All Chapters of AFTER THE DIVORCE, I BECAME A BILLIONAIRE: Chapter 81
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CHAPTER 81: THE VAULT OF TWELVE
POV: Seo-rinThe Seedbed facility felt entirely different the second time.The first time I stood before this brutalist concrete complex in Yangpyeong, it had been a lingering phantom of my mother’s past—a quiet, overgrown sanctuary for the discarded children of dissidents. But now, stepping out of the SUV into the sharp autumn morning air, the dark grey walls seemed to press inward like a tomb.Prosecutor Nam Gi-tae and two trusted, non-commissioned officers from his personal team moved efficiently through the high grass, securing the outer perimeter with suppressed sidearms drawn. They swept the perimeter fences and disabled the dormant CCTV housings, their combat boots crunching softly over damp pine needles.Soo-ah led the way through the cold, concrete corridors. She held a heavy tactical flashlight in her left hand, its bright white beam cutting through twelve years of accumulated dust and cobwebs. Her face was an unreadable mask of absolute steel, her jaw set, her breathing slo
CHAPTER 82: THE BOY WHO STAYED
POV: Tae-junThe past did not return as a distant recollection or a logical sequence of facts. It returned as a violent, suffocating flood the exact second my fingertips made contact with the cold paper of my own file, T-09.The steel floor beneath my boots seemed to dissolve. The sterile, damp smell of the sub-basement vault evaporated, replaced instantly by the harsh, medicinal stench of floor wax, boiled turnips, and cheap soap.Green linoleum. Scuffed, cracked, and cold beneath bare, small feet. Iron radiators along the corridor wall that clanked and hissed like dying monsters in the middle of the night.In the blinding rush of sensory detail, I saw her—a tiny, solemn seven-year-old girl with dark, impossibly serious eyes sitting in the corner of the recreation hall. She didn't speak. She simply reached out with small, clean hands and pushed half a toasted rice cracker into my bruised palm, her gaze locked onto mine with a silent, fierce understanding that needed no words. Yoon Se