“Oh, why do you look so surprised? Well, suddenly, you might want to see Director Kim. Of course, Director Kim probably has someone else he really wants to see right now.”
Hyun-soo lifted the corner of his mouth slightly, narrowing his eyes, and quickly closed the distance between us. As Hyun-soo’s footsteps echoed in the empty hallway, where other PDs and writers had already left, my heart began to beat rapidly in tune with the rhythm of Hyun-soo’s high heels.
“Hyun-soo, sorry, but today I’m having lunch with others. Today, we…”
“Hush.”
But Jung-eun couldn’t finish her sentence. Hyun-soo pressed his index finger to her lips and boldly intruded into the space between Jung-eun and me. Then, he lightly tapped on Jung-eun’s shoulder, then on my shoulder, placed his hand on mine, and whispered in a very soft voice.
“Me too. I miss you too. Since a while ago.”
It was a sensation that sent shivers down my spine. Hyun-soo patted our shoulders with the hand he had placed on them, urging us forward. Was this expression used at a time like this when the atmosphere became cool?
As soon as I arrived at work in the morning, Hyun-soo recited the message on the messenger window I had displayed on my monitor without a single mistake.
Without anyone saying who should go first, Jung-eun and I turned our heads towards each other. Our eyes met with a shared emotion. Jung-eun scratched her forehead with her hand, and I felt my eyebrows droop.
Following Jung-eun, even Hyun-soo. Since it was revealed unintentionally before I could speak first, the surprise aside, it was now becoming so faint that the reality was fading.
Hyun-soo, who was walking ahead, stopped for a moment, his confident steps becoming more resolute, and he stared at us. Then, seemingly realizing it wouldn’t work, he began to gesture for us to come quickly. The cheerful gesture seemed oddly unpleasant.
My sense of reality was fading away, making me numb. Jung-eun was the first to speak, and surprisingly indifferent, Jung-eun’s voice echoed in my ears.
“Well, the situation has certainly escalated.”
“Yeah, it’s gotten bigger, and now it’s just a matter of time before it explodes.”
Jung-eun let out a faint, nonchalant laugh at my rather careless tone.
“But, Haru, you know. Hyun-soo, even though he seems endlessly light on the surface, he never talks about really important things. He locks his lips tightly and never speaks when it comes to genuinely crucial matters.”
“Well… that’s true.”
“Maybe he’s complaining to you right now. That he’s upset because you didn’t tell him first. Knowing just the two of us and keeping it a secret, he might find it annoying.”
The human heart is indeed strange. Listening to Jung-eun’s words, instead of getting angry at Hyun-soo, who stopped a few steps ahead, clenched his fists, and stood with an unimpressive expression, I felt only a warm apology spreading from the edge of my heart.
In a strange twist, Hyun-soo, with his arms crossed and a poorly made expression, standing still twenty paces ahead, didn’t make me angry. Instead, a sense of guilt spread from the edge of my heart, growing hot.
Hyun-soo may not say it outright, but he’s probably complaining. That he didn’t tell him about this important matter first. It’s frustrating for him to know only the two of us and keep it a secret from the others.
A feeling of something suddenly surged in my chest. Relaxing the tension in my lips, I spoke loudly to Hyun-soo.
“Hyun-soo Kim, let’s go together. Let’s have lunch together today and have a lot of conversation!”
Hyun-soo turned his gaze to a distant place for no reason, nodding his head so only the back of his head was visible. His unnecessary-looking back was very much like Hyun-soo. Anyway, he seemed like the youngest writer.
“Wow, the weather is really nice today. It would be great to have a system where you get fined for not going outside to work on days like this.”
I didn’t realize it while sitting densely packed in a small meeting room all morning. However, today, the sunlight, refracted slightly by tiny clouds, was so warm.
The sunlight that briefly rested on the leaves widely spread on each trunk of the trees lining the street was divided into small pieces and fluttered down in the breeze, creating a pleasant sensation.
“Haru Noona, then how about the three of us try it? If you work on a nice day, you get fined.”
“Honestly, that’s meaningless, isn’t it? If we do that, in the end, only the three of us will be quietly cut off.”
“Ah, let’s just express our feelings, express our feelings.”
Clear sunlight creates a sense of leisure that can even bring a hearty laugh to such grandiose words.
We pushed our steps into a noodle soup restaurant located at the end of a narrow alley. Despite it being lunchtime, we found a spot in the most secluded corner of the quiet interior. The owner standing behind the counter seemed to have to do a U-turn to be visible.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
