11 Virtues A Hero's Civilian Friend Must Uphold - Chapter 10
Na Eun’s murmur caused Seung Joo and Sun Jin to fall silent for a moment.
Then suddenly, as if remembering something, Sun Jin looked at Seung Joo.
“Oh right. I forgot to mention earlier. That brown-haired girl is still alive.”
“What? Oh damn.”
Seung Joo’s expression crumpled like a piece of paper at the news Sun Jin delivered.
In the past, Na Eun would have pretended not to hear and put on her earphones as soon as that conversation started. But this time, having directly witnessed it herself, she couldn’t help but ask.
“That woman…?”
It seemed like they were talking about the person who had killed the bride at the wedding venue.
Sun Jin nodded at Na Eun’s cautious question.
“She likes Seung Joo.”
From what Na Eun gathered, there seemed to be an organization behind the ongoing explosions in the city, and this person was someone they frequently encountered there.
To use a movie analogy, she was like a villain, but according to Sun Jin, this particular villain would go crazy with joy whenever she saw Seung Joo, acting like a pervert. She didn’t seem to be in her right mind.
Even though Na Eun had only glimpsed her briefly that day, it was clear the woman wasn’t sane, so Na Eun nodded in agreement.
Seung Joo said he had broken the woman’s arm once.
And from then on, the woman became even more obsessively fixated on Seung Joo.
Wherever they went, she would be waiting only for him, and during confrontations, she only wanted to fight with Seung Joo.
After hearing this much, Na Eun couldn’t help but blurt out her conclusion, even though she tried to be careful with her words.
“Isn’t that like… ‘You’re the first woman to treat me this way.’ That kind of… chaebol male protagonist mindset?”
“Shut up, you actual rich kid.”
“I keep telling you, it’s my parents who are rich, not me.”
“That’s even more annoying, so can you please shut up?”
As Seung Joo gritted his teeth in irritation, Sun Jin watched him with a strange smirk and said:
“She even kissed him.”
“Hey, shut up.”
“Gasp! Really?”
Caught having his dark history exposed in front of a friend, Seung Joo slumped face-down onto the desk.
Na Eun grabbed Seung Joo’s shoulder and shook it, asking:
“Really? That woman did that to you?”
Have you kissed before?
At Na Eun’s strangely off-target question, Sun Jin burst out laughing, while Seung Joo swatted away Na Eun’s hand in irritation.
“It was just an accident! I let my guard down for a moment and… Ah, damn it.”
That crazy bitch.
He’d never even dated anyone, but to have his first kiss with a crazy woman.
As Seung Joo writhed in humiliation, Na Eun patted his back to comfort him.
“Don’t take it too much to heart. That was forced on you, it doesn’t count as your first kiss.”
“What are you saying? That’s even more humiliating!”
Argh! It still makes my blood boil just thinking about it.
During a one-on-one confrontation, in that brief moment when he had let his guard down, the sensation of her pulling down his mask and deeply brushing his lips remained vividly etched in Seung Joo’s memory.
“Where are you going?”
“To wash my mouth!”
Seung Joo abruptly stood up, kicking his chair back, and stormed out of the classroom.
Used to Seung Joo’s outbursts, Sun Jin waved her hand behind his back, sending him off with a “Come back safely.”
As Na Eun was packing up Seung Joo’s bag for him, Sun Jin said to her:
“It probably won’t happen, but if you ever run into that woman again later, just stay still.”
She likes it best when her target trembles and begs for their life.
Na Eun felt a chill run down her spine at Sun Jin’s words.
She wiped the back of her neck with her hand, feeling cold sweat forming where the woman had pointed her gun.
A chill ran through her body as if she had returned to that wedding hall that had turned into chaos in an instant.
Watching Na Eun’s reaction intently, Sun Jin said:
“I’m s—”
“Don’t say you’re sorry.”
Na Eun’s voice cut in urgently, as if she knew what Sun Jin was about to say. Sun Jin was momentarily taken aback.
Na Eun was staring at Sun Jin with slightly reddened eyes.
“I’m, I’m grateful to you.”
“…”
“Thank you, really.”
Sun Jin remained silent for a moment at her friend’s words, which carried sincere gratitude and perhaps the most desperate comfort.
