Chapter 233 – Vacation Trip (5)
Early in the morning when everyone went back to their rooms, Yoo Ji-kyung and Han Soo-ah also lay down on the bed after taking a shower.
Han Soo-ah lay on her bed and checked her own gastric tube. Soon, she smiled and spoke to Yoo Ji-gyeong.
“Ji-kyung-ah, the number of subscribers has increased a lot this time. I’ll give you a bonus!”
“I only edited three of them yet?”
“Those three attracted a lot of subscribers. I was worried about what happened when the controversy broke out, but thanks to you, it got better!”
Hehe. Then I will not decline.”
The two chatted and then laid down on the bed.
“Sleep well, Sua.”
“Uh? Ah, yes. You are too.”
The lights went out and silence came.
“…….”
The air in the quiet room is heavy. Han Soo-ah felt that way alone. There was something she couldn’t say to Yoo Ji-gyeong, so she did.
‘I have to ask.’
It’s about the seaside cave I saw during the day.
Yoo Ji-kyung, who was violently overlapping with Seo Joo-hwan. Jeong Ha-yeon’s name she brought out. It is clear that Seo Joo-hwan is dating two women at the same time.
At first, it was just a shocking sight. But she floated on the sea and organized her thoughts. She thought that if there were already two of her, she might have potential for herself.
‘I have to be Hwan-i’s brother anyway.’
Even when she learned that he was a promiscuous person, Han Soo-ah’s heart her did not change. It was natural for her to like a man named Seo Joo-hwan. He is the person I always want to be with, I can’t imagine life without him. It was such an old idea that he didn’t even know when.
It was then.
“Sua, are you sleeping?”
She heard Yu Ji-kyung’s voice, which she thought she was asleep.
“Oh no! Aren’t you sleeping yet!?”
Han Soo-ah was started and answered.
On the other hand, Yoo Ji-kyung calmly turned on her nightstand and looked back at her.
“Did I tell you why I asked to share a room?”
“Uh? Oh no.”
Han Soo-ah swallowed her saliva at the sight of her looking at herself. Originally, she was supposed to share a room with Seo Joo-hee. However, after dinner, she changed her room at Sir Yuji’s request.
Ji-kyung Yoo said.
“Sua, you came to the cave earlier, right?”
“…….”
“It was you too.”
“Yes.”
Han Soo-ah blushed and avoided her gaze at her.
Yugyeom smiled bitterly. She ended up getting caught by someone who she wasn’t the best of all she did.
‘I guessed.’
In fact, she was convinced that she was Han Soo-ah. This is the conclusion reached through today’s inquiry. However, she had no intention of bringing her words out to Han Soo-ah. She doesn’t have to talk about uncomfortable topics first.
‘I don’t like increasing the number of competitors.’
Even before Yoo Ji-kyung came on her trip, she had a competitive spirit towards Han Soo-ah. Maybe it’s because she didn’t want to compete with a rival more dangerous than Jeong Ha-yeon. So, she thought to check Han Soo-ah from approaching Seo Joo-hwan.
It was from the seaside cave that his thoughts began to change.
*
Inside the cave on the beach.
Yoo Ji-kyung speaks before mixing with Seo Joo-hwan in earnest.
“Master, I heard you rejected Sua after being confessed to?”
“… Right. I heard it from Hayeon.”
“Yes. When she said that she had confessed, she was very surprised. She was more surprised when she said she refused. Because she honestly knew that if she were a brother, she wouldn’t be able to say no.”
“…….”
“The reason for refusal is because, like I said before, Sua is like my younger brother? She doesn’t feel like a woman.”
Yoo Ji-gyeong wanted her to say yes, but Seo Joo-hwan smiled bitterly and told her the real reason. The relationship between the two was no longer a matter of awkwardly hiding it.
“I thought she was my real sister, but it wasn’t. I declined for another reason.”
“… What is that?”
“She was Sua, and her heart was so big that she couldn’t accept it. Like you and Hayeon, there are a lot of kids who have already been twisted because of me. But even Sua… It was difficult to explain the current situation.”
