Chapter 140 – Chapter 140
I could see the car lights passing through the living room window hazy.
“Looks like you’ve come.”
Ko Min-jeong, who was preparing a meal together in the living room, wiped her hands on the towel hanging next to the sink and hurried out to open the door.
In the meantime, I scooped out steaming rice from the rice cooker and put it on the seat.
“Welcome~!”
Ko Min-jung’s lively voice was heard outside.
“What is this for?”
As we entered the door together, Seo Hye-jeong seemed to have brought something.
I brushed my hands off her thighs and went to the front door, where Seo Hye-jeong came with one of her shopping bags in her hand.
“Why are you just coming?”
Red ginseng juice was in her hand.
“You can just come…”
It wasn’t a lie to say you could just come. Seriously, if it was Seo Hye-jung or Joo Seo-yeon, it was okay to come empty-handed at any time. Because what I did
“Ugh, but you had a hard time coming. Teacher Seo.”
She said she had a hard time and took the shopping bag she was holding and put it on the table in her living room.
Go Min-jeong led Seo Hye-jeong to the kitchen table.
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Hyejeong Seo.
I wouldn’t know if Oh Ha-joon was living alone, but it was embarrassing to go empty-handed.
There was a small shop on the way, so I stopped by and bought a box of juice.
“Does it smell delicious?”
Seo Hye-jung, who followed Go Min-jung and sat down at her table, asked.
“Ehehe, I didn’t make it myself. It’s braised ribs from the supermarket.”
“Oh~.”
It seemed like I was passing by. Hajun Oh and Hyejeong Seo sat side by side across from each other.
Smiles spread across the faces of the two sitting next to each other.
“Shall we eat? Oh, spoon.”
Oh Ha-joon jumped up and went to the kitchen to match spoons and set them.
“I don’t have much to offer, but… The galbijjim is good, but the side dishes are things I brought from home, so I don’t know if they will be delicious.”
I could see Oh Ha-joon caring. Seo Hye-jeong raised the corner of her mouth slightly.
“Are you okay.”
While she ate, she briefly talked about school or the two of them getting married.
She came, but she couldn’t even tell me the exact reason why she came here.
She was alone, but after dinner, she felt empty as if the floor had gone off.
“Oh, these days, it looks so delicious.”
Oh Ha-joon and Go Min-jung looked at each other and smiled while eating braised ribs.
“Isn’t it? These days, companies are doing well.”
Looking at it like this, it looked like the kids were playing house.
After the meal was over and the table was roughly organized, Hajun Oh took out coffee beans from the cupboard.
Ko Min-jung, who saw that, approached Oh Ha-joon and whispered in his ear.
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“Brother… When was this…?”
“…Uh, it must have been a while…”
Looking at coffee beans and discussing.
Seo Hye-jeong smiled and said.
“Put, I can hear you both. Have you lived a long time?”
At her words, both of their shoulders flinched and trembled. Seo Hye-jung was definitely different from the kind of love she had experienced.
“It’s okay. What about the expiration date?”
The two sighed in relief after checking the expiration date while turning the can.
“It’s been a while. It’s safe to eat.”
Then I took off the lid, but the plastic film was still intact.
“… Oppa, why didn’t you open it once…?”
“…I never had a chance to drink coffee alone at home…”
The two whispered, but since it was a quiet house, I could hear everything they were saying.
Seeing the two of them made me feel as if something like a warm campfire had been turned on in my empty heart.
Some of them looked cuter because they were younger than themselves.
Also, I felt another attraction from Oh Ha-jun. He always showed only a static or serious side when he was with him.
Come to think of it, I often saw him angry because of his debt relationship because of the money he borrowed.
“…”
Seo Hye-jung rested her chin on her chin and stared at the back of the two.
Her own husband was kind and serious. No matter how good things happened to her, she didn’t have a big emotional change.
She herself was of a similar character to her husband, and she liked it. She got married, and she thought it was not a bad marriage.
She just cheated on her, which seemed like she liked her but not her husband.
“…”
She already had no reason to blame her for taking Oh Ha-joon’s child who was drinking coffee in front of her into the wind.
“Here~.”
Go Min-jung put down her glass and sat across from her again.
While chatting over coffee in front of all three of them, Ko Min-jung looked at her and asked.
