《Living My Second Life My Way》


 Prologue

    Usually, by seven pm, the precinct busier hours would have passed so at this time the officers would be sitting around talking as they worked on their own cases but on this night the door to the station swung open and they looked up to see a student stumbling into the station.


    The officers'' eyes widened when they realized that the student was covered in blood and mumbling incoherently as his body shook, one of the older officers stood up and came over to him, the student was startled at his approach but then looked at him with a face full of tears "Someone... someone fell... I... I was... just going home, but then... they fell... and then... then there was blood...blood..." the student couldn''t continue to speak as he collapsed into the officer.


    He was quickly held up but once the officer looked at him he realized that the boy had passed out and then the station was noisy once again, someone called the ambulance while the other officers got up to go check the tapes once they found which direction the child came from they called it in and several of them headed out to go find where the child came from.


    As the ambulance came the officers called in to report that they found a dead body outside a construction site and they weren''t sure if it was suicide or homicide and so as the boy was taken to the hospital with the company of the older officer, the other officers headed out to start working on the case after calling it into their superiors.


    The older officer was called Hong Jeong-Hoon and he had been serving in the force for nearly three decades and also this wasn''t the first time he had dealt with a case like this he found himself worried for the boy because it was clear to him and the other officers that this child was probably just a passerby, who walked by as the body fell to the floor and was frightened into shock as blood splashed on him.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.


    He stood outside the hospital room and soon the door opened and another officer walked out, she handed him a sealed bag with the child''s clothes inside and he nodded and was about to head out but stopped and looked back to her "How is the kid?"


    The other officer smiled weakly and shook her head "he is in severe shock, the doctor said it would take him a while to get out of it and then a bit more before we could question him, also I tried to get in contact with his guardian but there was no answer, so can you take a look and in the meantime I''ll watch over him until they come?"


    Officer Hong nodded and then headed out to go to the station, the other officer watched him leave before walking into the room, he walked over and took a seat in the chair next to the bed that that student was lying on, she watched as the nurse took down the information on the machine and then nodded to her before leaving the room.


    The officer, Ki Bong-Cha looked at the face of the unconscious boy and looked closely, earlier the nurses had pushed back the boy''s hair to reveal a handsome and white face, the boy''s features were so sharp that it would stop people in their tracks and yet he covered it all by having his hair hanging in front of his face, it had nearly scared a few officers when he first came in.


    She sighed and looked away closing her eyes to get some rest unaware that the boy opened his eyes and turned to look at her with a small smile on his face.

 Chapter One

    I turned my head and then slowly opened my eyes a small and unrecognizable smile coming to my face when I saw that the officer was really sleeping, my body relaxed a little more and I thought back to what happened, I had clearly been working at the warehouse, I had been told it was time for my break so I went to the corner and closed my eyes just to get a bit of rest only to wake up just as the body made contact with the concrete and splashed blood on me.


    I had truly been in shock for a moment, bewildered on how I had even ended up outside because I was only on a break and then I would have to continue to work until ten pm so there was no reason for me to leave and head home so even if I was on autopilot it still made no sense until I looked down at the body and my memories of my childhood came flooding into my head.


    It was this very moment that set off the events that ruined while nearly costing me my life, it had happened just like my last life, I was just walking home from school when the body fell in front of me and at that time I was dealing with a lot of issues a school and so I freaked out and ran away, I went home changed my clothes, his them took a shower and then curled up in my bed, a few days later I was arrested and a few months later I was sitting behind bars with the charge of murder.


    Someone had manipulated the case from behind turning it from suicide to murder and I was turned into a criminal, I sadly never found out the reason or who had set me up all I knew was that no matter what I said no one would believe me and by the end of it the people U thought were in my corner the most, my parents, abandoned me, the cause being the fact that my mother was just confirmed to be pregnant with my little brother.


    I spent nearly two decades of my life behind bars and when I came out and went to go find my family I found them living in a high end gated community, I was a bit surprised thinking that maybe my brother had become someone and my parents were living with him but a year later I was slapped in the face with the fact that my family was living off of the money that the person had paid them to abandon me, my own parents sold me out and my brother became a second-generation because of my sacrifice.


    After that, I never tried to contact them again and went about my life, all I wanted was a place to call my own so I worked for a few hours until I could afford a comfortably sized apartment, and then after that I lived a mundane but peaceful life, work, relax, hang out with friends and then once in a while if I had enough money I would go on a trip somewhere and within that time I never ran into any of the people I once knew so I was really just happy.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.


