Chapter 229 – The Good Way
“What?”
Cheonbom murmured as he looked down at the phone screen.
The message I just sent, obviously the 1 mark next to it is gone, so why no reply?
“Did you ask anything?”
Cheonbom muttered and put her phone down roughly.
“Ah, I asked something stupid!”
Answering her question, Bom Cheon crossed her arms and circled around her studio.
She always thought her heart would calm down when she came to the studio, her own space that calms herself down, but why is she still so excited?
“Okay, let’s calm down.”
Cheonbom deliberately raised her voice.
“Because I was beaten too much last night! I just want to beat that guy. Right?”
She stops her feet as she utters her words.
She immediately shook her head.
“No, I’m just embarrassing, so I’m just citing random reasons, Cheonbom, you idiot. Hyeonta came after suddenly having an orgy, so I was just embarrassed!”
It was a great advisory answer.
What followed was her excellent self-excusing skills.
“No no, is there any need to be ashamed of that? The four of us are dating at the same time anyway, so what’s the big deal about doing it at the same time!? Yes, it’s a strange relationship from the beginning!”
Answer.
“Wait wait wait, even so… Then why do I want to pay that man back?”
And again the question.
She spins around again.
“…Because it was so good? I want to do it again, but this time I don’t want to collapse right away and I want to deal with it properly?”
Correct answer again.
As expected, it was a great advisory answering skill.
“Aww, no!”
Cheonbom drew her crosshairs in her mind on her own answer sheet and spun faster.
What the hell, why am I thinking like this?
Besides, what is this feeling?
I feel excited and warm again, but I also feel strangely painful!
‘I don’t know, why the hell am I doing this?!’
The fact that it was an experience so great that it paralyzed her own reason, she was the only one who didn’t notice it.
***
‘Okay, let’s calm down.’
Maybe it was because she looked out the window until she came to the office.
Im Ha-eun was able to calm her own mind.
Yeah, she said just before that she was unknowingly a bit jealous.
I don’t know if it’s Soye or Minji, but I was a bit angry the moment I thought that I was falling behind Cheonbom.
‘But you don’t have to think that way, do you?’
What happened last night, I can’t guess now what the reason was!
Anyway!
What happened!
The four of them must have done it, did they purposely ostracize themselves or something?
To think that I fall further behind Cheonbom with that one thing is a bit of an overreaction and a delusion of being victimized.
“Ehh…”
Im Ha-eun shook her head and got on her elevator.
“Ha-eun, why are you like that?”
Baek Yena asks a question while looking at her eyes.
“Uh, nothing. I just have a little regret.”
“Are you sorry?”
I felt a bit lonely thinking that Sejin would leave me alone and take care of Soye, Minji, and even Cheonbom first.
How can I tell others about this?
“After… Nothing.”
“Is it because of this manager?”
“…”
Im Ha-eun, lost for words, looks down at Baek Yena.
Seeing her like that, Baek Yena grinned.
“As expected.”
“Uh… How did you…”
“Are you going to work alone today? That’s why I’m wondering if it’s because you’re lonely.”
“Then…”
I have to start talking about her sister or her Minji, why is Sejin referring to that bastard right away?
Yena Baek answered without even listening to Im Ha-eun’s continued words.
“It would be lonely not having Soye or Minji, but I thought that not having someone to take care of me would make it even more lonely. Why is that, parents, usually mothers, rather than no siblings at home? She feels the most empty space when her mother is gone, right?”
“Uh… Is that so?”
Ting!
The elevator stopped at the floor where the break room was located, and the two women got out and walked down the hallway.
“Ah, are you going to eat it?”
“Uh…”
“I will buy it.”
As always, Baek Yena checked her menu and then headed to the canteen in the corner of the break room.
And Im Ha-eun also, as usual, asked for an iced Americano and sat down in an empty seat in the break room.
“I brought it here~”
Yena Baek brings an iced Americano and sets it down in front of Haeun Lim.
Then she sat down, placing her juice of raw vegetables in front of her.
“…Isn’t that tasteless?”
“No. But it’s good for your body. In the morning, digestive function is down a lot, and it’s good to keep an empty stomach for about 12 hours a day, so it’s very good to cope with breakfast with vegetable juice like this. Of course, what you need to be careful of is that you should eat only real vegetables and fruits, and that you should not add any sugar. In that regard, the vegetable juice served at the store here is very good…”
I’ve only noticed it recently, but this road manager has a very descriptive temperament.
“Yes… Take good care of your health.”
Im Ha-eun gave a rough answer and took a sip of her coffee.
“Of course, the most important thing is mental. No matter how well you take care of your body and eat well, if your mentality is not good, you will be spoiled for choice. You often hear that when you go to the hospital, you are sick because of stress, right? Even cancer is caused by stress, right?”
