Novel Bin Vol. 2 Chapter 58: Chapter 58
Vol. 2 Chapter 58: Chapter 58
Translated by Chef
Edited by Chef
As soon as he heard the front door bell, Manager Cha quickly turned on the intercom.
“Who is it?”
<Manager, hello. This is Choi Inseop.>
Manager Cha checked the face reflected on the intercom screen, opened the door, and went out to the front door.
“Come on. Inseop”
“Hello, Manager. Here.”
Inseop held out a box of cakes and wine.
“Why did you buy all these things? Thank you.”
As he received the gift, he gestured to Inseop to come in quickly. Inseop took off his shoes, tidied them up, and entered the house.
“Excuse me.”
“Yes. Sit there.”
Manager Cha pointed to the sofa in the living room. Inseop sat down quietly.
“How about dinner?”
“It’s okay.”
“I haven’t eaten yet, so I’ll have to eat alone, all lonely and forlorn.”
At Manager Cha’s words, Inseop said, “I’ll eat it too.” and changed his words.
Manager Cha smiled and went to the kitchen to prepare a meal.
“I’ll help you.”
“It’s okay. How can I let the guest do that?”
While Inseop was restless, Manager Cha skillfully prepared the ingredients and started cooking.
“You are good at cooking.”
Seeing that the quality of the knife was unusual, Inseop said as if he was envious.
“The longer a divorcee lives alone, the better his survival skills. Can You eat eggplant?”
Inseop nodded his head.
“What do you usually eat for dinner?”
“When work is late, I eat outside.”
“What if it ends early?”
“…I buy and eat.”
Manager Cha laughed as if he knew that.
“I know how to cook, but if I eat alone, there will probably be a lot of ingredients left…”
Inseop was embarrassed, so he quickly added it as an excuse.
“It is if you live alone.”
Manager Cha added seasoning and sauce to the wall and skillfully mixed it with the eggplant.
Soon the fragrant smell spread through the kitchen.
“Can you take out rice over there? The soup is all cooked.”
“All right.”
Inseop got up quickly and put the rice in the bowl. In no time, a splendid dinner was set on the table.
“It’s been a while since I’ve shown off my skills, but I don’t know if it’ll suit your taste.”
“No. I’m so sorry for the trouble.”
“Eat a lot. It seems like you’re getting thinner as time goes by.”
He was not just saying that, Inseop looked especially bad these days. With enough left over to guess, Manager Cha went to the grocery store as soon as he received a text message from Inseop asking if he could come today, wanting to let him eat at least some white rice.
“Thank you for this food.”
Inseop greeted them politely and started eating.
“Who taught you how to use chopsticks?”
Looking at Inseop’s neat chopsticks, Manger Cha asked.
“My father.”
“I think your parents are good people.”
“Yes. They are really nice people.”
Inseop’s face, which was powerless, instantly became lively. Manager Cha felt a little sad in a corner of his heart. It made him want Inseop to live surrounded by more people.
“Isn’t Lee Wooyeon acting like a bastard?”
Manager Cha asked with a benevolent face. He was expecting Inseop to visit him. So he deliberately brought up Lee Wooyeon’s story first.
“No. Rather, I made a lot of mistakes… Yesterday was the same.”
“Does he want you to pay for repairs to his car?”
When the talk of compensation came out of Lee Wooyeon’s mouth, Manager Cha was quite surprised.
Even though he had a really dirty and trashy personality, Lee Wooyeon did not disrespect or frown on people without money at least. Especially for Choi Inseop.
“He didn’t say a specific amount, but I agreed to compensate. I have to do something.”
“… ”
He wanted to tell him that Lee Wooyeon seems to be trying to screw him up with the excuse of paying for car repairs.
“That bastard has so much money that it rots away. You can just not pay the repair cost and run away to America.”
Instead, Manager Cha gave realistic advice.
“I would never do anything like that.”
“Of course not.”
It was a problem because he didn’t. Manager Cha continued by pouring water into a cup.
“Did you fight with Lee Wooyeon?”
Inseop hesitated for a while before asking.
“Manager Cha, do you think Lee Wooyeon is angry with me?”
At first, he thought it was because of his mood, but Inseop gradually began to think that it wasn’t like that. An objective perspective from a third party was needed. That was the reason he came here today.
“It seems a little like that, but what happened?”
“…I do not know.”
Inseop replied. It was true. He couldn’t even guess why Lee Wooyeon was acting coldly.
