It's 2:30 a.m., and the exhausted man enters his home after a long time to solve this problem that came up out of nowhere.
He really hasn't slept in three days, consuming all his energy with his work and Kristen's illness.
He sighs heavily and slowly climbs the stairs. He swears he can barely carry himself. All he needs now is a long rest.
But how will he do that when his feet have stopped, as does his heartbeat, which has begun to increase as he's just a few steps away from their bedroom?!
He swallowed hard, taking a very slow step forward, perhaps what he was feeling wasn't right or was just an illusion from exhaustion.
The closer he got to their bedroom, the heavier his breathing became, especially when his ears caught the faint groans coming from her...!
He almost felt like he was going crazy, and a thousand scenarios were being conjured up in his mind. But a scene in his head told him that when he opened this door, he would be greeted by the sight of her...
cheating on him in his bed, just as she had sworn...!
His heart and every cell within him trembled with congestion at the dark thoughts his mind was weaving, resulting from those faint groans.
He couldn't even think of anything else. She certainly wasn't healing her wound with those groans, or else his heart wouldn't have ached for those groans coming from the room.
His hands trembled, in spite of himself, just like his heart, which never stopped beating violently, when he placed his hand on the doorknob.
He... He wasn't prepared for what he'd face when he opened this door. He swore his heart would die if she did what she'd been thinking from the start...!
He also swore he'd commit a crime if what he was thinking was true, but only!! He hoped she wouldn't do this to him!
He hoped every oath he'd sworn was unnecessary, that he was just exaggerating and that there was nothing wrong with what he was thinking.
But he closed his eyes tightly, squeezing them shut, then opened the door very slowly, and what he saw next...
It was the most disgusting thing he'd ever seen in his life.
Clothes were carelessly strewn on the floor, the dim lighting in the room giving off a romantic vibe.
And... and there, those groans coming from his wife became clear...!
His wife, whom he adored, was being slept with in his bedroom, on his bed.
She had done what she said with such skill and determination; she had betrayed him in a deeply painful way.
The feeling at that moment was indescribable because there was something deep inside him that she had broken.
Something that would never be the same again...!
"How damnable you are!"
Mere whispers from him made her heart tremble, as if the devil himself were standing in front of the bed, staring at her with his red eyes, like embers about to pounce on her to kill her.
But she didn't even show it. She didn't even care. Her eyes were very cold, and there was a gleam of victory within them.
It was as if she was saying to him, "See! Jeon did it!! I betrayed you just as you did me. I broke you just as you broke me, and even more!"
His eyes shifted from her to this person trying to escape by gathering the clothes of the man lying on the ground and saving his life from certain death...
He laughed... laughed as he saw him trying to escape from him as if he couldn't catch him even if he went to the seventh earth!
But believe me, his laughter was nothing short of ordinary!
His laughter was so terrifying that Kristen's body shuddered with terror as she clutched the blanket covering her body.
She did what she wanted, broke him, and took her revenge on him, but now she was facing the consequences of her betrayal of her husband, who was about to lose his mind.
"Are you cheating on me with a rat? A coward?"
He said madly, and she screamed loudly, covering her ear as he fired the bullet that struck the man's foot, followed by the sound of his screaming that shook the house.
And there were certainly two girls now terrified by that sound coming from Jeon's room.
This wasn't just a bullet he fired to quell his anger. He had gone mad, out of his mind, and rained down punches on the young man, disfiguring his face and body.
The young man had lost his energy to the point where he could no longer scream or push away this angry demon.
Every time Jeon imagined that rat touching his girl, his madness increased, crushing his bones in his hands, even after he felt the young man lose his breath in his arms...!
He hadn't just killed him, but had risked his life and career when she drove him to the point of madness, killing a person he didn't even know for her...!
Is there a man who can bear to see his wife cheating on him right in front of his eyes and think rationally about not killing them?
Kristen placed her hand firmly over her mouth, her body trembling in horror at what she had just witnessed.
She saw this demon in the form of her husband killing this young man who had just slept with her...!
She regretted it... and damn it, she regretted that thought that would make him kill her without batting an eyelid, and she swore by it.
He wouldn't even hesitate to kill her, as he did with this young man, covered in blood, a meter from the locked door of the room.
There was no one to rescue her from the volcanoes of his rage...!
Have we forgotten for a moment that her husband, who was approaching her very slowly, was deliberately toying with her nerves and psyche, as he had been doing for the past two days. He hated something called...
betrayal?
But despite his hatred of betrayal, he did it first! So why this violent reaction towards her now? Why is everything permissible to happen to him, while she burns in hell? Nothing is permissible for her without his permission?!
"I expected the worst from you, except for you to commit an unforgivable sin like this, my woman...!"
After everything she's done, she remains his woman, Jeon's woman, whom he will never forgive.
As soon as he had the time, he grabbed her hair forcefully, forcing her to get out of bed, despite her resistance and screaming as she tried to grab the blanket and cover her naked body.
"I told you before that I would betray you just as you betrayed me! And here I am, Jeon. You have no right to punish me! Rather, punish yourself first, because you're the one who forced me to do this to you."
She screamed with intense emotion, pushing him away with such force that it almost drove her crazy, until he responded with his own screams, which
terrified her.
-I didn't betray you, you crazy woman. I didn't betray you, damn it! ...!
He, in his intense excitement and nervous tension, grabbed the vase and, without realizing it, threw it at her forcefully, because his nerves were shattered, damn it.
