You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 142

Kang Min-jae’s face twisted.

“Sexual harassment?”

Seo Hye-jin nodded heavily, and I suddenly remembered the group of nurses I had briefly encountered in the lobby earlier.

Among them, the young nurse who had looked at Seo Hye-jin with concern as she left with us.

“That nurse was also demoted here with you.”

Seo Hye-jin sighed and nodded.

I already knew that Go Yoon-sung wasn’t in his right mind, so I wanted to say I wasn’t surprised, but I was actually taken aback.

He had assaulted an employee who pointed out his mistake, and his whole family was trying to cover it up.

They even used the prosecution to bury the evidence.

But Go Yoon-sung, the person involved, was lying in the hospital room as if nothing had happened, and now he’s accused of sexually harassing a nurse at the hospital.

Wooshin demoted two perfectly healthy nurses to a branch in the provinces to cover up the sexual harassment again.

How many people are being sacrificed to protect one crazy youngest son?

“It was a few days after Go Yoon-sung was admitted. A nurse under me, … her name is Han Young-sun. I’ll call her Young-sun.”

Seo Hye-jin crushed the empty can she was holding with all her might.

Her hands began to tremble.

“Go Yoon-sung was arrogant from the day he was admitted. He treated the nurses like his personal maids. After being admitted, he was bored out of his mind. He wasn’t even sick, but he had to wrap bandages and casts all over his body, so he must have been very frustrated. It was Young-sun who caught Go Yoon-sung’s eye.”

It seems Go Yoon-sung liked Han Young-sun from the first time he saw her.

He called the nurses ‘hey’ and didn’t even remember their faces, but he treated Han Young-sun differently.

‘You’re pretty, how old are you? What’s your name? Do you have a boyfriend?’

He started to flirt with Han Young-sun in a nasty way when she went in to check the condition of his room.

The hospital staff already knew that he was Wooshin’s youngest son, Go Sang-jun, so Han Young-sun was uncomfortable but had no choice but to answer his questions little by little and try to please him.

“Go Yoon-sung kept flirting with her, kept telling her to sit next to him, and kept grabbing her, telling her to hang out with him, so Young-sun was having a hard time. She asked me if I could go in for her.”

The head nurse also felt uneasy and told Han Young-sun not to go into Go Yoon-sung’s room.

After that, whenever there was a call from that room or when she had to check the condition, the head nurse would stop what she was doing and go in herself.

It was because she thought that if she sent other young nurses in, the same thing might happen again.

“When I went in, he made a fuss, asking why an old woman was coming in instead of young and pretty girls. So I warned him not to treat the nurses like that because this wasn’t a room salon [a type of hostess bar].”

Even as a head nurse, it would have taken a lot of courage to say that.

But Go Yoon-sung didn’t listen.

Instead, he told her to shut up if she didn’t want to get fired.

Still, she kept telling the young nurses not to go near that room.

However, the problem arose when Go Yoon-sung started to move on his own.

“Since Young-sun didn’t come to his room, he started looking for her himself. He ordered his aides to bring Han Young-sun, calling her out by name. He really treated the nurse like a room salon girl. Go Yoon-sung drank alcohol in his room every night, and he even made Young-sun sit next to him and pour him drinks.”

Han Young-sun told Go Yoon-sung to stop several times, but Go Yoon-sung didn’t listen.

At first, he laughed it off, asking why she kept resisting, but later, he got angry at Han Young-sun for constantly rejecting him and even cursed at her.

“Young-sun cried every day. She said she was going to quit the hospital several times a day. I also reported Go Yoon-sung’s abuse to the higher-ups every day. But even the higher-ups said that Go Yoon-sung wasn’t someone you could talk to, so they just told me to hang in there until he was discharged.”

Go Yoon-sung was just as difficult for the director who oversaw Wooshin Hospital as he was for the nurses.

He was told to endure it for only eight weeks until he was discharged, and the head nurse had no choice but to say the same to Han Young-sun.

After about a week, Go Yoon-sung became increasingly convinced that no one could touch him no matter what he did here.

Go Yoon-sung started doing crazy things, bringing suspicious drugs into his room through his aides and injecting them into the IV line in his arm.

Anyone who went in and out of Go Yoon-sung’s room could tell that he was having a hard time enduring his boring hospitalization.

Then one night, when Han Young-sun was on duty.

Once again, Han Young-sun was called to Go Yoon-sung’s room.

“Young-sun said she smelled alcohol on Go Yoon-sung that day.”

Seo Hye-jin recalled that Go Yoon-sung seemed to be not only drunk but also high on drugs.

That day, Go Yoon-sung told Han Young-sun to sit next to him and pour him a drink, and Han Young-sun, tired of being treated like that, finally raised her voice.

Go Yoon-sung was furious and slapped Han Young-sun across the face.

When the head nurse rushed to Go Yoon-sung’s room after hearing Han Young-sun’s cries that echoed through the ward in the middle of the night, Han Young-sun was thrown on Go Yoon-sung’s bed.

Go Yoon-sung’s hands were groping Han Young-sun’s body, and Seo Hye-jin lost her mind and rushed at Go Yoon-sung at that moment.

“It’s not just sexual harassment; it should be considered attempted rape.”

