You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 363

“We know the motive, but do you see anything else now?”

At Jo Bong-joon’s question, I crossed my arms and pondered.

I had cleared Kim Hwa-young’s name, but questions still lingered.

1. Why couldn’t Go Sang-joon prevent Kim Hwa-young’s indictment, even though he could have?

Previously, I thought Kim Hwa-young was chosen as a target instead of Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok, possibly to pressure her for some reason.

But looking back, if Kim Hwa-young took an independent path like this time, the risk would be too great.

If I had persuaded Kim Hwa-young to reveal the affair, and everything came to light during the trial, Go Sang-joon would suffer a significant loss.

2. Why didn’t Iljung Daily prevent the article about Kim Hwa-young from being published?

3. What did Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok want from the butler that they resorted to violence?

These are the three main questions.

Now that I know the motives of Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok, I think the first and second questions can be sufficiently explained.

“It seems Go Sang-joon couldn’t stop the indictment because Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok pressured the prosecution to indict her.”

The existing evidence against Kim Hwa-young was insufficient for an indictment.

Taekwang even used it for media play.

Go Sang-joon, upon receiving the report of the indictment, probably thought she would be acquitted in court.

Anyway, with his sons killing someone and causing chaos in the family, he wouldn’t have had time to worry about Kim Hwa-young.

This explains why the truth test showed that he genuinely intended to save Kim Hwa-young when I used my ability on him.

He really intended to save Kim Hwa-young.

Until Kim Hwa-young came to me.

“Those bastards only learned the bad things from their dad and pressured the prosecution?”

Choi Jong-hyun scoffed in disbelief.

Hwang Young-chan would have had no reason to refuse Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok’s request.

Perhaps, at this point, which might be his last in the Central District Prosecutor’s Office, he wanted to successfully carry out the order and hold onto a connection that might be severed.

Although Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok were not powerful enough to inherit the entire management rights of the company after Go Sang-joon’s death, it would have felt like a hard-earned opportunity for Hwang Young-chan, who had repeatedly failed to execute the instructions from Wooshin.

Go Sang-joon was trying to cover up his sons’ madness, while Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok were taking advantage of their father’s distraction to achieve their own goals.

“Then what about the article in Iljung Daily?”

At Jo Bong-joon’s question, Choi Jong-hyun replied.

“It’s possible that Go Yoon-ho, Go Yoon-seok, and even Yoon Sung-hee collaborated to make it happen.”

“That’s right. If his daughter and grandchildren came and pleaded with him because he might get divorced due to Kim Hwa-young, Go Sang-joon’s request to prevent the article from being published wouldn’t be well-received.”

“In the end, it’s kind of funny, but Go Sang-joon was the only one ostracized in this case.”

“Go Sang-joon was worried about his sons’ crimes being revealed, and he was racking his brain trying to figure out how to appease Kim Hwa-young, making sure she didn’t find out anything or go astray. Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok, seeing that the situation was already irreversible, decided to get rid of Kim Hwa-young at this opportunity, secretly plotting behind their father’s back. Yoon Sung-hee also went along with her sons because she hated Kim Hwa-young.”

Choi Jong-hyun shook his head, grimacing as if he was fed up.

“How can someone who can’t even manage his own family be the head of such a large company like Wooshin? Doesn’t that make sense to you?”

“I know, right? All his children are thugs. Go Yoon-sung is in jail right now.”

“Wow, how would it feel to have three children in jail? It’s a relief that the other children are okay.”

“We don’t know about that. They might be some other crazy bastards we don’t know about.”

Now, the only remaining question is the third one.

Why did they assault the butler?

According to Byun Seung-min, they demanded something from the butler, and the assault began when he refused.

What did they demand?

The easiest thing to assume is that they were trying to make the butler their eyes and ears.

They might have wanted to find out how often Go Sang-joon and Kim Hwa-young met and what they talked about, to see if Go Sang-joon was really trying to divorce Yoon Sung-hee.

But if that were the case, would they have assaulted the butler like that?

They wouldn’t have known that the butler would die from the assault, and they couldn’t have failed to realize that if Go Sang-joon found out they had assaulted the butler, he would also know that they were trying to make the butler a spy.

Well, maybe they simply thought that if they resorted to violence, the butler would eventually get scared and obey them.

They might have thought that if they threatened to tell Go Sang-joon, the butler would be afraid and wouldn’t do it.

The truth about this part is impossible to know since the person involved has already died and no one heard it.

Unless Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok say it themselves.

“Cha, what are you thinking so hard about?”

Jo Bong-joon, who had been lying on my sofa, wiggled his toes and looked at me.

I sighed.

“I was thinking that the two of you should leave now. Go away, now.”

I got up from my seat and pulled Jo Bong-joon up.

“We came after a long time.”

“So what? Go away. I’m going to sleep now.”

“If you’re going to sleep, sleep. We’ll entertain ourselves and leave.”

It took a full 30 minutes to kick them out.

* * *

The place I agreed to meet Park Young-gi was a Chinese restaurant.

I chose a place I had never been to before, away from the prying eyes of the Central District Prosecutor’s Office and our office.

