Taehyung POV

I won't usually get good sober sleep, I need to take help of the alcohol to ease up my mind and that helps me to fall asleep. But yesterday night was the best night. I stared at the picture in my phone that Ren had took yesterday. "Stupid girl, she is so weak that she got tired while standing and still denied it." So I needed to pull her onto my lap, staring at the picture more, and it made me feel some what happy.

It was another day for me, but this morning was something different. I stretch my arms and body getting up from my bed, on which a few minute's ago I was staring at that picture. Taking a trip to my bathroom, I brushed my teeth, doing my minimum skin care, I took a shower.

Ring Ring Ring...

But my shower peace was interrupted by my phone, making me step out of the warm water and pick up the call only to hear my brother rant about some ART exhibition where he was suppose to go as a chief guest. While I just hummed in response as I listen to him.

"But, I have a da-" He paused, making me raise an eyebrow at his sudden stop, but then again he continued, "I mean, I have some work to be handled so I want you to attend that as the chief guest anyways you are the next soon to be CEO, so start by making appearance's at such events, now."

"Is it necessary?" I asked, but I couldn't control myself from yawing. "YOU BRAT! YOUR YAWNING NOW, IT'S JUST 8 AM NOW!" He yelled from the other side of the cellphone, maybe he thought I am too bored to attend these events. And he got me right after all.

"Okay, I am sorry. I will attend the event." Finally agreeing to him, I was about to hung up the call when he said something making me, again pick up my cold expression.

"Avoid questions from media about y/n. Understood."

My mind didn't took his words in the right way, I felt like a pang in my heart after I heard my brother mention her name. He want's me to avoid her, anything related to her. But something that bothered me more was, that I was thinking about her. Am I having this one side in my heart that cares for her? After that night. I thought it was just pity because after hearing about why she collapsed in my arms.

"Yes, hyung." Lie. That was all I could say. After hanging up the phone, and wearing my attire for the event sent by my brother. "There is nothing different, took me late to realize." I mumbled under my breath as I had my breakfast, all alone on the dinning table. Just some maids standing by the corner of the room, just in case if I need something.

The KIM's, by hearing this made me sick to my stomach, we are just perfect for the picture. But in real life we don't even know each other that well. After my mother died my father had a mistress, my brother distanced himself from everyone. He was devastated just as I was, with everything in our life.

I got up from my chair, making my way outside of the mansion, I had not even took a single bite of my breakfast, cause all it tasted was like cardboards to me. As soon as I stepped out, I found Mr. Jeff standing outside the gate with my car ready. As he bowed to me, when I exited the gate.

"The car is repaired sir. You can check the headlights." He said, making me nod at him. He opened the backseat door for me, letting me settle on my seat he closed the door and started driving.

"Don't think of her, It was just pity nothing else. Focus Taehyung."

It felt more like, I was reminding myself that, there is no true love.

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Author POV

As he stepped in the big hall, his presence made everyone bow to him. When an elderly man approached him, and stretch his hand out in front of Taehyung for a handshake, as he introduced himself.

"It's a pleasure meeting the soon to be CEO and the one and only Kim Taehyung. I am Mr. Kwon the one who hosted this event." Taehyung accepting his hand, shook it as he thanked him for inviting him at the vent as the chief guest.

"Please have a seat sir." Mr. Kwon guided Taehyung to the seat next to him, as the event begun they exchanged some words, but that surely bored Taehyung. "Maybe I should take a walk around the exhibition, so that I can admire the beautiful paintings." Taehyung got up from his seat followed by Mr. Kwon as he accompanied him on the walk, but as they moved from one painting to another, Taehyung noticed something. "Please excuse me," He said as he walked towards the figure he noticed.

"I knew it's her." He said as he marched slowly towards her, with all his rage and sadness. That were not ready to leave him so soon. He wanted was revenge, to make her regret everything. When he stood behind her.

"The painting is pretty, isn't it?" He said, making her suddenly flinch and turn to look at the person behind her. "Taehyung?" She whispered his name, as he just walked beside her, standing all straight looking at the painting, making her confused." This painting means revenge." He explained.

"When someone betrays you, this painting depicts that." She just looked at him, with shock. But taking it calmy she replied," Ohh..," All that was her reaction, she low-key knew what he meant by that, but the one thing that made her feel happy was that his love for ART didn't die. After hearing from Namjoon, that he had burned all the painting's he had painted made her feel guilty, but after hearing him talk about the painting even tho he was being harsh at her made her happy for him.

"Are you happy?" He asked, finally turning and looking at her who stood with there as a shiver passed through her spine, knowing what was about to come next. "Taehyung stop it.. don't start a mess again."

"I start a mess? Do I?" He mocked her. "I didn't mean it like that, I just want to say move on.." She whispered the move on, because it hurt her while saying it to someone she loved and someone who was madly in love with her. But all she could call this love was, right person wrong timing.

"Move one? Huh? You think I didn't move on and will beg you to come back to me, then you are wrong." He said, as he chuckled through his words. She could feel the fire of his words. "I have burned it all down now. Now all I want is to uncover the reason behind this drama. I don't give a fuck to which heights I will go now to take my revenge after knowing the reason, for you to cheat one me." He spit. Making her eyes go wide.

