“If you have a head on your shoulders, you should know to get lost on your own. You, do you not know who Kwon Jeonghan is getting engaged to?”
Smack-! Smack-!
Wooyeon, who had been grabbed by the collar and slapped on the cheek a few more times, collapsed onto the floor below the sofa. Seoha, who had been breathing roughly, still seemingly not having fully vented his anger, picked up the small shopping bag he had thrown on the sofa earlier and threw it at Wooyeon’s face. The hard corner scraped Wooyeon’s cheek, and the shopping bag that hit him fell to Wooyeon’s side with considerable weight.
“If you have eyes, look clearly.”
Wooyeon, who had half-raised his upper body, looked at the shopping bag that had fallen next to him. The small shopping bag had a famous luxury jewelry brand logo stamped on it. Although it was carefully wrapped in the shopping bag, he could tell what it was without asking. It was probably a ring.
“I really…… you, you’re so damn sick of. Fuck, I can’t use my hands because of piano, but because of you.”
Seoha, who had shaken off his hands, took out leather gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands. At the voice pouring out contempt, Wooyeon exhaled resentfully. When Wooyeon looked up at Seoha with eyes welled with tears, Seoha let out a sneer.
“What. What’s with that look?”
“Did you tell him about me?”
When he talked about his biological father, Seoha lifted one corner of his mouth and smiled.
“What are you going to do if I did? He’s your dad. You’re talking as if I framed you or something.”
“……”
“That’s why I told you not to mess with me.”
Seoha spoke as if he had done something natural. He didn’t have even a bit of regret toward Wooyeon.
“Money is really good, isn’t it? Right?”
Seoha’s sharp eyes pierced toward Wooyeon again.
“That’s not……”
“That’s not what? I know how much you’ve received and eaten from Jeonghan. Where are you acting pure? Hey, you’re really absurd. Jeonghan even gave that bastard 300 million, right?”
Seoha, who had shoved his hands into his pockets, spoke as if absurd and turned his head toward the bamboo forest in the garden visible through the window. The rain showed no signs of stopping. After that, Wooyeon, who had been collapsed on the floor, staggered to his feet.
“Ah.”
Seoha, who had been looking at the bamboo for a moment, turned his head to look at Wooyeon again as if remembering something.
“If it’s not because of money, then is it because you like the sex you have with Kwon Jeonghan?”
Wooyeon was speechless at the vulgar words.
“Ahh. So that was it? Then let’s do this.”
“……”
“The three of us. If you can’t give up Kwon Jeonghan, I’ll let you join in. Whatever, I’ll let you in on it.”
Wooyeon’s face contorted at the instinctive repulsion.
“If not even that. Should I make it so you can’t lift your face to Jeonghan?”
“What……”
Seoha, who had turned his body and approached Wooyeon, grabbed the front of Wooyeon’s shirt and poked Wooyeon’s chest with his index finger.
“Are you crazy?”
Displeasure, contempt, and cold goosebumps wrapped around and passed through his whole body. Light from outside passed over Seoha’s face that was smiling with a pfft at just the right time.
That’s when it happened. With a mechanical sound, the sound of the villa’s front door opening was heard, and Seoha reflexively separated from Wooyeon’s body with a pat.
“Sunbae, you were here.”
A low voice descended, cutting through the silence.
“Why are all the lights off?”
Both Wooyeon and Seoha’s gazes turned simultaneously. Instantly, bright lighting came on in the wide living room. At the end of their anxious gazes stood Jeonghan. Revealed under the lighting, he was dressed in a suit and black trench coat, having come after finishing work.
The smile slowly disappeared from Jeonghan’s face that had been wearing one. Jeonghan slowly looked alternately at Seoha and Wooyeon’s faces.
“Jeong, Jeonghan-ah……”
Seoha’s voice calling Jeonghan was trembling. As if he had found his composure, Jeonghan smiled again and approached the two.
“I didn’t know, but there’s a guest here too.”
The cold low voice mixed with the sound of rain. At the inexplicable tension, Wooyeon turned his gaze from Jeonghan to look at Seoha. Seoha was trembling visibly. Jeonghan, who had approached close to the two, first extended his hand toward Wooyeon.
“I came home after work, and you won’t even greet me?”
“Uh……? Uh……”
Jeonghan, who had smiled, gently held Wooyeon’s chin with one hand and slightly turned Wooyeon’s face. One cheek was swollen red enough to be visible to the naked eye and had a long scratch. Jeonghan’s thumb lightly caressed Wooyeon’s cheek where blood had formed, then carefully let go of his face.
“But Seoha-ya.”
Jeonghan, who had turned his head toward Seoha, called Seoha’s name. His intonation was gentle. His eyes holding coldness slowly closed then opened again.
Seoha’s eyes looking up at Jeonghan were trembling. And before even recognizing it, Jeonghan struck Seoha’s cheek as it was. With a thud-! sound, Seoha collapsed to the floor without even being able to scream.
“Entering someone else’s house with shoes on isn’t good manners, is it?”
Startled, Wooyeon raised his hand and covered his mouth. It was something he hadn’t expected at all. His widened eyes trembled with his eyelashes as he looked at Jeonghan. Each time Seoha, who had collapsed on the floor, coughed, blood splattered faintly.