“What is it, so my heart is not big?”
Yu Ji-kyung pouted her lips for no reason and complained. At that, Seo Joo-hwan giggled and stroked her hair.
“You know I don’t mean that. It’s already too late to turn back. I don’t often let go of people who come into my arms. I have a strong attachment to people.”
This is something he didn’t even know about until a few months ago. He had an obsession with the person who gave him his heart his, probably because he was lonely before returning.
Yu Ji-gyeong eagerly listened to her words. Doesn’t that mean Seo Joo-hwan is obsessed with him? She asked, calming the corner of her mouth that was trying to raise her smirk.
“Then am I like Hayeon unnie?”
“Yes?”
“She told her sister that she would always stay by her side of her. He never said anything like that to me…….”
These are the words I heard while drinking with Jung Ha-yeon. The reason Jeong Ha-yeon believes in him is because she made a promise, she said.
Seo Joo-hwan smiled at Yoo Ji-gyeong’s stare at him. It seemed cuter to be jealous and sad every once in a while than the usual embellished aegyo.
“I’ve said something similar to you before.”
“Uh? What is that? Tell me again! I do not remember!”
“When you were sick, I said I would take care of my raccoon. These days, if you abandon your pet anywhere, it’s a big deal… Eww!?”
The raccoon bit the master’s hand.
*
Although Seo Joo-hwan said something distasteful, Yoo Ji-kyung’s heart became a little more relaxed after that. He made his impatience small with small promises. She believed he would never abandon her.
‘And Sua doesn’t give up at all.’
Han Soo-ah did not give up even though she saw herself mingling with Seo Joo-hwan. She will continue to convey her heart to Seo Ju-hwan. How many times?
If you do that, Seo Joo-hwan will eventually pass. Even if he believed that he would be by his side of her, he could not believe that he would not fall for Han Soo-ah. He already has several women, so he couldn’t accept that he was Han Soo-ah.
‘My brother needs Sua anyway…….’
To Seo Joo-hwan, Han Soo-ah is more than family. When he heard his past her verbally, he only understood it with his head his, but after hearing the previous song, he understood it with his heart his. Han Soo-ah was the person who stood by him when he was having the hardest time.
Yoo Ji-gyeong decided to accept it, saying that it was a predetermined result anyway. Didn’t he say it with his own mouth his? He thought it was his biological brother, but he said it wasn’t. He was already shaken by Han Soo-ah.
If so….
“Sua.”
“Uh, huh?”
“Do you like Joo Hwan oppa?”
“Yes.”
“I wonder what my brother and I are related to?”
“… I’m curious.”
“Then I will tell you now. Relationship between me and my brother. And Hayeon unnie too.”
Yoo Ji-kyung’s words continued for a while. She told Han Soo-ah everything she knew.
Hearing her story Her, Han Soo-ah’s expression changed every moment. What is she thinking? Will she no longer like Seo Joo-hwan as a member of the opposite sex? That was exactly what Yoo Ji-gyeong wanted.
But if you don’t change your mind after hearing all the stories…….
“Do you still like your brother?”
The story is all over.
Yoo Ji-kyung got the answer from Han Soo-ah’s expression. Soon she pulled her blanket up to her head and turned over to lie down, saying softly.
“Go.”
“… Thanks for telling me, Jikyung.”
Han Soo-ah hugged Yoo Ji-gyeong tightly. She tried to push Han Soo-ah away, but she hugged him in the end. Instead, Yoo Ji-kyung licked her lips and muttered.
“I won’t say thank you.”
He had already paid enough for helping out at the beach.
So no need to say thank you.
Han Soo-ah patted Yoo Ji-gyeong on the back and spoke again.
“Yes. Thank you.”
Sigh.
The door opened and closed once.
*
Seo Joo-hwan lay on the bed and checked the desire quest. 50,000LP came in as a quest reward for ‘Vacation Trip’ created in August. A fair amount of points. But there was something more important than points.
“Would you like to be of some help to Lucy?”
The point means desire energy. And what Lucy, currently sleeping in the system, needs is energy of desire. If enough desire energy is satisfied, she will always return.
