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“What kind of woman eats so well?”

“You eat a lot, too. Because I’m going to buy this.”

Jaehee smiled again. It was the second time he had seen her smile here. The gap between Junghoo’s eyebrows narrowed.

“Sunbae?”

“Yes, put it in debt. I’ll pay you back.”

“Ha.”

“You said you’d urge me on debt. Ninety-eight thousand… How much was it? Anyway, that money or 100 million won. The debt I owe you is the same.”

“Your method of calculation is very unique, huh? Min Jae-hee.”

“How can you call me MIN JAEHEE? I am your sunbae.”

She squinted at him. Then she put another piece of meat in her mouth. The face she made while eating was no different from usual. But she was grinning and just in case, Jung-hoo asked.

“Sunbae, are you drunk?”

“No.”

She reached out her hand and took the soju next to Jung-hoo and drank straight from the bottle.

“Sunbae!”

The moment he went around the table and took the bottle from Jae-hee’s hand, he found it was already empty. Jae-hee swept her lips once with the back of her hand with a normal face and stood up from her seat.

“If you’re done eating, let’s go.”

Jaehee’s hand tapped Junghoo on the shoulder. Her steps out of the private room were not disturbed. But she kept smiling. Looking straight at him, the corners of her mouth gently loosened, and the corners of her eyes were slightly folded.

It was the first time he had seen her being such a defenseless mess. Even when they were having sex, she was trying her best because she didn’t want to show her relaxed face. She even looked at him and smirked. Jaehee tilted her head slightly as she looked up at him who didn’t move, and then turned around. After seeing her exit the private room, Jung-hoo hurriedly followed after her.

When he got out after paying the bill, he saw Jaehee’s back looking up at the sky in the parking lot. He wrapped her body in his coat. She turned to look at him.

“Junghoo.”

“Yes.”

“Yoon Junghoo.”

“Yes, Sunbae.”

“Did I ever tell you that your name is pretty?”

Drunk Min Jae-hee was strange. She was not the type of person to say such things. Even 10 years ago, she had never said such a thing to him. She was the kind of person who took care of her studies with the excuse that she should look after her studies. If he brought a lunch box for her, she would eat without complaints and she would keep pace with him because she thought it was a hassle to be chased around.

“Is my name only pretty?”

Jung-hoo felt that the words were strangely unpleasant so he asked unevenly.

“Everything is pretty. You’ve always been pretty, Junghoo.”

Then, she smiled at him again. Her white breath disrupted the air. The laughter soon distorted and disappeared without a trace. She raised her hand and stroked his soft hair several times as if he had done well. Jae-hee looked up at the sky again.

“It looks like it’s going to snow.”

“How do you know?”

Jaehee was well aware of what she was saying. She just couldn’t stop talking. Yoon Jung-hoo appeared blurry in a world that seemed hazy. It was difficult to tell whether it was a dream or a reality . Was this my drinking pattern? She had no idea.

She’d never had a drink with anyone before. She only remembered laughing at the ceiling, turning around in a dark kitchen corner, or digging carefully next to Jae-won, who was sleeping.

“I feel like there are a lot of clouds. Do you know that it’s not that cold when it snows?”

“Is that so?”

“What kind of day is the coldest for you?”

Jaehee didn’t answer and turned away with a smile. She walked right to Jung-hoo’s car and waited for him to open the car door of the passenger seat. When he pressed the unlock key and tried to open the door, she declined and sat in the passenger seat and fastened her seat belt.

She sat quietly and looked out the window. I don’t know what Min Jae-hee is thinking at times like this.

“I’m going to my house.”

Jae-hee did not answer. Jung-hoo lightly swept her dry cheeks with the back of her hand.

“It tickles.”

She shrank her neck a little and smiled again. Min Jae-hee was honest when she drinks. Her eyes are clear but not looking at him, they are looking somewhere far away. Jae-hee rubbed her stiff right arm like a habit.

“Does your arm hurt?”

“No, it’s a habit.”

When Jung-hoo looked at her suspiciously and refused to answer, Jae-hee said with a smile.

“It’s because I overdo it at the factory. But these days, I’m not going out anymore, so it’s okay.”

I’ll have to find another job. Those words were swallowed into her mouth.

He had never seen such a defenseless expressionless face before. It was an unhealthy drinking habit. In this situation, Jung-hoo felt his lower body stiffen. When Min Jae-hee smiled while drinking, she appeared so innocent that it awakened men’s hidden desires.

“Sunbae, don’t drink anymore.”

“Why?”

“If you’re going to drink, drink only in front of me. Never in front of a man.”

Junghoo didn’t want anyone to know how she looked when she was drunk. Even in a bad situation, she maintained her beauty and gave Junghoo something valuable, her first time.

Even if it was considered paying off her previous debt, she did not object to the situation.

“There’s no one I can drink with.”

Jung-hoo tried to hide the corners of his mouth, which was about to smile automatically, with a stoic expression.

“Why isn’t there anyone? You must have met someone until now.”

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