Chapter 37 – The Boss’ Daughter

As soon as I went to school on Monday, Dong-gu and Young-rae came to my side and made a fuss.
“Hey! Seongjin Lee, why didn’t you tell me?”
“Oh, again. What in the morning?”
“Why didn’t you tell me that you were selling tteokbokki in front of your mother’s school?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Hey! It’s not like that with friends though. Do you really have to hear the news as a rumor? Rumors spread all over the town that you were selling tteokbokki in front of your mother’s school. So we shouldn’t go either.”
“Okay. I get it. Let’s go later It’s a test from today. Please study.”
“Ugh, test. See you later.”
When the story of the test came out, the two quickly ran away.

After the exam, I was going to take Dong-gu and Young-rae to my mother’s store, but somehow all the classmates followed me.
When I went to the food stall, it seemed that it had just opened, and her mother was pouring red pepper paste on the tteokbokki plate.
“Mom, I’m here.”
“Oh, yes. Is your son’s exam over?”
“Yes. And here are our classmates. Everyone came to say hello to my mother.”
“Hello.”
Everyone greeted the mother loudly.
“Oh, yes. Come on guys It’s early, so I haven’t prepared yet, but wait a minute.”
As soon as he arrived, the oil was boiling as if he had lit a fire in the oil pot.
I quickly put down my bag and went inside the stall.
Mother took out the skewers of wheat cakes she had put in from home and put them in the oil pot.
The rice cakes were fried right away, and the mother quickly took them out, brushed off the oil, took out the sauce container, and started making tteok skewers.
I handed out the finished rice cake skewers to each of the children.
“Hey! Just shoot today. From next time, pay for it and buy it. And my mother’s tteokbokki is amazingly delicious, so I come here often. Got it?”
The kids were happy to share something to eat for free during hungry times.
“Wow! This is really good.”
The kids who ate the tteok skewers all raised their thumbs up saying it was delicious.
While my mother was frantically making tteok skewers, students from my school who had finished their exams started lining up behind the class to buy tteok skewers.
“Mom, I’ll do this, so hurry up and make tteokbokki.”
I pushed her mother aside as I moved in front of the oil pot.
“Hey! Dong-gu and Young-rae, come by and help.”
As soon as I spoke, the guys who were eating tteok skewers were happy to come to my side and start waiting.
I kept frying wheat cake skewers in an oil pot, Young-rae spread sauce on the fried skewers, and Dong-gu wrapped them in a napkin and delivered them to the guests.
A storm passed without a hitch.
“Good work. Guys.”
Mother said that she did a good job, and she sat Dong-gu and her youngrae down and served them lots of tteokbokki and tteok skewers.
Those who have tried the tteokbokki said that the tteokbokki was amazingly delicious and showed off her charms to their mother.
After Dong-gu and Young-rae finished eating, I quickly sent them home.
“Hey! Hurry up and study. You guys messed up the test today.”
The guys seemed to find it fun to help out at the store, so they hesitated and didn’t want to go, and I kicked them away.
“Son, son go home and study. Mom will take care of this.”
“No. I got 100 points on the test today. I’ll help my mother a bit and go with Sung-hoon when he comes.”
When my mother heard that I got a perfect score on today’s test, she gave me a hearty smile.
The mother’s smile was so pretty that I quickly approached her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
“Oh..”
The mother was startled and blushed and touched her cheek with her hand, where the feeling of her lips remained.
The guests came without stopping.
It was fun to work because my hands didn’t rest.
There were also female students from other schools who came to see me from time to time, and it was surprisingly fun to talk to them.
Seonghun, the youngest, came after finishing her class.
Seonghun put a skewer of rice cake in her hand, and Jinhee even took a skewer of rice cake and went home.

The midterm exam, which lasted for four days, was over.
The report card should come out, but the results of the Gacha store gave me a perfect score in all subjects this time again.
Because it was the test period, it ended early, so I increased my exercise time a little.
It’s been two weeks since I started working out at the gym, but I’m already proficient at shadow and punchball in front of a mirror.
At my amazing motor nerves, the director and Kwang-shik-hyung stuck out their tongues.
“Sungjin, don’t you want to go to a boxing match?”
“Ah, manager. It’s been less than two weeks since we started, but what kind of a match is it?”
“No! Even if you go out now, you will eat most of the kids.”
Gwangsik hyung intervened from the side.
“Hyung-nim, it doesn’t seem like there is a match yet. I will learn more and think slowly. And why are you still here? Then what if the cops come in? You know the rumors about the bad mood these days.”
The director and Gwangsik-hyung licked their lips as if they couldn’t help but regret it.
And Kwang-sik hyung was stunned and quickly left.
“Director, send Gwangsik a little further away. I don’t want sparks to fly.”
“Okay. I get it. He said he was going to dive to the countryside soon after he had finished organizing everything. You don’t have to worry too much.”
Feeling fortunate, I focused on exercising again.

To be honest, I wasn’t interested in competitions or competitions.
The important thing now is to earn money quickly and prepare for the future, and it wasn’t like I went to an Olympics and won a gold medal, I just did exercise.
But did I say nangjungjichu?
The awl in the pocket is bound to come out eventually.
Up until this point, I had no idea what the director and Kwang-shik were planning.
In the corner of the gym, the two of them put their heads together and kept glancing in my direction.
As usual, I was shadowing in front of the mirror and playing a punch bowl.
Then I met eyes with the manager.
Then the director looked at me and smiled brightly, then quickly turned his head away.
I felt a bit uncomfortable, but I didn’t care and just continued to exercise.

