Kim Chae Won faced Oh nurse with a smiling face.

“I booked here for 2 nights and 3 days. It was a bit boring spending time alone with my boyfriend.”

Oh nurse, who always used big gestures when speaking, was excited, using both hands.

“But it’s so nice to have meals together like this. I was secretly worried that you might still be angry with me…”

Kim Chae Won smiled warmly, like a winter blanket.

“Angry? I don’t remember anything from the past. I’m so cool, you know.”

Although everyone in the hospital family knew that Kim Chae Won was the type to hold grudges and not forgive easily, Oh nurse decided not to comment on it, given the good atmosphere for once.

“Hehe, but what should I do? I got treated to such an expensive meal. We should have paid.”

“When I saw patients with burns that couldn’t be delayed, even during off-hours, you helped me until the end. You always work hard, so I wanted to treat you to a meal.”

“Aww, doctor…”

Oh nurse smiled with eyes filled with emotion.

“Let’s not be like that and get closer. How about calling me elder sister?”

“Can I really call you that?”

“Outside of work, let’s comfortably be elder sister and younger sister.”

Oh nurse repeatedly hit Kim Chae Won’s arm in excitement.

“I love it! Elder sister!”

Kim Chae Won also chuckled at Oh nurse’s quick friendliness when given the chance.

“Elder sister! Elder sister!”

Her cute behavior of repeating the close term like a parrot after it was decided was adorable.

Kim Chae Won had told Choi Yoo Gun that she would also speak comfortably, but still couldn’t easily do so, so she suddenly felt envious of Oh nurse’s personality.

“But my boyfriend and elder sister’s boyfriend said they’d come out after working out a bit, but they’re late? The pool party should have just started.”

“The two of them seemed to connect over fitness earlier, so I guess they have a lot to talk about regarding exercise.”

“Elder sister’s boyfriend looked very cold in image, but when I saw him earlier, he seemed quite kind and gentle. Let’s hang out as couples often. Doctor! I mean, elder sister!”

Kim Chae Won laughed softly as Oh nurse grabbed her arm.

“Alright. Shall we go ahead and have some drinks first?”

“Sounds good!”

Unlike Oh nurse’s light steps, thinking it was just for fun, each of Kim Chae Won’s steps towards the pool party venue was wrapped in many emotions.

As they approached, the strong beat of electronic music strongly hit people’s hearts.

“Wow! Elder sister, there are already so many people!”

Kim Chae Won stood at the entrance and looked around with an expressionless face.

Stand bars and sun beds placed here and there around the large pool in the center, and the cheers of excited young people in swimsuits.

Although it was a far distance, Kim Chae Won, who had been a master of hidden picture puzzles since childhood, quickly found the faces of Noh Jae Min and Go Ro Na enjoying the party.

“Oh, but I think I ate too much. Why are there so many slender women? Ugh, my pot belly.”

Kim Chae Won softened her cold expression and smiled at Oh nurse.

“Do you know who stands out the most in places like this, Yi Ji?”

“Who?”

“Someone confident and full of self-assurance.”

“…Ah.”

Kim Chae Won grabbed one of Oh nurse’s shoulders and said with a serious look.

“Don’t doze off, because from now on, we’re the best.”

Somehow empowering words.

Oh nurse nodded with a smile.

“That’s right. We’re the best!”

Kim Chae Won chuckled and turned her head forward.

As she unbuttoned her coat, a red bikini with vibrant colors was revealed, seductively wrapping around Kim Chae Won’s figure.

Kim Chae Won, with her long hair flipped back, walked deep into the pool party venue with her chin held high.

*

By now, the dark night was falling on the blue sky, but the lighting fixtures placed here and there and the cheers of young people were illuminating the place like sunlight.

“Kyaa, honey, stop it. Hic.”

Jenny’s joyful screams burst out several times.

Like others, Jenny and Ho Tae, wearing glow-in-the-dark bracelets, were busy splashing water at each other in the pool.

Sitting on the sun bed right in front, Ro Na was watching them with a smile when she was startled by Jae Min’s hand suddenly splashing water at her too, and shook her head.

“What are you doing, Jae Min?”

“Hehe. It’s fun since we’re here for once.”

“How annoying, you guys are just playing by yourselves. If you keep showing off like that, I might jump in too?”

“Oh no! No!”

Ro Na chuckled and stroked her belly while looking at her maternity swimsuit that she was wearing for the first time.

