their sex as a payment, Yiseo was in great pain, but on the other hand, she was still holding on to a thin thread of hope. She hoped that his feelings for her from 11 years ago, though faint and formless, still had a root. And that was why he had grabbed her outstretched hand once more. So she had hoped that if she could somehow repay him for what he had done for her in Seoryeong, Tae Mu-jin would one day forgive her.
However, all of that became clear with his laugh.
The years of living in his debt had created a solid delusion that blurred her vision. Tae Mu-jin hadn’t grabbed her hand, but had dug a deep pit she couldn’t escape from and pushed her in. Thinking that his contempt, ridicule, and disgust for her were all genuine, Yiseo felt like something that had been supporting her all this time was completely collapsing. To Yiseo, who was now limp like a corpse, Tae Mu-jin commanded in a low voice,
“Yoon Yiseo, take off all your clothes and get on the table.”
“…What?”
She looked at Tae Mu-jin blankly, unable to understand his words. The smile on Tae Mu-jin’s face was completely gone. He commanded again in a firm tone,
“Someone’s reckless behavior has ruined my appetite. I need something to chew on instead of food.”
“What are you talking about… What if someone comes in!”
“Even if I were to strangle you here, no one would stop me.”
Tae Mu-jin’s dark pupils twitched ominously. Only then did she realize he was serious, and goosebumps rose all over her body.
“I know you’ll act up if I give you even a little bit of leeway. But to dare to do it with another guy, in my house.”
“Tae Mu-jin!”
Yiseo’s whole body trembled at his misunderstanding.
“That’s not true. What do you mean by ‘doing it’…!!”
“Take off your clothes, before I really chew you up and swallow you whole.”
Yiseo’s throat tightened at the sharp hostility surrounding Tae Mu-jin. Her tightly clenched fists trembled at the ridiculous slander. She felt a surge of defiance mixed with sadness toward the man who hated her and pushed her this far.
Yiseo bent her knees, stepped on the chair, and climbed onto the table. It was the first time she had looked down at Tae Mu-jin’s face, and it looked foreign. She bent her arms behind her back, fumbled for the zipper pull, and grabbed it. She pulled it down, but when it came to actually taking it off, her body instinctively hesitated.
Tear. Tae Mu-jin’s rough hand pulled the dress from Yiseo’s shoulder. The unzipped zipper and the seams of the dress tore, and it fell to her feet.
“Take off your underwear, spread your legs, and sit on the table.”
Yiseo gritted her teeth, crossed her arms, and pulled off her bra over her head. After pulling down her panties and taking them off her feet, she sat on the table with her knees bent. Her legs were wide open, exposing her vulva to Tae Mu-jin. Tae Mu-jin stood up from his seat and began to examine her body. Yiseo’s body was covered with the marks he had made the night before. Tae Mu-jin lifted Yiseo’s arm, parted her thighs, and checked every corner of her body. Only then did she realize that Tae Mu-jin was looking for traces of another man on her body. Yiseo’s body was burning with shame.
“It was only 10 minutes that I was away. What could have happened in that time!”
“Shut up. You’re the one who cums as soon as you get fucked. You could have cummed ten times in 10 minutes. Turn around and lie down like a dog.”
“N-no. Ugh!!”
Tae Mu-jin grabbed Yiseo’s waist and flipped her over in one swift motion. When she got on all fours as he had said, her butt and vulva were completely exposed to him. Tae Mu-jin’s large hands grabbed Yiseo’s butt as if they were about to burst and pulled them wide apart. He ran his fingers over the red and moist membranes without care. He checked the amount of pubic hair as if to count it, and the degree to which her labia majora and minora were swollen.
“Ha-hoot!!”
A finger was plunged into her hole. The hooked finger, as if checking the inside of her vaginal wall, poked at it. Unlike the shame that was about to burst, her body, accustomed to the stimulation, wriggled and squeezed the finger that had entered. When she heard Tae Mu-jin’s snicker from behind, Yiseo wanted to bite her tongue. At that moment, she felt a hot breath on her butt. Tae Mu-jin plunged his tongue deep into her vaginal opening. Yiseo’s arms trembled from the pleasure mixed with humiliation. She wished this time of disgrace would pass quickly.
A long time later, when the hot flesh was pulled out of her vagina, she collapsed onto the table from exhaustion. She managed to turn her head back while lying face down and saw Tae Mu-jin wiping the precum-slicked corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. He licked the back of his hand for a long time. His animalistic appearance sent a shiver down her spine.
“Did you have to go this far?!”
“Open your mouth. There’s still one more hole left.”
In an instant, Tae Mu-jin’s mouth lunged at Yiseo’s lips. It was the kiss she had longed for, but Yiseo clenched her jaw. She pushed Tae Mu-jin’s chest, her mouth tightly shut. She absolutely didn’t want this. She would rather have the kind of sex where he treated her like a prostitute and just thrust into her.
