I Don't Recommend a Blunder with a Male Friend (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
“Ms. Baek In Ha, where on earth do you hear that kind of news?”
I asked her, half curious and half surprised. She gave a shy smile and replied,
“I’m always poking around everywhere, right? So I end up hearing a lot. Oh! And I’m working hard on the task you assigned me today!”
Her clumsy attempt at loyalty with her left hand was adorable.
“Haha. Got it. So, just to confirm, I can expect a preliminary draft of the Tech Research Team’s domestic seminar travel plan guidelines by the end of today, right?”
“Oh… about that…”
She hurried back to her seat in a fluster at my words.
Although it was Baek In Ha’s biggest assignment since joining the company—just a domestic business trip—it was still a fairly large-scale travel plan due to the number of participants.
Watching the back of her head as she instantly dove into work, I smiled contentedly and turned my gaze back to my monitor.
Goddess Yoo…
I’d never actually exchanged words with her, but her striking appearance had made several encounters within the company stick vividly in my memory.
She was quite famous among the male employees, and the fact that someone like her liked Ji Seo Jun… gave me an oddly irritating feeling.
Could it be… jealousy?
I shook my head vigorously at the word “jealousy” as I tried to define my own emotions.
The next day. For some reason, I especially dreaded going to work. The drizzling rain weighed heavily on my body like an anchor, deepening my reluctance.
To shake off the damp mood even a little, I was browsing photos of resort destinations.
“Assistant!”
Ms. Baek In Ha burst into the office with great urgency.
Whenever she appeared like this, it usually meant another office couple had formed.
“Assistant! You remember what I mentioned yesterday!”
She was panting slightly, likely from rushing over so quickly.
“Yesterday? What about yesterday?”
“Oh goodness! About Goddess Yoo and Researcher Ji Seo Jun!”
Could it be… Were they dating now? Ji Seo Jun hadn’t told me anything!
“T-They’re dating?”
My voice trembled slightly from nervousness, but luckily, Baek In Ha didn’t seem to notice.
“No! It’s not that…”
She glanced around the still mostly empty office, then leaned closer to me.
“Apparently, Ms. Yoo Na Ra got rejected!”
“What?”
That was shocking in its own way.
“Why?”
I perked up my ears.
“It’s actually kind of sad… Ji Seo Jun apparently has a girlfriend already…”
Huh? That guy has a girlfriend? That was news to me.
Could it be…
A scene from the distant past flashed through my mind.
.
.
.
“Who’s Moon Da Yul around here?”
The classroom door slammed open as a second-year senior strutted in—her skirt perilously short, her blazer straining at the seams, and her shaggy perm wildly puffed up.
All the students’ eyes instantly turned to me.
“You?”
Frozen in fear, I could only stare blankly as she marched straight to my desk.
“Hey! I’m talking to you—Moon Da Yul.”
“Y-Yes…?”
When I finally squeaked out a reply, she scanned me up and down and let out an exasperated laugh.
“I came all the way here because I heard you were Ji Seo Jun’s girlfriend—thought you’d be something special. And it’s just you?”
“Huh?”
I couldn’t understand a word coming out of her mouth.
“Are you dumb or something? Why do you keep going ‘Huh? Huh?’ like a clueless idiot?”
I clamped my mouth shut again at her words.
“You’re the one who’s Ji Seo Jun’s girlfriend, right?”
With that, she sneered—lifting just one corner of her mouth—and kicked my desk hard.
“Kyaa!”
I jumped up in fright from my chair.
At that moment, someone shouted “Teacher!” and ran out into the hallway. Seeing that, the senior turned back to me.
“I’ll be watching you.”
And indeed, until she graduated, she really did keep an eye on me.
.
.
.
I rubbed my palms vigorously over the goosebumps rising on my arms.
Turns out, back then, Ji Seo Jun—fed up with constant calls and confessions from upperclassmen—had loudly declared, “Moon Da Yul from Class 2, Grade 1 is my girlfriend!” And after that, girls from all over school, including that senior, started coming to see me. It was utterly absurd.
