Chapter 152 – @21. Company Life in Wind Light
Joo-eun led us to a bar with a pretty hip atmosphere located one block from the main street.
“Then can I do whatever I want?”
We went into a cozy room separated from the hall and took our seats, and Joo-eun picked up the menu again and started to choose.
“Yes. Choose comfortably.”
When I opened the menu, it wasn’t as expensive as I thought.
I want to know how much it will come out even if I order a lot of things.
“What do you want to eat?”
Joo-eun opened her menu and asked her boyfriend to choose.
“I’m full. I don’t really want to eat anything.”
My boyfriend expressed his refusal with a slightly sorry face.
“How about this? A cheese plate with poached eggs and iberico jamon.”
Joo-eun ordered a food with a very complicated name.
And other people handed over the choice to Joo-eun, who did not have a specific menu they wanted to eat.
In the end, Joo-eun left her own, added her eggplant, and ordered her drink.
“By the way, what is Changwook doing?”
Team leader Jung asked Joo-eun’s boyfriend a question.
“This person is studying.”
It was Joo-eun who answered.
“Really? Somehow, he looks like someone who’s going to study hard. What kind of study?”
“Prepare for civil service exams.”
Joo-eun continued to answer.
Rather than being particularly wary of Team Leader Jung, he seemed to welcome her interest in her boyfriend’s work.
“Oh my God. I heard that the competition rate for civil servants is very high these days, is it really difficult?”
“That’s why we see each other at most two or three times a month.”
“I’m attending a boarding school.”
The man gave a detailed explanation.
“If you work hard that much, it will bear good results.”
“Even if it’s because I feel sorry for Joo-eun.”
“Yeah. Just thinking of me, I’ll stick with you this year, huh?”
Roughly, a woman named Joo-eun seemed to be very affectionate with her boyfriend.
Of course, the men’s side didn’t seem too different.
The eyes that looked at his girlfriend were full of affection.
She didn’t seem like a bad person. She seems shameless, cheerful, and innocent.
Moreover, since she looks far-fetched, I didn’t think it was strange that she was dating a woman named Joo-eun even though she didn’t have a particular job.
However, it seems that the man can’t help but sneak a glance at the huge chest right across from him.
When Joo-eun wasn’t looking at him, his eyes kept going to Team Leader Jeong’s chest without realizing it.
It’s not the man’s fault.
Which man would be like that?
Team leader Jeong’s chest is so overwhelming.
Moreover, she also avoids Joo-eun’s eyes and sneakily leans her upper body in front of her, briefly showing her inside.
The man couldn’t seem to come to his senses with his voluptuous, white chest that couldn’t be covered with a bra.
“But is it worth investing in coins these days?”
Joo-eun seems to have a lot of questions about me.
After the alcohol and light snacks came out, Joo-eun kept asking me this and that.
“I don’t know. I didn’t invest in earnest, and what I bought just went up like that without me knowing. Then I sold it because I was afraid of going up and down, and it fell all the way. But seeing that they climb and fall tens of percent in a day, it’s not usually dangerous. Ah! This is not something an ordinary person can do. It’s just a gambling board.
He told a story that everyone else knew.
Perhaps it was the words of a person who made a lot of money out of it, but Joo-eun was listening very intently.
“So you’re not investing anymore?”
“Like everyone else, I’m tinkering with stocks and ETFs little by little.”
“Is that good?”
“Well, it’s okay. It’s not aggressive like speculation. But you must be interested in investing?”
“Yes. My father must have been a fairly active investor while running a business in his prime. These days, he says he doesn’t invest because he’s lacking energy. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen that since I was young, so I’m interested.”
“By the way, studying for the civil service exam is very difficult, isn’t it?”
While Joo-eun and I were talking about investment, Team Manager Jeong continued the conversation with her boyfriend.
My boyfriend showed interest when I talked about coins or stocks, but he couldn’t resist the temptation of the huge breasts and continued the conversation with Jeong.
Somehow, the conversation split into two.
“By the way, I heard you went to a prestigious design school in the United States?”
“Yes, but I didn’t graduate. I transferred to the University of the house and transferred, but it didn’t fit me well. I overestimated myself. But where did you hear that story?”
“I overheard people talking at work. After hearing that story, I realized that Joo-eun is an amazing person.”
“Haha. That’s how the story came out… Actually, you didn’t get a diploma, and your career isn’t recognized. I didn’t use that when I joined our company.”
Joo-eun laughed shyly.
“Well. You must have that level of qualifications to join our company. But it is true that he is a great person.”
She was a more cautious woman than I thought.
It seems that he only used it to raise his reputation within the company by secretly mentioning it to people around him.
So at least it doesn’t seem to be getting caught up in it.
After all, the information obtained from the detective office is not a threat.
It doesn’t matter. She had no intention of threatening to reveal her secret to this woman anyway.
The drinking party continued for a while, asking questions to each other.
After a while, all the dishes we ordered came out.
He gave the clerk a generous tip and asked not to come until called.
“But we play too separately. Let’s talk together now.”
Manager Jeong said a word.
“That’s right, honey. I’m still drinking with Team Leader Jeong.”
Joo-eun glanced at her boyfriend slightly.
No matter how timidly he gave her a glance, he couldn’t escape his girlfriend’s notice.
At least, Joo-eun was talking about investment with me in the middle of the day, so I didn’t give her a glare, but I couldn’t deserve it when I saw my boyfriend having a friendly conversation with a woman with attractive breasts.
“I think he’s interested in investing in Mr. Hero…”
My boyfriend was speechless.
Somehow, my confidence seemed to have been clouded.
I could guess what state it was in.
