Chapter 6 – Episode 6
There is a delusion that every man has done at least once.
‘If I become a respectable man, I will.’
It is a delusion that usually develops in this form, but usually, there is something related to women in that ‘~’.
For example, approaching a girl you like while passing by and confidently dialing her number her. Going to a place like a club and getting the attention of many women with an overwhelming look.
Since I was born as a male, I often had delusions like that, but the contents of my delusions were a bit peculiar.
“Whoa… “
I am in Cheongdam-dong now. In front of an incredibly famous beauty salon.
It was my first time coming to a place like this. I’ve been to the local beauty salon my entire life. Those places where you can coolly shave your head in sports or sanggo style without asking or questioning when you enter.
I took a deep breath, put both hands in my pants pockets, and went into the hair salon as if nothing happened.
I heard that a lot of celebrities come here, and if you go out well, the stairs at the entrance were made of marble. I was on the verge of being overwhelmed by the grand and loyal atmosphere, but I endured it.
I was no longer an ordinary game changer.
“Welcome~ Have you made a reservation?”
“Yes. 1:00 pm. This is Kim Min-joon.”
I opened the large door, entered, and told the desk my name, and the clerk checked the list and guided me to my seat.
“I’m really sorry, but please wait a moment. Designer teacher will be back soon. Lunch is a little late today.”
‘Yes.’
I answered briefly as I sat down in the beauty chair.
I had no choice but to give a short answer because I was afraid that if I gave a long answer, it would be known that this was my first time visiting a place like this. I knew that even if they were caught, no one would say anything. Still, I couldn’t help it. It was just like delusion. From the moment I started paying attention to my appearance, I was so afraid of high-end hair salons like this.
-Guest. Why did you come to such a high-end beauty salon when you have such a smashed face? No matter how pretty your hair is, if your face is ugly, there is no point in decorating it. Kut.
It wasn’t something I actually heard. But I was afraid that I would hear it, so I never set foot in a place like this.
You could call it an appearance complex, or it could be called the inertia of ‘not decorating’. All of that was just a struggle not to lose hope.
-It’s like this because I didn’t decorate it, wouldn’t it be pretty if I decorated it too?
The thought full of hope, only lasts until you don’t decorate it.
So when I really started to embellish it, I had to face reality, not hope. Even if you decorate it, if it’s not good, it’s really bad.
So I’d rather not decorate, holding onto the string of hope that it would be okay if I decorated.
But now I was thinking of letting go of that string and facing reality. Because my reality has changed a lot thanks to the enhancement of my appearance.
“Would you like a drink while you wait?”
“No, thanks.”
“Ah, yes.”
The desk clerk awkwardly returned to his seat. The reason I didn’t drink was because of my diet, but I didn’t bother to explain.
I started a diet because I was afraid that I would not see the proper effect because I would live even if I invested money in enhancing my appearance.
I wasn’t that fat, but I had some belly fat because I didn’t exercise much and just sat in front of the computer and played games. There were also some breasts on the face.
When having sex with Mihee noona, I was also concerned about the fluctuating belly fat, so the goal of the diet was to get rid of the belly fat and lose the fat on my face until my features became sharp.
“This! You waited a long time, right?”
“No. It came a little while ago.”
While I was thinking about this or that, a middle-aged woman who seemed to be my designer came up to me making a fuss about her.
She asked me, adjusting the height of the beauty chair with her deft feet.
“It looks like you’ve washed your hair… You made a reservation with a cut, do you have a style you want?”
“Ah…”
At this point, I took my phone out of my pocket and picked it up. And he showed the designer a profile picture of a male actor famous for his handsomeness that he saved in his photo album of his.
“Please do the same as this picture.”
“Ah~ Nam Kang-joon’s hair? Yes, I will.”
The designer confidently nodded, as if this was a request he had heard many times before, and I felt something tying me up suddenly being cut off.
Coming back to the man’s delusion, my old delusion was this. This trivial request.
