You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 364

[…In court today, a recording was presented revealing that the president of a securities firm and the president of a credit card company, who are brothers, broke into Kim Hwa-young’s villa and assaulted Mr. Park, who was resting there. The recording also detailed how Mr. Park, while fleeing from them, lost his footing, hit his head, and died. Furthermore, it shockingly revealed that they conspired to frame Kim Hwa-young for the crime.]

Clang!

No sooner had the anchor’s voice finished than a porcelain vase shattered on the floor, sending fragments flying in all directions.

“Chairman!”

A chief secretary, who had been watching, rushed to Go Sang-jun, but Go Sang-jun ignored him. He approached his two sons, who stood with their hands clasped and heads bowed, and slapped them across the face.

Smack! Smack! Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok’s cheeks turned to the side.

They straightened their posture, but Go Sang-jun kicked them in the shins, shouting,

“You sons of bitches! There’s a limit to how much you can disgrace your father!”

“…….”

“Are you letting Cha Joo-han smear dirt on your father’s face again? You?!”

No one could stop Go Sang-jun as he shouted, his face flushed red.

Go Yoon-sung was already imprisoned, and now Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok would follow the same path.

Of course, he planned to hire the best legal team to prevent that from happening, but that was a problem for later.

The media had not yet uttered the name Wooshin, only referring to it as a major corporation, but everyone already knew, even if they couldn’t say it.

Because Wooshin was the only major corporation where the president of the securities firm and the president of the credit card company were brothers.

He couldn’t even hold his head up in public, nor could he release a statement to plead his innocence.

Because there was too much conclusive evidence.

Now, the forensic results from the second trial and the suspicion that the brick found in the garden was planted would spread like wildfire.

Preventing that would not be easy either.

Moreover, he couldn’t reveal his affair with Kim Hwa-young to the world, so they had to figure out how to explain why they had entered Kim Hwa-young’s house in the first place.

It was a desperate situation.

The funny thing was that all of this was happening entirely at the hands of Cha Joo-han.

“Cha Joo-han, Cha Joo-han, how long do I have to watch that bastard run wild!”

Go Sang-jun exclaimed.

He should have just killed him.

He thought he could take care of him along with Lee Jung-chan to prevent him from ever rising again, but that wasn’t the case.

He should have killed him alongside Lee Jung-chan.

If it weren’t for Cha Joo-han, he wouldn’t be in this mess!

“The limit has been reached for covering up for you just because you’re my sons. You figure out how to survive on your own. How long does your old father have to clean up the messes you make? Useless bastards!”

“Father, Father, no! Please save me! Please, Father…….”

At Go Sang-jun’s words, Go Yoon-ho knelt at his feet and clung to him.

Go Yoon-seok, watching, did the same.

“I told you, don’t try to hide anything from your father! If you’re going to hide something, hide it properly! But you couldn’t even control your subordinates properly, couldn’t even hide the death of the butler properly, and you brought the situation to this point. What more should your father do for you? Huh? What more mercy should your father show you!”

Go Sang-jun first learned about Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok’s misdeeds from the employee who managed security at the Jo Yeon-dong safe house.

Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok had bribed the security manager to get a card key and enter the safe house.

After committing the crime and burying the body in the house, they contacted the employee again to have all CCTV records of their appearance at the safe house deleted.

Of course, they also entrusted the employee with cleaning up the crime scene.

So, until then, Go Sang-jun had no idea what Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok had done.

He had been too busy those few days to pay attention to the safe house or Kim Hwa-young.

Then, a few days later, he received a report that the butler’s whereabouts were unknown and a missing person report had been filed. Even when he reviewed the CCTV footage, he didn’t know anything.

Everything was revealed when the security employee, frightened by the fact that he had been booked by the police, went to Go Sang-jun and confessed the truth.

“Father, I was wrong. I will never, ever try to hide anything from you again. I know you have shown us mercy. I will never cross the line again. Never, ever again…….”

Go Yoon-ho began to beg.

When Go Sang-jun first learned about this incident, he was more furious about the fact that they had tried to pry into his private life and had tried to hide something from him than about the fact that the butler had died.

Therefore, the direction of their apology should be that they had a great sense of guilt for daring to challenge their father’s authority.

They knew their father better than anyone.

Go Sang-jun was a heartless man.