Kristen didn't know how she'd managed to dodge that blow, or else she'd have been wiped out.
He advanced toward her at a speed that instilled fear in her heart even more than she was terrified. In a second, she was pressed against the wall so tightly that she felt her back shatter from his violence.
His fist wrapped around her neck, suffocating her between his hands until he finally satisfied her thirst, to the point that his hands left a deep bruise on her neck.
His red eyes never left her tearful ones as she struggled to catch her breath, but he truly didn't hold back, pressing harder until she felt her soul leaving her body.
"I should have killed you since I knew what you did. I should have handed you over to them without caring that you were my wife. You truly deserved to die, but I won't stain my hands with your blood."
His angry breaths, which he took violently and slammed into her flushed face from not getting enough oxygen, made her squirm in his arms, trying to push him away.
She could hardly believe that the one who said these killing words was not only cruel to her heart, but also her husband, Jeon!
But now the one she was calling her husband was a devil who still couldn't comprehend what she'd done and wanted to avenge his honor, which his wife had tarnished by her betrayal...!
"Don't forget who started all this, Jeon. Yes, I am very despicable, but you are no innocent angel, because you were even more despicable than me when you married me and presented me with a fait accompli. On top of that, you treated me cruelly without justification."
With anguish, she gasped after all the cruelty and violence she'd received from him, as if he were an angel and she was the one to blame for everything.
She literally found herself lying on the bed, trying to catch her breath in panic as he screamed madly, as if he'd lost his mind. And I mean him. He entered a state of shock that was no worse than the state he'd been in when he married another woman.
She made him lose the last shred of patience he had left, and he began to slam both hands against the balcony glass so hard that his hands bled, and the blood began to form threads on the glass. He was in a state of madness she'd never seen him in before.
"Everything I did was a plan by that damned woman I married. It was part of my mission. I didn't marry her willingly...!"
He was screaming and continuing to slam his hands against the glass, burning him. A fire seared his heart, and this scene replayed over and over again in his mind, worsening his condition.
What mission is he talking about? Was he really forced to marry her? She was so shocked she didn't know what to say!! Her tongue was so tied that she couldn't breathe.
He sat on the floor when he lost his temper, his energy running out, and his spirit was shattered and broken. He placed his head between his bloody hands, helpless, still unable to comprehend anything that had happened in those minutes that had once been hell for him.
How did he see his wife in such a dirty situation? How dare she do this to him? Did he break her to this extent when he punished her so that she would respond in kind?
"I don't understand! I don't understand anything."
Kristen gasped, unable to comprehend what he had said. Her mind had stopped processing what he had said. None of this was as she had imagined! This wasn't the reason she had imagined for his wife.
After all this screaming and anger, silence reigned in the room. He put his head in his hands, while she stared into nothingness, trying to comprehend the truths he was saying...!
And also, there was a dead man in the room with them! She could barely hold herself together so as not to collapse from all the shocks that rained down on her, one after the other.
"You didn't understand what? You didn't understand that the reason for my marriage was because of your mission? You certainly won't understand that because of you, I didn't tell you anything despite my intense desire to tell you. But you surprised me by betraying me again and stabbing me in the back since you left for work, which is six months since what you did!"
His red eyes didn't move, even as she sat on the floor, completely helpless, like him, trying to comprehend all the shocks he was telling her.
How was he able to turn the tables on her and reveal truths she didn't know about? Did he know what she had done six months ago? Did he see the video? Because that's the only thing that explains his cruel treatment of her!
But she swears she no longer understands or comprehends anything.
"It seems you've forgotten the treachery and betrayal you committed against me for the sake of his beloved brother and your family! Did you even burn down the farm to protect them? Did you even kill five police officers to protect Amir?"
He laughed mockingly, feeling his soul turn to ash from the sheer treachery and betrayal he now feels because of her...!
Was she truly broken when he treated her cruelly? Didn't he feel his brokenness when he learned of her treachery and breaking her promise to him while he wasn't even around!
Why does she always forget her mistakes and blame him for everything that happens to them?!
"I... as... I was."
She whispered, unable to justify anything she'd done. Her eyes filled with tears that she felt ashamed to even shed. She couldn't even look at him the way he did to her!!"
"Did they force you?" What did they force you to do, Kristen? To kill my sister too? Or me?
He gripped his hair tightly, his blood-red eyes beginning to hurt from the constant tears welling up in them.
The grief and regret he felt inside him were beyond belief he would ever recover from.
"Okay, let me tell you a short, sad story. A prince came to you and asked you to help them smuggle antiquities out of the country without anyone noticing. Just swapping bags wouldn't hurt you. You were a loyal wife to him, but you refused his offer until he beat you, abused you, and forced you to do what he wanted. Out of fear, you changed your mind and agreed just two weeks after I left, Kristen. Two weeks later, you helped your brother smuggle antiquities out of the country three times without the police even noticing. Bravo, you've amazed me!"
He was clapping at her mockingly, and believe me, he was clapping so violently, it seemed as if he could tear her soul out with his own hands just to satisfy her, even a little.
He couldn't express anything except mockery because he couldn't believe what a heinous act she had committed against him. Just so she would tell him if she saw him cheating on her like she did!
What she did couldn't possibly have been normal! And he wasn't a crazy person to destroy his own home with his own hands. He wanted to punish her harshly and then confront her later, but she was the one who gave him a surprise he'd never forget.