Chapter 88: Secret meeting

“Did we really have to go this far?”

“Because she said she has those kinds of circumstances.”

The back seat of a large sedan.

Although he was sitting on a plush, high-end seat, Lee Joon felt a strange sense of discomfort.

‘Wasn’t I just invited out for a drink?’

He received an invitation from Jeon Wooseung to meet Jeon Jeonseol and have a drink.

The two of them would occasionally meet up and hang out, but it was the first time that the newbie Jeon Jeonseol was joining.

‘Embarrassing.’

Unless you were an idiot, you could easily understand the reason for the sudden invitation.

The tears that he carelessly shed when he was finally overtaken by Jeon Jeonseol in the rankings.

Because it happened during a broadcast, it was archived all over the internet.

Was his body more aware than his head?

He thought he didn’t feel that sad, but he remembers being very embarrassed and ashamed because his body was crying on its own.

He quickly got over it, and thought it wasn’t even worth crying over.

It was a situation where it was ambiguous whether to refuse the drink or accept it.

If he refused, it would really seem like he was sulking.

Even if he accepted, he would still have to endure the embarrassment.

Direct confrontation would be a little better than running away.

He accepted with that mindset.

‘She has her own personal driver. I’m flustered.’

It was possible for not only Victory but also Wild to earn enough to buy expensive cars and hire drivers, but the concept itself was quite unfamiliar to him.

‘Is she a young lady from a drama?’

You could say it’s social climbing.

Lee Joon came from an ordinary family, and Jeon Wooseung came from an even less fortunate family.

This kind of world is a bit unfamiliar.

‘To be invited to a villa, that’s something else.’

They drove for an hour and a half from Gangnam to a remote mountain village in Gangwon Province.

There, Jeon Daein owned a villa.

It wasn’t a very large, luxurious villa.

It was quite old and not a state-of-the-art building.

But for ordinary Koreans, a villa is a fairly unfamiliar concept.

Even though it was an ordinary building, it looked different.

“Hwaaa!”

“Correct. A roaring bear?”

“Bear is, you son of a b*tch.”

The seats were comfortable and there were also things to enjoy inside, such as OLED pads.

However, Lee Joon, who had been sitting stiffly like a wooden statue due to the discomfort of getting a ride in someone else’s unfamiliar car.

Stretched while breathing in the fresh mountain air.

“It would be nice to have a villa in a place like this.”

It wasn’t like the ultra-luxurious villas of the rich that are commonly seen on the internet.

But having a villa in a place with good mountains and water definitely had something that stimulated a man’s wildness.

He immediately wanted to grill a barbecue in the yard.

“Hello!”

A couple appeared from inside the villa while he was stretching.

Lee Joon and Jeon Wooseung naturally greeted them.

Around their late 50s to early 60s, the couple looked old.

“You must be the young lady’s friends. Welcome.”

Only after hearing the couple’s tone could he tell that they weren’t Jeon Jeonseol’s parents, but the villa’s caretakers.

“The young lady is waiting for you in the dining room.”

“Ah, thank you.”

Were they finally going to see the real Jeon Jeonseol?

The two of them had really become curious about what kind of person she was.

A genius who was crazy good at the game, and it was a woman.

On top of that, Jeon Wooseung had heard the words ‘she’s having a hard time because she’s pretty’ so much that it was practically stuck in his ears, so he couldn’t help but be even more curious.

Crossing the hallway, the moment they opened the door to the dining room they were led to.

Both of their hearts were pounding.

‘Why am I so nervous about something like this?’

‘Just in case there’s a mini gorilla standing there, let’s not be embarrassed. That would be rude.’

As the door to the dining room opened.

“Hello. Nice to meet you.”

“Huh.”

“…….”

An incredibly beautiful woman who made them speechless!

The scenery of the mountains seen beyond the glass window, a perfect beauty that could only be thought of as computer graphics in contrast to it.

Wearing an outfit that was confusing whether it was a dress or everyday clothes, with a perfect ratio and tall figure.

‘……Tall?’

That couldn’t be.

It was common knowledge among viewers that Jeon Jeonseol was small.

“I’m Jeon Seol Yoon, Seol Ah unni’s younger sister.”

So it was a different person after all!

Was it a good thing that they were speechless?

They wouldn’t have made an embarrassing mistake.

“Hello. But where is that friend?”

As Seol Yoon subtly changed her standing position, Seol Ah, who was squatting on a chair, could be seen.

“H, hello.”

In contrast to her younger sister, who was dressed to the nines, she was wearing blue training wear with long sleeves and long pants.

She looked like she could go hiking right away.

“I, I’m Jeonseol.”

It was the first greeting she had pondered for about 6 hours.

‘What’s with that murderous cuteness?’

