•Kim Leehyuk's Mansion•

Another morning arrived as Jeonghan was seated on the bed with his wrist handcuffed to the headboard. It was when the door of the room opened and a lady walked in.

And she was none other than, Kim Hana.

Jeonghan simply scoffed as he looked away, cursing beneath his breath.

"How are you not surprised to see me here?" Hana stood in front of him, stunned by his unfazed reaction.

"Why would I be surprised to see a psycho in this huge mental asylum?" Jeonghan scrunched his brows, "Just get the fuck out of here, I don't want to see your pathetic face."

"Wow do you know my backstory already?" Hana was bewildered.

"I do." Jeonghan passed her an unpleasant look, "Your fake CV to all the accidents you planned. You stalking Seungcheol and covering a whole wall with his photographs. You joining hands with Leehyuk and Jaejun, everything, I know everything."

"WHAT?!"

"Just be glad that I didn't get the chance to reveal it to anyone." Jeonghan lied, of course. He shouldn't let her know that he had told everything to Seungcheol.

Hana sighed in relief, "Meaning, despite knowing everything, you could not uproot anything." She laughed, "Now that's pathetic Mr. Yoon."

"You know what Hana, your whole life is something which will definitely be uprooted." Jeonghan chuckled sarcastically, "Wait for it, patiently."

"Really?" Hana raised a brow, "Because your husband will be mine now. Your absence will help me a lot."

"Delusional much?" Jeonghan laughed, "His love for me is independent of my presence and absence. Still, you're free to try and humiliate yourself. Touch him and you die."

How can it be? You and me
Might be meant to be, can't unsee it
But I don't wanna cause no scene
I'm usually so unproblematic
'Cause the boy is mine

"Didn't know you weren't good at being practical." Hana mocked, "One moment is all I need to slip his heart and make him mine."

"Ugh so cringe." Jeonghan scrunched his brows, "I said it already, Hana, you're free to try. Trust me, the first thing he would do is to throw you away from himself."

"Can't believe Yoon Jeonghan is fighting me over a man."

"Fighting? Who?" Jeonghan made fun of her, "I literally said you're free to try your luck, I ain't fighting you over him. There's no need to do so. You know you can bring a literal moon for him and I'll sit there, not even doing the bare minimum, still he won't choose you. Do you know why? Because I'm not his choice, I'm his love, his heart, his soul."

"Leave it, you won't understand these things. They're too complicated for your psychotic brain." Jeonghan sighed, "Go on, do whatever you can, all you'll receive is dejection and humiliation."

Something about him is made for somebody, like me
Let's get intertwined
The stars, they align
The boy is mine

"I'll definitely prove you wrong." Hana confidently stated.

"Good luck." Jeonghan smiled, "I hope you'll celebrate your failure alone because you definitely don't have anyone beside you to share your tears, right?"

Hana straightened her posture as she understood where Jeonghan was going.

"No friends, no family, no love." Jeonghan smirked, "Just an obsessed stalker who needs to be put behind the bars. Lonely girl got some guts hmm?"

"Stop it!"

"Why? Is it hurting your pride?" Jeonghan paused, "You think Seungcheol will fill your life with love in return for your sick obsession? No one would, let alone a happily married man. Get this shit inside your head."

"I can't believe how you can be so full of yourself after being trapped here, doing absolutely nothing." Hana rolled her eyes, "Do you know that he went to a strip club? He's so easy to get."

"Another dumbass here." Jeonghan scoffed, "You think I'll trust you all fuckers over my husband? Never. The more I talk to you, the more I think that you need therapy instead of getting sued."

"I already feel bad for you." Hana pretended to be hurt, "All of your blind trust will shatter soon because-"

"Can you just fucking leave?!" Jeonghan spat, "I'm so done with your delusional bullshit. Get out of my sight right now."

"You can't be helped." Hana stomped out of the room after slamming the door shut.

"Another day, another bullshit." Jeonghan sighed, "I need to get out of here really soon. Even Taeri can't help me now."

"Mr. Kim!!" Kyungsoo rushed in, "Inspectors are here."

"What?" Leehyuk stood up, "Tell them that I can't meet them."

"They've a search warrant against you." Kyungsoo replied, "And-" Before he could complete, Choi San and Lee Heeseung walked in, with their hands in their pockets.

