Pheromone Off Chapter 20

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Having managed to arrive at the detached house thanks to Kwon Sahui’s help, Hajin carefully opened the front door and entered. Whether the owner of this place had already gone in to sleep, the interior of the living room was quiet.

Hajin killed his sound and sat on the sofa quietly. Somehow he felt an extremely tired mood. He leaned his body, which had been fully tense during the day, deeply against the backrest. If nobody cared, he wanted to fall asleep just like this. It felt like there were too many matters in this single day today.

In the brief moment he was about to catch his breath only now, a footstep sound coming down from the upstairs was heard.

“You’re quite late.”

Hajin realized only then that quite a bit of time had passed. Having checked the time, Hajin stood up awkwardly and carried on words clumsily.

“…I didn’t know it was this late.”

“It seems you had that many stories to talk about.”

“Ah, Grandfather…”

“No, with Kwon Sahui.”

Hajin looked at him with a blank face for a moment. As he thought for a moment why that name would come out suddenly, he could find out quickly.

“Ah, that is, because I lost my way while coming. On the way, the Executive Director….”

“The two of you were coming while being excited though.”

“…We weren’t that excited though.”

“In fact, did it not matter whichever side it was?”

He tossed words with quite a serious face. At the words that couldn’t be understood, Hajin’s brow was subtly wrinkled.

“What kind of words you are saying….”

“This marriage. In fact, I wondered if it didn’t matter whichever side it was to you.”

“…It was what hyung told me to do.”

“The one who said you liked me was you.”

“…You didn’t say you would do it for me because of me anyway.”

“Since the beginning is because of you.”

“…”

“So if you’ve come this far, you should conduct your behavior straight.”

Although he couldn’t understand why the talk was flowing that far, it looked clear that some point had touched his feelings. From this situation of living together with himself in the first place, it would have touched his feelings, but it was clear that something had poked that unpleasant emotion more. Hajin pressed down on his fingertips with his fingernails at the request that was like venting anger. It was a little upsetting that it flowed into this kind of atmosphere from the first day.

“Now when I get promoted and inaugurated, the interest pouring onto Kwon Sahui and me will overflow, so would it do if the person who is to be my spouse giggles with Kwon Sahui.”

“Since there’s nothing I said that is strange, you don’t have to worry.”

“I’m not saying that story, am I?”

“…”

“You should be careful. Since entering as my fiancé and acting on good terms with Kwon Sahui, if seen from the outside, it is easy to be misunderstood as they please and become a side dish for gossip.”

“…To the extent of hearing such a story, I think there is nothing strange I did with the Executive Director though.”

“Even without that, regarding you, there are many words now saying you took this place after pushing aside your hyung, aren’t there.”

“…”

“Therefore, people will watch your every single behavior.”

He brought a strict standard and looked down at Hajin chillingly.

“If you hate messy stories getting attached, conduct your behavior well.”

It wasn’t a wrong word. Whatever the inner story became, he was a person who snatched his hyung’s lover. If he revealed his appearance in an official setting, it was clear that backstories would come out boundlessly. Therefore, although he knows he has to be careful with his conduct, there was nothing he didn’t be careful about to the extent that such a story would come out. That sharing a few words with Kwon Sayoung’s sibling, who stays in the same house, was that much of a wrong matter. He realized that his fiancé role was stricter than he thought. Hajin felt his inside mouth turning bitter and did not counter anymore.

“…Yes. I’ll do so.”

At the compliant answer, one of Kwon Sayoung’s eyebrows flinched. Whether he didn’t like it even when he acted compliantly, he frowned his eyes for a moment, then soon turned his steps. The place he headed toward was the place Butler Ahn guided as the bedroom during the day. After putting his appearance of entering into the bedroom into his eyes, Hajin moved his tired body. Since there wouldn’t be a matter of using the same bedroom, he quietly headed toward the second floor.

The place Hajin headed toward was that place littered with his items during the day. Seeing it at that time, he thought a room of just about this degree would be fine. It was a room where everything that should be there was there, where a bed also existed and a bathroom was also attached.

Hajin entered that place, roughly changed only his clothes, and lay on the bed as if collapsing. Hajin blankly looked at the ceiling and organized his clamorous inside head. Whether his head was out of its mind or whether his inside was noisy, he couldn’t know precisely, but one thing was certain. That wherever he went, it wasn’t comfortable.

Hajin, who buried his face in the pillow, turned his body and blinked his eyes quietly.

Whatever story he hears, it’s better than before. Everything was depending on how one thinks. Hajin quietly closed his eyes and curled his body. Anything…. Anything, living through anything… it was all depending on how one thinks. If he thinks of all situations he is faced with as pain, there is only pain entirely, and if they are all fine matters, there are only fine matters entirely. Everything is fine. Hajin quietly murmured and repeated remurmuring as if reciting a spell.

