episode_0044

Monday, the start of exam week.

Before the morning assembly started, Eunji Jeong came to me and made a hand gesture.

“Hey, come out.”

“Why again.”

“I have to leave evidence, right? Don’t let me tell you that I can’t do well after taking the test and losing. I’m going to call all the kids and leave evidence. Because you were prepared to do that, you provoked me like that, right?”

Jeong Eun-ji was confident that she would win, so she was even more confident, so she was widening the stakes more and more.

He didn’t even know that it was going to strangle him.

“The method of committing suicide is very MZ, isn’t it? Are you really okay?”

“Just come out and stop talking nonsense. What is the topic that I passed all the mock exams on? Or why were you really scared?”

“Okay, I’m going out. I’m going out. Let’s die together.”

Jeong Eun-ji and I stood at the teacher’s table, and instantly the attention of the class was focused.

“Guys, look here for a moment!”

At Jeong Eun-ji’s words, the class started to get upset.

“You’re Han Seongjin, right? What else are you trying to do…”

“Jung Eun-ji and Han Seong-jin don’t look good together. Why are you two out together?”

Ignoring the chatter of the others, Jeong Eun-ji raised her voice in front of the teacher’s table.

“I and Han Seong-jin had a bet on the score of this paper test! But since the losing side usually has nothing to do, I hope everyone will be witnesses to prevent them from getting away with it!”

“What bet?”

“What changes if we become witnesses?”

Anyway, if I tell them I can’t do it, there’s no way for the other kids to stop me, so the kids’ first reaction was cold.

however…

“Han Seong-jin, you have something to say? What is it?”

As the classroom door opened, a group of third-year students, including Hwang Seong-tae, who became the new boss, appeared.

I tilted my head when I saw them coming to my class in the morning even though they were from different classes.

“Why did you guys come here?”

“What are you talking about? He said he told me to come because he had something to say. But why did you order him to do it instead of chatting?”

After hearing that, I immediately looked at Jeong Eun-ji, and Jeong Eun-ji looked at me with an expression of ‘What are you going to do?’ and snorted.

This guy sold my name and called me.

“Betting! The one with the lowest overall score on this test will be punished severely! If this guy loses, he’s going to get naked on the playground during lunchtime in front of everyone and bow down to me and lick my shoes! Oh, while you’re at it, why don’t you at least lick the feet of the kids you hang out with?”

Everyone was shocked by the unexpectedly large penalty and began to make a fuss.

“Seongjin, is that true? Are you really going to do that?”

The group of people standing at the back of the classroom also asked me if it was equally absurd.

Instead of answering their questions, I brought up a story about what if Eunji Jeong loses.

“And if he loses, he will put a leash around his neck and crawl on all fours and bark like a dog. Get ready to take some videos. It would be quite something to see.”

The boys immediately cheered, probably because they wanted to see the humiliation of a pretty, good-looking, bad-tempered sports girl crawling like a dog rather than the reluctant me.

“A, Seongjin Han. What kind of bet are you making with something like test scores? It doesn’t suit me.”

Hwang Seong-tae seemed to be secretly anticipating Jeong Eun-ji’s dog leash humiliation, but he also seemed secretly disappointed that they were betting on areas that had nothing to do with them, such as ‘studying’ or ‘exams’.

“Well, sometimes things like this happen. Hey, by the way, the teacher will be here in a little while, so you guys go quickly.”

“You said I called you because I had something to tell you?”

Of course, I, who had never done that before, paused for a moment and then pointed to Jeong Eun-ji with my thumb.

“Huh? Ah, that. I just want to get a witness to the fact that this guy is wearing a dog leash. There is a reason for that. I’m trying to prevent them from saying they can’t do it because they lost. So I called. Since I stood as a witness, go now.”

“……?”

Seongtae Hwang looked at me with an expression that said, ‘Only because of that?’

Meanwhile, Jeong Eun-ji shouted at Hwang Seong-tae’s group with the intention of fucking me.

“Ah, yes. If you lose the bet, why don’t you go over to those guys and lick the soles of their feet? Like a tomani.”

For a moment, the corners of Hwang Seong-tae’s mouth seemed to be rising.

He lived as second-in-command for the rest of his life because he was pushed out of power, but when he imagined me, who had reigned over him, falling down in front of him and licking his feet, that alone seemed to make him feel good.

I could have tackled him, but I probably would have retired from that group anyway, and I had no intention of making things worse, so I gestured toward the classroom door with a look on my face that said, “Go now.”