    I had never once thought of getting revenge and even if I did who would I get it on, why would I push myself into a dead-end for revenge when I was living life just fine, it may be other people preferences but it''s not mine, I simply stopped caring but I did have an idea of who the other person was because later I had found out who the dead person was.


    Chang Si-Woo, wasn''t someone I personally knew but he had attended the same school as me and we shared a class, the reason for his suicide was never clear since he was the most recognizable kid in school, he knew everyone just as everyone knew him and was known for being friendly and kind and his death had been pinned on me the alleged cause being jealousy since I was the complete opposite from him, gloomy dark and silent.


    And better yet he was the son of a powerful family I figured they wanted to save face so they didn''t want anyone knowing that their son jumped to his death and turned his suicide into murder and an innocent teen into a criminal all to get sympathy, which they used to make their family more prosperous and dive into areas that they wouldn''t have been able to touch under normal circumstances.


    So in this life instead of going home in a panic I slowly staggered my way to the police station and then carried out the pretense of being in shock and then getting them on the case early so by the time the Cang family found out it would be impossible to turn me into a criminal as much fun as the last years of my life I still wanted to go back to school, I wanted o to have friends and then live a batter life than I did in my last life, and if anyone else took care of that family I guess I got a bonus.


    And as for my family, I''ll just finish off my school years and as soon as I get into the university I''ll go to one far away from them and then never go back to them, maybe they will wonder what they did wrong to have an unfilial child like me and make a racket so the who town know that they didn''t want me but honestly I just wouldn''t care.


    Or maybe since I was still in middle school and would be going over to highschool starting next year then I could aim for one outside of our town so I could go and start living my life in peace, cut my hair, make some friends and then just enjoy myself while I was still young while moving forward to my dream career, I hadn''t decided on one as yet but I could always do that later.

 Chapter Two

    At some point, I had fallen asleep so by the time I woke up again it was in the morning and I could hear people talking around me, I slowly opened my eyes groaning because the light was shining on my face, I turned my head to the other side and then blinked my eyes until the blurriness faded.


    "Hyun Chin-Hae?" I looked over when someone called my name and saw that it was my mother who called me she looked so happy to see that I was awake but I found myself just staring at her, I was confused why is she so happy to see me, was it even real because if she was really happy to see me how could she have given up on me just like that in my last life, I sighed, it seemed that I cared more than I thought I did.


    The thoughts in my head obviously couldn''t be heard by the people in the room so they mistook it as me still being in shock, the doctor came over and checked my eyes when I blinked and looked at him he let out a sigh "it seems that although Chin-Hae is no longer in shock, he is still a bit confused so we should let him rest for a few more minutes and then you can talk to him one at a time, as for Officers Hong and Ki you can question him later in the day when he is ready to talk to you."


    The doctor checked on me one last time before leaving the room with the nurse and I looked around to look at the people in the room, I could see my parents, teacher, and the two officers that the doctor just spoke to, they all looked at me and then my mother stepped forward, she sat on the chair next to my bed and reached out her hand to take mine.


    I had to fight my reflex so I didn''t pull my hand away from her, I know I had gotten over what they had did but that didn''t mean I would forgive or want anything to do with them, the thought of them being in the same area as me already irritated me so touching was obviously a no, I bit my cheek and then looked at her teary eyes, disgust swelling in my stomach at how good she was acting.


    My eyes moved from her face and dropped to her stomach, in my last life I heard that not long after I ended up in prison was when my mother''s stomach had started showing, which means they didn''t know that she was pregnant at this point in time, she didn''t know about that little demon that caused them to abandon me.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    In my last life after in the year that I spent hanging around the area where they lived, I had many stories about his tyranny and the sickening things that he had done and I also heard the stories that showed me my parents had become like the people that had made them abandon their son, they were no better than those people after earning that money, they became the same type of people they despised, I nearly laughed at the memory of them always preaching for me not to become like those people.


    "Hypocrites," I mumbled and my mother didn''t seem like she heard me.


    "Chin-Hae," I looked at her face and she smiled "are you okay, baby?" I just stared at her and forced myself to nod "good, that''s good, I was so scared when someone called and told me that you were in the hospital, my first thought was that you were hurt," I watched as tears ran down her face "I almost collapsed, I''m so happy that you''re okay, I don''t know... what I''d do... if anything happened to you."


    She started sobbing and I just stared at her, I looked into her eyes and the pain in her eyes were clear, she wasn''t acting, these were her true feelings, but knowing this didn''t bring me any sort of happiness if she was in so much pain from them just calling her to the hospital how could she give up on me so easily, how could she abandon me for money and never even give me a single call in all that time that I was in prison.


