I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 458: 44. Head Flick

Park Hyejeong sat trembling in the back seat of a brand-new luxury car.

“Ssshh... huuuh...”

It wasn’t even particularly cold, yet her body wouldn’t stop shaking.

“S-surely, this won’t... won’t k-kill me, right...? Y-yeah... it won’t... He said I was... delicious...”

She was alone in the car.

Not just the car—almost the entire stretch of road was empty.

— From now on, act with your real face.

She recalled Muyeol’s command.

Simple words, yet terrifying in their bluntness.

When she first heard it, she thought she’d misheard.

Use her real face? But she was Heo Yewon now. How could she suddenly use Park Hyejeong’s face again?

But Muyeol’s reply had been brutally simple.

— Just say you had an accident and needed extensive surgery. And while you’re at it, say you had it sculpted to my tastes. Throw in a few implants too.

That was why.

That was why she was riding now, down this empty road.

Soon, thanks to a “washed” car, Heo Yewon was going to suffer a major accident.

— Y-y-you really... want me to... actually get in an accident...?

— Yeah. Makes it real. Don’t worry, you won’t die. Soeun lived, didn’t she? You think I’d let a pussy of mine die? Trust your pussy. If you can’t trust that, then trust my cock, since it loves your pussy.

— Ah...

Watching his smiling face, Park Hyejeong felt what true evil was.

But what choice did she have?

She had already staked everything to become his bitch.

Fwaaash—

Suddenly, one side flared bright.

“Ah, ahhh...”

From the distance, a shadowy shape hurtled toward her car at brutal speed.

Her breath seized, blood rushed to her head, panic swallowed her whole.

“M-Master...!!! Kyaaaaaaaa!!!”

KWAANG—!!

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— ...And shocking news continues to pour in. At around 2 A.M. on the 16th, the vehicle carrying Heo Yewon, Incheon Intelligence Committee Chair, was struck and overturned by an AI malfunctioning car.

— Breaking news: Representative Heo Yewon, also Vice Chair of Policy for the Peaceful Future Incheon Party, was in a serious accident at dawn today and is now in critical condition. This comes not long after her parents also perished in an accident. Police are investigating the possibility that this was a targeted terrorist attack on the Intelligence Committee.

— In the wake of Representative Heo Yewon’s accident, today’s Incheon City Council plenary and standing committee sessions have been suspended. The Peaceful Future Incheon Party leadership has convened an emergency executive meeting at 8 A.M. to launch a party-level investigation—

Beep.

I shut off the screen spilling endless news reports.

All day, it was about our Hyejeong.

“How are you? Does it hurt?”

“...I-I’m all right...”

Park Hyejeong, in a hospital gown on the bed, answered with vacant eyes.

“They say it’s just bruising, so you’ll recover in about a week. I got you a month’s leave anyway. Take this chance to rest. You haven’t had the chance, no matter where you were, right?”

“...”

Her answers were half-hearted.

Overall, she seemed dazed.

She’d grown fearful since becoming a turncoat.

“You used to like smoking, didn’t you?”

Seunghee reached for cigarettes in her pocket to hand one to Hyejeong, but I stopped her.

I decided to do it myself.

I pressed close, almost straddling her on the bed, grabbing her jaw tight.

“Mmmp...”

Her eyes shimmered with fear.

I pushed the cigarette into her lips, stroked her hair.

Whether PTSD or something else, she flinched at every touch, yet still accepted it.

“Such a pretty, fuckable face. People are going to be shocked, huh? Heo Yewon suddenly reappearing as a super beauty.”

“Ah...”

“And the Abyss... they’ll be shocked most of all.”

The point of stripping off the mask of Heo Yewon and having her live with Park Hyejeong’s real face wasn’t just because her real face was prettier.

It was to anchor her position as mine alone.

What did it mean for her to reveal her true face, yet continue to live as Heo Yewon?

It meant she had betrayed the Abyss and chosen me.

That she could never go back.

Of course, I already knew.

As long as she bore the trait Absolute Submission, she could never betray me.

But no one else knew that.

So I was giving her plausibility.

A reason for my bitches to trust her—that she was in a position where betrayal was impossible.

That way, she could work properly.

And,

it doubled as punishment and a warning.