But Tae Mu-jin pressed her cheeks with his hands, and her mouth opened on its own. The large flesh mercilessly broke in. When she tried to push it away with her tongue, it only ended up stimulating and rubbing Tae Mu-jin’s tongue. It wasn’t a kiss. It was a cruel act that broke and trampled on Yiseo’s pride. Yiseo squeezed her eyes shut and gritted her teeth. At the same time, the taste of blood filled her mouth. Only then did the hot flesh pull out of her mouth.
Tae Mu-jin laughed, wiping the blood from his lips with the back of his hand. He swallowed the water in the glass in one gulp, then grabbed the back of Yiseo’s neck again and growled lowly,
“If I taste even a little bit of another guy’s cum besides my own blood. I will cut off that guy’s fingers, toes, tongue, and anything else that’s sticking out, right in front of you.”
“Ugh!!”
The pressure of his tongue thrusting in again and the metallic taste of blood filling her mouth made her stomach churn. Yiseo had to open her mouth and helplessly plead her innocence. The tongue that had finished its thorough inspection pulled away. Her numb mouth ached like a muddy swamp.
“Hmph, you’re the one who treated me like a prostitute… and yet… why are you doing this to me!”
Tae Mu-jin looked down at Yiseo, who had burst into angry tears, with an indifferent expression and put on the jacket he had taken off. Adjusting the knot of his tie, he said,
“Don’t get the wrong idea, Yoon Yiseo. I just don’t like another guy’s cum splashing on my food. I hate mixing them.”
Yiseo’s trembling body froze at Tae Mu-jin’s words.
Tae Mu-jin, whose clothes were now perfectly neat, cast one more glance at Yiseo and headed for the door. Yiseo gritted her teeth and said to Tae Mu-jin’s receding back,
“Haah, you told me to pay off my debt by selling my body… I’ll do as you say. Ugh… I’ll do the same things you did to me… with other men.”
Tae Mu-jin’s footsteps stopped. He slowly turned his body, and the black eyes that met hers flashed with hostility. He grabbed Yiseo’s chin like a ferocious beast about to pounce and muttered, grinding his teeth, “Yoon Yiseo.”
“In that case, I should give you a generous debut. After all, I am a pimp.”
Tae Mu-jin took out his phone from his jacket pocket and called Chief Choi. As if he had been waiting outside the door, Chief Choi came in right away. He flinched for a moment at the sight of Yiseo, who was lying naked on the table, her face stained with tears, but he quickly wiped the expression from his face.
“Get that out of here and take it home.”
“Yes.”
Tae Mu-jin said only that and immediately left the room. Chief Choi quickly picked up the dress that was strewn on the table, but after seeing that it was torn, he picked up the coat from the hanger and covered Yiseo’s trembling body with it. Wrapped in the coat, Yiseo was supported by Chief Choi and returned home.
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A week had passed since Tae Mu-jin had returned home. Yiseo’s anxiety was at its peak.
“The director asked me to bring you, as he has an event today.”
Chief Choi approached Yiseo, who was sitting on the sofa and staring out the window, and reported. Yiseo’s eyes widened. After realizing that the reason Tae Mu-jin had kept her captive was not love but hatred, she had been afraid that he would abandon her like this and never look for her again.
“Is Tae Mu-jin… no, is Director Tae also coming to the event?”
“Yes. It’s ready in the dressing room, so please call me when you’re all set. I will take you there.”
Curious about the word “ready,” Yiseo headed for the dressing room. Just as Chief Choi had said, there was a garment cover on the vanity table. Yiseo unzipped the cover and her eyes went blank for a moment as she checked the contents.
It was a fiery red dress. The neckline was so low in the front and back that it could hardly be called a neckline, and there was a skirt the size of her palm that barely covered her butt. The meaning of this dress hit her, and Yiseo’s face quickly crumpled. The back alleys of Seoryeong. The outfits worn by the women who sat like stuffed animals in the glass terraces. Did he really have to go this far? The hand holding the hanger trembled slightly.
A surge of defiance rose in her, a feeling that if Tae Mu-jin was going to go this far, she would comply. She put on the piece of cloth that was barely a dress and glared at herself in the mirror. Recalling the women of Seoryeong, she put on eyelashes that were too long and looked gaudy. She also filled her lips with a cold red lipstick that matched the dress.
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The place Chief Choi took Yiseo was the reception hall of the same hotel where she had been humiliated last time. It was an event, and the round tables were packed with people, bustling with noise.
Yiseo, who had expected a more secluded place, was flustered and could not take a step from the entrance. So Chief Choi led Yiseo to a less crowded hallway. The clattering sound of the 15-cm stiletto heels Yiseo was wearing echoed loudly in the marble hallway.
