S1 (Chapter - 2)

As Jeong Gukk got into ChaEunwoo’s car, Cha Eunwoo looked at him in confusion and asked, “Didn’t you say yesterday that you were going to spend your birthday alone with Kim Mingyu? Why did you suddenly go to the hospital, how did the tests go? There were no issues, right?”

“Drive first, talk as you drive,” Jeong Gukk said, buckling up.

“Where do you want to go? Out to eat?” Cha Eunwoo asked.

“Just find a place to sit,” Jeong Gukk said.

“What the hell is going on anyways?” Cha Eunwoo asked as he drove.

“When Kim Mingyu didn’t spend my birthday with me yesterday, I drank too much by myself and fell asleep on the road. The people passing by thought I was unconscious and called the hospital, so the ambulance picked me up. I wasn’t hurt.”

“If Kim Mingyu didn’t accompany you for your birthday, you could’ve called me. Why did you have to drink alone?” Cha Eunwoo said exasperatedly.

“Kim Mingyu and Yun Seojun are together behind my back,” Jeong Gukk calmly said. (1)

Cha Eunwoo looked at Jeong Gukk in shock, saying, “Is that true? You drank to drown your sorrows because you found out what they’re doing?”

Jeong Gukk was silent and didn’t answer. Before he was reborn, he had drunk heavily simply because Kim Mingyu didn’t spend his birthday with him, not because he knew about Kim Mingyu’s affair with Yun Seojun. According to the development of his last life, he only learned about Kim Mingyu’s affair with Yun Seojun once they were together openly, about three years later.

“I felt that something was wrong between them, but I wasn’t certain and it wasn’t easy to say,” Cha Eunwoo said angrily. “What are you going to do now?”

Jeong Gukk said, “In a few days, I’m gonna give them an unforgettable present on Yun Seojun’s birthday. There’s just one more thing that I need your help with.”

“What, just say it.”

“I’d like to borrow your tea mountain villa for a birthday party.”

After a little reflection, Cha Eunwoo got Jeong Gukk’s meaning and said, “I understand, I’ll help you prepare.”

“Eunwoo…” Jeong Gukk looked to the front, eyes set firmly. “From now on, my brain is controlled only by myself, and I want to live by my own ideas!”

“…Before, your brain was controlled by someone else?” Cha Eunwoo was puzzled by his remark.

Jeong Gukk closed his eyes and remembered everything that had happened in his past life and the man he was; he was really a bit pathetic.

After Jeong Gukk told Cha Eunwoo the specific plans, the two went to eat together, and then Cha Eunwoo sent Jeong Gukk home.

As soon as Jeong Gukk was about to enter the house, Kim Mingyu’s car drove up.

“Gukk!” Climbing out of the car, Yun Seojun quickly walked towards Jeong Gukk and asked, “Where have you been? Why didn’t you answer the phone? We were looking for you everywhere.”

Jeong Gukk adjusted his facial expression and turned around, looked at Yun Seojun with a smile, and said, “I went to dinner with Eunwoo, have you eaten?”

“We…” Yun Seojun looked back at Kim Mingyu, who was heading their way, saying, “We’ve been looking for you everywhere, so we haven’t had time for dinner yet.”

Jeong Gukk smiled bitterly in his heart again; he could tell from the smell on Yun Seojun that he had just eaten food.

“What’s wrong with you?” Looking angrily at Jeong Gukk, Kim Mingyu said, “Do you think it’s interesting to make people worry about you? Do you want to exhaust other’s worries for you until no one wants to take care of you anymore?!”

“Forget it, Mingyu…” Yun Seojun grabbed Kim Mingyu’s hand out of habit to persuade him. He was surprised by his own actions and immediately let go of him, quickly glancing at Jeong Gukk, and discovered that there was no change in Jeong Gukk’s expression. He deliberately pretended to be on Jeong Gukk’s side and said, “Can’t you speak to him properly? You were so worried about him, but now you’re deliberately showing such an angry appearance. Can’t you be more honest?”

“I have something I want to tell you, if you haven’t eaten a meal yet, let the kitchen cook you a few dishes. We’ll talk while you eat.” Jeong Gukk turned and walked in. “Let’s go.”

As they entered the house, Jeong Gukk asked the maid to have the chef make the dishes that Yun Seojun normally likes. They sat in the dining room while they waited for the food and talked about the birthday party.

“When I was having dinner with Eunwoo today, he knew that we were going to do a make-up birthday party and said he would lend us the villa on their tea mountain for it.”

“Really?” Yun Seojun was a bit surprised, then said with a smile, “It seems he really thinks of you as a friend, since he’s willing to lend you his tea house for a birthday party.”

