12 Hours After Chapter 89

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

I looked at her in amazement . Now I saw teardrops forming on her long eyelashes .

'Is she crying?' It made me feel guilty to see her cry . I didn't do anything, but I had a funny idea . I said to her, “Ah-young, are you awake?”

She was crying without an answer .

'What the hell… suddenly crying for her mom and dad?'

I looked back . There was a tissue on her dressing table . I headed to the dressing table to get it . But there was a picture there . First to stand out was the young Ah-young, wearing a school uniform . Unlike now, she had no makeup on her face . She looked so innocent .

I had thought she had a little face surgery . She hadn't .

There were people behind her who looked like her mother and a father . Her father was handsome, and her mother was also a beauty . She was smiling happily between the two, holding a bouquet of flowers . It looked like a high school graduation ceremony .

I caught a few more details in the picture: her father's watch and her mother's ring . It made me sulky . This lady was definitely born in a rich family . I looked at it and took some tissues and went to her side . Her face was about to look slightly funny as the mascara spread sideways in tears . I called her name .

“Ah-young . ”

She had no words . In the meantime, she seemed to have fallen asleep . I wiped her tears away with a tissue . Then I muttered unknowingly, “Don't cry… why do you cry? You are super glamorous, a pure beauty, a rich girl with about ten million dollars, but you're crying so sadly . If you cry, all Korean girls should cry . ”

That was how I felt . I'd been rich since I met a strange fate, but my life had been a series of hardships before that . Even if I tried, I couldn't get out of debt . It wasn't until high school that I got help from my parents . To face the world alone was the fate of ninety percent of men and women in Korea .

'Even a rich girl might have a hardship sometimes, but…'

To be honest, if she didn't have to suffer from money, what else was wrong with her? Having wiped away all her tears, I covered her with a blanket . I was sure she was pretty stuffy in her out-of-the-way suit, but it was her job . I didn't have the confidence to take it off like her friend before . No, to be exact, I was not confident of taking just that off comfortably .

'I'll go then . ' After work, I tried to get up from the seat . But then she grabbed me by the sleeve .

“Don't go . ”

I tried to think as objectively as possible . But no matter how much I thought about it, the woman in the bed was telling me not to go .

Again, a strange scenario was drawn, and then she said one more word, “Daddy . ”

The word made me calm down . 'This time, who are you calling daddy?

She must be mistaking me for her father . I quietly took off her hand that was holding my sleeve .

'I'm not your father . ' I just turned around and left her alone . I didn't think what the animal in me would do if I stayed anymore, so I went back into my apartment before I could think of doing anything more strange .

My beer and cookies were still on the shelf . I picked them up . The beer was still cold, as it was just taken out of the fridge . If I thought about it, it took about three minutes to come back from her room . It seemed to be about three hours . It looked like I'd been to a room of time and spirit . Instead of going to my private cinema with that cold beer, I just came over to my couch and opened the cap .

A little foam came out with the sound of carbon dioxide . While drinking, I thought about Lee Ah-young from just minutes ago . It didn't look so good that a grown woman cried out for her mother and father . I didn't know the details .

'Have they divorced? Is that why she told me not to go, because her father abandoned her mother? Or… '

Instead of watching a movie today, I spent time drinking beer on my own, thinking up scenarios .

The next morning, I received the future news at home without going to work . I filtered out the money-making news quickly, and in the People Search of 12 Hours After, I searched for “Han Joong-gil”, the current head of the Food and Drug Administration . A piece of news popped up .

[Chief of Food and Drug Administration, Han Joong-gil ordered to investigate all of Nature's Gift Products . ]

I screamed, “This is it!”

This was him . He was the key man who could give a reversal to Nature's Gift . I searched for this person's name on the news in 12 Days After .

[Chief of Food and Drug Administration, Han Joong-gil, visited Osong Bio Research Center . ]

There was other news . It was a little disappointing, but it was not bad because it gave me a clue to the reversal . If I did well, I might be able to paint the stock price before the forces could draw a picture . In the news of 12 Weeks After and 12 Months After, I also searched Han Joong-gil, as systematically, the future news might come in the news of 12 Weeks After and 12 Months After . But nothing important came up . Of course, the probability was low .

'In the end, this game will be over on the news of 12 Hours After or 12 Days After…!'

I turned on the HTS while thinking about it . With the rhythmic ticking of nine o'clock, Nature's Gift was at the lower limit price again today . I got hit by -30% twice in a row, so my money invested was cut in half right away . So far, I met only the upper limit price, but as I was with the lower limit price twice in a row, I certainly felt it . Stocks was a scary game .