‘Lucy, when are you coming? It hasn’t even been two months yet and it feels so long.’
I didn’t know it well when I was by her side of her, but when I was n’t there, I felt Lucy’s presence her greatly. At first, she was just a control personality assisting the system, but she became her life partner her before she knew it. Lucy was the only friend he could confide in her.
‘Sua still hasn’t been resolved.’
The August Desire Quest was accomplished, but the July Desire Quest showed no signs of being completed.
The content of the July Quest is ‘play with Han Soo-ah until she is satisfied’. The reason for not completing was very clear. It must be because her heart is complicated.
‘The person who came to the cave must have been Sua.’
She appeared to be fading. And with a high probability, her relationship with Jeong Ha-yeon was also discovered. Yoo Ji-kyung had brought up Jung Ha-yeon’s name at the time.
What did Han Soo-ah think when she saw him? Did she finally fall for herself? He liked Han Soo-ah, but she adjusted her distance her because she did n’t want to ruin her life her. She rather hoped things would go well with Jang Deok-hoon.
However, the human mind is so cunning that I felt bitter when I thought that Han Soo-ah would have been disappointed in me. It felt like she had done a disservice to her friend for standing by her through the hardest times.
‘If it was Lucy, what would she have said?’
He would often turn to Lucy for advice when complicated situations arose. Lucy was very helpful because she shared her opinions of her from a different point of view.
Was it because he was desperately thinking of Lucy? A familiar voice came.
[Don’t get carried away by the situation. Instead of worrying about the future, move as your current heart goes, Master.]
At first I thought it was hallucinations.
[Lucy will fulfill all of the master’s desires.]
Voice heard again. It was never hallucinations.
Seo Joo-hwan jumped up from the bed and shouted.
“Lucy! Are you back?!”
The voice from earlier was Lucy’s, not the system’s. Even the same tones could be clearly distinguished.
But what I heard again wasn’t Lucy’s voice.
“Oh, brother. What’s up?”
“… Sua?”
Before I knew it, Han Soo-ah, who opened the door and came in, was standing there in her pajamas. She hesitated and looked at them, then cautiously closed the door and walked away.
“Brother Hwan…….”
“Sua, why are you here?”
Seo Ju-hwan asked with a bewildered face. The person who appeared after Lucy’s advice was Han Soo-ah. I even thought that Lucy might have intervened in the situation that seemed to have been orchestrated.
Then, Han Soo-ah looked up at him and said in a trembling voice.
“Brother, I like you too.”
“…….”
“I know you deliberately pretended not to know. Still, I like you too.”
Han Soo-ah looked straight at him even though his nervousness of her was evident.
“Sua.”
“Oh, I know what you mean! I know that Ji-kyung and Ha-yeon have a similar relationship.”
Han Sua interrupted him and shouted.
Seo Joo-hwan was speechless at the unexpected words. Looking at him breathing in, Han Soo-ah continued with a trembling voice.
“I know, but I can’t give up. I have it, and it has to be Hwan-i’s older brother.”
Water flickered in her dog-like eyes. I could see his hand her holding the hem of his nightgown trembling.
‘Don’t be dragged around by circumstances?’
I remembered what Lucy had said a moment ago. The voice was not heard again, but she had spoken. Don’t be dragged by the situation, don’t worry about the future, and act as your heart goes. I promise to make all his wishes his come true.
‘It’s a word without a countermeasure.’
But it was also something I wanted to believe.
‘I’m a bastard who wants things to go well with Deok-hoon.’
It’s a lie. There was no way the owner of the greedy desire system would sincerely think such a thing. He just suppressed his desire because he thought it would be better for Han Soo-ah.
Seo Joo-hwan decided not to endure it any longer.
“Come here, Sua.”
She took Han Soo-ah into her arms her.
“Hwa, Hwan is your brother?”
“Sua, don’t regret it.”
Although it was already too late to regret it.
He lifted up Han Soo-ah and kissed her on the mouth of her. She saw her watery eyes wide open.
