A week later.
The days that Arin spent in Jeju Island were strangely quiet, like a lie.
“Sigh.”
The strange thing was Arin’s heart. Since meeting Jaehyuk, her heart never seemed to settle. Jaehyuk’s gaze kept coming to her mind, and thoughts of his wounds made her eyes well up with warmth.
“What’s wrong?”
Yoo Hyun, who came out after organizing the kitchen, wrapped his arms around Arin’s shoulders and asked.
“Huh? No, it’s nothing.”
Arin controlled her expression.
“It was tough, right? There were a lot of customers today too. It would be good to find part-timers quickly.”
Yoo Hyun casually spoke while massaging Arin’s shoulders.
“Yeah… maybe.”
Ring.
Arin’s phone, placed on the counter, rang.
“It’s Cheol-yong. What’s going on?”
The caller was Cheol-yong, who worked at the Memorya Yeonnam Branch.
“Answer it.”
“Yeah.”
Arin pressed the call button.
As soon as the call connected, a trembling male voice came through the speaker.
“Boss, what should we do?”
“Why? What happened?”
“The landlord came now and said we have to leave by the end of this week.”
“…What?”
Did she hear it wrong?
Arin doubted her ears.
“What did you just say?”
“The boss said to clean up the store by the end of this week. What should we do?”
Arin widened her eyes and looked at Yoo Hyun.
“What on earth are you talking about? You said you’d give us a month last time. Why suddenly now!”
The landlord of the building where the Yeonnam Branch was located demanded a rent increase, saying that the surrounding market price had risen.
As Arin heard it, the real estate agent said that the Memorya Yeonnam Branch location was in a declining area.
So, many stores changed frequently.
When the bad rumor spread, people stopped coming in.
The landlord, who had asked for a price lower than the market price to attract tenants, raised the rent when the Memorya Yeonnam Branch started doing well.
Now, it was twice the current rent.
Arin knew that they couldn’t move the store, having just settled in, and the amount the landlord demanded was unreasonable.
Arin recalled what Ji-yoon had casually said before.
“Didn’t they say if the store does well, they’ll raise the rent?”
She had heard the words, but the amount the landlord was demanding now was outrageous.
How could they double the rent? It was frustrating.
She complained to the real estate agent, but he couldn’t do anything either. After much consideration, Arin and Yoo Hyun asked the landlord for time to think.
Since there were still about two months left until the contract renewal period, they were still looking for a new place.
But it seemed that the store had been offered to someone else during that time.
A bolt from the blue struck on a clear day.
“I don’t know either, boss. The store was sold. He said to take it out right away, giving us moving costs.”
“Does that make sense? There’s still time left in the contract… I’ll call the boss first. Were there customers when the boss came?”
“Sigh. That’s a relief.”
I didn’t even express my intention to leave from this side, how can this happen!
Arin was flustered but tried not to show it.
“First, calm down. Customers would be surprised if they knew, so don’t show it. How many breads do we have left?”
[About 200.]“Got it. Don’t worry and focus on the customers. I’ll handle it. Cheol-yong, it’s okay, you know what I mean, right?”
[Yes, boss. I trust only the boss.]Even after hanging up the phone, Arin couldn’t let go of her phone. Her hand holding the phone trembled.
“Oppa.”
Since he heard the entire conversation through the speaker, Yoo Hyun’s expression was also serious.
“I’ll make the call. Give me your phone.”
Yoo Hyun took Arin’s phone and tried to call the landlord.
[Due to the customer’s circumstances, the call could not be connected and will be redirected to voicemail with a charge.]But, this time too, a mechanical voice came through the speaker.
It was already the fifth unanswered call. The last one felt intentional, like they deliberately ignored it.
This was the first time something like this happened, and anxious, Arin bit her nails.
“What should we do, oppa?”
In Arin’s mind, the face of an old man with a somewhat aged face who owns several buildings in the Yeonnam area came to mind.
[Hehe, CEO Choi, is he some chairman? Think of me like a grandfather. I also think of CEO Choi as my granddaughter.]She didn’t believe those words literally, but this was too much of a blow!
[He’s not that kind of person. I asked people around, and they said he’s considerate of landlords.] [Well, then that’s a relief.]Arin felt pathetic recalling her confident self from the past who said she was fine when Ji-yoon was worried.
Trusting that he was a good person, she believed it too easily. Not only did the landlord raise the rent twice, but he also offered the store for rent when there was no expression of intention to leave.
“How can the new owner do that? Even if that’s the case, it seems too much.”
“Sigh.”
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
