Chapter 90 – Episode 90 Dinner With Minah
While Minah was restlessly pacing in front of the restaurant, her Dohyeong was walking from a little distance away.
I wasn’t late for my appointment. In fact, we set off to arrive about 30 minutes earlier, but Minah arrived before Dohyeong.
From what anyone could see, Minah was wearing clothes that did not suit the current weather at all.
She was wearing a long white t-shirt and long jeans. She said she had done her hair a little differently than when I saw her at the convenience store, but her bangs were still covering about half of her face.
The long clothes to cover up the scars on her arms and legs, along with her long hair to cover up the scars on her face, made her look so hot that the person next to her looked at her and wondered if she felt hot in the summer weather, which was slowly getting hotter.
Seeing Minah forced to dress like that to hide her wounds, her figure was filled with pity and regret.
Moreover, she was worried about how Minah would react upon hearing the facts she was going to confess today.
But she had no intention of backing down.
“Hello, how are you?”
Dohyeong walked over with long strides and greeted Minah. Minah was startled by the fact that someone was suddenly talking to her, so she took a step back.
Then, he breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that the man who spoke to him was the man he had met at the convenience store the other day and who called himself Kim Do-hyung.
“Oh, hello… Please…”
“You came very quickly. I also came fairly early.”
“I… I was afraid I might be late.”
Do-hyeong felt sorry for Min-a, who still spoke respectfully to him and felt that there was a distance between him and him.
‘Maybe you still can’t believe that I’m Kim Do-hyung. If you think about it, it’s only been a few days since we met.’
Dohyung understood Minah’s attitude to some extent. If a strange man approached him and claimed to be his old high school classmate, who would immediately believe him?
They were close friends, so you might have noticed some familiarity on her face, but they weren’t that close, and all Minah had done was help Dohyeong when he was being bullied.
‘Because of that fate, Minah’s life…’
Dohyung once again pledged to make Minah, whose life was ruined because of him, happy.
Dohyung, who had met Minah and exchanged greetings with her, was about to enter the restaurant.
“Go, thank you!”
“Huh? What do you mean all of a sudden?”
“Thanks to the money you gave me last time to replace my phone, I got a new phone.”
Minah took out her new cell phone from her bag and showed it to Dohyeong. When Dohyeong saw Minah’s new phone, he remembered Minah’s phone with a broken screen.
“Oh, that? That’s only natural because the screen was broken because of me.”
Minah shook her head at Dohyeong’s words.
“But not many people will pay that kind of money to buy a new phone…”
“Huh? But I don’t think it’s the latest model…”
“Ah… Well, I don’t need the latest model. There are hardly any people who contact me anyway… With the money you gave me, I was able to cook delicious food with my mother for the first time in a long time. I was really grateful.”
Dohyeong was surprised to see Minah bowing to him and expressing her gratitude.
“Oh, no! If you’re satisfied, I’m happy too. And you can talk comfortably. You and I were in the same school, even though it was only for a short time, right?”
“Ah… But still…”
“I’m really fine.”
Minah was unable to respond to her Dohyeong’s words and barely nodded her head. Seeing that, Dohyeong burst into laughter without even realizing it.
A very natural laugh.
After deciding to avenge her, Dohyeong always tried to smile as much as possible.
There were two reasons, the first was to control her mentality. If she couldn’t calm the anger boiling inside her, she might kill the four people she wanted revenge on as soon as she saw them. In order to reduce that anger to some extent, Dohyeong kept her smiling face as much as possible and this was the reason why she was smiling even when she was being tortured painfully.
The second was to instill fear in those who would take revenge. It may be scary to see someone who is causing harm looking at you with an angry face, but it is even more scary to see someone who commits violence while smiling.
So Dohyung usually tried to smile a lot.
Even if you’re not actually smiling in your heart.
She forced herself to pretend to be happy even when she was drinking alone in her room, watching the trash in the basement suffer as a snack.
It was definitely exhilarating to have succeeded in getting revenge, but… All that was inside was emptiness, and no positive emotions were blooming.
However, the laughter just now was an emotion that naturally bloomed in Dohyeong’s heart.
Although she hadn’t noticed this yet.
“Let’s go in. Aren’t you hungry?”
Dohyung was trying to guide Minah to the entrance of her restaurant. But Minah was not willing to step forward.
“I… But isn’t this place really expensive? There’s no need to eat here…”
Dohyeong held out his right hand to Minah as she saw Minah giving her a worried look.
“Don’t worry about money. I’ll buy dinner tonight.”
Minah, who heard Dohyeong’s words, made an expression of uncertainty.
“… Why?”
“Huh?”
“Why are you being so nice to me? Actually, you and I… We just went to the same high school for a short time…”
In fact, Minah felt anxious when she met Dohyeong. Because she had no idea why Dohyung was so nice to her.
She did not understand why he was approaching her, as she had no money, her face was not beautiful, and she was covered in scars.