"I didn't cheat on you." She mumbled under her breathe but loud enough for him to hear, as he just scoffed and looked at her. When her eyes met his cold ones. She knew she changed him but his eyes are holding onto his old self. He was blinded by the word revenge.

"Then what?" He yelled, asking her as she just broke the eye contact, making her silently caressing the ring on her ring finger, trying to stop her from eyes getting teary, reminding herself not to create any scene in the public, but this was just a coincidence that they met here, like this. "I-" Ji-eun paused, cause she just wanted to spent some time alone but universe had some other plans for her.

"You are so pathetic." He said, but before anything else, His cheek experienced a hard impact making his face turn to his right, she slapped him. "And you are a jerk. You will regret saying this, Taehyung. I know I hurt you but that doesn't me pathetic, I had my own reasons."

That was the last thing Ji-eun said before she turned around and left him standing in front the painting alone. When Mr. Jeff approached him, as most of the people looked at them. This didn't create a scene thankfully, cause there were less people around them.

"Sir, you alright?" He asked with worry plastered on his face, but Taehyung was still in shock. She had never slapped him, and now it was just guilt and him. All he wanted was to get out from there. He started walking outside of the venue towards his car with Mr. Jeff following him. "Don't tell Hyung." Taehyung warned him, who stood there opening the door for him, making him gulp hard at his word.

"To the Bar." Taehyung ordered him.

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IU POV

(T/W: blood & self-harm.)

I am the most worst person to be alive. Why does my life has to be this miserable. Call me selfish, call me a liar, but I am not a cheater. It was the time that betrayed me and my love. Showing me how insignificant I am.

Born in Lee family, is nothing less than cruse, most twisted of all. I never chose this part of my life. I never had an healthy and happy childhood. My mother was one of my biological father's mistress, everything between them was alright until one day, my mother revealed her pregnancy to my father.

All she ever dreamt was about a happy family with him, but all that shattered when my father asked my mother to have an abortion. Her world broke like a glass, too fragile. It turned out my father was already married and he had hidden this from my mother all the time making her feel like a home-wrecker.

My father broke all his contacts with my mother, ghosting her totally and warned her to abort me, she decided that she will not abort and after 9 months there I was , Lee Ji-eun. I wasn't welcomed in this world at all. After my mother gave birth to me, my father didn't even spare a glance at me, he had his heart just filled with disgust for me.

My mother and me were moved into my fathers one of the mansion, like some furniture. Until I turned 7, I loved my father even though he hated me and never touched me nor glanced at me. But my blind love turned into hatred one night. When my father gave us an unusual visit in the midnight. I was in my room asleep, but soon my ears could hear screams and groans.

Opening the door of my room, I slowly walked where the noises were heard. I slowly walked a few steps down the staircase only to notice, that my mother was on the floor covered in a pool of her own blood that she coughed out. I gasped looking at the scene. She groaned in pain while my father just stood there watching her.

I felt my feet froze on it's spot. My father kicked my mother, again and again making her scream louder. I covered my ears in fear with my tiny palms, but I could hear my father cruse my mother, calling her a bitch, a slut.

"DON'T YOU DARE TO TAKE A STEP OUTSIDE OF THIS MANSION EVER AGAIN!" He yelled while he held her hair in his fist making her look at him, she was almost at the verge of passing out. He let her go off and he started walking up stairs, making me panic and run back to my room. I entered my room and acted as if I was fast asleep. When the door to room opened, and my father entered inside making me more sacred. I could smell the strong scent of alcohol, fill the whole room.

When he came towards the bed, bending to my ear he whispered in my ear, "I know you saw everything, you little birdie." He said making me immediately open my eyes, and he grabbed my wrist and jerked me off the bed making me fall on the cold floor. "Dad..." I mumbled, but hearing me he just chuckled and started hitting with his belt.

"Don't you dare to call me that again." He said finally stopping his beating, I couldn't breath.  He just kicked me in my face, as I was laying down on the floor. He walked out of my room and out of the mansion. I could hear his car start.

The next morning the maids, helped me and my mom to treat our wounds. They felt pity on us. My left cheek was swallow from his kick. My eye was the darkest shade of purple. My mother looked like a dead body, but she just hugged me and cried.

"Sorry, dear I couldn't protect you." She whispered. And I promise that were the last words of my mom the next day, we found her in her room hanged from the ceiling fan. She killed her self, just because she couldn't protect me and herself, she had written it herself on the suicide note but my father just burned that note and covered up everything with his filthy money.

"YOU KILLED HER!!! MR. LEE!!!" I yelled as I hit him, but my tiny fist didn't harm him, he just stared down at me. All just with his cold gaze. But all he did was take me home, where I was brought up by my step-mother and Mrs. Lee. as far i had got to know that she didn't had any children, and all this time she knew about her husbands affairs.

"What's your name, dear?" she asked softly as her hand slowly touched my bandaged cheek. Her gaze was warm, "Ji-eun." I replied making her smile as she took care of me as her own child. But now the only person, whom I trust the most is her, but I hurt her too by being selfish. And again I was here in front of her house, a crying mess. As she opened the door.

"IU?" She called out my name making me look at her with a sad smile, my best friend Chen Y/n.

"I hurt you too my best friend, I am sorry." I said, before black dots started forming in front of my eyes, it had been an whole hour I cried after the encounter with Taehyung, I hurted him too.