The Chaebol Family Drowned Me, So This Time I Wrote the Contract novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: By Choice

The contract ended on the second Tuesday of January, in the same glass room on the forty-first floor.

The lawyer read the clause aloud.

Seung-hwan signed first, in his upright hand, and slid the page to me.

I signed beneath it.

My father's debt had been cleared since September.

I owed the Haneul family nothing, and they owed me nothing, and the lawyer shook my hand warmly.

Seung-hwan walked me to the elevator.

"I intend to open a small shipping office," he said. "In Incheon. Alone. I think I will be bad at it."

"You'll be careful at it."

"That is worse." He almost smiled. "Be well, Yu-ri-ssi."

It was the first time he had used my name without the surname.

I bowed to him exactly as deeply as I had the first morning.

He bowed back, which he never had.

Outside, it was snowing a little, fine and dry.

I took the subway to Seongsu, which I had never done in either life.

The shop's shutter was half open.

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