“Well, who knows what goes on in that person’s head.”
The meal resumed in heavy silence. After the meal, Manager Cha cut fruit and served it with wine.
“Let’s have a drink.”
“I don’t think I’ll drink.”
“Then just hold it.”
Manager Cha filled a wine glass and handed it over.
“Eat an apple. This is a fresh apple. It’s delicious. I stole it from CEO Kim’s house.”
Inseop politely accepted the apple with both hands. Inseop, who was chewing on an apple, suddenly opened his mouth.
“Last time, Mr. Lee Wooyeon said he wanted to raise a cat.”
“Cat?”
Inseop nodded his head and replied.
“But I couldn’t answer right away. I guess I was prejudiced against him.”
“…Isn’t that a fact, not prejudice? How will that human raise animals?”
“They? will grow up well. He’s a responsible person.”
“He has no responsibility.”
The problem was that his mind was not like a normal human’s.
Manager Cha clearly remembered what Lee Wooyeon said to him, who misunderstood a plastic bag as a puppy.
“I guess that’s why he’s hurt.”
“…No. That would never be the case.”
“I called him late at night. Could it be because of that?”
“If I did that, I’d be damned, but not to Mr. Inseop.”
“It was very late.”
“What time?”
Manager Cha asked while chewing on an apple.
“…Two o’clock.”
Manager Cha said, “Hmm,” and furrowed his eyebrows.
“It was very late. No, no matter what, how can he be that mean? Maybe it’s because he just woke up.”
“He wasn’t sleeping.”
When the phone was connected, Inseop answered, recalling his voice, which did not have a hint of sleepiness.
“Damn it. Then what’s the fuss about? He said he was doing something great at that time. Even if it’s a woman…”
Manager Cha held his tongue in surprise at the words he inadvertently uttered. Holding the apple in his hand, Inseop’s complexion turned pitifully pale.
“That, he must have just been sleeping alone. That bastard is usually violent when he wakes up. I heard he threw a dumbbell at a certain manager for waking him up from sleep.”
Manager Cha was hard at work.
“Is it really because of that?”
Inseop muttered with gloomy eyes.
“I’d rather you ask Lee Wooyeon directly.”
“I asked.”
“Did he have anything to say?”
“…yes”
When asked if he was angry, Lee Wooyeon did not answer. However, he did not even reply that he was not angry. Then he suddenly asked if there was anything he wanted to say to him. His heart sank every time. It reminded him of something Kim Kangwoo had told him before. In fact, he wondered if there was something else that Lee Wooyeon was waiting for.
“I think it’s because I’m lacking a lot.”
Manager Cha stood up from his seat. It wasn’t the mood to sip wine elegantly. He brought soju from the refrigerator.
“Did you get permission from the doctor?”
Inseop asked worriedly. He seemed to still believe in the dose Lee Wooyeon was talking about. Manager Cha rolled up the hem of his pants and said.
“I’m almost healed now. Don’t worry.”
“That’s fortunate. I was very worried.”
Saying that, Inseop’s eyes were clear without a doubt.
Really, how did he get caught up in something like that?
Manager Cha poured his soju into the wine glass and drank it all at once.
“Mr. Inseop.”
“Yes.”
Hearing the serious voice calling me, Inseop answered nervously.
“Leave Lee Wooyeon.”
“Yes?”
“I told you back then. If that bastard behaves meanly, throw him away. You can make new friends as many times as you like.”
Inseop’s fingers trembled at the word friend.
“He won’t change. He’s a douchebag. He has been like that from before, and it will be like that in the future.”
That day, when Lee Wooyeon broke the nose of the driver who had been arguing with him, Manger Cha was the first to worry about Inseop. It was because of the thought that Inseop would have been surprised to see that crazy guy’s crazy babbling. However, he soon changed his mind and prayed that it would be nice if he fell in love at this opportunity.
“I know.”
Inseop slowly blinked his eyes.
“…I didn’t expect that from the beginning.”
Inseop drank the wine at once.
“Oh my. Can you drink it all at once?”
Inseop coughed lightly and nodded his head.
“A drink is fine.”
“Is the work very difficult?”
The word work has many meanings. Inseop pondered for a moment, then shook his head.
“I do it because I like it. It’s okay.”
Knowing Inseop’s personality, he never said that it was difficult, no matter how hard it was, so Manager Cha felt very sorry for him. Just as he was about to tell him that it can be difficult to do something he loves, the bell rang at the front door.