episode_0039

A slight vibration and the sound of my phone vibrating woke me up.

My sister and I were lying in the middle of the living room, probably asleep on the living room floor.

Weeing~.

I picked up my sister’s cell phone, which kept ringing, and answered the call.

I tried to answer the phone, but I couldn’t believe how many bottles of alcohol I drank yesterday, and I felt nauseous, so I ran to the bathroom and put my head in the toilet.

– “Hello? hello? Seolhee?”

Spit out what’s inside.

– “What do you mean? Oppa?”

The sound of Suyeon’s voice coming from the other end of the phone makes me feel even more dizzy.

So I kept putting my head in the toilet.

Let’s empty out what’s inside for about 10 minutes without stopping.

My stomach felt somewhat refreshed.

Now, because my throat was burning, I filled a cup with water from a water purifier and drank it in large gulp.

“How much did you drink yesterday..?”

The numerous empty bottles and beer cans lying on the living room floor indicated that we had drank heavily yesterday.

My head is spinning and a headache is sweeping through my head.

I took out my phone from my pocket and checked the time, it was already 11 am.

“Ah..”

I shook my sister and woke her up.

“Wake up, sister.. You’re late..”

“Tardy!”

My sister jumped up like a machine at my words.

“What time is it now?”

“11 o’clock..”

“Hmm.. I guess I should take a vacation today.”

As I sat in a daze, dumbfounded by my sister’s words, my sister seemed to be thirsty just like me, so she filled the water cup I was drinking and drank it down.

“Keuah.. I can’t do this. Let’s go eat hangover soup, Cheonhwi.”

“Sister.. what about your company?”

“Comet? Wouldn’t it be okay to skip a day?”

“What kind of school is it?… Then I got a call from Su-yeon.. No, I got a call from Jeong Soo-yeon.”

Seolhee, perhaps feeling puzzled by my words, asked back.

“Who?”

” Jeong Soo-yeon, the head of the Comet Guild.”

“..Chunhwi, don’t you remember what happened last night?”

“My sister came and we drank together.. Ugh..”

When I tried to remember, I got a severe headache.

“The film cut out.. How much did you drink? What happened last night?”

“It’s no big deal..”

At that time, Seolhee remembered how she had cried and made a fuss in an embarrassing way yesterday.

“There was none, yes. It never happened.”

“No way… phew… I’m glad. I thought I said things I shouldn’t have said.”

“Nothing happened. Hurry up and just wash your face. Let’s go eat a bowl of hangover soup in front of you. My sister is feeling so sick.”

“Me too… But before I go, please take off the handcuffs.”

I quickly finished getting ready to leave and opened the door.

OK.

“Hello?”

Suyeon standing in front of the front door.

thud.

It closed right away.

“Aren’t you going out?”

“Sister, would you like some ramen?”

“Cheonhwi, are you seducing your sister? I like my sister, but if I talk to Cheonhwi now, I’m sure I’ll throw up.”

“No, that’s…”

Ding dong.

The bell rings.

Since there was a door in front at the time, Seolhee unni opened the door right away.

“Who are you..”

thud!

“Let’s eat ramen.”

My sister takes off her shoes and hurries in.

Ding dong ding dong.

“Cheonhwi, come quickly and eat ramen! You can eat it, so hurry up and eat it!”

Before I knew it, Sooyeon was standing beyond the torn door, desperately clutching the door handle.

“Good morning.”

“..Yes.”

“Good morning to you too, Seolhee? I was worried because I heard vomiting on the other end of the phone, so I came to visit.”

“Ahaha! Yes, guild leader, the weather is really nice, isn’t it?”

“That’s right, it’s perfect weather for absenteeism.”

“Ahaha! haha! under! Your jokes are really funny.”

Soon after, Suyeon came inside the front door and sniffed.

Suyeon put her nose to my clothes for a moment to see what she was smelling.

He soon frowned and looked up at me and said.

“Alcohol.. How much did you drink..?”

As she quietly passed me and exited the front door, she encountered a living room floor littered with liquor bottles and beer cans.

“Seolhee, would you like to come by for a moment?”

“Because I haven’t washed it yet! Haha!”

It was my older sister who quickly ran into the bathroom and locked the door.

Then, I heard the sound of turning on the water, as if I was really about to take a shower.

“Aaaa! It’s cold!”

I sneaked into the room, turned on the boiler, and sat down on the chair at the dining table.

Sooyeon naturally sits across from me and crosses her legs.

“You must have drank a lot.”

“Uh, yeah..”

“Don’t you want to feel sick?”

“A little..?”

I sat politely in front of her, feeling as if I had become a high treason criminal.

“Didn’t you tell Seolhee that we were actually siblings or something while drinking?”

When I heard those words, my hands were shaking strangely.

Normally, I could confidently say that I didn’t do it, but

“The film… broke and that’s…”

I couldn’t say that with confidence.

“What kind of relationship are we talking about?”

At that time, I suddenly wondered what I should say about the relationship between her and I, so I asked her.

“Um…”

Suyeon thought for a moment about my question.

