Chapter 56 – Part 1
“Huh?”
An employee who kicked in the break room door with a questionable sound, and the moment Juyeon turned her head toward her feet, Gayoung reflexively closed her eyes.
It was because I didn’t have the confidence to face the scene that would follow.
Gayoung didn’t realize it, but her face was flushed red with embarrassment.
It must have been the moment she was waiting for her social death as she shuddered at Ga-young, who suddenly got caught in the break room while secretly having sex.
Joon-yeon’s lips, which had been staring at Ga-young’s cell phone, which had been pushed up to her feet, lowered her gaze subtly.
“Oh, you crazy bitch…”
The moment Ga-young opened her closed eyes wide at Joo-yeon’s comment, which was completely different from what she had expected, Joo-yeon, who had been staring blankly at it as if she had been possessed by the man in the picture, suddenly came to her senses and made a fuss again. It started.
“No no, this is not it. Director!! Awesome! Totally awesome!! Do you know who I just called?”
How could she know that while she was resting in the lounge?
It was Gayoung’s candid wish that she could do something with her cell phone, which was not needed and was still lying at Juyeon’s feet.
“You know actor Yoo Ha-joon! A male actor who is rising with an innocent image these days!”
Ga-young’s expression did not change despite Joo-yeon’s remarks, full of her confidence that she would of course react the same as herself.
It had to be.
Ga-young’s whole mind was still focused on her mobile phone, which was placed at Joo-yeon’s feet, and she didn’t even know who the actor Joo-yeon was talking about was Yoo Ha-joon.
She is Ga-yeong, whose daily routine is to go to work early in the morning and leave late at night.
There was no way she would have time to watch her TV.
Not to mention, unlike Juyeon, who is very interested in things like dramas, which is rare for a woman, Gayoung wasn’t particularly interested in that kind of thing.
“Uh.. Yu, don’t you know Yoo Ha-joon? He’s very famous these days.
So, at this moment, there was only one thing Ga-young desperately wanted.
Jooyeon turns around and leaves the break room.
So, to buy time to somehow sort out the cell phone that is still full of bizarre photos.
That was Gayoung’s wish.
“Mo, you don’t know. Well… You said you don’t watch TV very often.”
It’s really fun to watch, but I don’t know why she hates her so much, muttering in a low voice the dissatisfaction she usually has inside her.
“Anyways, celebrities are coming! Celebrities!”
‘Okay, so I won’t let you go for now…’ Gayoung swallowed her words, which were still welling up in her throat.
It was in the meantime.
“I must have heard the rumors about the director somewhere! She asked me to make a reservation for the director, but what should I do?!”
So, the watering star began to bend over her subtly.
It was only then that she realized Ga-young’s phone had fallen to the floor and tried to pick it up.
Ga-young, who confirmed Joo-yeon’s behavior, shook her head earnestly inwardly, but rather than her will being conveyed to her –
“Ah! Thankfully it didn’t break!”
It was much faster for Juyeon’s finger to reach Gayoung’s phone.
Thanks to this, the screen of the phone that seemed to be stained black in a little while suddenly brightened again, and the photo that Yuhan took and sent by hand reappeared.
It’s a bizarre photo that makes your face burn when you look at it again.
Compared to the videos I watched when I was quenching my occasional cravings by myself, it must be because this place is a work place, not a home, that it is vague to even say that it is erotic.
Thought at the same time.
The strange familiarity I felt earlier must have been momentarily mistaken because I was embarrassed.
Couldn’t he be someone who knew that too?
It’s been 10 years since I naturally cut ties with a creature called a man because I couldn’t afford to worry about anything else after raising three children.
As such, Yuhan was the only male nearby.
‘..No.’
How does Yuhan mean to be a man?
That Yuhan is a son, not a man.
She was so embarrassed that she seemed to keep thinking about her strangely, and even as she mocked herself, Ga-yeong quietly cupped her hand. Because when she thought of Yuhan, her heart felt heavy as if something had been placed on the inside of her chest.
For the past few days, Yuhan’s behavior every morning has been clearly abnormal.
That would be the case, which boy in the world would do such a thing to a woman first.
Even more, Yuhan and himself had a relationship that was no different from a hat. Even though not a single drop of blood had been mixed in, Ga-young sincerely thought that.
And I was sure that Yuhan must think so too.
No I was sure
Until Yuhan secretly kissed her sleeping lips.
If you really think of yourself as a mother, something you would never do.
That’s why, from then on, the things she never doubted began to shake little by little.
It was then that some of Yuhan’s usual behaviors began to feel different.
For example, she would call herself aunt all the time.
She is an aunt, not a mother.
Originally, she was still a bit shy to call her mother, so I thought she was like that and tried not to care as much as possible.
‘Couldn’t it be?’
Probably not.
Shouldn’t be
Whatever happened, it shouldn’t have been that much.
Even if that ominous assumption was true, he could not accept Yuhan’s heart.
Because that’s what Yuhan really does.
It was also true that Yuhan was in a state of misunderstanding his own mind.
It was clear that she mistook the feeling she was feeling for love.
It’s not common, but it happened often.
Not to mention Yuhan, because of her exceptional appearance, did she often get into trouble with women during her school days?
She even went through ‘that kind of thing’, so it wouldn’t be strange if she couldn’t trust strangers and instead felt the desire to lean on herself, a reliable partner.
The desire to depend on someone.
It’s enough emotion to misunderstand it as love.
That’s why, all the more, she couldn’t accept what Yuhan was secretly displaying.
Misunderstandings are meant to be broken someday.
And if it breaks, Yuhan will have to bear the damage caused by it.
‘Rather..’
It would have been better if the target of Yuhan’s feelings was Gina or Sena.
