A Rhapsody in Blue

06. Forget Me / Forget Me Not

I was assigned to supervise a project this past year with another member of the national assembly. I thought everything went too well with the construction, turned out I was right. There is something wrong with the company that initiated the project, but she covered this by bribing many officials. Been keeping tabs on me since the beginning, he knew that I already know something. So, he asked me to 'join' them, but I pretend not to know what he really means. I'm afraid something might happen to my family and me and decided to leave everything to my two best friends. While I kept the evidence safe, in a place where they have twenty-four-hour surveillance.

'I think the bombing wasn't an accident, Yej.'

'Do you think they planned this whole thing, Bin? Including the bombing too?' Her fingers traced down the ledger as she saw many familiar names on it.

They both knew Junghyun was assigned to supervise the Maehwa Island construction this past year. Just like Odaiba in Tokyo and Sentosa in Singapore, Maehwa Island was a massive scale artificial island project located in Incheon. As the main developer, the E Group planned to build an elite apartment complex, hotel and resorts, and even an amusement park for entertainment purposes there. With the island will be connected with a monorail and bridge to the main island, it attracted many companies to invest there, while many people already bought the apartments too.

Both Yejin and Bin were quite familiar with the chairwoman of E Group, Eloise 'Elly' Yoo. In fact, she came to Bin's live news two years ago as a guest when the Maehwa Island Project has just begun.

Yejin and Bin sat on the floor with photos still scattered on the floor. Both of their minds were wandering around, thinking about many possibilities of what was really wrong with E Group until Elly Yoo needs to bribe these officials.

With eyes still on the scattered pictures, Yejin asked him, 'But let's say if Elly Yoo wanted to cover this corruption thing, don't you think a planned bombing was a little bit too much, Bin? And Kim Jaewook was there too!'

The whole living room filled with silence until Yejin almost shouted in anger, 'I can't do this anymore! These whole puzzles make me go nuts!' She walked towards the balcony to get some fresh air.

Bin put the pictures and ledger back to the envelope and grabbed a bottle of water from the kitchen before he walked towards the balcony. As he gave her the bottle of water he said, 'Let's think about this again tomorrow. You did a great job today, Yej.'

'I'm sorry I shouted at you earlier, Bin.' He gave her a tender smile and assured her.

'What about we rescheduled the meeting tomorrow, Yej?' They discussed this matter the other day and agreed about Ayeon's full custody. Lawyer Han has sent the court hearing to grant them the full custody of Ayeon, so they need to go to the CPS office tomorrow for the first meeting with the CPS caseworker.

'Why? Do you have something important tomorrow?'

'No, it's just you don't have any class for tomorrow morning. And it's been really hectic these past few days, I thought maybe you wanted some rest.'

'Trust me, I'm fine.' She smiled softly at him. 'Oh, it's almost seven, Bin! Hurry up, you're already late!' After Bin has left, she heard Ayeon was crying through the baby monitor. Ayeon must be hungry because she hasn't had her dinner yet.

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As usual, the three would sit in the dining room to eat breakfast together. Yejin has fully dressed while Bin was still in his jogger pants and a white T-shirt. Mrs. Son needs to go somewhere today, so Bin's little sister will take care of Ayeon for the rest of the day.

'What time Soojung will be here, Bin?' Yejin asked him while she helps Ayeon eating her sweet mashed potato.

Before Bin could answer her, the bell has ringing from the front door. 'It must be Soojung. I'll open the door.'