The man next door || Hyunlix

Theories

— Chapter 42 —

Felix comes running into the station, heading straight to the secretary. "I'm Lee Felix, I'm here to do the questioning of Hwang Hyunjin. Where is he?" He eagerly looks down the hall.

"Calm down, sweetie." The secretary laughs. "He's in room B3." She says.

"Thanks." He says, running down the hall before Chan can even catch up.

Felix knows the minute he enters the questioning room, Chan can't catch him. And he wants answers out of Hyunjin before he even sees Chan, who he has questions for as well.

He takes a deep breath before entering the questioning room. He opens the door, and Hyunjin's head snaps up when he hears the door. His eyes flicker with fear when he sees Felix, and Felix takes a breath when he sees that.

"Hwang Hyunjin." Felix says, picking up the paperwork on him before he takes a seat across from Hyunjin at the small table.

"Listen.." Hyunjin starts, and Felix looks at him expectingly. "If this is your way of trying to push me away, I get it. Just let me go, I'm innocent and we both know that."

"You're innocent?" Felix says. "Tell me the truth, before I have to find out for myself." He says, motioning to the paperwork.

Hyunjin just sighs, and Felix scoffs. "I guess your lying to me again." He says painfully, and Hyunjin's chest clutches.

He raises the paperwork, and Hyunjin's breath hitches. Felix just ignores his reaction, and starts to read the paperwork. However, by the first look his heart is already on the floor. The more he reads, the more he wants to vomit.

He sets the paperwork down shakily. "Yang.. Hyunjin? Yang Jeongin's brother? You're the second— second Yang son?" He asks with a shaky voice, not able to fully grasp the situation.

"Listen to me.." Hyunjin says desperately.

"You're the murderer, aren't you?" Felix asks, tears brimming his eyes. The look in his eyes only makes Hyunjin's heart hurt more.

He should have just been honest to Felix. Even if it would have brought him straight to prison, he doesn't care. He should have told him the truth. Being locked away for the rest of his life would be better than Felix looking at him with this amount of hatred in his eyes.

"I haven't murdered anyone since—"

"You're lying!" Felix yells. "You're a murderer! You're lying! Stop lying to me!" He doesn't even care how pathetic he is coming off to Hyunjin, he is just in a state of agony.

"Listen to me Felix!" Hyunjin's loud voice echoes throughout the room, cutting Felix off. "I quit. I'm done. I don't do that work anymore, and I haven't been doing anything bad since I quit."

"You said to me that you run your father's business now." Felix says. "You obviously still work in the business, so just stop lying to me. Be honest, for once."

"The family business, yeah." Hyunjin says. "But not the underground shit. Jeongin manages all that, I quit that life before my parents were murdered. I quit it when my daughter was born."

"Listen, let me just explain." Hyunjin repeats again. "I was born into this. It wasn't by choice, I didn't want to do that. I only did what they said because I was a child, I didn't know better."

"But when I was drugged, I realized I needed to get out. I realized how deep I was in all of that, and I just stopped doing the dirty work. I quit for my daughter, I wanted to live a normal life for her. But I had no college degree, I had nothing to start over. If I fully left the business, I would be broke and Nabi would be taken. I stayed because I had nothing, and all I do is run the casinos and clubs.