LSDK 04

Chapter 4

At some point, no one other than the warden dared to touch Jii.

Before she knew it, the warden had become so nervous about upsetting Jii that she could barely sit still. And at some point, whenever Jii merely frowned for a moment, the warden would whimper like a puppy because she could not calm her down.

“There’s nothing there, so how am I supposed to know?”

“…….”

What is she talking about right now……?

Jii had briefly lost sight of the main point because of the warden’s thoughts, and without realizing it, she frowned.

#2.

“Ah, I get it.”

Ah!

“…….”

Jii quickly returned to the main point.

She had asked whether I had any experience or not, right?

“Hohoho, you mean your partner wasn’t a man?”

Arang finally spoke with a look as if she understood something.

“…….”

“Is that really it? Hohoho, so you were like that too? Hehehe, well, that can happen, Kekeke. You’ve really changed.”

Not only that, she even snickered.

Because of that, the shame that Jii had been forced to carry all these years, a shame she could never become accustomed to despite everything, surged up again.

Im Arang, you really want to die, don’t you?

Hostility and murderous intent appeared in Jii’s eyes once again.

If this had been inside the prison and someone had provoked her like that while making that expression, that person would probably have been half-dead by now.

It was not that she was acting arrogantly because she had the warden behind her.

As mentioned before, prison was a place that could corrupt even an ordinary person.

And Jii herself was proof of that.

Eight years is just the right amount of time to train, isn’t it?

Ever since the warden had become obsessed with her beloved Jii, her possessiveness had been second to none.

There had been more than one prisoner who had carelessly touched Jii, only to become disabled by the warden in an instant.

But even the warden could not protect Jii twenty-four hours a day.

At some point, the warden began teaching her self-defense.

And Jii had been born with exceptional intelligence.

She could not do much against overwhelming physical strength, but against most opponents, practical combat skills combined with her intelligence were more than enough.

As a result, the Jii of today had developed tens of thousands of ways to bring an opponent down without using much strength.

So, dealing with one little thing like this should be easy enough. Heh.

A mocking smile appeared on her face as she looked at Arang.

“The main point.”

She could have done something about Arang, but this was a place where a guard could appear at any moment and swing a baton right in front of her.

Jii did not want to cause trouble here, so she merely endured it.

No matter what she felt inside, she had to stay alive first.

After eight years, she had become an expert at holding things in.

“You don’t necessarily have to go that far, but if something happens, it can be dealt with medically, so let’s just skip that part. You can still have children, right? You didn’t go around ruining your body in there, did you?”

Should I kill her?

Haah. No, let’s not.

“Do you need my body?”

Jii asked Arang in a voice completely devoid of emotion.

Judging from everything they had talked about so far, the conclusion was obvious.

“It is sort of about that.”

“Why do you need it?”

“There’s nothing else I lack, but there’s something my body can’t do.”

“…….”

“You went to high school, so you should know that a body like mine can’t give birth to a child.”

So, according to this thing, she is saying that her body cannot have children?

“…….”

“You know what I mean, right?”

What on earth happened to this thing all this time?

Wait. If that’s the case……?

“Do you want me to donate?”

The thought crossed her mind, so Jii asked indirectly.

“Looks like all that food you’ve been eating hasn’t had much nutritional value.”

Arang asked back sarcastically.

“…….”

“At that level, why do you think I came looking for you? Seriously?”

“Hmm.”

So that means this thing can’t perform her proper function as a woman.

Just what has this thing been doing all this time to end up like this?

“It’s sort of a rental, but under my identity, you would marry my fiancé and become pregnant and give birth, all in one go. Anyway, you’d have to handle every role realistically. That would make things nice and clean, wouldn’t it? You know what happens after that even if I don’t have to explain it, right?”

No doubt she meant that they would switch places at the postpartum care center and Arang would pretend to be the mother.

You might be wondering if that makes any sense when they’re different people, or whether something like that is even realistically possible.

It is possible!

For one thing, Arang, whose former name before her legal name change had been Song Jiru, was born thirty seconds before Jii.

The two were identical twins and were born eight months premature.

Their biological mother was unmarried and, unable to afford the cost of an incubator, abandoned the newborns at the hospital and fled.

Other than the star-shaped birthmark behind Jii’s left ear, the two were visually identical, practically at a Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V level.

“Sweetie, you have a star behind your ear. Look.”

Jii had known nothing about it for a very long time.

It was only after hearing it from the warden that she learned that she had that star-shaped birthmark.

“Really? I have a star there? And, Sis, can you stop calling me ‘Sweetie’?”

“Why? You don’t like hearing it?”

“It’s not that I don’t like hearing it…….”

It’s disgusting.

Anyway, Jii had only found out about it in prison, so there was a high chance Arang did not know about it either.

More importantly, this kind of role-playing had happened more than once.

As a result, Jii had spent the past eight unfair years after being betrayed by Arang.

At 3:30 p.m., Dong-in finished exercising and taking a shower, carefully applied his skincare products, and thoroughly dried his hair with a hair dryer.

Even if his hair was only slightly wet, one person or another would comment on it, so he had no choice.

He could simply ignore the nagging of those people, but even so, it was annoying.

In the end, he had no choice but to groom his hair even more perfectly.

If I had known this would happen, I should have just stayed abroad no matter how much they insisted.

After putting on his cufflinks and choosing and tying his necktie, he finished getting dressed by putting on his watch.

Although it might have looked like he was simply putting effort into his appearance, in reality, aside from sleeping, this was the only time when Dong-in could completely stop using his brain and enter a state of complete emptiness.

“Young Master.”

When he went downstairs, Butler Kang bowed at the waist.

The butler had his thick white hair neatly combed back with pomade. He was wearing a white shirt under a vest, a bow tie, and the distinctive black uniform of a butler.

“Yes, Butler Kang.”

When it came to Butler Kang, Dong-in was just as polite.

“Did you sleep well?”

Butler Kang Hyun-seok was a man in his early sixties and was a talented man whom Dong-in’s grandfather had sent for him.

The butler had once been a hotelier who had formally received management training in England.

After working in various hotels for forty years and rising to the highest positions before retiring several years ago, he was another valuable talent whom Dong-in’s grandfather had personally flown to Dubai to bring back after waiting until the time of his retirement.