When they opened the door and entered, Yiseo’s exposed back was covered in goosebumps at the sight.
In the center of the room was a huge concert grand piano. And sitting in front of the piano, Tae Mu-jin was playing the keys.
“What are you doing not coming in? Come and sit.”
Tae Mu-jin gestured with his chin for her to come and sit.
Yiseo couldn’t bring herself to sit down, given the old memories. Instead, Tae Mu-jin grabbed Yiseo’s arm and forced her to sit on his thigh. He laughed lowly, looking at the stiff Yiseo trapped in his arms.
“I can play a song or two, too. Don’t look so miserable, just give me some accompaniment.”
Tae Mu-jin held up two fingers and began to play “Chopsticks.” Yiseo let out a short, incredulous breath and glared at Tae Mu-jin. Tae Mu-jin raised an eyebrow and said,
“Ah, you don’t even lift a finger for free?”
“Tae Mu-jin!”
“I’ll let you play the accompaniment to pay off your debt, so go on and play.”
Yiseo bit her lower lip and placed her hands on the keys. The keys, which she hadn’t touched in exactly 11 years, felt both foreign and familiar. The conflicting sensation made her knuckles curl up. Perhaps because of this, even though it was a beginner’s piece, their playing kept going wrong, creating a cacophony.
“…How long are you going to punish me like this?”
“Punish? I don’t remember ever punishing you.”
“Locking me up in this house, not letting me meet anyone, and making me wear clothes like this.”
“Why is that a punishment? They suit you very well.”
Yiseo stopped playing and turned her head to glare at Tae Mu-jin. Tae Mu-jin, with his hand off the keys, stroked Yiseo’s hair and said,
“It’s not punishment, it’s about settling the accounts accurately.”
“Is it really… because of the debt?”
“Of course. What else could be the reason?”
“You’re… resenting me, aren’t you?”
Tae Mu-jin buried his lips in Yiseo’s ear and said in a low voice,
“Resentment? Don’t you feel that when there are still feelings left between two people?”
“Then why are you doing this? I-hwan’s debt is nothing to you. If you have no feelings, why would you do this!”
“I have no feelings, but I still have business to do with your body.”
Tae Mu-jin rolled up Yiseo’s palm-sized skirt all the way to her belly button.
“Ugh! No, not here!! Ah, Tae Mu-jin!”
And then he pulled down the center of Yiseo’s panties. He lowered his pants zipper, took out the cock that had been poking her butt, hard as a rock since before, and began to rub it in Yiseo’s butt crack.
“You’re insane!!”
Bang!! With a thrust that poked her butt crack, Yiseo’s body shook and she fell forward onto the keyboard. In that gap, Yiseo’s butt lifted slightly. Tae Mu-jin spread Yiseo’s thighs as wide as they could go and immediately plunged in.
“Aah! Ugh, hmph…!!”
Yiseo’s back, as she was lying face down on the keyboard, trembled. It didn’t hurt because she was already wet. Instead, as soon as he penetrated her, her insides, which had been heating up during the time Tae Mu-jin was not home, erupted with pleasure. As Tae Mu-jin thrusted his hips up thump-thump, white foam bubbled in her head.
“Whew, play a song just like this, Yoon Yiseo. Preferably the one you played in Seoryeong.”
“Ah, haah, Tae Mu-jin! Aah, you’re crazy, you’re insane! Haa-ugh!!”
“If there’s anything left of my feelings for you, haah. It’s just this one thing: wanting to fuck you while you play the piano.”
She tried to get off Tae Mu-jin’s thigh, but it was impossible as his cock was deeply embedded and she was shaking. You’re crazy, you’re a crazy bastard. Tae Mu-jin sucked on Yiseo’s neck as she cursed and told her to play the piano, saying he would let her go if she did.
Yiseo placed her shaking arms on the keyboard. She began to play “Pathetique,” the song that Tae Mu-jin had whispered for her to play over and over again in Seoryeong.
“Ugh, haa-uung, ugh, aaah!”
Could there be a more miserable performance?
Thwack, thump-thump, thwack. The sound of Tae Mu-jin’s flesh hitting her was louder than the sound of the piano, which she couldn’t play properly. Moans continuously flowed from Yiseo’s throat. When she couldn’t endure it and twisted her pelvis, Tae Mu-jin hugged her waist tightly and began to thrust quickly and wildly. Hmph, hmph, haah. Pleasure surged up, as if mocking her crumbling pride. A tingling sensation flowed all the way to her fingertips that were playing the piano.
Thwack!! The glans hit a deep spot inside her vagina, and a blinding spark shot through her. With the orgasm, she collapsed forward, and the note she pressed on the keyboard lingered, ringing out like a long, drawn-out sob.