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When he woke up in the morning, Kwon Sayoung was already in the middle of having breakfast. Having finished all preparations, he was enjoying a light brunch along with a cup of coffee leisurely. As Hajin hovered around that vicinity with a face where sleep was less cleared, he stopped looking at what he was viewing, after scanning an English magazine lightly, and made a quick nod of his head toward the opposite side shortly.

“Sit.”

His share of the meal was prepared on his opposite side. As Hajin carefully sat in the seat, he began a businesslike story.

“Regarding breakfast, the servants will prepare it in advance at dawn and leave.”

“…Yes.”

“Regarding laundry and cleaning, they will drop by on their own at the time we are not here. If there is work to order separately, call. Other than that, I don’t intend to place employees in this place.”

“Would it not be uncomfortable for you?”

“In a situation where we even use bedrooms separately, is there a matter for our relationship to be found out?”

“That is so, but….”

“Use the first floor, not the second floor.”

Turning his gaze to the tablet this time, he tossed words carelessly.

“Yes?”

“The second floor is for guest use.”

“…Ah, yes. I am sorry.”

“I’m not telling you to be sorry—.”

Spilling out a deep sigh, he burst out a breath mixed with annoyance.

“…Since there is one more room next to the main bedroom, use the first floor.”

“…”

“Even if they say it’s a contract, the master of the house here now is you anyway.”

Carrying on words gentlemanly, he jumped up and raised his body as if his business was over. As he stood up, Hajin, who hadn’t even touched the food with his mouth, raised his body following him habitually.

“Are you going to work?”

“There’s no need to follow me out. Finish your meal.”

He tossed his business lightly and turned around. Then he received a phone call that was coming in casually.

“Yeah. I’m going to work now.”

A voice where a bit of strength was left out, unlike when conversing with me.

“Did you eat, you.”

Deftly donning his coat placed on the sofa backrest, he carried on the call.

“See you in the evening. Since I booked the restaurant you said you wanted to go to.”

A voice that was somewhat a bit sweet. Hajin thought he knew who that phone counterpart was. Sitting at the table, Hajin looked at his profile that was drawing away. Still, that a lover is a lover, he had a face quite different from usual. A face where a full of strength was entered looked a little comfortable. As if proving that they were a long-standing relationship.

From afar, the sound of the front door closing was heard. He must be late in the evening. Hajin murmured alone and only then began his meal. In that wide space, the only things heard were the sounds of tableware clashing.

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Hajin finished his meal and dropped by Doseondang to give a morning greeting to Grandfather. Conveniently there were words he wanted to say too, and as much as they lived together, he wanted to see his face more frequently when time permitted. At the news that Hajin came to find him, Chairman Kwon welcomed him gladly.

“Right, did you sleep well?”

The tea the employee brought out was different from yesterday. It was more refreshing and fragrant.

“Yes. Thanks to you.”

“Don’t do formalities. Between you and me.”

Chairman Kwon waved his hand, saying to make himself comfortable. Hajin let out a faint laugh and nodded his head.

“Did Grandfather sleep well?”

“Yeah. Thinking that you came to our house, my mind was comfortable so I slept soundly.”

Whether he was really relieved, Chairman Kwon’s face looked good anew. Because he felt a little conscious of his countenance to say his words while looking at the appearance that looked good, Hajin pressed down on his kneeling knees tightly. Perhaps because the situation became like this, even if he tried to do one thing, he felt conscious of his countenance.

“That, Grandfather….”

“Yeah, child.”

Whether he liked that he came for a morning greeting since morning, he wore a hearty laugh and looked at Hajin.

“That… there is work I am doing though.”

“Do you mean that actor work talk you mentioned last time?”

“It’s okay to keep doing it, right…?”

“Do you want to do it?”

“…Yes. Since it’s also work I’ve started anyway…. Right now, there is no work I can do either.”

“What do you mean there isn’t. Do you have no thought of wanting to try learning company work?”

Hajin shook his head slily. Toward the study side, he had no talent at all. That he said he would try doing actor work was also because that side was the only one to earn money with his capability when it came down to it. Since he also had no study brain, he gave up on college too. Because Chairman Seong wasn’t particularly interested in his future, he didn’t care about anything, and there was no deterrence even when he said he wouldn’t go to college.

“If by any chance it doesn’t do…”

“What would there be that doesn’t do. If you want to do it, you must do it.”

Chairman Kwon looked a little unsupportive, but he didn’t give a piece of his mind particularly. Then, color returned to Hajin’s face, which had been somewhat sunken.

“Then I’ll be going there today.”

“You 꼭 want to do that work, right?”

“…Because I want to try doing even anything.”

“Right, if your thought is so, do so then. Then I’ll attach a driver for you so—.”

“No, it’s fine.”

“Tsk. Moving here and there without even a car.”

“In the place I work, nobody knows. That I am Seongsan’s youngest son, and that I am connected with here.”