Bad X Bad: My Dear Hana - Chapter 84

“It’s delicious.”

Ahn Hana laughs. “Everyone told me that my cooking skills are horrible.”

“Not to me.” Yi Hwan drinks the coffee with relish. “I can eat anything that you make.”

“Oppa loves me that much.” She grins at him. Seeing her like this, he is dying to take her right there. However, the phone’s ringtone interrupts him before he can take any action. His wife is calling. Anger flashes in his eyes once before he picks up the call. But his voice doesn’t indicate his mood.

“Ji Hye, you are awake.”

[When are you coming home?]

“I will come back after a while.” He pauses and glances at Ahn Hana who is staring at him with sorrow in her eyes. “I will talk to you later.”

He hangs up right away. “My dear, don’t bother your heart because of her. I promise that I will take care of her soon.”

“I trust you.” She sighs and looks away. “When will I see our daughter?”

“I will bring her when I come back.” He strokes her head softly. “Stay here while I am gone.”

“Okay.” She wraps her arms around her knees. “I will wait for you here.”

Im Jihoon doesn’t go to his house first. His wife must have already gone to work. He needs to sort out everything as he planned before beginning his new life with Ahn Hana. He takes a day off from his work and goes to the place where he has hidden their daughter.

He couldn’t regularly visit Ahn Hana when she hid away from him. But, he has paid some people to keep eyes on her. When she returned, he took a short trip to bring their daughter back. He has hidden her with a live-in nanny at one of the cheap apartments he brought after selling all of his adopted parents’ properties.

He is shocked beyond words when he arrives at the place. There are cops’ cars. From the distance, he sees Do Sejin holding Ha-Neul. He curses and turns around the car. Ahn Hana has betrayed him.

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“How did you find out about this place?” The detective asks him suspiciously.

“I received a mail.” Do Sejin shows him. After watching the recording five times, he could only make out one word that Ahn Hana mouthed to him when she stared at the camera. ‘Wait’

He has been waiting. When he was about to call the detective in the morning, he received a mail from an unknown sender with this address. He has been suspicious of it. It could be another one of her tricks. Still, he decided to take a chance and came here. He didn’t see her here. When he was about to leave, a woman came out with a baby in her arms. Do Sejin found it odd. He went to the woman to ask some questions. She told him that the owner was not here. Do Sejin looked at the baby girl. She was 6-7 months old. There was something about her. Out of curiosity, he asked about the name of the child.

‘Ha-Neul’

It was too big of a coincidence. He called the cops right away. The woman was scared witless. She told the cops that she had seen the owner who came to watch the child frequently around evening. She was hired through an agency. There was everything provided at the home. She would receive weekly payments directly in her bank. The cops were also suspicious because of the name of the child and the unusual circumstances.

“Hong Yi Hwan.” That’s all she knows. “I don’t know anything else.”

Do Sejin is startled to hear that name. When he investigated, there was a boy called Hong Yi Hwan who was the son of one of the closest friend of Ahn Hana’s mother. However, the family died in an accident. So, he scratched that name from the list. Is it that Hong Yi Hwan never died?

The second mail arrives a little while after Im Jihoon turns around his car. Do Sejin’s breath is taken away when he reads the content. In the mail, there are pieces of evidence against Im Jihoon and how his identity has been switched with Hong Yi Hwan. Did Ahn Hana investigate this after she met in the hospital that day? Where she is now?