The Truth About Jeon Seongwon

A short while later, Jeon Seongwon somehow managed to grasp the meaning of my gaze.

For someone usually so oblivious, it was a remarkable development.

He flinched, clenched his fist—which had emerged from his loose hospital gown—and stammered.

“That’s, that’s not it, Seyeon……”

“Then what is it? If you didn’t learn it from Weilin and come use it on me, then what?”

“I did learn it from Weilin, but…… it’s not the way you think. You’re misunderstanding things right now.”

“What could I possibly be misunderstanding in this situation? Then tell me how you learned it. Go on, say it.”

“…….”

Suddenly, Jeon Seongwon’s face flushed bright red.

There was nothing I could do but stare at him with a cold expression.

This was a matter of pride, after all.

A man who never showed any improvement with me—with Weilin, whether he’d slept with him or whatever, anyway—after that, suddenly, compared to before, he had become astonishingly skilled.

So, what he couldn’t do with me, Weilin could.

And with what he’d learned, I……

“……Ha.”

Letting out a hollow laugh, I deliberately turned over on the bed.

I heard Jeon Seongwon watch me for a long time with a complicated gaze, then pad back to his own bed and lie down.

It wasn’t as if I was comfortable either.

Of course, the caretaker’s bed was positioned to have a clear view of the patient’s bed.

Even though I had turned over and pulled the blanket over my head, so I couldn’t see him, I could feel his presence behind me.

What broke the indescribably awkward atmosphere was my phone.

A short vibration sounded from my pajama pocket, and I pulled it out as if meeting a savior.

A message notification was floating above the photo of Jeon Seongwon and me together.

I quickly checked it—it was Kang Chaehee.

[Sorry for the late hour]

[Is the Vice Chairman alright? Was he seriously injured? I know it’s strange for me to worry, but…]

Truthfully, Kang Chaehee was also part of the reason I wasn’t going home.

If I left the hospital and ended up alone, I would have to contact him.

With Jeon Seongwon lying in the hospital, that felt a bit……

But as if reading the situation, Kang Chaehee had contacted me first, expressing concern.

Given his personality, he was probably genuinely worried.

[They said it’s just lacerations. He’s hospitalized just in case. Sorry to bother you on a day you should be celebrating]

[Don’t say that]

[I’m fine]

[Still, congratulations again. You did well]

[Thank you. And Director, I’ve already received an offer for my next audition ^^; I don’t know how they found out so fast…]

Well, Kang Chaehee had done well at the audition, and word that Jeong Incheol had been completely uprooted must have spread quickly.

Rumors in the entertainment industry spread at the speed of poison gas.

[So? Are you going to try out?]

[No, I should focus on this first]

[I turned it down, but I wanted to let you know]

[Good choice. It’s not the time to audition for just anything]

Even now, it wasn’t that he didn’t have the skill—it was that he’d never had a chance to perform.

If anyone had seen him, even for a moment, he might have been hired immediately.

Because in the entertainment industry, there were plenty of people with power equal to or greater than Jeong Incheol’s, and he wasn’t even a king.

As I lay there messaging, I suddenly realized I could hear a tick-tack sound.

So clearly it was a wonder I hadn’t noticed it before.

When I turned my head, Jeon Seongwon had taken out his laptop and was working.

I jumped up in irritation.

“I told you to stop working!”

But he only barely glanced at me—he didn’t stop his hands.

Unable to stand it, I strode over to him.

He spoke in a calm voice.

“Darling, I’m not that sick, you know.”

“How would you know that? We’ll find out after the CT scan tomorrow. Are you a doctor? Do you know your own body that well?”

Whether he truly thought about it or not, he flinched.

Incredulous, I put one hand on my hip and let out a scoff when, out of nowhere, a knock came at the door.

It was 2 AM.

There was no reason for a nurse to come.

Surely she hadn’t come to persistently recommend an IV again.

But the answer came from Jeon Seongwon.

“Come in.”

He knew who it was and told them to come in?!

I stared in surprise as the door opened and Jeon Seongwon’s chief secretary, Chae Sera, entered.

“Chief Chae, what brings you at this hour?”

“Sorry for the late hour, Director. The Vice Chairman’s phone setup is complete, so I brought it.”

“Excuse me? At this hour?”

