episode_0378

“… … .”

The moment I saw the photo, I couldn’t help but stiffen.

I won’t ask you the crude question of what this means.

However, my hand holding the phone became stronger.

It was true that emotions were running high in many ways.

The messages that followed gave me a sense of elation, but also spoke of the responsibilities I must bear as a human being.

“Mr. Woojin?”

The employee, who had been following me, suddenly stood there dumbfounded, perhaps feeling suspicious, and cautiously called out to me.

“Excuse me, are you okay?”

Are you okay?

Why wouldn’t it be okay?

“Where does it hurt?”

Could it have possibly looked like that?

I asked out of concern, but the employee glanced at my face for a moment and then shook his head.

“No, I think you’re a little overly excited.”

“Did you see that?”

I wiped my hand over the corner of my mouth and realized that I was smiling without realizing it.

I’m going to meet my father or older brother soon, so if I keep smiling like this, it’ll be a problem.

‘Oh, no.’

The laughter never stops.

“Don’t worry. Let’s go right away.”

I decided to just accept it.

There is no need to hold back on the fun.

“Oh, yes.”

Walk behind the staff.

However, since my attention was always on my phone, I couldn’t hear the surrounding sounds very well.

I think I was paying attention to something, but I guess it doesn’t really matter.

I checked my phone again as if it was a habit.

– Seo Ye-rin: What should I do?!

– Choi Yi-seo: … … Woo-jin.

– Yoo Ah-rin: Shit.

Watching the children’s reactions, I couldn’t help but laugh.

I know it’s going to be a difficult time in many ways, but I feel like in the end, things turned out the way I wanted them to.

– Kim Woo-jin: I’ll be there soon.

– Kim Woo-jin: Just wait a moment.

– Kim Woo-jin: Let’s party today.

– Kim Woo-jin: I really love you.

Swipe up slightly to check the photo again.

I couldn’t help but laugh out loud, so I saved the photo.

3 pregnancy tests.

I’m talking about a photo that has two lines floating around.

* * *

Turn back time a little.

Seo Ye-rin, Choi Yi-seo, and Yoo Ah-rin return to Kim Woo-jin’s room without him knowing, as he has gone to work.

What the three people were holding in their hands was none other than a pregnancy test kit.

“It’s a dud!”

“Phew… …Thank goodness.”

“Fuck, it’s ridiculous that the three of them are checking this together.”

Fortunately or unfortunately.

Despite living such a messy and promiscuous life, no one has ever gotten pregnant.

“Next time, I’m really going to stop Kim Woojin. I’m definitely going to make him use contraception.”

Seo Ye-rin and Yoo Ah-rin snicker as they watch Choi Yi-seo squatting in relief.

“Choi Yi-seo Special. I’ll leave it like that and check the pregnancy test next time while feeling anxious.”

“How many times was that? Was it the third time? Why are you doing that when you lost in the end?”

“Be quiet!”

Anyway, the three people felt relieved and decided to have a simple breakfast and lunch.

Three people ordered rice noodles for delivery.

Yoo Ah-rin, who lost in rock-paper-scissors, comes in with an envelope and hums.

“Now this is my hideout.”

“Are you here? Let’s set the table.”

“Oh my, is your husband earning a lot of money?”

Choi Yi-seo snickers as she watches Yoo Ah-rin hum as if she’s singing a song.

After the two people finished setting up, Seo Ye-rin, who had been in the bathroom, came out.

“With you!”

“That girl always goes to the bathroom when the dinner table is set.”

“Yerin, come and eat. Pour the noodles.”

“Look at this!”

What Seo Ye-rin took out while smiling was none other than a pregnancy test kit.

Unlike before, there were two lines floating.

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

The moment they saw that, the same exclamation burst out of both of their mouths.

I heard that pregnancy tests are sometimes inaccurate.

The two were embarrassed, wondering if that was really the case.

Seo Ye-rin took out two more two-line imprints from her bosom.

“Ta-da! Triplets!”

“… … .”

“… … .”

Three pregnancy tests in hand.

Seo Ye-rin, feeling proud, caresses her stomach.

