Chapter 62.1

A long, black padded jacket, long-brimmed baseball cap, and a face mask. Although she was heavily armed to hide her identity, she instinctively recognized the blood that could not be deceived.

“Seo Ellie?”

“Sister…”

When Sera quietly opened her mouth, an uninvited guest lowered her mask and cried.

Sera threw her bag away and ran to the sofa. Then she grabbed Ellie by the shoulder.

“You! Didn’t you hear our mother? She told you not to walk around outside!”

“Hic, sister. Am I going to jail? It’s not, right?

“Seriously. You still can’t get it together, can you?”

“I don’t want to eat rice with beans! Damn it, it was only once that day. How can you do this to me?”

The sisters’ conversation did not continue.

Sera closed her eyes and pushed Ellie away. Ellie looked at her sister and pulled out a tissue and blew her nose. And timidly put down a bunch of folded tissues.

“…….”

“Heuk, hic, nggh.….”

Ellie kept sniffing and glancing at Sera.

Sera had a cold face unlike Haewon. She didn’t take sides unconditionally just because she cried. Ellie knew instinctively that she had to be the scapegoat at times like this.

“This is all because of him!”

“What?”

Sera, who was frighteningly quiet, finally responded. Ellie clung to her sister in a hurry.

“If only he hadn’t connected me to Smith……!”

“Who’s Smith? Seo Ellie, don’t cry and tell me straight. What happened to him?”

When Sera pressed her, Ellie hurriedly wiped away her tears. Then she sat down and cleared her throat.

“I’m interested in the JS Atrium collection, an American investor who recently came to Korea. But I just happened to need some human capital.”

Ellie expressed her need for stakes as elegantly as she could.

“But?”

“No. Joo Adam knew that and he threatened me.”

“Threaten?”

“He said to not touch Seo Hae-won. Then he’ll give me Smith without selling his collection so i agreed…”

Ellie only told her the details of going to Haewon to borrow money and putting people to stop sponsoring Seohwa Welfare.

‘He didn’t know that she would be arrested on the spot, so he didn’t connect the investors, did he? No, that’s impossible. How could that bastard know that there are legislators’ children on the gambling board? Is this just a coincidence?’

Sera, who was rolling her head around, gritted her teeth. Even if all this was a coincidence, the butterfly effect of Adam’s concession of investors to Ellie was truly enormous.

“I-I’ll tell Mother…….”

“It’s no use.”

Sera answered at once.

This incident is a matter that the political circle is watching, so the chairman’s exercise of her ability did not work.

Ellie buried her face in her lap with a whimpering sound. The crumpled figure was just like a black caterpillar.

“Then what should I do?”

“I told you to stop.”

Sera jumped up. When Ellie raised her head, Sera looked down at her sister with cool eyes.

“You did it. Take care of it yourself.”

“Huh…??”

Ellie came down under the sofa and clung to Sera’s leg.

“Sister! Am I done now? Am I no longer part of Seohwa? No. I am Mother’s daughter and your sister…!”

Ellie burst into tears like a child. Tears welled up.

“Ah, hicc, heuk, nghh..…!”

This time it was real tears, not a fake one. As such, Ellie was seized with a great sense of fear. In the meantime, the world has been generous to her no matter what she did wrong.

But only at this time.

“……you’re a first-time offender, so your sentence won’t be long.”

Sera tried to look far away.

“Mom is doing all she can right now, so the article won’t be released. I think it’s only for a year.”

“F-for a year……?”

Ellie’s face turned pale.

When she saw a baby bird with its mouth open, like the instinct of birds to feed it, even Sera in the world was weakened by the cry of her younger sister.

“Seo Ellie.”

“Hic…!”

Sera sat on one knee and wiped Ellie’s tears. Ellie sniffed and sniffed.

“Just do as the lawyers tell you. Don’t do anything useless. Don’t even walk around like you do now. Keep a low profile.”

“I-I-I’m scared to be alone.”

“I know.”

Sera hugged Ellie tightly and whispered.

“You are my family.”

“…….”

“Mother and I won’t give up on you.”

Ellie and her are Seo Woo-hee’s daughters. Unlike the lowly Seo Haewon.

Right, mother?

Sera asked the chairman in her mind.

“I’m going….”

“Yes, go home quickly.”

“Hoo.”

Sera, who confirmed that Ellie was leaving the house, called somewhere.

“Kim Byun, it’s me. About Joo-Adam, dig up the back of him. Find out where the hell he’s been rolling in.”

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