Coming to a high-end hair salon, presenting a picture of a male celebrity, and asking them to do the same without any shame.
It wasn’t something you had to be handsome to do, but at least I felt like I could do it. So, I thought it was too difficult for me. But it wasn’t.
At this moment, delusion became reality, but there was no special inspiration. I was pathetic and empty of myself, who had been unable to do even one of these things.
Maybe I was tied to the string I thought I was holding on to.
‘It’s nothing if you try it…’ Why was I so scared?’
Sex and spending money were the same, but when I actually tried it, it was nothing.
Sex is sex and money is money.
It was the same with showing photos of male celebrities at the beauty salon.
After doing it, I wondered why it was so difficult and even delusional.
‘This is why people who have eaten meat will eat it.’
I thought about the words that came to my mind a little.
If I had to pick and choose between those who ate well and those who couldn’t eat, I was one of the most stupid people who couldn’t even summon up the courage to eat. I was really very pathetic. And now, the will to really change is starting to rise.
‘Okay. Let’s do it all from now on. Fuck, don’t be scared, do what you do. I’m going to try everything I can.’
Square. Square.
Along with the messy hair being cut off by the scissoring, something inside me is changing again.
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-Oh!! Sir, your hair suits you so well! Can you learn too!!
As I paid the 60,000 won cut fee and left the hair salon, I remembered what the designer teacher had said.
Know. It’s lip service.
But not all lip service is the same. Like a cocktail, depending on how many ratios of service and sincerity were mixed, the taste of lip service changed drastically.
And the designer teacher’s lip service was very sweet to hear, as if it were mixed with sincerity.
‘The ratio seemed to be about 5:5… Well, I was a bit surprised when I looked in the mirror.’
With the help of a professional designer, I cut off the messy messy hair with bangs down to the corner of my eyes and made my hair look like a male actor, so I looked awkward.
It was already awkward thanks to the enhanced appearance, but it feels twice as awkward because the hair is also nicely touched. On the good side, of course.
That said, I didn’t really believe in the words that I could become an actor.
Even after paying 20 million won, he was still just a good-looking guy, and he was only 173cm tall.
Although 173cm is average, Koreans tend to regard average as very insignificant.
In terms of the SAT, it was grade 4 or 5, and in terms of salary, it was a little over 200 per month?
Even 4th or 5th grade in the SAT or 200 per month is fucking hard, and that’s definitely average, but in order to be treated like a human in Korea, you had to do much better and earn better. Of course, I had to be much taller.
I hate it, but I couldn’t run out to Gwanghwamun and protest to ask for the average to be respected. And come to think of it, I didn’t have much to say either.
‘But… In terms of Leorero, the average tier is silver or gold. I don’t treat silver and gold tiers as people… I am also the same. Maybe all humans are like this?’
While doing painful self-reflection, I took a taxi to the cafe I had seen on the way to the beauty salon.
As a gamechanger, I didn’t really like cafes, but today was a bit special. My confidence and sensitivity were exploding because my brain was getting better.
An atmosphere where you sit alone in a luxurious Cheongdam-dong cafe and leisurely enjoy espresso without any special appointments. I wanted to enjoy that atmosphere once.
Even if he was a kimchi man or a soybean paste man, there was nothing to say, but since he was originally a gamechang man, it was not a big deal if he became a kimchi man or a soybean paste man.
‘Really Jo Onna is classy.’
I entered the cafe and looked at the interior and slowly headed to the counter.
These days, I heard that cafes with a unique and cute feeling are in fashion, but this cafe doesn’t seem to care about that at all.
Far from being a baby, it was fucking big, spacious, and luxurious. I said it was unusual from the front door of the cafe, but from the moment I entered the room, the inside of the building was vibrating.
The overall concept is white and gold.
The chairs were white tone leather chairs and the table was a white marble table. In addition, the finish of the tables and the legs of the chairs were all plated, and crystal chandeliers were generously attached to the very high ceilings.
