episode_0071

[Hello, Seojun. This is Arin. I shouldn’t have shown myself like that yesterday. I guess I was so excited that I drank too much. I’m really sorry. I decided not to drink alcohol for a while. I also got scolded by Chae-yoon a lot. Oh, and thank you so much for taking me home yesterday. Next time, I will make sure something like this never happens! ]

Seojun, who had received a rather long text message from Arin, was looking at his phone with a very distraught expression.

‘I was crazy, really.’

I should have refused and kept my distance.

Yesterday, without even realizing it, I was completely swayed by Arin.

After being swayed, the result was that I acted without any thought of keeping my distance, thinking that I was just going to have a good time with this situation.

This is how I came back to Arin’s text message.

“Ha..”

The reason for sighing was clear.

It was never because I hated Arin.

No, rather, I wanted to write a reply right away.

Like this, he seemed to want to repay Arin, who was clearly showing interest in him, with all his heart.

‘Are you dating?’

His father whom I met in the lobby in the morning.

When I heard Kang San-ho’s question, I felt like I came to my senses.

I was finally able to grab hold of the strings of reason that told me I shouldn’t be doing this right now.

“Director, what’s going on?”

Si-eun, Seo-jun’s secretary, looked at him with a worried expression as he had been sighing since morning and asked.

“No, it’s okay. Rather than that, please give me this week’s report.”

Today was the day the weekly report came in, and it was also the day we had to schedule people for a new project.

I was going to be busy again for a while, and if that happened, the distance between me and Arin would naturally widen.

‘But I guess I should at least reply… right?’

Even while I was reading the weekly report, my mind was filled with thoughts of Arin.

‘…No, no. Let’s stop here. I wasn’t going to give it to you anyway.’

If he had been planning on giving his side, he would have done so from the beginning.

Seojun, who recalled in his mind again why he had deliberately put Geonwoo in front of him, turned off his cell phone and put it back in the drawer.

“What time is the meeting?”

“In one hour. And, Director, this.”

“What is this?”

Seojun asked with a slight frown after being handed a small stack of documents that were separate from the report.

“This is an instruction given by the Chairman.”

Directive issued directly by the Chairman.

Of course, it was obvious that Si-eun, the secretary, had not seen the contents, so she started reading the document without asking any more questions.

“What is this..”

The content contained therein was a nonsensical instruction to proceed with this project together with Kang San-ho.

“…Isn’t this fabricated?”

“The Chairman gave it to you personally. Is there any problem?”

Si-eun, startled by the word manipulation, jumped up from her seat and announced that Chairman Kang Seok-ho had personally delivered it in the morning.

“.Ha, what on earth are you thinking? This Yeongtaengi.”

As Seojun respects his grandfather, he has rarely been dissatisfied with his choice.

But Seojun, who had no idea what this choice was for, just sighed.

“Have you already become senile..?”

“Yes?”

“No.. it’s nothing.”

All that came out was a deep sigh.

Seojun, thinking that he should hear directly from the person concerned what the intention was, stood up.

“I will visit the Chairman for a moment. Please finish preparing for the meeting.”

“Ah, yes. I understand.”

Seojun left like that, and Si-eun headed to the conference room to prepare for the meeting.

***

“Well, as expected, the neighborhood chicken is the best.”

“I acknowledge this. Ah, green onion chicken is so delicious!”

“I like this house sauce.”

Chae-yoon, who was praising the chicken, looked at Arin, who was still chewing on the bean sprout soup at the table and not eating properly, and shouted.

“Arin, if you’re feeling well, let’s just come and eat chicken together!”

But there was no answer back.

“Why does he keep looking at his phone?”

“Do you have a real boyfriend..”

“Hey, stop. Arin said it was privacy!”

Even though Chaeyun and Suah were arguing loudly, Arin didn’t react and just kept looking at her phone.

‘Reply… When will it come?’

Of course, what I was waiting for was Seojun’s reply.

‘..Ah, maybe you blocked me because I was completely honest..?’

Even though she tried not to think, Arin’s thoughts kept wandering towards the negative.

Of course.

