Idols Around the World 571

Chapter 571 – #85. Unboxing (2)

“You have a real life.”

I was listening to the laments of my friends who had been getting hit and run here and there after getting a job at a company for a while.
I heard that Lanna was out of the blue envious of her friends.

“Ah, why is that?”
“I’m not very envious. You dropped out midway through college and became the owner of a franchise.”
“Are you kicking me now? You said you met a good man and made your life better?”
“It’s not that I’m criticizing, it’s that I’m envious. Because I envy you.”
“I didn’t even know I was going to be like this.”

I fully understand why your friends envy you.
It’s because I’m not a great person, so I don’t enjoy this kind of leisure and wealth.

“But you can honestly say it. It’s true that I met a good man and started my life. I don’t feel too bad.”
“Sir, you envious bitch. Who knew my friend would snatch that handsome boss.”

When I said it was okay, her friends immediately vomited envy at me.
Even if you hear some harsh words, you won’t be hurt too much.
If other friends other than me were in the same situation as me, I would have been insanely envious.

“There’s something I’ve been wanting to ask for a long time, can I?”
“What?”
“Did you have plastic surgery?”
“Plastic surgery? No, I never did.”
“I was very curious about this too! Why are you so pretty?”
“I? We’ve been seeing each other My face has never been swollen, but when do you do that?”
“I didn’t. ‘Cause you’re still pretty I wonder if the side effects were minimized with money.”
“Where is that kind of plastic surgery? If there was such a thing, there wouldn’t be anyone among the rich who isn’t pretty, right?”

Knowing that they weren’t even friends, he easily agreed, probably because he was asking.

“I have a lot of money, kill my boyfriend, and my face is getting prettier. You must have saved a country in your previous life.”
“I think living will be fun.”

Even after accepting the gilding of my friends, when I thought it was too much, I moderately discouraged it.

“Stop. You guys keep saying that, so I’m sorry.”
“Still, I think it’s fortunate that you, and not someone else, got that kind of luck. At least you are not unlucky.”
“That’s right. It was so strange that even though I made a lot of money, I wasn’t condescending. Frankly, we thought you would change.”
“I? How will it change?”
“It’s just something common. It’s the level of people.”
“I am not that kind of person. And why are friends arguing about grades?”
“That’s why you are good.”

My face burned when my friends kept praising me.

“Is this the strategy you’re trying to get me to shoot for lunch today? You weren’t like this before.”

Even when I met with my friends, there was no case where I would paint my face like this.
Today was a bit special.

“Hehe, did you hear?”
“Buy me something delicious! They said the 50th store was also a hit.”
“Have you left your lunch? Ouch!”
“I only drink coffee at your cafe these days? I will continue to be a regular customer, so pay me a bribe.”

Even when I opened the second store, I had the thought that it would be nice if the store didn’t make a loss.
But now, the 50th store franchise has been created.
Of course, the 50th store was also making huge profits.
Is that all?
Franchises have even made inroads abroad.
Even thinking about it, I couldn’t believe that I had done it.

‘If you think about it carefully, it’s not like I did it.’

The reason franchise companies have no choice but to do well.
My friends think I did it all by myself, but to be precise, the president’s strength was great.
Thanks to the connections he made, everything went smoothly.
In addition, the investment money that was provided infinitely for expansion without thinking about profit was also one of the big reasons for success.
Wouldn’t it be strange to fail to introduce you to the personal connections you need to run the company and the investment money?
I provided money like that, but I wasn’t incompetent enough to fail.
When the opportunity presents itself, seize it with certainty.
That was the only success know-how I could tell.

‘Even if I say this, my friends will feel like I’m bragging.’

So, I couldn’t go into detail about this situation.
For friends who got a job at a company and are under stress due to various power abuses, they would have no choice but to become objects of envy.

“By the way, when are you going to marry your lover?”
“… Marriage?”
“Huh. It’s been a while since we met, but I wonder why there is still no news of marriage. Aren’t you going to propose? He’s such a great lover, so I thought you might have to hold onto him a little impatiently.”
“Ah~ That’s too far-fetched. Won’t Lanna take care of it?”

I was in my late 20s, and it was time to start thinking about getting married.
Moreover, the lover is a man who is very good even if he is good.
He didn’t show off that he had more women, but I don’t think that a woman would be alone with such a great man.
Nevertheless, the reason she didn’t propose to her lover was because she had a pain she couldn’t tell others about.
Lanna unconsciously ran her hand across her stomach.
At some point, I started to do this often.
It’s a painful habit that came about when she accidentally lost something so precious.

‘Idiot.’

Okay.
She had been pregnant, as she might have noticed to some extent, and lost her child through her careless blunder.
Her attempt to marry him was also interrupted by the loss of her child.
What made it even more sad was that he hadn’t stopped her marriage by losing the child.
Rather, he tried to push the marriage even further.
But he refused because he couldn’t possibly be happily married with the loss of a child.
I know it’s something that others would call crazy if they heard it.
But he just couldn’t do it.

