Chapter 266 – Episode 266 – The Protagonist Is Targeted (6)
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“Hehehe.”
Leaning against the pure white wall, Jeong Eun-ju took a selfie with a mask on, hiding her face, and immediately uploaded it to her social media.
It turned out pretty good. Likes and comments started pouring in right away.
Jeong Eun-ju hadn’t been doing MiTube for very long, and she had also started using social media around the same time.
Unlike MiTube, her follower count wasn’t exploding, but it was still appealing because she could casually share her daily life and attract a different layer of fans.
She didn’t reveal her face or personal information.
However, most of her fans knew that she was a Korean who had been studying abroad and had just returned after finishing her studies.
└ beautiful ♡♡♡
└ So cute
Even though her face was covered, most of the comments said she was pretty.
Perhaps it was because she took the selfie in a way that highlighted her figure. Jeong Eun-ju smiled and replied to some of the comments, thanking them.
└ Thank you 🙂
A significant portion of her MiTube subscribers were foreigners. That’s probably why there were more English comments on her social media. There were quite a few Korean comments too, but they didn’t exceed 30%.
Now that she was in Korea, she hoped to gain more Korean subscribers and followers.
“Mom, Dad, I’m heading out now~!”
“Oh, are you going now?”
“Yeah.”
After admiring the comments, Jeong Eun-ju checked the time, grabbed her handbag, and headed to the front door. She was all ready.
“Okay. Be careful and have a good day.”
“Okay~~.”
“Eun-ju.”
“Yes?”
Just as she was about to close the front door, saying goodbye to her mom who had come to see her off, her dad’s words made her stop.
“Be close with Ha-rin and Jin-hyun. If anyone has worries, give them advice, and just pay for the meals.”
“Ah, okay. Hehe, got it.”
Jeong Eun-ju smiled and closed the door.
Her dad’s eyes were full of pride for his daughter. She didn’t dislike that look, but honestly, she thought it was a bit too much of an overestimation.
‘Advice, huh.’
Of course, it’s good for friends to share their worries, but the advice her dad was talking about was probably about Jin-hyun’s future or something.
‘Should I have just told them?’
Jeong Eun-ju thought back to breakfast with her parents a few hours ago.
When Jeong Eun-ju asked if they knew what Jin-hyun was doing these days, her parents said they didn’t. Her eyes widened at their response, and she immediately told them that Jin-hyun was running a cafe.
And that it was quite a famous cafe these days.
“A cafe? Is Jin-hyun working part-time at a cafe these days?”
“Hmm. A cafe is good. It’s helpful to experience various part-time jobs.”
“Or maybe he’s preparing to be a barista.”
“That makes sense.”
They nodded in agreement.
Jeong Eun-ju was a bit taken aback that they thought he was working part-time instead of owning the cafe, but she figured that could be the case.
It would be harder to imagine that Jin-hyun had suddenly opened and was running a cafe.
She was about to correct them and say that he wasn’t working part-time but had opened a cafe, but then she suddenly thought.
‘Could it be that Jin-hyun didn’t say anything on purpose?’
The last time they met, Jeong Eun-ju had asked Jin-hyun in surprise how he had opened such a big cafe.
At that time, Jin-hyun had just smiled vaguely and said that one thing had hit the jackpot. Thinking about it, it seemed like he would have had to hit the jackpot with something like Bitcoin or the lottery to open such a big cafe at his age.
If that was the case, he might not want to tell her parents. It could be a hassle.
She heard that Jin-hyun hadn’t come up for Chuseok this year, so the last time her parents had seen him was almost a year ago. Before that, he was in the military, so they hadn’t seen him for a long time either.
In the old days, they used to visit each other’s houses often and even sleep over, so they were close with her parents… but that was when they were kids.
It was a bit disappointing, but Jeong Eun-ju decided to stay quiet.
“Hmm. I thought Jin-hyun would be better suited to learning a trade.”
“A trade? What kind of trade?”
“Like an electrician?”
“Is that easy?”
“It’s not easy.”
Her parents’ speculations went on and on.
Jeong Eun-ju ate her meal quietly.
Eventually, they started talking about whether Jin-hyun had come to his senses or not, but thankfully, the topic soon shifted back to her time studying in the US.
Eun-ju spent the rest of breakfast talking about Jina, Ye-seul, and her life in the US.
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But…
“Ummm…”
Clang, clang-
Inside the subway.
For some reason, as she got closer to the meeting place, Jeong Eun-ju felt her parents’ words echoing in her head.
He hasn’t come to his senses.
Of course, Jin-hyun, whom she had met recently, seemed very relaxed, unlike what that sentence implied…
Right.
When she had accidentally met Jin-hyun in Boston, the shocking sight of seeing him for the first time in a long time was still vivid in Jeong Eun-ju’s mind.
The sight of him having knocked Jina out and being naked with a blonde woman in her and Ye-seul’s hotel room.