Why that memory popped up now… I tried to hide my unease and asked Baek In Ha,
“Who’s his girlfriend?”
“How would I know… Whoever she is, she must’ve saved the nation in a past life.”
Deflated, shoulders slumped, she turned and trudged back to her desk, turning on her computer listlessly.
I desperately wanted to confront that guy right then and there about this, but considering I’d just confessed to him yesterday—and he’d rejected someone while mentioning this girlfriend—me asking him about it this morning would be… no, not just a little, but completely inappropriate.
“Ugh… I’m anxious. So anxious.”
I muttered like a prayer, legs trembling uncontrollably.
The rumor spread through S.T. like wildfire.
After all, both were such high-profile people. From what I later heard, she’d shown quite overt interest in Ji Seo Jun, and apparently, she’d even confessed to him—on the company rooftop, no less.
The rooftop garden was S.T. employees’ go-to spot for breaks—a place like the village pavilion where many would spend their downtime.
No wonder the news spread so fast if she did it there.
As a fellow woman, I felt both sorry for her and impressed by her boldness.
At lunchtime, I decided to go out to eat with Baek In Ha for the first time in a while. I always kept my guard up around the office, just in case we happened to bump into her.
So it was easy to spot Ms. “Goddess Yoo” Yoo Na Ra leaving the lobby with other female colleagues from HR.
“That’s Ms. Yoo Na Ra, right?”
Baek In Ha, standing beside me, had noticed her too and was staring.
“If it were me, I’d be too embarrassed to even step out of the office… She’s amazing.”
I glanced at Baek In Ha, who was watching Yoo Na Ra with a strangely smug expression.
“She might feel embarrassed, but it’s not like she did anything wrong—she has no reason not to come out of the office.”
Baek In Ha flinched in surprise at my words.
“Oh! I didn’t mean anything bad by it.”
“I know. Still, we’re in the lobby—better watch what you say. Our department interacts with others a lot, after all.”
“Y-Yes…”
Thinking she’d been scolded, Baek In Ha hung her head and answered meekly.
“Come on, let’s hurry to get something delicious. If we dawdle, we’ll just end up waiting longer.”
I grabbed her shoulder and headed toward the restaurant.
Just before leaving work, I got a message from that guy.
[Moon Moon. If you’re free tonight, wanna come over to my officetel?]Normally, I’d avoid going to his officetel unless something important came up—but I really wanted to hear about this “girlfriend” he’d mentioned while rejecting Yoo Na Ra, so I readily agreed.
He told me to go ahead and enter since he had something to pick up first. I didn’t hesitate, typed in the password, and stepped inside.
“Ugh. Look at this neatness.”
I clicked my tongue as I looked around his officetel, even tidier than the last time I’d helped him clean.
“If it’s this clean, won’t the girl you live with get tired keeping up with it…?”
Grumbling, I sat down on the sofa. Since there was no TV in Ji Seo Jun’s officetel, I fiddled with my phone for twenty minutes—until I heard the door lock click open.
“Why so late! I’m starving!”
“Just boil yourself some ramen.”
Ji Seo Jun answered casually, holding a small pet carrier.
“What’s that?”
“Oh. A cat. Jun Mo got tied up with something and asked me to look after it for a bit.”
Jun Mo was Ji Seo Jun’s high school classmate—and someone I also knew.
“A cat?”
Ji Seo Jun set down the carrier and headed to the bathroom to wash his hands.
I crouched down beside the carrier, peering inside. The cat had a striking black-on-white pattern and looked quite wary—apparently unhappy with this unfamiliar place.
“Aww… So cute… Are those little boots on its paws?”
I couldn’t take my eyes off the cat, exclaiming in delight.
“What’s its name?”
I quickly asked him as he came back from washing up.
“General Tto Ri.”
“What kind of name is that…? Nam Jun Mo’s sense of humor really…”
“Right?”