In the now empty classroom where most students had left, an unfamiliar silence fell between the two.
It felt similar to the awkwardness they had experienced when left alone in the hotel elevator.
After some time had passed, Sun Jin suddenly asked:
“But why did you go there?”
“Huh?”
“You never used to go to those kinds of events with your parents.”
Sun Jin had never seen Na Eun attend any of the corporate events or parties her parents went to.
Let alone a wedding of her parents’ acquaintance.
Knowing Na Eun would have chosen to go on a date with her boyfriend at that time instead, Sun Jin had asked without thinking, but she fell silent at the answer she received.
“…I heard your favorite singer was going to perform at the ceremony.”
“…”
“I wanted to get an autograph for you…”
Though I couldn’t in the end.
Sun Jin stared silently for a while at Na Eun, who lowered her head with a slightly embarrassed expression, before saying:
“I see.”
So that’s what happened.
“Thank you.”
“…”
At that, Na Eun suddenly lifted her head.
And then, seeing Sun Jin’s incredibly mature face that she had never noticed before looking back at her, Na Eun’s eyes became somewhat sorrowful.
But Sun Jin couldn’t help but smile at her friend’s bright smile, as if she had finally heard the words she wanted to hear.
The things she always wanted to protect were always this simple.
[This is the timeline separator]Being alive means you’re lucky.
There’s a new feeling that has recently taken root in Na Eun’s mind.
Gratitude for being “alive.” The life we took for granted could be lost at any moment for any reason.
Having felt this acutely through the recent incident, Na Eun resolved to cherish each day more preciously.
Being alive and healthy was certainly something to be grateful for.
She now knew that there were countless tragedies in the world, and it was purely luck that she hadn’t become the protagonist of one of those tragedies.
Late at night. After a quick review for tomorrow’s final exam, Na Eun lay in bed, tossing and turning for a while before reaching for her phone that was charging.
She stared at the phone screen glowing in the darkness for a moment before moving her fingers.
If she could die tomorrow, she wanted to always be honest, at least to have no regrets.
[This is the timeline separator]“Ahahaha. This kid is so cute!”
The brown-haired woman tapped the phone screen with her elaborately manicured nails, throwing her head back in laughter.
Following that, Jae Kyung, who had been drying his wet hair while wearing a bathrobe from the bathroom, snatched the phone from the woman’s hand with slight irritation.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Jae Kyung looked down at the messenger that had just come to him and fell silent, as if at a loss for words.
[Why won’t you kiss me? Don’t you like me that much?] [I like you that much!]“…”
A pink teddy bear hugging a red heart and crying rolled around under the message.
It was a sticker Na Eun often used when she was throwing a tantrum or acting cute.
Finding Jae Kyung’s silent reaction to the phone amusing, the woman giggled and leaned back on the sofa, crossing her legs.
“You haven’t even kissed her yet? How disappointing for the poor girl.”
“I told you not to intrude into my room as you please.”
How did you find out my room number? At the cool question, the woman winked and pointed to her ear.
Jae Kyung’s expression grew colder as he noticed the small earpiece in her ear.
He warned the woman who had misused the wiretap they had recently exchanged:
“If you use that for personal purposes one more time, I’ll destroy it.”
“Alright, alright. You’re so prickly.”
The woman grumbled, sounding disappointed.
As she swung her crossed legs, the blue high heels she was wearing dangled precariously from her smooth heels.
Watching this, Jae Kyung furrowed his brow.
“Don’t come in wearing shoes.”
“Why not? I’m sexier in heels.”
Twirling the ends of her brown hair with her fingertips, the woman quickly continued, not letting Jae Kyung change the subject.
“By the way, you really haven’t kissed her? Hasn’t it been over a year since you started dating?”
Even for high school students, shouldn’t you have made some progress after dating that long? Jae Kyung replied indifferently to the woman’s question, still looking at his phone:
“Isn’t it enough to make her wear a school uniform for over 3 years? Should I make her sell her body too?”
The woman laughed so hard she almost fell over at his irritated tone.
“Why, I thought you looked so cute in your school uniform!”
Actually, I came hoping to see you in it, but I was disappointed you were in the shower, the woman said as she got up.
