Chapter 29 – (Episode 29) 6. Opening

(Episode 29)

It is rare to find a newly opened academy or sports facility by just looking at the signboard.

At least, I stop by the cafe on the first floor if the atmosphere is good, but it’s all the same if the price is expensive or it’s not a franchise store.

However, since the parties who had to worry and worry about this problem were leisurely as if they were not thinking, Yoo Ji-min, who was worse off, stepped forward.

“Isn’t that why I’m getting fired?”

“Hoo-wook! What does that mean all of a sudden? Whoop!”

Han Myeong-shik, who was doing a squat exercise, put the barbell he was carrying on his back and let out a rough breath.

“Not all of a sudden… , It’s only been a few days since it opened, but isn’t it just the two of us in the gym?”

“Like you said, it hasn’t even been a week yet, what are you thinking about? Didn’t the boss say you don’t have to worry about sales?”

“Are you sure the boss said that?”

“How many times do you ask?”

“Because I don’t believe it…”

Yu Ji-min’s concern was sincere, so his expression was very bad.

“Are you worried about not getting paid?”

“Of course, taekwondo and yoga clubs don’t have members either, right?”

“Anyway, with one membership card, you can use three places… , There are customers at the cafe, right?”

“Hey, how many employees do you have and how do you cover the labor cost by selling a few cups of coffee?”

“Your love for your company is great?”

“No kidding…”

Yoo Ji-min slumped down in his chair and he let out a slight sigh.

“Don’t worry about that, come and look at me.”

“Spread your legs a little more, you don’t have to force your knees together.”

His hands came closer and touched his waist and thighs.

“Hoo-wook! Jimin, you smell good, is it perfume? Whoop!”

“Eww… Huh? Smell? It’s not perfume… , Do you smell sweat?”

Slightly taken aback, Yoo Ji-min didn’t care about the reflection in the mirror and quickly rubbed his armpit and smelled it.

“Hoo-wook! You can see all of them, whoouk!”

“Ah… ! I just exercised and showered!”

“Hoo-wook! So it smells good, what are you embarrassed about? Whoop!”

“I don’t know!”

Yoo Ji-min, his face reddened, left the gym as if he were running away.

‘Your personality is unexpectedly cute, keke’

It was a playful conversation that any close colleague would have, but my heart was beating so fast that I couldn’t hold it any longer.

“Whew… I’m more nervous because it’s just the two of us.”

When I went down to the yoga club on the 3rd floor, Park Eun-jung and Kim Ha-na were in the middle of yoga.

“Welcome, Jimin, let’s exercise together.”

“Ah… That yoga at all…”

“It’s okay, it’s more fun to do it with three than two.”

It had only been a few days, but Park Eun-jung was friendly and easy to treat like her older sister.

“More than that… , I’m worried because there are no members.”

“We were talking about that too.”

Hana Kim, who had her hips sticking out and boasted a flexible and slender body, exhaled her breath and sat down with her legs crossed.

“Are you afraid you won’t get paid?”

“Myungsik also said so… , What if the team leader said that?”

“I’m the team leader, but in fact, Myung-shik should be considered the actual owner of this place.”

It was the first time she had heard the story, so Hana Kim’s eyes changed.

“Really?”

“You didn’t know? You can just think of what he says as what the boss says.”

“I see… , No wonder…”

Yoo Ji-min couldn’t understand Kim Ha-na’s reaction, saying she knew that.

“Was her sister noticing?”

“I don’t notice, Mr. Myung-shik is a bit… Are you special?”

“What?”

“No what… The first impression of her and the atmosphere she gives off would be that she is too laid-back to be a 24-year-old college student?”

Park Eun-jung was cold inside, but she pretended not to know and smiled.

“He’s like the boss’s grandson.”

“And… ! It was a gold spoon.”

“I’m not really a beast, I’m just wearing her grace.”

“How can I meet a good person like the boss?”

Since he knew Yoo Ji-min’s personal situation, the question didn’t sound like a joke.

