Chapter 8: How Will It End? Part II

A.N.: Last chapter of the story. Hope you've enjoyed it. Thank you for the support, reads and reviews.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, other than the new ones.

Published: June 14, 2017

Twenty minutes earlier

Woo Bin signaled his men to scour the perimeter of the warehouse. From their car, they could gather silhouettes of about three men in front of the entrance of the building but there could be more. One of the men seemed like the leader giving instructions to the other two. The F4 gripped their guns firmly. On their way to the place, Woo Bin gave each of the other F3 a small gun. His men were also armed. Two of them were with tranquilizer guns.

The Mafia Prince then whispered into a small walkie-talkie. One of his men had reported that there were altogether five men outside. Three in front and two at the back. How many were inside was unknown.

"When are we going in, Woo Bin?" Yi Jeong was getting impatient.

Ji Hoo placed a hand on his shoulder while Jun Pyo nodded. They understood his feeling. Ji Hoo and Jun Pyo remembered the time when Jan Di was kidnapped. Nothing in this world could beat the intense worry, trepidation, fury and dread in their hearts, all rolled into one.

"Soon, Yi Jeong. Soon."

Woo Bin continued to whisper into the walkie-talkie. A minute later, he looked at his fellow F3 and nodded.

They crouched low and stealthily moved toward the building. From their place, they could also see Woo Bin's men doing the same.

"Who's there?" one of the men shouted. It was Soong Min. He alarmed his men and took out a gun. He then pointed to the F4's direction. It seemed that one of the guys had stepped on a dried branch and the snapping sound had alerted those people.

The F4 immediately crouched down, and so did Woo Bin's men.

The three guys began to move forward. All had a gun in their hands and pointed left, right and front, checking the area. Then, a man came nearer. The F4 held their breaths. Satisfied that there was no one there, he turned back toward the building.

"There's nobody there, Boss. Must be some animals."

The three men then continued with their chats.

"Cheong, Gwon, now." Woo Bin spoke into the walkie-talkie.

"Arrkkkk!" "Arrgghh!"

The two men at the back of the building fell down to the ground.

"LIM! SEONG!" cried Soong Min. He ordered one man to guard the entrance and called for the others from the inside of the warehouse to come out as he and the other guy went to check on the two. But they could not find them.

"LIM!" "SEONG!" Soong Min and his man continued to call out and looked for the men, to no avail. Just then, they heard shouting from the front of the warehouse. They immediately ran back to the front.

"YOUNG GUK!" Soong Min shouted.

To their surprise, their men were in fights with the F4 and Woo Bin's men. Two men were already knocked out. The F4 and Woo Bin's men clearly outnumbered them.

"YAHHH!" Soong Min and the other guy joined in. He was now facing Woo Bin.

"YI JEONG! GO FIND GA EUL! JUN PYO! JI HOO! GO WITH HIM!" Woo Bin cried and the F3 dashed into the warehouse.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" bellowed Soong Min.

"Be my guest," replied Woo Bin.

Soong Min swung a fist at Woo Bin but the Mafia Prince was fast to dodge it. He then took the opportunity to throw a punch on Soong Min's face and another on his stomach. The latter hissed in pain but his eyes were murderous.

The two continued to exchange punches and kicks. Soong Min was a good fighter. A few times, he managed to hit Woo Bin's face and stomach. Years of training and lessons in numerous martial arts with his father added with years of street and underground fights experience, however, made Woo Bin the better fighter. Fists flew hard and landed on the other's body mercilessly.

Blood dripped down from his eyebrow and left corner of his mouth. Soong Min was now on his hands and knees while Woo Bin was in a ready fighting stance. Soong Min slowly lifted his head and tried to stand up, and Woo Bin had let him.

Buying some time, "You're going to die, Song Woo Bin."

"Give up! Surrender!" cried Woo Bin.

"Only a boy gives up and surrender!" With what little strength that he had left, Soong Min hurled himself at Woo Bin with a small Rambo knife in hand.

In an instant, Woo Bin moved to the right and grabbed the man's wrist and twisted it. The knife fell to the ground. Then, with a single blow, Soong Min's head snapped to the right and he fell hard to the ground.

"GA EUL!"

"GA EUL! WHERE ARE YOU?"

