Sister, Back-off From MY MAN - Chapter 153

Lee Myung Soo was in his study room, lost in deep thoughts.

He had to handle this whole scenario of handing over the Lee Conglomerate to Kiaraa very carefully without offending anyone.

First he needed to have the support of more than half the board members to pass this decision.

He therefore started unofficially meeting the board members, he have known for years and was sure they were loyal to him.

He started discussing his plans of retirement and making Kiaraa the next CEO.

This news didn’t stay under the wraps and soon reached Lee Min Seo and Lee Man Sik’s ears.

The two people were clearly upset after knowing what their brother was doing behind their backs as not once he discussed his retirement with them in spite of them being a part of the board.

So, quietly these two siblings too started going around meeting board members to gain their support for making Choi Hyuk the next CEO.

But things didn’t go as planned for them as many of the board members trusted Lee Myung Soo more and were planning to vote in Kiaraa’s favour.

The two siblings were clearly upset with the turn of events and went to their last resort, Song Ji Hun for advice.

Whenever these two encountered any problems, they always went to Song Ji Hun, who gave them feasible solutions and helped them out of it.

This time too they called for an urgent meeting and discussed this matter for hours with Song Ji Hun.

After this meeting the two siblings felt much better and were now confident.

Once they left, Song Ji Hun secretly contacted Lee Myung Soo and requested him for a meeting.

For some reason, Song Ji Hun requested Chu Yu Ri’s presence too confusing Lee Myung Soo but he complied with this request.

Song Ji Hun, Lee Myung Soo and Chu Yu Ri had a secret meeting where the updates from Song Ji Hun surprised both wife and husband.

“What is all this Myung Soo?” A clearly terrified Chu Yu Ri asked her husband.

“I’ll explain everything later, calm down” Lee Myung Soo assured his wife then he and Song Ji Hun had a long discussion to solve the problem they encountered.

It took hours for the two men to come up with a solid plan.

After discussing everything in length they solidified their plan.

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A month later

Kiaraa was in the middle of a meeting when suddenly her office receptionist barged inside the conference room.

“What the hell is going on?” Kiaraa annoyedly looked at her receptionist.

“I am sorry, ma’am, but the news is like that” The receptionist, who looked like something terrible happened, handed over a cordless phone to Kiaraa.

Kiaraa casually took the phone to speak unknown to what was going to crash on her.

“Hello” Kiaraa spoke.

“K…ki…araa” A sobbing voice was heard from the other end of the phone.

Kiaraa recognised her grandpa’s voice, which was clearly shaken.

“Grandpa, what happened?” Kiaraa stood up from seat and headed outside to the gallery.

“Com..e ho..me imm..edia..tely” Grandpa continued crying.

“Grandpa, will you please tell me what happened?” Kiaraa worriedly asked but grandpa couldn’t take it anymore so he hung up on her.

Kiaraa rushed out of her office and saw her driver already waiting outside the building with the car.

“What happened?” She asked him.

“Ma’am let’s first go home” The driver too tried to compose himself as he had to be strong right now.

Kiaraa didn’t question him any further and calmly sat behind wondering what suddenly happened.

Similarly, at Aera’s work place, Aera was shooting for a kdrama when suddenly Song Ji Hwan arrived there and had some word with the director of the show.

The next moment, the shoot was suddenly cancelled and the director decided to shoot scenes of other actors for now and asked Aera to leave with Hwan.

Aera was confused with this scenario and she didn’t understand what’s going on.

“Aera, there is some emergency at home. We need to go” Song Ji Hwan informed her.

“What emergency? Is everything alright?” Aera worriedly asked him as never before Song Ji Hwan approached her like this.

“Yeah, please come with me.” Song Ji Hwan was not sure how to give her the bad news so he decided to directly take her home first.

“Song Ji Hwan, you are scaring me” Aera, looked terrified seeing the gloomy expression on Hwan’s face.