Even if he was much more handsome, he seemed a little intimidated to hear that he was very successful in investing at a similar age.
And we looked for the common topics of the four people again.
“But how long have you two been dating?”
When Team Leader Jeong asked Joo-Eun, I sat close to Team Leader Jeong and gently placed her hand on her leg.
Seeing that, Joo-eun smiled softly and answered.
“It’s been 3 years now. But you didn’t just come out to talk about work with Team Leader Jeong and Young-woong, right?”
“Well. Actually, it’s kind of like that. I’ve decided to be with Joo-eun like her friends anyway, so I won’t hide it.”
Team leader Jeong replied by placing her hand on top of mine, which was touching her own leg.
“Me. I don’t hide such a big secret from myself, so you must keep it too.”
She said with a soft smile.
“Sure. How good I am with people I’m close to. Team leader Jeong trusts me that way, so it’s only natural.”
Joo-eun smiled pleasantly with a face that seemed like she was going to die.
“Actually, I was a little puzzled. Why would someone like Team Leader Jung be with a guy like Mr. Hero…”
“Hero has a bit of a great side.”
Team leader Jeong dismissed her rude words casually.
“I can’t tell you where…”
And she looked at me coldly and smiled.
“Anyway, let’s get along well in the future.”
“Sure. I also talked to Hero for the first time today, but I must have misunderstood.”
“By the way, we hardly drank, did we?”
I didn’t drink alcohol because I had a mindless conversation.
“Then shall we play a light game and drink?”
As promised, Team Manager Jeong made a suggestion.
“A game?”
Joo-eun asked.
“Yes. Well. But what kind of game?”
Men liked it more.
“Um… I’m older now, so I don’t like complicated things. Do you have Joo-eun’s coin?”
“A coin? Um… Here’s one.”
Joo-eun took a five hundred won coin from her wallet and handed it to team leader Jeong.
“Everyone doesn’t carry coins these days. I don’t have any coins either.”
Team leader Jeong said that and received the coin that Joo-eun handed over.
“How about a team match? A loser between a couple should drink.”
“That’s good.”
Neither Joo-eun nor the man showed any reluctance.
“I tossed a 500 won coin and um…”
Team leader Jeong pretends to be worried for a while.
“Okay. Let’s do this. Let’s take turns tossing a coin one by one. So at that time, the team with the same couple wins. If both are the same or different, toss again. What do you think? Let’s see how well the couple match.”
The rules are too simple for a drinking game.
Joo-eun ponders for a moment at Team Leader Jeong’s words.
It seemed like something simple, but he seemed to be wondering if there were any traps.
“Well. It’s not bad. I can show you how well Joo-eun and I get along.”
The man agreed to the proposal of the team leader without much thought.
Joo-eun also nodded her head in a way that there was nothing special about it.
In fact, there was no reason for her to break up her drinking party because she was against it for nothing.
That’s how the game started.
At first, team leader Jeong tossed a coin, and it came up heads.
“Ai! Honey! What if it’s on the back side?”
When I threw it and the back came out, Team Leader Jeong pursed his lips.
“I will. I shouldn’t have been like this from the beginning. Ha ha… Please accept Joo-eun.”
I handed over the coins included in the swapped gift card 〈 toy set 〉 to Joo-eun.
Anyone can change a 500 won coin, no matter how dexterous they are.
“Then is it my turn?”
Joo-eun took the coin and threw it.
What came out was the front.
“Do your best! You know when the back comes out, right?”
“Sure. Trust me.”
The man tossed a coin. What came out was the front.
“Ah… It must be difficult to overcome the relationship of an old lover.”
Team leader Jeong emptied his glass with a sad expression on his face.
“No. Let’s show the power of affection for new people.”
I also emptied my glass with a sound of unemployment.
And then it went around five or six times.
Our team lost all but one.
“This… I’m drying it today.”
“I see. We’re the only ones drinking for no reason, right?”
Team leader Jeong’s face turned red and he complained.
I tilt my head as if I’m drunk and imitate warming up.
“Hey. What is it? Keep drinking just the two of you, and let us drink some too.”
Joo-Eun, who bought Ki, laughed at our team and said,
“Um… I don’t think it’s possible. It seems that fighting spirit is lacking just because you drink. Wait a minute.”
I opened the bag and took out a generous wad of 10,000 won bills.
“Do this? If you win there, I’ll put the money here. First 1 million won, then 2 million won, and then 4 million won… It will keep going up like that. That’s the prize money.”
“Yes?”
“I beg your pardon?”
Both Joo-eun and the man spit out one word at a time.
He seemed to be taken aback when he suddenly took out money, and that was so large.
“Huh? Honey? Aren’t you too drunk?”
I only heard about what I had to do, and team leader Jeong, who had not heard such a story, was surprised.
“I was drunk. But today I’m in a great mood. Sometimes I just want to spend my money.”
Like a keut impatient to spend money, I held up a bundle of money and waved it.
Team leader Jeong and the man had very absurd faces, and Joo-eun couldn’t take her eyes off the bundle of money I was holding.
Also, she was interested in money.
Really, who doesn’t care about money?
I don’t have the confidence to say no to someone who asks me to spend a lot of money while playing games at a drinking party.
“So you double it for every win?”
My boyfriend’s eyes were slightly frightened, but Joo-eun’s eyes were shining.
“Yes. So, whenever Joo-eun’s team wins, I’ll double it.
And when Joo-eun wants, she can stop playing the game.
However, if you quit when you win, you take all the money you had until then, and if you give up when you lose, then what… You can’t help it.”
And she gave her a way to win her prize.
It is an advantageous condition for the opponent no matter who sees it.