“We have our house, a villa in the mountains, on a beach, on an island, or a hotel. There’s no need to have the birthday party in their tea house,” Kim Mingyu said.

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Yun Seojun and Jeong Gukk had visited the tea house once before, liked it very much, and had wanted to borrow it for a few days to find inspiration. Cha Eunwoo refused, saying that the villa was not allowed to be lent out to others at will. In fact, Cha Eunwoo didn’t lend it because he didn’t like Yun Seojun very much, but because of Jeong Gukk’s relationship with him, he had never said it.

As Yun Seojun was rejected several times, he was obviously disappointed and told Kim Mingyu about this matter. Kim Mingyu felt that Cha Eunwoo was petty; it was just a small villa and he refused to lend it for just a few days, so he started hated Cha Eunwoo.

According to the last life, one always wants what they can’t get, because Yun Seojun had always been obsessed with the Cha family’s tea mountain villa. Kim Mingyu later used some means to get the Cha family’s villa and give it to Yun Seojun.

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In this world, Jeong Gukk will never let the same things happen again.

“It’s true that the birthday party can be held anywhere, but this is a birthday present from Eunwoo, and his heart is too strong to refuse it. I think that Seojun also likes the tea house, so I agreed.” Looking at Yun Seojun, Jeong Gukk says, “Since the two of us are celebrating our birthday together, wouldn’t it be better to choose a place we all like?”

Yun Seojun nodded in agreement and said, “You have a point. Since it is Eunwoo’s heart, it is indeed hard to refuse it. Let’s do it at the teahouse villa.”

Seeing that Yun Seojun wanted to have the birthday party at Cha family’s villa, Kim Mingyu stopped talking.

After all the dishes were served, Jeong Gukk immediately said, “You’re hungry, eat quickly. I’m so sorry, I didn’t notice that my phone was running out of power, so you were looking for me for so long. Eat a little more.”

Jeong Gukk kept serving them more food as they talked about what to do for the birthday party. Yun Seojun and Kim Mingyu only came back after they were full, but as they were pretending to have Looking for Jeong Gukk without time to eat, they had to harden their scalps and keep eating. (2)

When Kim Mingyu left, Yun Seojun said he was also tired and went back to his room to rest. His stomach was so uncomfortable that he had to take a few digestive pills.

Jeong Gukk looked at the table of food that was almost completely eaten. With a laugh, he got up and went back to his room to rest.

A few days later, on the day of Yun Seojun’s birthday, Jeong Gukk received a call from Cha Eunwoo early in the morning saying that everything was ready. They were just waiting for them to come.

This time Jeong Gukk and Yun Seojun were celebrating their birthdays together, so in addition to inviting their mutual friends, Kim Mingyu invited some of his own friends.

The parking lot at the foot of the Cha family’s tea mountain already had many luxury cars parked in it.

As Jeong Gukk entered the villa, Cha Eunwoo took them to all the places that had been arranged for their birthday party.

“Thank you for your hard work, Eunwoo,” Yun Seojun thanked Cha Eunwoo with a smile.

“You’re welcome, it’s my birthday gift to you and Jeong Gukk. Though I’ll say, I don’t have any other gifts,” Cha Eunwoo joked.

“It’s better than any birthday present,” Yun Seojun said with a touch of emotion.

“Come on, I’ll take you to the room on the top floor.”

At the top floor, Cha Eunwoo pushed open the door to the room and said, “This room can see at least half of the mountain. Whether you’re bathing or lying in bed at night, you can see the stars and the moon from above. This glass, you can see outside but cannot see inside, so there’s no problem even if you sleep naked. But there’s only one room like this, how will you two sleep tonight?”

Jeong Gukk looked around the room and said to Yun Seojun in a deliberately loving but pained tone, “Although today is my birthday with you, it’s actually your birthday, so shall I let you stay here?”

“Really?” Yun Seojun suppressed the joy in his heart and said humbly, “If you want to stay, you don’t have to give it to me.”

“Isn’t it just a glasshouse? Do you need to let it go?” Kim Mingyu clasped his hands and looked at Yun Seojun by the door, saying, “Since Gukk asked you to stay there, you will stay there. What use is politeness between you two?”

Kim Mingyu saw that Yun Seojun really wanted to stay there, so he deliberately behaved like Jeong Gukk was his person and let Yun Seojun stay. He couldn’t see what was so good about this room; any place in his houses was better than this. Although he could not feel the beauty of nature and the environment that Yun Seojun talked about, since Yun Seojun wanted to stay there, he had to find a way to let him stay.

“Then I won’t be polite with you.” Yun Seojun’s eyes shone with an irrepressible joy as he turned towards the edge of the glass wall to look out.

Jeong Gukk and Cha Eunwoo exchanged a quick look.

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