The Chairman's Claim
Eom In-soo was staring at Ji Hye-in’s haggard face, utterly devoid of makeup, as she spoke in that broken voice.
The expression on his face was nothing but a crushing weight.
In truth, Eom In-soo understood better than anyone how fragile Ji Hye-in truly was as a woman.
He knew the exact path she had taken to arrive at this moment…
He was the one person who had witnessed every single step of her journey.
Eom In-soo opened his mouth with a cautious expression.
“That’s true… but how did you not come up with this at all?
I also… have a ruined life… but what are you going to do from now on?
How long do you think it will take?
In the meantime… I have to send my son to university… how is she supposed to manage alone?
You… were fired from your job too…”
“The chairman contacted me again… he told me to come back to the office… right now my heart is… a bit like this… I couldn’t give him any answer… but I have to go back anyway… no matter what… I have to receive some economic help…”
Even while speaking, Ji Hye-in kept sniffling, until the tears she had been desperately holding back finally spilled over.
Ji Hye-in had always relied on her husband, Yoo Kang-soo… and had always seen him as a solid, unshakeable mountain…
It had never been fake.
Her husband had always been the best.
She had met him at twenty-two, started dating, and after getting drunk, he had forced her to give up her virginity…
They had married at twenty-three.
That man… was her current husband, Yoo Kang-soo.
But the first time she had opened her eyes to a man other than her husband…
Was right now… the man she was talking to… Eom In-soo.
Of course, the first time she had allowed her body to a man other than her husband…
It had not been Eom In-soo.
It had been Chairman Wang Gil-nam.
It was an ironic twist of fate.
All of those events had begun… six years ago…
When Ji Hye-in was thirty-six…
When Ji Hye-in turned thirty-six…
Yoo Kang-soo… was about to complete twenty years of military service.
The plan for Yoo Kang-soo to retire after twenty years of military service…
had been steadily in motion for several years…
So Ji Hye-in… now wanted to avoid her dull, empty daytime life…
and do something meaningful.
She searched for office jobs that didn’t require special skills…
and the first place she interviewed was… the nonprofit social sports promotion association.
At that time, Chairman Wang Gil-nam—sixty-three years old and still relatively vigorous—
had seen Ji Hye-in’s pure appearance and fallen for her at first sight…
and immediately hired her.
Originally… it had been a two-month part-time position.
Ji Hye-in… after marriage… had never really done any work that could be called a career.
She had done part-time jobs at local supermarkets, but her actual office experience was limited.
At that time… the association had many events…
so when they were recruiting for the two-month part-time spot… Ji Hye-in had applied…
and Chairman Wang Gil-nam… because he liked Ji Hye-in’s pure appearance too much…
had hired her as a regular office employee instead of a part-timer.
After the two-month event ended…
honestly, there had been almost nothing to do at the office.
But… the working hours… send the son to school…
and from ten in the morning until four or five in the afternoon… with no one else there…
so from Ji Hye-in’s perspective… it had been far too comfortable a job.
But… since there was nothing to do…
sitting blankly at the office had also been a torment.
At that time…
it was Ji Hye-in who had first learned about chatting while scrolling through the internet.
While chatting… it had been too much fun…
and in the chat room… the man who talked so well at that time…
had been Eom In-soo.
At first… it had just been casual chatting for boredom.
It hadn’t been deep conversation.
At that time… because of his fixation on Ji Hye-in…
despite having nothing to do, Chairman Wang Gil-nam had hired her as a regular employee and was hiding his true intentions.
Ji Hye-in… the first two months had been busy because of the association events…
then… at the office… she had lived leisurely… and fallen completely into chatting.
During daytime… except for lunch…
she had almost only chatted.
When there were no events at the association… no one came to the office…
so the days when she came to work in the morning, chatted, ate lunch, chatted again, and went home had been endless.
She had chatted with various people…
and at that time… the person whose conversation flowed so naturally with her…
had been Eom In-soo.
Chatting with Eom In-soo had been too much fun.
They were in completely different cities… over five hundred kilometers apart…
even taking the KTX it took over two hours.
But… even so… day after day… a month passed…
Ji Hye-in and Eom In-soo… had become extremely close through chatting…
and she could no longer stand even a single day without talking to him.
Eom In-soo was nine years older than Ji Hye-in.
Ji Hye-in… at first had not revealed her real name or age at all… and had kept the chat strictly private…
but Eom In-soo… had revealed his age, real name, and even his photo…
leading her to explain his appearance to her.
Eom In-soo… had honestly introduced himself as a forty-five-year-old divorced man…
and had even shown recent photos and his driver’s license…
giving Ji Hye-in complete trust.
Ji Hye-in… since it was her first time chatting on a computer…
had not shown photos, name, or age at first.
But Eom In-soo…
had revealed his identity as a divorced man… his photos… and detailed information about his indoor construction business in the province…
and even told her the company’s homepage…
so she had known everything about his life.
Ji Hye-in eventually… had opened up a little about herself…
revealed that she was a married woman with a high-school graduate son in elementary school…
and that she worked at a small office.
And… eventually… she had shown him her photo.
Ji Hye-in… who had felt a sense of sympathy for the first time in her life other than her husband.
The two… had become very trusting of each other…
and from then on… Eom In-soo… had started telling Ji Hye-in about his sexual fantasies.
Ji Hye-in… at first… after marriage… for the first time hearing some lewd stories…
after chatting all day… her lower part would get wet… more than once.
Eom In-soo… had explained in detail through chatting how he had gotten married, why he had divorced…
and what kind of sexual perversion he had.
And… at that time… for the first time in her life… Ji Hye-in had heard about domination and submission tendencies from Eom In-soo.
Ji Hye-in at that time… had no idea what her own tendency was…
nor what sexual peculiarity she possessed.
But… after hearing explanations from Eom In-soo…
and watching lewd videos together in the chat…
something… her strange feeling had kept growing.
Eventually Ji Hye-in… had told Eom In-soo everything.
Her first experience at twenty-two… being taken to a motel by her current husband while drunk… being raped…
that memory had been too good…
but… her husband… now… when they had sex… didn’t do it so roughly…
she wished he would do it roughly like forced rape…
but he didn’t… so that was the complaint… her thoughts… her feelings…
she had poured all of that to Eom In-soo.
The cyber relationship between Eom In-soo and Ji Hye-in…
had continued for over a year.
The first time they had met in person had been… after the year changed…
after Ji Hye-in turned thirty-seven.
But… before that… on a day when she was thirty-six…
Ji Hye-in… had been forcibly raped by Chairman Wang Gil-nam.
Ji Hye-in… already knew the situation.
That the chairman was targeting her body.
And… she had steadily consulted with Eom In-soo about it…
and Eom In-soo… after long chatting with Ji Hye-in…
had known that Ji Hye-in… wanted to be somewhat defiled…
so… Eom In-soo… had suggested to the chairman… what if he “rapes” her and she accepts it…
that had also been Eom In-soo.