“Little bean, are you having fun too?”

Ro Na smiled as she watched them, hearing Jenny’s laughter-mixed screams.

“Everyone, let’s have some drinks while playing.”

Unable to hear clearly due to the particularly loud electronic music, Jae Min got out of the pool at Ro Na’s gesture.

Ho Tae and Jenny followed suit.

“Here, drink while playing. Here’s some cocktail.”

When Ro Na handed Jenny a glass, she, in high spirits, also picked up Ro Na’s glass and handed it to her.

“Elder sister, here’s your fruit juice!”

Ro Na thought she had made the right decision to come, seeing Jenny’s suddenly affectionate behavior while playing together.

“Thank you. Then, shall we all clink glasses?”

“Yes, elder sister. Cheers!”

Everyone clinked their glasses in high spirits.

As they all smiled and swallowed their drinks.

At that moment, when the joyful music with heart-pounding beats, the unique smell of the swimming pool, and the sweet cocktail moistened their throats, Jenny’s eyes widened.

“Oh! Isn’t that… elder sister Hee Joo over there?”

Everyone turned their heads at Jenny’s words.

Ho Tae, who had been looking at the woman at Jenny’s fingertip for a long time, tilted his head curiously.

“Isn’t it not her? That woman looks quite different from the person I know.”

“No, it is her! Oppa! It’s elder sister Hee Joo, right?”

Jae Min, who had already recognized that the woman in the red bikini was his wife, was standing stiffly with a very rigid expression.

Ro Na, who had noticed, also turned her head to Jae Min with her brows furrowed.

She couldn’t tell if his dazed expression was from being very surprised or had some other meaning, but she was seized by an ominous feeling that this would ruin the party.

“Oppa, right?”

At Jenny’s repeated question, Jae Min came to his senses and turned his head.

“Oppa, why aren’t you answering? It is elder sister Hee Joo! Looks like she came to play with a friend? Wow, this is amazing. Really. I knew elder sister was slim, but did she have such a good figure?”

Many gazes, both men and women, were fixed on Kim Chae Won in her red bikini.

Looking once again, Jae Min muttered with a serious expression, blinking several times.

“Ah, wait, this isn’t the time to be like this.”

Jae Min grabbed a towel next to him and immediately unfolded it to cover Ro Na’s face.

“Kyaa, what are you doing, Jae Min?”

“It’s obviously a couple date, if we’re caught like this, next week’s wedding and everything will be over. Cover your face and stay put, Ro Na.”

“But Jae Min, this is still…!”

While holding Ro Na’s head that was moving as if in protest, Jae Min turned to Jenny and Ho Tae.

“I’ll go first, you guys take care of Ro Na!”

Jenny and Ho Tae’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Oh my, what? Why should I take care of her! You should take care of her, oppa!”

“Uh, brother-in-law. The red bikini is coming this way.”

Jae Min, startled, said with a stiff expression.

“Hey, everyone run away!”

“What? Why do we have to run away too!”

“Just go when I tell you to!”

“Ah, really, what is this!”

Although Jenny protested until the end, Jae Min, who had become urgent, ran away alone, wearing sunglasses and covering his nose and mouth with a towel.

*

Jae Min, who had passed by Kim Chae Won with his face covered, stopped at a distance and looked back.

“But was Hee Joo… that good?”

The Hee Joo he knew was just skinny, but this was clearly a different feeling with the same face.

Jae Min, who had stopped to look at her with an unfamiliar feeling, soon frowned in displeasure.

“Why on earth did she come to a place like this! A married woman!”

She had stubbornly refused to wear a swimsuit even on their honeymoon, saying there was a burn scar on her right back, but seeing her walking around so confidently like that made him feel more and more upset the more he thought about it.

While muttering with a displeased face, Kim Chae Won turned around for a moment.

Startled, Jae Min hurriedly lowered his face and quickened his steps towards the exit.

“Aack!”

Jae Min, who had tripped over someone’s foot, opened his mouth in pain at his scraped knee.

“Are you okay?”

“Ow, how exactly are you walking with your eyes open! Ow.”

As this wasn’t the situation to create a scene by arguing, Jae Min left through the exit with a frown.

Three men and women with their faces covered with towels walk in a line holding each other’s shoulders as if playing a train game.

Kim Chae Won approached them with a smirk and stopped in front of them as planned.

“Oh? You look like someone I know, perhaps…?”

Flustered by the person who stopped them, Jenny covered her face with a towel even more and spoke in a disguised voice.