Yi Jeong, Jun Pyo and Ji Hoo scouted inside the warehouse. Broken furniture and machines were scattered everywhere. There were also drums with burning fire. Jun Pyo searched the left side of the building while Ji Hoo, the right.

"YI JEONG! SAVE ME! HELP!"

His heart stopped beating for what felt as the longest second of his life. Her scream crushed his heart but a second later, anger filled in when he heard a voice of a man. The scream seemed to come from upstairs. Yi Jeong immediately sprinted up the rusty steel stairs.

Current time

"NOOOOO! HELPP! YI JEONGGGGGG!"

"Scream. Scream. Scream as you like. He's not going to save you."

Yi Jeong dashed into the room. To his horror, a man was straddling his wife and kissing her exposed upper body. She struggled to get free but the man was too strong.

"GA EUL!"

Yi Jeong bolted up to them and grabbed the man's shoulders, startling the latter. Yi Jeong then pulled Young Guk off of his wife and threw him to the floor. Not wasting a second longer and before Young Guk could react, Yi Jeong punched, pummeled, kicked and stomped on the man repeatedly with all the strength in him while screaming. Young Guk tried to protect his face but failed miserably. Although he was bigger than Yi Jeong, he could not do anything.

It was as if a devil had invaded his body. Yi Jeong was a man on a mission. He wanted to kill the guy.

Ga Eul sat up and backed up to the wall. She tried to cover herself with her torn blouse. Her tears were endless. Never had she been violated as such and never had she seen Yi Jeong this way.

Helplessly beaten, Young Guk laid sprawled on the dirty floor like an old rag. Yi Jeong stood up and pulled out a gun. He then sat on Young Guk's thighs and pointed the gun on the man's forehead. His other hand held the man's right hand.

"YI JEONG! NO!"

Ga Eul's scream startled him but his eyes and hand were still on Young Guk.

"YI JEONG! DON'T DO IT!" "YI JEONG! PUT DOWN THE GUN!"

Jun Pyo and Ji Hoo cried simultaneously. They had heard Ga Eul's screams and rushed upstairs.

"No! Let me kill him, Ga Eul. He was going to rape you."

Jun Pyo and Ji Hoo were shocked to hear him.

"No, Yi Jeong. No!" pleaded Ga Eul.

"Yi Jeong!" called the F2 in unison.

"Please, Yi Jeong… I don't want you to be a killer," cried Ga Eul.

Yi Jeong felt as if a boulder had knocked his head. He looked at his wife who was crying hard and trying to keep her body covered. Her sight crushed his heart. Her hair messy, blouse and skirt, torn. He then lowered the gun from Young Guk's forehead and loosened his grip on the man's hand.

"ARRGHHHH!"

Yi Jeong's scream filled the air. Young Guk had stabbed his thigh with a pocket knife that he had managed to pull out from his pants.

"YI JEONG!" Ga Eul, Jun Pyo and Ji Hoo shouted simultaneously.

BANG!

… and Young Guk fell to the floor.

Woo Bin had shot the man.

Jun Pyo, Ji Hoo and Woo Bin immediately rushed to Yi Jeong while Ga Eul jumped out of the bed and embraced her husband.

"Yi Jeong!"

"Ga Eul… I'm here… for… you… We're… here… to… save you…"

"I know you'll come for me. I know you'll come and save me. Hold on, Yi Jeong. Hold on."

Woo Bin took off his jacket and put it over Ga Eul's shoulders.

"Yi Jeong, hold on. We'll get you out of here," cried Jun Pyo.

Ji Hoo looked around the room to find anything that he could use to stop the bleeding. Yi Jeong was bleeding badly and began to lose consciousness. Ji Hoo then took the pillow case and wrapped the stab wound.

Woo Bin and Jun Pyo then carefully carried Yi Jeong out of the room and out of the warehouse. Ji Hoo held the shaking crying Ga Eul as they followed the men.

Once outside, Woo Bin told his men to tie up all the kidnappers and take them to their 'place'. The F3 were going to deal with the men before sending them to the police.

"Where's Ga Eul? Where's Ga Eul? I want to see my Ga Eul."

"Hey, hey. Careful, Yi Jeong. Ga Eul's safe. She's resting in the other guest room." Ji Hoo placed a hand on the young So's shoulder.