She approached the bed where Jae Kyung was sitting and wrapped her arms around his neck, saying:
“You’re amazing, Han Jae Kyung. It must have been tough slowly melting that girl without even selling your body.”
“Thanks to someone, all the effort I put in for over a year was almost wasted in an instant.”
Jae Kyung glared at the woman silently.
“I’m sure I told you about Yoon Na Eun’s movements.”
“Ah~ I wanted to avoid it too! But what could I do? The party venue was already set, all the manpower was mobilized! All the bombs were planted! If we didn’t move after setting everything up, we’d all have been screwed by the boss.”
The woman whined, sitting on Jae Kyung’s lap and bouncing up and down.
“And I was a little jealous.”
She pulled something out from inside the coat she was wearing.
Slipping one of several photos between her fingers, she waved it in front of Jae Kyung’s eyes as if to say, “Take a look at this.”
The photo showed three girls in school uniforms smiling happily while sharing ice cream.
The woman pouted her lips.
“Look at K’s expression here. If K were a guy, I’d have thought she was Yoon Na Eun’s lover.”
In the photo, K, Kwon Seung Joo, was smiling brightly while looking at Na Eun wiping ice cream off the ground.
Next to her, Sun Jin could be seen clearly handing tissues to Na Eun.
“She’s never smiled at me like that, how mean.”
Then, like a child who had thought of a mischievous prank, the woman grinned.
“Should I cut off Yoon Na Eun’s fingers one by one in front of K later?”
The woman muttered excitedly that K would surely lose her affection if she saw Na Eun screaming and wailing ugly from the pain.
Jae Kyung warned her in a low voice:
“Let me make this clear, Yoon Na Eun is a useful card. If you make the time I’ve invested useless because of your petty emotions, I’ll kill you first.”
“Oh my, that sounds like you’re worried Na Eun might get hurt.”
Why, did you fall for that rabbit-like little girl while dating her? At the woman’s probing question, Jae Kyung sneered.
“I’m not a crazy bastard like you who lusts after minors.”
“That’s what K says to me every time she sees me. Crazy bitch.”
You don’t know how thrilling it is to hear that curse, the woman said, shivering her shoulders.
Jae Kyung pushed her off his lap with a look of disgust.
Though she was shoved unceremoniously off the bed, the woman was not discouraged at all. She rolled around on the soft carpet and threw something at Jae Kyung.
A small USB flashed in his palm as he caught it.
“How about an amusement park date with our rabbit-like girlfriend this time? The college entrance exam will be over soon too.”
“…”
“I think our Yoon Na Eun learned the alphabet backwards. L. K, J—”
How nicely they line up like candies on a string. The woman laughed as she counted on her fingers.
“I think we might be able to add one more.”
“Are you talking about Seo Hee Won?”
“You’ve already finished investigating?”
Jae Kyung, who had dug into the other party’s background from the moment he made contact, had a cold look in his eyes.
“Remove J. He only had contact with Yoon Na Eun once and there’s no possibility of them getting close.”
“It wasn’t just once though? They met at the hotel wedding hall that time.”
“…”
“She didn’t tell you?”
The woman laughed, a bit dumbfounded.
“That little girl really keeps her mouth shut about anything related to the heroes.”
“I’m going to sleep. Get out.”
Jae Kyung warned with a frosty voice.
The woman, who had known Jae Kyung for over ten years, knew it was his last bit of patience and obediently got up.
As the woman gathered her handbag that had been strewn on the sofa and left with her short skirt fluttering, the hotel room was finally filled with the silence he desired.
“…”
Jae Kyung silently looked down at the phone screen in his hand as it lit up again.
He stared at the pink bear sticker still rolling on the ground crying with emotionless eyes, then walked over to the table and picked up the cigarette pack that was lying there.
Habitually putting one in his mouth and lighting it, Jae Kyung stared at the messenger with Na Eun for a moment, then moved his thumb down to scroll up through the conversation history.
Thanks to all the trivial chatter almost every day, he had to scroll up quite a bit to reach that part, which Jae Kyung read over and over again out of habit.
[Jae Kyung] [I’ll definitely protect you.]Jae Kyung’s gaze, which had been looking at that sentence with ridicule and presumptuousness, gradually sank into darkness.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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