# Chapter 86
Just a moment ago, we were definitely talking about Sijin’s eyes, but now I’ve become the object of attention.
“It really is like that.”
His gaze moved.
I’m not sure if he’s looking at my eyebrows, my forehead, or the hair above it.
I looked at his smile.
When I raised my hand to touch the corner of his mouth, he touched my hand.
His fingers slid past and grasped my wrist, and I felt a sudden wave of heat.
“Sijin, why do I like you so much?”
“Really?”
The smile on his lips deepened.
“I feel the same way, hyung. I like you. This moment feels like a miracle and it’s so precious. So valuable. I really love that I can just look at you without doing anything else.”
I knew how valuable the time we spent together was.
Grand Tamer had actually sold time for lunch with Crop Five members before.
They didn’t do this event often, only on special occasions, but the first time it was 20 million won, then 50 million won, later 80 million won, and eventually it rose to 130 million won.
For two hours, people could have a meal with the five members of Crop Five, talk with them, and listen to Crop Five’s songs. All the proceeds were donated in Crop Five’s name.
There were frequent requests to lower the price and sell time with just one Crop Five member more often.
But since the goal wasn’t to make money, there hadn’t been any additional discussion on this yet.
Anyway, for these reasons, I knew exactly how valuable this time with Sijin—having him all to myself—really was.
“I feel a bit sorry for you too. Somehow ending up liking me. It’s fortunate for me, though.”
Sijin found that funny and laughed for a while.
“You should always think like that. Don’t suddenly change your mind.”
“I’ll never change. From my life experience, I think I’m just that kind of person. I don’t seem to be the type who gets curious about different people or has a sense of adventure. I think I’m the type who sets my heart on one person and only likes that person.”
“I have a lot to say about that, but I’ll go with that for now.”
“No… it’s true!”
“Yes, I understand. I’ll go with that for now.”
I couldn’t help but laugh at his words.
We shared the same past, so I couldn’t pretend otherwise.
“Back then, I…”
“You don’t have to say it.”
Sijin smiled broadly.
“The best part is that we don’t have to talk about it anymore.”
I felt sorry for Sijin in many ways.
Besides other reasons, there was the fact that he couldn’t openly acknowledge our relationship.
But Sijin said he actually preferred it that way.
“Even if I liked someone else and dated someone else, I’d be in a position where it would be difficult to be open about it. Since the reasons overlap now, I think it’s better this way.”
He was truly amazing to be able to think of it that way.
But we soon realized that not everyone in a similar situation to ours thought the same way.
This became even more evident when I received hyung’s call.
* * *
—Kang Seomin. Do you have time this evening?
When hyung suddenly called and asked this, I looked at Sijin first.
Sijin was lying next to me, sleeping as if dead.
After working late into the night, he suddenly came to me, made a move, and then fell asleep at dawn, not even stirring at the sound of my phone call.
“Why? Did something come up at the company?”
—You still ask if something came up at the company. Seriously. You really shouldn’t be like this. No matter what, do you have to completely disappear?
“Well, no, hyung. I do show my face occasionally. And even though I’m not coming to the office, I handle a lot of work from here.”
Thinking he wasn’t calling to hear that, I just said that much and waited for his response.
—I’m not calling about company work. I’m meeting with the kids after a long time, and if you’re free, I want you to come along.
“Ah, I’m not available. Just say I can’t make it.”
Usually, hyung wouldn’t bother me two or three more times if I said that much.
He used to do that in the early days, but not lately.
But unusually, hyung persisted.
—Why? Are you busy? Because of Han Sijin? Does Han Sijin not like you going there?
“No, it’s not that, but I don’t think I really need to go. Why? If I have to go, I will.”
As if he had heard that perfectly, Sijin opened his eyes and looked at me.
Somehow, his hand was already touching my bare back.
‘Should I not go?’
When I mouthed those words, Sijin shrugged.
He seemed to think that if I really had to go, he couldn’t stop me.
“What’s this about, hyung?”
—Just what I said. I just thought it would be good if you came along.
