Chapter 23
Heegang slowly unbuttoned his shirt with one hand while looking up at Wonyoung. At that provocative sight, Wonyoung forgot what he was going to say and just gaped.
He was damn handsome though. At least there wouldn’t be anyone in the world who wouldn’t fall for this right now…
‘Here I am! Get it together, Heo Wonyoung! You’re all-ages! You don’t like Baek Heegang!’
Wonyoung belatedly slapped his own cheek to come to his senses. Then he tried to forcibly close Heegang’s shirt, which was almost completely unbuttoned at the chest, but at this moment, choices appeared.
[If, if you keep doing this, I’ll cry?!]
[If, if you keep doing this, I’ll do it?!]
What does ‘do it’ mean, ‘do it’?!
This time, Wonyoung chose the top choice without hesitation.
“If, if you keep doing this, I’ll cry?!”
“Huh?”
At those words, Heegang’s eyes widened. Thinking this was the moment, Wonyoung quickly moved away from Heegang.
“Rae.”
When Heegang tried to approach, Wonyoung blurted out anything to somehow prevent a 19+ development.
“You, you can’t be so immodest!”
“…”
“Just, taking your clothes off for anyone like that, huh? You can’t do that! That’s something you do only after marriage!”
“Then after we get married, I can do it as much as I want?”
“What?”
“I’m asking in advance.”
Only then did Wonyoung realize he had dug his own grave.
‘Damn it.’
It seemed this game was definitely eating away at his reason. By not giving him time to think and constantly pressuring him, it was turning him into the real Narae!
But this time too, he had no time. At this rate, becoming a married man might only be a matter of time. So he hesitantly opened his mouth.
“I, I’m not thinking about marriage yet, aaah…!”
However, Wonyoung, who was trying to make excuses about not thinking of marriage, screamed as Heegang tightly embraced him. His stamina was decreasing by -1 from suffocation.
While draining Wonyoung’s stamina like that, Heegang whispered lowly in his ear.
“You’re so cute it’s hard to bear. So just stay like this for a moment. I’ll endure with just this today.”
“…Ah.”
‘He said I’m cute.’
Along with Wonyoung thinking that, a mission completion notification appeared. Wonyoung was momentarily flustered by the reward he had received unintentionally. Was it good that he brought up marriage? No, but still that’s a bit… Anyway, he received the ‘Half Debt Forgiveness’ reward with mixed feelings.
On one hand, since he had achieved the mission, he wanted to quickly send away this crazy person, but if he made a mistake here, it seemed like he might head toward a terrifying route, so he decided to stay quietly in Heegang’s arms for a while.
And unfortunately, when his stamina had only 10 left, Heegang finally let go of Wonyoung. Only then could Wonyoung get up with relief.
He let out a sigh of relief that nothing major had happened, then belatedly looked at the two men collapsed in front of the door.
“By the way, what should we do about those people?”
“Ah, if it’s about money, I’ll pay. Was it 100 million?”
“What?”
“Instead, let’s go to my house. The security here isn’t that good either, it won’t do.”
“No no, I can pay it back myself!”
Even normally, Wonyoung would have been suspicious and refused first, but today it was even more unacceptable. How could he live in the same house as this crazy person! It was 19+ in a different sense!
“But, Rae. For you to pay back such a large sum of 100 million…”
“I’ll pay it back. Don’t get involved in this matter.”
At Wonyoung’s firm attitude, Heegang sighed deeply and muttered complainingly.
“You really haven’t changed at all in this aspect either.”
Wonyoung was a bit concerned about the past Narae that he didn’t know about, but he shook his head to shake off the thoughts. Then he carefully expressed his gratitude.
“This is enough for today. And anyway… thank you.”
“Mm, no. I’m glad nothing happened.”
It looks like something big happened to those people’s heads though. As Wonyoung thought that to himself, Heegang got up from his seat.
“Wait a moment.”
“Huh?”
Then he stuck a check into each of the collapsed men’s pockets and made a phone call somewhere.
“It’s me. Come here and take care of some trash. I’ll leave them in front of the door.”
After finishing the brief but somehow extremely dangerous phone call, Heegang returned with a polite smile.
“It’s done now.”
Watching that series of actions and turning pale, Wonyoung thought he shouldn’t ask but asked anyway.
“You… you’re not going to bury those people, are you?”
“Haha, why would I?”
He looked like he would totally bury them, but this time Wonyoung decided not to dig deeper. No, he didn’t want to dig deeper.
He had to conserve his stamina in preparation for the big event that was coming.
It was a ‘daily’ mission. He had met both Ki Siyeon and Baek Heegang within a day and completed missions. Then what remained was now one guy.
‘Kyung Taerim.’
It was finally time for that bastard to appear.
