It was the eighth time, eighth.
It’s been less than a month since this year started, and it’s the eighth.
Choi Yun-seok was unmatched in terms of shamelessness, but it’s hard to remain calm this time, seeing his face 8 times in the span of 20 days or so. Choi Yun-seok pretended to be calm and pushed open the store door while hiding his embarrassment.
The pale face that was shaking the broom and sweeping the floor looked back at Choi Yun-seok. The eyelids were half lowered under the soft eyebrows, and the double eyelids were clearly visible with the eyes blinking a couple of times like a cow. The beauty mark clearly set in the lower left corner of the narrowly folded eyes twitched along with it.
“Hey, hey, Mr. Young-jin. Long time no see.”
After saying that, Choi Yun-seok almost punched himself in the mouth. It was only last week that he opened the door of this chicken restaurant and said hello politely.
Fortunately, Lee Young-jin pretended not to know. Is he pretending not to know or is he really not interested?
“Yes. Long time no see.”
Lee Young-jin nodded his head once.
The broom that was sweeping the cheap artificial marble floor stopped for a moment, then slowly started moving again. Broken bottles, wet and crinkled toilet paper, dust, and clumps of tangled hair were swept together on the floor between the skinny broom spokes.
“How have you been?”
Choi Yun-seok pulled a chair close to the store door and sat down. The answer came a beat late. The thin chin nodding slowly.
“Busy?”
“So-so…”
The white hand holding the broom moved a little, then stopped, then moved again, then stopped again. The beauty mark under the corner of the left eye twitched, the lips munched a little, and the black cow-like eyes with long protruding eyelashes glanced at Choi Yun-seok before the broom moved again.
“Ahem ahem.”
Choi Yun-seok cleared his throat several times.
“Mr. Young-jin, don’t you need money?”
“I always need it.”
Lee Young-jin answered a little faster than usual this time.
It was understandable.
Slow as a cow, this man was always tight with money. In debt, to be exact. Choi Yun-seok didn’t know exactly how much his debt was, but he knew it wasn’t chump change.
“A job came in…”
Choi Yun-seok took a chance and looked at Lee Young-jin.
He knew that Lee Young-jin didn’t really like this kind of work. What’s so good about this pea-sized chicken restaurant? Every time Choi Yun-seok asked about work, he’d say, “I have a part-time job…” It wasn’t once or twice that he’d tear up and blur the end of his words as if he was embarrassed. However, it’s also true that he’s burdened with money, or rather, with debt, so he rarely refused work.
“This job is a bit big…Mr. Young-jin, I don’t know if you have the time.”
“Is it a big job?”
“Yes. It’s from Teacher.”
“Teacher?”
The eyelids that were drooping down as if he was dozing jumped. The densely protruding eyelashes fluttered.
Choi Yun-seok swallowed his dry saliva without realizing it.
If he was Teacher, he would bring Lee Young-jin an easier, more comfortable, and lucrative job.
The things the extraordinary species could do are limitless. Due to their physical condition, which was completely different from that of ordinary species, they received two or three times the normal rate even if they did daily construction work.
Of course, what Choi Yun-seok wanted to introduce Lee Young-jin wasn’t just working on a construction site. Among the idiots Choi Yun-seok knew, there were at least thirty dozen perverts who were eager to see even the tip of an omega’s hair.
Besides, was Lee Young-jin just a normal good-looking person? For the past 35 years since Choi Yun-seok’s two eyes were able to tell people apart, he’d seen a lot of good-looking guys but they couldn’t even reach Lee Young-jin’s ten fingers, no, five fingers, no, two fingers. If it’s Lee Young-jin’s level, sitting next to him or even calling out to him needed a lot of courage. It’s okay even if Lee Young-jin just sat there and fluttered his eyelashes or twitched his beauty mark. If you let them lick his toes, they’d come back with a bag of money, oh the fee from those idiots, even if he gets five or just three…
Choi Yun-seok stopped thinking there.
It’s a useless delusion.
Teacher wouldn’t just turn a blind eye at such a situation, and Lee Young-jin might look sweet and affectionate like a sugar doll on the outside, but he’s still an extraordinary species. With his idealistic personality, how could he act like a whore to please those idiots? If flipped, he would end up in debt to pay the hospital bills. Maybe that’s why Teacher didn’t let Lee Young-jin do that.
