Chapter 156 – Her X Her X Her (5)
Jang Ye-hwa’s eyebrows furrowed.
She had come to lunch with a happy heart. She had been beaming at the thought of filling her stomach with delicious shabu-shabu kalguksu, but alas, her luck was not good.
Chun Jin-hyun.
No matter how handsome and tall he was, the first thing that came to mind when she saw his face was the scene of him entering a motel with a drunken woman who wasn’t Su-jeong.
And on top of that, the phone call she had with Su-jeong at Outback before.
Sending Su-jeong the picture of Chun Jin-hyun cheating via text, and Su-jeong’s sorrowful voice she heard over the phone.
Even if they had somehow reconciled, the fact that he had cheated and hurt Su-jeong did not change.
And recently, even the high school-aged younger sister of the person he cheated with…!
Well, in the case of the younger sister, she could have fallen for him on her own, even though he hadn’t done anything. Chun Jin-hyun was handsome on the outside, after all.
But even so, cheating with a woman named Yoon Yu-jeong twice was absolutely not justifiable.
The worst kind of womanizer.
That was Ye-hwa’s current perception of Chun Jin-hyun.
“…Hello.”
She responded to Chun Jin-hyun’s greeting, but the words that came out of Ye-hwa’s mouth were laced with coldness.
She wanted to ignore him, but she knew she could be annoyingly held back if she ignored him like before, saying it wasn’t right to ignore greetings.
Ye-hwa glanced at Chun Jin-hyun for a moment, then turned her body and walked in the opposite direction.
Ah,
I wanted to eat kalguksu shabu-shabu today.
But then she heard someone following her from behind.
“Where are you going all of a sudden?”
“Don’t follow me.”
“Weren’t you going to have lunch? Let’s eat together.”
“What-? Huh?”
Ye-hwa stopped abruptly at the man’s words. She felt a mix of disbelief and bewilderment.
When she looked at the man, he had a nonchalant expression on his face.
Is this man an idiot?
As blatantly as she was showing it, he couldn’t help but know that she disliked him.
“Eat together? Why would I?”
“Because we know each other. It’s good to eat together. You were going to eat here, weren’t you, Ye-hwa?”
“…No, I wasn’t.”
“I thought you didn’t lie, but you’re good at it.”
Grind.
Jang Ye-hwa gritted her teeth.
“Okay, fine. I was going to eat. But even if I do, I’ll eat alone.”
“Can you eat two servings by yourself?”
“?”
Two servings? What was he talking about?
When Ye-hwa looked at Jin-hyun, he pointed to the glass wall of the restaurant.
“I come here often too, and I think they changed their policy. Now they only take orders for two servings or more. Even if you come alone, you have to order two servings.”
Ye-hwa quickly scanned the wall of the restaurant.
It was true.
No, she clearly remembered eating alone here before. But there was a sticker on the glass that clearly stated that orders were only available for two or more servings.
It was awkward to get shabu-shabu kalguksu to go.
Was it because there were too many customers?
While she was thinking, the man added another word.
“So, let’s eat together. It’s delicious here.”
“…”
Ye-hwa couldn’t answer Jin-hyun’s words right away.
******
Slurp, slurp.
As I put the kalguksu in my mouth, I savored the taste in my mind while chewing the noodles.
Somehow, we ended up sitting at the same table, but the atmosphere was like ice itself.
‘Is she really this cold?’
The only sounds at the table were the sounds of eating kalguksu or dipping meat and vegetables in the broth.
At first, I tried to talk a lot.
How long was she going to be so cold?
Even when I said that Su-jeong and I were doing well now, she said that was Su-jeong’s business and had nothing to do with how she treated me.
Well, people judge for themselves, she said.
No matter what I said, she only gave short answers and didn’t give me any chance to raise her favorability.
Currently, I had an appearance and physique stat of 73. As I leveled up, all my stats increased by 3, making them higher than before. In addition, stats such as charm and charisma were also at 73.
Just walking down the street, many women would look at me, and I could receive friendly service at any store.
But Ye-hwa didn’t seem to care about that.
