Jae In responded with a startle.
“What! Absolutely not. He’s just a colleague at work, a colleague.”
“Who is it? I know all about the people in your department because I hear about them so often.”
“……!”
“Is it him after all? Your story?”
Well, Choi Yura is quickwitted.
If she had been this good at studying, she would have aced the college entrance exam.
This could become dangerous. It can’t happen.
“No, it’s about Assistant Kang.”
Kang Na Hee, I’m sorry I betrayed you for my own survival.
“Assistant Kang, the one who always annoys you?”
Oh no, did I mention his name?
Well, it’s not like Assistant Kang and Yura will ever come face to face, so it should be fine, right?
“Yeah, that’s right. But Assistant Kang is in a situation where he has to live in that man’s house due to unavoidable circumstances. Even if they live in the same house, nothing strange will happen, right?”
I felt relieved after blurting it out like this, although I had been feeling uneasy.
There must be somewhere I can ask.
However…
Yura responded with a surprised voice.
“What? A man and a woman living together?”
“Yeah.”
“Both are physically and mentally healthy?”
“Yeah.”
“The man is goodlooking?”
“Well… he’s quite handsome.”
“And the woman?”
“She’s… fairly pretty, I guess?”
Well, that should be okay.
Jae In blinked her eyes at her reflection in the desk mirror.
That’s when Yura came to a sudden conclusion.
“Oh my goodness! What a situation, what a situation!”
“What? What’s the matter?”
In response to Jae In’s question, Yura lowered her voice and began to explain.
“Well, it’s, you know, a loveydovey situation! A physically healthy man and woman living together, both goodlooking. Of course, something is bound to happen, right? Isn’t it strange if nothing happens at all?”
Rejected.
Jae In felt a chill as if she had been hit hard.
“Is, is that so?”
―Doesn’t she watch dramas? Something is bound to happen if she doesn’t.
“Even though they hate each other so much?”
“Maybe you don’t know because you’re inexperienced, but when a man and a woman keep seeing each other, they start developing feelings. Have you heard stories of people who meet at the bus stop on their way to work and end up dating?”
No matter what, even with Cha Do Hyuk?
Oh, come on, surely not.
Jae In recalled the gaze of Do Hyuk, who had stared at her in the elevator as if he could devour her, and her whole body trembled.
“It’s even more dramatic if they dislike each other. When the sparks fly after bickering back and forth, it ignites like dry firewood. Make sure to tell Kang Na Hee. Lock the door when you sleep.”
“Why lock the door?”
“Don’t you know? What if someone attacks you at night!”
“……!”
Yura’s laughter echoed like the laughter of a ghost in a horror movie, sending shivers down her spine.
“Oh my, it’s already past 11? I have a blind date tomorrow, so I should pack quickly. Jae In, let’s meet at Gwanghwamun Station next Saturday at 1 p.m.”
“……Yeah.”
A strange noise “tutu” came from her mobile phone, sending an eerie feeling.
Even though the call had ended, Jae In remained motionless, her eyes not blinking.
Lock the door when she sleeps?
Attacked at night?
In an instant, a chill ran down her spine from head to toe.
“Ahhhhhh!”
Jae In screamed, tearing at her hair, as if telling the neighborhood to disappear.
“Cha Do Hyuk and I living alone together.”
Within that simple sentence, there was something she had overlooked all this time.
The fact that “living” includes “sleeping.”
She had only thought it would be uncomfortable, but why hadn’t she considered it could be dangerous?
Jae In felt selfreproach for her ignorance.
If Yura’s words were true…
It sent shivers down her spine.
Every hair on her body stood on end.
“I’m going crazy! I’m going crazy!”
I wanted to find some peace of mind, even just a little, by confirming that it was okay with the third party.
But now everything has been completely destroyed.
At that time when she struggled in agony for a long time.
Something flashed in Jae In’s mind.
“That’s right! I had insurance!”
Jae In recalled the precious clause in which her team leader promised not to see her as a romantic interest.
Do Hyuk is not a foolish person who would ruin an important project related to the succession of his position due to irrational emotions.
Well done, Seo Jae In!
It’s the best thing you’ve done in 27 years.
Jae In finally let out a relieved sigh.
Now, let’s calm down and organize the situation.
Jae In wrote down the current situation on a piece of paper, one by one.
First, since she went there on her own and stamped her seal on the contract, it is an irreversible action.
Second, Yura’s story is merely an inference based on unverified generalizations.
Third, she has never seen her team leader as a man, only as someone she finds uncomfortable and dislikes. The chance of seeing him as a man in the future is zero.
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.”