“Then I’ll go.”
—Really? Ask Han Sijin if he can come too. Oh, no. Just bring him along. If you tell him to come, he will, right?
“I guess… so?”
When I looked at Sijin after saying that, he was smiling without knowing what the conversation was about.
His face looked as gentle as a newborn baby.
—Good. So do that. There’s no specific dress code, just come dressed comfortably. I’ll let you know the time and place… No, let’s go together. That would be better.
Hyung was rambling for some reason, and I thought he was up to something.
After ending the call, I glared at my smartphone, and Sijin asked what was going on while wrapping his arm around my waist.
“Hyung says there’s a gathering with his friends and wants us to come together? And he asked you to come too. You don’t have to go if you don’t want to, Sijin.”
I said that because I didn’t want to pressure him, but Sijin’s expression showed it wasn’t difficult at all.
“Why not? It’s not a big deal. The CEO has been very considerate of our situation. I think we should listen to requests like this. How should we go? Should I just go and crush everyone?”
“I don’t think that’s what we need to do, but since a star is descending, it would be strange to go looking like ordinary people, right?”
“When is it? I’ve been neglecting myself too much lately. This is bad!”
Sijin immediately jumped up and went to the mirror to check his condition.
His face was still radiant regardless.
His talk of neglect was simply astounding.
“But I wonder what this is about?”
I figured hyung wouldn’t tell me even if I asked, so I pondered it on my own.
“Is he trying to put me down again?”
“What does that mean?”
“Hyung does that sometimes.”
When I told him some stories about hyung, Sijin laughed.
“I’m glad the CEO doesn’t dislike hyung. In a normal situation, even if hyung hasn’t done anything wrong, there would be nothing to say if the CEO disliked him. The pie is getting smaller.”
That must be right.
An unwanted heir appears, reducing the shares, and the amount of reduction is beyond an ordinary person’s imagination.
Come to think of it, hyung was the most incomprehensible person in Seyoung Group.
Everyone else’s actions were humanly understandable, but only hyung’s movements were particularly difficult to comprehend.
“It seems the CEO was genuinely happy to have a brother. The CEO didn’t think about inheritance or wealth at all, but only thought about having a cousin brother. That’s not easy to do. It seems like humans want more even when they already have a lot.”
When you think about it, Sijin might have some similarities with hyung.
If he were chasing money, Sijin shouldn’t be here like this now, and he shouldn’t have said those things to the Crop Five members.
The current Crop Five was soaring high with no possibility of falling, so it was incomprehensible that he would declare he wouldn’t be active as Crop Five.
‘Come to think of it, hyung’s reaction to hearing that was funny too. It was probably a reaction only hyung could have.’
Given Han Sijin’s significant role in Crop Five, one might have worried about the fate of a four-member Crop Five without him.
But hyung accepted Sijin’s wishes without a second thought.
Even though Sijin didn’t explain the detailed reasons to hyung.
Saying that Sijin had tried enough, hyung accepted Sijin’s intentions and granted the rest period that Sijin wanted.
“Should I call Wonjae hyung?”
“Who is that?”
“Huh?”
The feeling that this wasn’t the soft Han Sijin from a moment ago made me laugh awkwardly.
But then I thought there was no need to do that since I hadn’t done anything wrong, so I spoke firmly.
“Sijin, he’s my hyung’s friend. It’s really funny how you’re acting. That person has no interest in me at all.”
“Hyung, I don’t want to be like this either, and I never thought I would be this way. But it’s you, hyung. I think you’re too unaware of how other people see you. So I worry, and I feel a bit wronged too. It’s better because there are many people who understand me.”
“Who? Crop Five?”
“Yes. See, see? I knew you’d make that expression.”
He shook his head, and I burst into laughter.
“Sijin, please come to your senses. Do you think everyone in the world falls head over heels for hyung? It’s so embarrassing. It would be a disaster if you said something like that elsewhere.”
Sijin sighed as if there was no point in saying anything.
He’s such a funny guy.