So she became anxious that there might be another plan.
Seeing Minah’s anxious appearance, Dohyeong did not withdraw his extended hand and spoke once more.
“You gave me hope back then. Without you… I might have fallen apart. I want to repay you for that.”
“Hope…? I couldn’t do anything… All I could do was tell Han and Han Eun-ji not to bother her…”
“I was so thankful for that.”
Minah’s eyes widened at Dohyeong’s words.
Dohyung lowered his outstretched hand and made eye contact with Minah.
“To you, or to everyone around you, I can tell you that your behavior was not a big deal and that it didn’t change anything as a result. It’s because the bullying hasn’t stopped since then.”
Even as Dohyeong spoke to himself, he couldn’t tell what emotions were rising in his heart. But he didn’t stop talking.
“But thanks to that action, I can say I’m alive now. Thanks to that one small action of yours… I think I was really happy when I found out that there was at least one person who could help me. I should have told you then, but I’m only saying it now. It’s the same. Thank you so much for stepping up for me at that time.”
Dohyung bowed his head at a 90 degree angle towards Minah and expressed his gratitude.
“Oh, no… I don’t do anything to deserve that kind of gratitude…”
“And I’m so sorry!”
“Uh…?
After Minah thanked her, she suddenly saw Dohyeong even apologize, and a question mark appeared in her head.
“Why are you suddenly apologizing…?”
“That…”
Dohyung tried to answer Minah’s question. But when she tried to get her words out, she couldn’t get them out easily.
She felt that she was the one who ruined Minah’s life, and not a single word could escape her throat due to her guilt.
Normally she would have apologized right away and told him why.
Minah also felt something was wrong when Dohyeong, who seemed confident, was unable to get her words out easily.
‘Did she do something wrong to me… That made it difficult to get her words out? I don’t remember anything like that…’
Minah didn’t have any ill feelings toward her Dohyeong.
It’s just that her figure doesn’t read Minah’s mind with her magic, so she doesn’t know. Perhaps, if she knew Minah’s feelings, she might be able to freely state her reasons.
But she couldn’t easily tell because of her human feelings that he might resent her.
“Well… Then, shall we go inside and talk?”
As her Do-hyung was unable to say anything for a moment, Min-ah spoke first.
“Oh, really? That would be great.”
Dohyeong lifted her head at Minah’s words and held out her hand again.
Minah, who saw Dohyeong’s hand, carefully held her hand and the two of them
Slowly entered the restaurant.
Inside the restaurant, an employee came out and asked Do-hyung.
“Have you made a reservation? Could you please tell me her name?”
“I made a reservation for Kim Do-hyung.”
“Yes. I confirmed. Follow me.”
After confirming Dohyeong’s name, the staff guided him inside the restaurant.
“Then I will bring the food you reserved. Please wait a moment.”
The staff member said hello briefly and left the room, closing the door.
Mina was curious about this high-end restaurant she was visiting for the first time, so she looked around her room. It was full of colorful decorations, including chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. Dohyung smiled happily as he looked at Minah.
“Wow… This place seems really expensive. It’s really spacious… But there’s no one there?”
Minah muttered as she looked around in wonder at the fact that she was inside a large luxury restaurant with only her and her figure sitting at the table.
“That’s it… I borrowed it for the whole day today.”
“Oh, I see… Huh? Whole?”
“Yes. I rented the whole place so no one else could come.”
Minah was surprised to hear Dohyeong say that he had rented out her expensive-looking restaurant in its entirety.
“Why? Why?”
“So you can be comfortable.”
“Huh? Me?”
Dohyeong pointed to Minah’s arm, which was startled.
“You… There are things there that you don’t want to see, right? If you have them, you don’t want to go to crowded places. So I rented the whole thing so that other people wouldn’t worry about it.”
Minah was so surprised by her Dohyeong’s unimaginable behavior that she opened her eyes wide and covered her mouth with her hand. She seemed like she had a lot of money, but I never imagined that I would see her with my own eyes doing things that we only see in TV dramas.
“So, you can just relax. Without worrying about what anyone thinks.”
“… Thank you.”
While we were talking, a staff member came over and served us various foods.
Dohyung told Minah to eat as much as she wanted and Minah said thank you and tasted her food little by little.
“Hmm… It’s really delicious. It’s so delicious that I want to take it and give it to my parents…”
“Really? Then I’ll tell the staff later.”
“Really? I feel like I just keep saying thank you to you today…”
Dohyung shook his head at Minah’s words.
“I said it before… I live because I’m grateful to you. I eat a lot.”
Minah listened to Dohyeong and nodded her head and continued eating. Looking at that scene, Dohyeong regained his composure once again.
“I asked you why I was apologizing earlier?”
“Huh?”
“I’ll tell you why. And… There’s something I have to tell you.”
Dohyung planned to explain everything to Minah today.
About her own revenge.
No matter what Mina thinks of her.
