"Just HOW do you classify that as a sandcastle???? Its just a mound of sand with a hole dug on the side as a door!!!"

Soyeon turned her nose up and crossed her arms across her chest, "Hmph. It's a new type of design. Who said all sandcastle have to be the same? It's a minimalistic approach. If you pay close attention-HEY, YOU ABSOLUTE TOOTHACHE OF A NUT JOB!!!!"

The sandcastle, was now crushed beneath a volleyball as Mira grinned at her, "Aww, my bad. Your minimalistic architecture is more minimalistic now, right?"

Anya, as always, routinely ignored the antics of them both, as she sipped her lemon tea. Placing it back on the plate, she continued working on her recent manuscript with her typewriter, all the three girls enjoying the golden beach with the sapphire sparkling waves and chirping of the birds in the pastel blue sky.

"Yo!!" their peaceful hours was then disturbed by So Hyun who screamed as he ran towards them, waving his hands frantically like a swinging monkey.

Mira straightened up, "What's that moron doing here so early?"

Soyeon too looked at the mad dash her fiancé was undertaking, "Must be something major or any huge gossip. Only then does he display his epic moronity."

Mira nodded while Anya laughed, "Moronity? Is that even a word?"

Soyeon just nodded in So Hyun's direction, urging her to look. Obeying her, she saw the tall male swinging his limbs awkwardly, running in a weirdly uncoordinated way, with his hands above his head, waving like an idiot.

"Sometimes, you need to invent a few words to convey something which current words can't justify."

Anya nodded, agreeing with Soyeon.

Curiously, she asked, "Why can he still not run properly? Is that something that needs to be taught?"

Mira had her eyes on the figure of her scrambling brother running to them in a bizarre, whacky way and muttered her reply, "Childhood defect. I attribute every single of his abnormality to childhood defect."

"YO!!" So Hyun reached them, then bent down in half and panted with his hands on his knees, "I-have-news-" he gasped out.

Concerned for him, Anya poured some more tea from the pot and handed it to So Hyun, who took it without looking, then gulped it down.

Only to spit it right back out on the sand causing Mira and Anya to shriek and dodge. His tongue hanging from his mouth, So Hyun glared at Anya,

"Gesth whath dhu you wanth fram meh?????"

"What??? It was tea!!! Of course it would be hot!!!" Anya replied hotly.

"Then whby woudh you give me thath?????"

"Because you are gasping and wheezing like an old man on his deathbed!!!"

So Hyun straightened and looked at Anya incredulously, "SO you will give a dying old man a hot cup of tea to burn his tongue???"

"Are you saying you are an old man??"

"You are the one who said that!" So Hyun defended. Then winced when he got a whack on his head from Mira, who sighed with a suffering tone, "It was a metaphor you dumbass moron."

"Ahem" Soyeon cleared her throat, "Honey!" she said, clinging to So Hyun, "My cutie cuddly pumpkin pie, why are you back so early? Something happened?"

So Hyun visibly blushed from the attention of his fiancée and bent down to hug her in his arms and dropped a kiss on her head.

Meanwhile Mira gagged and mouthed to Anya, "cutie cuddly pumpkin pie!?!??!?!?"

So Hyun then looked at the remaining two and stated, "Tae Sun was involved in a car accident yesterday night after leaving here. He crashed his car straight on a wall of a T-road."

"Wait, what?"

Nodding, So Hyun continued, "But here is the weird part. His brakes were fine, but he still did not stop, slow or even turn the car. It seemed like he purposely crashed."

"What? That's -"

"I know, impossible." So Hyun replied, "What's more, it was a serious accident with the car well over 40km/h. The car is twisted beyond repair and Tae Sun was thrown out in the front. But the strange thing is, he only suffered lacerations and non fatal piercings from the impacted glass in the upper half of the body, whereas. . ."

Anya and Mira waited for him to continue, hating this habit of his of making dramatic pauses. Just when they were about to prompt him, Soyeon pinched his nipples over his shirt.

"OWW OWW BABE!! YEAH OKAY!!"

"Whereas, his lower half of his body suffered extreme injury." So Hyun continued, scowling at his pretty girlfriend while rubbing his abused body, "Not only was both his legs broken, but the impact. . . it castrated him."

"WHAT?" the three girls shouted in unison.

Mira became quiet while Anya asked, "Is that even possible??"

"That's the thing." So Hyun nodded, "Even the doctors are confused. With the way the accident happened, castration should not have been possible, but somehow, it did happen. Furthermore, there was no foul play. Too many witnesses saw it happen and an inspection of the car confirmed it to be quite normal."

"Well, cant really say I am too sad to hear it." Soyeon said, "That sicko kind of deserved it, if the rumours of the number of female employees he has taken advantage of is true. It's an open secret, that his taste in females always ran to those who were, unwilling. Daddy's money helped him cover it up since school days."

Anya though, was a little disturbed, "But those rumours were never proven Soyeon. Many of the girls let him be violent with them just to get the money he was offering. In such cases, you cannot say the act was without consent."

"Maybe true about his college days Anya," So Hyun agreed, "But there have been a few bad cases in the office. 3 women were transferred away. Anyways, it was divine justice to the asshole. No need for us to judge whether he deserved it or not. Look at the way he was talking to you yesterday."