When I gave my name at the entrance, the employee guided me to a private room.

“You’re here?”

Park Young-gi seemed to have been there for a while, as more than half of the peanuts in the dish in front of him were gone.

I unconsciously checked the time.

I arrived about 5 minutes early for the appointment, but he must have arrived even earlier.

“I came early. I thought the traffic might be bad.”

Park Young-gi gestured for me to sit across from him, and I sat down, taking off my coat and placing it next to me.

“You look good.”

“Are you talking about me?”

“Who else would I be talking about here besides Attorney Cha?”

“I didn’t think I looked any different than usual.”

“No, you look good. You led a big case well, so of course you should look good. Ah, should we order first? Looking at the menu, this second course looks good. Should we go with this?”

“Yes.”

After ordering, Park Young-gi put the peanuts in front of him into his mouth and sighed deeply.

“A bomb went off in the Central District Prosecutor’s Office. The criminal division guys are all in a frenzy. They have no idea who to assign it to, and they’re at a loss.”

Park Young-gi groaned.

“They need to be put in this time. Go Yoon-seok, Go Yoon-ho.”

“Of course, they have to be put in. Attorney Cha, you even brought the decisive evidence, so how can we just let this pass?”

“Do you have any prosecutors in mind?”

“It’s not a situation where I can decide comfortably. But I need to choose someone with a backbone who won’t be influenced. And I’ll manage it directly.”

If I don’t properly exclude them this time, I’ll have to think of a way to get rid of them again.

I plan to cut off Go Sang-joon’s limbs one by one.

This time, I was lucky that they gave me an opening first, but it was something I had to do anyway.

Starting with Go Yoon-sung, the last target will probably be Go Yoon-soo, who will inherit Wooshin’s management rights.

And the last one is Go Sang-joon.

“But I didn’t know this case would go to Attorney Cha. I was so surprised when I first heard the news. Kim Hwa-young was originally receiving a lawyer from Taekwang.”

Park Young-gi didn’t seem to know how Kim Hwa-young and Go Sang-joon were connected at all.

When the case was first filed, he probably only paid a little attention because he thought it was just a case involving a celebrity, and Park Young-gi didn’t pay much attention to it.

Only when I took on the case did he pay attention.

It’s clear that he doesn’t know any of the details.

Of course, there’s a possibility that even Hwang Young-chan doesn’t know what kind of relationship Kim Hwa-young has with Go Sang-joon.

But as the investigation into Go Yoon-seok and Go Yoon-ho progresses, there may come a moment when that fact naturally comes to light.

If the investigation is conducted properly, such traces will inevitably be revealed.

“Chief.”

“Huh?”

“Kim Hwa-young is having an affair with Go Sang-joon.”

“…What?”

“It seems that the investigation wasn’t done properly, or someone intentionally hid it, so you don’t know that fact…”

“How badly did these bastards do the investigation?”

“Go Sang-joon told Taekwang to take care of it, trusting and leaving it to them, and then he found out all the facts, and Kim Hwa-young came to me.”

I told Park Young-gi about what had happened.

Kim Hwa-young did well in court, but I heard that she is still unstable because she is afraid of the way people look at her.

In the investigation led by Hwang Young-chan, the affair was hidden to cover up Go Sang-joon’s weaknesses, but this time, to protect Kim Hwa-young, the reporting about them must be prevented.

And Park Young-gi has the power to do that.

He needs to know in advance.

“…So that’s what happened.”

Park Young-gi clicked his tongue as if he felt sorry for her.

She was clearly a victim of sexual bribery.

The years she lived in hiding, thinking that Go Sang-joon was her whole life, were not her will either.

It was a kind of hypnosis that Go Sang-joon had instilled in her.

Even if their relationship is revealed to the world, people will not pay attention to such circumstances and will dismiss it with a single word: ‘In the end, she was just a mistress.’

Kim Hwa-young will become a villain in an instant, and Yoon Sung-hee will become a living Buddha who endured and abandoned her husband’s affair.

Even if the time comes to reveal this fact to the world, it is not now.

This is definitely not the time, as it hasn’t been long since Kim Hwa-young shed the frame of being a murderer.

“I understand what Attorney Cha is saying. I’ll take care of it, so don’t worry too much. I need to entrust it to someone who keeps their mouth shut. Indictment for assault and manslaughter… But the good thing is that this case has become a matter of great interest.”

They publicized it to corner Kim Hwa-young, but now, on the contrary, the eyes watching have increased as the real culprit has been revealed, which is acting unfavorably on Wooshin’s side.

If Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok get probation or are acquitted even after committing such acts, the public will be outraged.

There is also irrefutable evidence, and if it goes to court as it is, they will not be able to dream of acquittal or probation.

Even if it’s not as much as Go Yoon-sung, they’ll have to live to some extent [serve jail time].

“But it will take several months to get the sentences for Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok, is Kim Hwa-young okay?”

“I’ll have to keep an eye on her. But since she’s been cleared of the false charges, I think she’ll feel somewhat relieved.”

“I don’t usually say people are pitiful, but Kim Hwa-young’s life has been too difficult. I hope she gets better.”