"The Recognition"

Prologue

It has been four years. It was such a long time since he was able to see the world in his own vision. Such a waste of time he had. With those four years and never did he think that God would still give him a chance to get away from what he had thought an eternity of exile?

In the most unexpected way, he grabs the chance to get out from it. And he never had expected to be rescued by someone he never thought of. But as soon as realization had come into him, he openly accepted the offer like a lost child clinging into some stranger. But that person was never a stranger to him. It was his father.

With a trembling hands and unsettled gait, he had been pacing back in forth at the departure area. The old man beside him had been eyeing him ever since they arrived at the airport. He can't believe himself that he was there leaving for home, at last. For the last four years of unseemly continuous routine of waking up, eating, studying, sulking, crying, sleeping and doing it again the next day. So Yi Jeong. Yes. The infamous F4's Casanova was heading back home after four years of exile.

All anxiousness had never left him. It started when he saw his own father right in front his grandfather's private villa. His visit was never been known to anybody for the place was actually kept discrete. He thought he was there to have a talk to his grandpa but everything became a shocking revelation to him.

Flashback

"Father, I know your very reason why you keep hiding my son here. But I will never allow you to keep him here anymore. I'm taking my Son with me."

A mocking sound was heard in all corners of the dining hall. Just by the sound of it made Yi Jeong cringed like a child, how he hated listening to that sound coming from his own grandfather. But what surprises him was the purpose of his father for coming there all the way from Korea to Sweden. He had thought that his ears were actually deceiving him but they are not.

"What the hell is this all about, So Hyun Sub?" He said then another mocking laughter followed.

"What a shame it is to take my son and hide him here for such idiotic reason? Why? Why do you keep on doing this?"

"Why? You know the whole reason, Hyun Sub. You don't have to ask me that."

''What reason? Keeping him away from everybody so he can be the Master of Arts you had dreamed to become but you failed to? And so he can do all the things you want him to do for you in you so called life. Your stupid of a life? How can a man at your age consider museums and businesses as his life?"

"Look who's talking, the man who consider his life of a philanderer."

With a smug and a grin on his face, his father countered. "Just as I thought. You really don't know why I became one, don't you? It was a favor you forced me to do to keep up with your life right? The one favor which was followed by another one then more. Those favor who ruined my whole family and shattered my life into deep ."

The argument was all verbal but it was more like shoots and daggers of guns and knives. He can barely breathe with the tension that had risen inside the hall, as all of the words said by his father sunk into him.

"Oh come on, don't tell me you haven't enjoyed those. I mean, she was just arranged for you to marry in exchange of a business deal. And those favors you did, you and your son is currently benefiting."

With all the revelation he had heard from his grandfather, all that Yi Jeong could feel was a thunder of rage threatening to strike in any time. How on earth do they had given him a grandfather like So Woo Seong. In a while he was keeping his rage in control thus turning his body into a whole shaking maniac.

How his wonderful childhood had went downhill when his father was caught by him and his mother cheating on their family. How his mother became an alcoholic and how he turned out to be another philandering bastard was because of those stupid favors So Woo Seong had forced in to his father to do, just for his so called life.