Chapter 102 – Problem (1)

CEO Choi’s expression when he saw me entering the representative office was miserable.

“Uhm…”

He was drooling and looked at me with a serious expression, and his eyes were filled with compassion.

CEO Choi looked at me, hesitated for a while, then sighed softly and carefully opened his mouth.

“… “Hey, what happened?”

After hearing what CEO Choi said, I lowered my head and took a quick look at my body.

There seemed to be no problem with Jiyeon Lee’s clothes since they were new.

In the end, unable to find the cause, I answered CEO Choi.

“… “Nothing happened.”

CEO Choi narrowed his eyebrows even more at my answer and spoke with a sigh.

“… “Now, if you make that face and say there’s nothing wrong, would you believe me?”

… My face? My lips were a little chapped, but it was okay… ?

“… “Did you get something on my face?”

I just said I didn’t know because I really didn’t know, but CEO Choi shouted as if he was dumbfounded.

“Are you kidding me? “What on earth happened to make you so dead?”

Representative Choi seemed to be frustrated, so he poured himself a glass of cool tea and put it down.

“… Nothing really happened.”

CEO Choi, who was sighing in frustration, shook his head and said.

“When Lee Ji-yeon suddenly contacted me saying she would take a few more days off, I should have stopped her…”

CEO Choi looked at me sitting quietly and said as if he had no choice.

“… Anyway, it’s good to be back, uh…, I will contact you separately, and we can talk again.”

“… Yes.”

I touched my face for no reason as I saw CEO Choi clicking his tongue while looking at me.

… What’s the problem?

After concluding the story appropriately, I said goodbye to CEO Choi and left the representative office.

On the way down to the office, I met an employee from another department in the elevator, and as soon as he saw me, he told me to be shocked.

“… Team Leader Kim, are you okay? “Your face doesn’t speak like a horse?”

“… Is that so?”

I looked in a mirror inside the elevator.

It looked a little crooked, but that was it.

After briefly saying hello and patting his shoulder, he got out of the elevator and spoke quietly.

“… Cheer up.”

“… Yes, good work.”

This wasn’t the only thing.

Strangely enough, everyone I met asked me if I was okay.

It was only then that I realized that there really was a problem.

But I didn’t know what the problem was, so I couldn’t understand it.

When I asked the office staff if I looked a little unwell, they responded that my complexion was bad, and I looked sallow.

Meanwhile, I received a call from Baek Ga-eun, who had just arrived at the company, asking me to come down to the practice room right away.

I replied that I would come down and headed to the practice room.

Last night, at Jiyeon Lee’s house, no…, In our house, Jiyeon Lee taught us how to behave.

Thinking of Lee Ji-yeon’s words, I gathered my heart and took her steps again.

I got off on the floor where the practice room was, looked around like a habit, and headed to the deepest practice room.

When I glanced through the window, I saw Baek Ga-eun practicing while looking at the script.

When I knocked on her door and went in, she recognized me and rushed over to welcome me.

“Brother! How… What… Day… ?”

I almost missed her reaction as she looked at me blankly with a surprised face.

I said I was in bad shape…

I pretended not to notice Baek Ga-eun, who was looking at me with a stiff expression.

“… Sorry, something happened.”

Baek Ga-eun narrowed her beautiful eyebrows and spoke firmly.

“… Brother, what happened, what on earth was that woman…”

“Ga-eun.”

When I interrupted, Baek Ga-eun looked surprised once again.

“… Yes.”

She had never said this before, but she needed to make it clear.

“… Well, I just had a little chat with Jiyeon over the past few days, and…”

I spoke carefully to Baek Ga-eun, who was looking at me with strange eyes.

“… “I decided to start over with Jiyeon.”

It is a word with many meanings.

It may be a bit of a shocking statement to Baek Ga-eun, who likes me, but she has a promise to Lee Ji-yeon, so it can’t be helped.

… It’s throbbing again.

She frowned slightly at the pain that felt like a slight pounding on her head.

“… Yes?”

I said this to Baek Ga-eun, who was in a daze as if she was really shocked.

“… Thank you for your help so far. I will work hard from now on and repay you.”

She stared for a long time, hesitated, and spoke in a slightly trembling voice.

“… Well, that’s right, it worked out well…, What a relief…”

… It’s a calmer reaction than I expected.

Fortunately, Baek Ga-eun didn’t seem to be seriously hurt, so she was a little relieved.

Baek Ga-eun closed her eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and slowly approached her.

“… By the way, why is your face like that?”