She had been a spy after all.

Even if I orchestrated it all, she’d still funneled plenty of intel to the NIS and the Abyss.

She had to pay something for that.

So I gave her just a little “accident.” No serious injuries—but enough mental shock. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

For reference, aside from my closest circle, everyone else was told she’d been gravely wounded.

Smooch.

I kissed Hyejeong’s forehead.

On the way down, she’d squeezed her eyes shut as if bracing for a threat—cute, really.

After the kiss, I lit the cigarette dangling from her lips.

Fsshh—

As it burned, I stroked her cheek, then climbed off the bed.

“Rest.”

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“By now, the Abyss must be in emergency mode.”

When Park Hyejeong first decided to defect, she had run wild, tearing through Incheon, smoking out spies everywhere.

A lot of ordinary people had been swept up too, but still—a huge number of agents had been exposed and eliminated.

Naturally, this had dealt a huge blow to both the NIS and the Abyss.

And it had forced adjustments to my own plans to swallow them.

“Yes. They have no choice. With entire intel lines ripped out, they won’t be able to operate in Incheon for the time being.”

“Tsk, tsk. That’s a shame. I wanted to devour them.”

“Even so, the outline is clearer now. Between the intel we already gathered and Park Hyejeong’s testimony, we’ve been able to narrow down the branches the Abyss is running.”

“Yeah? Then maybe it’s time to send them a warning.”

The Abyss had already stacked up quite a debt.

Seo Eunmi and Ma Yeonju, then Park Hyejeong and those two faerie agents.

Only two times if you counted incidents—but two within one year.

That wasn’t small.

And now, with this latest event, their guard against me would be higher than ever. More frequent, more secretive.

Which meant I had to hit them properly first.

Even my bitch Hyejeong had been punished.

So the Abyss—who weren’t even my bitches—obviously deserved something far harsher.

They came after me, so of course they’d pay.

Threefold, tenfold.

Psshhhhh—!

I visited the military base under construction at Muyeol Land’s port.

Eventually, the plan was to stack it with mecha and every kind of weapon, but for now it was just mecha hangars and a naval dockyard—“modest,” as it were.

Still, with over a dozen 17-meter machines, plus the Snow White (26.8 meters, custom built beyond the Baekseol standard) and all its maintenance facilities—it was plenty majestic to human eyes.

“How should we do it for maximum terror? Use the support ship like an aircraft carrier, bomb them from the sea? Or just launch mecha from here and crush them? Or maybe don’t even ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) bother with mecha or weapons at all—just use the overwhelming specs of a knight’s body to turn their base into rubble?”

“Sir, take a mecha, drop it in, then dismount.”

“Oh...!”

“And then destroy the Abyss branch barehanded. Nothing could be more terrifying.”

Go in by mecha, then get out and fight barehanded...

“Ha. That’s chivalrous, isn’t it? ‘A knight doesn’t draw his blade against the weak.’ Romantic.”

I clapped in delight at the excellent suggestion, gazing at the knights staring back with eyes full of respect and loyalty.

Right now, I commanded 15 exclusive knights of my own, plus 15 permanently leased from Go Minji—30 total.

Of those, 5 male knights from Minji’s batch were dispatched to Mayor Jung Mina to embed across Incheon’s military divisions, consolidating control.

So available forces: 25.

Twenty-five knights—enough to wipe a country off the map.

Let alone some Abyss branch.

No matter what new weapons—S-types or whatever—they couldn’t stand against knights.

“Then how about this. Nothing is scarier than getting crushed despite being loaded down with penalties. So I’ll go myself.”

“...Excuse me??”

“I’ll take all 25. Leave Baekseol at my side, unleash the other 24 to ravage everything. And if I spot pretty girls, I’ll have them brought to me.”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“...”

The way they looked at me changed.

As if... with disdain?

“What.”

“N-nothing, sir.”

“You misunderstand. It’s about instilling terror, helplessness, humiliation. Imagine—me, defenseless, walking into enemy territory. How disgraceful for them.”

“That is true.”

“And then I casually pick out women to fuck—that’s humiliation on top.”

“Also true.”

“...”

These fools just didn’t grasp my great vision.

Didn’t they see?

This was for the sake of humiliation.