"I can't believe you guys are telling me this now??? My sister is literally engaged to that guy!" Anya said, annoyed.

Soyeon rolled her eyes, "Your sister wanted to marry in the Kang family Blueberry. She knew about it and naturally, given how much they need you and your father, he would not have harmed your sister. She knows it too. Though now, I guess the wedding will be off."

Unrelated to the course the discussion had taken, they heard "Divine justice?" Mira whispered, then backed away, "Was it?"

"There she goes being loopy again." So Hyun sighed. Anya reached to tap Mira's shoulders, seeing her unfocused eyes showing her lost in deep thoughts, "Mira?"

"Hmmm?" she snapped back to reality, "Oh nothing." She dismissively waved her hands, "Its just, the coincidence of him using his vulgar mouth in front of you then getting involved in such accident made me recall a strange feeling I got."

No one in the group mocked Mira. Such instances, such vibes she got was a natural talent of her rich spirituality as the descendent of the great Master Heo who was arguably the best in feng shui. Not just that, but another aspect which neither Mira nor So Hyun publicized.

"Mira?" Anya asked again.

"No No." Mira again dismissed her concerns with a smile, "It was nothing. Just a vague feeling. Don't worry about it." then she asked So Hyun, "Did you meet him in the hospital? His life is not in danger?"

For once, So Hyun did not joke, but steadily asked his sister, "Should it be?"

Mira turned back to watch the sea, keeping the silence for some time before quietly replying, "His aura. . ." shaking her head, she shrugged, "If it is or not, should it concern us?"

No, it didn't. But Anya couldn't help but recall what Joon had said to her.

"I have always been extremely possessive Little Fruit, I was only afraid of scaring you away."

Coincidence. Anya toyed with that word, thinking about some situations when the coincidences become too eerie to ignore.

This, wasn't one of them.

At least, not yet.

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HOSPITAL :

"Father." Jong Gi knelt down in front of his father, "You should go and rest. I will stay here with him. his life is not in danger, the surgery on his legs went well and the doctor assured us that he will be able to walk."

The old man kept shaking his head, his entire self, filled with extreme anger rather than sorrow, "This has to be done by that bastard. This has to have been done by him!! I will not let him go for this!"

"Father." Jong Gi tried to calm down his father's craziness, "Namjoon couldn't have done it. The vehicle was not tampered with."

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?" his father caught his collars and jerked Jong Gi forward. His eyes red, he spoke again, "Did you not hear what your brother said?? The brakes did not work neither did the steering wheel turn!!"

"But the officers and the professional team-"

"You and I are perhaps the very few people who know how money can buy any person. May it be a witness, a detective, a judge or a politician." Kang Ryong said in a low voice, "as things stand, that bastard certainly has more money than we will ever be able to get. Do you honestly think it is difficult for him to escape such investigation?"

Jong Gi remained quiet. He knew what his father said, it was simply that he wanted his father to not be worried about it.

Because the officer and the team who handled this case were on their payroll. If they indeed had been manipulated by Namjoon, then it would mean none of their people who were bought with money, could be people they trusted.

Moreover, they might just be the source of a possible danger.

"What do you want me to do Father?"

Kang Ryong breathed deeply, "The way we were repeatedly blocked from all of our plans he had leading up to that night, I do believe that Namjoon will be coming back in 2 days. Our support is too weak at the moment. 8 of our inside men at the board have died over the past year, that alone had me suspecting him.

The investments we had made in various sectors never went through. Either the venture failed or the capital required was unattainable for some project. Min Hwang swooped in on all the bids we needed on behalf of Namjoon. As such, your Aunt may be the only source we can rely on.

But, this project of hybrids, that is a gold mine we cannot afford to lose. We need Anya."

Jong Gi felt another current of dissatisfaction in him, "I had been leading her father step by step for months to get caught in my tarp. He invested in the branch of our subsidiary which I had liquidated. I thought if the amount was substantial I could demand-"

"It was paid off?" Kang Ryong asked in a calm manner.

Clenching his fist tightly, Jong Gi replied, "Min Hwang paid on his behalf."

"Good."

Hearing his father say that, Jong Gi jerked his head to look at him.

"I never wanted her to marry you."

"Father?"

"Shut up." Kang Ryong said with vehemence, "This conclusion, of Namjoon having paid to cause such an accident, convey it to So Hyun. Let Anya know about it. And call that Jae Hoon to my house. Let Anya see the monster she still feels is invisible."

"Why do you need Jae Hoon?"

"I need to get a chunk of his money. After that, I will make sure that boy can never breathe again."

Startled, Jong Gi burst out with a question, "Why?"

"Leave." His father said as he stood up, not answering his son.

Jae Hoon was marked for death since the day he had dared to beat her, had dared to have the audacity of touching her.

Because Anya had been the one girl, he, Kang Ryong had truly fallen in love with. Unlike his sons who only wanted to toy with her beauty because she was unattainable.

He wanted her to share her life with him.

He wanted her to be his Beautiful Young Bride. His Young Bride who he would dote on, love deeply and cherish.

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A/N : Psssst guys, this one contains a huge hint about the future. Did you catch it?

Swarm of men around her, the reason will be explained in later chapters. . .

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