His true feelings were clearly written all over his face.

The one flustered by this was Su Jin.

“Why aren’t you saying anything?”
Su Jin asked with a frown.

In Ho looked at Su Jin with a face that showed he couldn’t understand even more.

Dong Hun, a name he heard for the first time.

And it seemed like a male name, but why was she mentioning about a random man returning home to my married older sister?

“So what?”
“Huh, you just said, ‘so what’?”
“Yeah, so what are you trying to say?”
In Ho didn’t hide his discomfort.

Perhaps she didn’t expect such a response, Su Jin couldn’t continue her words for a while.

However, not much later, her unique, annoying expression surfaced and the unpleasant sound of her laughter echoed in his ears.

“Haha. Did you really eat something wrong?”
In Ho clenched his teeth and forcefully suppressed a sigh that was about to escape.

‘Well, I thought her pride might have been hurt, but of course, why would that arrogant woman go anywhere just because she was told she was ugly.’
He didn’t think he could fix someone who lived like that all their life in one go, but it was even worse than he expected.

‘The more I think about it, the more annoying she is.’
In Ho, who had taken a step towards the restroom entrance, changed his mind and turned back towards Su Jin.

Then, he sent a glare that was not light.

“Are you saying that I ate something wrong?”
“Then who else is here other than you? Suddenly, there’s not just one or two strange things about you.”
“Really, with that mouth of yours.”
“What?”
Su Jin, who had been bragging with a confident expression, suddenly furrowed her brows.

“You should at least show a bit of decency when dealing with others.”
In Ho muttered as if he was talking to himself.

But his eyes clearly conveyed, ‘Yes, these words are definitely meant for you.’

At those words, Su Jin’s face turned red with anger.

She looked as if she was about to charge at him at any moment.

In Ho shook his head.

No matter how much it was Su Yeon’s body, it was a software that had been trained with various exercises over the years, he couldn’t possibly lose to Su Jin.

Thinking about it, he almost wished she would attack first.

But there was nothing to gain for Su Yeon if he got into a physical fight with Su Jin here.

In Ho suppressed his rising anger and calmly began to speak.

“So what do you want?”
“What?”
“To a married person like me, suddenly mention Dong… Dong, Dong.”
Ah, what was the name again?

In Ho furrowed his brows as he couldn’t remember the name and turned his finger in circles.

“Dong Hun oppa.”
“Ah, right, Dong Hun. Why are you talking about him to me, who is already married and living well?”
“Haha. What? Unni, are you really crazy? Dong Hun? That guy? You talk so easily as if you don’t know him?”
“Sigh.”
In Ho finally let out a sigh.

He didn’t expect a highlevel conversation, but this was falling short even for low standards.

‘Isn’t this a quarrel that even elementary students would have?’
In Ho shook his head as if he was bored.

“I don’t plan to waste my time arguing with you. So if what you want to say is Dong Hun or whatever is coming to Korea, then I get it, so let’s stop this and go.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he began to walk away.

At that moment, Su Jin’s laughing voice grabbed In Ho’s ankle again.

“Unni, you. That thing you just said, can I interpret it as I want?”
“What did I say?”
“That you’re married and living well, so why mention Dong Hun oppa, you clearly said that, right?”
In Ho furrowed his brows.

‘Who the hell is this Dong Hun guy. Is he Choi Su Yeon’s first love? Is that why he’s acting like this?’
His mood became foul beyond words just as he began to entertain this thought.

He no longer wanted to face Su Jin.

“Fine, do as you wish.”
In Ho replied in a resolute tone and moved his legs quickly.

He did not even try to hold Su Jin back, let alone give her a chance to hold him.

As he emerged from the restroom, he saw a familiar face standing not far away.

She had gone shopping with her mother as I had advised, but seeing Yeong Seon here wasn’t exactly pleasant.

‘If I had known this would happen, I would have spent less time fussing in the restroom.’
Just by looking at the back of Yeong Seon, he was already feeling drained.

‘No. I shouldn’t be like this. It could be a chance to score points on behalf of Su Yeon.’
But he soon revised his thought.

It might not be so bad to score lots of points from Yeong Seon on behalf of Su Yeon now that things had come to this.

Given that they had come all the way to the department store together, the shopping strategy seemed to have worked to some extent, and he knew Yeong Seon’s tastes much better than Su Yeon.

With that in mind, it wasn’t a bad situation.

There were countless skills at his disposal that could score lots of points from Yeong Seon, even in just an hour or two.

With his calculations going that far, In Ho put on a bright smile and quickly approached Yeong Seon.

“Mother.”
Thinking of Su Yeon, he called Yeong Seon with as gentle a voice as he could manage.

Yeong Seon, who had been showing her back all along, turned her head.

But something was off.

The color on Yeong Seon’s face was strangely dark.

“Mother, why do you look like that? Are you uncomfortable?”
In Ho asked Yeong Seon with a puzzled look.

At that, the color on Yeong Seon’s face turned even more uncomfortable.

Unable to understand, he tilted his head in confusion, when an unexpected voice harshly hit In Ho’s eardrum.

“Where did you leave our Su Jin and come out alone?”
Hearing the familiar name, In Ho turned his head as if instinctively.

In the place where his gaze stopped, he saw the figure of someone not unfamiliar.

She was the hostess of Tae Shin Group and Su Yeon’s stepmother.

‘It’s just one problem after another.’
In Ho sighed discreetly.

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