Chapter 361 – #54. 2 Years (5)
‘How many ruined idol groups are there?’
Even in a year, several hundred groups debut and disappear without rumor.
It still happens that a popular celebrity loses popularity in an instant and falls into abyss due to drunk driving.
Popularity doesn’t last forever, and it was bound to cool down someday.
Isn’t time fair to everyone?
That’s what Lanna is worried about.
Right now, the response is very good, but no one can guarantee that the response will continue to be good.
“It’s going well, but don’t bother looking for problems. There is no guarantee that things will continue to go well, but it is too far for Lanna-san to walk in the future to think only of failure.”
Cafes are already a red ocean among red oceans.
It was unknown how far and higher the latecomer could go.
If you start a franchise business in earnest, the current success is honestly a difficult achievement to be considered a proper success.
The standards you should aim for will be completely different.
“And I don’t know if this will help, but I will be honest with you. It doesn’t matter if Mr. Lanna blows up all her investment. She just needs to earn money again.”
“Yes?!”
“My money is being invested in various places. Even people I’ve never seen before take my money and grow a company. Why is Lanna burdened with that? Taking risks is a natural choice for investors to have.”
“… Does it really matter if you blow it all up?”
“Yes. Get used to it in the future. As the business grows, the company will not run with my money alone.”
“There are so many things I don’t know.”
“You can learn it.”
There is a saying that business is done with bank money.
Right now, I’m running a business with the money I invested, but as the size grows, you will naturally have no choice but to take out a loan.
Loans aren’t all that bad.
So Lanna needed to get used to spending her other people’s money.
“A seat is the way to make a person, so even if you feel awkward and worry a lot now, you will get used to it over time. You raised it this much without knowing anything about running a cafe. I could. Don’t be afraid.”
She’s honestly a normal college student, but she thinks she’s incredibly talented just for her achievements so far.
As if my persuasion had worked, Lanna’s expression began to ease little by little.
“Thank you. No matter how much we are lovers, money matters are different. He said he didn’t mind blowing it all up, but I’ll make sure to make it a success!”
Actually, she is right.
No matter how much they are lovers, ‘investment’ is a different story.
Isn’t it said that money issues should not be complicatedly entangled even among family members?
Even between blood, money hurts, but what if it’s between lovers?
“Oh~! Were you worried that you would break up with me if I screwed up?”
“Yes?”
Seeing that she couldn’t say no, she must have really thought of that.
It’s nonsense.
Breaking up because of money!
Isn’t this the evangelist?
“Absolutely not. I had a bad idea. I will never let you go, so don’t even think about it.”
“Sorry. I just thought that if I screwed things up, the boss would get angry…”
He must have known that I would get angry and ask to break up.
From her point of view, her cafe is her means of holding her, but for most people, her money is seldom a secondary priority.
‘It’s probably the same for Lanna.’
Honestly, I like money too.
It gained popularity overseas and made a lot of money, but it was still fun to make money.
However, the mindset of trying to make money when there is no money and the mindset of trying to make money when there is a lot of money are inevitably different.
‘I can afford the amount of money invested in Lanna.’
Moreover, most of the money I earned is invested in Bianca and Melissa in various ways to become bigger money.
All investments have risks, but I don’t worry because I trust Bianca and Melissa’s ability.
I have a corner to trust, so why do I need to be hard on my woman?
Even without the amount invested in Lanna, I can eat well and live well.
It was rich enough to support my children without starving and to support whatever they wanted to do.
“Just because I don’t care about my investment doesn’t mean I shouldn’t spend it carelessly. But what I hate more is Lanna-san struggling with her burden. Even if you start losing money right away, don’t give up and try again. My heart of cheering for Lanna will not change. To me, Lanna-san is more important than money. I want you to know that.”
Moreover, there was another real reason why her investment was worth it.
It’s because I didn’t give her her investment money to earn her money.
‘Because she was the one who said she would leave without warning if she simply believed in her love.’
If I hadn’t used the item to check her propensity with her dreams in advance, I would have been very careless in the current situation.
Even if you look at my women now, there is not a single woman who wants to break up with me.
However, having glimpsed her dream of Mr. Lanna, I clearly remember Mr. Lanna saying that they broke up for various reasons.
As if someone had cut her lover out of her life, no matter what approach she took, she chose to break up.
Being that kind of woman, I was careful not to miss it.
It was obvious that she would feel burdened if she knew my true identity, so I dug up her new identity, created a new face for her, and made her a cafe, a place to tie her up and make her a place to hang out.
So if I could tie her heart with just a few ‘money’ like now, it was much better for me.
‘If it were Lanna-san, if she didn’t solve the problem today, she might have asked to break up.’
It is also necessary to keep her from thinking about unnecessary things.
‘She was relieved because she was busy working without hesitation by raising a cafe, but I don’t think she was thinking the wrong way out of the pressure.’
Let’s tighten up again.
To give a little excuse, I was busy too.
Like the overseas activities, there were a lot of things to worry about because my sister Bok-soon and Yeon-ju gave birth one after another.
Apparently, Mr. Lanna had no choice but to be relatively neglected, and her momentary carelessness created the current situation.
In the meantime, I had arranged for her in various ways to keep her from leaving me, but I realized again that her best way was to spend her time with her.