“I apologize. I was instructed to bring it as soon as the setup was finished, regardless of the time.”

Incredulous, I looked at Jeon Seongwon.

He took the new phone—with all the data transfer and setup completed—from Chae Sera and said in a small voice.

“I feel anxious without my phone.”

I bit my lip hard.

Meanwhile, Chae Sera bowed to us and quietly left.

I waited until she was out of earshot, then shouted in a lowered voice.

“Are you addicted to smartphones?!”

But at my words, he just chuckled.

Haa…… My head hurt.

The dizziness hadn’t completely subsided either.

I thought I should probably take some painkillers.

When I went to the nurse station, a nurse who was on duty even at that hour quickly gave me headache medicine.

Fortunately, it was a different nurse from the one who had been insisting on the IV earlier.

When I returned with the medicine, Jeon Seongwon had his laptop on his lap, his phone on top of that, and his tablet beside him—ready to work in earnest.

At this rate, he would probably stay up all night.

As I took the headache medicine, I felt his gaze.

I swallowed the water and turned around—he had stopped his hands and was looking at me.

“What?”

“Are you feeling unwell? Still dizzy?”

“I took it because my head hurts because of you.”

“…….”

Without a word, he dropped his head back to his screen.

I watched him for a while, then turned off all the lights in the room.

But he paid no attention.

“Haa…….”

Fine. It wasn’t like he was a critical patient.

No—he’d been in an accident today.

But he wasn’t injured.

The car was sturdy enough to absorb the impact.

Of course, the car would probably be scrapped……

As I was thinking this, he suddenly spoke.

“The CT scan is tomorrow morning, right?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll leave after that. You go home and rest comfortably.”

Did this bastard think he was visiting the hospital for fun?

“Leave where? If the CT results are bad, you can’t leave.”

He raised his head and, in the faint light from his laptop, seemed to smile faintly.

“It’s fine. I’m perfectly fine.”

* * * *

The CT scan results truly showed no abnormalities whatsoever, and Lee Seyeon, though making a sour face, let him go out anyway.

Whether he would go home and rest, she didn’t know.

He was an unpredictable personality.

Chae Sera, gripping the steering wheel, looked at Jeon Seongwon in the rearview mirror.

“We’re departing, Vice Chairman.”

He nodded lightly and leaned back in the rear seat as the car moved smoothly forward.

He had said he was perfectly fine, but truthfully, after an accident like that, there was no way his whole body was unscathed.

Even if the CT showed no problems, there were aches and pains all over.

That was just how car accidents were.

Meaning that the nagging Lee Seyeon had been pouring on him had all been correct.

‘…….’

Five years since marrying Lee Seyeon.

During that time…… except for the first few months of their honeymoon, he hadn’t had a proper married life.

The fault for that was largely his.

He had always been this way.

Unable to express that he liked something.

Saying the opposite of what he meant to say.

‘Hit me? Go ahead, hit me!’

He recalled the words Lee Seyeon had shouted at him once during a fight.

Hit her? Him, hit Lee Seyeon?

Nonsense.

He wanted to hold her in his arms, treat her like a precious jewel—and hit her?

Of course, the fact that such words even came out was his fault for getting angry in the first place.

“Hoo…….”

“Shall I open the window a little, Vice Chairman?”

“Yes.”

Through the slightly lowered gap, cold wind came in and cooled his head.

He…… didn’t want to fight with Lee Seyeon.

But they kept fighting.

He wanted to only say nice things to each other like in their honeymoon days, but it didn’t go as he wished.

Human psychology was that complicated.

When he fought with her or the mood was bad, his hands still trembled.

Because the very fact that she was angry made him intensely nervous.

No one would believe that Vice Chairman Jeon Seongwon’s hands trembled at his spouse’s glance.

Though Lee Seyeon might just think he was pathetic.

Of course, he wanted to fix this personality of his.

He had barely managed to construct an ego as a businessman, but the ego of ‘human Jeon Seongwon’ was still timid and stupid.

And that’s why Seyeon hated him so much.

Seyeon liked confident personalities…… like Kang Chaehee.

“Vice Chairman, we’ve arrived.”

Jeon Seongwon lowered the hand that had been pressed to his forehead.

Beyond the car window, the sign of today’s destination came into view.

<Kim Jaeyoung Psychiatric Clinic>