‘I guess things won’t work out normally.’
I didn’t think I could raise her favorability, which was buried deep in her core, with just a few words.
Knowing that, I had something prepared.
A little while later.
“Hoo.”
Thud.
Ye-hwa finished her meal and got up from her seat.
She had neatly finished exactly one serving, and I had eaten at Ye-hwa’s pace, so we were able to finish at the same time.
“I’ll pay.”
“No. Let’s pay separately.”
In the end, Ye-hwa, who had paid her share, left the door as soon as she finished paying.
“Then, I’ll be going.”
It was as if she had only joined me to eat shabu-shabu kalguksu.
I immediately called out to Ye-hwa, who was about to turn around.
“Ye-hwa, just a moment.”
Ye-hwa’s expression showed displeasure. Her face was clearly asking why I was calling her.
“…What is it?”
“I’ll give you this.”
“…This?”
I put my hand inside my pocket and activated my ‘Personal Subspace Pocket’ skill.
Then, I took out a box that I had prepared in advance from my pocket and handed it to Ye-hwa.
“What is this?”
Ye-hwa’s eyes, which were wide open, were filled with curiosity. She didn’t seem to expect that I would give her something.
“You’ve been coming to my cafe almost every day lately, Ye-hwa.”
Twitch.
Ye-hwa flinched slightly, perhaps knowing that it was ironic that she had been so cold but had been visiting the cafe every day.
However, she nodded as if nothing was wrong.
“…Well, yeah.”
“Doesn’t it make you feel comfortable and relaxed when you’re in the cafe?”
Ye-hwa also acknowledged this.
“It does.”
“That’s the effect. That thing. Well, it’s much more effective than the cafe’s.”
I said, pointing to the box I had handed to Ye-hwa.
“That effect?”
“Yes, it’s a diffuser. They say it helps with concentration, calms the mind, and makes you feel good.”
Ye-hwa looked at the small box and asked me again.
“But, why are you giving this to me?”
“Let’s just try to get along. You come to the cafe every day, so think of it as a VIP gift.”
Ye-hwa deserved to receive a VIP gift.
In fact, I thought that sales might have increased a little thanks to Ye-hwa.
A stunningly beautiful woman was sitting on the second floor every day, so wouldn’t there be a few customers who came to see Ye-hwa? I would have done that if I were my old self.
“I have a lot of diffusers at home.”
“This one is a bit special.”
“Hmm. Is that so?”
She had a skeptical expression. I chuckled.
“Don’t come asking for more later. It’s very precious.”
“Ha, I won’t. Anyway, well… I received it, so I’ll use it well. Thank you.”
She did say thank you.
Ye-hwa said, “Then, I’ll be going,” again, and turned her body and walked in the opposite direction.
I watched her for a while, then headed back to the cafe.
I took out the sticker dispenser from my inventory and checked the effects applied to the diffuser again.
[Effect Applied: Sticker, Stability Level 2]
[Effect Applied: Sticker, Happiness Level 2]
[Effect Applied: Sticker, Concentration Level 2]
[Effect Applied: Sticker, Inspiration Level 2]
[Effect Applied: Sticker, Attraction Level 2]
[Effect Applied: Sticker, Addiction Level 2]
[Effect Applied: Item, Scent Level 2]
– The item with this effect will emit a scent.
The diffuser I gave to Ye-hwa was a special diffuser to which I had applied many effects.
No, it wasn’t even a diffuser in the first place.
It was just a small, pretty plant model with a sticker attached to it to make it ‘scented.’
And on that scent sticker, I additionally attached concentration, inspiration, stability, happiness, attraction, and addiction stickers.
That way, when you smelled the scent from the diffuser, the other sticker effects, such as concentration and inspiration, would be activated. Of course, the attraction and addiction effects too.
Since it was not a level 1 effect but a level 2 effect, the performance would be certain.
If Ye-hwa started to enjoy the effects of that diffuser, she wouldn’t need to come to the cafe anymore, but I didn’t need to worry about that.
