“Look again, look again. Look at it again!”
“I’m sorry. It’s difficult to go beyond this amount.”
“Hey! Are you blind? It’s real, right?”
Seokdong glanced at the woman standing in front of him with a displeased look. The woman’s clothing was odd for the season, and her shoes had a dirty camellia flower decoration on one side.
The hairstyle was outstanding, with messy hair that seemed like it hadn’t been combed properly.
Although the face looked somewhat decent, the woman seemed crazy upon closer inspection.
The swollen bags under her eyes and the nails on the hand holding the handbag were all messed up. Looking at the bloodied fingertips, it seemed like she habitually bit her nails, and it looked quite severe.
“You seem to want to say something. And who said it’s not real?”
“It’s real, but only fifty thousand won?”
“I’ll say it again; this is the best we can do.”
“Hey! I bought this. Do you think it’s only worth fifty thousand won?”
“If you keep this up, I’ll call the police.”
“…Police?”
When the boss mentioned the police, the woman widened her eyes. Her fidgeting and uneasy appearance were highly suspicious. Seokdong thought that the woman must have stolen the bag from somewhere.
“Tsk…”
Clicking his tongue, he looked down at the large box he had carefully placed on his knees.
“I can get a few hundred even if I can’t do this.”
It was Gwangsuni’s most cherished bag. Because she treasured it so much, she never carried it properly even once.
Gwangsuni had placed the bag in the deepest part of the closet. She occasionally took it out with care, alongside the paper bag, box, and dust bag she received when she purchased it from the department store, to gently wipe and check it.
Seokdong had secretly taken out the bag that Gwangsuni cherished like an heirloom. He was confident that he wouldn’t be caught for a while since it was a bag that Gwangsuni considered opening once a year.
After the reconstruction of the Hwami Apartments, where he used to live, almost everything had changed. All the other apartments around Hwami Apartments had gone through reconstruction one by one, but Hwami Apartments stood like a ghost in the middle of Gangnam.
After several reconstructions due to the loud and aggressive cooperative members, Hwami Apartments were called the ‘rotten persimmon’ among the construction companies.
The residents still lived with their heads held high, but there were many people laughing at them. The good-for-nothing appearance was like a perfectly ripe persimmon.
“…As long as that building doesn’t come in.”
After being cut off from his senior’s dental clinic, Seokdong, who worked as a freelance dentist here and there, finally persuaded Gwangsuni to open a dental clinic on the third floor.
In the process, he added some money to the owner of the study cafe on the third floor and the yoga studio owner, and eventually managed to get them out.
He was confident that he would do well. So, he planned to flatten the nose of the senior dentist who fired him.
However, a few months ago, my senior suddenly closed the dental clinic and proposed to Gwangsuni that she sell the second floor to him at the same price he bought it, neither more nor less.
Although there was no money, Gwangsuni, who had strong affection for the building, pulled together various funds and bought back the second floor. After that, both the third and second floors were renovated into Seokdong’s dental clinic.
After putting up a new signboard, Seokdong enthusiastically opened the dental clinic and received patients. However, rumors circulated among colleagues that a large dental hospital specializing in dental care would enter the large vacant lot created by pushing away the old buildings right next to Namgwang Villa.
Seokdong, who had been busy decorating the hospital for a few months and attended a gathering late, laughed when he heard the news for the first time.
“No, who in their right mind builds a large dental hospital in the expensive land of Gangnam? Even if they make money, they won’t be able to pay the rent, right? What crazy person would sit as the director?”
“…It’s Professor Jinsunghan.”
“…What?”
“That hospital director is Professor Jinsunghan.”
Professor Jinsunghan was a well-known specialist that every dentist in South Korea knew.
Teaching students for a long time at the university, he was a highly skilled doctor. At the same time, he became famous for criticizing excessive treatments and gained attention from the media, making him an object of avoidance among doctors.
“Do you know too? Professor has deep thoughts about excessive dental treatments. I heard that the person who said they would invest in the hospital presented tremendous conditions related to that.”
“What is that…”
“Professor said he would spare no support to make the dream of a long-held treatment possible. It seems that, from what I heard, a person, possibly a Korean, who proposed the hospital space to Professor directly donated a huge amount…”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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