* * *
“Welcome…”
After experiencing all sorts of things, unexpectedly Kyung Taerim didn’t come. And about 1 hour after Wonyoung went to work for his night convenience store part-time job.
When there was about 1 hour left until midnight, he appeared.
“Narae-ssi.”
“…Hello…”
Wonyoung, who had been dozing due to lack of stamina, frowned when he saw Taerim.
Appearing in a luxury suit again today, he glanced around the convenience store and slightly furrowed his handsome brow. It was an extremely irritating sight. More so because he was handsome.
The shabby convenience store and Taerim wrapped in luxury goods made quite a strange picture.
“You said you’d contact me. Is this also one of your tactics?”
“Pardon?”
Wonyoung was flabbergasted. When did he say he’d contact him? Didn’t he say he would absolutely not contact him if he just gave his contact information?
Of course, no matter how he had spoken, it would have seemed strange if he really didn’t contact him after receiving his contact information.
Still, that damn spy talk again. Wonyoung opened his mouth while thinking he’d have no regrets if he could just punch that mouth once.
“I was too busy to have time to contact you.”
“Ha, why. I guess the money given by whoever is backing you wasn’t sufficient? Have you decided to quit being a spy?”
This man’s most dangerous point was exactly this. He would scratch at people’s nerves and drive them into situations where they’d easily receive penalties. Thanks to that, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that almost all the dark history originated from Kyung Taerim.
“Asking for compensation. Whether with money or with your body.”
“Body won’t do. I don’t know about that kind of thing since I haven’t done it.”
“Are you a virgin?”
“Why are you asking that so directly?!”
“Then how should I ask?”
Wonyoung gritted his teeth and pointed to the door.
“If you have nothing to buy, please leave now.”
He wanted to tell him to get lost, but he had adapted somewhat to the warning system by now. However, naturally enough, Taerim did not get lost.
“I came to talk about compensation.”
“I said body won’t do…”
“Not body.”
At those words, Wonyoung properly looked at Taerim. He became mildly excited and felt annoyed. It seemed Narae’s type was Kyung Taerim’s face. …Of course, he was handsome though.
“I’ll give you a job.”
“…A job?”
“Work as my secretary.”
Wonyoung doubted his ears, wondering what he had just heard. Do what? Secretary? Kyung Taerim’s?
As Wonyoung was about to say why would I do that, his eyes widened at the conditions Taerim presented next.
“Annual salary is 140 million. Five days a week. Overtime pay and additional work allowances will all be properly provided.”
“Really? I don’t even have experience, so why… And I heard chaebols call their secretaries on weekends and make them do personal things.”
“I promise not to call you on weekends, but I might make you do personal things. I’m trying to hire Narae-ssi as my personal secretary.”
With 140 million, he could fully pay off his debt just by working for one year. Of course, interest might accumulate in the meantime, but since Heegang had hit them with dumbbells, such a thing probably wouldn’t happen.
Moreover, it was an amount higher than even Heo Wonyoung’s salary. From what he learned after meeting Taerim, HS was truly a giant chaebol that had become a global brand with home appliances, and if Narae could enter that company at his level, it would be perfect.
When Wonyoung’s eyes sparkled, Taerim chuckled.
At that sound, Wonyoung belatedly came to his senses and asked with slight suspicion.
“But why me?”
“Because you’re interesting.”
“I’m not ‘you’…”
“Right. Narae-ssi, you are interesting.”
And choices appeared in front of Wonyoung.
[Don’t tell me you found it so interesting when my pants came off?]
[Don’t tell me you found it so interesting when I cried?]
‘Damn.’
Thinking that cursing might become a habit now, Wonyoung let out a bitter laugh. The bottom one was obviously picking a fight. The top one… the top one… phew.
Wonyoung gritted his teeth and chose the top choice.
“Don’t tell me you found it so interesting when my pants came off?”
“…”
At those words, Taerim’s facial muscles twitched slightly.
“That’s not what I meant.”
Is this bastard laughing?
When Wonyoung looked very suspicious, Taerim added as if he had no choice.
“Well, including that aspect, you are interesting. You’re a rare species.”
“So you’re hiring me as a clown?”
Wonyoung asked sarcastically, but with Narae’s voice and expression, it only came across as an innocent question. Taerim also unconsciously smiled at a question he would normally have considered sarcastic.
“I wonder. If that’s the case, wouldn’t you do it? Are you afraid I might make you do juggling?”
Wonyoung flinched without realizing it.
No matter what, it was too much salary to refuse. Most importantly, for Wonyoung who had to pay off debt, there was no choice. But being Kyung Taerim’s secretary, could he manage it safely? He was also worried.
“This is an employment contract.”
As if all his proposals were sincere, Taerim immediately took out an employment contract from inside his jacket and placed it in front of Wonyoung. Wonyoung had intended to get a few days’ grace period to buy some time to think, but the game didn’t go according to his wishes.