“I don’t even know that far.”

“Anyway, you mean you just have to do what Myung-shik tells you to do?”

When Kim Ha-na asked, Park Eun-jung playfully got angry.

“No, because I am the team leader!”

“Put, I heard that Mr. Myung-sik is the actual owner?”

“Guys, I’m in charge of this building!”

The way she reacted with her hand on her side and frown made me laugh because she didn’t look like a mother of two daughters aged 20 and 19.

“The manager is so cute!”

“And… ! Are you really 39 years old? If I do yoga, will I become as pretty as my sisters?”

At that time, Image and Jung Joo-ah, dressed in taekwondo uniforms, came up from the second floor.

“Mom, Joo-ah says she’s making tteokbokki today.”

“I have pocket money left for this month, so the sisters will eat it too, right?”

“I’ll go up and get you.”

There is nothing more delicious than the snack someone buys for you. Everyone hurriedly packed up and gathered in the office next to the yoga club.

“Jeok jjeok, this house is delicious, gulp”

“The tempura and seaweed rolls here are delicious.”

Seeing the image of Han Myeong-sik taking care of Han Myeong-sik carefully, Kim Ha-na asked indirectly.

“However… Miji, aren’t you being too nice to your sister’s boyfriend?”

“How about doing something nice?”

“Isn’t your sister misunderstanding?”

Lee Mi-ri and Cha A-rin, the cafe manager, were still at work, so they weren’t there.

“How is it, isn’t it nice to look at?”

Yoo Ji-min, who has always missed her close family, helped out, and Park Eun-jung stood up from her seat holding something she had prepared.

“I’ll bring this to the first floor and come back.”

“I’ll go down and eat, mom eats here.”

As Han Myeong-shik stood up from his seat, Jung Joo-ah instinctively followed suit.

“I’ll go, brother.”

“No, I’m going to help you finish the first floor. You keep eating.”

“Yes…”

After seeing her blushing and sitting down, Hana Kim pointed out what was so good.

“Hey, why is he like this? Did everyone fall for Myungsik?”

“My sister, Myeong-sik, don’t you think it’s a different opinion?

“When did I say no?”

“It’s not like that, Miji and Joo-ah are also handsome older brothers, so it’s only natural that they want to take care of you and look good, right?”

“Is it?”

Yoo Ji-min became embarrassed after arguing with her reaction as he shrugged and passed her over as if it was someone else’s business.

The atmosphere of eating tteokbokki without words was awkward, so I looked at Hana Kim with a pouty expression and asked.

“Hana unnie says she’s dating a guy, so why are you doing that?”

“What am I?”

“Then what did my brother do to my sister?”

“There’s no such thing, Mr. Myung-sik, be kind to me.”

Then, Jung Joo-ah quickly dried up her image.

“My sister must be just curious.”

“I’m not curious, you guys are a little weird.”

As she spoke, Hana Kim put down her chopsticks and drank her drink.

“Hana, you can’t cross the line.”

“A line. Is there such a line in this building now?”

“What do you mean?”

“I met Arin on the 1st floor before going to work today and talked about it.”

“However?”

“The older sister said that she wants to go out with Myung-sik, and she asked me to tell her.”

“…”

Other women did not notice that Park Eun-jung and her image were exchanging meaningful glances.

Yoo Ji-min tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face and asked Hana Kim back.

“Since Arin works with Miri, you know that the two are dating, right?”

“Therefore! She would think that if only that older sister, then I would, but if she is Myung-sik, everyone, including Miji and Joo-ah…”

Hana Kim couldn’t finish her words when she saw Park Eun-jung’s increasingly serious expression.

“The bottom line is that we’re all weird, right?”

“That… It’s not… It seems that the line the team leader said doesn’t exist.”

Along with Cha Ah-rin, Yoo Ji-min already sees Han Myeong-sik as her ideal type, so Kim Ha-na’s idea did not immediately come to mind, but it is not wrong.

It wasn’t a serious atmosphere, but it was a problem that she had to go over, so Park Eun-jung actively stepped forward.