“Mr. Seo Hye-jeong…But what’s wrong? Oh, that. It’s because your expression just doesn’t look good.”
Seo Hye-jeong hesitated for a moment, then looked at Oh Ha-joon. Oh Ha-jun, who was next to her, nodded slightly.
“…To be honest, I came here because it was difficult.”
“Yes? Which one…?”
Seo Hye-jeong closed her eyes for a moment, then she opened them straight up and looked at Go Min-jung.
In the changed atmosphere, Go Min-jung held Oh Ha-joon’s hand tightly under the table.
“My husband…”
Seo Hye-jeong, who was fortunate to be her husband, released what happened with her husband in the past month.
Ko Min-jung’s shoulders shook as she heard her story.
“Hey…”
Ko Min-jung looks up at Oh Ha-joon sitting next to her with an expression that looks like she’s going to cry at any moment.
She looked at him as he stroked the back of her hand on her cheek and calmed her down.
Oh Ha-joon’s eyes looking at Go Min-jeong looked different from the ones he had seen before.
“That’s why you came.”
When Seo Hye-jung finished her words, Go Min-jung said with her moistened eyes.
“Huh… But why are you here…”
Before answering, he took a sip of coffee and smiled slightly.
“I’ve known Hajun for a long time. He helped me a lot.”
“To my brother…?”
The relationship with Joo Seo-yeon had a lot of things to do, so I knew about Go Min-jung. However, she was unaware of her relationship with Seo Hye-jeong in her administrative office.
“Yes, Mr. Ha Jun, I mean, I received a lot of financial help from Teacher Oh in the past.”
It was customary to call employees who were not teachers the title of teacher, so whether it was Ha-jun or Oh, it wasn’t awkward.
Seo Hye-jeong looked at Go Min-jung and briefly explained her relationship with me.
“Even when I was first assigned, Teacher Oh was at school.”
“Ah… Yes. I heard it’s been a long time…”
She was me, not a teacher, so she had no job on the day of her appointment, so she was living at school like Ji Park-ryeong.
“At that time, it was difficult financially, but I received a lot of help. Even then, Teacher Oh just lent me money without saying anything. I have a lot to pay back…”
Although it was a relationship I made artificially, as time passed, it became something that happened in Seo Hye-jung’s head.
“I see…”
Go Min-jeong patted my back with her unique face.
She said, “So she always went to counseling whenever she was having a hard time.”
“Oh~.”
“It’s because Teacher Oh is the one I can talk to the most openly at school.”
“So she ate together every lunch…”
Ko Min-jung also just inferred that Hye-jeong Seo and I worked together in the administrative office, so she must be close.
I said with an awkward smile.
“Sensei Seo had a hard time at that time, too. How difficult it must have been for him to come and borrow money from me, who I wasn’t even close to at the time.
After hearing Ha-Jun Oh’s story, Seo Hye-Jung felt a lump in her heart.
I felt grateful to Oh Ha-Jun for recognizing her own hardships at a glance, and wondered if she had ignored such a thoughtful person until now.
Back then, she felt ashamed as she remembered ignoring him, who worked as a mechanic and always wore the same clothes and shaggy hair.
“I’m sorry. I owe you money.”
“It’s okay. You can pay it off slowly.”
It’s been years since I’ve known her face, but I seem to have gotten to know his true face in recent months.
“But then… How about your husband…”
It’s a sensitive topic, so it was a bit like bringing it up again. But I also wondered what to do next.
Seo Hye-jung looked down at her and let out a sigh.
“Haa… I should get a divorce.”
“Ah…”
“I have to find more evidence… After the divorce, I have to bring only the things I brought with me.”
She spoke calmly, but Seo Hye-jeong felt that her heart was choking.
Then she glanced at Oh Ha-joon.
If I had known Oh Ha-joon’s Jintobaegi figure earlier, would I have been able to connect with him?
But even if she went back then, it wouldn’t have been.
Because she was a person who looked at the outside rather than the inside at that time.
“Anyway, congratulations on your marriage in advance.”
“Aha! Thank you!”
Ko Min-jung was laughing excitedly, but Oh Ha-joon was looking at it lovingly.
In the midst of this, she thought about what she would be like if Ko Min-jung’s place was herself, and she felt sorry for herself.
