Hyesung woke up the next day just before 9 a.m. A nurse had gently awakened him after noticing that he had fallen asleep in a chair outside the ICU. Hyesung hadn’t slept at all during the night, spending the entire time crying outside Lee Hyuk’s room. Sungjin had checked in on him several times, urging him to go home, but Hyesung had stubbornly refused.

The nurses and other visitors in the hospital, aware of the pain of simply watching a loved one lying in a hospital bed, chose to ignore Hyesung’s distress out of respect.

It seemed that he had dozed off for just a moment. The last time he checked the clock, it was 6 a.m., so he had only slept for about three hours.

Hyesung instinctively checked on Lee Hyuk’s condition before turning on his phone. There was a message from Sungjin saying that he had to leave early for work.

And just below that was another message from Dohyun.

[Hyesung, did you see the news...? Is it about the CEO? What’s happening?]

The news? Suddenly, Hyesung was wide awake. There was a link to a news article that Dohyun had sent. Hyesung quickly clicked on it.@@novelbin@@

[Gang Violence Incident at Gangnam Bar: Construction Company CEO Involved?]

Hyesung’s eyes darted rapidly across the screen as he read. The article detailed the violent incident that had occurred at the bar where Lee Hyuk had been the previous night. It reported that notorious gang members had caused the violence, and one of the instigators was the CEO of a construction company.

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