They were all at Ji Hoo's house. They did not go to the hospital for they did not want the public to know about the whole ordeal. Ji Hoo himself had treated Yi Jeong and Ga Eul.

"I want to see Ga Eul."

Yi Jeong tried to get up from the bed but flinched in pain when he moved his legs.

"You need to rest too. That stab was deep and was mere inches to your femoral artery."

"I'm OK, Ji Hoo. How is Ga Eul? What about our baby?"

"There are some bruises on her face, hand and body. I'm sorry."

Yi Jeong felt anger rushed in. He could not wipe away the vision of the man on his pregnant wife. He wished that the man died from the shot. Even if he did not, Yi Jeong planned to teach the guy a lesson. Nobody hurt his wife and baby and freely walked away.

"I'd say that she's still shocked and traumatized by what happened… and the baby. I think the baby is in distress. Ga Eul needs to rest. But my advice is, you should take her to the hospital. And Yi Jeong, I think it's time that the people know about your marriage. You can't let her go to the hospital with someone else. She needs you, right now."

Yi Jeong nodded.

"I want to see my Ga Eul. Help me get up, Ji Hoo. Take me to my wife."

With great difficulties and pain, Yi Jeong limped to the other room which was four doors away. Ji Hoo held his arm and shoulder and assisted him.

"Where are Woo Bin and Jun Pyo?"

"Jun Pyo has gone home before Jan Di starts to shoot him with her thousand questions but she's going to kill him and us when she knows about this. Woo Bin is at his place interrogating those kidnappers and yes, this is your grandfather's doing."

Yi Jeong wanted to kill his grandfather. He vowed that So Woo Sung was going to get the worst sentence.

A couple of minutes later, Ji Hoo knocked on a door.

"Ga Eul, it's us. Yi Jeong and Ji Hoo," said the Doctor.

Not a minute later, the door opened.

"Yi Jeong!"

Ga Eul immediately embraced him and cried. Ji Hoo then stepped aside and let the husband and wife pour out their feelings.

"Ji Hoo, help me to the bed, please."

Once he was seated on the bed, "Do you need anything? Some drinks? Something to eat?"

Yi Jeong shook his head. "No. Thank you, Ji Hoo."

"And you, Ga Eul?"

"No. Thank you, Ji Hoo Sunbae." Ga Eul bowed to him.

"OK. I'll leave you two. Just give a holler if you need anything."

"Thanks, Ji Hoo."

"Thank you, Ji Hoo Sunbae."

Ji Hoo then left and closed the door.

"Yi Jeong…"

Ga Eul embraced her husband again.

"I'm so sorry for coming home late, Ga Eul. I'm so sorry that this happened and I'm so sorry for not finding you sooner."

He hugged her tighter while still being careful with his thigh and her stomach.

"I… I was so scared, Yi Jeong. They are so evil. Grandfather… So…" and she cried louder.

"They wanted to kill you, me and our baby."

Yi Jeong's heart thundered wild. His hatred and fury toward his grandfather and those men rocketed higher.

"You're safe now. I'm here. I won't leave you alone. I'll keep you safe from now on." He gently stroked her hair.

"Ga Eul," he leaned back a little and looked at her. His heart broke seeing the bruises on her cheeks. He gently caressed them.

"I'm so sorry that they hit you."

Ga Eul's eyes glistened again.

"He punched my stomach," and cried. Yi Jeong wanted to break someone.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."

He placed a hand on her stomach. He could feel the baby moving.

"Ga Eul. We'll go to the hospital after this. You need to get checked up."

"But…people will know then. You said…"

"I don't care what people say anymore. But if you're afraid of their reactions, we'll use Jun Pyo's private room. Ga Eul, we need to make sure you're OK and the baby's fine."

Tears fell freely. Part of Ga Eul was happy that at last, people would know about their marriage. However, the other part of her was still unsure and fear of the public's reactions to the news. How would the public react to it? Would they be opened to the marriage between a commoner and the country's prominent potter, or would there be more problems for her and her family?

"Ga Eul, I won't let them hurt you."

Ga Eul pulled her husband for another hug as she cried and cried on his shoulder.

