{"id":16973,"date":"2026-09-22T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=16973"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:55:45","slug":"part-12-parks-signature-exposed-the-betrayal-behind-kang-juns-death-but-his-confession-revealed-choi-had-been-protecting-an-even-more-dangerous-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=16973","title":{"rendered":"PART 12 \u2013 Park\u2019s Signature Exposed the Betrayal Behind Kang Jun\u2019s Death, but His Confession Revealed Choi Had Been Protecting an Even More Dangerous Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park Dae-hyun asked for a lawyer before he asked for water.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin said that told her he had spent years preparing for the possibility of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>I sat beside Mary Lou behind a glass partition while investigators questioned him in another room.<\/p>\n<p>We could not hear everything.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin translated what she could through an audio feed.<\/p>\n<p>Park looked smaller without Choi nearby.<\/p>\n<p>His expensive coat had been taken.<\/p>\n<p>His tie was gone.<\/p>\n<p>He wore a white shirt with one sleeve stained from the warehouse struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou watched him without blinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to stay,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to hear him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So we stayed.<\/p>\n<p>An investigator placed the crash authorization on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Park looked at it.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing changed in his face.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator pointed to the signature.<\/p>\n<p>Park said something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin listened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says it\u2019s his.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>No denial.<\/p>\n<p>No claim of forgery.<\/p>\n<p>Just his.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator asked why he signed.<\/p>\n<p>Park requested immunity.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator refused.<\/p>\n<p>Park requested protection for his wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>That surprised Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know he had a son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoi probably did,\u201d Soo-jin said.<\/p>\n<p>There it was again.<\/p>\n<p>Leverage.<\/p>\n<p>The same architecture everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Park finally began talking.<\/p>\n<p>He had joined Kang Jun\u2019s import company years before Mary Lou met him.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the business was legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>Then Choi appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Choi offered access to contracts, customs officials, and financing.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jun accepted.<\/p>\n<p>One favor became ten.<\/p>\n<p>False invoices.<\/p>\n<p>Cash shipments.<\/p>\n<p>Shell companies.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Kang Jun understood how deeply Choi had embedded himself, leaving meant exposing everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Park had gone deeper willingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun wanted out,\u201d Mary Lou whispered.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Park confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jun began copying records.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Park helped him.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou looked sharply at Soo-jin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin translated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPark says he planned to leave too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator asked what changed.<\/p>\n<p>Park stared at the table.<\/p>\n<p>Then said one word.<\/p>\n<p>Family.<\/p>\n<p>Choi discovered Park\u2019s wife and son were preparing to leave Korea.<\/p>\n<p>He showed Park photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The same method used against Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p>The same method used against Kang Jun through me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Choi threaten them?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin listened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Park do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer came several seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave Choi Kang Jun\u2019s escape route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>That was the betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jun had trusted Park with the road south.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting point.<\/p>\n<p>The planned ferry.<\/p>\n<p>Park passed it to Choi.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator pointed again to the payment authorization.<\/p>\n<p>Why sign?<\/p>\n<p>Park spoke for almost a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin translated quietly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoi told him it was payment for stopping Kang Jun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStopping?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he know it meant killing him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin waited.<\/p>\n<p>Park answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stood abruptly.<\/p>\n<p>Her chair scraped.<\/p>\n<p>I reached for her.<\/p>\n<p>She stepped away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her voice cracked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sat in our kitchen three days before we left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ate dinner with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou pressed both hands against her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun asked him whether the route was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I moved closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked me in the face and said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I took her hands.<\/p>\n<p>She resisted.<\/p>\n<p>Then stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the glass, Park continued confessing.<\/p>\n<p>He had believed Choi would kill Kang Jun and spare Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Choi kept Mary Lou alive because she understood parts of Kang Jun\u2019s accounting system and because her American connection offered a useful transfer route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The annual eighty thousand dollars had not merely laundered money.<\/p>\n<p>It also served as a test.<\/p>\n<p>Every year Choi watched to see whether American authorities questioned the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Every year nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>So he continued.<\/p>\n<p>I felt sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens to the money now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not move any.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Furnace.<\/p>\n<p>Medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>Things I could not return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I in trouble?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou did not knowingly participate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t erase the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For once, I appreciated the absence of false reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the glass, investigators asked Park about the master archive.<\/p>\n<p>He looked confused.<\/p>\n<p>Then frightened.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Park spoke rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is he saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did not answer until he finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says Kang Jun\u2019s archive was not mainly about Choi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin listened to the next exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Park said Choi had been one layer.<\/p>\n<p>An operator.<\/p>\n<p>A collector.<\/p>\n<p>A man who moved money for people more powerful than himself.<\/p>\n<p>The archive contained names Choi feared.<\/p>\n<p>That explained why he had never destroyed every record.<\/p>\n<p>His records were insurance.<\/p>\n<p>But Kang Jun had copied enough information to expose not merely Choi\u2019s organization, but clients who believed themselves insulated from it.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Choi isn\u2019t the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Soo-jin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Park refused to answer.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator pressed.<\/p>\n<p>Park asked whether the room was secure.<\/p>\n<p>They assured him it was.<\/p>\n<p>He laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Even without translation, I understood the bitterness.<\/p>\n<p>No room was secure.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Park wrote a name on paper.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator read it.<\/p>\n<p>His expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin went very still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoo-jin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She turned toward us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA businessman named Lee Sang-ho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name meant nothing to me.<\/p>\n<p>It meant something to Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p>Her face drained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe attended my wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin prickled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich guest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of Kang Jun\u2019s two men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I remembered.<\/p>\n<p>The business associate.<\/p>\n<p>The family friend.<\/p>\n<p>Men who had stayed briefly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou sat down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun told me he was a family friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin watched Park continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently he was the person Choi worked for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy has his name never come up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause people like Choi exist to keep names like his from coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator asked Park about Lee Sang-ho.<\/p>\n<p>Park described companies.<\/p>\n<p>Construction.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Investment funds.<\/p>\n<p>Political donations.<\/p>\n<p>Charitable foundations.<\/p>\n<p>Legitimate businesses surrounding hidden financial networks.<\/p>\n<p>Choi moved money between them.