I almost got caught by the police while trying to go to the amusement park.
The police officers, who happened to witness Seung Joo’s screaming during their patrol, thought she was really being kidnapped. They scolded Seung Joo and her friends sternly, telling them not to play such pranks in the future, before leaving.
It wasn’t a prank. I really thought I was going to die.
They thought about protesting their innocence but instead decided to deal with the cause of this situation.
Na Eun, who somehow had the courage to not give up the driver’s seat even after the police left, managed to successfully park the car in the amusement park parking lot after much bickering.
In fact, it was only because Jae Kyung gave all the advice from the side, making her his avatar for parking, but Na Eun was shamelessly satisfied with her successful first parking attempt.
As soon as they got out of the car after parking, Seung Joo grabbed the collar of today’s culprit, her crazy friend, and shook her vigorously.
“Hey! If you want to die, die alone!”
“Ack. Seung Joo, I can’t breathe.”
“What made you confident enough to grab the steering wheel? Huh?!”
As Sun Jin interrogated her while hitting Na Eun’s head next to them, Na Eun laughed sheepishly.
“I know, right? I thought I could do it, but it’s a bit difficult.”
“……”
“……”
Na Eun is undoubtedly a model student at school, which is why some teachers find it hard to understand why she hangs out with them.
But Seung Joo and Sun Jin have known since their first year.
That among the three of them, Yoon Na Eun is the craziest.
“If we strangle her, she’ll die, right?”
“Hold on, hold on. She has a boyfriend, you know. Let’s save it for later.”
Sun Jin advised seriously to Seung Joo, who was discussing it just as seriously.
Na Eun, sensing that her life was in danger, reached out both hands and whined for Jae Kyung to save her, but Jae Kyung was too busy laughing, bent over leaning against the car.
“It’s amazing that you can just laugh seeing this.”
“It was true love.”
Seung Joo and Sun Jin finally acknowledged that they were truly in love, as Jae Kyung had been helping with the driving almost the entire way here, turning the steering wheel instead of Na Eun, without showing any irritation and just laughing.
“But if you know how to drive, why did you keep letting Yoon Na Eun do it?”
Judging from how he was giving advice to Na Eun and telling her the right timing to change lanes, it was clear that Jae Kyung was quite familiar with driving.
It’s not uncommon for boys to get their licenses early.
That aside, Sun Jin, who was giving a resentful look to herself for not switching seats even when they briefly stopped because of the police earlier, Jae Kyung said with a smile.
“Driving is all about experience, isn’t it? Na Eun needs to practice too.”
Damn. So you practiced with our lives as collateral.
Seung Joo, who wasn’t close enough to grab Jae Kyung’s collar yet, fidgeted with her fists in frustration, while Sun Jin vented by grabbing Na Eun’s collar and shaking her once more.
[This is the timeline separator]The amusement park they arrived at after much trouble was fun.
Although it took hours of waiting to ride just one attraction due to the crowds, even that wasn’t boring as they chatted with each other.
It was the first time meeting friends and Jae Kyung together, so there was a bit of worry about awkwardness, but that concern turned out to be unfounded as the three naturally got along.
The mature Jae Kyung and the somewhat reckless Seung Joo and Sun Jin played comfortably as if they had been friends all along.
There were many discount benefits given to high school seniors who had finished their college entrance exams, so using coupons to buy and eat various things and play around, before they knew it, the sun was setting.
The four of them, who had already decided to stay until the last parade, put their heads together to decide what to eat for dinner.
Korean, Chinese, or Western? How about hamburgers? Should we just have churros as a snack? As various opinions were being voiced, Na Eun suddenly looked up and caught sight of Sun Jin’s face.
While she was calmly considering the menu options, Na Eun stared intently at her slightly changed expression and took out her phone from her pocket.
After pointlessly flipping through the screen of the phone that had no new messages, Na Eun deliberately put on an urgent expression.
“Oh no! What should I do? My mom and dad want me to come home early.”
“What?”
“Why?”
As Jae Kyung looked down at her, and Sun Jin and Seung Joo asked what was wrong, Na Eun inwardly smiled bitterly as she confirmed her friends’ expressions subtly blooming.
She sighed exaggeratedly and performed the act she had now become somewhat accustomed to.
“I’m sorry. I forgot we had a family gathering tonight. They keep asking when I’m coming…”
“Ah…”
“Can’t be helped then.”
