Ignoring the other attorneys’ invitations to sit, Jun Hwi informed Attorney Yang that he had paid and then stepped outside.
[I’m in the ground parking lot]He texted Yeon Woo and checked the time on his wristwatch.
If he takes her home, it would be around 11 PM. It would be awkward to return to the office. The brief he was writing earlier will have to be finished at home. Then he can finish by 12:30 AM.
As he was leaning against the parking lot wall, making these plans, someone approached.
“Attorney.”
Instead of the awaited Yeon Woo, it was Attorney Hong Yu Kyung walking towards Jun Hwi.
Glancing at the approaching Hong Yu Kyung, Jun Hwi looked away and fumbled in his jacket pocket for a cigarette.
It was tiresome to even talk to Hong Yu Kyung, who clung to him despite repeated rejections and even forced a confession on him.
“Thanks to you, we had a great meal today! It would have been better if you were there too.”
Hong Yu Kyung frowned slightly at Jun Hwi’s indifferent behavior of taking out a cigarette, but she maintained her cheerful tone.
“Are you heading home? Can you give me a ride?”
Jun Hwi hesitated with the lighter in his hand, his neat eyebrows twitching as if questioning the absurdity of the situation.
“We’re going in the same direction, aren’t we? I’ve had a drink, and, um, I have something to tell you.”
“I don’t have anything to listen to. Take a taxi.”
“The world is so unsafe these days. It’s eerily scary to take a taxi alone at night.”
“Then take the subway.”
“Is your car parked this way?”
As expected. Even a brief private conversation with Hong Yu Kyung was exhausting for Jun Hwi.
Jun Hwi’s forehead creased in annoyance as he remembered the last time he had rejected her confession.
He had warned her that if she wasted his time with such nonsense again, they wouldn’t even see each other at work.
“Hong Attorney.”
He was about to remind Hong Yu Kyung of that moment when he received a text from Yeon Woo saying she would come to the parking lot.
He put the unlit cigarette back in its pack and strode towards his car, with Hong Yu Kyung quickly following.
“What are you doing?”
Just as he was about to lose his patience, he caught sight of Yeon Woo entering the parking lot.
Yeon Woo’s eyes wavered as she alternated between looking at Hong Yu Kyung and Jun Hwi. Then, pretending to look around, she tried to sneak back the way she came.
“Deputy Kim Yeon Woo.”
Startled by Jun Hwi’s loud call, Hong Yu Kyung followed his gaze. Yeon Woo turned back awkwardly and laughed.
“Haha. Ah, Attorney Kwon! Hello! Attorney Hong is here too.”
“Let’s go. Get in.”
“Me?”
Yeon Woo almost gasped in surprise. Hong Yu Kyung beside her was equally shocked.
What’s he doing, asking so abruptly to leave in front of someone else, this man!
“Who else but you[Dash].”
“Yes! Yes, I’ll get in. Thank you!”
Yeon Woo hastily interrupted him with her reply. Jun Hwi was the type to speak bluntly about waiting for her.
The situation felt so precarious.
“Can I get in too, Attorney? It’s okay for Deputy Kim, but not for me. How is that fair?”
“Hong Yu Kyung Attorney.”
“I really have something to tell you.”
“…….”
It was like a husky growling and an edgy cat confronting each other.
What could it be? This odd and uncomfortable vibe flowing between them.
Yeon Woo seemed to have intruded at a very bad time. She quietly rolled her eyes, trying to grasp the situation.
Meanwhile, Hong Yu Kyung confidently grabbed the passenger door handle.
“Um, well, then let’s all go together…?”
At Yeon Woo’s cautious suggestion, Jun Hwi’s eyes seemed to ask, ‘Are you serious?’, making Yeon Woo want to ask the same.
Is there any better option in this situation?
Was it just her imagination, or did his lips seem to protrude a whole palm’s length as he opened the driver’s door?
“The weather has really warmed up a lot. They say it’ll really be spring after it rains this week.”
“…….”
“The cherry blossoms will probably be in full bloom soon. Attorney, aren’t you going anywhere to see the flowers?”
Hong Yu Kyung, seated in the passenger seat, attempted to continue the lively conversation.
Jun Hwi was the only one being addressed during the drive.
In a car, the back seat usually feels disconnected from the front. Unless you lean forward, you can’t really hear what’s being said in the front.
Yeon Woo tried a few times to join their conversation by stretching forward, but the talk of recent prosecution raids and the Supreme Court’s embezzlement case controversy almost put her to sleep.
At one point, when the topic shifted to the recent Supreme Court controversy, she considered getting out of the car for about three seconds.
So, she chose to feel left out and comfortably leaned back into the leather seat.
“Right, about what I wanted to tell you earlier.”
“…….”
“My father wants to invite Attorney Kwon to next month’s golf gathering. He goes to the field every two weeks with colleagues from the training institute, and sometimes invites juniors too.”
Hong Yu Kyung’s father was a chief prosecutor and a prominent figure rumored to be a candidate for the attorney general.
Such an invitation from him was undoubtedly a great honor.
With a proposal that seemed tempting, Hong Yu Kyung perked up and lifted her chin slightly.
“Busy.”
Jun Hwi bluntly refused this great honor. He glanced in the rearview mirror at Yeon Woo in the back seat.
Yeon Woo, seemingly oblivious to his intense gaze since earlier, hadn’t looked at Jun Hwi once.
“Uh… not even for one weekend day?”
Hong Yu Kyung’s voice trembled, seemingly not expecting such a blunt refusal. But once Jun Hwi expressed his refusal, he didn’t add anything more.
“My father is especially fond of juniors from the prosecution, so it would definitely benefit Attorney Kwon[Dash].”
Hong Yu Kyung kept trying to persuade Jun Hwi, extending her words.
Watching Jun Hwi, who might or might not respond after listening to ten sentences, Yeon Woo felt a bit of pity for Hong Yu Kyung.
‘How hard it must be to act so nonchalant towards someone who’s rejected you like that.’
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
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