“What should we name our kids? Iseo will receive the bouquet, and Arin will receive the congratulatory money. I’ll have to ask Jinah to sing the congratulatory song.”

“Excuse me, Yerin. Did you say triplets because there were three pregnancy tests?”

When Choi Yi-seo asks with a skeptical mind, Seo Ye-rin nods.

“Yeah!”

“Fuck, isn’t that girl supposed to pour water into five cups of ramen and wait for 15 minutes?”

“Yerin, how did you get into college? You have a high school diploma, right?”

“Shh, that’s really harsh. I was just joking. I’m not that stupid.”

The two felt somewhat relieved at the sight of Seo Ye-rin looking upset.

Yeah, it’s fortunate that it’s not to this extent that there’s no common sense.

I didn’t really care that it hurt.

“What is that? Is it fake?”

“Yeah, the bald man gave it to me. It was a surprise gift for my lover.”

“… … Isn’t it not surprising, but terrifying?”

Choi Yi-seo muttered, thinking that she would be shocked if she received that.

“Anyway, I wanted to tease Woojini with this. Woojini has been playing around with other people too much lately.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

“Last morning, when I went to my room, it smelled like another woman, and this time at the pension, something strange happened between senior Joohee and Yoonji.”

It was a little humiliating that both of them were being persuaded by Seo Ye-rin, but I thought it wasn’t wrong.

That was right.

Recently, Kim Woo-jin has been having excessive contact with other women.

“A man doesn’t feed the fish he has already caught!”

Looking at Seo Ye-rin shouting out for the subtraction, the two people surprisingly felt a little awkward.

If I show this, won’t Kim Woo-jin come to his senses a little?

Of course, I won’t be fooling around for long. Just until today.

Just that much.

“Bring it.”

The first one to step forward was Yoo Ah-rin.

“Let’s say we all get pregnant while sending this. I want to see how she reacts.”

“Right? You want to see me? If it were Woojini, wouldn’t he run over and hug you tightly right now?!”

Seo Ye-rin, a happy, delusional person.

But Choi Yi-seo didn’t look too happy.

“… … Will there really be a good response just like that?”

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

“No, I know Woojin isn’t the kind of person who would do that. But I’m still a little worried. If he feels burdened or reacts differently, honestly… …I think he’ll get hurt.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

It was refreshing to see Choi Yi-seo so weak for the first time.

But I also felt sympathy.

If Woojin Kim reacts differently, such as rejecting or feeling burdened.

None of the three were spared from injury.

“Eight! Our Woojini, that’s not true!”

“Yeah, I don’t think that kid would do that. If he really does, I’ll just go kill him.”

“Me too… …I don’t think Woojin would react like that.”

The three of them look at each other and feel a strange sense of kinship. At first, they thought of each other as just rivals.

Before they knew it, the three of them had become colleagues who relied on and respected each other.

like that.

I sent a photo of the three of us together.

“Ha, haha… … This is surprisingly shaky.”

“Ugh, should I get some beer? There’s some in the fridge.”

“Sigh, I don’t think I’ll be able to concentrate even if I go to class.”

Surprisingly, the three of them were anxious and waited for Kim Woo-jin’s reaction.

It hasn’t even been 3 minutes yet, but my mouth feels dry.

Woof!

A reply came to the group chat.

– Kim Woo-jin: I’ll be there soon.

– Kim Woo-jin: Just wait a moment.

– Kim Woo-jin: Let’s party today.

– Kim Woo-jin: I really love you.

The moment I saw the reply, the tense, stiff air that had been filling the room melted away.

“Woojinaaat! I love youeeet!”

“Oh, then that’s right. Oh, that feels good! Let’s have a beer!”

“… … Give me some too.”

“You said you were going to class.”

“I want to skip today.”

Yoo Ah-rin couldn’t hold back her laughter as she watched Choi Yi-seo’s faint smile forming.

They started drinking beer together, and Seo Ye-rin was laughing while looking at the text.

“But there is something.”

Suddenly, Seo Ye-rin remembers something and looks back at the two with an eerie expression.

“If I say I’m not pregnant… …Will Woojini just stay still?”

“Hmm?”

“Huh?”

The two people drinking beer stop moving.

