Lee Yong Didn’t Know His Brother
Lee In-Su calmed himself, assuming his son was nowhere near the fourth master of the Wang family. Not knowing the fourth master was on the way to meet his brother's best friend at a friend's place. "So he is not with you."
"Nah! He is neither with my brother nor my dad. But he is with a friend and safe. Now, why don't you tell me why my best friend is crying in the arms of our friend? What did you do this time, ' my beloved uncle'?" The third master said the word 'uncle' with zero respect and was filled with sarcasm and ridicule.
Lee Yong noted how his brother's friend spoke to his father with familiarity and even disrespect without worrying about the consequence.
He figured it must be someone who did not fear making an enemy out of the Lee family.
"To be honest, I don't know. I think it's my wife! There must be some misun… must have been an issue between them. They might have fought…" Lee In-Su tried to explain.
Lee Yong was surprised to hear the fear in his father's voice.
"Obviously! Misunderstanding is there!" The third master laughed at the slip-up of the word 'misunderstanding', and he was growing furious.
A soft voice of a woman disturbed the call. "What happened? Why are you upset, darling?"
"Lee Whan ran away from home again, Baby." The third master spoke softly to the women who questioned him.
Lee Yong understood he was hearing the conversation between lovers and felt weird for listening to it. The softness and adoration in the merely exchanged sentence made it feel more intimate, and now he regretted wanting to listen to it.
The women chuckled as if it was not an issue. "He will be fine as long as he is not home. Whan Oppa will be fine anywhere in the world but that damn Lee mansion. Ask Whan Oppa to go to our place if he wants, or he could stay at your brother's place as long as they promise not to kill each other, or he can crash at your sister's place."
The women came up with many possible places for Lee Whan to stay. She spoke so much familiarity and closeness about his brother that Lee Yong grew puzzled. He had a lot of questions.
How come he never met any of his brother's friends?
Do they know about his brother suffering in the Lee family?
Have they visited the Lee family home?
How close are they to his brother?
Why do they know his father well and not the rest of the family?
Lee Yong finally realised he didn't know anything about his brother.
"Nah! He is crashing with little Choi!" The supposedly third master of the Wang family spoke, and his words made Lee Yong stop his endless lines of thinking.
He wondered who little Choi was and how to find the person's address.
If he could not bring his brother back right away, he does not mind at least checking on his brother right now.
"Oh god! I don't know how that's going to end. Please have lawyers on standby if they end up in a police station." The woman by the third master's side sounded concerned and amused, making Lee Yong wonder why they would end up in a police station.
As far as Lee Yong knew, his brother never stepped inside the police station. But seems like he absolutely knew nothing about his brother, but that woman seemed to know about his brother. Lee Yong realised his little brother visited the police station quite often with his troublemaker friends.
"Done already!" The third master chuckled indulgently. But his words were a little too serious the next minute as if there would be impending doom. "You tell your cousin not to join them! Please! Three of them together are worse than anything in the world!"
"I will give Oppa a call, but I can't promise anything. I still do not understand how these three even became friends. Thinking about them makes my hair grow white! Where did I keep my phone?" The woman muttered to herself, and her voice grew lower as if she were walking away, searching for her phone.
"Thank you!" The third master raised his voice and called after the women.