“Is that so? Haa… Anyway, when I made a fuss, the aides stopped me. But even they knew that if Go Yoon-sung touched Young-sun, things would get bigger… so they stopped Go Yoon-sung.”

After the situation was settled, it was 2 a.m.

The head nurse first calmed Han Young-sun down and sent her home, and said she was preparing to officially address the issue.

Go Yoon-sung, who noticed the head nurse’s movements, would have naturally had to prevent this from coming to the surface.

Go Yoon-sung’s lawyer came forward and demanded a settlement with Han Young-sun.

He said that Go Yoon-sung had made a mistake that day because he had too much to drink, and that it would never happen again.

He offered to pay a certain amount as a settlement, along with paid leave until he was discharged, if it was difficult for her to see Go Yoon-sung.

“Young-sun said she didn’t need any of that and would take the issue to the end. I was going to help Young-sun too. But in the end, this is what happened.”

Seo Hye-jin bitterly pointed to the name tag with the name of Byeolma Hospital on it.

“How is Han Young-sun doing now?”

“She’s lost her motivation. She’s young and promising, but she suddenly came here, so it’s understandable.”

“I see. I understand.”

“…”

“Um, I have just one question.”

“Yes.”

“Why are you telling us this story?”

When I asked, Kang Min-jae poked me in the waist.

I guess he wants to scold me for speaking without a cushion, but this is something that needs to be addressed clearly.

If Han Young-sun wants to make this public, I can help her as much as possible.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that we are helping each other rather than us helping her.

I can prove that Go Yoon-sung was admitted with a false diagnosis by listening to Seo Hye-jin’s testimony and Han Young-sun’s case.

And Han Young-sun can bring the buried case to the surface and make Go Yoon-sung be punished.

However, all of this depends on Han Young-sun’s will.

Didn’t Seo Hye-jin say that Han Young-sun had lost her motivation?

Forcing such a person to stand in court is not a comfortable thing to do.

It feels like forcibly using Han Young-sun’s painful case to prove Oh Sang-hyun’s innocence.

“I want the world to know what Go Yoon-sung did to Young-sun. Even if the world knows that Go Yoon-sung is a thug, he’s still Go Sang-jun’s son anyway. He’ll get a good job at the company and live well.”

“That’s probably true.”

“But even so, no matter how rich his family is, he shouldn’t be able to treat people like this. Shouldn’t he have to go through at least half of the mental anguish that Young-sun went through?”

Seo Hye-jin asked with a choked voice.

Her eyes were red.

I know how she feels.

It’s hard to know exactly what it feels like to be trampled on by them unless you’ve experienced it yourself.

If you directly feel how lightly they think of our lives and personalities, the humiliation is indescribable.

Oh Sang-hyun, who was assaulted and suffered injuries requiring seven weeks of recovery just for pointing out Go Yoon-sung’s mistake, and Han Young-sun, who was sexually harassed just because she had an appearance that Go Yoon-sung liked, must have felt the same way.

“We would be happy if Han Young-sun could find the courage, but we can’t force her.”

“I know what you mean. Haa, well… I’ll try to persuade Young-sun. And even if I can’t persuade Young-sun, I’ll testify in court that Go Yoon-sung isn’t sick at all. Even if it’s not about Young-sun’s case, I have to see Go Yoon-sung pay the price no matter what. I’ll see if there’s any evidence besides the testimony.”

Seo Hye-jin clenched her trembling hands.

I could read her strong will to see Go Yoon-sung fall no matter what.

“Thank you.”

Although we cannot be sure with Seo Hye-jin’s testimony alone, if Han Young-sun’s case is added, we can definitely reveal that Go Yoon-sung’s eight-week diagnosis is false.

Then we can overturn Go Yoon-sung’s claim that Oh Sang-hyun injured him.

But our task was not only that.

We also have to prove that Oh Sang-hyun was assaulted by Go Yoon-sung.

“We’ll be on our way now. Please talk to Han Young-sun and contact us at the number on the business card.”

Kang Min-jae bowed his head, and Seo Hye-jin also stood up and bowed her head with him.

“I hope your client can clear his name as soon as possible.”

“We have to try to make that happen.”

She followed us to the parking lot to see us off.

Kang Min-jae told her to go in quickly, but she insisted that it was only human nature to see us off since we had come all the way here.

“We’re really leaving!”

It was just as Kang Min-jae put his hand on the gear.

Seo Hye-jin, who seemed to be thinking about something, suddenly opened her mouth.

“Ah, lawyer.”

“Yes?”

“You should meet someone named Kim Eui-cheol.”

It was a sudden remark.

Kim Eui-cheol.

I think I’ve heard of him before.

“Don’t you know him? I think he was a construction worker there.”

“How do you know him, nurse?”

“He came to Go Yoon-sung’s room once. Everyone who came to see Go Yoon-sung was well-dressed, but I remember Kim Eui-cheol because he was a little shabby. I had his ID card at the time.”

A construction worker came to Go Yoon-sung’s room.

It definitely smells fishy.

“Thank you for the information. I’ll definitely look into it.”

“Okay, then drive carefully. I’ll contact you.”

The car started, and I immediately picked up the phone.

“Secretary Kim, find out who Kim Eui-cheol is among the workers at Oh Sang-hyun’s case site.”