“Don’t be scared, everything is alright, hmm?” Song Ji Hwan lovingly stroked her hair and tried to look as normal as possible.

“Then why is my shoot cancelled?” Aera was still not convinced by his words.

“I will tell you everything, let’s go home first” Song Ji Hwan patiently requested her and she agreed.

During the whole journey they both were calm.

Aera wondered what was going on and Song Ji Hwan was worried how will Aera and Kiaraa would react after they get the news.

When Kiaraa reached her home, she saw another car arrive there, which was of Song Ji Hwan’s

They coincidentally arrived at the same time.

“What are you doing here in the middle of the day?” Kiaraa asked Aera as she was aware her sister is busy with her shooting.

“Hwan brought me here” Aera answered her sister.

“What the hell is going on, Hwan? Will someone tell me?” Kiaraa lost her patience and freaked out.

“Kiaraa” Ian rushed outside seeing Kiaraa finally arrive and called her name.

“Ian, what’s going on?” Kiaraa worriedly asked him.

Ian looked at Song Ji Hwan, who shook his head saying no implying he didn’t share the bad news with the girls yet.

Ian just held Kiaraa’s hand and walked towards the Lee Mansion while Song Ji Hwan did the same with Aera.

When both the girls reached the entrance of the door, they were confused seeing the whole scenario.

There were cops present at their home.

Grandpa Lee was crying uncontrollably while his two friends were consoling him, silently sobbing.

Their aunt Lee Min Seo was crying while their uncle Lee Man Sik was consoling his wife, who too was sobbing uncontrollably.

Kims and Songs were present there too. The women were crying while the men were having a word with the cops.

“What the hell is going on here?” Kiaraa shouted at everyone present there as fear slowly crawled into her heart.

“Kiaraa” Sa Da Hye immediately stepped towards Kiaraa and tightly hugged her.

“Aunt Da Hye, what’s going on?” Kiaraa was losing her patience.

“We found your parents’ car at a frequent accident location. The car is completely burnt and we found remains of your parents bodies in it” One of the cop, who could understand how difficult it is for family and friends to share this news, stepped ahead and informed Kiaraa and Aera of their parents’ death.

In that moment, both the girls received the shock of their lives, which shattered their worlds.

Aera couldn’t handle this shock and she lost consciousness. Song Ji Hwan, who was standing next to her, immediately caught her in his arms and carried her to the nearest guest bedroom.

While Kiaraa, stood still in a state of shock, as she couldn’t believe what she just heard.

Ian wrapped his arm around Kiaraa’s shoulder protectively and called her name.

“Are you sure about it? Is it verified?” Kiaraa asked the cops after composing herself.

“We have sent the remains we found for DNA testing. You and your sister need to visit the hospital so that we can verify for sure” one of the cops informed her.

Kiaraa almost lost her balance, hearing this and Ian held her tightly. He then helped her to the couch and made her sit there.

“Ms Lee, we can understand it is a big blow but we request your cooperation so that we can be sure” The same cop said but Kiaraa couldn’t hear anything else.

As if the world around her went mute, Kiaraa couldn’t hear anything anymore. She could see people talking and crying but none of those words reached her ears.

Slowly, the tears started flowing from Kiaraa’s eyes and unknown to her, she was crying uncontrollably.

Ian tightly hugged her, resting her head on his chest and stroked her head, trying to console her.

He knew no words are going to help Kiaraa feel better and the only thing he could do for her was to be there for her as her best friend.

Hugging Ian tightly, Kiaraa cried her heart out as her world shattered with the deaths of her parents.

Song Ji Hun, who was present there felt his heart wrench in pain, seeing Kiaraa cry.

This was the second time in his life he was seeing her in this state but this time her condition was much worse than the first time she cried in front of him.

Never in his life he felt as helpless as he felt now.. Seeing the love of his life shattered, and he couldn’t even do anything about it.