Chapter 226

After Joo Su-yeon's sobbing — as she was dragged off like someone being thrown out with her bags still in her hands — had finally faded from Jaedamjae.

In the annex, where only a heavy stillness had settled, Joo Su-deok sat buried in the dark, scrubbing roughly at his face with both hands.

"Hah……"

A strangled sigh hissed out between his teeth.

No matter how much irritation he spat out, the feeling that had sunk down into him wouldn't fade so easily.

If anything, a scorching restlessness kept rising, climbing all the way up to his throat.

Just when, exactly, had everything gone wrong?

It wasn't only today's incident that had started shaking his footing.

Not long ago, there had been his plan to quietly win over his father's personal physician, hoping to somehow overturn the whole arrangement of succession.

Whether that had leaked somehow, or whether the doctor had…