But as soon as I saw him, I knew who it was. Despite not being able to identify faces in advance through newspapers or magazines like Kang Ha-jun.
The first reason I could recognize him was the atmosphere.
The original work saw a lot from Hyun Je-ha’s perspective and revealed a lot of his emotions. Hyunjae was a person who was extremely gentle when seeing his lover, but spoke little when dealing with friends, and did not show any particular emotions in everything else. One of the reasons for creating this atmosphere was the unique, intense alertness that arose from not knowing when and where pain might be felt due to the alpha’s pheromones.
Next… … It was purely a sense of grace. When I saw the face of a strange man facing Haneul, my heart was racing like crazy and I couldn’t just look at it.
Since Eunyul just looked at her without saying anything, Hyeonjeha continued what she was saying.
“But I almost didn’t recognize you.”
Hyun Je-ha’s eyes scanned Eun-yul’s face.
“Handsome… … .”
The sky behind Eunyul trembled as he muttered to himself.
“Smile well… … .”
Hyeonjeha repeated what Haneul said and looked at Eunyul’s lips.
“A person who is good at flying airplanes.”
I can’t check on the plane, but I know it means that he will be nice to Haneul. Hyun Je-ha, who was looking at Eun-yul’s face for a while, expressed his curiosity.
As Hyun Je-ha’s curious gaze deepened, Eun-yul’s impression also hardened. If it weren’t for the sky, he might have been cold to Hyeon Je-ha and kicked him out.
Since he is the main character of the original and the person I bullied, I have to be nice to him even out of guilt? Eunyul doesn’t know anything about that. Since I became Seong Eun-yul and lived as if I had cut off ties with everyone, I didn’t want to worry about other people.
“It’s really changed. “I think his eyes were very sharp.”
“Are you here to see me?”
Eunyul was very thorny. From the moment I met Kang Ha-jun, there was no guarantee that I wouldn’t encounter Hyeon Je-ha, but even so, suddenly… … .
‘Well, has anyone shown up as expected so far?’
Kang Ha-jun, Nam Gung-hyuk, and even Hyun Je-ha appeared without saying a word to this place where Eun-yul had lived for five years.
“Originally, I was going to meet Ha Jun, but I changed my mind. I was curious when I heard you were meeting me. I was wondering why I ended up reconnecting with a relationship that ended 5 years ago… … . And as soon as I arrived, I saw your son.”
Hyeonjeha calmly recited his thoughts step by step. Eunyul looked at Hyeon Je-ha with even more astounded eyes at the way he explained things so kindly.
“So the purpose of coming to me… … “Is it him?”
Eunyul was trying to say Kang Hajun, but changed the word in the middle. Because he said he was going to meet Kang Ha-jun but then changed his mind. Eunyul chewed the inside of her mouth, feeling uncomfortable as if she had come between them. I told Kang Ha-jun to clearly organize it… … .
“It was like that originally… … Not today. “Anyway, it doesn’t matter if it’s later when it comes to Ha-jun.”
“What are you talking about. No, just meet him, not me. Let’s meet and solve it together.”
Eunyul pushed Haneul to go to the restaurant. As soon as Haneul entered the restaurant, Eunyul let out all the irritated feelings she had been suppressing.
“Don’t come visit me again.”
What was really funny was that the same thing he said to Kang Ha-jun and Namgoong-hyuk was now being said to Hyeon Je-ha.
Eunyul waited for Hyeonjeha to turn around and glared at him. If she said she wouldn’t go, she was planning to force her back, but Hyeonjaeha looked behind Eunyul to see what was coming to her mind.
“It’s not like they’re kicking out customers.”
Oh, please. Why does everyone come to Haejangguk restaurant?
Taking advantage of the opportunity to not respond to his request to become a customer, Hyeonjae entered the restaurant.
Hyeonjaeha didn’t do anything after ordering hangover soup. Without eating hangover soup or touching anything else, he only looked at Eunyul.
As he was fixating his gaze on Eun-yul, who was greeting the guests, serving hangover soup, and cleaning up the guests’ seats, the people sitting around Hyeon Je-ha also saw Eun-yul.
Thanks to this, Eunyul, who received the customer’s attention, moved slower than usual as she struggled to keep her expression from collapsing.
