The Wife's Secret Meeting
The insurance fraud had been committed...
Because the amount was too large...
Civil lawsuits were planned, and criminal reports were to be filed.
Yoo Kang-soo had secured some solid evidence during this trip.
With this evidence... he would almost certainly win.
But... that woman... had a very high chance of claiming that she had spent all the money.
She hadn't left any property for herself, and had given it all to the children.
That's why a criminal report was necessary.
If she resisted... when she was eventually sent to prison...
Then, by changing names and hiding the assets, she would try to bring them out and negotiate a settlement.
If he wasn't a really tough guy... once he went to prison, his resolve would weaken.
Prison was like that.
Cold in winter, hot in summer.
No matter how much better it was than before...
Those who had been inside and come out said it was no better than sleeping on the street.
Yoo Kang-soo had been a military police investigator for a long time...
He had come and gone to prisons many times.
Of course... he hadn't gone in for his own mistakes...
But to investigate those who had done wrong.
The biggest reason a prison was unbearable... was freedom.
Freedom was precious in that way.
When you have freedom, you don't realize its value...
But when it's taken away... from that moment...
You understand how precious freedom is.
The fact that you can't act as you please...
And, to put it more specifically...
Because you can't do things secretly alone...
Everyone said that.
It was hard to have time alone to think...
And it was hard to do things alone without anyone knowing...
That was exactly the prison.
In any case... if locked up...
The grandmother would definitely... say something else.
Even such a kind and gentle grandmother... could deceive people.
It seemed there was no one in this world who didn't deceive others.
I... was thinking about the people who commit insurance fraud...
And then... consecutively, about my wife.
While I was on a provincial business trip...
My wife... went to some strange place... stayed for about two hours...
And came home late at night.
On days when Pil-jun came late from the academy, there were days when he came home after 11pm...
So, it seemed she was targeting those days.
I also went on a business trip to the provinces... and Pil-jun also came home late from the academy... so my wife seemed to have sneaked out somewhere.
"Have you been through a lot?"
The wife and son Pil-jun welcomed Yoo Kang-soo who had come home after a few days.
They ate dinner together...
Late at night... Yoo Kang-soo lying in bed with wife Ji Hye-in.
But that wouldn't do... he felt his sexual desire rising again.
If the wife cheated with another man, the husband... would fall into some strange inferiority complex and immerse himself in the wife's body, feeling strange lust, as they said...
Now... such a situation seemed to be happening.
He roughly tore off Ji Hye-in's pajamas and underwear...
And was just roughly thrusting at her.
Sucking her breasts, sucking her nipples roughly, and thrusting hard.
Ji Hye-in held back her moans... hugging Yoo Kang-soo's neck with both hands...
And breathing in sync.
Without prolonging the time, as soon as the feeling came, Yoo Kang-soo came immediately.
The two caught their breath... lying side by side on the bed.
Both... naked, with not a thread on them...
Just like that.
"What did you do for the past few days?
You only came back and forth between the company and home?"
Yoo Kang-soo was throwing a loaded question.
He already knew from the GPS tracking that a few days ago, after the wife got off work... she had gone to some other place.
"No...
A few days ago... after work, I met with a friend... ate together, sang karaoke, and came home."
"Really?"
"Which friend?
Met a friend?
Is it not a man?"
"Um... it is a man, but...
It's not an unusual relationship... just a friend I know well."
Yoo Kang-soo... was a bit dumbfounded...
He sat up.
"You... what did you just say?"
"Um... I didn't want to lie...
I did meet a man.
But... really... just a friend-like easygoing acquaintance.
Not the kind with physical relations like with Seong-bong."
"Which day of the week?"
"Wednesday..."
"......"
Yoo Kang-soo... was a bit dazed... couldn't respond immediately.
The GPS was installed in the trunk of the white compact car driven by the wife...
On the Wednesday when Kang-soo was in the provinces... the day the wife drove that car...
It really went to the city center...
So, it was a fact that Kang-soo was quite surprised.
The location the GPS pointed to... was a large shopping mall in the entertainment district.
But... floors 6 and above of that building were all motels...
And from the basement to the 5th floor... various bars, massage parlors, casual eateries, and room salons were packed in...
That's why that building was a large entertainment complex.
That day... the wife parked her car there...
And stayed there for a little over two hours.
That's why Kang-soo was quite surprised.
But...
Actually, that building had karaoke rooms too.
There were restaurants as well.
In short, in one building... restaurants, entertainment facilities... and motels... everything was there.
Wife's words might be true.
That the building had restaurants and karaoke rooms...
Yoo Kang-soo... had seen that from investigating the building's status.
But... that wasn't the problem.
The wife had said on her own that day...
That she met with a man, ate, and went to karaoke.
"Hye-in, get up..."
Yoo Kang-soo... said leaning his back against the headboard of the bed...
The wife Ji Hye-in who was lying down... also sat up leaning against him.
"You... are now... caught cheating...
And in penance.
But... a married woman with a husband... eating with another man...
And going to karaoke?
Isn't that crazy?"
"I... I am a woman who works in society.
The person who helps a lot with the association work...
We are friends... sharing difficult times...
This time... the incident that happened to you...
I told you everything... shared the worries."
"Too frustrating...
So from there... they said let's eat dinner or something...
Just... met.
I wanted to drink alcohol but...
Since you were on a business trip... didn't want to cause strange misunderstandings...
Just ate.
And there was a karaoke room in the building with restaurants...
From the restaurant... gave discount coupons for karaoke to the customers...
We sang for exactly one hour.
I... really like singing..."
"Since when... did you start liking to sing?"
"You... didn't take me to places like karaoke, so...
When there are company dinners... I always go to karaoke...
I really like singing.
You... didn't care what I like... what I want..."
"This is... really... what did I do well..."
Yoo Kang-soo... said in a slightly angry voice...
But... in the other room... he didn't raise his voice because his son Pil-jun might still be awake.
"If I did wrong in conduct...
I will apologize...
But... I never did anything embarrassing to you.
Now... in this situation where everything is exposed...
Doing such things again...
Is nonsense."
"But... I didn't want to lie.
So I told you honestly.
I could have lied saying I didn't go to karaoke...
Or lied saying I didn't meet the male friend...
But... I don't want to do that now.
It feels like my breath is being suffocated...
I don't want that...
So... I told you honestly that I met the male friend, ate, and went to karaoke."
"I was originally planning to just eat...
I wanted to talk while eating...
But the restaurant owner was calculating and gave me a karaoke discount coupon...
So... just went to karaoke on the spot."
Yoo Kang-soo was dumbfounded.
Honest is good, but...
This... the situation is a bit... weird, isn't it?
Yoo Kang-soo was honestly a bit confused.
After last night... the wife Ji Hye-in told him honestly...
He didn't know what to say next...
So... he didn't prolong the conversation.
It was after the business trip... and right after they had sex...
It was a bit difficult.
So... he just fell asleep, but...
The next day at work... thinking during the day... this... was a bit unbelievable story.