I suddenly felt sorry when I thought that I was pouring cold water on him by saying it was a joke when he was so fond of me.

“Uh… …Then what should I do?”

“Should I just say it was a joke now? He probably can’t concentrate at work.”

While I was wondering what to do, Seo Ye-rin seemed determined and came up with a solution.

“Woojini Bucket List. Let’s listen today.”

“Are you crazy?!”

“Are you serious?”

“I’m serious! I mean it! I love Woojini so much today! I really want to do anything for her!”

Yoo Ah-rin and Choi Yi-seo looked blank as they watched Seo Ye-rin shouting out boldly.

Funny enough.

Both of them felt similar emotions.

I want to do it.

I just want to do everything.

then.

Choi Yi-seo took out her cell phone and sighed.

“I, I will… … book a hotel. I can’t do it in the dorm.”

Choi Yi-seo’s preparations with determination.

Yoo Ah-rin pulls up her top and checks today’s underwear.

“Oh, shit. Your underwear is a bit like that.”

“Can I borrow yours, Arin?”

“Do you want to lose? Are you kidding me?”

“A little?”

Two people rolling around laughing.

Choi Yi-seo, who had booked the best hotel in the area, forced herself to suppress her pounding heart.

“Huh.”

I smiled as I checked the text message that Kim Woojin had sent again.

“Ah! This is the real deal!”

“Lee, what is Rittall… … .”

“Haa, when is that little brat coming home? I really want a kiss!”

anyway.

Today was supposed to be an unforgettable day.

Time passed and it was already 9 o’clock in the evening.

“… … .”

“… … .”

“… … .”

Even though it was time for him to leave work and come home, Woojin Kim didn’t come.

* * *

“I won’t hand everything over to Woojin right away.”

Inside the chairman’s office.

Chairman Kim spoke to his eldest son, Kim Jae-woon, who was standing in front of him.

“But it will be decided soon. I am at an age where I should step down now.”

“Yes, Chairman.”

In fact, Chairman Kim felt it was still too early to step down.

He had to step down due to health reasons.

After retirement, preparations for rehabilitation are also progressing steadily.

He planned to leave his family home and spend the rest of his life with his wife in a quiet place.

“But it is true that Woojin has shown his qualifications. And moreover, he is clearly a successor who is more approachable to me than you right now.”

“… … .”

“You need to think about whether giving in to the precious youngest member is really for the good of the company.”

“… … .”

“Businessmen who leave a lot of trash behind because of their families. I’ve seen too many.”

Coming up to this place.

I’ve seen too many people commit corruption in the name of protecting their families.

Favors, bribes, corruption, military exemption, etc.

Of course family is important.

“As a superior, I have a duty to take responsibility for all the heads of the space group.”

He couldn’t shake the families of so many employees just for the sake of his own family.

“I wish you could abandon Woojin. The child who would strangle you.”

“Father.”

A faint smile appeared on Kim Jae-woon’s lips.

“I know that in the end, the father will choose that child.”

Yeah, I know.

He himself was ultimately an inadequate successor.

Despite working hard his entire life, he never caught his father’s eye, and because he was so useless, he made the youngest son leave home.

“That’s okay. If it’s Woojin, I can trust him too.”

“… … .”

“I will step down.”

A determined expression.

Chairman Kim couldn’t help but feel bitter when he saw his eldest son like that.

To him anyway.

Because he was equally precious to both the eldest and youngest son.

However, it was not a matter of emotional choice.

At that very moment, Chairman Kim received a call saying that Woojin Kim had arrived.

The two people who had nothing more to say waited silently for Kim Woo-jin.

Rattling!

Kim Woo-jin opened the door and came in and shouted boldly.

“Father! I became a father of three children!”

“… … .”

“I caught up with my father in an instant! My father has three sons too! Of course, all my children have different mothers, but anyway-!”

Looking at Kim Woo-jin, who is smiling brightly.

Chairman Kim closed his eyes for a moment and pressed his fingers against his eyes.

Let out a short sigh.

The thought was long, but the answer was quick.

Chairman Kim buried all his worries and called his eldest son straight away.

“Jaewoon-ah.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Please take good care of the company.”

“… … .”