Lim Bong-soon, who was worse off, made a comment while serving hangover soup to the guests on Eun-yul’s behalf.
“Why are you so slow? “Even if I took a slug and made him work, he would be faster than you.”
“I’ll move quickly.”
Eunyul hurriedly placed the empty bowl on the tray and suppressed a sigh.
‘My back is burning, my back is burning.’
It felt like Hyun Je-ha’s gaze would burn and pierce my back.
‘Should I call Kang Ha-jun and ask him to take me?’
Then, I think we can easily get rid of Hyeon Je-ha… … .
However, I could only think about it and not put it into practice. If I was going to call Kang Ha-jun, I would have done it right away.
I didn’t want to call, even if it was because I felt it was a waste to hold on until now, when the customers were leaving one by one and there was only one seat left except Hyeon Je-ha.
“goodbye.”
As soon as the last table except Hyeon Je-ha was gone, Eun-yul erased her businesslike smile. Is that all? She approached Hyeon Je-ha, scrunching up her face so much that it almost seemed like she was being annoyed.
Hyeonjeha was sitting in the upright posture in the hangover soup restaurant. I thought that the way she never lost her posture made her look even more beautiful.
Eunyul didn’t like that, so she pulled out her chair and twisted her body as if to show off. Since Hyun Je-ha was straight, I sat with my legs wide open with only half of my hips covered, as if to make me look more crooked, which I thought would make me look quite arrogant.
“What are you doing ordering hangover soup that you won’t even eat?”
Hyeonjaeha calmly responded to Eunyul’s attack.
“I ordered my share of hangover soup, and it’s my choice whether to eat it or not, so I don’t think there’s any need to worry.”
“Then see me or not.”
Eunyul did not hide his displeasure with Hyeonjeha’s attitude.
“Do you know how much work it takes to steep the broth all day, add the trimmed radish radish, and boil it? In addition, each and every side dish is made directly here. Well, I’m not asking the customers to appreciate the restaurant owner’s hard work, but at least they shouldn’t have come just to see me.”
Eunyul clicked her tongue and expressed her dissatisfaction. She comes to a restaurant and leaves food behind? As Hyun Je-ha said, it is the customer’s mind and it is not for me to tell him to do this or that. But if you’re just trying to see yourself, can’t you just ask to meet at a cafe?
“Don’t you know how much time it takes to make kimchi? He said he trimmed radishes to fit my ten fingers for this bachelor kimchi. You think that’s it? Peel and pound garlic, dry red pepper, and make red pepper powder… … .”
Hyun Je-ha looked at Eun-yul in amazement as she listed the care that goes into each kimchi.
“… … “Anyway, I’ll only look at your wasteful behavior until today, so go.”
“… … “It’s really changed.”
Eunyul frowned at what Hyeonjeha said while tilting his head. He did it because he thought he might be tired of repeating what he said earlier.
“I keep wondering what has changed… … .”
“As soon as I took a bite of my food, I threw it on the floor, calling it trash, but now that you say that, things have changed.”
“… … .”
Seong Eun-yul said that. Seong Eun-yul in the original was like that, not me.
Hyeon Je-ha did not stop there and said while looking at the hangover soup.
“I used to hate this kind of food because it left a smell on my clothes… … .”
“I’m no longer the Seong Eun-yul I used to be, so you can stop saying things like that?”
Unheard of, Eunyul quickly drew a line between her past and present. I was dissatisfied with Hyun Je-ha not touching my food, so I took it and fell, not knowing that I would get it back intact.
However, Hyeonjaeha did not seem to have any intention of doing what Eunyul wanted.
“It’s not enough for someone like that to work at such a shabby restaurant… … .”
At Hyun Je-ha’s words, Im Bong-soon, who was passing by, raised a ladle and Eun-yul flinched for no reason.
“Smile kindly at customers and readily pick up someone else’s plate. “This is really not the Seong Eun-yul I know.”
Hyeonjaeha looked down from Eunyul’s face and looked at the clothes she was wearing. It’s a comfortable t-shirt, but the neck is stretched out and the jeans that are hidden by the apron are showing signs of fraying from wearing for a long time. The current Seong Eun-yul doesn’t mind wearing such clothes.
