21. Opening!

“So, I’m just old news now, huh?”

 

It’s a playful expression, but there’s a barb in her words.

Ugh. Was I too hasty after all?

 

 

“Hehehe.”

 

 

As I’m panicking, Sonya-ssi suddenly laughs.

 

 

“Just kidding, just kidding.”

“Huh…?”

“It’d be a lie if I said I didn’t want it… but I’m too old to get upset over something like this. I’m satisfied just with this reaction.”

“I-is that so?”

“By the way, what about the kids? Why are you wandering around alone?”

“Ah… well, that’s…”

 

 

I explained the situation to Sonya-ssi.

Then she gave me a slight glare and said, ‘Didn’t you propose today?’

 

 

I felt a twinge of guilt, but I nodded, saying Sora-nuna and Yuna-ssi had sent me.

 

 

Of course, she didn’t seem completely convinced…

Come to think of it, Sonya-ssi follows my lead on pretty much everything, but it seems she still adheres to her old values, at least when it comes to her daughter.

 

 

“It’s quite a situation, isn’t it? The person you consider your lover proposing to other women… Of course, Yu-eun-ssi’s case is a bit of an exception.”

“Why?”

“Everyone knows Yu-eun-ssi has a lot of women. And that his private life is messy.”

“Ugh….”

 

 

It’s an obvious fact, but hearing it from Sonya-ssi hits harder.

 

Ha. What should I do, though? If I can’t find her like this… Of course, there’s no way I’m letting go of Sarang-ssi, but it’d still be better to find her today, right?

 

 

“What are your feelings towards that young lady? Do you want to make her your wife?”

“Hmm… wife… I don’t really know about that.”

“Then do you want to make her your slave?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Then girlfriend?”

“Probably around that.”

“You’re such a bad boy.”

“Haha….”

“You should just call her. That might be better.”

“Call her?”

 

 

That’s right.

I have her number, so calling would be simple… but what if she doesn’t answer?

 

“And don’t be too impatient. Any other guy would be out the moment they were caught, but… Yu-eun-ssi is a bit different. You two progressed knowing the situation already, right?”

“That’s… true.”

“So don’t panic too much.”

“…Yeah. Thanks, Sonya-ssi. For giving me advice even with this kind of problem.”

“No problem.”

 

 

 

 

 

+++

 

 

 

 

 

 

Around the time Yu-eun was looking for Han Sarang.

Han Sarang herself was strolling through the Imperial Palace.

 

Hundreds of people were laughing and chatting at the party hall, but there were no such people here.

The only people passing by were maids.

 

 

“Hoo.”

 

A light sigh.

 

Her heart was the most complicated it had ever been since she was born.

 

 

 

Yu-eun inside her had proposed to two women. He held a grand event and publicly invited key figures from all walks of life.

 

 

At first, she hesitated, but she decided to attend anyway. She thought she could suppress her personal feelings enough.

 

 

But she couldn’t.

 

 

Like Eun So-ryeong said, she couldn’t control her exploding emotions, and she disgracefully picked a fight with a ridiculous provocation.

 

The result was a shameful defeat.

No, there’s no point in even calling it a defeat. She couldn’t even respond properly. The moment she heard that the woman and her group had contact with Yu-eun, she boiled over as if a fuse had blown, and in the end, she couldn’t overcome that anger and ran away from her seat.

 

 

 

When she saw him laughing and chatting with the women after the proposal ceremony, black emotions welled up inside her.

And when their eyes met, she wanted to ask him what the hell he was doing to her.

 

 

But there’s no way she could do that.

 

How shameless would that be? Objectively speaking, she was in the position of Yu-eun’s ‘mistress’.

 

Yu-eun already had several women, and there were even three who were called ‘wives’.

She just happened to have contact with him and ended up going to a motel, so she was in the perfect mistress position.

 

There’s no way she could say such a thing.

 

“I knew it from the start… I started it half as a joke….”

 

 

In fact, she didn’t start it seriously either.

The reasons she allowed Yu-eun were curiosity + atmosphere + a sense of crisis. That’s about it.

 

The sense of crisis was because she was already in her late twenties, and she felt like she would be losing out if she was still a virgin by the time she turned thirty.

 

In other words, she didn’t have any love or affection for Yu-eun from the beginning, and she didn’t expect him to have such feelings for her either.

 

 

 

However, as the relationship progressed, it changed subtly, and her heart, which had never experienced a man before, began to move.

