Absolute Advantage - Chapter 23.1

“It doesn’t seem to be such a serious problem, considering you can afford to joke!”

“……It’s serious.”

As Li Yu-yen turned his back, Adam muttered in a dying voice.

Looking back again, he stared at Li Yuyan with bold eyes as if he had never done so. It was not exactly looking at himself, but it was as if he was drawing someone in his head.

“I helped her, and she kicked me out.”

Adam looked down and murmured.

It was insignificant on the day of the fight with Hae-won, but the more he thought about the day after they separated, the more he felt strange.

Ah.

Li Yu-yen roughly guessed what was going to happen that day.

He said he was going to an interview with Haewon. Did the reporter ask a rude question? Or maybe after the interview, he had a conflict with someone else.

“Why did you help her?”

“Because she’s being bullied.”

Adam answered gently to Li Yu-yen’s question.

“I guess you wanted to hear thank you?”

Adam’s eyebrows wriggled as if Li Yu-yen hit the nail on the head. In time, Adam, who was pondering something, shook his head.

“It’s annoying when someone touches what belongs to me.”

Adam relaxed and leaned back on the sofa.

“But I think it would have been better if I heard a thank you from her.”

Adam, who spoke weakly, turned his eyes toward the terrace.

It was made of glass, so the sunset sky filled the view. Li Yu-yen, who was quietly listening to Adam, also looked at the sunset and said that he’s shocked.

“I didn’t know you’d grow attached so quickly.”

Attached? Is it really an attachment towards her? No, they haven’t even had sex yet. Adam thought as he slowly opened and closed the fingers that were pushing in the core of Haewon.

Unlike his solid body, Haewon’s body was soft, so he felt good when he touched her. Also, he felt a strange sense of stability when he put her next to him, so even though she was the same alpha, her reverberation did not bother him unlike other alpha.

Rather, he wanted to dive deeper. Now, he felt like Haewon was wrapped in something, so when the thing was peeled off, it seemed like there would be sweet grains hidden in her.

And,

She continues to evoke childhood nostalgia.

Adam remembered the warmth that hugged him tightly in that trashy world.

“It’s the same thing as being attached to your blanket.”

“Why are you so attached to a blanket?”

“Ha, the young man who had a poor childhood doesn’t even know what an attachment blanket is.”

Adam sighed and slipped off the sofa. The splayed legs protruded out of nowhere.

Li Yu-yen decided to end the conversation because he thought of something to do while trying to shoot back, saying that he also had an unfortunate childhood too.

“Then I’ll go take care of the work I left last time.”

“Yes.”

That’s when Li Yu-yen turned his back.

“Oh, right, Li Yu-yen.”

“What?”

“The foreign journalists. Cancel the interview.”

“They’re all on a plane. You should have said that sooner.”

Adam’s gray eyes stared silently at Li Yuyen, looking straight at him asking if he cares. Yeah, that’s the way he is. Li Yu-yen sighed deeply inside and nodded.

For the time being, he wanted to keep away from things that reminded him of Haewon. Nevertheless, the time in his head stopped in the room where Ellie came and made a mess.

‘…… Adam, please go back.’

The more he reflected on the memories of that day, the worse he felt, but he was angrier because he couldn’t understand exactly why she was in a bad mood.

He hates it when he can’t identify why.

“I’m annoyed.”

The red sunset-colored Adam’s distorted cheeks. Adam sat on the sofa like a bloody corpse for a long time.

* * *

Unlike Adam, who thinks about Hae-won all day, Hae-won completely forgot what happened that day. This is because there was a more serious problem.

‘Miss, we’re in big trouble.’

‘What’s going on?’

‘I got a call saying that some organizations will stop sponsoring from today.’

‘From who?’

‘Mrs. Ahn.’

Not long ago, a sponsorship staff came to Haewon urgently.

Since then, one or two calls have been made daily to stop sponsoring. It wasn’t that many, but all of them were huge sponsors, which was a big blow to the foundation.

‘Is there any worse news?’

Even if she searched through Internet articles and asked through personal connections, she couldn’t find the cause.

‘I can only ask them when I meet them face to face.’

Finally, Haewon begged the sponsor and finally made an appointment. She deliberately kept it a secret from Bora. If Bora knew, she would have given up her vacation.

Thus, Hae-won arrived alone at a luxury housing complex in Samseong-dong. The sponsor was the wife of a chaebol family who also knew Haewon.

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