Chapter 38
The USB Mr. Choi had handed her.
Lee Shin-ah accepted it with an anxious expression.
At the questioning look in her eyes, Mr. Choi opened his mouth.
“..... I’m sorry. I tried not to show you this if at all possible...”
“Huh?...”
“It will be a tremendous shock.”
“What’s in here?”
“.....”
“I said, what’s in here?”
“It’s a video.”
“...What kind of vid... Wait a moment.”
Haa-. Haa-. Lee Shin-ah breathed heavily.
She gazed at the USB with tears glistening in her eyes.
The hand holding the USB trembled violently.
“Th-this... Is it the kind of video... I’m thinking of?”
“...Yes.”
“A video of my husband cheating... Something like that?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
“Why... Why are you holding it, sir? How did you get it?”
“...As you know, Madam, I’m involved in the underworld. Borrowing its power to fulfill your request is nothing difficult for me.”
“...You had him secretly filmed...?”
“Yes. It’s a video file I obtained after having people tail your husband ever since you exposed his affair.”
“.....”
Lee Shin-ah wore a blank expression.
She muttered as though whispering.
“Why.... Why are you showing me this?”
“If I said it was to reveal the truth... that would be an excuse, wouldn’t it? In fact, covering all this up and reuniting you with your husband would be the easiest way to complete the job. I’m doing this simply because of my personal desire.”
“Desire...? What desire?”
“My desire to have you, Madam. Even if you’re hurt, or even if you’re ruined, I want you to end up ruined in my arms. That’s the kind of wicked desire I have.”
Lee Shin-ah stared intently at Mr. Choi with her lips pressed tightly together.
Eventually, her gaze fell to the USB in her hand.
With hollow eyes, she connected the USB to the computer and stared at the USB
folder labeled ‘Evidence of Jeong Hyeon-jae’s Affair.’
Even just the words ‘Evidence of Jeong Hyeon-jae’s Affair’ made her chest ache and tears fall.
-Click.
Lee Shin-ah double-clicked the folder.
Inside was a single video file, and its thumbnail showed a naked man and woman having sex in the rear-entry position.
The instant she saw the thumbnail, tears began streaming down Lee Shin-ah’s face.
“Aaaah.... Uuh..... Nghhh...”
Lee Shin-ah closed her eyes.
She wiped away the tears that kept spilling with her sleeve and shook her head violently.
Then she raised her head again and faced the miserable reality before her.
“.....”
A man and woman in a rear-entry position.
The man’s face was that of her husband, Jeong Hyeon-jae.
The face of the woman being penetrated was Lee Ha-young.
Lee Shin-ah took in the lewd, sordid sex scene with both eyes.
Then, suddenly, the sticky sex between herself and Mr. Choi overlapped with the video’s thumbnail.
‘That’s right. I’m no different from you, either. You were no different from any other man.’
Steeling herself, Lee Shin-ah double-clicked the video.
The frozen thumbnail began moving lewdly.
The woman’s wet moans echoed throughout the quiet room.
“Hng! Uung! Aah! Haaang! Ah! Haaagh! Hng! Ah, ahjussi...!”
Lee Ha-young’s breasts bounced every time the man thrust into her.
Sweat ran down both their bodies.
Her husband was completely focused on sex.
Even though she had already steeled herself for it, the vividness conveyed by the video made her heart ache.
“Nghh....”
Her husband’s cock stood rigid, as lively as a fish in water.
In that instant, tears poured from her eyes in anger.
Lee Shin-ah repeatedly wiped away the tears that kept welling up and blurring her vision, wanting to confirm just one last thing.
She cleared her blurred vision and opened her eyes, focusing on her husband’s nape.
She strained her eyes at his nape, searching for the large mole near the point where his hair ended and his neck began.
And finally—.
“Ha.... Haha....”
Lee Shin-ah found it.
The large mole on the nape of the man in the video.
-Click.
Lee Shin-ah immediately turned off the video.
Then she merely stared at the floor with vacant eyes for a long while.
Mr. Choi quietly smiled as he watched her.
‘She couldn’t help falling for it. I prepared it that thoroughly.’
The file on the USB he had shown her.
It was actually a fake video made by hiring a video-manipulation expert.
In other words, it was nothing more than a visual deception created using a technology called ‘deepfake.’
Nevertheless, Lee Shin-ah had been fooled by the fake video because the facial compositing was so flawless that the real and fake were indistinguishable, and because of Jeong Seong-min’s cooperation.
‘The file that bastard handed over turned out to be a huge trump card.’