“No, we’re not.”

If it weren’t for Go Ro Na behind them, they could confidently greet her and enjoy without any problem.

Because Noh Jae Min had left her behind, they all had to cover their faces like criminals like this.

“That’s strange, the lower half of your face looks exactly the same.”

“It’s not us, please move aside.”

Jenny, who answered in a disguised voice, hurriedly grabbed Ho Tae’s hand behind her and left the place.

Ro Na, who was following with her face covered, was wandering around aimlessly, flustered by the suddenly disappeared companions.

“Excuse me.”

Ro Na stopped at Kim Chae Won’s voice.

Flustered, she swallowed dry saliva and waited for her next words.

“There’s a line in front of you. You seem to be pregnant, I’m worried you might fall.”

Only then did Ro Na feel relieved and half-bowed her head as if she were a stranger, then turned away while covering her face.

With Go Ro Na’s exit, the electronic music and cross lighting intensified even more.

Kim Chae Won looked around the cleanly cleaned party venue, and only then did the cheerful music seem to reach her ears.

“Elder sister, do you know those people?”

Oh nurse whispered close to her ear.

“I thought I did, but I guess not.”

Kim Chae Won received two glasses of cocktail from a passing staff member.

Kim Chae Won lightly clinked glasses with Oh nurse and slowly swallowed the alcohol with her lips.

Now, they probably won’t spout nonsense about feeling like their mood is flying away anymore.

“You shouldn’t do that without conscience, you guys.”

Kim Chae Won’s voice, muttering while looking at the glass, was quickly enveloped by the loud music and disappeared.

Oh nurse, who was starting to get in the mood and moving her body to the music, gradually stopped moving as she sensed her surroundings.

Oh nurse, who opened her mouth in surprise, soon whispered in Kim Chae Won’s ear.

“But elder sister, what should we do?”

Kim Chae Won, who was gently swirling her cocktail glass, tilted her head at Oh nurse’s words.

“I mean, over there.”

Kim Chae Won looked around following her gaze and only then realized that quite a few men had approached and surrounded them.

A man in a tank top approached, dancing with ominous movements.

The man, who was performing tricks in front of Kim Chae Won while riding a huge wave, whispered in her ear.

“Want to play together?”

Kim Chae Won, who hadn’t anticipated this situation, shook her head with the most calm expression possible.

As she turned to leave, another man approached, dancing with slow movements and grooving.

“We’re two people too? Yoohoo!”

The man with goose-like eyebrows wearing a blue hat wiggled them sleazily.

“We’re four people.”

“Oh, even better! Good! Good!”

Kim Chae Won turned in another direction, smiling awkwardly at the grinning man.

Oh nurse, who seemed to find the situation curious, just grabbed Kim Chae Won’s arm and followed with her eyes wide open.

“Come on, I said four is fine too!”

The man followed and blocked Kim Chae Won’s path.

As the music changed, many people cheered and shouted.

Some men threw their hats into the air, while some women climbed onto platforms with poles and danced ecstatically… More and more young people were becoming frenzied.

Kim Chae Won sighed softly and silently passed by the man, indicating her refusal.

“Hey, pretty little sister, let’s play together. Hm?”

“How about us?”

“What’s your name?”

People who suddenly approached after being excited to the music.

Kim Chae Won, who was walking with an expressionless face leading Oh nurse, had to stop again in front of a smiling man who blocked her way.

“Where are you going in such a hurry?”

Unlike others who would just pass by and look around while playing, the group of men wearing blue hats kept following Kim Chae Won.

The man who completely blocked the way and smiled had hazy eyes as if he had too much to drink, which was unsettling.

“Stop playing hard to get and let’s play together, okay?”

“I didn’t come here to play, so please move.”

“Oh come on, if you didn’t come to play, then what? Ah, I told you we can handle four people too.”

As Kim Chae Won was backing away from him approaching and flirting, someone grabbed her arm with strong force.

“Oh.”

Kim Chae Won turned her head in surprise, and her body soon settled into Choi Yoo Gun’s arms.

Kim Chae Won looked up at Choi Yoo Gun with a surprised expression, but he opened his lips with his face fixed on the man.

“I’m her companion, so try handling me.”

The feet of the two men heading towards Kim Chae Won stopped abruptly.

The man who had been facing Choi Yoo Gun’s eyes, which felt even colder because they were emotionless, soon looked around and gradually increased the distance.