Ji Seo Jun and I spent a good while poking fun at Nam Jun Mo.
Ji Seo Jun hurriedly set up a litter box and filled a bowl with food, but Tto Ri refused to come out. As I watched the stubborn cat staying inside its carrier, Ji Seo Jun asked,
“Want me to cook something?”
“You? Cooking?”
“Yeah. I’m hungry too. And step back from the carrier a bit—being in a strange place already makes him nervous; seeing your face might scare him even more.”
I glared at him. Ignoring me, Ji Seo Jun busied himself in the kitchen.
Thinking he might be right—that my face was scaring the poor thing—I moved away and sat at the dining table.
Watching his back as he moved busily around,
“How’s work been lately?”
I started laying the groundwork for the real question I wanted to ask.
“You’re getting curious about my work life lately, huh? You keep asking. Well, it’s just… normal.”
As expected—he gave another vague answer. I should’ve guessed.
“Are there a lot of female employees there too?”
Only then did he pause what he was doing and look at me, his expression clearly asking, “Why do you care?”
“I dunno… Just thought you’d probably be popular.”
He focused back on cooking and replied,
“It’s annoying.”
Anyone overhearing that would probably scold him—but having known Ji Seo Jun since childhood and knowing how much he’d suffered, I just nodded.
“…Did someone confess to you or something?”
“…”
He clamped his mouth shut again.
“So you did. You got a confession, right?”
He stopped slicing mushrooms, placed a hand on his hip, and asked,
“What exactly do you want to know?”
“…What did you say when you got confessed to?”
He finished slicing the mushrooms and answered,
“Said I already have a girlfriend.”
“You have a girlfriend?”
I fired back instantly, not giving him a moment’s pause. But Ji Seo Jun said nothing—just poured olive oil into a pan and started stir-frying neatly chopped vegetables and garlic.
A savory aroma filled the officetel.
Without hesitation, he quickly plated a delicious-looking oil-based pasta and set it in front of me.
I’d just taken a bite out of hunger when it suddenly hit me—my question had been utterly ignored.
“I asked if you have a girlfriend?”
Was he using me as a shield again like in high school? Or—however unlikely—did he actually have a girlfriend now and just felt too guilty to tell me? A fog of unease slowly crept over me.
Knowing Ji Seo Jun hated it when I talked with food in my mouth, I quickly chewed and swallowed before asking again.
He twirled his fork slowly, staring intently at me.
“No.”
“T-Then why’d you say that?”
“Might get one someday.”
“…”
Was he referring to me—as someone still in a grace period? Or was he talking about some future girlfriend, not me at all? His ambiguous answer left me frustrated.
“You—you better not go spreading weird rumors about us again like back in high school.”
“What? Like saying we’re dating?”
“Yes! Do you even know how much trouble I went through because of that?”
“Who bullied you?”
He looked genuinely clueless. Something inside my head just snapped.
“You didn’t know? Seniors would come find me and harass me, drag me into bathrooms! At lunchtime, people would trip me on purpose as I carried my tray so I’d fall!”
His eyes widened more and more as I spoke. Finally, he put down his fork and asked,
“Who?”
“Who? Shouldn’t you know?”
Feeling indignant, I jabbed my fork into some pasta and shrimp and stuffed my mouth full.
Ji Seo Jun, clearly displeased, struggled to speak.
“Sorry…”
“Pffft!”
I accidentally spat out the pasta and shrimp I’d just put in my mouth. They flew through the air in a graceful arc—landing softly on Ji Seo Jun’s handsome face.
Time seemed to freeze.
Neither of us moved. Heavy silence filled the officetel.
A single noodle fluttered gently on Ji Seo Jun’s nose with each breath.
Was I hallucinating? Yeah… this must just be my imagination. I tried convincing myself.
“Meow.”
Tto Ri, who’d quietly slipped out of the carrier, let out a soft sound.
So it wasn’t a hallucination after all. Thanks for clearing that up, Tto Ri.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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