Tainted Hearts: A Tale Of Toxic Passion.

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Taehyung was playing football alone in the garden, he left the ball away and went inside, he was getting bored.

He was an isolated child, he didn't like to interact much, and he liked being alone but today he ran out of things that gave him entertainment.

He was going to his room when he heard screams from his parent's room.

He decided to go and check it, as he looked through the opened door, he saw his Dad holding his Mom's hair in his hand and she was crying.

"Why would you wear this dress and go out? You never get ready for me but you want other men to get attracted to you?" he accused her.

"No, I didn't mean to do this, I thought this dress was nice so I wore it, my friend gifted this to me, it was her event." she explained herself.

"Your friend? Was Hanseul there too? Now, I see why you did it, you wanted to ignite your old love with him?" he jerked her away.

Han-Seok and Eunji had known each other ever since they were kids, Han-Seok had always loved her but Eunji loved her best friend Hanseul. They both were dating until Han-Seok got to know about it and informed her strict father about it, who got her married to Han-Seok after he dropped the marriage proposal since Hanseul wasn't rich.

Eunji could never accept Han-Seok as her husband and was always distant which just aggravated Han-Seok and eventually he started abusing her, he wanted her to return the same love he had for her, he always forced his love on her and made her do the same.

"Don't say that! I understand that I loved him but ever since we got married I never looked at him the same way!" Eunji's eyes teared up.

"How would I know? Why are you even meeting him in the first place?" he asked.

"I didn't, he was there at the event, I didn't know about it!" she wiped her tears.

"You didn't know? You know he liked the blue colour on you the most and you deliberately wore it to lure him. Do you want to cheat on me? You are one sick woman, still wanting to cheat after having a son with me!" he slapped her, tearing her dress apart.

"I am sorry, don't hurt me!" she cried out.

"It wouldn't matter, you hurt me, so I will return thrice of it!"

Han-Seok had read all the love letters Hanseul wrote to Eunji when they were together, he burnt all of them down, trying to erase their love, only if he knew it could never be forgotten.

Taehyung didn't react, he was just observing, he didn't feel any emotions, it was the people around him that made him realize how he had to act or feel around a certain situation.

Han-Seok went inside his closet and took out all the blue dresses from her wardrobe before throwing them on the floor.

He took out a cigarette and lit it, causing fire, Eunji shivered, she was scared of fire, she lost her mom in a fire accident when she was a kid and since then she had been scared of it and Han-Seok used it against her.

He threw the dress she was wearing in the fire too, leaving her almost naked and scared. She covered herself in the blanket.

He held her jaw, making her look at him.

"Next time, it would be your body burning in the fire if you step outside of the house to ever meet your stupid friends, you get me?" he asked and she nodded hurriedly.

Han-Seok hardly beat his wife, he usually tried to scare her and mentally torture her instead.

Taehyung walked behind and left, learning his lesson, he knew what he had to do if someone didn't do what he wanted.

So the next day when one of his classmates accidentally fell on his desk, destroying his artwork.

"I am sorry!" his class fellow spoke.

He slammed the pen on his shoulder right away.

"Your sorry would not get me my artwork back!" he spoke as the kid cried in pain and others stared at him in shock.

"TAEHYUNG! WHAT DID YOU DO? COME TO THE PRINCIPLE'S ROOM RIGHT NOW!" the teacher yelled at him as she took the bleeding kid away.

Taehyung was sitting outside of the principal's office as his father was talking with the Principal.

"This is for you!" Taehyung looked at his dad who offered him a chocolate.

"Aren't you mad? The teacher said I did wrong and I should be punished!" he asked confused and his Dad smiled.

"She is stupid, don't listen to her. This is the first step, first step to becoming powerful, if you don't exert your power on others, they might underestimate you, you did great by doing that, now everyone would be aware of your power." he patted his back and sat beside him."I am proud of you, I believe you will never fail in life now, if you don't get what you want, you have two choices either snatch it or stay in regret!" he spoke and Taehyung nodded, thinking something.

"I don't want any regret, it is an evidence of weakness!" Taehyung spoke, he always got what he wanted from his Dad so he was used to having his way.

"Good, that is the only difference between someone who succeeds and someone who fails in life. It's just a matter of principles!" he caressed his hair.

"Is everything alright? What happened?" Eun-Seok, Han-Seok's brother asked as he approached them.

He was with his brother when Taehyung's home room teacher called him to come to school.

"Yes, Taehyung has grown up, he knows how to fight!" Han-Seok spoke.

"Fight? That is not right, you don't need to fight for any reason, there is always a better option to deal with the situation!" he spoke looking at Taehyung.

"He doesn't need an advice from someone who's marriage failed!" Han-Seok spoke, making his brother look down.

"That's a failure?" Taehyung asked confused.

"If you can't keep your things to yourself and lose them, wouldn't it be a failure?" His father asked.

"She was not a thing, I couldn't tie her to me, love is not about bounding someone to yourself, it's about setting them free." Eun-Seok spoke.

"That's an excuse for losers." his brother chuckled and then looked at his son."My son can't be a loser, he is my seed."

"Yes, I would never lose. I don't like that feeling." Taehyung said determined.

"Nobody does, but at times we can't win." Eun-seok spoke.

"In those times, you need to manipulate the situation, now we can't let others control our life right? We shall be controlling them." Taehyung nodded to himself. He found his father right while Eun-Seok just sighed and went away, accepting his defeat.