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It’s the sea!

Clean and beautiful sea…….

But actually, I’m not good at swimming.

I haven’t played in water often since I was little and I’ve never been to a swimming pool.

Heh. Well, it’s okay. Since I came to the beautiful ocean, I might as well learn how to swim here…

I spent my time swimming in the clear sea wearing goggles.

It’s refreshing……

This is why people come to expensive places for vacation…….

After swimming alone for a while, I got up and looked for the other kids.

On the beach over there, Seol-hee was surfing… either because the waves were weak or because she wasn’t very good at surfing, she wasn’t able to surf the waves very well.

Hmm. Something feels off.

I have to tease you.

“If you can’t surf, just swim like me. What kind of one-man show are you doing there?”

When I asked while adjusting my goggles, Seol-hee, who was wearing a blue bikini, grumbled.

“I, I’m good at surfing. The waves here are weak, so the board doesn’t keep its balance well. Should I show you how to surf properly? If I surf properly, I’ll just fly over the waves. ”

“Try it. Let’s take a look.”

Seol-hee clumsily placed both feet on the surfboard again and sank to her feet.

……No. It seems like he’s worse at swimming than me, let alone surfing.

Seol-hee, who had sunk with her surfboard and then rose from the water again, muttered while flipping her hair back in a rather shameless manner.

“Hmm. I feel like I’m not feeling too well today. I guess I’ll just go to the beach and get a tan.”

“What? Are you a beer bottle?”

“Beer bottle? What do you think of Hwarang Group’s youngest daughter, Yoo Seol-hee?”

While I was arguing with Seol-hee, Hye-yoon came towards us.

“Young lady, you look so cute when you show off. From a distance, you look like a piece of wood swimming.”

“What, what did you say?”

Seol-hee reacted angrily.

Hyeyoon, who laughed out loud, threw herself into the clean sea in a classic diving position.

Hyeyoon was good at swimming.

And the sight of her swimming was beautiful.

It wasn’t just an idea to give Hye-yoon prominence.

Hyeyoon had long, slender legs, a large chest, and slightly broad shoulders. She looked like a work of art when she was swimming in the clear sea wearing a bikini.

Beyond the sexual desires, desires, and feelings that a man might be attracted to… Hye-yoon was definitely beautiful.

After swimming alone for a while, Hyeyoon came towards me, grabbed my wrist, and opened her mouth.

“We should go swimming together. You were a beer bottle too, right?”

“Oh, no. But I know how to move forward in sleep.”

“Should I get you a tube over there?”

“Okay.”

Hyeyoon smiled brightly and threw herself back into the clear sea.

I looked at Hye-yoon’s beautiful back, then quickly came to my senses, put on my goggles, and threw myself into the sea, into the transparent world.

Okay. Okay.

This is vacation.

At first, I found it annoying to come here, but honestly, now I’m grateful to Seol-hee.

Oh. Who would have thought that a poor person like me would be able to spend a vacation in a place like this…….

***

Seol-hee came up to the beach holding her board.

Under a large parasol, Yeonlim sat alone, watching the wide, transparent sea.

“Ms. Yeonrim. Don’t you swim?”

When Seol-hee asked, Yeon-rim quickly shook her head.

“I’ll go in when Hye-yoon comes out of the water. Honestly, I’m still a little scared of Hye-yoon……”

“Bin Hye-yoon is scary? Oh. I guess so. Yeon-rim’s father came back from the dead, right?”

Yeonlim nodded with her mouth tightly shut.

Seol-hee dried her hair with a towel, unfolded the tanning chair, and lay down under another parasol.

“Seongwon and Hyeyoon… They look really close.”

Yeonlim cautiously opened her mouth as she watched the two people playing in the water together from afar.

Then Seol-hee, wearing sunglasses, answered slightly sarcastically.

“Of course. They are soulmates. Bin Hye-yoon is a person who thinks that Woo Sung-won is the only decent person in the world.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Would I lie? Seongwon is also secretly, no, openly, being manipulated by Bin Hye-yoon, so it’s not easy to get involved.”

“Why are you trying to get in my way?”

Seol-hee stared at Yeon-rim in response to Yeon-rim’s question, lowered her sunglasses slightly, and answered.

“I like Seongwon too.”

“Yes??”

“Just kidding.”

Yeon-rim was surprised. It was because unexpected words came out of the mouth of Yoo Seol-hee, the fourth generation of a conglomerate.

Hey. No way…….