'Is my loss roughly seven million dollars?' But I didn't do the calculations in detail . Instead, I focused on buying F&M Media, which would go to the upper limit price soon time .

'I can make it again . I can make… fifty million dollars this month… No, let's make sixty million dollars . ' I was so enthusiastic about the sale with that mind .

I walked into her bedroom with Lee Ah-young in my arms . I felt a strange sense of detachment .

'What is this? I've done this before . '

I tilted my head and put her on the bed . She was smiling in a good mood . I looked at her and thought, 'Are you laughing because you like it after drinking? You don't even know I'm suffering because of you?'

Angry, I picked up the quilt and roughly covered her up and tried to leave . But then, Lee Ah-young grabbed my sleeve, “Don't go . ”

I looked down at her coldly at the words . 'I'm not your father . '

But this time she opened her eyes and told me, “Oppa, don't go . Play with me . ” And then she pulled me into her own bed . I lost my reason and I stripped her of her clothes as her friend had done . She black bra over her pale skin . I took off my coat and tried to run over her . By the way, at that time, I was suddenly hungry .

'Why am I hungry in this situation?' But I was really hungry, even with the half-naked Lee Ah-young in front of me . I was so hungry that I opened my eyes . I could see the ceiling .

“Ah . ”

'I've done this before, for some reason…' As I thought about it, I picked up the cell phone sitting at my bedside . It was 5:30 p . m . , which was usually dinnertime . After selling out by 3:30 p . m . , I fell asleep for a while and slept until now . Somehow, it was a dream that left me with regrets . No, to be precise, yesterday's regret came out as a dream .

'Uh… I should forget it . Let's go get dinner . I'll look for some Nature's Gift news while I eat . '

I got out of bed and changed into a light suit . But then my apartment bell rang .

My parents, Secretary Seo, and the owner Lee Ah-young would ring the bell . The first three would call me before they would come . So, it was Lee Ah-young who was pressing the bell . I looked at the door for a moment .

'Does she remember yesterday?' Come to think of it, it wasn't as bad as the last time as she was, because she came to her apartment by herself .

'Does she remember something very strange?' If she did not look at the whole story but just put together the short stories, she might have a huge misunderstanding .

'No way…!' I opened the door at the same time . Sure enough, Lee Ah-young stood with both hands together .

She greeted me as usual . “Hello . ” She didn't seem to really misunderstand as her voice was calm .

I received her greetings in a dutiful manner . “…Yes, hello . ”

She hesitated for a moment and told me, “Well… thank you yesterday . ”

I told her, “Ah… do you remember?”

She said, making tongs with her thumb and index finger, “A little bit, frankly, I can hardly remember… I feel like I saw you yesterday, too . ”

I laughed inwardly, '”You” again? Yesterday you called me your dad . '

Whether I thought that or not, she said, pointing to one side of the hall with her finger . “So I saw the recording of yesterday…”

I glanced over there . Come to think of it, there was a CCTV at the end of the hall, facing the entire corridor . Everything must have been recorded in the CCTV: she pressed my password on my apartment, could not get in, pushed her own password, and fell asleep on the spot .

The CCTV probably kept track of me hesitating and leaving her room quickly . There was nothing to be misunderstood . She bowed her head and said, “I think I've given you another excuse . ”

I looked at her for a moment and nodded, “It's okay . Neighbors have to help each other . ”

She shook her head and said, “No . This is the second time… I'm sorry, I don't have anything to say…” she admitted as if she were really sorry .

I drew out my words carefully, “Well, I don't want to tell you what to do, but try to behave yourself a little bit more . It's not good for a woman to be walking around drunk on her own . I don't think it's going to be good . ”

As I said, she said with her hands together, “I'm sorry . I rarely drank alcohol when I was in the United States… I recently came to Korea and made friends . ”

'Aha, Korean-style drinking culture is not adaptable?' I spoke to her politely in spite of the thought, “Yes, I mean… you should drink as much as you can handle . From now on . ”

She said, lowering her head, “Yes . ”

I thought it was done at this . I tried to close the door .

But then, before the door was closed, she told me, “Hey, I'd like to ask you something . ”

'What? Does she remember something strange yesterday when I saw her in bed?'

Still, I didn't do anything wrong yesterday that would have stung me . I replied with my head tilted, “Tell me . ”

But she raised an entirely unexpected question . “Do you know a company called Nature's Gift?”

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