Cannon Fodder's Time Has Come
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The two Jeon brothers left to go abroad, one to Hodges secondary school, the other to the aristocratic school Lei Po Dayton.
Not long after their father’s personal assistant, Kim Taehyung, left the post.
A year and a half later, the IT industry was thrown into a whirlwind, a company called Noah Universal Tech. Developed a Star Wars online game, just a month later it caught fire around the world. It was exclusively sold with a sensor helmet for players to be brought into an immersive magical world, creating a new era of online games.
With this game and sensor helmet, Noah Universal accumulated rapid wealth, in the following year it will be listed on the NASDAQ, it was the IT industry’s dark horse.
Because the sensor helmet’s technology was too high-end, so far no one could decipher it. It was unknown how many IT giants around the world wanted to find out who the computer genius hidden behind Noah Universal was, but even the owner could not be found out.
In a dark room, a thin bodied young boy was tied to the four pillars of bed, covered with sticky sweat. His deep eyes were depressed, his skin showed signs of drug abuse. He struggled in withdrawal, his eyes had no focus, staring at the head of the bed mantle- it’s unknown what was running through his mind.
Steady footsteps slowly approached, a man wearing an iron gray suit, and of tall stature opened the door, went to bedside a looked at the man. His dark hair was combed back, revealing a handsome face, he narrowed his eyes and it flashed a daunting dangerous light.
Kim Taehyung
I’ll let the nurse help you take a shower.
Kim Taehyung
[He took out a handkerchief from his coat pocket and wiped off the cold sweat of the youth.]
The young man licked his dry chapped lips.
Jeon Minho
(breathless, voice raspy)Uncle… Jungkook framed me. I remember now.
Jeon Minho
(unfocused eyes dart to the bed mantle)That woman… I’ve seen her before. She was with him… at a bar. Drinking bourbon. It was him! He sent her to harm me!
Jeon Minho
I’m sure of it, he told that woman to harm me!
This was Minho now, a sophomore. A few months ago he got involved with a beautiful woman, but he did not expect that woman had ulterior motives. She gave him a cigarette, which was mixed with a strong drug, just smoking it once can lead to addiction. Minho, although his nature was suspicious,, and he was very cautious, but he happened to have a fatal weakness.
That was beauty greed-whenever a beautiful woman appeared he’d undoubtedly fall.
When the first drug addiction signs showed he’d reacted, but it was too late. He had to journey to the far away J country to plead with his uncle.
Kim Taehyung
(expression hardens as he tosses the handkerchief into the trash) Minho, I warned you.
Kim Taehyung
(voice low and icy) How many times did I tell you not to trust strangers? How many bodyguards did I send to watch over you?
Jeon Minho
(eyes pleading, tears threatening to spill) I didn’t know… She was beautiful, and I just…
Kim Taehyung
(Cuts him off, voice laced with anger and disappointment)Your greed for beauty has brought you here. I warned you, Minho, but you didn’t listen.
This anger was not because he heard of his nephew’s complaint, but because of hatred, despair and disappointment. He had warned him thousands of time-donot accept things handed to him from strangers, he even sent a few bodyguards to secretly guard him.
But the bodyguard was not a full-time nanny, they could not dig into the employer’s private affairs.
Minho was fooled by a woman, and they could not intervene.
He was killed by his own hand!
Kim Taehyung
[Restrained his strong wrath to wash his hand, then he picked up the phone to inform the workers to give his nephew a bath.]
Kim Taehyung
(calmly picks up the phone, speaking briefly before hanging up) The staff will be here soon to help you clean up. Don’t make this harder than it already is.
Kim Taehyung
(sat on the sofa, calmly said)Don’t play around. Who do you think did it?
He had already found out who was behind it, but did not intend to tell his nephew.
Kim Taehyung
(Steepling his fingers, his voice cold but controlled)If you can’t even figure out your real enemies, Minho, you’ll be chewed up and spit out before you take your next breath.
Kim Taehyung
(pauses, staring at him with piercing eyes) Tell me… who do you think did it?
Taehyung will guide him, if necessary, help him, but he would not personally eradicate his enemy. If he had not told him that his sister was forced to commit suicide in the bathtub by Yang Hyejin, he would not have thought about killing Jungkook.
Strong hatred was contagious, his nephew hated Yang Hyejin to the bone, so Taehyung did not ask anything, only decided to help him get revenge. If Taehyung was not awakened by Jungkook, he’d have almost become a villain for the wrong revenge. Since then, his credibility for his nephew was greatly reduced.
Jeon Minho
(face was filled with resentment and unwieldiness) If it’s not Jungkook then who? Who else would profit from killing me?
Minho was already aware of his uncle’s growing gratitude for Jungkook, his inexplicable concern.
Once, when he walked past his uncle’s bedside cabinet he found many photos of Jungkook , from many perspectives, each one was beautifully shot, – his eyebrows immediately rose.
Jeon Minho
(staring at the photos in his uncle’s bedside drawer) Jeon Jungkook…
Jungkook, although he was not as handsome as himself, but his feminine facial features had a strange attraction, especially the pair of peach blossom eyes. He just had to slightly look at anyone and their heart would beat out of control.
In the top corner of each photo was some wear and tear, which showed how the collector could not put them down.
Jeon Minho
(to himself, voice dripping with disdain, looking at Jungkook photo) What is it about you, huh?
Minho clenches his jaw, the sharp pang of jealousy clawing at his chest.
Minho did not understand where this kind of concern came from, was it because Jungkook mother sent a few clothes and toys when Taehyung was a child? Uncle was five years old when he left the orphanage, how could his grace stretch so far? Even if she funded his mother, his mother used her life to pay off all she owed, was that not enough?
Yes, Minho finally realized – Jungkook’s mother did not force his mother, but his mother forced Jungkook’s mother. At first, he thought that his mother cut her wrist in Yang Hyejin’s bath to retaliate, until that day in the dark alley with Jungkook.
Jeon Minho
(voice trembling) My mother wasn’t retaliating. She was… repenting. She died in that bathtub to pay back what she owed.
She died in Yang Hyejin’s bathtub to tell her – All I owe, I give back to you.
But her idea was too simple and too blind, she did not expect that her death indirectly led to the death of Yang Hyejin. They forced their children on the road of hatred, until their relationship could no longer be fixed.
Minho glares at one photo where Jungkook’s gaze feels almost alive, piercing through the lens.
Jeon Minho
(Throws the photo back in the drawer and slams it shut, left there. His mind spirals.)
Kim Taehyung
(voice cold, cutting through the silence) You can doubt anyone… except Jungkook. Think about it—who stands to benefit, huh?
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