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jun discovered the structure while tracing a set of transactions he was supposed to falsify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was why he wanted out,\u201d Mary Lou said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin listened.<\/p>\n<p>Then her expression changed again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun discovered something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator asked Park to explain.<\/p>\n<p>He did.<\/p>\n<p>Years before Mary Lou met Kang Jun, Choi\u2019s network had used import companies to move cash for Lee Sang-ho.<\/p>\n<p>One transaction went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A junior accountant threatened to report it.<\/p>\n<p>The accountant disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>No body.<\/p>\n<p>No investigation that lasted.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jun later found the payment records connected to that disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Then another.<\/p>\n<p>And another.<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t just money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stared through the glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd married me anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old wound reopened.<\/p>\n<p>I heard it in her voice.<\/p>\n<p>I did not defend him.<\/p>\n<p>Love does not require lying about the dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should have told you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should have left before bringing you here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Then wiped her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The truth remained complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jun had tried to save her.<\/p>\n<p>He had also helped create the danger she needed saving from.<\/p>\n<p>Park continued.<\/p>\n<p>The investigators asked where Choi would go.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Park smiled.<\/p>\n<p>Not happily.<\/p>\n<p>With resignation.<\/p>\n<p>He gave them three possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>A private property near Incheon.<\/p>\n<p>A shipping facility near Busan.<\/p>\n<p>A rural house owned through another company.<\/p>\n<p>Teams were dispatched.<\/p>\n<p>Then Park said something that made Soo-jin stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She turned toward us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to leave this room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She led us into the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>Two investigators followed.<\/p>\n<p>The door closed behind us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin lowered her voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoi has a contingency plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor arrest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he believes Kang Jun\u2019s files have reached authorities, he will assume Lee Sang-ho believes Choi lost control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou understood before I did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLee will kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Choi runs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPark says Choi prepared something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA way to prove he still has leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat leverage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoi has years of records designed to make it appear that Mary willingly participated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered the office work.<\/p>\n<p>The transfers.<\/p>\n<p>The house full of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Her signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Her accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years under Choi\u2019s control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can frame her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot entirely frame. Mary did perform transactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he threatened me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich must be proved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe surveillance photographs prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe calls?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun\u2019s recording?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hated that word.<\/p>\n<p>Help.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing seemed sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou sat against the hallway wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo even if Choi disappears, I could be prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially years of investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou laughed once.<\/p>\n<p>It sounded exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwelve years away from home and now I get to spend the next twelve explaining why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat beside her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re still going home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if they take my passport?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think I crossed the Pacific to leave without you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes filled.<\/p>\n<p>Before she could answer, an investigator came through the door.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke quickly to Soo-jin.<\/p>\n<p>She stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her expression became unreadable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found Choi\u2019s SUV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Choi?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach sank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny sign where he went?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator handed Soo-jin a photograph sent from the search team.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the abandoned SUV was the metal case.<\/p>\n<p>Empty.<\/p>\n<p>Except for one object.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin turned the screen toward us.<\/p>\n<p>It showed Mary Lou and Kang Jun on their wedding day.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had drawn a black line through Kang Jun\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>On the back, Choi had written a message.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin translated.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou read it again herself.<\/p>\n<p>Her face hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it say?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says Kang Jun left one debt unpaid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat debt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stared at the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin zoomed in.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the sentence was an address.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou recognized it.<\/p>\n<p>Her hand tightened around the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat place?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun\u2019s grave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator spoke urgently.<\/p>\n<p>Police were already being sent there.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Soo-jin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be a trap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a trap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou looked at the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Choi didn\u2019t leave that address for the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She handed the phone back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stepped beside her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we don\u2019t give him what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may have hidden something there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun used his grave before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years after he died, I found an envelope behind the memorial stone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the transfer fragments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hallway became silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho put it there?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin looked toward the interrogation room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPark?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr Choi,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Choi didn\u2019t know about the fragments then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho else knew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at Kang Jun\u2019s wedding photograph on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou\u2019s eyes lifted toward Soo-jin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKang Jun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen how could he put an envelope there three years later?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stared at the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the question I should have asked years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked toward the exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Kang Jun arranged for those fragments to appear after his death, somebody has been helping his plan continue all this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin went pale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Choi may finally know who.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou nodded.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>He answered.<\/p>\n<p>His expression changed almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to Soo-jin.<\/p>\n<p>She translated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officers reached the cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grave has been opened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean opened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe memorial stone was moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a compartment underneath it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator listened to the voice on his phone.<\/p>\n<p>Then looked directly at Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p>Soo-jin whispered the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou stared at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone got there first.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=16974\">Click here to continue reading: PART 13: The Empty Compartment Beneath Kang Jun\u2019s Grave Proved Someone Had Been Protecting His Secrets Long After Death\u2014and Choi Was Hunting Them Too<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Dae-hyun asked for a lawyer before he asked for water. Soo-jin said that told her he had spent years preparing for the possibility of arrest. 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