This must be a real joke. How can a girl like Yoo Seol-hee with a silver spoon in her mouth like Sung-won…

Seol-hee, who was looking up at the dazzling sun through sunglasses, asked.

“Yeonrim-ssi. Are you still looking down on Seongwon?”

“No. I, I had circumstances when I kicked Sungwon out……”

Yeonlim still felt dizzy when she thought about that time.

Why did I choose Seongwon back then? Why did I choose Seokjongi?

Why did you swear at Seongwon back then?

The incident at that time now leaves me with more than just regret.

If I had known that Seongwon could make a fortune with just his connections like he does now… I wouldn’t have dumped him like that.

I had a really hard time dating that bastard Seokjong.

Yeonlim, who had been thinking with eyes full of shadows, continued speaking as if making an excuse.

“……I don’t look down on Sungwon anymore. Honestly, I regret breaking up with him a lot.”

“Do you think Seongwon still has feelings for Yeonrim?”

“No. Not at all. Seongwon… doesn’t even look at me anymore.”

“Really? That’s disappointing.”

Seol-hee answered proudly and turned her gaze to look at Seong-won, who was swimming on the other side.

Yeah, it was really disappointing.

If Sungwon still had feelings for Shin Yeon-rim, he tried to use Shin Yeon-rim to bring Sungwon to Bin Hye-yoon… but that plan seems to have gone wrong.

Seol-hee thought.

Can Seongwon be on my side?

When it comes to the critical moment, can you protect me instead of Bin Hye-yoon?

How much can you help me control Bin Hye-yoon?

Thinking about that gave me a headache.

No. You shouldn’t come here and think about such things.

Let’s just be friends here, whether it’s Woo Sung-won or Bin Hye-yoon.

***

That night.

We sat on the beach and made a bonfire.

The stars in the night sky were truly beautiful. It seemed as if the universe was spread out in the pitch-black night sky. The infinite stars were clearly visible.

“Thanks to the Hwarang Group girls, I had a great time at a nice place. Should I say thank you for this?”

Hyeyoon opened her mouth like that, sipping a can of beer.

“What can I do with this much……. Honestly, I should thank you all. I don’t have many friends, so I don’t have anyone to hang out with.”

“Don’t you have any friends? Miss?”

“Yes. Hye-yoon and I… Our lives are similar, right? Right?”

Seol-hee answered like that and opened the beer can.

I just sat with my legs stretched out and stared blankly at the night sky.

Now that my vacation is over and I’m back home… I need to come to my senses and live.

I can’t continue living like a well-fed pig forever.

At least I should do something like collecting and selling empty bottles and boxes… If I don’t do anything and just play around all day, I feel like I’m becoming an idiot.

“What are you thinking about?”

Hyeyoon, who had downed a beer, looked at me and asked.

“No. Just… After the vacation, I thought about my life. What should I do from now on… What will my future be like… Things like that. When I think about it, I have nothing right now.”

“Are you still saying that?”

Then Seol-hee put down the beer can, smiled, and joined in.

“Should I put you in Hwarang Group? Your father knows you too. If Bin Hye-yoon’s best friend comes to our company, your father will be happy too, right?”

…….No. That’s fine.

I developed an aversion to the Hwarang Group as much as I did to the mafia.

Since Seol-hee and I are close friends, if I join Hwarang Group, there will inevitably be trouble. Or strange rumors will spread.

When I didn’t answer with a bug-biting expression, Hye-yoon saw my expression and giggled and answered.

“I think the girl from Hwarang Group made a pointless suggestion. Seongwon has the pride of Everest. Even though he lives in our house, he hates receiving even the smallest help. Right?”

Hyeyoon, whose face was slightly red from the beer, sat next to me and stared at my face as she asked.

Hyeyoon seems to be in a good mood……. Is it because I reacted like crap to Seolhee’s suggestion?

Thinking that it wouldn’t work, I looked at Yeonlim, who was keeping her mouth tightly shut, and said.

“If you want to hire people like that, just put Yeonlim over there. Yeonlim is from the same poor family as me. What do you think?”

I said it only half-jokingly, but Yeonlim looked at me with sparkling eyes.

Oops. Yeonlim looks really happy.

Seol-hee glanced at Yeon-rim at my suggestion and answered coldly.

“Okay, then. Our group’s hiring requirements are strict.”

What? Then don’t say anything about putting people in your life.

Yeonlim lowered her head slightly, perhaps in disappointment, and looked at the crackling campfire in front of her.

Hyeyoon jumped up from her seat, looked around at everyone, and opened her mouth.

