Chapter 292 – #66_Paradise Lost
#293
One.
It was only today that I came to know something I hadn’t known since I had been living next to Do Min-jeong for quite a long time.
-Match!
Her hands are hotter than they look.
Minjeong’s hand her, which was swung wide in the air, wrapped tightly around Yuchan’s cheek her.
While making a sound so loud that the people around me stare in amazement.
“Oh my! I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to hit you this hard.”
It must have been Minjeong who was most surprised.
In a dramatic situation, her head her heated up and her hand her went out first, hitting her much harder than she thought.
Embarrassed, Yu-chan cast a cold gaze at Min-jung, who was confused whether to continue to be angry or apologize.
She wasn’t very sick.
A lady who grew up without a boyfriend like a boyfriend would have slapped someone’s cheek like this.
It’s a little heated, but that’s fine.
It’s not a bad way to end the relationship cleanly like this.
“Ah oh…”
She walks away with her back her coldly turned to Min-jung, who is at a loss for what to do.
Through the mirror in front of me, I saw Minjeong, who was hesitant to follow her for a moment.
Soon, people’s gazes seem burdensome, so he bites his lip and turns around and disappears.
Min-jung’s sudden slap on the cheek her must have confirmed that there was no love in the relationship between the two.
Because of that, Yoo-chan’s evaluation will go from her co-worker her, who has a lot of willpower to her, to a guy who goes around poking around any woman.
Don’t particularly care
The only time he was conscious of the evaluation of those around him was when he thought it would help him in the long run.
Yuchan rubbed his cheek once and looked at Seohyun.
Seohyun avoids her gaze with an expression of ignorance.
However, her gaze was too awkward to show her indifference to her.
It is the eyes that waver incessantly and are closed inside.
She is proof that she has an awareness of what she’s done.
“Suddenly, something happened. Thanks to you, I got hit.”
“Mo, I don’t know.”
Seohyun’s face turns red.
I don’t know anything else, but this wasn’t a lie.
Why did she think of being embraced by Yu-chan at that point?
As if she were a secret mistress, ‘She didn’t misunderstand anything you did. As seen. OK?’ Did she say the same thing.
She didn’t have the confidence to properly explain.
But one thing definitely comes to mind.
Like paint on the verge of dissolving, she remembers the traces of emotion that came to her mind at that moment.
The name of the feeling that tingled her heart her was jealousy.
Jealousy?
Are you jealous of this guy now?
Now that reason has returned, I think it’s absurd.
To Yu-chan, she has examples of me besides herself.
There are Shin Harin, Kim Maria, and even Yujin.
I don’t know why she feels that way all of a sudden, and I don’t know why she has to feel this way.
“Han Seohyun.”
At Yuchan’s heavy voice her, Seohyun unconsciously felt her legs her tremble.
It was because a much clearer result was imagined before he could fully analyze the cause of his possessed mistake of her.
He made me suffer that way in front of other people, and he slapped a woman who could have been Yu-chan’s slave on the cheek…
“This mushroom is in bad condition. Pick it up again.”
“Uh?”
“I want you to pick out the mushrooms again.”
Yoo-chan indifferently serves mushrooms.
Seohyun spent a long time with Yoochan, and it became possible to discriminate emotions only with his voice.
He wasn’t angry at all.
He doesn’t say that he should give up his soul for doing such a thing.
It was an unexpected result that was not in any of Seohyun’s expectations of him.
“What are you doing? You don’t want to eat mushrooms?”
“No, no! I’ll be back. Yes, I’ll be back…”
Is it not a problem in front of people?
If we get into the car together, I’m sure I’ll get scolded, right?
Seohyun finished the rest of the shopping in a state of half-fascinated by this and that anxiety.
2.
Seohyeon and Yuchan, after paying the bills, brought a paper box and wrapped it in a convenient way to take it with them.
After loading the luggage into the trunk together, Seohyun climbs into the passenger seat first.
It was a cushion of thorns.
As soon as he sits in the driver’s seat, his heart starts pounding.
“What’s wrong with your expression? Who hit you?”
Seohyun’s sense of incongruity increased as soon as she saw Yuchan asking casually after she put on her seat belt as soon as she got into the car.
I’m never the kind of person to go through like this.
Yu-chan is strange today.
I wonder if I picked up poisonous mushrooms or something and ate them.
“Why don’t you say anything?”
“What.”