“Haah… hah…”
Behind the moaning Yiseo, Tae Mu-jin pulled out his cock. He lowered Yiseo from his thigh, had her lie face down on the keyboard, and began to thrust from behind. Bang, bang-bang, bang. The piano spewed out a cacophony. From her vaginal opening, fluids bubbled and sprayed out. Even in her pleasure-muddled state, Yiseo felt that the moans of the piano resembled her own. Tae Mu-jin let out a short moan and pulled out his cock. He hit Yiseo’s butt with his cock and ejaculated. The semen that flowed between her butt cheeks dripped down her thighs.
When she finally regained her senses and lifted her upper body, Tae Mu-jin had already zipped up his pants and was neat, pushing back his hair that had fallen forward. He was just lighting a cigarette. Yiseo pulled down the skirt that was up to her chest to cover her messy bottom. And then she slapped Tae Mu-jin hard on the cheek. Tae Mu-jin, who’s head was slightly turned, righted it and laughed with the cigarette in his mouth.
“You crazy bastard! You son of a bitch! I was a fool to forget that you’re a pimp, Tae Mu-jin!!”
“Not only am I a pimp, but I’m still doing that.”
Tae Mu-jin wrapped his arms around Yiseo’s back as if to imprison her.
“So I have to give you a proper debut. The customers are waiting.”
“What?”
Tae Mu-jin, with Yiseo tucked under his arm, headed for the door, which Yiseo didn’t understand. It wasn’t the door Yiseo had used to enter the room, but the one on the opposite side. The room must have been soundproof, because when he opened the door, a loud noise burst out, as if it was tearing her ears.
The huge hall that Yiseo had avoided just a moment ago filled her vision. It seemed to be an event, and the round tables were packed with people.
“Let go of me! How am I supposed to walk through here like this!”
The strong lights illuminating the hall made her exposed skin, which was visible over the obviously “working-girl” dress, feel like it was burning. When she pulled down the palm-sized skirt with her hands, the low-cut neckline, which was plunged down to her solar plexus, came down, and her breasts strained against the fabric.
“I went to a lot of trouble to arrange this event, so it would be a shame if you said that.”
“What? Arrange it… what are you talking about?”
At that moment, Tae Mu-jin’s hand, which was holding her back, moved forward. Yiseo had to cross the hall, hanging from Tae Mu-jin’s side. Tae Mu-jin had gone all the way to make her look like a “working girl” from head to toe and put her in a public setting to humiliate her. She wished it would just pass in an instant. She was trying to concentrate on putting strength into her constantly buckling ankles.
Something was strange. The gazes of some of the people at the tables were turning to Yiseo one by one. They could have been staring because her outfit stood out, but it was more like… they were looking at someone they knew. And those gazes looked strangely familiar to Yiseo, too.
“Ah…”
Yiseo’s knees buckled. All the strength in her legs was gone, but she was being held up by Tae Mu-jin’s arm.
Among the crowd filling the hall, there were faces Yiseo knew.
At the table on the far right, the men pointing at Yiseo with surprised eyes were male employees from her previous company. And at the table next to them was a male colleague from the store where she had worked part-time, and now… the man who froze stiff as soon as their eyes met was Jong-hoon. The men who had passed through her life for 11 years were all looking at Yiseo.
“Ugh…”
Yiseo gagged and fell forward. Tae Mu-jin gently embraced her leaning upper body and lifted her, saying,
“Yoon Yiseo, straighten your back and lift your head. You have to walk properly.”
“Haah… aah…”
Tae Mu-jin put his lips to Yiseo’s trembling earlobe and whispered lowly,
“That’s what you’re best at. Having pride when you have nothing.”
At those words, Yiseo’s body went limp like a corpse.
She was dragged by Tae Mu-jin’s arm, crossing the hall like a paper doll. The entire hall seemed to be spinning. The eyes staring at her flew at her like bullets, and her whole body ached as if it had been riddled with holes. Her stiletto heels slipped pitifully with every step on the marble tiles. None of this felt real. She struggled through the nightmare and barely made it out of the hall.
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Click. The sound of Tae Mu-jin lighting a lighter brought Yiseo back to consciousness for a moment. She was sitting next to Tae Mu-jin in the back seat of the car, slowly leaving the hotel parking lot.
Yiseo stared blankly out the car window. The city lights became faint, shrouded in a fog like the cigarette smoke Tae Mu-jin was exhaling. The guilt she had held toward Tae Mu-jin for 11 years also flowed away like fog. Attached to that guilt, like two sides of a coin, was the love of a boy who had lost everything for her. When that boy’s love disappeared, her guilt also lost its form.
All that was left was debt and her own body. If he grew tired of even that relationship, Tae Mu-jin would throw her into that muddy swamp at any time.
As the car entered a tunnel, an unfamiliar woman was reflected in the black car window. The mascara marks, smudged by tears, drew black streaks down the woman’s cheeks. It was the face of the ugliest woman she had ever seen in her life.