‘After that, I worked like crazy, and the company grew like this before I knew it.’

The boss took care of me even more carefully and cared for me, who was suffering from depression.
However, the pain of losing a child was bigger than I thought, so I couldn’t accept that kind of love comfortably.
So that was what I chose to do.
Now that the franchise has made inroads into overseas markets and has opened its 50th store.
In the eyes of others, he became a so-called self-made CEO.
However, it was full of pain and suffering.

“I’m not thinking about getting married yet.”
“Why? Doesn’t she want to be a lover?”
“Hey. Why do you have so many questions? Lanna will take care of herself.”
“You can ask if you have any questions. But I don’t really want to get married. I just like working as I am now.”
“Ugh, if it were me, I would attack a man first, have a baby, and get married right away. If you neglect such a good man, another woman will take it away. I’m not saying this because I’m jealous, I’m saying it because I’m worried about you. Don’t be foolish and catch me?”

It is true that the advice of a friend touched a rather sensitive issue.
But I understand why her friend can’t help but say that.
Anyone can see that my current situation is frustrating.

“And what if I miss it? Are you going to miss that precious man? If you are abandoned by that man, what will he be left with you?”

The company I run is definitely my lover’s.
So, it is true that the aftermath of breaking up with him is inevitable.

‘It’s terrible when you really think about it.’

What is left of her when she breaks up with her boss?
The money distributed to him while running the company would be all.
Of course, it is true that money is very important in life.
But it was true that, considering her future, she didn’t have much left of her.

‘I lost my job, and my future family was shattered…’

It’s not for nothing to worry about what your friend did for you.
Breaking up with the boss was something I should be afraid of.

‘But how can I talk?’

The loss of her child was entirely her fault.
She just wouldn’t dare propose to him if she couldn’t make up for the big mistake.

‘I’m really helpless.’

Friends I met to change my mood after a long time.
But when I got home from playing with my friends, my mood was crawling on the floor.
I know that her friend gave her advice for her with all her heart, but she heard the words hurt so much that she felt repulsive towards her friend.

“Lanna.”
“Ah! You are here.”
“I heard that you met a friend today, but why does your face look so bad?”

Since he is the boss with a job that travels around many countries, he has set a regular day for him to come to visit him.
It was only done 4 times a month at most, but there was no reason to be dissatisfied because once it came, all the sadness and longing for it were blown away.
As soon as he entered the house, he immediately expressed his concern as if he had seen my face.
I was surprised that I hadn’t been able to manage my expression this far, so I hurriedly captured it.

“No. I have been playing well. I ate something delicious, but there’s no way I’m in a bad mood.”
“Well, it seems to me that you are in a very bad mood?”
“Not really.”
“Then did I get it wrong? It feels good right?”
“Of course. Besides, it’s the day the boss comes, so I can’t be in a bad mood.”

The expression of the boss who was worried about whether I was persuaded by my words was relieved.

“I’m glad. How have you been doing?”
“No, I think I missed the boss a lot this week.”
“Oh my god. I don’t think I’ll be able to stand it if I say that already…”
“Pu-huh! Wash up quickly I need to wash too.”

In the meantime, we have been in contact with each other frequently through messages, so it wasn’t like we didn’t know what was going on.
However, having a conversation while making eye contact gave a different feeling than exchanging messages.
It is to share the experiences of living while whispering in each other’s ears as if hearing stories that we already know each other for the first time.
And this was a very familiar, habitual thing for me and the boss.
Both of them washed their bodies and lay down on the bed side by side in light pajamas.
And I sat on the president’s broad chest and chattered about what had happened all week.
While drinking plenty of the unique scent from him, I relieved my depressed mood with the words I heard from my friends.

“When I smell the scent of the boss, I always feel better. It would be a big hit if I turned this scent into a perfume.”
“This is the body scent, so you won’t be able to smell it?”
“I’m so sorry about that. If I used perfume when I missed my boss, I would have been able to soothe my heart.”
“Then shall we meet more often in the future?”
“… Really? You are busy.”
“I said I would make time even if I was busy if I was coming to see you. If I had said I missed you, I would have come to see you that night.”
“Then, if I really want to see the boss so much, I will say I miss you.”
“Should it be?”

The boss is so nice.
I liked that he let me run the cafe, and that he was a kind person who didn’t break his will to get married even after losing his child.
He was an ordinary, unremarkable person, and he was happy because he truly loved him.
And just when my heart is filled with happiness, I suddenly think of it.
He tells me that he is a stupid bitch who can’t fully enjoy happiness.
The time I met him was both happy and painful.
He became the happiest man in the world and then fell into his gutter.

“You’re wearing this ring again.”

Lanna suddenly felt bitter when she saw the ring on the boss’s finger.
In his hand was the ring they had shared when they proposed to marry him.
Her boss showed her ring with her finger wide open to show her bitterness.

“I said I would wait forever until my heart calms down, but please accept this level of complaint. I am doing this because I am impatient.”

Her boss still wasn’t giving up on marrying her.