Do you know that there is homeostasis not only in the body but also in the mind?

Homeostasis is the property of maintaining a always similar and stable state.

Such homeostasis attempts to regulate internal emotions through compensatory responses when a feeling is felt severely.

This is to prevent emotions from being severely biased towards one side and losing control over one’s emotions.

For example, being so happy that you cry.

Or laughing because you’re too sad.

Wanting to harass something when you see something too cute, etc.

This is called the ‘cute aggression’ phenomenon.

Seol Ah was startled by Lee Joon’s expression, which was distorted and frozen after experiencing that phenomenon.

“Hey, what’s wrong with him? What’s wrong with him?”

Seol Ah quickly hid behind Seol Yoon.

That action is incredibly cute!

“No, no.”

Lee Joon tried to say something, but his thoughts weren’t working well so he raised his hand.

A surrender pose, raising both arms, showing with his whole body that he had no intention of fighting, and stepping back.

But there was someone who was even more shocked than Lee Joon, who was doing such strange things.

‘She wasn’t busty? She wasn’t blonde?’

Jeon Wooseung, who only had information about her after the disguise.

He was stunned to see Seol Ah, who had black hair, was quite small, and yet had a perfect form.

Because she resembled an ideal woman, namely Nox from Magical Girls Chronicle.

He forgot what to say or even think.

His head went blank.

It took about 1 minute and 30 seconds for the caretaker ahjussi to come and resolve the stiff situation.

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“Why are you guys so tall?”

‘You’re the one who’s small.’

Everyone in the dining room (except Jeon Seol Ah) had the same thought, but didn’t say it out loud.

But that was a bit unfair, as Jeon Wooseung was above average, and Seol Yoon and Lee Joon were quite tall.

No matter how true it was that Seol Ah was small, it was true that she looked much smaller in comparison.

It’s a little unfair.

But being small doesn’t change anything.

There were roughly two main reasons for coming all the way to this remote Gangwon Province to have a drink.

Because he really didn’t want to be caught by someone with Victory, Wild, and Jeon Jeonseol, who was being targeted by all sorts of people.

The other reason was anxiety.

She was worried that if she went into a private room with just two men, she would be too anxious.

Even if she was cursed for having a mental illness that made her see everyone as a potential criminal, it couldn’t be helped.

She couldn’t meet anyone in a situation where there was no one she could trust nearby.

It didn’t make sense to take just Seol Yoon.

Because there were two men.

Kim driver, even the caretaker couple.

She could only feel relieved if there were this many people around.

‘There was no exaggeration.’

Of course, Jeon Wooseung doesn’t know much about women’s societies.

But if Seol Ah said ‘I’ve been tormented by jealousy and envy because I’m pretty’, he would think ‘That’s understandable, no, it can’t be helped’ too naturally.

Eyes as big as marbles, skin tone that was too perfectly groomed, a face with a ratio that had neither too much nor too little.

If there was a textbook on plastic surgery, this kid should be featured as the model.

If you could fix it like this, all customers would be satisfied.

“Please eat as much as you want.”

The caretaker couple weren’t professional chefs, but their cooking skills were quite excellent.

Also, they had prepared a menu in advance for the guests.

A menu selection where the quality of the ingredients is more important than cooking skills.

Assorted sashimi and shabu-shabu.

Wasn’t that the perfect menu for drinking?

“Do rich people eat stuff like this too?”

“I’m not a chaebol. I eat normally.”

With the introduction of food, they barely managed to start a conversation about it.

“But why are you staring at my face like that? Are you already in love?”

“Cough!”

Jeon Wooseung choked on the water he was drinking.

He barely managed to argue.

“If you don’t look at people’s faces while talking, where are you supposed to look?”

“The food, and the ceiling?”

“I’ll try.”

“As I said before, it’s a problem if you fall in love with me.”

There was also that promise.

It was such a random thing that I forgot about it.

‘She must have been through a lot of trouble.’

When I was just listening to stories over the internet without meeting her, I suspected that she had pseudologia fantastica and delusions of grandeur.

But after meeting and seeing her face, I thought that it was all understandable.

The power of the face is scary.

I still can’t believe that an amazing master who I used to play games with all day, a friend who I acknowledged as a rival, is the one with that face and that appearance.

‘Is this a dream?’

It didn’t seem like a dream when I saw that the shabu-shabu broth was actually hot.

A delicious meal that warmed the body in the somewhat chilly winter.

The scenery of the forest seen through the window.

The two fairies sitting in front of her.

Was this Shangri-La?

No, it’s like I’m possessed by a goblin.

Am I going to have my liver taken out like this?

We came too deep into the mountains.

We came to a place that was too far from civilization.

That’s what it felt like.