After exams, it was Saturday, so I decided to go on a date with Gyung-mi as promised.
After lunch, I went to Gyeongmi’s house.
Kyungmi was already out in front of the house waiting for me.
Seeing me coming from afar, Kyungmi ran quickly.
Wearing a pink T-shirt with cute characters on it, a tight-fitting jean skirt, and a small red bag across her chest, she looked so pretty and fresh.
When I saw Kyungmi fluttering and running, I couldn’t help but smile.
“All! Our Kyungmi, today she looks pretty.”
“Hehe, are you okay? Brother? I’ve been thinking about going on a date today.”
“Good! Very pretty. Let’s go.”
I walked to the bus stop holding the hand of Kyung-mi, who was embarrassed in front of her and twisted her body.
Looking at Kyungmi’s innocent face, it seemed that she knew nothing about her father, Kim Chunshik’s affairs.
I also didn’t want to make her worry by talking to Kyungmi, so I decided to just forget about it and focus on her date.
As promised, we decided to watch a movie and boarded a bus to Jongno.
“Brother, I think your mother is a very nice person.”
They were sitting side by side on the bus, and Kyung-mi spoke to her.
“Huh? Mother? Why are you talking about your mother all of a sudden?”
“Ah.. No..”
Kyungmi was taken aback, and she smiled and avoided my gaze.
I didn’t ask any more, and we talked about our daily lives.
“Kyung-mi, wasn’t your school also having midterms this week?”
“Huh. But I screwed up the test this time. Did your brother do well on the exam?”
“What.. It’s me.. Just like that..”
“All! Judging from what you said, it looks like you did well on the test this time too. Didn’t you get a perfect score again?”
“What! Roughly. You only know when the report card comes out.”
“Omg! Did you really get a perfect score this time? Oppa, please tell me the secret to studying. Totally envious.”
“Okay. I’ll let you know when the time comes.”
After talking about this and that for a while, we arrived at Jongno.
“Kyung-mi, what movie shall we watch?”
She looked around at the attached movie posters while asking Gyeong-mi a question.

‘Hut! That movie was released this year.’
It was the hit movie, ‘Love and Soul’.
It hasn’t been released yet, but I saw a famous poster of Patrick Swayze holding Demi Moore and making pottery.
In 1990, many films were released that clearly remain in our memory.
It was a year when many famous movies were released, such as Love and Soul, Pretty Woman, Total Recall, War of the Dead, Die Hard 2, Ceiling Earth, Ninja Turtles, The General’s Son, Bullet Bullet Man, Watercolors on a Rainy Day, and Jin Yong.

“Omg! Kyung-mi, look at this movie being released.”
“What?”
“This. Love and soul.”
“Why? Is this a fun movie?”
“And! This movie is awesome The man I love became a ghost…”
I spit and explained about love and soul.
“And! Oppa, do you really know about movies? Amazing.”
“Omg..”
Come to think of it, the movie hadn’t even been released yet, but I was talking about it as if I had already seen it.
“Hmmmm. No. Rather than knowing it well, I like the reviews about the movie so much..”
I blurted out my words and led Kyungmi to the ticket office.
Fortunately, a movie comparable to Love and Soul was being screened.
“Kyung-mi, let’s see that.”
Kyung-mi also watched the movie I chose and applauded.
It was ‘Pretty Woman’ starring Julia Roberts.
I bought popcorn and Coke, waited for a while, and watched a movie.
Seeing Julia Roberts in her prime, when she was young, gave me a new feeling.
Throughout the movie, I was holding Kyungmi’s hand.
He could feel the sweat on his palms, probably because he was nervous.
Even so, it was so cute to see her wriggling and squatting without being able to take her hand out.
I couldn’t stand it, so I kissed her on the cheek.
Gyung-mi was startled and looked around her, crouching down on her, staring at her screen.
I watched the movie with a small smile.
After the movie came out, Kyungmi said that it was so much fun and crossed my arms.
When I looked at Gyung-mi’s face, her eyes were wide open.
It was a side effect of the romance comedy.
A sensitive girl saw a dream-like love story, so she was mistaken for herself and the main character in the movie.
It was also so lovely.
Leading Kyungmi, who is lost in her dreams, to a store near her, buy her ice cream, and walk towards her Jongno.
Kyungmi kept saying that Julia Roberts is so cute and Richard Gere is so cool, and she talked about movies.

It was fun and fun, but to be honest, it wasn’t as fun as Kyeong-mi.
It was a movie I had seen several times before, but seeing it again after I was over 40 felt a bit childish, so I didn’t feel the fun of the first time I saw it.
I felt a bit bittersweet.
Her body was 17 years old, and she was sensitive at the height of her emotions, but her mind was in her mid-40s, and she was no longer impressed or disappointed by most things.
Maybe that’s why the image of Kyungmi talking excitedly was very fresh and cute.
Walking around Jongno, I looked around and bought some street food.
When I tried to pay for the food, Gyung-mi insisted that she had to pay, so Gyung-mi had no choice but to buy everything to eat.
It was around 4:00 and I asked to go home.
When I asked if I was leaving already, Kyungmi was terribly disappointed, but when I said I had to go to exercise, he had no choice but to head to the bus stop.
When I asked Kyung-mi, who was sullen, to come see ‘Love and Soul’ when it was released, she promised to do so with a big smile as if she had never done that before.
I got off the bus and walked to Kyungmi’s house holding her hand.

But at this time, there was someone watching Sungjin and Kyungmi like this…
When he saw them, his face went white in shock, and he staggered for a moment.