“Shall I call you my ex-girlfriend?”

Soo-yeon’s face secretly blushes as she says that.

Even though she was embarrassed by what she said, the sight of her slightly averting her head.

Because it had been a long time since I had seen Suyeon’s cute face, I unconsciously reached out and tried to stroke her head.

I remembered yesterday’s story.

I quickly bypassed my outstretched hand and naturally picked up the water cup that was on the table.

Then, I naturally got up from my seat, turned on the water purifier, and filled the water cup.

I drank several glasses of water in one go.

Fill and drink, fill and drink,

Fortunately, I kept drinking water because I was very thirsty.

Seolhee noona came out with her clothes changed.

My sister quietly stands next to me and whispers to me, showing me her damp hair that hasn’t been dried yet.

“Do I smell like alcohol?”

I gently put my nose to it and smelled it.

“It smells like soap.”

“Nice!”

Then I turned around and walked over to Suyeon, who was sitting on the table and looking at us.

“Hmm, there was a reason I couldn’t go to work today, Guild Leader.”

“Is that so? Please tell me.”

“I was late while taking care of Cheonhwi.”

“Why is that?”

“What happened last night made me cry, make a fuss, and drink.”

“..?”

“I’m drinking while saying sorry to my sister..”

At that time, Seolhee remembered the story Cheonhwi told her last night.

A sad family story.

Death of mother and father.

The stepmother who ran away.

The past few years have been difficult.

And the careful story of Cheonhwi, who wanted to keep all of this a secret for the rest of his life.

“…”

“Who did you say your sister was?”

“..When I asked him that, he fell asleep. I don’t even remember why I cried and said I was sorry.”

“I see.”

The guild leader with relieved eyes.

Although Cheon-hwi clearly told him that nothing had happened, his face turned red as he thought that he had cried and made a fuss yesterday.

Seol-hee wishes she could turn back time because she said the wrong thing.

A moment of silence.

“So you couldn’t go to work at the guild because you had to appease your boyfriend?”

“..Yes.”

“Why is your boyfriend’s problem a valid reason for not going to work?”

“..that..”

At first, I tried to push back with the logic that it was something I couldn’t help doing because it was for the sake of the family who fed me and my brother who took on the role of parent, but I had nothing to say after I stopped doing that strategy.

“..You’re my ex-boyfriend.”

In the end, I overdid it.

Seolhee decided to talk about the misunderstanding she had last night as if she knew the truth that had been hidden.

On the first 3rd floor, when I saw Cheonhwi using chivalry on guild leader Jeong Soo-yeon, I could have guessed that she was his younger sister since her last name was different. I just thought she was his ex-girlfriend.

Also, since the guild leader kept pushing Cheonhwi away, I thought he was her ex-boyfriend.

Now I know that wasn’t everything, but I couldn’t show that I knew.

“?”

“?”

“…?”

Soon Seolhee realized that she had also made a mistake.

Now, I asked my siblings if they were lovers.

‘ah. I’ll just say I’m sorry for drinking and end it.’

In front of Seolhee, who regrets the past she has already let go of.

The guild leader with a slightly red face.

‘?’

Only then did I realize it.

‘Brakon.’

Well, Seolhee also thinks that if her brother earns money to support her and gives her pocket money when he doesn’t have parents, she will buy it…

‘Even if you can’t love, you must have been very obedient and grateful, right?’

It was impossible for her to love her biological brother because she was a biological brother and sister, but she was not the guild leader.

‘ah…’

I felt jealous that there was a woman who liked my boyfriend, but when I realized that it was a reasonable situation, I felt sympathy rather than jealousy.

Seolhee felt like she was caught in a very serious love triangle.

We were currently eating a bowl of bone haejangguk at a nearby bone haejangguk restaurant.

There were people at the surrounding tables occasionally looking at us and taking pictures.

“Why am I eating this?”

I was supposed to go out to eat with Seolhee, but Suyeon left the food at our house, so I brought her, but we were the only ones eating, so Suyeon naturally ordered the food.

“..Because I’m your girlfriend..?”

Seolhee-noona, who answered that with a reason that didn’t work,

“..I see.”

Suyeon agrees again.

Seolhee was sitting across from me, and Suyeon was sitting to my right.

Su-yeon also quietly sat down next to me, probably because it felt awkward to sit next to Seol-hee.

Even though Seolhee thought Suyeon was my ex-girlfriend, she didn’t seem to care at all that Suyeon was sitting next to me.

Confusing.

In a situation where I am piled up with guilt and responsibility for doing something terrible to Suyeon and pretending not to know that Suyeon has returned, Suyeon is now acting as if she were my ex-girlfriend, as Seolhee noona said, and Seolhee noona is my current boyfriend. I’m eating with my ex-girlfriend now, and she doesn’t seem to care much.

Cheonhwi was so dizzy that he didn’t know whether the bone hangover soup he was eating was going into his nose or his mouth.

“Now that I think about it, Mr. Cheonhwi…why did he cry because he felt sorry for his sister?”