Chapter 53 - Its been a while (1/2)

Her parents' house, abandoned and dusty, shows an unforgettable story of a happy family. He walks around the house. There is a picture of her with Ji-Won and a white furry dog. She is grinning ear to ear and pulling up Ji-Won's ponytail with her right hand. The dog is ŀɨċkɨnġ her chin in the picture. She looks happy here.

In another picture, she is standing between her parents with a high school diploma. They are looking at her proudly. Her parents took pictures of every stage of her life until she went to university. Birthdays. Many pictures with family and friends. Bicycle rides. Pouting. Grinning. Angry. Puffy cheeks. Reading her father cases. Dozing off on the dinner table. Many moments.

Ahn Hana seems like a different person before her parents were murdered.

In the previous year, Do Sejin had visited it a lot of time to find any clue. But, he feels that he will find something here. Anything. A clue to that man.

That man murdered her parents when she was 21. The reason? Hana had ȧssumed that he wanted to change her. He didn't have any hand in the accident, meaning that he didn't want her to die. He might have wanted to take her life with his hand. She might have been his first target. But, there was something else that he wanted from her.

Changing her was more important to him. That man didn't want this happy and notorious Hana. He wanted someone else. But, who?

He slept with her a few months after she woke up from her coma. He made it painful to her while loving her wholeheartedly. He tried to reprogram her mind with pain. He might have been successful. Somewhat. Ahn Hana was no longer the same happy and notorious Ahn Hana. She changed into a different person.

10 years later. He met her again on the street. He gave her the coat.

The case? He already knew that nobody would win Baek Han Sol's case other than her. It would go to her eventually. It was her destiny. He was waiting for her to accept the case. Love letters. Noe Kyung-Hee. Acts of revenge. When she accepted the case, he knew that it was time for him to reveal himself to her.

Everything comes back to her. That man has a lot of patience. There is no doubt. That man loves her, but it twisted beyond words. He wants this love to turn her into something else. Someone who would love him back despite who he is. Whether dead or alive, Ahn Hana will only belong to him.

That kind of obsession. Where did it start?

Do Sejin inhales and exhales to relax. He puts his hands in his pockets and looks at the pictures again.

He has looked through her classmates at university, talked to professors, and friends. He couldn't find a single one. 3 years at the university. If it was her classmate, senior, or junior, 3 years are not a long time. During that period, she didn't visit her parents frequently because of the distance and studies. She wasn't the type who talked about her family at the university. In reality, nobody at the university including Jung Kwang-soo knew that her parents were famous lawyers until they were found murdered and she got into an accident.

If the killer was from her university, he wouldn't have thought that she was close to her parents. He wouldn't have just decided to kill her parents to change her. Her parents were murdered a few months before the bar exam. It was planned. To change her decision. The killer knew that she would perform well. The killer planned 10 years to reveal his love letters to her.

To turn her into a lawyer who defended criminals whether they were guilty or not. It was his way to change her into someone who would accept his dark side even if the whole world didn't.