Chapter 70 : You might get it wrong. It’s confusing

Although the summer heat had mostly subsided, Kim Heechan, who had become accustomed to finding it easier to work at Eugene Woo’s place than at a cafe, was once again freeloading at his apartment today.

Eugene Woo, who had been blankly staring at the wall next to him as if he had eaten something wrong, suddenly asked Kim Heechan a very random question.

“Hey, Heechan. What does it mean when a woman who isn’t your girlfriend touches a strange man’s butt?”

Hearing such a thing was bound to be bewildering. Kim Heechan widened his eyes and asked back.

“What? Did you get your butt groped by a perverted old lady on the subway or something? Well, your butt is pretty plump, I guess.”

Just as men were crazy about soft, bouncy, and firm women’s butts, women also felt the charm of muscular and firm men’s butts.

There wouldn’t be any part of Eugene Woo’s body, which had been trained by years of working out, that wouldn’t stimulate a woman’s heart.

Kim Heechan, who had been thinking of such light jokes, couldn’t hide his bewilderment at Eugene Woo’s words that followed.

“No, Jin-ah unnie touched it.”

“What?”

Although he didn’t hear the detailed circumstances due to Eugene Woo’s fierce resistance, he knew that Eugene Woo’s romantic endeavors with [Shin So-eun], which had been cut off after the company dinner, had failed.

But to think that they had progressed to the point of touching each other’s butts without him knowing?

Had he secretly been hiding it and making great progress behind his back?

‘This hyung is something else, too. He was doing so well in secret without saying a word to me? How admirable?’

But what was the point of asking more? The meaning of the action was obvious.

Kim Heechan smiled and confidently recited what he thought was the correct answer to Eugene Woo, who was hopeless at romance.

“That’s obviously a s*x appeal. Touching someone else’s butt is like half-allowing them to touch your butt, too.”

“What are you talking about! Is a woman the same as a man!”

“Even if they look very different, they’re fundamentally similar after all. There’s no way they’d touch the body of someone they don’t like. Now, all you have to do is understand that subtle atmosphere well, you know? It won’t be easy for hyung, though.”

“I, is that so?”

“So, what was the situation that made so much progress?”

Eugene Woo briefly explained what had happened last night.

Kim Heechan, who had been listening seriously at first to the explanation that he had almost been mistaken for a criminal, couldn’t help but burst into laughter at the sudden story of his chemical warfare experience.

“Puhup, puheheut!”

However, Eugene Woo, whose head was full of thoughts of [Shin So-eun], didn’t even think about getting angry at his laughter.

“No, but, hyung! That was just a mistake because you were flustered. She was just trying to hit your waist, but your butt happened to be there.”

“Is that so?”

“I thought you were secretly meeting behind my back. So, you’re saying that was the first time you saw her since the company dinner? Then there’s no way the distance between your hearts would have suddenly decreased. Use your head, hyung.”

“I guess that’s right?”

“But you’re really hopeless. I’d normally tell you not to be frustrating and just go for it, but you’ve already been rejected once, right? Then it’s difficult to just recklessly charge in again.”

“…….”

Eugene Woo didn’t tell Kim Heechan the reason why [Shin So-eun] had drawn a line with him.

The fact that [Shin So-eun] liked women, and therefore couldn’t do well with men no matter what, was the kind of story that shouldn’t be passed on to others.

“But it doesn’t seem like there’s absolutely no chance, right? Hyung is avoiding her because you’ve been rejected, but it’s not like she’s completely cut you off and told you not to contact her or even acknowledge her, right? Right?”

Eugene Woo couldn’t answer Kim Heechan’s words.

There’s no chance.

The possibility of him doing well with her, who had already drawn a line saying that she liked women, was just 0 percent.

If he waited ten years, the landscape would change.

But even if he waited a hundred years, the fact that [Shin So-eun] liked women wouldn’t change.

Then it would be right to give up.

It would be foolish not to give up.

It would have been nice if love had just flowed away with time, disappeared beyond the river and the sea, and been forgotten.

Why was he getting involved in these incidents again and making his heart so troubled?

Eugene Woo sighed.

“Haaa.”

However, soon it was time to start the broadcast, and he had to hide his injured heart, cram it into the back of his chest, and put on the mask of the healthy streamer Health Boy.

He must never convey his depression to the viewers. That was like a streamer’s duty.

“What to do…….”

The day after the night that incident happened.

My head was full of one man, to the point where no other thoughts were possible.

Health Boy, who had suddenly been on the verge of ruining his life and had survived by the skin of his teeth, I was so concerned about that guy.

Because I had picked up BangHaYul, who was a de facto orphan whose father was gone and whose mother was half-gone, I wanted to neatly wrap up the incident that she had caused.