“What is it?”
Lee Young-jin asked Choi Yun-seok who didn’t open his mouth.
This was rare.
Lee Young-jin never asked for anything nor show any interest.
It felt good.
Choi Yun-seok quickly nodded.
“Since it’s a big job, this too,” he put his thumb and forefinger to make a circle. “…it wouldn’t hurt you. The conditions are also good.”
After that, he peered into Lee Young-jin’s eyes and continued talking.
“But this one. It’s a big job, so it’s going to take a few days. You have to go on a business trip… of course, travel expenses are included.”
“Business trip? How many days? I have my part time job…”
Right. He knew those words would come out.
“Take a few days off your part-time job. Get a substitute, a substitute. I’ll find one.”
“But…”
Lee Young-jin hesitated again.
Choi Yun-seok scolded his lower body, which reacted wrigglingly, and then moistened his dry mouth with saliva.
“Even considering the substitute part-time job fee, there’s still profit. It’s in Shanghai so it’s not that far away.”
“Shanghai?”
Lee Young-jin’s eyebrows fell down.
“Shanghai…it’s far.”
He licked his lips. Each time the lips, more plump at the bottom, twitched, it revealed white front teeth as well as the tip of the small tongue, the two appearing alternately and then together, and so on several times. Choi Yun-seok swallowed his saliva as he stared for a bit before clearing his throat in surprise.
“It only takes two hours from Incheon.”
“Why should I be in Shanghai? Can’t we just do it in Seoul?”
“Looks like something is going on.”
Lee Young-jin still seemed to hesitate.
Choi Yun-seok became impatient.
“Shanghai is good. Macau is good, Hong Kong is good, so Shanghai is good as well. Oh, while you’re there, take a bit of a vacation and go sightseeing, yeah? I’ll cover all the tour costs. You’ve never been to Shanghai, have you?”
There was no reaction from Lee Young-jin. He wondered if he was even listening to what he said. He just stared at Choi Yun-seok, stared into the air, and blinked like a cow with dense eyelashes.
Choi Yun-seok shyly touched the back of his head and wondered what he should say to win Lee Young-jin’s heart back. The eighth time in a month. Yeah, it’s actually not a lot. It’s not an easy job and it’s not something anyone could do.
It was then that a trump card came to mind.
“Ah! That’s right! Ji Jung-hoon! Jung-hoon is also doing this job. You’re close with Jung-hoon.”
The white hand holding the broom trembled. Lee Young-jin’s head tilted with a creak. After a while, he glanced sideways at Choi Yun-seok. One second. His gaze quickly returned to the floor. Then glance again. That was repeated several times.
Choi Yun-seok felt like he was going to die of heart burn. He was hot, and he didn’t get this bothered even when he was playing the push and pull game with a hot girl. After a while, Lee Young-jin slowly opened his mouth. Choi Yun-seok gazed intently at those plump lips, wondering what sound would come out.
“Uncle?”
“Yeah. Jung-hoon worked in China for a long time. So the job was thrown to him.”
“…Yun-seok, how long do you think it will take?”
“Well, it’s up to Young-jin. But you have experience. I think about a week or so.”
“One week…”
Lee Young-jin lowered his head.
The corners of his eyes looked sadly toward the floor.
Th-th-that face. Choi Yun-seok grabbed the back of his neck and trembled. Why the hell is he making such a sad face as if meeting his in-laws when he’s just going on a business trip for a week!
“Can I get a substitute for a week?”
“I’ll help you. If we can’t find someone, I’ll do it then.”
Then, Lee Young-jin raised his head.
His dark eyes twinkled.
“This job is hard…”
F*ck, who says it’s hard to sweep and clean a chicken restaurant the size of a snot… Choi Yun-seok swallowed the words down his throat.
“Hey, when I think about Young-jin, this is nothing, there’s nothing hard about it.”
At the same time, Choi Yun-seok slipped his butt off the chair and approached Lee Young-jin. Although it’s been more than three years since he retired from active duty, his arm, which still had usable muscles, gently wrapped around Lee Young-jin’s shoulder and pulled him in. Lee Young-jin didn’t resist. He looked up at Choi Yun-seok with his unique half-down eyelids and slightly raised eyes. It felt good.
“Does your work end same time as always?”
Lee Young-jin looked at him with wet eyes, then nodded slowly.
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