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“After shaking someone who was trying to sleep, you’re so calm by yourself.”
“Does this mean I don’t even make you flinch with a kiss anymore?”
How depressing.
“Tell me if you need anything. I’ll get it for you.”
Even his kind and calm voice was annoying.
Overwhelmed by resentment, Joo-eun couldn’t hold back and threw the pillow she was holding at him.
Thwack-
He reflexively caught the pillow that flew straight at him.
“Why are you suddenly...”
It was understandable for him to be dumbfounded when his lover, whom he had just kissed, threw a pillow at him in anger.
Unbeknownst to him, his bewildered expression was making her even angrier.
“Do you really not know?”
How could he know when she asked with such an angry expression? After briefly recalling the situation, he shook his head.
“What did I do wrong? Weren’t we just having a good time...?”
“Was it really ‘good’?”
“Of course...”
She strode towards him, pulled him down, and kissed him before he could finish his sentence.
Min-hyuk, surprised, gave her his lips with wide eyes.
Her clumsy lips, which had rushed in, stirred him briefly and intensely before leaving.
Joo-eun, who had lowered her tiptoes and stood straight, spoke clearly despite her flushed face.
“I give up. I can’t end it with a kiss.”
Silence fell.
Min-hyuk, who had been frozen as if trying to process the situation, finally understood and chuckled.
Joo-eun found even his smile annoying.
“Don’t laugh. I’m so embarrassed I want to bury my face in a pillow.”
“Sorry. I was too clueless. Thank you for being honest.”
He bent down and gently lifted her chin.
He met her eyes, which were wide open, and whispered softly.
“Please continue to be honest with me. This is my first time deepening a relationship with someone, so I don’t know anything.”
“As if you know so much. It’s my first time too, so I don’t know either.”
His thick eyebrows twitched slightly.
“You claimed to have so much experience.”
“It was all a lie. It was my first kiss too, and everything else was my first... Can’t you tell?”
She had mistaken him for someone with a lot of experience because he had lectured her about love not being like that during their first meeting.
And she hadn’t denied it either.
But for it to have been his first kiss, Min-hyuk was speechless with emotion.
Joo-eun lightly tapped his chest, her face flushed.
“How long are you going to just stare?”
“Ah. I’m just so happy.”
He smiled and captured Joo-eun’s lips.
As if she had been waiting for it, Joo-eun clung to him and actively accepted his tongue.
She didn’t want to hide her honest desires anymore, so she was very proactive.
He reacted deeply to every one of her actions.
Unaware that the pillow they had thrown around was being stepped on, the two of them became entangled.
Clothes fell off piece by piece as they walked towards the bed.
Min-hyuk, captivated by the scent of her freshly showered body, kept burying his lips in her skin.
“Haa...”
Joo-eun twisted her waist.
Intolerable sensations surged wherever his lips touched.
When he swirled his tongue against her deeply held flesh, a tingling sensation spread through her lower abdomen, dominating her.
Her hands, unsure whether to push him away or encourage him, instinctively ruffled his hair below.
His actions, which seemed to find the deepest spots like a ghost, made Joo-eun clench her toes.
“Haa... a little slower...”
When she begged, feeling like she was about to lose her breath, he seemed determined not to be fooled again and pushed even deeper. Joo-eun, embarrassed by her increasingly loud moans, covered her mouth with the back of her hand.
Yet, her sounds still leaked out sensually.
“Ah...!”
The white sheets gripped by her slender hands crumpled and wrinkled.
Her thighs cramped from the effort of enduring the stimulation, as she had tensed her toes.
He gently kissed her heated lips and slowly moved upwards.
He had only just explored her body with his lips, but she had already reached her peak and was breathing heavily, which was incredibly sexy.
His actions, which had been trying to appear relaxed, gradually became more urgent.
“Do you know? You’re incredibly sexy.”
“Haa... I’ve never thought about that. Haa...!”
Just when she thought she could catch her breath with a brief conversation,
a splitting sensation surged through her body, and Joo-eun felt like she was going to lose her mind.
Gripping the sheets wasn’t enough, so she grabbed his strong arms.
They weren’t arms, but stone pillars.
Soon, the wet sounds filled the room, and Joo-eun’s feet flailed helplessly in the air.
His warning about receiving interest was valid once again.
Hye-joo’s surgery was successful. After fully recovering, she left the hospital with a light heart.