Two months later

Young Guk, Soong Min and the others were sentenced to prison for 30 years for kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted murder. What shocked the country was that the mastermind of the kidnapping was none other than So Woo Sung who was currently serving life imprisonment. He was again trialed and found guilty. He was sentenced to 50 years in jail which would go concurrent with his lifetime sentence but added to it were 15 times of caning instead of 30 times due to his old age.

Yi Jeong was unsatisfied with the sentences. He wanted the old man and his men to go to the rope and hung to death. After all that these people did to his wife, how could they just receive such light sentences?

After the trial, Yi Jeong had officially disowned So Woo Sung from his family. All of the old man's assets were legally transferred to him and his parents. The So Museum was now his and his parents'.

His marriage to Ga Eul was also announced in a press conference a month after the fateful day. The country went into a frenzy. As expected, the reactions from the public were mixed. Yi Jeong and the F3 then made it clear to the public that they would not hesitate to take legal actions to anyone who dared to hurt Ga Eul and her family, whether online or offline. Nobody was to mess with the F4.

Yi Jeong entered the room to find his wife sleeping soundly on their vast bed. She was on her right side since sleeping on her back was uncomfortable. She was now nine months pregnant and was counting the days.

The So couple were fortunate that the dark hurtful event four months ago did not harm the baby despite the punch that she had received from Young Guk. Yes, the baby was in distress but a week later, things slowly turned back to normal and went on smoothly. The baby was also growing up beautifully during the months after.

Yi Jeong smiled at the sight of his beautiful wife. Part of her face was covered by some fallen hairs. Her cheeks had rounded a little and that made her even more alluring. He then sat next to her and tucked the fallen hair behind her ear and leaned down to kiss her cheek.

"Mmmm. Yi Jeong?"

She rubbed her eyes and slowly opened them.

"Hey, beautiful."

"Hey, handsome," and pulled him down for a kiss.

"Tired?" He rested next to her.

She nodded as she snuggled closer.

"I missed you."

…and kissed his chest over his shirt, sending electric jolts throughout his body. Her hand ran free on his abdomen.

"I missed you too, Yi Jeong."

"What time are we going to the hospital tomorrow?" He had to distract himself from her wandering hand. He did not want to hurt her.

"8.30"

"That's too early."

"It was always at 8.30 but you always used your F4 title to come in late."

Yi Jeong softly laughed.

"Well, that's one perk of being an F4."

Ga Eul lightly punched his arm.

"Are you afraid?" He was referring to the birth-giving process.

"Yes and no."

She then pushed him on his back and shifted over him.

"Yes, I'm afraid because people say it hurts so badly. No, because you'll be there with me."

Yi Jeong sat up and held her face.

"I will always be with you, Ga Eul. Always. Forever."

"I love you, So Yi Jeong."

"I love you, Chu Ga Eul."

The baby arrived the next morning. It was a baby girl with Yi Jeong's eyes and Ga Eul's mouth. She was beautiful.

They named the baby So Myung-Hee, bright and shiny. They hoped that this little being would bring more shine and happiness in their lives. The F3 fought to be her godfather while Jan Di got to be her godmother.

Three years later, Yi Jeong received a call from the prison. So Woo Sung had died from a heart attack. Yi Jeong, his parents, the F3, Ga Eul and Jan Di went to his funeral.

They looked back at what had happened. It saddened them that So Woo Sung had chosen the path and in the end, lost everything. If ever So Woo Sung was not too arrogant and evil...

Yi Jeong and Ga Eul watched their daughter, Myung-Hee, 4, and son, Chung-Hee, 3, fighting for a crayon despite the many other ones in the box. It was always like that between the two but the parents knew that in the end, Myung-Hee would always give in to her younger brother.

"Ga Eul."

"Hmmm?" She, who was leaning against his shoulder, kept her eyes on the children.

"Thank you."

Ga Eul looked up to him, her forehead creased.

"Thank you for?"

Yi Jeong kissed her forehead.

"For everything. For the children. For this life. For your love."

"Yi Jeong?"

"This is all that I ask for. To have a happy perfect life with you."

"I'm not perfect, Yi Jeong. However, I promise that I will try my best to make you happy, to make our children happy. But to do that, promise me that you will always be here with me."

"I promise, Ga Eul."

"Saranghae, So Yi Jeong." "Saranghae, Chu Ga Eul."

T. H. E. E. N. D.