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Love in Autumn - Chapter 76

Published at 3rd of May 2021 10:24:30 AM


Chapter 76: 76 - A Hint of History 10

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"Who's that?" Ji An walked out from the spare room with Ha Na after they finished preparing her room. Apparently, there was nothing much they need to prepare, other than took out her clothes and personal belonging from her luggage.

"Ahn Song Ho. He's coming down with Detective Jo. Ha Na-ssi, you could stay here tonight. it is pretty late and both of them wanted you to be around."

"Sure." Ha Na easily agreed, after all she missed Ji An and there was no way she would let go of the chance to sleep over at her idol house.

Jun had put a stop on his schedule since she was injured. Although he looked okay and not affected, Ji An still received text message from the Producer Kim to let Jun come back as soon as possible.

She had not brought the topic up to Jun yet, thinking for a best timing to do so. With all the chaos recently happened, there was no time for both of them to smooth things out. Danger was still lurking behind and there was just not enough space for her to think everything through by herself. She needed her own time and space, for herself and how she should face her future. Obviously, she did not want to bring anyone down with her. There was a time, she thought she needed to run away and carry all these burden by herself, however rather than noble, it was more selfish instead.

Why should her be the person who ran away? She had not made any mistakes, what she wanted just simple. Justice needed to be served. And not only for her, but for those who suffered under the tyranny. It was quite ironic, Ji An herself, was the one who also supported Congressman Park before. Even when she heard that there was a chance of conspiracy behind him, she wanted to do the exclusive to prove everyone wrong.

However with all the "accidents" that attacked her, she started to doubt and questioned herself. Did he really a good congressman? If he really advanced towards presidency, what would happen? And how about those poor girls? Min Young was not the only one, that's for sure. Meaning there were and will have more victims in the future. And, all his glory was built from people cry and pain.

As Ji An was finally deep in thought, while Jun took turn to take shower and letting Ha Na walked touring the penthouse. A while later, the security intercom rang telling her that Jun had two guests. The intercom screen showed both Detective Jo and Song Ho Oppa face. As the security guard recognized Ji An voice, he took her permission and allow both of them special access towards penthouse.

Immediately after they both walked inside penthouse, Ji An noticed how tired the both of them looked like.

"Are you both okay? You don't look really well. Coffee or tea?"

"Coffee would be good. Thank you, Ji An-ssi."

Ji An went to the kitchen to prepare a few cups of coffee, but changed hers to tea instead. She felt she needed tea to calm her nerves. Coffee would make her restless in the end, and she could not afford to lose her concentration. Her gut feeling told her, something big had happened. While she was busy inside the kitchen, Jun walked out from his room and went straight to the kitchen, offering help.


"Need help?" Ji An turned her head and could feel her heart once again beating faster whenever Jun within her line of sight. Her heart had turned weird ever since Jun had saved her life, and it was getting worse with all his over pouring attention when she was in the hospital.

"No need. I can bring it over myself." Ji An politely declined. Not because she did not really need help, but she felt more nervous with Jun around.

"Suit yourself." Jun left her alone and Ji An tried to calm her crazy heart by taking a few deep breath before she walked over with a tray full of coffee and tea. Detective Jo immediately sipped the warm coffee and sighed in satisfied manner.

"This is really a good cup of coffee."

"Thank you for your compliment. I also think so." Jun was very particular about his coffee and quite delighted to meet someone who really took coffee seriously.

"What happened, Detective Jo? How could you come over with Song Ho Oppa?" Ji An started to ask question.

Detective Jo sighed, knowing how bleak their current situation was. "First, Kim Su Ho is dead."

"Dead?" Ji An could only echo once again his statement like a parrot.

"I know how weird it is. Let me go through with you from the beginning. It all started after Song Ho-ssi received your text message about Detective An. He informed me about it but the thing is, I know no one with surname An from our department. And I am hundred percent sure, I did not send anyone to get your statement. You are our key witness and I will go through rain and storm to get it personally."

When he saw Ji An surprised and questioning look, Detective Jo raised his palm towards her,"Let me continue. After that, since I would like to investigate about this Detective An, I asked my officer to escort Kim Su Ho back to his holding cell. To my surprise, within minutes after he left, he was found dead on scene with a bullet wound. Straight to his heart, with no sound."

"His death took priority and Song Ho-ssi helped me to check all the security footage and we found this guy." Detective Jo took out enlarged picture of the culprit from his bag and showed it to Ji An, Jun and Ha Na. Besides wanted to check whether they recognized the culprit, he also wanted them to be aware for this guy.

"This....." Ji An ran out of words.

"This is Detective An. I am sure of it." Jun confirmed Detective Jo suspicion.

"How could you be so sure?" Since the picture was pixelated, there must be reason if Jun was so damn sure about the culprit to be Detective An.

"This one." Jun pointed to exposed hand. "I recognized this tattoo since the shape was unique." It was not clear but still recognizable.

"Tattoo? We will need to get clearer picture on this. But inside police station, this is our only picture."

"Maybe you can check hospital CCTV. Since he posed as Detective An, he must be more relaxed and should be captured by camera, even in the hallway."

"Right!" As if showered by enlightenment, his face brightened up while making a note on his dirty brown looking notebook.

"Jun-ssi, can you describe to me his tattoo?" Ha Na cut their excitement

"Yes, why?" He looked at Ha Na with intense curiosity.

"Let us draw it right here, right now." Ha Na asked Ji An for a paper and pen, and started to draw it according to Jun expression. After a few revision, Jun finally agreed that it looked similar.

Detective Jo was so elated and immediately took a picture and the hard copy to run a search on his database. They might found some clue about the tattoo which brought them closer towards the culprit.

Ahn Song Ho did not make any sound and kept his rigid form all the time. Only Ji An noticed his weird attitude.

"Oppa, what's wrong?"

"I....." Song Ho Oppa voice trembled. "There is something I need to tell you all."

It was quite a rare sight to see Song Ho Oppa voice cracked. Ji An always knew him as a composed man in any situation. It was her first time to see him in this state. Thinking about it, she recently experienced a lot of first time in her life.

"What happened to Ji An was not her first time. And it might not be her last." No one interrupted him while he was taking his breath, trying hard to control his emotion. There was no easy way to break the news. One way or another, it would surely still hurt Ji An.

"Ji An, I am sorry. What happened to your father, it was not an accident. Everything that happened was because of me."




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