Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Twenty

Hyungwon

With Woo Yiwon making a phone call to someone who is willing to help her become the real Woo Yiwon, she has wanted me to meet her as soon as possible to settle the problem quickly. This lawyer is a very young lawyer who is around the same age as Woo Yiwon and I don't trust her at all, I don't trust such a young person to be so good at her job. I know that she is also the same age as me but it is not possible that she has achieved so many things in her life and she is only 23 years old.

"She is a very talented person, not a lot of people can be like that, people need time to cultivate that talent and she is born with it." Woo Yiwon told me that when I asked her about the lawyer friend that she had, I had doubts about her abilities as a lawyer because I don't believe that such a young person had already passed the bar exams and became a very successful lawyer at the age of 23, I am the same age as her and I am struggling to live a regular life with a decent amount of money coming into my bank account every single month.

Apparently, she passed her bar examinations when she is only in high school and she is the youngest lawyer to ever pass the bar exams, she has a very high IQ as well, being smarter than anyone in her class and in the whole country of Japan as well. She is only lucky that she gets to live her dream because she has the money and the power to do that if I were to be as smart as her, I would have been opening restaurants here and there in every country that I point to on the world map.

But sadly, my life was destined to be a bad one and I am born to be a poor person and that will continue to be like that for the rest of my life, getting out of the vicious cycle is very hard and I might not be able to do it with the job that I am having now. While the rich are making everything seem so simple and easy to those regular people with regular jobs, it takes us years to achieve that and it takes a lot of our hard-earned money to do that.

That is why Woo Yiwon is able to cheat the system because she has good connections and a very powerful family backing her up even though she says that she is depending on herself and no one else is helping her in the life that she chose to lead, she is still using her lawyer friend to help her achieve something that would get me in jail right away.

We are waiting for her lawyer friend right now at the restaurant that Woo Yiwon chose, it is a regular restaurant and it is one of my competitors, I wouldn't choose to dine here but we are not here to have any food at all, we are just using the space as a place to settle her documents to turn the fake Woo Yiwon into the real Woo Yiwon and she is throwing Minatozaki Sana away.

A sports car stopped in front of the restaurant and a slender woman got out of the car, wearing shades and she is carrying a clutch that contains a lot of confidential documents. She was Myoui Mina, Minatozaki Sana's lawyer friend who is based in Korea and she is working in one of the biggest law firms in the country, I heard that she was the only one who didn't get fired by the head of the law firm after her internship, that is how capable she is, according to the fake Woo Yiwon.

We exchanged a few greetings with each other and sat down, Minatozaki Sana and I on one side and the lawyer on the other, I never want to sit next to a lawyer because I know how scary they are and they have the right to land me in jail someway or the other.

"You must be Chae Hyungwon, Sana told me that you have been taking care of her ever since she regained consciousness in the hospital. Thank you for being so hospitable to my friend even though she is a complete stranger to you." She said to me. "And you did a really good job of not letting her real identity gets exposed to the rest of the world, her family is very scary and they will do whatever it takes to get their only heiress back to their empire."

"Mina, you do know how hard I hated being in the empire? It is not the place that I want to be in, it is scary and I don't have any freedom there." Woo Yiwon drank a sip of her water. "I am so thankful that you have got the time to come all the way to Gwangju just to help the two of us."

Since when am I even involved in her problem? "I am not part of this operation at all, don't count me in it," I told her, I want nothing to do with this whole mess that I am caught up with and I want to get out of it.

"You are the only person who can help me with it and I really need your help a lot." She said, tugging onto my sleeves. "Please, I can't let more people know about it before I become the real Woo Yiwon."

She looked as if she wanted to cry and I hate to see women cry, it is kind of my weakness and I don't want them to cry because of me. And I don't know how to stop them from crying once they start crying, I will be at a loss and I am at a loss right now. I want to tell everyone that I have found the heiress and I want her to go back to the empire to lead the life that she is supposed to be living and I don't have a say in that, I can only keep my mouth shut about it and allow her to be happy. If that is what makes her happy, I can't stop her from being happy.