Cold sweat flowed down the back of Kim Byun’s neck.

Once, a political opponent of Sera went missing without a word.

Chairman Seo didn’t care if her child committed a crime as long as it didn’t come to the surface.

In particular, if it brought great benefits to Seohwa, it was more generous. Sera’s work in that area was perfect.

“Well, it’s not a background check, but Chairman Seo is worried about you as the eldest girl…”

“Yes, so I understand. My personal connections.”

Sera flicked Kim Byun away. Byun hurriedly fixed his stretched tie.

“Don’t tell my mother, you should be the only one who knows. You have no idea. If it happens later, it’ll be hard to fix.”

“L-lady. What the hell are you doing?” Byun Kim asked with a worried face.

Sera was silent.

Kim Byun was a close aide to Chairman Seo. Nevertheless, leaving him with Adam’s background investigation was a form of insurance. If the plan goes awry, she needs someone to fix it.

Sera had no intention of antagonizing Chairman Seo.

Her mother’s dream was also her dream. It’s just that she’s trying to get rid of the existence that she doesn’t think is necessary for her mother’s grand ideals.

Then her mother will find out someday.

Who is most important to her.

* * *

The familiar scenery passed by endlessly outside the car window. Hae-won recalled a conversation with Chairman Seo.

‘For the time being, take a business management class in parallel with your work. You don’t have to quit right away. I intend to expose you to the media at the right time.’

‘All right.’

In the end, Hae-won gave up Seohwa Welfare.

What should she say to Bora and the other employees? She was just confused when she thought about the future. However, the foundation itself was not lost, so it was not the worst situation.

The problem was the solution. She has never imagined doing something different with Seohwa Welfare. It was because of her father she first established the Single Mother Welfare Foundation. She wanted to help Omegas like her father. She wants to work hard for the people who are left out and neglected in the world. That’s what she started with. No, that’s what she thought. The truth was nothing more than a flashy excuse.

The real reason was debt.

Numerous prejudices and threats could have been avoided by living under the mask of Alpha. In the midst of that cowardly life, she only paid back the accumulated debt through a plausible act of service.

But if she can’t even do this, she won’t be able to escape from the debt-like sin.

‘I really want to be a family with Haewon.’

The hand holding the steering wheel gave her strength.

‘As long as Hae-won is around, it doesn’t matter if it’s hell.’

For the first time in her life, the weight of her decision was heavy enough to suffocate, but it was natural for others – the act of taking responsibility for one’s choices.

A life with no worries, no intensity, just like an automatic doll. The doll first fell in love with someone and chose to go to ruin with him.

Love is infinitely devastating to see this.

Before she knew it, Haewon’s car reached the front of the Atrium Museum of Art.

“…….”

The closed art museum was horrifyingly still. Hae-won stood alone and appreciated the painting while waiting for Adam. Under the picture with a strong religious color, which depicts paradise, the world, and hell side by side, a passage from the Bible was written.

‘I’m Alpha and Omega…….’

Hae-won read the Bible verse in her head as a habit and stared at the painting. It is the first woman that gives fruit to the first man in paradise.

The fruit is good and evil.

Man commits sin by eating the fruit of good and evil.

In the center of the canvas from paradise to the ground, the two exiled people are running away from something, covering themselves with animal skins.

Hell, the edge of the canvas, was described as the most terrible place in any religious painting. The descendants of mankind are burning in the fire.

Haewon closed her eyes quietly.

There was a time when she thought that this world in which she lived was actually hell but this place wasn’t hell. Like the picture, the world was a very ordinary reality that existed between paradise and hell. It’s just a hell of a pain. Adam was the only joy in her painful life. She felt alive every moment she was with him. It’s painful at the same time. This happiness was a sweet poison, with hell as collateral, on the premise of the expulsion of paradise.

Nevertheless, Hae-won wanted to live with Adam. So she chose Adam.