Chapter 34 – Russian Roulette (1)

“···How much? Four, three hundred?”

“I heard they give you a discount too?”

I was dizzy from Lee Ji-yeon’s continued extravagance.

When I went through the formalities, there was a well-groomed limousine that I could only see after going to the awards ceremony.

The limousine attendant approached us and spoke in fluent Korean.

“Lee Ji-yeon and Kim Cho-in, thank you for your hard work in coming this far. We will take you safely to your accommodation. This way…”

I looked at Jiyeon Lee with surprised eyes, but she calmly followed her crew and got into her car.
It was very luxurious for her to fly first class, but she never imagined that she would have to call a limousine for a shuttle to her lodgings.

“Choin, hurry up and get on”

Jiyeon Lee called me with a look in her eyes asking what she was doing instead of riding.
While the flight attendant took our luggage and put it in the trunk, I, dumbfounded, followed Jiyeon Lee into the car.

Jiyeon Lee seemed familiar with the clean and spacious interior and naturally took out a small bottle of sparkling wine from her refrigerator.
She uncorked her glass and filled her glass. Then she handed me her glass and filled her own glass.

“Now, shall we start lightly?”

“Uh? Uh…”

I clinked her glass and took a sip after her, tasting her drink.
It had a slightly sweet taste and was moderately sour, and the weak carbonation made it pleasant to drink.

It definitely seems like an expensive drink.

“···How much budget did you spend this time?”

“Do you want to know?”

Jiyeon Lee was smiling pleasantly despite my serious words.

I understand that she stayed in a hotel near the airport, but no matter how you look at it, she was staying far away from the airport.
There was definitely something strange about it.

The filming team did not even see her face, saying they would join the group locally.
She thought she was flying business class, but Jiyeon Lee said she used her mileage, so she changed to first class.
Coming out of the airport, a limousine that looks expensive and even luxurious champagne?

Nothing was included in the plan.

Even if something goes wrong, it is definitely wrong.

“… The accommodation is not here either, it is different from what was written in the plan…”

“Choin, do you remember where we wanted to go for our honeymoon?”

“Huh?”

Honeymoon… Travel…?

*

“···A big problem has occurred.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“···I didn’t take the medicine.”

“Approximately? ···Huh?”

“I’m of childbearing age…”

···Did I wear it yesterday?

My heart sank.

The blood, which was still hot as if it had been heated, turned cold.

The only one who seemed to have narrowed vision was Lee Ji-yeon, who looked anxious.

He got drunk and attacked Lee Ji-yeon and eventually confirmed their feelings for each other.

We’ve known each other for a long time, but the first night we met as lovers, not friends

We were so excited that we lusted after each other all night long.

We were truly horny animals, to the point where there seemed to be more red marks than white spots on Lee Ji-yeon’s pale skin.

As a result, I couldn’t take the strawberry-flavored vitamins I should have taken with me or the medicine just in case.

Even when she collapsed from exhaustion, she continued to wriggle and touch her skin.

“···I’ll buy it”

The blanket was already thrown in the corner, and both my body and the bed were a mess, but medicine was more urgent than that.

With her shaky legs, she crawled to her closet, got her clothes on, and headed to the pharmacy.

“Welcome.”

When I entered a nearby pharmacy, there were a few customers even though it was daytime.

She put on her hood, but waited in the corner in shame.

Soon after finishing their business, the customers left the pharmacy.

“What are you looking for?”

I approached the pharmacist’s call and spoke in a voice that crawled with some sense of guilt.

“···It’s a pregnancy medicine.”

Even though his voice was barely audible, the old pharmacist dealt with men like me naturally, as if he had seen them many times.

“It’s a prescription for post-mortem care, so I go to the gynecologist and just buy this.”

What the pharmacist gave me was not medicine.

“It’s meant to cover the skin, so I cut it and use it.”

My face felt hot.

After quickly finishing the calculation, I put on my hood and headed home where Jiyeon Lee was waiting.

Jiyeon Lee was stroking her stomach, looking at me with her blank eyes, wrapped in her blanket.
The sight of her brown hair sticking to her cheek was pitiful, but at the same time it made her heart warm.
But now is not the time.