The bright light from the chandelier was reflected on the white-collar exterior material that gave off a marble-like feel, and the feeling of the lighting was incredibly fantastic.
I couldn’t be sure because I hadn’t been there, but I felt like I was in a Western-style palace.
‘Downpour.’
Well, as expected of a cafe that pays so much attention to the interior, the store staff were incredibly pretty.
At the counter, there were two female staff neatly dressed in black skirts and white blouses that looked like uniforms. The one on the left was a cat that looked a bit arrogant and prickly, and the one on the right was a dog who wanted to be petted just by looking at it.
The employee on the left suited my original taste better, but for some reason, my eyes kept shifting to the right.
His eyebrows were dark, but the corners of his eyes his drooped a lot, and his overall features his were round, so looking back, he was very cute.
Her entire face was a cute point, but the critical points that made her heart thump were the wet eyes that went beyond the moistness that made her feel like crying at any moment, and the slightly raised corners of her lips that hung at the end of her cute little lips.
Cute. It’s really cute. I want to take him home and raise him… Can’t you?
“Welcome~ This is Chanel Le Bella.”
“Uh… Welcome. Chanel Le…… I am…”
As a situation unfolded that I couldn’t understand why, the flow of my thoughts, which had been connected naturally, was suddenly cut off.
The dog on the right followed the cat on the left to greet me, but the greeting was a mess.
I involuntarily opened my eyes wide and stared blatantly at the puppy on the right. You can’t even say hello properly after only a few words?
Is it difficult to talk to people because it’s a real dog? That’s why the cat next to me is good at talking…
“Sorry. Guest. This employee is working for the first time today. There are a lot of immature things.”
“Crime… I’m sorry…”
“No. It’s not like that. I just stared at you because you were so cute.”
This. The puppy was bowing its head down as if it was a high treason for not saying hello, so the comforting comment went out like a cheesecake. It has become a habit to praise Mihee noona without hesitation, so I stopped without realizing it….
“Hey… Persimmon… Thank you… No… I’m sorry…”
Well, the effect seems to have been good, but the dog stood up and raised his head little by little, glanced at me, and greeted me with red cheeks.
Tears welled up in her eyes, and the peeking nostrils her were shaped like cute hearts. How cute are your nostrils?
Okay. Okay. With this kind of murderous cuteness, I could endure even if coffee was thrown on my face. Of course, in return for your patience, I’ll take care of the feed, so I’ll try to threaten you, saying that you won’t come and live in my house.
“You don’t have to be sorry. It’s like that at first, well. Could you please take my order?”
“Yes…? Yes. Yes. Order… You may order.”
“A glass of iced americano, please. I will pay by card.”
“… An iced Americano… And… Paying credit card… “
Tick-…. Ttt-….
As I placed my order, the puppy standing in front of the force flag, very carefully, began to press her force flag.
I didn’t add anything else to make it easier to take the order, and I ordered only one iced Americano. Like a person who dials the password for a public certificate that has already been wrong 4 times, the puppy even mumbles what he is pressing, very slowly. I moved my finger.
How does she do it and she gets it right, her dog’s expression on her face her lights up.
Too bad her tail and ears are crazy and missing. If she had been up there, she would have been delighted to have her tail pulled up and her tail her twirled.
“That… Card… Card…”
“Yes. Can I plug it in here?”
“… I… Even if you plug it in… I can…”
“Then plug it in.”
The puppy proudly asked for a card from me, and I handed her card to her puppy. The puppy politely took her card with both of her hands, and she inserted it into the reader. The dog’s hand motion, which returned the card to me along with the receipt that came out after the payment, showed her confidence in her, albeit a little.
“If you are sitting at the table… I’ll bring you a drink…”
“Yes. Thank you. And even on the first day, you’re doing well. You’ll get used to it soon.”
I handed over a compliment a little intentionally. From the moment I said ‘cute’ to the puppy, the cat’s expression next to me was really, really bad.
‘If I do well, I’ll be able to seduce you soon.’
Yeah, this was a pretty good opportunity for me.