The only reason he overlooked their actions was because they were his children.

“I was worried that you would divorce Mother. I was worried that Mother would be left alone… We are lacking in many ways and need the big shadow of our father, but I was afraid that all of that would disappear… I was afraid that you would abandon us, Father. Please forgive me just once. Please give us one more chance.”

“I don’t believe you. You were the ones who were trying to corner Kim Hwa-young behind my back while I was trying to clean up the mess you made! If you really knew you had committed a crime, you should have stayed quiet! Don’t you know that everything is in this mess because of you?”

“Father, I was really wrong. I was scared. Really… I was scared that our family would fall apart…….”

“You idiot!”

Go Sang-jun kicked Go Yoon-seok, who was prostrate on the floor, and shouted.

“Even so, to think that your father would abandon your mother and go to Kim Hwa-young… Is that something you should be thinking about at your age! Where did you leave your brains!”

“I didn’t know any better, Father… Please, please forgive me. And please save us…….”

Go Sang-jun sat down on the sofa, holding his forehead.

The two brothers, who had been kneeling in the spot where he had thrown the porcelain vase, begged with their hands and feet, not even realizing that their knees were torn and bleeding.

“Yoon-soo, what should I do with these moronic sons?”

Go Sang-jun sighed and looked at his eldest son, who was sitting quietly.

“Aside from Yoon-ho and Yoon-seok doing stupid things… You should stop watching Cha Joo-han act like he’s so great.”

At Go Yoon-soo’s words, Go Sang-jun kicked the table irritably.

Go Yoon-soo was right.

Cha Joo-han was probably thinking that this was just the beginning.

He was probably racking his brains to figure out how to use cheap media to completely destroy Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok.

“I don’t want to see Cha Joo-han running wild like that either, Father.”

Go Yoon-soo had also lost Chief Sung, whom he had used like a limb, to Cha Joo-han.

Even though he had been so careful, he had eventually been caught during the Lee Jung-chan case, and Cha Joo-han had not let go, eventually forcing him to cut off the tail [sacrificing an underling to protect oneself].

If he didn’t stop him here, Cha Joo-han would continue to advance and keep bothering Wooshin.

A puppy not knowing how scary a tiger is…….

“Tell Tae-gwang Yoon Won-hyung to meet me.”

Go Sang-jun said in a tired voice.

Yoon Won-hyung had initially heard about Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok’s case and said that if their criminal facts were revealed along with any evidence that might exist, it would be difficult to receive a suspended sentence or acquittal.

No matter how skilled he was, in this situation, they should think about serving their time in prison as sentenced.

But he couldn’t send three of his sons to prison at the hands of Cha Joo-han.

Go Sang-jun gritted his teeth.

* * *

“Hyungs [older brothers/male colleagues], how have you been?”

Kang Min-jae entered the studio with a coffee carrier in front of him, shouting energetically.

Jo Bong-joon and Choi Jong-hyun, who were busy preparing for the broadcast, turned at the sound of his voice and shouted,

“Hey, Min-jae! Long time no see!”

“Our Min-jae has grown taller in the meantime.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? How old do you think I am?”

“It’s been a long time, man.”

“But am I the only one it’s been a long time for? Isn’t it a long time for Attorney Cha too?”

Kang Min-jae put down the carrier and handed a coffee to Kim Jung-woo, who was checking the audio before the broadcast, and asked.

Then, Choi Jong-hyun looked at me with displeasure and snorted, saying,

“I went to his house a while ago and he kicked me out. He’s really heartless, that guy.”

“I was trying to rest after the trial, but you suddenly barged in.”

“Yeah, we’re clueless guys. We were just happy to see Attorney Cha after a long time. He really doesn’t understand people’s feelings. Anyway, Min-jae. I’ll enjoy the coffee.”

As Choi Jong-hyun reached for the coffee, Kang Min-jae stopped his hand.

“What is this? You guys saw each other without me knowing? The day the trial ended?”

“Ah… we suddenly went to Attorney Cha’s house.”

“You didn’t come to my house!”

“Hey, man. How can we hang around in front of the former president’s house!”

“Still! And if you had told me you were planning to hang around in front of the lawyer’s house, I wouldn’t have gone home and would have hung around with you!”

“We didn’t talk about anything special.”