If it had been another man, I wouldn’t have known, but since it was Health Boy, no suitable compensation came to mind at all.

If it had been a stranger, I would have just given him some consolation money and told him to soothe his surprised heart.

If we had been close, I would have bought him a drink and comforted him.

But since we were awkwardly estranged, I couldn’t pull him in or push him away.

“What to do?”

It pricked my conscience too much to just shut my mouth and pass by, but there was no suitable way to comfort and soothe him.

Annoying, annoying.

“Is it time to use the power of the Switch star?”

Trying to approach him privately and comfort him would be like torturing Health Boy, who was trying to sort out his feelings, with mixed signals of hoping for something that couldn’t happen.

But throwing a few pennies at him and telling him to eat this and get lost didn’t seem polite enough.

Then how about giving him help on the broadcast side?

At first, I was an incredibly small fry and Health Boy’s broadcast was a decent small and medium-sized business, but now I’m an incredibly big business and Health Boy’s broadcast is just about to reach the top tier of small and medium-sized businesses.

Then Health Boy would be able to benefit much more if he collaborated with me, right?

If I pulled out a lot of fun sources, his G-Tube could be successful, right? Right?

It might be quite painful for Health Boy, who had been rejected, to face me, but it had been a while since he had been rejected like that, and Health Boy was a professional broadcaster, so he was a human who knew how to distinguish between public and private matters, so that method would be the best, probably.

So, I called a number that I hadn’t called since the company dinner.

“Hey, do you want to collaborate with me? This time it’s a real-life collaboration.”

On the first day we met, he looked so much like a bear that I was scared that I would be folded in half like a flip phone if I was caught in his hands.

But after getting to know him for a while, I realized that he was much more docile and cute than those skinny wimps.

I honestly didn’t know whether that was the余裕 of a strong person, or whether he was saving himself because he thought he would really die if he hit someone.

I kind of liked that he never hit or even pretended to hit. It’s true that I was reminded of a classy golden retriever.

If I was going to go into that guy’s room and collaborate, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

So-eun knew that I had caused trouble with HaYul this time, so if I said that I was going to go collaborate to apologize, she wouldn’t stop me from doing that.

When I suggested a real three-person collaboration with HaYul to Health Boy, who was flustered by the sudden collaboration, he soon accepted.

It was a proposal that anticipated that if I went alone, strange wedding-related comments would flock in and Health Boy’s broadcast would be ruined.

If it was a joint broadcast with three people instead of one-on-one, there wouldn’t be any need to worry about strange wedding-related comments flocking in, right?

“It’s a little weird to do a League of Legends broadcast with three people, and it’s boring. How about collaborating at the gym?”

You need to gather five people for the Summoner’s Rift, or just one or two people, but if there are three or four people, the broadcast angle won’t come out well.

The idea that came to mind was an outdoor broadcast, and since there was a high-quality gym in the apartment, wouldn’t it be possible to use it if I got some permission?

“It’s perfect for your concept, too. It was kind of funny that a muscle pig was just playing games in front of a computer, but wouldn’t it be more fitting for Health Boy to be in the gym?”

It would be disappointing to leave out So-eun when it came to health, so should I include So-eun and do a four-person collaboration?

HaYul was a complete newbie who had never worked out before. For reference, she said that the reason she came to the gym that time was because she had happened to witness me, who was very noticeable, going back and forth to the gym.

I’m a health newbie who’s been doing it for about two months now, but there’s a really big difference between not doing it at all and doing it steadily, so I think I’ve improved from the amoeba level to the clam level of physical strength?

And So-eun had been doing it steadily for two years, so she was the kind of role that made me think, shouldn’t I call her a health master at this point?

Health Boy, I heard the other day, had been doing it for 7 years or 10 years. I almost fainted when I heard how long that twenty-six-year-old guy had been working out. He really lives up to his nickname.

“That’s a pretty good plan, don’t you think?”

I really liked the collaboration plan that I had come up with, so I explained it enthusiastically.

But why is this guy’s response so lukewarm?

Was he not very happy because he still had some hard feeling about HaYul?

<No, it’s not that!>

“Then what is it?”

<That……, it’s nothing. Let’s proceed.>

“Okay. Since we’re on the topic, how about today?”

“You’re going to do Summoner’s Rift again today anyway, right? It’s fun when an unexpected event suddenly happens.”

<You’re really fickle, the more I see you.>

“Isn’t that what you like about me?”

Oops, I inadvertently treated him like a s*cu again.

Because I had been studying how to train simps too hard, it had become ingrained in me, and pick-up lines were coming out habitually?

I shouldn’t be using it on the guys I actually know. Ahem.

‘He’ll probably just take it as a joke.’

I had told him so clearly that I liked women last time, he would be a real idiot if he misunderstood again.