Chapter 1086 – A Date for Three People Who Were Not in a Spawn Relationship (1)
Lee Eun-seol’s life changed from being a freelancer to becoming an exclusive model for a company.
My income has actually decreased compared to when I was a freelancer, but now I no longer have to run around looking for work.
It’s not a job like a photo shoot for an online shopping mall, which only pays a lot but doesn’t help your career, but it’s a photo shoot as a model for a magazine or advertisement that can definitely make your name known.
It’s still in the beginning stages, so it’s not at the level of being famous, but compared to the past, it was a life where you could definitely feel that you were closer to the ‘success’ you wanted.
Considering that she was only a model in the first place and that most people could not make a living through modeling alone, it was safe to say that she had already entered the top 1%.
Even though she was living her full life, there were problems that she couldn’t solve.
“. Why is it so hard to find time?”
After finishing her shower, Lee Eun-seol shook off the remaining water from her hair and grumbled while sitting in front of the dressing table and moisturizing her hair.
If Choi Min-seok wasn’t able to meet often because he was busy, now she has less time to even ask for a meeting.
When she was working as a freelancer, she used to meet once or twice a week, or at least once a fortnight, but now it has reduced to once a month.
Now that she has achieved some degree of independence as a model, her sponsorship relationship has virtually become meaningless.
Although she is not in a relationship, she also cannot deny the fact that she is somewhat behind Choi Seol-ah, whom she is seeing as her husband and wife outside the sponsoring relationship.
She was planning to quit her sponsoring relationship at her next meeting and say that she wanted to have a normal man-woman relationship like Choi Seol-ah, but what progress would there be if she only met once a month?
Fortunately, Friday evening to Saturday was the time when we could meet reliably.
I didn’t know what on earth was going on Friday evening, but the only response I received was that there was work.
“Haa.”
After finishing her moisturizing routine, Lee Eun-seol sighed briefly and relaxed her body with light stretching, and only after completing her final routine did she climb onto her bed and check her cell phone.
As expected. There was no contact from Choi Min-seok again today.
‘. Hurt my pride.’
There were so many men who kept asking me out and being annoying to me.
Now, it hurt my pride to be in a position where I had to wait for a call from the other side, but as long as I had a competitor like Choi Seol-ah, building up my pride was only poisoning me.
[〉Are you busy now?]
She wrote the message and erased it repeatedly for a while. In the end, she sent a message in a businesslike tone, with the intention of just making it easy today.
Although he was finally able to show cuteness in bed as he had hoped, for Eunseol Lee, cuteness was still something unfamiliar and embarrassing.
Before considering whether it is good or bad. It was something I had almost no experience doing in my life, so it was inevitable.
“Is today a dud?”
After sending the message, Lee Eun-seol, who was quietly looking at the cell phone screen, waited for a while, and when she saw that the number next to the message did not disappear, she sighed and muttered.
Choi Min-seok was most likely to receive calls during the morning and night hours, so he sent a message, but it seemed like he still had work to do today.
In Choi Min-seok’s case, unless he checked the message right away when he sent it, he didn’t check it until an hour or two later or the next morning, so he was able to quickly give up his regrets.
“. I need to sleep.”
Although it is still too early to sleep, sufficient sleep time is an important factor in skin care, so going to bed early and waking up early in the morning was my daily routine.
[I just contacted you because it occurred to me before I went to bed.]
Don’t worry. I sent a message like that and tried to sleep. As he was typing the message, he saw the numbers disappear and immediately deleted it.
[〈 I came home early today and was resting. What about Eunseol?]
[〉 I’m at home too. It’s not a big deal, I was just washing up and trying to sleep, and it occurred to me, so I contacted you.]
The words you say haven’t changed, but the feeling is different between saying something with the intention of checking it out later and saying it after hearing the other person’s answer.
Although Lee Eun-seol was not conscious of it, the expression on his face as he stared at the screen suddenly turned into a pleasant smile.
Of course, it wasn’t just a good feeling.
‘. If I had known it would end early, we would have had dinner together.’
It may seem boring to say that you only meet for a meal and not a proper date, but in a relationship between members of society, there is nothing too strange.
Unless it’s the weekend, we don’t have enough time to meet each other, and even with such limited time, meeting each other was possible because we like each other.
Because I had just finished work and was tired and wanted to go home and rest, meeting someone wasn’t easy unless I had a certain level of interest in them.
If you think about it that way, the fact that he didn’t contact you even though the matter ended quickly could be interpreted as a sign that he doesn’t like you, but I decided not to think too deeply about that.