 

 

Perhaps it was natural.

 

There’s even a word for it, “sex affection,” physical relationships between men and women have considerable relational power. Moreover, if a virgin who has never experienced a man has a voluntary physical relationship, she will naturally feel some kind of emotion towards the other person.

 

 

Because of this, she began to have feelings for Yu-eun little by little, and that soon manifested as jealousy.

 

 

 

Yu-eun is a typical person who openly has affairs. No, he’s not just typical. At least in the Western world, Yu-eun is the only one who openly meets lovers and increases the number of women like this.

 

 

Naturally, his women are well known, and there is a lot of information about them. How could Han Sarang not know?

Gradually, she became jealous of them.

 

 

 

“What do I even want to do?”

 

 

A very different appearance from her former self.

She, who used to be cold and move with a purpose, was not originally so emotional.

To restrain herself as much as possible and work for the justice she believed in. That was the purpose of her life.

 

 

But that’s falling apart. Because of just one man.

 

 

“…Honestly, he’s a flawed human being. No matter how good his abilities are, a man with a messy relationship with women is out as a spouse.”

 

She mutters to herself as if to hear it, and slowly walks out.

 

 

She tries to curse Yu-eun, who isn’t here, and tells herself to come to her senses, but her feet don’t leave this place. She just circles around and around.

 

 

Does she know that this is actually evidence that she’s waiting for Yu-eun?

 

 

She just doesn’t realize it, but she was waiting for Yu-eun to come.

As evidence of that, didn’t she come out as if asking him to find her after their eyes met?

And she’s waiting like this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Sarang-ssi!”

“!”

 

 

The voice she had been waiting for was heard.

Suddenly, her chest swells.

 

 

“…!”

 

When she turned around, she saw a man running towards her.

At the same time as joy, worry and embarrassment raised their heads.

 

 

Thump.

 

 

Yu-eun grabbed her shoulder and stopped.

 

 

“…You should have at least said something before leaving.”

 

She lowered her head slightly.

 

 

“…I’m sorry. For making you worry.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

“I shouldn’t have come to a place like this… I just caused trouble, didn’t I?”

 

This event is for Yu-eun and his wives.

It’s not a place she can join.

 

If it were her former self, she would have realized it long ago, but Han Sarang, who was swept away by uncontrollable emotions, realized it only now.

 

 

Only then did a piercing shame raise its head, and she felt sorry for the women who should be the protagonists of this event, and who should be with Yu-eun right now.

 

 

“You shouldn’t be doing this here. It’s an important event….”

 

 

She trails off and turns her head away. She couldn’t bring herself to make eye contact. At this moment, she is not a dignified lieutenant colonel, but just a woman.

 

 

“Sarang-ssi, look at me for a second.”

“Yes?”

 

 

When she turned her head at Yu-eun’s request, his face suddenly came close.

 

 

“!!!”

 

 

He opened her lips so easily that it was absurd, invaded inside, and teased her tongue.

 

“Hwung-oop…”

 

Then, he pulled her slender waist into his arms and devoured her lips as if he were eating abalone.

 

 

She resisted for a moment, but with overwhelming force… no, correction. With overwhelming joy, she quietly lowered her hand, and Yu-eun, taking that as consent, grabbed her prominent buttocks tightly.

 

 

“Gasp!”

 

Yu-eun didn’t stop there and pushed her back and forth.

She, who had been stepping back several steps, eventually lost her footing and fell backwards, and Yu-eun fell on top of her as if covering her.

 

 

“Puhuhu… It’s been a while since I’ve eaten Sarang-ssi’s lips.”

“Ah….”

 

Her pupils trembled greatly.

She was dumbfounded by the actions of this bastard who kissed another woman after proposing, but she was more pleased because she was the target.

 

This ironic pleasure of depravity.

 

Yu-eun reached out his hand.

Her breasts, wrapped in a red dress and flaunting their voluptuous presence, came into his hand.

 

“W-wait…!”

“It seems like Sarang-ssi doesn’t know very well.”

“…Yes?”

 

He knelt on her crotch, pressing down hard while lying on top of her.

 

 

“Hng!”

 

Han Sarang unknowingly moaned at the erotic pleasure.

Yu-eun whispered in her ear.

 

 

“I don’t stop women who come to me, but I stop women who leave. Sarang-ssi is mine now.”

“Wh-what…”

“I’ll prove here that Sarang-ssi is my possession.”