Her friends quickly played along with Na Eun. Na Eun stood up and said to Jae Kyung.
“Jae Kyung, I’m really sorry, but since we need to go back quickly… Could you drive instead of me?”
“Alright.”
Jae Kyung, who had no reason to stay longer without his girlfriend, got up willingly.
Na Eun linked arms with Jae Kyung and looked at Seung Joo and Sun Jin.
“Girls, I’m really sorry. I’ll go first.”
“No, no, it’s okay.”
“It’s a family gathering! Can’t be helped!”
Na Eun, guessing that the two actually wanted to quickly send their friend away from this dangerous place rather than hold her back, waved her hand saying she’d be going first.
“Today was fun! See you at school.”
“Sure.”
“Take care!”
After saying goodbye like that, Na Eun, who had gathered her bag, quickly left her seat.
As soon as they left the restaurant area, Na Eun’s pace quickened, which Jae Kyung noticed and silently matched her stride.
As soon as they arrived at the parking lot, Na Eun got into the passenger seat of the car. Jae Kyung silently looked at her for a moment before starting the engine and departing.
The car they were in smoothly exited the parking lot.
[This is the timeline separator]“Today,”
After driving silently towards her house for a while, Jae Kyung glanced at her and said,
“You’re not really going home because of some business, are you?”
Unable to deceive her boyfriend who knew her better than anyone else, Na Eun nodded obediently.
“No.”
Jae Kyung is as perceptive as she is. He chuckled softly.
“It wasn’t you who had urgent business, but your friends.”
“……”
“But why did you lie as if you were the one who had something come up?”
To this kind inquiry rather than an interrogation, Na Eun’s lips slowly parted.
“I… don’t like it when they feel sorry for me.”
“……”
“It’s been like that since our first year.”
Every time they hung out, when incidents occurred, the two of them had to leave Na Eun behind unintentionally, and they always couldn’t hide their apologetic feelings.
After becoming close, they would joke around and act rudely to each other to the point of crossing the line a bit, but whenever they had to hurriedly leave her alone, they would strangely become considerate, wondering if their friend’s feelings were hurt.
At first, she just went along with it. But later, she disliked her friends being overly considerate of her feelings, so she started canceling plans first when she sensed it.
After meeting these kids almost every day for three years, she could tell just by their expressions whether it was a situation where she should bow out or not.
Every time such a situation arose, she made a decision.
At least, let’s make sure the words “I’m sorry” don’t come out of their mouths first.
This resolve strengthened after seeing Sun Jin bowing her head like a sinner to the crying bride’s parents during the recent hotel incident.
At least, she decided to make sure the two of them wouldn’t say sorry to her.
“Jae Kyung, let’s go quickly.”
We need to get out of here soon.
Na Eun felt from the expressions of the two that they needed to.
And at the same time, both Jae Kyung and Na Eun’s phones rang violently.
Na Eun quietly looked down at the emergency disaster alert message that appeared on the screen.
It said that the amusement park where she and her friends had been playing until just now had suddenly become a danger zone and access was prohibited.
Na Eun blinked slowly.
“Jae Kyung, there’s a rule they made without me knowing after I became friends with them.”
“A rule?”
“Like a virtue that should be held as a civilian friend of heroes.”
Jae Kyung smiled as if finding it a bit amusing.
Did you write something like that? To Jae Kyung’s question, Na Eun clutched her phone tightly with both hands.
The emergency disaster alert was still repeatedly flashing on the phone screen.
“One of them is this.”
“Which one?”
“Not to be a distraction during fights.”
“……”
“If I had stayed there, they both would have been worried and couldn’t have fought properly.”
Noticing her strangely dejected voice, Jae Kyung asked softly while turning the steering wheel.
“Are you upset?”
That you couldn’t be there with them?
Na Eun quietly shook her head.
No.
“I just… feel sorry for them.”
“……”
Those kids who feel sorry in situations where they don’t need to, and act as if they have to sacrifice themselves in situations where they don’t need to.
Na Eun has liked superhero stories since she was young.
Spiderman, Batman, Superman, One Punch Man… While her love for them certainly included admiration and excitement, the underlying emotion was, in a way, pity.
Yes. Na Eun felt sorry for those hailed as heroes.
Jae Kyung, who had been glancing at Na Eun’s side profile as she sat silently at some point, quietly focused on driving.
The car they were in had already left the area where the danger alert was issued and was now entering the safe downtown area.
__________
“Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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