"Long time no see Mr. Kim." Heeseung chuckled.

"H-hello Inspector Lee, hello Inspector Choi." Leehyuk smiled hesitantly and shook hands with the two of them.

"We thought you might need our help." San stated.

"Pardon?" Leehyuk asked.

"Let's get straight to the point, we've a search warrant against you." Heeseung explained, "Mr. Yoon Jeonghan has been missing since yesterday morning. And Mr. Choi Seungcheol managed to acquire a search warrant against you."

"So? How is that related to me?"

"You know, we didn't get any profits through it." San continued, "You know, our minds tend towards- well I don't think I need to explain. They believe in us a lot but we're not here to gain someone's trust."

"Cash?" Leehyuk smirked.

"Yes." Heeseung nodded.

"But we'll still like to see Mr. Yoon's condition." San stated.

"Why?" Leehyuk raised a brow.

"We need to make sure that it's just a case of kidnapping." Heeseung shrugged, "We don't want to get involved in anything more than that."

"Sure." Leehyuk nodded, "Kyungsoo, go and show them."

"This way sir." Kyungsoo guided the two. Soon enough, they reached Jeonghan's room as Kyungsoo opened the door.

Jeonghan's eyes lit up, "Inspector Lee, Inspector Choi!! Help me!"

"OH MY GOD!!" Kyungsoo laughed, "Never thought I'll hear these words 'help me' from Yoon Jeonghan."

"Let's go." Heeseung patted San who nodded and began to leave.

"WHAT?!!" Jeonghan tried to follow them but his hands were tied, "What are you doing? Inspector?! INSPECTOR?!"

"Bought them." Kyungsoo winked and left the room.

All three of them reached the hall.

"We found no one here. I'll report it to the HQ." Heeseung nodded.

"Mr. Boo asked us to inform him separately." San muttered, "I'm calling him."

"Put it on speaker, please!" Leehyuk asked, "I want to hear their miserable voices."

San nodded as he quickly made a call to Seungkwan, "Hello Mr. Boo? Is Mr. Choi with you?"

"Yeah Seungcheol hyung and Shua hyung are with me. What happened Inspector?"

"We searched Mr. Kim Leehyuk's mansion but Mr. Yoon isn't here." Heeseung replied.

"WHAT?!" Seungcheol yelled, "That's not possible. Please check his mansion properly, wait what if he has kept him somewhere else? You-"

"Mr. Choi, it doesn't work like this. We couldn't find him here, we searched every corner." San retorted, "We'll talk to you later if we get a clue."

He hung up the call.

"Great." Leehyuk sighed in relief, "Thank you so much."

"You're most welcome." Heeseung stated, "Let's go, shall we?"

"Yeah." San nodded as both of the turned around to walk away while sharing a satisfactory smirk.

•Kim Leehyuk's Mansion•

His and his company's silence says a lot.

Didn't expect this from Scoups.

How can he even get sleep after doing all this?

The police should rather investigate him, what if he himself wanted Jeonghan to leave him and planned everything?

He didn't even try to hide his wrong intentions.

He tried but eventually got caught.

I don't think he cares about anything. And why would he? When he doesn't care about his husband then all this is just a waste of time for him.

The audacity? They didn't even try to cover it up with fake hiatus news.

If he really loved his group, he would have left it already. His team mates will suffer because of his sins.
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"Nice comments right?" Leehyuk laughed as Jeonghan kept boring holes into his soul through his eyes.

"I swear you're the most annoying person on the entire planet." Jeonghan rolled his eyes.

"Yoon Jeonghan, why don't we talk about some business?" Leehyuk smirked.

"Your peanut sized brain can't understand my level of business discussions." Jeonghan spat, "Go fuck yourself or something."

"Are you sure?" Leehyuk paused, "I've a great offer for you though. I can clear this scandal of Seungcheol if you agree to break off your marriage with him."

"All I want to do is to break are your fucking balls." Jeonghan clenched his jaw, "You better run for your life, pathetic loser."

"YOON JEONGHAN." Leehyuk was about to slap the former but for some reason, he stopped midway.