“Anyway, I think I’ll be able to recharge my energy and do a lot better at work when I go back to Korea. By the way, I need to take a shower. Seongwon. Can you scrub my back?”

“No. That kind of joke isn’t funny.”

Hyeyoon chuckled and walked towards the villa alone, staggering a little.

Hyeyoon looked happy. What could be making her feel happy?

***

An hour later.

I went back to my room and lay down.

Ugh – I’ve been playing in the ocean all day, so my whole body feels sore. My skin is also completely tanned.

If I hadn’t brought sunscreen and tanning oil, I would have turned into dried squid.

-Knock. Knock. Knock.

A knock.

“Come in. I don’t know who you are.”

When I answered, Hye-yoon smiled brightly, opened the door slightly, and stuck her small face in.

“Aren’t you sleeping?”

“Then. You weren’t sleeping. What’s going on at this hour?”

Hyeyoon coughed, entered the room, and sat down on the chair.

“Um….. I’m scared of sleeping in an unfamiliar place, so I can’t sleep well…….”

You couldn’t sleep because you were scared?

Black Emily Boss Bin Hye-yoon?

I laughed and answered.

“What if you can’t sleep because you’re scared? Then I’d already died of a heart attack because I was scared?”

“I’m scared to sleep alone in my room. I can’t even watch horror movies alone.”

Bin Hye-yoon can’t watch horror movies?

What a fresh lie.

This time, when I didn’t even smile, Hye-yoon moved to sit on the bed and started crying awkwardly.

“Yoo Seol-hee, you say. Does she seem a bit hypocritical?”

“What? Are you here to tease me?”

“No. Not the back of the head. Even you can see it. From what I can see, it looks like you noticed Yoo Seol-hee’s dark, vixen-like inner self and just threw up a wall?”

…….Is that why you looked so happy earlier?

I sat across from Hye-yoon and scratched my cheek with my finger as I answered.

“Aren’t we all the same? Are you feeling down too??”

“No. I, I am a pure human. You know very well how I am the same inside and out.”

Hyeyoon’s flustered appearance is cute, but…….

When Bin Hye-yoon says with her own mouth that she is a pure human being, my hands and feet curl up a little.

Hyeyoon coughed awkwardly again and opened her mouth.

“When I was little, when I was living at Saehui Hope Orphanage. Do you remember how you washed me every morning?”

Yeah, there was a time like that.

At that time, Hye-yoon was a weak child who had no strength and cried every day. I was in a position where I could earn some respect by fighting in the orphanage. Thinking back, it was the complete opposite of now.

At first, I took care of Hye-yoon and protected her out of pity. I thought that little rat-sized child would die if she continued to live there…

Now I feel like I’m being protected by Hye-yoon.

Well, back in the orphanage days, I didn’t fight because I wanted to. I just swung my fists when someone started a fight to survive.

“Yeah. That’s how it was back then. Why?”

“I haven’t even repaid you a ten-thousandth of what I’ve received from you. I don’t want you to think hard about me.”

Hyeyoon answered like that, got down from the bed, and stared at my feet.

What kind of antics is this kid trying to pull off again?

“…….There are a lot of calluses on your feet. I think you have athlete’s foot too…….”

“What, what?”

“Stay still.”

Hyeyoon suddenly went into the bathroom and brought a small washbasin filled with water.

“Put your feet in here. I’ll wash them for you.”

“What, what are you saying? What the hell are you doing? Are you doing a hidden camera?”

“No. Put your feet in. Quickly,”

Ugh.

There’s no way I can break Bin Hye-yoon who’s so stubborn.

Let’s see what kind of antics Bin Hye-yoon is planning to pull off next.

I carefully soaked my feet in the washbasin that Hye-yoon had brought.

Hyeyoon whispered while caressing my feet in the cold water with both hands.

“If you look at a person’s feet, you can see the life they’ve lived. You must have really suffered your whole life.”

Even the words Hye-yoon speaks and the physical contact she makes when she touches my feet… somehow makes me cringe.

Well… Hye-yoon was right.

I’ve suffered all my life. I don’t even know who my parents were who threw me away at the orphanage, and I’ve lived my life like that, headfirst into the ground.

Hyeyoon continued speaking while carefully stroking my toes.

“Now stop suffering and live comfortably-”

Right then.

After a knock was heard, the door opened wide.

“Seongwon-ah. Okay? I can’t sleep, so let’s have another beer-”

Seolhee.

Seol-hee opened her eyes wide in surprise and looked at us.

The air was freezing.

The three people in the room awkwardly met each other’s eyes.