Hwang Seong-tae, who had nothing to lose, left the classroom with the group with a wry smile on his face.

“Anyway, I came out to talk about that. It may not be a big deal, but there will always be kids who have been harmed by this son of a bitch, so look forward to it! Even if you say you won’t do it and try to get rid of it, those people who came earlier will catch you and force you to do it?”

The other kids couldn’t applaud or cheer because I could tell, but they seemed to be waiting for the result.

Eunji Jeong got down from the podium, waving like a celebrity in the spotlight, and I followed suit and returned to my seat.

Jeong Eun-ji didn’t think she would lose at all, so she opened the game up to her full potential.

Even though it’s exam week, this rumor will spread quickly.

Just like before, a rumor spread about me dating Lee Yu-ri.

Now, it is no longer possible to withdraw even if you want to, and the person who loses will have to pay the penalty of hell.

But there was just one thing Jeong Eun-ji didn’t know.

Winning 8 rounds of the mock test at Yu-ri Lee’s house became the source of her confidence.

Jeong Eunji Do you know?

The fact that I kept intentionally getting several questions wrong throughout the mock exam.

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Gong Young-bae briefly called out Jeong Eun-ji during the short waiting period after the morning assembly and just before the exam began.

“Eunji, you knew it wouldn’t be good for you to get involved with a guy like that, so why did you do that?”

“Oh my, are you worried? I’m happy with this. But you don’t have to worry so much.”

Jeong Eun-ji smiled, proudly pounded her breasts, and made a triumphant expression.

“No matter how little time I have to study due to preparing for track and field, I am confident that I can do better than that bastard. I just don’t like humans, but if I can get them to give a shit by betting on test scores, isn’t that a pretty legal way? After carrying out the punishment, you’ll probably feel so embarrassed that you’ll want to drop out, right?”

“No, no matter what, if you keep getting involved with a guy like that…”

Maybe in the end, you too… The words could not come out of Gong Young-bae’s mouth.

Lee Yu-ri had already become very distant from him, and Choi Soo-yeon still welcomed her with a smile, but Gong Young-bae felt a great sense of discomfort from that smile for some reason.

In such a situation, as even Jeong Eun-ji began to show signs of becoming increasingly entangled with Han Seong-jin, she began to feel justified anxiety.

However, Jung Eun-ji, who did not know what was going on, was actually worried about Gong Young-bae.

“Shouldn’t you be more worried about yourself than that?”

“Me?”

“Okay. Yuri and you. It’s been like a cold war for quite some time now, and I think that bastard Han Seong-jin is the cause.”

“…!!!”

Jeong Eun-ji, who saw Gong Young-bae’s expression noticeably worsen, was convinced that her thoughts were correct.

Lee Yu-ri and I were lovers who had a crush on a man named Gong Yeong-bae, but before that, they were also friends.

It was nice that the love interest broke away on his own, but that doesn’t mean he wanted Yu-ri Lee to get involved with a scum like Han Seong-jin.

It was better for Lee Yu-ri to maintain a love relationship without knowing who would be chosen than to get involved with Han Seong-jin and end up with Gong Yeong-bae.

“Don’t worry too much though.”

Eunji Jeong reassured Gong Youngbae and placed her hand on his shoulder.

She did not yet know that Lee Yu-ri had declared isolation from Gong Young-bae.

“I will bring Yuri back.”

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From the day Jeong Eun-ji first said the word ‘get good test scores’, I studied in every spare moment I had after finishing my part-time job.

I was so tired that I still dozed off during class, but when I was awake, I studied with all my might.

I studied English while working part-time with Sooyeon Choi.

When I returned home, I studied Korean and satam.

I received a lot of help from Lee Yu-ri in math, where I was weakest, and now I can get about half of it right.

Although I wasn’t originally a top student, I was confident that I would at least do better than Jeong Eun-ji, who had to spend more time exercising.

And then the test began.

Today, the first day, I only had to take the Korean language section.

From the listening test to the written test, I used my limited brain as much as I could to solve the problems with the best concentration of my life.

‘Do you think it’s worth it?’

Although the period of study was not long, I was able to solve problems well except for the problems that were too difficult, perhaps because I was so determined to die.

‘Jeong Eun-ji, thank you for laying the groundwork. ‘I’ll make you realize right away that you dug your own grave.’

I smiled to myself as I rolled my pen over the test paper.

‘And I will break that arrogant personality and tame you into mine.’

I look forward to seeing Jeong Eun-ji, a track and field team ace and team member with a pretty face, healthy body and bad personality, change under my hands.