She put the band aside and went to get a glass of water.

“···After the death of a delayed child, a prescription is needed…”

“Shall we get married?”

“···Huh?”

I was speechless at the sudden marriage proposal.

She was still looking at me, losing her focus.
I cringed slightly without realizing it.

Jiyeon Lee turned her gaze to her own stomach and then pulled her blanket to cover her stomach.

“···I don’t want to take medicine”

“···Huh?”

Jiyeon Lee, who was carefully stroking her stomach, raised her eyes and glared at me.

“If I get pregnant… I can get married…”

When her eyes met hers, she took a step back without realizing it.
She held her stomach tighter and looked at me with hostility.
I felt an indescribable madness as she repeated pregnancy and marriage in her slow tone.

What if Jiyeon Lee gets pregnant? As her success continued day after day, Jiyeon Lee’s stock price was soaring, and if she became pregnant in the meantime, she would cause a big stir.

Even if that person is the manager?

How should I tell CEO Choi, who believed in me and raised me?

··· Now she’s starting to enjoy her job as her manager.

As she watched Ji-yeon Lee grow, it wasn’t long ago that she dreamed of one day making a name for herself in the industry by nurturing new talent she personally discovered.

Even in the military… Uh, are you exempt if you have a child?

Although she was shaken by the military for a moment, she came to her senses and decided to persuade Lee Ji-yeon.

“···Jiyeon, go to the hospital as quickly as possible…”

“···Don’t you want to marry me?”

Tears welled up from my big eyes.

She was looking at me quietly, but tears were constantly pouring out of her eyes.
I had to calm her down.

I approached Jiyeon Lee and wiped away her tears.

“···We are still young”

“···”

“Of course I made quite a bit of money, but I still have a lot more to show.”

“···Yes”

Jiyeon Lee stopped crying before she knew it.

Jiyeon Lee said, holding her hand and mine tightly and squeezing them tightly.

“Jiyeon later became more successful, she made a lot of money… And I also succeeded as a manager and became the head of the department…”

“···After that, let’s go on a nice honeymoon.”

Jiyeon Lee opened her mouth with a smile as if asking when she had cried.

“···Honeymoon? ···Where?”

I had to give her something in response as she looked at me with her bright eyes, but since I wasn’t interested in her marriage, I didn’t know much about her honeymoon.
As I looked around, the pineapple juice on the table caught my eye.

“Uh… Hawaii, how about it?”

“Hawaii? .··Good.”

Jiyeon Lee grabbed me, lay down on my back, and gestured with her hands as if she was drawing a picture on the ceiling.

“Now that I’m on my way, I get a good seat on the plane… Take a limousine ride… Sleep in a good hotel…”

It was a relief to see her with a smile on her face, as if she was happy just by imagining her.

Ji-yeon Lee will be successful, but I also have to work hard to succeed as much as Ji-yeon Lee.

Won’t the day come when I go to Hawaii with Jiyeon Lee?

She lay there for a while, swimming in happy thoughts, then headed to the hospital. After spending two weeks with her anxious mind, she luckily had only one line on the test machine.

*

“···Did you remember?”

“···”

I really didn’t notice it at all.

First class seats on airplanes, luxury limousines, and the best accommodations we will be staying in.

Everything was just like Jiyeon Lee and I imagined when we were children.

He broke up with her on the pretext that it would interfere with her activities, leaving her in an ambiguous relationship.
She realized that she could not grow without him by her side, so she used the Shining Boys to escape.
Fortunately, we achieved great growth, and whatever the reason, we successfully discovered Hyeon Ha-yeon and Baek Ga-eun.

I betrayed Lee Ji-yeon.

I felt very guilty because I had no choice but to quietly follow her even though she was forcing herself to come out.

I was so preoccupied with Hyeon Ha-yeon and Baek Ga-eun that I didn’t recognize Lee Ji-yeon, who openly asked to go to Hawaii.

How heartbroken was it?

The guilt deepened and showed on his face.

When I looked at Jiyeon Lee, she was still smiling happily and drinking champagne.

“···Children, don’t be too sorry”

She came closer and stroked my cheek and said.

“… Because I will charge you interest as well.”