"Can't do that, right?" Jeonghan laughed, "You think you can't slap me because you love me eww. The fact is that you are scared. You KNOW that you can't mess with me."

"You-"

"You burnt a few parts of my sub HQ right?" Jeonghan stared at him, "Wait for me to get out of here. I'll burn your whole damn business into ashes."

"Keep dreaming. Even the police aren't going to help you." Leehyuk scoffed, "I'll go for now, I hope you'll get some sense and accept the reality. All the best."

He slammed the door shut as he walked out of the room.

Jeonghan sighed heavily as slight tears welled up in his eyes. He may act strongly in front of everyone but he had a vulnerable side too, he was suffering too.

"He would be suffering so much." Jeonghan thought about Seungcheol, "First, I disappeared and then this backlash."

"Does he even know that I'm here?" Jeonghan felt bitter, "Is he fine or not?"

"Why? Why is this even happening?!" Jeonghan cried, "We got together after overcoming so many hurdles. When I thought everything was finally in place, this had to happen."

It was when Taeri came into his room, "Jeonghan?"

Jeonghan turned his face away, "Why are you here?"

"To check if you're fine." Taeri sat on the edge of the bed.

"Yeah I'm absolutely fine." Jeonghan chuckled bitterly.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked that." Taeri felt miserable, "You can talk to me."

"I don't want to talk to anyone." Jeonghan growled, "Just go away."

"Jeonghan, I know it's hard for you but please, you can at least talk it out." Taeri assured, "I know I can't do anything for you except for listening to your concerns."

"What concerns? I'm worried, hella worried about Seungcheol." Jeonghan burst out, "He must be suffering there, searching for me. And then this hate will ruin his mental health even more.

The fact that he couldn't sense the conspiracy behind him getting called in the club is itself proof that he isn't sane after I went missing. He doesn't know I'm here. The police sided with your brother. I know Seungcheol's temper, I'm scared if he'll do something reckless.

I had promised to stay by his side even if the whole world would be against him. But here I am, stuck with your fucking brother."

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you escape." Taeri looked down.

"Now you don't start crying." Jeonghan rolled his eyes.

"I genuinely feel bad. All my life I tried hard to nurture my brother all by myself. I thought I was doing great but I was wrong." Taeri sniffled silently, "If mom and dad were here, they would have buried him in the ground for doing this."

"If I get out of here someday, I might do that." Jeonghan retorted after which the room fell silent.

"So your parents passed away when you were young?" Jeonghan asked.

"Yes." Taeri nodded, "I was seventeen and he was thirteen at that time. Our uncle took care of us financially but nurturing him was my job. But as he grew up, he got blinded by money because of our uncle.

I couldn't sense that it was getting serious. I thought he just wanted to have a good business for both of us but it turned out he was just greedy. Last year, our uncle passed away as well.

I got to know about you when your wedding news broke the internet. He was frustrated that night. I told him not to try anything and even asked his assistant to tell me if he did anything wrong.

He fired that assistant when he got to know that he was telling me everything. At the end of the day, I couldn't stop him. And he did all this. I'm ashamed of myself.

How about you Jeonghan? I just heard you say that you overcame a lot of hurdles before getting together?"

Jeonghan nodded, "I made a mistake that hurt him to the core, a long time ago. We got married due to family pressure and pretended to be a great couple in front of everyone. But slowly and steadily, we sorted it out.

We realised how much we love each other. But following that beautiful confession, came this horrible incident. I don't know what to do now. I'm honestly very scared.

Not because I'm trapped here but because I very well know Seungcheol is not fine at all. I want to go to him. I don't want to be here. Everything is suffocating the hell out of me now."

"I understand." Taeri muttered, "I'll try. I'll try to talk to Leehyuk again. Helping you escape is the only thing that can cure my guilt."

"But aren't you trapped in your house as well?" Jeonghan looked at her.

"I am but at least I can try." Taeri faintly smiled, "Hoping for the best for you."

A/n : Y'all, it's a DOUBLE UPDATE, so check out the next chapter too!

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Then here comes my overthinking. I do that too. I just want to tell you that I always go through your comments and feedback and I really appreciate them. I actually started writing without expecting anything, I just wanted to pen down all the crazy plots that keep coming to my mind. I'm grateful to all of you for being with me.

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