“What on earth happened?”
“that… … .”
If Eun-yul had sensed a stabbing hostility in Hyeon Je-ha’s words, she would have bitten him without mercy. However, it was difficult to accept him as he just quietly blurted out his feelings as he watched Eun-yul without any emotion.
“Are you going to stay here for now?”
That’s what Eunyul said while she was thinking about it. The shock of meeting Hyun Je-ha for the first time had subsided, but the discomfort still remained.
Hyun Jae-ha looked at his watch, took out his cell phone, checked that there was a call, and shook his head.
“No, you have to go into the company.”
Eun-yul, who had been thinking for a moment about where Hyun Je-ha worked, looked outside in surprise.
“Aren’t you working in Seoul?”
“that’s right. “I came out to see you.”
Who doesn’t know that you came to see me? If you hadn’t thought of coming to see me in the first place, you wouldn’t have needed to come down here.
Anyway, since Hyun Jae-ha is sitting here now, Eun-yul asks something else rather than arguing further.
“rice is?”
In response to Eun-yul’s question, Hyun Je-ha pointed to what was in front of him.
“It’s here.”
“Do you want to eat?”
“Just like you said, every single thing was made with great care, so you should eat it.”
Hyun Jae-ha raised his hand on the table for the first time. For a moment, I looked at Eunyul as if fascinated by the elegant hand picking up the spoon, then quickly finished eating the hangover soup and rice.
Hyun Je-ha, who had just lowered his spoon to the spot where the hangover soup was, stopped in an awkward posture and raised his head.
“There are some employees who try to take away your food.”
“That’s because I thought you wouldn’t eat it at all.”
Eunyul spoke while holding the cooled hangover soup.
“If I was going to eat it, I should have eaten it when it came out warm. “No matter how carefully it was made, I didn’t force everyone to eat cold food.”
I said this because I didn’t like Hyun Je-ha looking at me, but I guess I thought he would say that he wants to eat cold food now.
When Eun-yul entered the kitchen, Hyun Je-ha, who suddenly looked like a child who had been deprived of food by only hearing the spoon, stood still. I was the only one standing there, as if no time had passed, when I felt eyes on me, so I turned my head and saw the owner of the restaurant.
“Tsk.”
As I watched the restaurant owner clicking his tongue as if he didn’t like it, Eunyul came out.
He placed the steaming hangover soup and rice in front of Hyun Je-ha.
“After eating this, don’t come back again.”
Eunyul muttered, “I keep telling customers not to come,” and went into the room where Haneul was.
Hyeonjaeha, who was left alone, looked at the hangover soup and carefully ate it. It was rich and rich, but not heavy.
Hyun Je-ha’s gaze turned to rice this time. When I ate just half a spoonful, the warm rice tasted as sweet as the hangover soup. Hyun Jae-ha, who was eating the bachelor kimchi and Jinmichae that he said he had made himself, soon began to focus on the meal.
“Why do you eat so beautifully?”
Eun-yul looked at Hyeon Je-ha and muttered through the slightly open door.
Even though it seemed like he was eating hard, he didn’t make a fuss at all, so I was dissatisfied with that for no reason.
“Hyeonjae-ha hasn’t changed.”
He looked exactly like the protagonist I had imagined. He was neat and calm, not easily excited, and had a dignified personality.
However, the only thing that bothered me was Hyeon Je-ha’s thin body, which cannot be easily described. I don’t know if it’s because of Hyun Je-ha’s secret or because he doesn’t eat well to begin with.
Still, I noticed that it was too skinny.
“dad. “Is that guy your uncle too?”
Eunyul thought for a moment and nodded when asked by Haneul, who was drawing a picture in her room. Since we wouldn’t be seeing each other often anyway, I didn’t think that calling me that would matter.
“I think you can put it that way.”
Eun-yul sent Haneul inside, stroking her head and telling her to finish drawing, and then looked at Hyeon Je-ha again. Judging by the way his hands slowly slowed down, he seemed to have finished eating, so he went out.
As I got closer, I saw that the rice was all empty and more than half of the hangover soup was eaten. Judging by the amount of side dishes that had disappeared, Eunyul felt reassured that he had eaten quite a bit and sat down in front of him again.