“I should do some cleaning.”
Jeonghan’s voice was calm and peaceful. Seoha’s body, covering his lips spitting out saliva mixed with blood with his gloved hand, was trembling.
“You should leave for today.”
Seoha, who had curled up his body, let out a dry cough. Pale-colored blood and saliva flowing through his fingers fell to the floor.
“Ah, take that too.”
“……”
“That’s what you wanted, wasn’t it?”
Jeonghan gestured with cold eyes toward the shopping bag that had fallen below. Seoha, who had been lying on the floor, stretched out his arm to grab the shopping bag and got up from his seat. Seoha, who had gotten up staggering, forced a smile toward Jeonghan. His burst lip had blood on it.
“Let’s meet next time without this kind of thing happening.”
“U-uh. Jeong, Jeonghan-ah.”
“It would be better to talk next time.”
Jeonghan’s eyes, wearing a formal smile, weren’t smiling. When Seoha rushed out of the villa as if running away, Jeonghan let out a shallow sigh.
When Jeonghan, who had turned his body again, extended his hand toward Wooyeon, Wooyeon flinched and trembled. Jeonghan blinked slowly, then smiled with a pfft.
“What are you startled about?”
He calmly examined Wooyeon’s cheek again.
“It’s a bit swollen. Why do you get hit and go around making me upset?”
When Jeonghan’s fingertips lightly touched Wooyeon’s cheek, Wooyeon stepped back with a confused face. Jeonghan looked at Wooyeon with a face that didn’t know what was going on at all.
It was Wooyeon who didn’t know what was going on. Wooyeon kept blinking because he couldn’t understand. Wasn’t he going to get engaged to Lee Seoha? If he was going to get engaged to Lee Seoha, why, how…….
“I’ll make you an ice pack. Wait a moment.”
Jeonghan walked past Wooyeon toward the kitchen. Wooyeon also turned around and looked at his back like that. He was scared of him whom he couldn’t understand at all.
“Ah. Sunbae, did you eat dinner? It’s late though.”
“No……”
“That’s good. I’ll just do this and then make you pasta.”
Jeonghan’s voice heard from the kitchen was as ordinary as usual. Soon Jeonghan, who had filled an ice pack with ice, brought it to Wooyeon’s cheek with an affectionate touch. The cold energy spread through his whole body from his cheek.
“……Jeonghan-ah.”
When Wooyeon called his name, Jeonghan smiled gently and made eye contact with Wooyeon. Like a child waiting for praise…….
“You’re strange. You know?”
Jeonghan’s eyebrow moved briefly. He tilted his head for a moment, then asked Wooyeon again.
“I’m strange?”
“Don’t you know? You…… are strange.”
Wooyeon’s breath trembled thinly as he stepped back. The coldness of the ice moved away from his reddened swollen cheek.
‘Kwon Jeonghan, that crazy bastard lunatic.’
Suddenly Seonyoung’s words came to mind.
“To you, what am I? What about Lee Seoha? What about Chu Seonyoung?”
“Chu Seonyoung?”
Jeonghan narrowed his eyes as if he didn’t remember well.
“Ah. Her.”
“……”
“Why are you suddenly bringing up talk about her from the past?”
When Wooyeon roughly grabbed his outerwear that had been placed on the sofa and tried to pass by Jeonghan to leave, Jeonghan grabbed such Wooyeon’s wrist.
“Sunbae.”
“I met Seonyoung not long ago. Did you really do that to show Seonyoung on purpose? While you were doing that with me, you said you were at the department room…… Did you really say that to Seonyoung? Is that true?”
Jeonghan had no answer. It was a calm face, not even surprised. Jeonghan really wasn’t normal.
“I just didn’t lie.”
“Are you calling that words right now?”
Wooyeon shook off Jeonghan’s hand.
“I feel like I’m going crazy being with you too.”
“Sunbae.”
“I’m going to sleep at the hospital today. Don’t follow me.”
Wooyeon, who had carelessly swept down his face, grabbed an umbrella stuck at the entrance and ran out of the villa.
4.
“Oh, the overseas dispatch notice is out.”
Assistant Manager Yoon, who was looking at a poster about dispatches to overseas branches attached to the break room wall, made a remark.
Overseas. To Wooyeon, it was literally another country’s story. It was a poster Wooyeon hadn’t even discovered, but since he had previously belonged to the HR team, he seemed to be more knowledgeable about such things. Wooyeon’s hand, which had stopped for a moment, pressed the button on the coffee machine again familiarly.
“By the way, that aside.”
The fingertips of Assistant Manager Yoon, who had approached at some point, touched Wooyeon’s shoulder line.
“Why are our Deputy Seo’s clothes exactly the same as yesterday?”
Wooyeon turned around expressionlessly and looked at Assistant Manager Yoon.
“I slept at the hospital where my mother is yesterday.”
“Aw, that answer is too boring.”
“It’s true.”
Assistant Manager Yoon smiled, contorting one eyebrow. It was a face as if he knew everything. Without the need or confidence to persuade him, Wooyeon turned around again and looked at the coffee machine. Capsule coffee had come down and was contained in the paper cup.