In the first place, it was possible to cut off the effects of all the stickers I had issued from the sticker dispenser. Of course, it was also possible to reapply the effects when I wanted to.
It cost 20,000 coins for just that one small diffuser, but I didn’t really mind.
This would be the first step in capturing Ye-hwa.
Above all.
The scent applied to that diffuser was my own ‘body odor.’
The scent effect application sticker was a sticker that could apply all kinds of scents to an object.
For example, you could specify and apply something like a ‘strawberry scent,’ but the dispenser also allowed you to input my body odor and apply it.
Thanks to the scent of seduction, my body odor was almost like a pheromone bomb. It was just a really good scent to smell.
Originally, I had a somewhat foul smell of sweat, but thanks to the skill, it had completely changed to a fragrant scent.
Ye-hwa’s capture style name was ‘Hold onto me tightly.’
After thinking about Ye-hwa’s capture style for a while, I was able to come to a conclusion.
In that style, ‘me’ could also be interpreted as ‘everything to Ye-hwa.’
Whether it was her heart or her body.
I had to slowly dye all of Ye-hwa in my colors.
******
“Haaa…”
Ye-hwa, who had returned to the studio, simply washed her hands and brushed her teeth. She leaned back in the soft chair, sighed, and thought about what had happened earlier.
Chun Jin-hyun.
To run into that man during her happy lunch time of all times.
She did eat shabu-shabu kalguksu, but the atmosphere made it very uncomfortable.
Well, it was mostly because of her short answers that the atmosphere became cold…
‘Does that man not get angry?’
Come to think of it, she had been incredibly prickly, but he had never shown any signs of anger. Except for the slightly stiff expression he had when she ignored him and passed him by in front of the convenience store.
He even gave her a gift.
“Why did I even accept this?”
Ye-hwa took out the diffuser that Jin-hyun had given her from her handbag.
As a perfectionist, Ye-hwa had all her diffusers prepared, even spares. She knew which diffuser to use in which room, and she had spares prepared in advance.
But she had received it, so.
Let’s at least read it.
Judging by the fact that he even gave her a coupon last time, it seemed like he was subtly taking care of other people, so was that why Su-jeong fell for him?
‘She’s really crazy.’
Ye-hwa shook her head and looked at the diffuser again.
Even though he had some unexpected sides, her evaluation of him in her heart was still that he was the worst womanizer.
“High-end diffuser… Is there no brand?”
There was nothing like a mark or a brand, just the words “high-end diffuser” written on the box.
“Ah. There is. Ah, no. Duration of effect… Huh? 3 days?”
The duration of the diffuser’s effect was written on the back of the box, and it was only 3 days.
Is this right?
Really?
Ye-hwa read the sentence again.
But it really was 3 days, not 3 months or 3 weeks.
“What kind of diffuser only lasts for 3 days?”
Seriously.
He said it was a special diffuser.
So that’s why it was special?
Ye-hwa recalled Chun Jin-hyun’s face when he handed her the diffuser and scoffed. Of course.
“But still, should I try it once?”
If it only lasted for 3 days, it was worth trying.
Rustle, rustle.
Ye-hwa opened the box and unwrapped the packaging inside.
Inside, a small plant model about the size of a thumb appeared.
“This is a diffuser?”
There was nothing like a liquid or anything.
Just as she thought that.
“Huh…?”
The scent of the diffuser entered Ye-hwa’s nose.
“This smell…”
Sniff, sniff.
Ye-hwa smelled the diffuser again.
She was sure of it.
‘This… it’s Chun Jin-hyun’s smell, isn’t it?’
She didn’t want to remember it, but she couldn’t help but remember it.
Honestly, even though Chun Jin-hyun was a bad guy, he was a total success in terms of appearance.
Aside from his face, height, and body, the way he dressed and especially his scent were also good.
She wondered what kind of perfume he used, but seeing that the same scent was coming from this diffuser, was he using a perfume sold by the company that made this diffuser?
“The smell is really good, but, hmmm…”
Haa.
Ye-hwa sighed.
Every time she smelled it, Chun Jin-hyun’s face came to mind.