The thought that Jin-hyun might be as dissolute as Jina kept poking at Jeong Eun-ju’s mind.
Maybe Jin-hyun really hasn’t come to his senses…
[ Me : Ha-rin, did you leave?? ]
[ Ha-rin : Yeah, I’ll be there in 20 minutes. ]
[ Me : Ah, I’ll be there around that time too~ ]
[ Ha-rin : Ok ok ]
[ Ha-rin : (Hamster giving a thumbs up emoji) ]
This wasn’t the group chat they had recently made with Jin-hyun and Ha-rin, but just a personal chat with Ha-rin.
The time they were supposed to meet with Jin-hyun today was 3 PM.
Before that, Ha-rin and she were going to meet at 2 PM to complete the contract at the real estate agency first. She didn’t tell Jin-hyun that they were meeting after signing the contract today.
‘Looks like I’ll arrive a bit earlier.’
After getting off at her destination subway station and taking the bus for two stops, Jeong Eun-ju got off the bus, enjoying the cool breeze.
It was close by from here.
Having been there once before, Jeong Eun-ju walked to the real estate agency without getting lost.
[ P.M 01:48 ]
To get to the real estate agency, she had to come out of the main street and go into a small alley.
Jeong Eun-ju walked for about 3 minutes and entered the alley.
As she was walking through the alley, she suddenly started to see a familiar silhouette in the distance on the opposite side of the road.
‘……Huh, Jin-hyun?’
She narrowed her eyes and looked at the figure approaching her. It looked like Jin-hyun.
No, on closer inspection, it was definitely Jin-hyun.
They were supposed to meet at 3 PM today, but it seemed like Jin-hyun lived nearby and ran a cafe, so they had just run into each other by chance.
Jeong Eun-ju was happy and was about to approach Jin-hyun to say hello.
“Ah, Jin-hyun…!”
However, she had to stop because of another figure that appeared next to Jin-hyun.
‘Huh?’
Jin-hyun wasn’t alone.
A woman she had never seen before was walking with Jin-hyun.
‘Wow… she’s really pretty. Who is she?’
Jeong Eun-ju unconsciously stared at the woman’s appearance. The woman with long black hair was so beautiful that she could be a magazine model.
No, more than that.
They were holding arms. It was the kind of arm-in-arm that made them look like a very close couple.
“……?”
Jeong Eun-ju suddenly felt something was off.
Come to think of it.
The last time she saw him in Boston, she remembered Jin-hyun was dating a pretty blonde woman?
The woman she was seeing now was just as pretty as the blonde woman from before, but they looked completely different.
‘Huh, what’s going on? Did he break up with that blonde woman? Or are they just friends?’
Jeong Eun-ju’s mind became a bit complicated.
That’s when it happened.
Jin-hyun and the woman, who were walking and smiling at each other, turned their gaze forward.
‘Ah!’
For some reason, Jeong Eun-ju quickly hid behind a car parked in the alley to avoid their gaze.
“Whew.”
A short sigh.
Jeong Eun-ju peeked out slightly to check on Jin-hyun and the woman.
Peek-
She didn’t really need to hide, but this action was almost instinctive.
Jeong Eun-ju suppressed her slightly pounding heart and continued to watch them.
Then, she even witnessed them walking arm in arm, checking to see if anyone was around, and lightly kissing on the lips.
‘Wow… amazing.’
Jeong Eun-ju covered her mouth slightly.
It seemed like they were definitely dating. How does Jin-hyun always manage to date such pretty people?
‘No, no. More than that.’
Jeong Eun-ju shook her head.
Come to think of it, that means Jin-hyun has already changed girlfriends.
The woman was definitely different from the Delia she saw in Boston, and so quickly? He even named his cafe Delia?
‘Hmm, no. Is that even possible?’
But then, when she thought about it carefully, it had already been three months since she had accidentally met Jin-hyun at the hotel in Boston.
Maybe it was enough time to break up with his girlfriend and find a new one.
As for the cafe name… he could just leave it or change it later.
‘But when we all met at the cafe last time, it seemed like he and Jina were up to something…’
A month ago.
Hmm.
No, but a month is enough time…
‘Ugh.’
She didn’t know.
Jeong Eun-ju cleared her complicated thoughts.
However, one thing was clear.
Her parents’ words, “Jin-hyun still hasn’t come to his senses,” which they had meant in a different way, echoed even more strongly in Jeong Eun-ju’s mind.
Jeong Eun-ju continued to hide behind the car and quietly watched them.
Anyway, for now, she would wait until they disappeared and then go to the real estate agency.
As she was thinking that and waiting calmly.
‘Huh?’
Jin-hyun and the woman he was holding arms with walked a little further and entered the real estate agency that Jeong Eun-ju was heading to.
Jeong Eun-ju’s eyes widened.