The first thing she rushed to do was move.
Joo-eun suggested delaying the move, saying her mother’s condition wasn’t ready, but Hye-joo, after seeing the house, wanted to move in as soon as possible.
She even looked at the photos of the penthouse on her phone every day.
Joo-eun, who couldn’t help but be happy to see her mother so happy, secretly looked forward to leaving the dark basement room.
Finally, the moving day arrived.
“My goodness. Is this a house or a palace... I can’t believe it, no matter how many times I see it...”
Hye-joo muttered to herself amidst the busy moving company employees.
“Do you like it?”
Min-hyuk, who had taken a day off to help, even though it wasn’t his move, asked with a smile.
“Oh, I love it. It’s like a dream. I can’t believe I’m receiving something like this.”
“I told Joo-eun, but didn’t she tell you?”
“Huh? What...?”
“It’s just the beginning.”
“Oh? Y-yes. Oh ho ho ho. I was nervous, you know.”
Hye-joo laughed like a young girl, holding her stomach, and Joo-eun, who was organizing the luggage in the corner, chuckled softly.
At that moment, loud, boisterous voices suddenly echoed.
“Wow. I don’t know how many times the security guards stopped me on the way in.”
“Song Joo-eun, I’m here! Mother, are you happy!”
It was Jang-wook and Se-young.
They said they met in front on the way in, but the atmosphere didn’t seem quite right.
Joo-eun resisted the urge to ask more.
She knew that trying to stir things up could backfire.
“Wow, Song Joo-eun. When did you buy all this? It’s really magnificent.”
“I didn’t buy it...”
Joo-eun glanced at Min-hyuk, just as another huge TV was being brought in. When he directed, “Please put it over there,” Jang-wook’s jaw dropped.
“You ordered all this, Min-hyuk? You didn’t ask me, you did it yourself?”
“Of course.”
“Unbelievable. You always hated picking out interior design the most.”
“Love changes everything. You wouldn’t know, not having experienced it.”
“Ah, who says I haven’t...!”
Jang-wook was about to snap, but he cleared his throat, aware of Se-young’s gaze.
Se-young, who had been listening to the two men’s conversation with a displeased expression, sighed deeply.
“Ha... Secretary Byun. Would you like to have a drink with me later? I’m so stressed out by these lovebirds that I don’t think I can go home sober.”
Everyone perked up at Se-young’s sudden invitation.
Hye-joo, who had been wiping the same spot for a while, started wiping even faster, and even the workers who had finished setting up the TV lingered in the living room.
“Sure, I’d love to.”
After a brief silence, the answer everyone was waiting for came.
Hye-joo muttered, “Oh, I’m done wiping,” and stood up, and the workers went outside to find the next load of luggage.
The scene was almost comical, and Joo-eun stifled a laugh. Min-hyuk, happy to see her smiling, lightly wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
“Are we really that lovey-dovey?”
“I guess so. We might need to be more restrained in front of others.”
“If it’s restrained, is it really love?”
“Agreed.”
Their whispers seemed to be getting louder.
“Ha... Secretary Byun. Should we just drink now? I think there’s beer in the fridge?”
“Oh, that sounds wonderful. Yes.”
Joo-eun looked at Min-hyuk, looking troubled by the two who were heading to the kitchen as if to get beer.
He simply shrugged, showing no interest.
Chae-rin’s cries pierced through the loud music filling the club.
“Hngh... it’s all over. My unrequited love, my first love, it’s all over... I’m going to destroy everything...”
Her black eyeliner was smudged, making her look like a ghost from how much she had cried.
Her friends, who had come with her, exchanged glances and signaled to go play somewhere else.
After crying for a long time, Chae-rin, realizing she was alone, staggered to find her friends.
“Those jerks... where did they go, leaving me alone... Ack!”
Even a slight bump made Chae-rin scream and grab her shoulder.
“Ah, sorry.”
A woman with yellow dyed hair apologized in a nonchalant manner and tried to walk past, but Chae-rin slapped her on the back of the head.
Thwack-
The dull sound drew everyone’s attention to Chae-rin.
The yellow-haired woman glared and growled.
“What the hell, you crazy bitch...”
“Crazy? I’m not crazy enough yet.”
No one could stop Chae-rin, who had already lost her mind.
She raised both hands and started pulling the woman’s hair.