CHAPTER 98: CHEON AREUM DIDN’T. I WON’T EITHER.

Lee Dohyun easily identified the mark, retracting his hand as Lee Nari lifted him back to sit on the couch.

"Don’t worry, he won’t die with a temporary mark."

"That scared me for a second..."

Lee Nari muttered, looking at Lee Dohyun while Cheon Areum slouched back on the couch, slithering down to glance underneath the table. He had already seen the gun, but this time he saw it more clearly. It was a revolver, coincidentally the same gun Cheon Areum had used in the book to shoot himself in the head.

So Cheon Areum never did kidnap Lee Nari. It was her who kidnapped Cheon Areum and threatened him by using Rian as an excuse?

"What now? You want me to leave Yoon Seoyul?"

"Technically, yes, but—"

In the middle of his words, Lee Dohyun’s phone on the table vibrated with a new notification on the screen as he turned to pick it back up. It seemed to be a message as Lee Dohyun’s eyes read the screen for a while.

"What is it, Dohyun?"

"I will have to go and check something out, get the papers signed in the meantime, and call me if there is a problem."

"Oh, okay."

Lee Nari rose from the couch, going outside the room with Lee Dohyun. As soon as they left, Cheon Areum activated his skill while standing up and observing the room.

[Mind Corruption has been activated.]

[You are currently using the skill: Mind Corruption. Your ability to corrupt negative energy will be enhanced during its activation.]

The view outside the large open window was of an open field of dried grass, no civilization nearby, although there was a well-constructed road leading to this abandoned building. There were multiple cars parked in the front, and if he had to guess, this was the fourth floor of the building. The rooftop would be on the fifth floor...

By now, Cheon Areum’s energy had spread all throughout the building; he could easily tell where Lee Dohyun was now. If he had done the same when Lee Nari came to visit him, he would have noticed Lee Dohyun too, who had probably sneaked in with Lee Nari using his invisible-to-the-naked-eye skill.

There were also a lot of people stationed on the lower floors, and with their energy levels, they were all at least A-Classes. Two S-Classes and a bunch of A-Classes, even with his terrifying skills, it would take Cheon Areum longer than 10 minutes to get the phone from Lee Dohyun and message the kidnappers that had taken Rian. That’s what Lee Dohyun or Lee Nari thinks, but if Cheon Areum wanted to, he could take everyone under his control right now, though that would take all of his energy.

Feeling a bit dizzy and overheated, Cheon Areum sat back on the couch as Lee Nari returned with a document in her hands.

"Can I have cold water?"

He asked as she put down the document on the table in front of him before retrieving a cold bottle of water from the bag beside him and gently set it beside the paper. Only then realizing the tight zip ties binding his wrists together, Lee Nari slipped her slender fingers beneath the plastic restraints. With a sharp tug and a sudden snap, she broke them in one go.

"You can drink the water now."

Cheon Areum quietly took the cold water bottle, unscrewing it and taking a few gulps as Lee Nari held out a pen for him.

"Take the pen, you just have to sign on the form, and then you’ll be reunited with Rian."

Slowly putting the water bottle down on the table, Cheon Areum took the pen from her and began to read the form as Lee Nari sat beside him on the couch.

"This is a marriage registration form."

"Yes. I’ll be signing it too."

Lee Nari confirmed with a sweet smile.

"After we register our marriage, we’ll move to a different country with Rian, of course."

He dropped the pen on the form without signing it. Cheon Areum would never sign a marriage registration form unless it was for Yoon Seoyul and his marriage, and that’s where the torture came from.

"I won’t do it."

"Cheon Areum, is Yoon Seoyul more important to you now than your own brother?"

"If you hadn’t kidnapped or threatened me, maybe I would have liked you a bit, not as a love interest though."

He currently had other options than to sign the form, but Cheon Areum, who didn’t have the S+ Class skill, had no other options. He would have been truly cornered to sign the form; however, he still persisted, prolonging the time of his abduction, knowing no one would come to save him and that Rian was also in danger.

I definitely underestimated how much Cheon Areum loved Yoon Seoyul...

"I still won’t do it. You can’t force me to stop loving Yoon Seoyul, even I couldn’t do that."

Cheon Areum spoke without a stutter. Lee Nari didn’t say anything for a while as he stared at the revolver under the table.

"I want you, Cheon Areum. I don’t care about Yoon Seoyul."

"How long do you think it’ll take for Yoon Seoyul to find this abandoned building?"

In the book, it took Yoon Seoyul 24 hours to find out that Cheon Areum had kidnapped Lee Nari (which wasn’t the case), and since Inho was in a dungeon at that time, he had to wait more before finally getting the location, heading straight to it.

He had been unconscious for 25 minutes, as Lee Dohyun had said himself that there were still 5 more minutes left before the skill’s automatic deactivation.

If you deduct the time for tying my hands and blindfolding me, then there isn’t much time left for them to drive away with me.

And if he had to guess how long it would take for Yoon Seoyul to find him now...

2 hours and 40 minutes? Or 24 minutes?

At that moment, he heard a loud explosion from outside. As if a car crashed into the building with force, jolting the entire ground beneath them.