At my words, Kang Min-jae handed out coffee to Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon with a sulky face and asked.

“What did you talk about?”

“Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok’s motive.”

“……What, you talked about something really important! What’s the motive! Why don’t I know!”

“I was going to tell you today.”

“Why am I always late to the synchronization! You guys are really too much…….”

Kang Min-jae pouted and sat at the conference table, sipping his coffee.

He had just asked how old I thought he was, but he was acting like an elementary school student.

“Well, the promised broadcast time is up, shouldn’t we do the broadcast first?”

At Kim Jung-woo’s question, Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon nodded and sat in front of the camera.

I had only come to watch because they said they were going to cover this case, but we couldn’t make them late.

“So, what’s the motive?”

As Kang Min-jae lowered his head and whispered to me, Kim Jung-woo noticed like a ghost and turned around, saying,

“The sound is all going in.”

“Okay.”

Because I had been busy, I hadn’t been able to watch their broadcasts, so it had been a long time since I had come to the studio like this.

In fact, I only paid close attention to their broadcasts when they covered cases I was in charge of, but mostly I didn’t watch them.

In the meantime, Choi Jong-hyun had been busy covering whether there were any Wooshin-related projects, and Jo Bong-joon had been doing stock-related broadcasts, but now that they had something new to say, they must be very excited.

“Do you want to watch the chat on my phone?”

Kang Min-jae said, turning on the broadcast on his phone.

“There are a lot of people?”

“I guess it’s because the announcement said we’d be talking about Kim Hwa-young.”

Saying that, Kang Min-jae showed the broadcast announcement that had been posted on the broadcasting station today.

[Title: Broadcasting today

Hey guys, broadcasting today

The topic is, of course, the story of the brothers who are the presidents of a securities firm and a credit card company.

In addition to that, it seems like there will be a broadcast about the dirty behavior of the media clinging to this case and stories from the trial

Of course, we didn’t go to the trial (couldn’t get a ticket lol) but we still heard a lot from various sources.

I hope a lot of you come to watch

See you at 6:30 PM~~~]

The purpose of this broadcast is to inform people how many loopholes there were in the evidence prepared by the prosecution in this second trial.

There was a witness I refuted in court, but it would be good to point out the brick that was submitted as evidence and the fingerprint issue of the Go Yoon-ho and Go Yoon-seok brothers that the National Forensic Service medical examiner did not mention.

Although the details of the trial have already been reported in detail in articles, there has been no case where the story has been told with a sense of realism, so it is expected that a lot of attention will be paid to this broadcast.

After showing the announcement, Kang Min-jae turned the screen back to the chat window.

[BongjunHairPotato: When are you coming

DokdoIsOurLand: My brain is pickled in Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-joon… I wish you would broadcast more often…

OpenMind: Come quickly]

“I’ll go in.”

With Kim Jung-woo’s words, the figures of Jo Bong-joon and Choi Jong-hyun were shown on the screen.

“Hello, everyone.”

“Hello. Hello. There are 5,000 people. That’s a lot. Hello.”

[Boy: hi

Pakkumi: hi

MagicalPrincessJonghyun: hi

ChimpanzeeBreedingGround: hi]

“People only come to these kinds of broadcasts. It’s not easy to fill a thousand people normally.”

“Which is more interesting, your stock broadcast or these issue broadcasts? Think before you speak, Bong-joon.”

“Damn, really? Guys, is my stock broadcast not interesting? It’s a broadcast full of information where milk and honey flow?”

[MagicalPrincessJonghyun: ㅇㅇ Not fun

Don’tBeScared: People who don’t do stocks don’t find it fun ㅇㅇ

HeyHey: I’m watching it with interest

PerfectPerson: 90 percent of the people watching this broadcast are watching it because of the issue, not because of your boring stock story]

“I’m so hurt that I don’t want to broadcast.”

“Stop talking nonsense and let’s start. Okay, the topic we’re going to cover this time. If we say the Kim Hwa-young case, everyone can understand it easily, but in fact, Kim Hwa-young is a victim. Because it’s a case where she was unfairly framed, I think it might be somewhat violent to Kim Hwa-young to keep mentioning her name. So I thought about a new name to call it. PD-nim [Producer], please put up the image.”

[The Chaebol Brothers Murder Case]