Minseop headed to Seoul after a long time. It was to meet his younger sister, Jiseop.
Seoul. Seoul where Seoha was.
Thinking that they would be under the same sky now made one side of his chest itch.
He hoped she would be happy, but there was also a desire for her to be happy next to him.
Now, it was all just pointless desires.
Minseop shook his head nervously.
Through his phone, he heard Jiseop’s voice. From the bustling sounds, it seemed like she wasn’t at home.
“I’m almost in Seoul. Where should I go?
Hyung! I’m having a drink with a friend. Want to join us?
“Friend? Who?”
A friend from middle school, Doyeop. You’ve seen him too, right? He used to come over to our house in middle school.
Minseop tried to recall and vaguely remembered a face. However, it felt awkward to say, “Let’s meet him” about a friend of his younger sibling that he hadn’t seen in a long time.
“Oh, really? Is it okay if I come?”
Yeah, Doyeop said it’s okay. This guy seems really thirsty for alcohol right now.
“Got it. I’ll go there. Send me the location.”
He headed to the bar Jiseop had recommended.
Entering the bar, Jiseop and another man were drinking together.
The man already seemed quite drunk.
“Jiseop.”
“Hyung! You came? Doyeop. This is our hyung, Kwak Minseop. Hyung, this guy is my friend, Choi Doyeop.”
As Jiseop introduced them, Doyeop nervously met Minseop’s gaze and gave a slight bow.
“Hello? I’m Jiseop’s friend, Choi Doyeop. Nice to meet you.”
“Yeah, sure. But you seem to have had a lot to drink. Are you okay?”
At Minseop’s words, Jiseop sighed.
“This guy is belatedly going through heartache because of a girl.”
“A girl?”
Whether he heard Jiseop’s words or not, Doyeop straightened his bowed head with force.
“Hyung, let’s have a drink first.”
“No, I brought my car, so I can’t drink. Is he someone you really liked?”
“I don’t know if I liked her that much, but I know I have to end this relationship. I know it in my head, but my heart isn’t that easy.”
Doyeop quickly emptied the beer glass in front of him.
Jiseop offered ice water to Doyeop.
“Have some water. Be courageous. Why do you have to end it?”
Watching Doyeop, Minseop thought that the issue he was interfering with didn’t concern him. Doyeop let out a deep sigh. Minseop, too, in a similar situation of unrequited love, felt that Doyeop’s sigh was not unrelated to him.
Seoha received harsh glances from her surroundings, and there was nothing she could do in these helpless situations that were etched into her bones.
Despite knowing she should forget Seoha, she couldn’t.
Doyeop, too, might be in a similar situation, Minseop speculated.
In his drunken state, Doyeop poured out his inner thoughts that he couldn’t usually express.
“Her world seems different from mine. Well, because of that, there are things I can’t get close to her about. There are things I can’t do for her.”
“Who is that person? What makes them so special?”
Listening to Doyeop’s story, Jiseop narrowed his eyes and nudged Doyeop.
Doyeop chuckled and replied, “Well, she’s a special one. The so-called daddy’s girl.”
Minseop quietly listened to Doyeop and Jiseop’s conversation. He didn’t feel like he had any comforting words to offer, and he wasn’t in a position to comfort.
He chewed on the dried squid placed in front of him.
Doyeop continued his story, “That person had an engagement, but the guy had another child with a different woman. And then, instead of that person, he got married to another woman.”
“Does that make sense? Having a child with another woman while engaged? What is that woman thinking? How could she do that with a man who has an engagement?”
Minseop never thought that the protagonists in Doyeop’s story would be Taegyeong, Seoha, and Minjun.
Jiseop cursed them with a red face. Doyeop didn’t care and continued his story, muttering to himself.
“That person can’t let go of the engagement. I thought they had broken up, but they hadn’t. Ha.”
“Choi Doyeop! Snap out of it! Why can’t you forget that woman? The same goes for her.”
“That person received strange messages on their phone. I’m worried because it seems like they’re about to do something. They talk about starting a project.”
“Wait, are you planning to continue seeing that woman?”
Jiseop emptied the beer glass in front of him in frustration and refilled it.
“Ugh. Don’t meet her. This is wrong.”
“Right. We should break up. I don’t want to be involved in that person’s hidden relationship. No, this can’t be.”
“Yeah. Good thinking. Hey, forget about it after drinking today.”
“But my heart hurts. I’m worried that something bad might happen to that woman with an engagement. I’m worried that person might be ruined to that extent.”
“Who the heck is that person?”
“I don’t even know. They’re a public figure. It’s Jinyuna, the fiancee of HY Group’s Han Taegyeong. The person I like is Jinyuna.”
As soon as Minseop heard Taegyeong’s name, he froze.
Han Taegyeong and Jinyuna.
Jinyuna harms the woman Taegyeong is going to marry?
If Taegyeong’s marrying woman is Seoha, could it be someone else?
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