Without realizing it, I took a step back and answered.

“… Everyone says my face doesn’t look good today, nothing special happened…”

“… “Take a look.”

Baek Ga-eun carefully extended her hand.

At that moment, she remembered Jiyeon Lee reaching out to me in the basement and became a little nervous.

She gently placed her hand on my face and looked at it here and there and said with a worried face.

“… “Oppa, where did you get hit?”

She flinched when asked if she had been hit, but she didn’t want to talk about it because she didn’t just get hit, it was my fault.

“… Ah, no, why am I right…”

Feeling stung, she gently pushed Baek Ga-eun’s hand away and continued her words.

“… “It’s probably because I’m a little tired that I look groggy.”

I tried to change the topic to Baek Ga-eun, who didn’t erase her suspicion, but she didn’t get it.

She spoke cautiously, still looking worried but with a hint of suspicion.

“… “Oppa, we’re about to start filming. Even though my face won’t appear, I need to take care of it.”

That’s right, as some kind of trick, I, who has no talent for acting at all, was put in the role of a male actor in a music video, so I had no choice but to start filming in order to meet the schedule.

She said that message is the best way to relieve fatigue and recommended that we go to a place she knows.

I tried to refuse it because I thought it wouldn’t be another favor, but due to my uncharacteristic stubbornness, I ended up accepting it.

I ran away, saying I would go soon and that I had some work to do.

On the way up to the office, I sighed without realizing it.

… I have to meet Hyeon Ha-yeon in the afternoon…

Last night, Jiyeon Lee said that it was necessary to share what happened every day in order to strengthen faith and trust in each other.

If I go home today, I have to tell everything from the time I came to work and met CEO Choi until I return home.

Maybe it was because my head was complicated, but my thoughts were scattered due to the pounding.

… It will work out somehow.

When I stopped thinking, the headache subsided a little.

I quickly went up to the office, checked about the upcoming filming, and waited for Hyeon Ha-yeon to come to work.

*

… Something is strange.

For some reason, I felt an unpleasant feeling from her brother.

It felt like something squishy was covering her brother.

Four days ago, on the day her brother came up from Busan, Jiyeon Lee disappeared, taking her brother with her.

She tried to track it somehow, but she lost it because the crazy bitch was speeding, and her GPS didn’t work.

In the end, she had no choice but to track down CCTV footage and find out that she was hiding in a small house hidden on the side of a mountain, where there were few people around.

The two didn’t even take a single step out of the door, and I couldn’t get close to them, so I just kept watch, and it wasn’t until the third day that they showed up.

I checked the photos of the two of us that I had saved on my phone.

Lee Ji-yeon and her brother appeared carrying a large duffel bag.

I was able to tell for sure after seeing her brother’s strangely withdrawn appearance and his behavior today, which seemed to be difficult to walk.

Something definitely happened there.

This is a person who has never hung up on me before saying he was busy.

But today, he appeared with a dying face and even said nuanced words in support of Jiyeon Lee.

Can a person change like this?

Lee Ji-yeon did something.

… Her brother was defiled again.

It makes no sense that my brother, who had been focusing on me and Hyeon Ha-yeon until now, started dating that crazy bitch.

Even though I knew that my brother was not normal, my hands started shaking out of anxiety.

In front of my brother, I pretended to be okay so as not to destroy the goodwill I had built up so far, but I felt like my heart would break.

… I have to do something…

Now that I know there is a problem, I have to find a way, no matter what.

Otherwise, my brother will really fall into the hands of that crazy bitch.

At that time, an image of my brother whispering his love to Lee Ji-yeon suddenly flashed through my mind.

… Sigh.

Before I knew it, I was out of breath and collapsed on the floor.

Until now, I have seen my brother and that crazy bitch rolling around countless times, but that thought was too shocking.

“Wow…”

At that moment, she felt nauseous and ran out of the practice room, covering her mouth.

She quickly went into a nearby bathroom, grabbed her toilet and vomited.

“Ha…, Ha…”

… My brother, my brother…

I can watch my brother rolling around with Jiyeon Lee, but I can’t watch him whispering love.

“Wow, wow…”

I felt something black boiling in my chest.

She retched several times and wanted to spit out everything inside, but she couldn’t.

How to…, We have to find a way…

The problem so far has been that only too gentle methods have been used.

Although it is impossible to get rid of Lee Ji-yeon, there are countless ways to change her brother’s mind.

Even if I use a slightly rough method, I can get my brother back…, No…, Let’s drive the wedge firmly in at this point.

So that my brother can truly love me…