“Hmm…”
“In that respect, if there is something to worry about or something that can cause stress, it’s best to brush it off quickly.”
Baek Ye-na looks at Im Ha-eun while saying that.
Seeing that, Im Ha-eun unknowingly snorted at her.
This is real
Do you build up this kind of build-up on the vegetable juice story to pry me out and ask questions?
“I am.”
But she didn’t hate the way she built up.
Didn’t you talk like that because you were worried about this side?
Normally, Im Ha-eun would have just skipped over it, but I was grateful to her for caring so much today.
“It is as you say. It’s sad that Sejin just wants to be a little neglectful of me these days.”
As it is, Im Ha-eun confided in Baek Yena about the treatment she is receiving these days, except, of course, for her acts of affection.
Lee Se-jin took good care of Shin So-ye, Park Min-ji, and even Cheon Bom, while she just took care of herself.
‘Uh? What? When I say this…’
Has this bastard really not taken good care of me lately?
I watched you exercise yesterday right away, but that wasn’t that long, right?
Other than that?
At the drama filming site, her older sister comes first, Minji takes care of her when she whines, and Cheonbom takes care of her unnecessarily, but what am I?
I have to beg to say I want to do it.
It was okay when I was just thinking about it, but when I actually talked about it, there were not one or two things to be disappointed about.
“Um, but can’t we do something about it?”
Im Ha-eun’s head, which was running out of control, stopped at Baek Yena’s words.
“Huh?”
“No, that… Mr. Cheon Bom is Mr. Lee Se Jin’s lover, so it’s natural for him to take care of him diligently, right?”
“…”
Baek Yena is right.
From the point of view of people who do not know the real situation!
However, from Im Ha-eun’s point of view, who knew her hidden facts, these words only amplified her sorrow.
‘My lover is a piece of shit!’
Cheonbom I’m first before that bitch!
The first thing I did was… She’s a sister, but she’s a sister!
But the second one is me!
“Minji is still very young, so she needs some care. You don’t know where it will bounce, right?”
“…That’s not true.”
Yes, Minji definitely has a tendency to rush.
…What.
Then, shouldn’t I rather be praised for being quiet?
Is this a bit weird?
Why does Min-ji, who wants to make a mistake, always receive an award, and I, who is calm, go to be treated like a dog?
Come to think of it, wasn’t Minji the first to graduate as a virgin?
Obviously I’m the second one, so why do you think he takes care of the third one Minji more?
‘Of course, I was a bit rebellious towards that bastard at that time, but it’s nothing to be ticklish like that, right?’
Inside Lim Ha-eun’s brain, her delusions and self-excuses began to run wild.
“And Soye is the leader.”
“…What is a leader?”
“The leader has a lot more to do. Manager Lee tends to do all the work for us, but looking at other teams, managing the kids is more often done through the leader. What the kids have to do with each other is that the leader takes the lead, or the leader does some control over this and that…”
“Is it?”
“Why did you do group assignments at school? There are quite a few things the team leader does, right?”
Baek Yena’s words were correct.
The Queens group is a bit unusual, usually there are conflicts and quarrels within idol groups, so there were many cases where the leader had the duty to control the kids and the authority accordingly.
‘But we’re not really…?’
The three of you know how to get along well.
Then, isn’t the older sister a burden?
Nana Minji always listens to her older sister, and she doesn’t have anything special added by her older sister?
“Ha…”
Unknowingly, Im Ha-eun let out a sigh.
“You don’t seem to want to admit it, do you?”
“Yeah…”
Of course, Lim Ha-eun wanted to answer.
But she swallowed her words on the way.
It was because she knew that her own thoughts were her complaints.
It’s embarrassing.
Her resentment has grown to the fullest, but since she keeps trying to suppress it, it’s really uncomfortable, difficult, and annoying in many ways.
“Um, sure, if you’re upset, that’s the end of the conversation.”
‘Didn’t she just convince me that she has nothing to be sad about, did you?’
“But when I see it, it seems that manager Lee really cares about Ha-eun too.”
‘That’s your idea.’
“Of course, this is my opinion, so I have nothing to say… But there’s a good way to do it.”
“…A good way?”
At Im Ha-eun’s question, Baek Yena smiled and nodded her head.
“No matter how you look at it, this looks like A, but it might not be A. The best thing to do when you’re confused like this is to experiment.”
“An experiment, what are you suddenly saying…”
“Let’s test whether this manager really doesn’t take care of Ha-eun, and whether Ha-eun’s disappointment is justified.”
Yena Baek proposes with sparkling eyes.
And Im Ha-eun turns her head at her sparkling eyes.
However, she soon looked straight into Baek Yena’s eyes and opened her mouth.
“…How?”