With the feeling that Mae also got hit first, Seohyun carefully rhymes.
“I’ve done something wrong to you. If you’re going to get angry, tell me in advance.”
Seohyeon closes his eyes tightly and waits for Yoo-chan’s harsh ridicule to pour out soon.
What is obvious
From wanting to be scolded like that, to humiliation and ridicule, I was confident that I could receive it as much as I could.
“It’s nothing. You didn’t mean to fuck me, did you?”
That’s not it.
Looking at the act itself, it is natural to think so, but how can you see through other people’s hearts as if you were looking into your own pocket?
Yu-chan lit a cigarette without starting the engine.
Seohyun reflexively lights it with the cigarette she always carries these days.
The strong cigarette smoke that I had become accustomed to now spread hazily in the car.
“But you really hate things like this…”
The day I used him to shake off Director Park.
How much humiliation did you have to endure?
Even in a more serious situation, seeing Yuchan’s lukewarm response, I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
Yoo-chan takes a puff of smoke and looks straight into Seo-hyun’s eyes.
“You are more important to her than she was earlier.”
“…What?”
“You are much more important to me.”
Seohyun’s jaw dropped.
It was like a thunderbolt hit his head her.
I couldn’t tell if this was a dream or reality.
Where did this cheesy line come from the mouth of that vicious Yu-chan?
Seohyun, who was trembling, started to riot like an overcharged toy doll with his face blushing.
“Are you crazy? Who are you! It’s not Yuchan, you’re a long way from fooling me! Prepare more!”
He had to work hard not to drop his cigarette ash at Seohyun’s shocking reaction as she slapped him on the shoulder.
Laughter comes out without me knowing.
“It’s a joke.”
It’s been a long time since I saw Yuchan’s pleasant smile at her.
Seohyun’s eyebrows twitched and twisted.
I hate it. I hate it.
I felt her lips her protrude involuntarily.
If there was one thing that shocked Seohyun, it was the vulnerability he felt as soon as the word joking fell from his mouth.
For some reason, the strength in my shoulders is draining.
“You acted cute.”
His hand her, which smelled of cigarettes, lightly pinched his cheek her and let it go.
Seohyun made a big gesture for no reason and shook his arm.
“…Don’t treat me like a kid.”
This is Stockholm Syndrome.
When Yu-chan, who had been cruel until now, unexpectedly shows good intentions, it is like leaving an impression even though it was natural.
As she comforts herself, Seohyun tries hard to calm herself down.
Even if the clouded mind becomes calm, the sediment remains.
What should I call those sediments?
Seohyun didn’t know.
3.
When he sees Yoo-chan’s villa again in front of his eyes, feelings that have become old friends suddenly speak to him.
Guilty.
Just a few days ago, Seohyun visited this place under the guise of Yoochan’s order and violated Maria.
Is that all?
He even pummeled Maria to have sex with him.
I know better than anyone how lame the excuse of being drunk is.
There are victims and there are wounded people.
“It’s cold. Pack your things.”
“Yes.”
Seohyun, who had been standing there blankly, took ingredients with Yuchan and headed to the kitchen.
Putting all the ingredients on the cooking rack, Yoo-chan handed Seohyun an apron and said,
“Wash the vegetables first. I need to remove the blood from the meat.”
With skillful hand movements, Yu-chan spread the absorbent paper and rolled the meat around to remove the blood on the surface.
Even Seohyun, who doesn’t have confidence in cooking, can only do things like trimming vegetables.
Radish, onion, green onion, button mushroom, carrot, potato, broccoli, pepper, paprika.
Although there are many kinds, the quantity itself is not so much.
They were placed on a sieve in batches to wash off the soil with water and piled them up on the countertop.
“When you’re done, peel the radish, carrots, and potatoes with these.”
“Is this all?”
“Yes, everything. First of all, potatoes.”
Handing over a knife with a very small blade, Yoo-chan carelessly trimmed the tenderloin.
Remove the cloudy fascia and carefully cut it with a knife to separate the string from the main body.
After removing the fascia embedded in the body like a dot, I inserted a knife into the tip of the silver skin and pulled it with one hand.
Seohyun observed Yuchan’s hand movements for a moment as if he was curious.
Although he is big, his fingertips are not very delicate.
The appearance of the white fat and fascia attached to the tenderloin turning into a cylinder-shaped lump of red meat even seemed like a kind of acrobatics.