I couldn’t bring myself to look into her eyes as she whispered bitterly.

*

It took quite some time to get to the accommodation.

A small island near the Hawaiian Islands was used as accommodation.

It was a small enough island that you could walk around the island, but it had everything you needed, and it was said that the system was such that all users would wait on the island opposite and come when they called.

It was truly a natural prison, with only Lee Ji-yeon and I.

Jiyeon Lee put aside her luggage and took out her swimsuit to go swimming.
When she tried to move her room to take out her swimsuit to fit her style…

“It’s just the two of us?”

··· In the end, while changing her clothes, I couldn’t resist her temptation and ended up rolling around.

After some time, she put on her swimsuit and went into the pool.
Her tiny swimsuit, wet with the current, flipped over.

She once again had to wrestle with her in her pool.

After swimming, she prepared a decent meal and filled her stomach, following her suggestion not to call her staff.
Because we had been moving our bodies vigorously all day, the food was lightly prepared, but we were both satisfied.

She burned it late at night thanks to Lee Ji-yeon, who stayed half-naked because no one was around.
We coveted each other to the extent that it reminded us of when we first started dating.

She was exhausted and said she wanted to rest for a while and brought out a bottle of alcohol.

As I was talking to her, I fell for her provocation and ended up attacking her once again.

They attacked each other repeatedly and passed out the next day.

We spent the night so loudly that we didn’t know how much we had done.

After coming to her senses, I pulled up the blanket for Ji-yeon Lee, who was sleeping, and made her a cup of coffee.

The fragrant coffee scent seemed to awaken the sense of smell that had been paralyzed by Jiyeon Lee’s scent.

I don’t know how much I hung out with Jiyeon Lee yesterday.

The bed I was originally planning to use was already a mess, and I poured all my lost affection into Jiyeon Lee.

I barely tried to wash and sleep, but it was hard to sleep in my original bed, so I fell asleep in another room.

When I was young, I felt pathetic for making such a mistake and falling for Lee Ji-yeon again.

It is said that filming will be done at the end.

She said that she had already kissed him and that she would get back to him after resting comfortably.

Yesterday, I couldn’t see the island properly because I was lying around with Jiyeon Lee.

According to the pamphlet, there were a variety of activities available and there was no shortage of things to do.

If I needed it, I could get things by talking to the staff.

It was truly a place where everything was solved with money.

The fact that I was with Lee Ji-yeon in a place like this felt overwhelming.

Of course, Lee Ji-yeon’s stake was 100%, but she couldn’t believe that what she dreamed of in her small room as a child had become a reality.

“···What are you doing?”

Jiyeon Lee approached, rubbing her eyes.
She said as she poured out her coffee and handed it to her.

“···I just can’t believe I’m here”

“···Me too”

We looked at each other, burst into laughter and sipped coffee at the same time.

While I was talking to her about something like this in the pamphlet, I couldn’t resist her seductively lowering her gown.

I wrestled with Lee Ji-yeon several times starting in broad daylight.

After taking a shower, she called her staff to clean up the mess and fill her stomach.

I was embarrassed to see the messed up master bedroom, but I tried my best to ignore it and went out to the small beach attached to the island.

For the first time since arriving at the island, she was able to feel the gentle breeze and warm sunlight.

Jiyeon Lee said she was wearing a bikini for the beach, but when she saw that there was no one there, she boldly pulled on her straps.

“Please apply some sunscreen”

After a while of enjoying her leisure, she ended up bumping into her again.

I spent the whole day wandering around her island, getting to know her skin-to-skin, and ended up having a day that wasn’t much different from her yesterday.
Even though Baek Ga-eun’s nutritional supplements had consumed her energy several times, she was still in good spirits.

Instead of doing it in her room, I searched all over her house.
In the end, she was close to fainting again, so she washed up properly and went to sleep in the master bedroom for the first time.

As I looked at Lee Ji-yeon sleeping peacefully next to her, I suddenly felt anxious.

···How many times have you done it so far? Hey, when was that day…

She worked as Lee Ji-yeon’s manager and knew about her life cycle.

So, this month…

As she folded her fingers, she couldn’t bear the fatigue of calculating her cycle and fell asleep.