“Then let me ask you one question.”

“Which one?”

“What’s the difference between helping her girlfriend’s family and her son-in-law helping his wife?”

“Uh… A girlfriend isn’t a legal relationship, right?”

“Can’t you help me if you’re not married? So what about donations? Is it strange that she feels grateful to the person who helped her and gets close to her emotionally?”

“…”

Seeing that she couldn’t respond right away, the image of her laughed off and she started eating the tteokbokki again.

“How can my older brother know how much he appreciates us?”

“I just like it because it’s fast paced.”

The women except for Kim Hana covered their mouths with their hands and swallowed her laughter at Jung Joo-ah’s prank.

“Cheese… I’ve become a bad person… I’m sorry, I didn’t know that was the case.”

“And we didn’t register the marriage, but we all live together on the 5th floor.”

“Yes? Really?”

“How good Myungsik treats Miri.”

Park Eun-jung and her image recalled the intense and thrilling moment they spent together yesterday while eating tteokbokki.

“And… It’s completely different from the birth of Mr. Myung-shik…”

“When you see what you do to me, you treat me like you look good. Does your sister have a prejudice against good-looking men?”

Yu Ji-min pointed out that her face blushed, and Kim Ha-na was the opposite case, so she was speechless.

At that time, Han Myeong-sik, who faced the two women in the storage room and dressing room on the first floor cafe, was worried for another reason.

‘It’s good that you like me… Why do you care so much about Miri, jealousy?’

She seems to be okay on the outside, but in her status window, Lee Mi-ri, who was sitting next to her, was very restrained.

“Are you okay working together?”

“Yeah, I’m still free so there’s no problem.”

Her gaze at Lee Mi-ri, who answered with a wide smile, was unusual, so she deliberately treated him more friendly.

“Can I call you sister now?”

“Huh… ? Ah… That… Yes, feel free to call me.”

“Is your job okay?”

“It’s okay, Miri has a lot of experience, so I don’t have much to do.”

“Is it so? I fell in love with the taste of the coffee Miri made and asked me to go out with her.”

The idea that coffee was the reason she first met Lee made her love for her cafe stronger.

“Precisely, you approached it with the coffee I brewed, right?”

“Haha, that’s right, it was cold coffee.”

It was still early evening, but there were no customers in the cafe, so the music flowing quietly made the atmosphere cozy.

As they sat on her knees, the love between the two of them sharing memories of their first meeting felt stronger.

Feeling her intense jealousy and hot emotions for the first time, Ah-rin could not stand it and confessed her true feelings.

“I’m sorry in advance, I can’t stand it.”

“What? What? What did I do wrong?”

“No, not that… , Me… Mr. Myungsik… Mr. Myung-shik is too… My heart hurts because I like it…”

“…”

It was a confession that was so absurd and one-sided that she thought to herself, so Ah-rin buried her face in her hands.

Lee Mi-ri, already aware of the manipulations, glanced at Han Myeong-sik with her eyes of resentment, and then gently patted her shoulder.

“Arin sister…”

“I’m sorry, Miriam… , My mind at all… I don’t know what to do.”

“It’s better to tell the truth than to hide and suffer. Thank you for telling me the truth.”

“It’s early…”

At that moment, thinking that her original identity had been revived, she quickly turned on the status window, and Arin’s gaze at Lee Mi-ri was completely different from before.

“But I’m the main character, so why are the two of us in the mood to kiss?”

“Oppa! What if I joke like that in a serious mood?”

“You got serious because of me, so shouldn’t I comfort you?”

“How can I comfort you?”

“What… A gentle hug or a pat on the back.”

Then, Cha A-rin, who was more emotional, saw her Lee Mi-ri, threw a word, and hugged Han Myeong-sik.

“I’m sorry, Miria!”

“Uh? Town!”

Seeing Han Myeong-sik kissing a woman other than her mother and sister for the first time, Lee Mi-ri’s complex expression was interesting.

(Continued on next episode 30)