Why is it that I am more than 20 years older than myself?
Whenever I heard that I looked very young for my age, I was just happy, but not now.
If only her appearance was similar to that of her peers, Yuhan wouldn’t have had such a ridiculous misunderstanding or worried about this.
‘How..’
What should I do?
Know.
To solve this frustrating situation, honest conversation is the only way.
Even so, I couldn’t choose it willingly.
If the conversation ends safely, there won’t be another result as good as that, but like human affairs, there is no guarantee that it will work out anywhere.
In the worst case, the community of families that they had worked so hard for so far might collapse like a sand castle.
‘As far as that…’
Can not be done.
If so, what should I do?
It must have been the moment I was thinking about.
“..Blind? Director?”
“Yes?”
Only then did Ga-young recall the situation she was facing at the sound of Joo-yeon’s voice that flowed into her ears.
It wasn’t as much as the concern about Yuhan, but this side was also in trouble.
So maybe it was her, but her voice, which she tried to spit out as naturally as possible, trembled uncontrollably.
“Who is this?”
“..Huh?”
“You know this guy. Is he a model? Wow… He’s sexy.”
At Joo-yeon’s remark, Ga-young felt a little different from before and was taken aback.
Having worked together for several months, I already knew that Juyeon’s personality was unique enough to be called a geek.
‘Yo, are kids these days like this..?’
Although she felt bewildered, Gayoung answered truthfully.
“That’s spam..”
“Yes? Oh, really? Then I guess it was stolen somewhere else.”
While muttering a pity, holding out the phone didn’t seem to be sarcastic, nor did it seem contemptuous.
“Uh.. It’s a waste, it’s a waste. If you were a model, I said to find and follow you right away..”
I don’t know what the hell she regrets so much, but as she muttered with an expression that she would die of regret, Juyeon’s eyes began to twinkle again.
“Director!”
“Yes?”
Her voice that burst out with him once again embarrassed Ga-young.
“If you’re going to delete that picture, could you please send it to me before that?”
“This, this?”
“Yes! I’m going to keep it and look for it after work!”
“Why…?”
“That, that… Actually… I think he must be very handsome for some reason.”
Gayoung’s face was colored with absurdity at the words she vomited out as if she was embarrassed by Jooyeon.
It had to be.
Well, if something like a chin had been taken, I would have guessed it by looking at it, but the photo was literally all of the man’s upper body. It was said that he was handsome and lacked the virtuosity to judge himself.
However, Juyeon was already convinced that the man in the picture would be a very handsome man, and of course, she seemed to have fallen in love with the unknown man at first sight.
“What are you looking at?”
“Phi, your skin is crazy. It’s so milky white..”
Certainly, the skin was different.
It was immaculate and slightly, but it was not at a level that could be seen often that it turned to a peach color.
After all, a job is a job, so there are often opportunities to see the faces of celebrities while working, but among those who did, there was no one with skin comparable to the man in the photo.
However, if there is no one around, that is not the case again.
Isn’t there a limit to that too.
‘Ah.’
Thanks to the thought of Yuhan, I was able to understand it naturally.
The reason why I felt a strange familiarity with the man in the picture.
‘Come to think of it, the two of them have light skin—’
After a moment of muttering inwardly, he ate and laughed.
Because that picture can’t be real.
To be precise, there was no way it was the same as the original.
There must have been some corrections made.
When you work here, and when you live as a woman, you naturally come to know.
No matter how natural a picture may look, it is foolish to believe it as it is.
“What do you do if your skin is crazy? If so, it will all be corrected anyway.”
“Ah, anyway. Can you send it to me?
Watching him earnestly stare at me, I remembered how surprised I was to the point that my heart sank because of Jooyeon, and for some reason, I wanted to pay it back.
It was never something I would have thought of as an adult, but wouldn’t it be okay to be childish once in a while?
Especially in a situation where there are a lot of things to worry about like these days, I needed to change my mood in that way.
“Juyeon-ah.”
“..Yes?”
“Go and do something.”
That’s why I smiled and put the cell phone in her hand into her pocket as if to show off to Juyeon.
Could it be that she didn’t know that she would take it like that?
“Wow, wow- Hey, you’re coming out like this, right?”
“The boss just told the employee to work. What’s wrong with that?”
“If you keep trying to see something good like this alone…”
“If?”
“So, I’m going to spread rumors! The director was secretly looking at erotic pictures in the break room.”
To be honest, I was a bit perplexed. Maybe Juyeon said it as a joke, but it was like that nonetheless.
“Women can see some naughty things. What’s wrong with that?”
“Well… That’s right. But I thought the director wouldn’t be interested…”
“Hey, I’m a girl too.”
“I’m glad you didn’t forget that fact! You just need to date a man now—”
I couldn’t help but be embarrassed the moment the words, which were half-joking and half-truth, flowed into my ears. Coincidentally, the moment he heard those words, what came to mind was Yuhan’s face.
“..Me, how old are you guys?”
“Why? What about the director?
Even though she was in her 40s, she was trying to listen to Jooyeon jokingly, asking if it made sense to look younger than she did.
“..Stop talking nonsense and go to work. Work.”
So she deliberately made a cold voice, and when she heard that, her mouth was open and frozen.
I sighed inwardly as I watched Juyeon’s back as she trudged out of the break room.
‘He’s really…’
She was thinking of teasing her a little for a change of heart and ending it, but she couldn’t believe she would be embarrassed on the contrary.
While doing so, the existence of spam texts that she could not erase came to her mind, and although it bothered her a little ㅡ
‘That’s it.. I can delete it later.’
For now, the first thing to do was to cool off his overheated face.
As a bonus, I had to shake off the words of Juyeon that had been uselessly sitting in my head.
