“I was just trying to survive on my own.”
I never had any intention of shaking someone else. So I lived quietly here, away from everyone.
“I do not know.”
Eunyul threw her head back in frustration. It was better than curling up with the hot sun pouring down on her face and blinding her eyes.
Because it was easier for me to focus on dazzling things. But that was only for a moment.
When someone stood in front of her and blocked all the sunlight, Eunyul whined without even opening her eyes.
“Do not interfere with photosynthesis.”
“Have you developed a hobby like this?”
It was a voice I heard somewhere. Eunyul opened one eye at the sound of a young voice for a customer coming to the restaurant and checked the other person.
It was hard to see because of the shadows, but gradually his features came into view, and at that moment, Eunyul opened her eyes.
“uh!”
Where did you see it? However, because he couldn’t remember who he had seen and where, he couldn’t readily say the other person’s name, so he clicked his tongue and slightly kicked Eunyul’s leg.
“This is Park Jeong-hoon.”
“I knew.”
As Eun-yul lied out of embarrassment, Park Jeong-hoon stretched out his hand towards him. And as soon as Eunyul grabbed my hand, she pulled me hard and made me stand up, then glanced at him.
“I can’t remember.”
“But how did you get here?”
We only met once before, and even then, I ignored Jeonghoon’s request for my contact information. I was surprised to see him like that in front of a restaurant, not even in Seoul, so I asked him.
“I came to see you.”
“me?”
When Eun-yul pointed at herself as if she couldn’t understand anything, Park Jeong-hoon sighed and held up his cell phone to show her.
“Isn’t this you?”
“uh? That’s right. iced coffee. “It was posted by a customer who came yesterday.”
Yesterday, a young customer stopped by while passing by and ate hangover soup. He said he liked the restaurant and asked if he could post it on social media, and it seems he actually posted it. Now I see that he is quite an influential person and the number of views was no joke.
“But here I was photographed very small… … .”
Park Jeong-hoon clicked his tongue when I said that it would make more sense to say that I came here after seeing this or because I was curious after reading an article that said it was a good restaurant.
“Knowing you, it wouldn’t have been hard to recognize you.”
“Anyway, you came all the way here to see me, and your sincerity is amazing. “Come in.”
Thanks to Park Jeong-hoon, Eun-yul didn’t have to focus on her troubled mind, so she was happy for him.
We brought Park Jeong-hoon inside, sat him down in the empty seat, and served hangover soup.
“Why do you look so strange?”
And Eun-yul asked earnestly as she looked at Park Jeong-hoon looking around the inside of the restaurant.
“I find it fascinating because this is where you work. “You’ve really changed.”
“I’m tired of saying that. “Just eat.”
“That’s how different you are from before.”
Park Jeong-hoon glanced at Eun-yul and dipped his spoon into the hangover soup. After stirring it roughly, he took a spoonful and put it in his mouth. He paused, rolled his eyes, and looked at Eunyul.
“I know it’s delicious.”
“… … It’s a really good restaurant. “It’s not because I drank yesterday.”
Eun-yul didn’t say anything more, even though it was the look of someone who drank alcohol yesterday, including rice and eating it to cool off. People who talk to people who are eating are the most annoying people.
* * *
“So you’re saying you came here because you didn’t have any contact information?”
Park Jeong-hoon, who was rinsing his mouth with 100 won coffee, nodded in response to Eun-yul’s question.
“We left like that last time and we can’t meet again. “You all hung up and left.”
“I… … .”
No, to Seong Eun-yul of the past.
“Where is the relationship that needs to be maintained?”
To be honest, I knew that Eunyul didn’t get along with proper people in the past, so it wasn’t difficult to cut them all off.
“I’m the nicest kid out of all of them.”
Park Jeong-hoon nodded again and calmly praised himself.
“At least I fell in love with your face, not your personality.”
“Thank you for being honest.”
“yes? however… … .”
Park Jeong-hoon, who had already finished his coffee and was nibbling on the paper cup, looked intently at Eun-yul’s face.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, but why does it feel like I’ve seen you so recently?”
“What nonsense?”
Eunyul, who had been roughly accepting the conversation as it was nothing more than just saying hello, frowned and responded. I thought I was going to say something useless again. Because I’ve always felt like I was just killing time while talking to this guy.
“no. I feel like I saw it clearly. no. I didn’t see it… … “What is it?”
