“Director!”
At the welcoming Korean greeting, Byeong-jun turned his head towards the direction of the sound.
With her hair dyed in a trendy color and styled, wearing luxury from head to toe, including clothing, bag, and accessories, So-min approached Byeong-jun, looking somewhat surprised.
“Oh, my! Meeting you here like this. Director, you should buy a lottery ticket today.”
Meeting someone you know by chance in a foreign land might be as pleasant as it gets. However, her exaggerated expressions of surprise, with wide-open eyes and covering her mouth, looked overly dramatic to anyone who saw.
“Is it So-min?”
In Byeong-jun’s eyes, So-min looked even more beautiful than before. However, being a man, Byeong-jun wouldn’t recognize that it was due to advanced beauty procedures. Anyway, although her appearance seemed a bit different, her voice, way of speaking, and behavior were undoubtedly So-min.
“No matter how vast the land is, there are limited places where A-class people gather. Seeing Director here.”
This excessively lively person was the great-granddaughter of the founder of the H.O Group. As a typical chaebol granddaughter, there was nothing to be cautious about, and with her free-spirited personality, she had been mingling in business parties and social gatherings, making a name for herself since childhood.
Byeong-jun also unexpectedly met someone, and he felt excited.
“Why is H.O Group’s fourth generation here?”
Although it might have been a surprising encounter for both, meeting at a luxurious bar during the daytime indicated that the two had similar personalities and tastes. So-min took her place in front of Byeong-jun.
“After finishing graduate school, my family went crazy, telling me to come in. If I knew this would happen, I should have continued to take a leave.”
“So, So-min has graduated already?”
At the mention of “already,” So-min frowned, as if wondering if she looked older. Although she was already pretty enough, So-min’s ambitions knew no bounds.
“In any case, before being dragged in, I was planning to do a lot of shopping and travel. It’s so nice to meet you like this while going around everywhere.”
“Did you already graduate, So-min?”
Grumbling at So-min’s complaint, Byeong-jun also complained.
“But, Director, what’s with the bruise here?”
So-min spotted a blue bruise on Byeong-jun’s neck. It was a mark from a recent struggle with Si-yoon, caught in a stranglehold.
The force was so strong that the skin and clothes were pinched together, leaving a fabric imprint on the body. A few hours later, the fabric imprint had turned into a bruise, and it still hadn’t faded.
“Darn it, that Si-yoon.”
He couldn’t bring himself to say that he was caught by Si-yoon, so he cursed inwardly.
“It’s nothing. Since I’ve been in the United States for a while, Si-yoon knows the news, right?”
“Oh, Si-yoon oppa!”
Calling someone “oppa” who wasn’t actually an older brother, So-min shivered. Then she approached the table, expressing curiosity.
“Si-yoon oppa probably hasn’t met you lately.”
“Even if we don’t meet, I know everything about your current situation.”
“How?”
Byeong-jun wanted to know where the rumors about Si-yoon were coming from.
“Do we have to meet in person to talk about it? Whether it’s people I know or people Si-yoon oppa knows, it all overlaps, so I hear all about oppa’s news.”
“That’s true.”
“This time, I should meet oppa once and then go in. My mom loves Si-yoon oppa so much. She says we should marry him off. Well, if she likes him so much, why didn’t she give birth to a son like him instead of putting me forward to be her son-in-law?”
Although it was a mischievous expression, it could be inferred that So-min’s interest was directed towards Si-yoon.
“Is Si-yoon oppa still in school? He’s appointed as a professor at a U.S. state university in his 20s! In our family, we can’t even dream of such things.”
Byeong-jun tasted only the bitterness of Si-yoon’s praise. Whenever Si-yoon’s stories came up, praise for Si-yoon never ceased, no matter who was speaking.
“Although our family is wealthy, honestly, this is a bit lacking. I admit it.”
So-min continued the conversation, patting her head.
“Still, you can get a degree somehow. Even though good students can’t enter our company, I can sit on top and just hire talented people.”
With intellectual capabilities that surpassed academic achievements, So-min had no need to bow down anywhere or feel depressed. And the confidence that no household could reject her household also overflowed.
“You know? Since I was young, Grandpa Kim and our Chairman suggested marrying into each other’s family while having a drink. Even the reason why my mom urges me to come in quickly seems to be because of that.”
Byeong-jun subtly tried to hint that So-min still didn’t know about Si-yoon’s marriage.
“If you hear Si-yoon is a newlywed, you’ll be surprised.”
“Newlywed? Who? Si-yoon oppa?”
“You still don’t know.”
“That’s impossible. There was no such talk even at the Korean gathering last month.”
“Si-yoon goes to Korean gatherings?”
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.”