“… I don’t know what to say. How did someone like the boss come to someone who is nothing like me?”
Moved by my words, Lanna hugged me tightly.
There was moisture in her voice.
“Sometimes I wonder if I’m dreaming because I can’t believe that I have such a wonderful person by my side. Do I deserve the love the boss gives me?”
Too much love also causes Lanna to break up.
Isn’t she the one who says we should break up even if she is pregnant with her child, as we saw in the dream?
I said as I quietly put my hand inside her clothes, where the soft skin was hidden.
“If you were so happy and grateful, would you even give birth to my child?”
Cool!!
Lanna coughed violently, as if my words were very embarrassing.
She asked, stuttering her words, barely calming her cough.
“Go, all of a sudden it’s a kid?! It’s so out of the blue.”
“Isn’t it very out of the blue? We’ve met for quite some time. Wouldn’t it be something you could imagine if you met this much?”
“… I’m sure we’ve known each other for a long time.”
After hearing my words, Lanna’s face became complicated.
She has a lot of work ahead of her, although for her part, her pregnancy is not an easy decision.
But she wasn’t an impulsive choice when she asked her to bear her child.
The reason I didn’t get Lanna pregnant despite her request was because she would leave me if I got her pregnant while her relationship wasn’t ripe.
But now it’s different.
She is approaching 3 years since I started seeing her, and it is a situation where she thinks she owes her me a lot.
“Are you not going to marry me?”
“Hey, are you getting married?”
“I never thought of it as a breakup relationship with Lanna. From the beginning until now, I think of him as someone I will be with for the rest of my life.”
“Uh… Uhh…”
Could this be a proposal?
Lanna is unable to grasp her situation and is only making a puzzled expression.
I took out of her pocket what I had prepared ahead of time to drive in the nails to be sure.
That which must be present when proposing marriage.
It was a “Proposal ring.”
“Hup!”
“Is this a sudden proposal?”
“Is this really, gulp- really removing?”
Lanna asked again, swallowing her saliva to see if her mouth was dry.
She couldn’t believe it, so she decided to put it on her hand.
“Yes, I prepared it for Lanna-san. Could you give her a hand?”
Lanna obediently holds out her own hand.
When I hold her hand, I feel that she is trembling slightly.
After she opened her ring case for her to see, she took it out and put it on her finger.
The ring, which fit snugly on her finger, went very well with Lanna.
Since it was a marriage proposal ring, I prepared it with a diamond studded ring with special care, and I was very proud of it because it seemed to match well.
“I guess I am dreaming right now. This can’t be real…”
Haha, now that I’ve received the ring, I can’t refuse it.”
“Oh my god… Oh my god!!”
The proposal must have made her more happy than she thought. As Lanna jumped in place, she couldn’t control her joy.
If it had been outside, all of her would have watched her through the obstruction of her glasses.
An excited Lanna rushed at me.
I happily took the delighted Lanna into her arms and shared her deep kiss.
After showing off her excitement for a long time, she started to shed tears as if she felt a sense of reality belatedly.
“No, why are you crying?”
“It was something I could never have imagined. I’m getting married and having kids…”
Perhaps the impact of the proposal was strong, and she started thinking positively about her pregnancy.
‘Come to think of it, this is my first wedding, too?’
In my real identity, since I haven’t met Ran, she has no problem with her and her wedding.
So, this proposal will be the first proposal in the wedding ceremony.
After realizing the situation, I gradually felt a sense of tension.
‘It’s a wedding…’
Memories of attending friends’ weddings that began around the time I was in my 30s.
Even though I thought the day would come when I would meet a woman with whom I would spend the rest of my life, like those friends, the relationship itself was a burden, so it was the marriage that I felt far away.
I thought I had already achieved my dream by meeting many women, having a baby, and creating a family fence, but when I heard that I might have a wedding, my heart was agitated.
“I want to see Lanna’s parents.”
“Eh!? Are you already thinking about meeting?”
“Isn’t the beginning of everything important? To be honest, I think it’s only right to meet and say hello to your parents once you’ve met this much.”
“… So, who is the boss?”
“Me? Ah~ I don’t have parents. I grew up in an orphanage.”
“!!”
I am so surprised.
It is because it is very rare for a man to grow up in an orphanage.
It is a boy who has no choice but to be adopted the best, and this face I am wearing like a shell has even been polished to the point that anyone would be greedy at least once.
“I didn’t go for adoption because I didn’t like it.”
“… I only found out about this now. I don’t think I know too much about the boss.”
I’ve met and had many conversations so far, but I deliberately didn’t say anything about my personal life.
In fact, there was very little that could be said.
Isn’t it all a fake identity?
‘I’m glad I wasn’t completely lying. If I really had to lie from the beginning to the end, it would have been overwhelming.’
It’s a status that Bianca created, but it was me who created the story of that status.
I borrowed the story from my earthly life.
He grew up in an orphanage, struggled like everyone else, got a job, and is currently working at a company.
However, it was necessary to adapt to some extent because the world was different.
The part I dramatized was corporate life.
There was no sense of incongruity because it made no sense for a handsome man like me to lead an ordinary corporate life.
That’s how he became a well-to-do office worker with a lot of money.