Jeong Seong-min’s close cooperation.
It amounted to nothing more than a digital album Jeong Seong-min had given him.
The photos taken by Jeong Seong-min’s family over the years, along with countless videos.
That was all Jeong Seong-min had cooperated with him on.
But thanks to that material, Mr. Choi was able to create a deepfake video that made it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake, and find an actor whose physical features matched Jeong Seong-min’s exactly.
Of course, Lee Ha-young appeared as herself without a body double.
She had degenerated into a worthless slave bitch who would do anything at his command.
In any case, Mr. Choi hired a video-manipulation expert and used the files Jeong Seong-min had sent him to create the fake video, and Lee Shin-ah had been completely deceived and left mentally shattered.
And there was no woman easier to hunt than one whose mind had collapsed.
Mr. Choi licked his lips as he approached Lee Shin-ah, who wore a vacant expression.
Sensing Mr. Choi’s presence, Lee Shin-ah slowly turned her head and looked at him.
There was no life in her pupils.
“Sir. What should I do now?”
Lee Shin-ah’s soulless question.
Mr. Choi answered her question.
“All you need to do is lean on me.”
“.....”
Deep in the night.
The desire in his eyes for her.
His gaze shone like a lighthouse in the dark room.
Lee Shin-ah opened her mouth.
“Because... because you want to have me?”
..... Silence.
Yet his answer was clear from his eyes alone.
Even so, Lee Shin-ah demanded an answer from him to the very end.
Because if he answered, she would willingly give herself to him.
“...Yes. That’s right.”
The definite answer she had drawn from him.
Lee Shin-ah looked at the man before her.
She quietly gazed into the eyes that desired her.
His gaze alone made her body grow hot.
It was the gaze of a predator hungering for her, and of an absolute being who seemed to see through her completely.
Now, she had no reason to reject that gaze.
The pillar that had barely been holding her up had collapsed, and she no longer had the strength to endure.
Now, even if she freely accepted the pleasure he gave her, she would feel no guilt.
Now that she had a legitimate justification today, the nights she had spent tormenting herself for being an immoral woman would end here.
‘Now, I don’t care what happens.’
She had endured it.
All this time, she had wanted countless times to cling to him and be held in his arms, but she had restrained herself as much as possible because of the guilt lingering in a corner of her heart.
Despite restraining herself again and again, she had still ended up in his arms so many times.
But now, what would happen if she completely unlocked this final restraint?
Perhaps tonight, she would find out where her limits lay.
Lee Shin-ah breathed heavily and opened her mouth.
“Let’s go to your place, sir. I want to be ruined in your arms.”
***
One hour later.
Jeong Hyeon-jae was calling his wife.
After sending his wife away, he had belatedly followed after her, but in the end, he could not find her.
Her reaction when he brought up ‘Lee Ha-young’ had been bothering him.
‘Her reaction was strange. It almost seemed like she knew something...’
-Brrring.... Brrring.... Brrring...
The ringing dragged on, unanswered.
His wife still wasn’t answering the phone.
Without realizing it, Jeong Hyeon-jae fiddled with the wedding ring on his left ring finger.
Was it a hunch?
An indescribable sense of unease crept over the back of his neck.
-Click.
“Hello...”
It was then that the call connected and his wife’s voice came through.
Jeong Hyeon-jae heaved a sigh of relief and answered into the receiver.
***
“You disappeared like that and had me worried. Where are you now?”
Her husband’s voice came through the receiver.
Lee Shin-ah was clutching the bedsheet tightly.
Talking on the phone while enduring Mr. Choi’s cock filling her vagina was no easy task.
“U... mmm.... I-I’m... exercising right now.”
“You’re exercising? All of a sudden?”
Her husband’s voice was flustered.
It was understandable.
It was strange enough that she had suddenly disappeared, and now she was making an excuse about exercising.
“Uh... I had... an important... hng. workout to do.”
“.....”
Her husband fell silent.
Lee Shin-ah trembled as she felt Mr. Choi’s cock inside her in the rear-entry position.
At that moment, Mr. Choi smiled and rubbed a finger against Lee Shin-ah’s anus.
Lee Shin-ah’s back arched sharply.
“Haa-ugh-!♥”
“H-honey?”
“Ah... It’s just that, th-the position... is difficult...”
“Ah... You said you were exercising.”
“Yeah....”
“.....”
Her husband fell silent again.
Mr. Choi did not miss the opportunity.
With another vile smile, he gave Lee Shin-ah’s buttocks a hard -Smack-!
".....!"