It’s home now. Doesn’t this mean that you didn’t contact Choi Seol-ah separately?
At least she could rest assured that she had not left him and found another woman.
[〉 It’s unfortunate. If she had known it would end early, we would have had dinner together.]
Of course, she doesn’t just feel reassured, but also makes sure to express her disappointment.
If you appeal like this once, she might remember and contact you the next time the job is over quickly.
Normally, she would not have complained like this out of pride, but she did this out of shame because she was conscious of her rival, Choi Seol-ah.
[〈 Seol-ah also said the same thing. It’s fun.]
This isn’t fun at all.
It seems that the reason she was late in checking the message was because she was exchanging messages with Choi Seol-ah.
[〉 Seol-ah too? I guess she doesn’t meet Seol-ah often?]
[〈 I’m busy and both of you are busy, so there’s nothing we can do.]
Fortunately, Choi Seol-ah seemed to be in a situation no different from her own.
‘. Shall I tell you?’
It was something she couldn’t say easily even now that she had put aside her pride to some extent, but in order to not fall behind, she needed to appeal more actively than she did now.
Lee Eun-seol stared at the cell phone screen and thought for a moment before typing a message as she felt her cheeks getting hot.
[〉 Still, I feel sad because we can’t meet often. Just a meal is fine, so please feel free to call me on days like today when you have some free time.]
I took a moment to think about whether to let it go like this or not. After making her decision, Eunseol Lee immediately sent the message and stamped her feet in shame.
“Ah. Really.”
How can it be that just one man has to do this to himself?
At first, in order to get Choi Min-seok to ask to meet first, I made subtle appeals and even cosplayed and took pictures.
Later, he just asked me if I had time and if we could meet, and suggested we meet first.
And now I’ve even said openly that I’m sad that I can’t see him often and that I miss him, so please feel free to call me.
Previously, it was just an invitation to meet when the time was right, but now it was a change that made it clear to anyone that the woman was in a clingy position.
[〈 This is a big deal. Eunseol even said this.]
Choi Min-seok also seemed to sense that his attitude had changed and even said that he was surprised.
He knew very well how different his attitude was from before and now, so he couldn’t even complain about what was surprising.
[〈Then, shall we meet this Saturday?]
[〉 On Saturday?]
I was about to reply, ‘Okay!’, But finally came to my senses and took a step back.
If you’re so happy that you act like a dog wagging its tail, it’s only on the bed. I didn’t want to show him wagging his tail in excitement at the mere mention of meeting him.
[〈 Yes. I think I’ll have some free time this Saturday.]
[〉I like it.]
[〈And by any chance, is it okay if I meet Seol-ah too?]
[〉 Seol-ah too?]
It just didn’t wag its tail. Her heart was already excited, and she was wagging her tail.
When Choi Seol-ah said that she would sing along, her tail, which had been excitedly swinging from side to side, suddenly stopped.
[〈 Seol-ah also said a lot that she regrets not being able to see her often these days.]
Her feelings were slightly complicated by the fact that Seol-ah Choi had already said what she had barely had the courage to say.
[〈 I know that the relationship between you two is not very good. So I want to make it more fair.]
“. There is no need to be fair.”
She could only say this because she was deprived of a situation that was advantageous to her, but she couldn’t help but complain as she felt that she couldn’t monopolize the opportunity she had been waiting for.
She is not in a relationship with Choi Min-seok, and like Choi Seol-ah, she has not yet told him to quit her sponsoring relationship, so she did not want to show that she is being narrow-minded.
It’s okay for her to honestly show her interest and try to get closer, but she’s not yet at the stage where she wants to be possessive.
She had already had a bad relationship with Choi Seol-ah once before and received a warning from her, so she had no choice but to be more cautious.
[〉I’m okay. She and Seol-ah are not on such bad terms.]
It’s okay with me, but I can’t help it if Seol-ah Choi says she doesn’t like it.
Choi Seol-ah also has feelings for Choi Min-seok, so there is no possibility of her going out to monopolize him without his knowledge, but she answered like that out of concern that she might make a mistake.
And after a while.
[〈 Seol-ah also says it’s okay. Then she will meet on Saturday.]
As expected, Choi Seol-ah seems to have responded positively. A reply came back clearly setting up an appointment.
It hurts my pride that Lee Eun-seol, the world’s best, is so obsessed and clingy to just one man.
It hurt her pride even more to think that she had to accept another woman’s request to go on a date with her, but it was inevitable.
[〉But next time, I want to meet just the two of us. Is it okay?]
Although she still felt like she was dying of embarrassment, adding a little appeal like this was the best thing Lee Eun-seol could do.