‘Otherwise, it doesn’t really make sense… No matter how much people work, they never go to the bathroom? It’s lunch time, but you’re not eating? ‘Aren’t you going to be looking at your phone at that time?’

In fact, no matter how busy the company was, it was incomprehensible that people continued to work without even taking a break.

In addition, since Sogang is a large company, the benefits are quite good, so it was one of the companies with a lot of down time.

Of course, Seojun was also the head of the division, and he tended to work without any breaks compared to other rank-and-file employees.

But of course, that didn’t mean I didn’t have enough time off to reply to a single text message.

“..sigh..”

“Arin, I told you to just come eat the chicken. And if you have any concerns, please talk to me.”

Chae-yoon spoke once more as if he was frustrated.

“Huh? Ugh.. No, there’s nothing to worry about..”

Everyone looked like he was worried, but the answer he got back was that he had no worries, which only made him more frustrated.

“Ha, really, why is he like that?”

“I should have just let it in..”

Chae-yoon and Su-a feel sad that they can no longer enjoy chicken for no reason.

“Delicious.”

However, Nahyun was eating chicken deliciously as if she wasn’t interested if I didn’t say anything anyway.

“If you don’t eat it, I will eat it all.”

And it also awakened the awareness of two people who were thinking about other things in front of chicken.

“Oh, hey! One chicken leg is mine!”

“Ahh, my wings..!”

The three started fighting chicken again, and Arin ended up putting the finished bean sprout soup in the sink and walking into the room.

‘I’d like to just consult about my concerns.’

To be honest, it bothered Arin to tell Chae-yoon and Su-ah that it was nothing when they kept asking.

Moreover, just now, everyone could see that he was saying this out of concern for Arin.

It was annoying when he first started talking about Su-ah as if she was something he was interested in, but after making him worry, I started to feel sorry for no reason.

“Ah, how can I say this though…!”

If I had been in this state before sending the text, I would have been able to say something with my heart pounding.

Isn’t it a situation where it’s almost certain that you’ve been blocked?

Arin was just hitting the pillow, thinking that it was just foolishness to tell three people about such a negative situation.

“Haaaa…”

Even in the midst of such negative thoughts, Seojun was starting to get angry at himself for wondering what on earth he was doing.

They say the five stages of anger are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Arin did not deny it in the first place and was experiencing strange emotional changes that went straight from depression to acceptance and then back to anger.

“I put some chicken for you and left it on the table.”

As I was doing this for a while, I heard Chae-yoon’s voice outside the door.

‘Chae-yoon… I’ve been in a relationship… at least with her…’

But something like that happened yesterday and it was right after I got scolded.

If I had even harbored these feelings, I could have been misunderstood as if what happened yesterday was intentional.

In fact, Chaeyun was never the type of person to think or talk like that, but Arin kept having negative thoughts.

“Huh.. Ugh.. Ugh.. I’m really annoyed..!”

I even thought about going to Sogang instead.

‘I went and saw his face in person and asked why he didn’t reply to my text message….! It’s kind of… funny… no, honestly, it’s not like we have any relationship.’

On the contrary, if you do that and end up in trouble with the guild master Geon-woo’s close younger brother…

‘Wow, Mr.. Come to think of it, I forgot… He was Seojun and Gilma’s close younger brother..’

It wasn’t like Geon-woo would bother someone over personal matters, but Arin was just so confused right now that she couldn’t understand everything properly.

“Okay, let’s close it.. It can’t be helped.. What can I do when I’ve done the truth..”

In the end, Arin said in a gloomy voice that she should quit.

“No, but isn’t it possible to organize your reply?! Yesterday, you were the truth and I was annoyed so I told you not to contact me..!”

I soon became angry.

“But then… it would be even more sad…”

He soon showed signs of becoming depressed again.

Originally, love was an emotion that made people very confused, so it was a natural behavior.

It looked like it was a little severe.

“Ugh.. I don’t know, I don’t know.. I hate everything like love..”

The ending ended with me crying.

“…Wow, this is really serious…”

“…Uh, uhh.. I see..”

“.Arin, are you crazy..?”

Arin had never dreamed that three people were watching her through the open door.