“I’m going to serve Pepe Wellington for the main dish tomorrow. It tastes better if I let it mature for a day or so. To make a pretty Wellington, it’s important to trim the tenderloin beautifully first.”
I didn’t even ask, but kind explanation.
Seohyun looked at Yoo-chan with sad eyes.
It was very strange to see him like this.
It wouldn’t be new if I just hit, humiliated, and behaved badly as usual.
Seeing him snuggling around as if he were a boyfriend made my stomach tickle with a sense of incongruity.
Could it be that earlier she pretended to be her girlfriend in front of that woman, so she was moved in her own way?
Could it be that this side really thinks that he likes Yu-chan?
All sorts of random thoughts swarmed in her head like bees.
Yoo-chan, who instantly relieved her, prepared her peeling by changing her mushrooms and herbs, and at the same time checked Seohyun’s work situation her.
“What’s this?”
“What?”
“Did the potato change strangely?”
What Yoo-chan pointed out was a potato that was less than half of its original size.
It was a potato that had been cut crookedly and ugly, so that it could not be put on the table.
When Yu-chan sighed, Seo-hyeon got annoyed.
“I’ve never cooked before!”
“Who asked me to cook? It’s preparing the ingredients. So, how do you want to get married?”
“Because I never intended to get married? And someone peels potatoes with a kitchen knife! Give me that… Potato knife… I can do that well.”
“A potato knife? Oh, a peeler?”
It’s a pity, but it’s not in Yu-chan’s kitchen.
“Don’t do that. Come. I’ll tell you.”
Yu-chan took out a dried potato and demonstrated it himself.
Ingredient preparation is the basis of the basics in cooking, that is, the basics.
Of course, Yu-chan had no choice but to do well.
“Like this, keep the knife fixed and turn the potato slowly with your left hand. Be careful not to injure your thumb. It’s the same as peeling an apple. It takes a little more force.”
Yu-chan removed the skin in an instant.
It takes less than 30 seconds to finish it off.
“You can use the edge of a knife to remove the parts that have potato eyes or are not cut because they are bumpy. Is it easy?”
“I’ll try it.”
If you do well like this, you’ll do it! You didn’t have the heart, but Seohyun has a sincere personality by default.
I don’t have a tough personality enough to say something bad to the person who tries to teach me step by step.
Besides, today Yu-chan was even more uncomfortable.
As he demonstrates, hold the potato and move your thumb and left hand at the same time to slowly roll the potato skin around the knife.
Crunchy feel good sound.
But somehow the result is cool.
The potato, which was obviously round, turned into an ugly asteroid the moment it got out of Seohyun’s hands.
“What do you think?”
However, the loss is small this time.
Previously, more than 40% was blown away along with the shell, but this time around 20%.
For Seohyun herself, it was a great development.
“You’re good at first. But when the knife goes in, it seems to be too angular. Lay the blade a little more and try.”
Unexpectedly, delicate feedback came back.
If it’s Yoo-chan, even if I tell him how to do it, he’ll probably criticize me for saying that much…
“You like to cook.”
“Why?”
“I think he looks very different from usual. I like to cook, so I thought maybe he became more tolerant of other things while cooking.”
“It could be.”
If it’s like that, it’s like that, and if it’s not, it’s not.
Seohyun silently peeled the potatoes as Yuchan instructed.
As the number of trimmings increased, it got better and better, and even if it wasn’t as quick and clean as Yu-chan’s, it was possible to make it look plausible.
“Well done.”
“Are you doing anything else?”
“I was originally going to do that. I think I’ll be efficient in preparing the ingredients. Don’t you want to try cooking yourself?”
“Great.”
Preparing ingredients is an obvious repetitive task, but cooking looks quite fun.
Gradually moved by his unfamiliar kindness, I stood next to him hesitantly.
While Seohyun peeled the potatoes, she could see the relief that she had finished the searing.
The tenderloin, which has turned brown and looks appetizing, stimulates the appetite.
Yuchan showed off his blender and started explaining a brief recipe.
“Here is the mushroom filling. I put onions, herbs, and mushrooms together. I’m going to wrap the seared tenderloin with parma ham. Before that, apply mustard sauce so that the filling doesn’t fall off. I have to stir -fry the filling.”
“Yes.”
After learning this and that and cooking together, the two finished cooking for tomorrow’s party only after two hours.