Park Jeong-hoon tilted his head as if he couldn’t remember the exact reason, and Eun-yul stood up as if she couldn’t listen anymore.
“Go when you’ve finished eating.”
It was time to pick up Haneul, so Eunyul took off her apron and Park Jeonghoon also got up.
“I get it. “Just give me your number.”
“What are you doing?”
Eunyul shook his head. I didn’t want to continue our previous relationship. At the same time, Kang Ha-jun, whom I had barely pushed aside from my thoughts, came to mind and I felt confused again.
“Then should I call the restaurant number here? hello. I’m Seong Eun-yul’s friend. Does Eun-yul exist? Please change.”
Park Jeong-hoon asked if he could say this, and Eun-yul looked at him with disgust and held out her hand.
When Park Jeong-hoon held out his cell phone triumphantly, Eun-yul picked up her cell phone instead of trying to write down the number.
“Call me and take my number?”
When I saw that, I thought Park Jung-hoon was taking my number, so I waited. After a while, Eunyul handed him his cell phone, motioned for him to go, and left the restaurant.
Park Jeong-hoon tilted his head again as he looked at the eleven numbers stamped on his cell phone.
“I really saw it somewhere, but why can’t I remember?”
It was so uncomfortable, but there was nothing I could do to keep it from coming to mind.
Park Jeong-hoon, who came out, suddenly wondered where Eun-yul was going. So, as he watched his back moving away, he called him.
“I’m not finished talking yet.”
The reason I came here today was to visit where Eunyul works, but also because I had something else to say.
“I wanted to tell you that my father will be nominated this time… … Uh, hello. Hey, where are you in such a hurry… … .”
– who are you.
Park Jeong-hoon took his cell phone away from his ear and looked at the screen. The number Eunyul gave me was correct. He couldn’t have made a mistake.
“hello?”
– Are you still making prank calls these days? Or what are you. Are you a fisherman?
“who are you?”
– what? Ha, my name is Namgoong Hyuk. Who are you then?
The famous Namgoong Hyuk?
When Park Jeong-hoon realized whose number Eun-yul had given him, his hands were clasped together politely.
“I am Park Jeong-hoon, Eun-yul’s friend. hello. older brother.”
* * *
Eunyul slowly turned around and saw Park Jeong-hoon and laughed.
“It was a joke, but I didn’t connect the wrong people.”
Originally, I didn’t know who Park Jeong-hoon was. To be honest, he didn’t describe everything including the villain’s connections in detail in the writing, so I had almost forgotten about it, but he realized it during the conversation.
Among the people who approached Seong Eun-yul, he was the only decent one. After his original name, Eun-yul dies, Namgoong-hyuk and Park Jeong-hoon meet once. From that, the two continued to meet and became close brothers and sisters, but this time, they did not connect because I did not die.
So I continued.
“This isn’t a bad method either.”
I thought it would be a good idea to create a new opportunity to connect the regrettable parts of what went wrong while I was alive.
If Park Jeong-hoon was to have a relationship with Namgoong-hyuk again, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try it. But that wasn’t a complete solution either.
“You can’t connect Kang Ha-jun and Hyun Je-ha.”
That made Eunyul’s heart frustrated.
* * *
Kang Ha-jun and the 10 lawyers worked out the debt relationship between Namgoong-gil and Eun-yul.
“That’s it.”
Kang Ha-jun nodded at the words of the defense team representative and stood up.
“It’s nice to meet you after such a long time, but I’m curious.”
The eyes of Namgoong-gil, Namgoong-hyuk’s father and someone who has been in the financial industry for a long time, swept over Kang Ha-jun. Everyone felt burdened by Namgoong-gil’s gaze, as he was said to be insidious as if he could see through other people’s minds, but Kang Ha-jun didn’t mind.
“The reason I came here with so many lawyers is because of this child from just five years ago.”
“I still have debt that should have been eliminated five years ago.”
“So you’re saying you set out to clean things up neatly?”
This is not something that can be solved simply by giving money, but rather a legal decision that involves losing most of the increased principal and interest.
Namgoong-gil spoke to Kang Ha-jun in an attempt to reveal his hidden inner thoughts.
“Otherwise, I’m afraid I’ll bother you again. “I trusted it once, but then I got stabbed in the back, and it hurt a lot.”
Kang Ha-jun got up as if he had finished his business, mentioning that Namgoong-hyuk had deliberately kept it a secret.
“This should never happen again.”