    "Chin-Hae!" I looked at my dad who rushed over he held my face and started rubbing at it "it''s okay Chin-Hae, don''t cry we''re here, you''re safe." I didn''t even know I had started to cry until he came over and I began to sob, I wasn''t crying because of what happened but because of how worried they were, if they were so worried how could they abandon me, how could they just forget me like that?


    I sobbed so hard that he leaned over and pulled me into his embrace I sobbed so hard my chest was hurting, I gripped onto his shirt and sobbed until no tears came out, everyone stared at me in confusion and they called in the doctor, I refused to let go of my dad so he had to go to the other side to check on me, he smiled and pulled out a syringe and soon I was feeling drowsy.


    I felt my dad rubbing my back until I couldn''t keep my eyes open any longer and slipped into unconsciousness. The thought that came with me was that the only reason they abandoned me was because of that so-called baby brother of mine, if only he didn''t exist...

 Chapter Three

    By the time I woke up the next day the thought had already left my head, the thought of wanting to get rid of him made me uncomfortable and also made me realize how different I was from him and my parents, I wasn''t the type of person that could abandon anyone, no matter the circumstance, if I loved and cared for them I could never harm them.


    That''s why even in my last life as I pretended to give up on my family I would wake up with tears on my face, a clear sign I had been crying through the night, and every time someone would talk about them, including the little brother I never met my heart would throb, but at the same time, I had enough common sense to know that even if I went back they would never accept me back.


    So every day as I lived my life I forced myself to forget them and the pain it brought me every time I remembered how easily I was abandoned by them, so maybe I was never truly happy and was just forcing myself to, I built myself this life just to get over the one I was forced to give up, I was truly pathetic.


    As I laid in the hospital bed staring out the window I came to the realization that maybe I had never even lived for myself, yes, in the entirety of my last life I only did things according to what I thought they would want, I had spent my entire childhood life studying in order to get good grades so when I grew up I could help them, completely ignoring myself, the one that had no friends, no social skills to speak of and was being bullied constantly.


    I had even unintentionally sacrificed myself in order for my parents to live a better life, as they had basically sold me for a few million dollars, yes that was all I was worth to them and then during my time in prison, I didn''t call them because I didn''t want to upset them and remind them of the shame they had to live with because their son ended up in jail and lastly the way I lived the first year when I got out of jail, close enough to see them but not close enough to bother them.


    I had lived my entire just for them and as I ran through my memory there wasn''t a single thing that I had gained from doing so, I didn''t get their love nor care, I didn''t get any respect or inspired any of the people with me and as I thought about it I was never truly happy especially after that incident.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    I stared at the people in the room my eyes lingering on each of them one by one and as I stared at them I came to the decision that living my life for others wasn''t worth it, I would gain nothing no matter who I did it for and since I was given this second life then maybe the one who gave it to me was thinking the same thing, they as much like myself, wanted me to just live for me.


    A small smile came to my face, as soon as I was finished dealing with this case then I would start this new life of mine with a haircut, I remember a few years after I had left prison I had met this woman that said I was handsome, so maybe if I just cut it then everything would be better and as for those bullies in my school, as someone who had spent nearly two decades surviving in prison, they were literal child''s play.


    "Hyun Chin-Hae." I looked at the person who called me and he gave me a smile "My name is officer Hong Jeong-Hoon, you might not remember but yesterday when you entered the station I was the one you had spoke to before passing out and I also brought you here, although we could clearly see it through the camera we still need your statement and then after that, you''re free to rest we won''t contact you about the case again unless it is absolutely necessary."


    I nodded to him hiding my smile, as I kept myself from saying that I did know him and that more than know him he was a dear friend of mine and the only one that knew who I was and what happened to me before I moved to my new town, he was even the one that helped me out the most and became the only person I ever truly trusted and because of that as I had told him about my life he had also told me about his and that was why when I woke up he was the only person I thought could help me and where to find him at this time.


    He watched at me and I slowly told him what happened he only asked a few questions and mostly sat there listening to me it seemed he hadn''t changed from how he was in my old life because the thing that made me see him as my family was the way that when I just wanted someone to talk to he would always listen to me, he was a better father to me than the one I had called so all my life.


    But sadly for this man when he finally passed away at the age of eighty, aside from the people in the town that knew him, it was only me and one other that came to see him off from before he left, I looked up the woman, Officer Ki Bong-Cha, she was nearly a decade younger than him and was still striking with an oppressive aura when she came to see him off and we had only spoken once, after the funeral she asked me if I wanted a drink and as an old woman, she could really drink.