S1 (Chapter - 3)

As the friends attending the two’s birthday party arrived, they all came to greet Jeong Gukk and Yun Seojun and deliver birthday presents.

“Happy birthday.”

“Happy birthday, here’s a gift for you, I hope you like it.”

“Thank you.” Jeong Gukk and Yun Seojun smiled and thanked all of them, accepting the gifts and putting them away.

“It’s so great that you’re going to have your birthdays together.”

“Yeah, my relationship with my brother isn’t that good.”

“It was Gukk who was willing to accommodate me and have my birthday together with his,” Yun Seojun said with a smile.

“The feelings are mutual, you know me. If others treat me well, then I will return the feelings twofold. Seojun often tells me that even if everyone else abandoned me, he would stand firmly behind me and never do anything to betray me. I must be good to him for what he’s promised me again and again.”

Yun Seojun smiled, but his smile was a little reluctant, his heart full of guilt.

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Jeong Gukk’s mother died shortly after the divorce with his father, and his father married Yun Seojun’s mother soon after. Yun Seojun entered the Jeong family before he was ten years old. His life was very hard before the age of ten, and after arriving at the Jeong family, he lived a life that he could never have dreamed of before. His mother told him that if he wanted to always live like this, he had to please Jeong Gukk.

Jeong Gukk’s mother was a strong woman, but Jeong Gukk’s father was a burdensome man. Although Jeong Gukk’s mother had been busy with her career, in fact, she was very aware that his father had always maintained some kind of connection with his first love. In order to give Jeong Gukk a complete family, she chose to pretend not to know.

When Jeong Gukk was nine years old, his mom suddenly filed for divorce and handed over the management power of the company to the deputy general manager. She transferred all the property and shares under her name to Jeong Gukk and signed an agreement with the bank to manage it on his behalf, so Jeong Gukk was free to handle it once he became an adult. Within months of this, Jeong Gukk’s mother died.

Adulthood in this country came at 16 years old, and one can get married at the age of 18. Jeong Gukk was now 19 years old and had long held economic power, so all the people in Jeong Gukk’s house depended on him. They all knew about Yun Seojun’s affair with Kim Mingyu, but they kept him in the dark for their own peace of mind.

When compared to Jeong Gukk, Yun Seojun actually felt quite inferior. Jeong Gukk was very rich and it was all his own money. He was also better looking than him and was surrounded by many friends.

Yun Seojun had been ingratiating himself with Jeong Gukk, looking for an opportunity to join his circle of friends and slowly get more friendly with them.

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After all of the guests arrived, Cha Eunwoo had people push out the cake and asked Jeong Gukk and Yun Seojun to make a wish and blow out the candles. Jeong Gukk let Yun Seojun make the wish alone, saying that he had already made a wish on his own birthday. In his mind, he thought that being reborn was the best wish that could come true.

“The first wish, I hope our family can be healthy and safe; the second wish, I hope…” Looking at Jeong Gukk, Yun Seojun said, “I hope Gukk will be happy. The third wish…”

Yun Seojun didn’t say the third wish aloud, but instead wished with his eyes closed that ‘he would be in love with Kim Mingyu for a lifetime’.

Yun Seojun blew out the candle and smiled amidst the cheers of others. Kim Mingyu was standing behind others by the wall, watching Yun Seojun with a tender look of love.

Everyone ate, drank, and chatted together. After the banquet ended it was already quite late, so everyone decided to stay overnight. The villa was quite large, so twenty or thirty people could live there at one time.

After waiting in his room for a while, he received a call from Cha Eunwoo.

“The fish are in the net, shall we start?”

“Let’s get started,” Jeong Gukk said.

The friends of Yun Seojun and Jeong Gukk, as well as Kim Mingyu’s guests, had already gone to bed when they were suddenly awakened by a knock on the door. They were then all taken outside the room on the top floor.

“Sorry to disturb you,” Jeong Gukk said with an apologetic expression. “But I actually prepared a gift for Seojun today, and I’m hoping to surprise him. I hope everyone can witness this scene together now, so that we can end it soon and everyone can go back to bed. Please bear with me.”

After Jeong Gukk finished speaking, he turned to the wooden wall and counted down: “Three, two, one!”

When Jeong Gukk’s countdown ended, the walls in front of him suddenly swung open on both sides. A dry ice jet went off, accompanied by a steady stream of colored smoke cannons.

In the glass room, the two men who were hugging together on the bed were startled by the movement. They turned their heads and were dumbfounded, looking at Jeong Gukk in great shock. Jeong Gukk had his back to them and looked at other people calmly, no expression on his face.

Jeong Gukk turned and walked towards them step by step. The others saw this scene and were completely stunned, unable to respond for half a day.

Jeong Gukk walked to the bed and looked at them, saying, “Isn’t this birthday present good? Do you like it?”

“You did this on purpose!” Kim Mingyu looked angrily at Jeong Gukk.

“Yes, I did, but I did it for your own good. Now you can be together openly,” Jeong Gukk said mockingly.

“Gukk, you listen to me, we didn’t want to hurt you. We wanted to find the right time to tell you, we didn’t want to hide it from you,” Yun Seojun explained tearfully.

“So you thought that if you found the right time to tell me that you’ve been together behind my back, you wouldn’t hurt me?” Jeong Gukk stared at Yun Seojun with a ridiculing look.

“I don’t love you anymore, whoever I am with is my freedom. What rights and qualifications do you have to blame us?!”

“That’s really good, at least it’s a lot better than what Yun Seojun said. Although the slag is acting so righteous, at least he admits to being a slag, good, good.” Jeong Gukk clapped a few times, saying, “Actually, you’ve been together behind my back for a long time now. In the beginning you felt that this kind of sneaky feeling was very exciting, so you didn’t want to say anything. Then you felt that you really loved each other and wanted to be openly together, but you cheated and you didn’t want to bear that reputation. You planned to break up with me first and then go out in the open together, so that in other people’s eyes, you don’t have any reason to be sorry to me, right?”

“Gukk, I’m sorry, we, we really should have told you earlier.” Yun Seojun looked at Jeong Gukk with a face full of guilt and said, “We really don’t want to hurt you, but we couldn’t control our feelings, and we love each other…”

Jeong Gukk interrupted his words and said, “If you do it, just do it, why won’t you admit it? It’s disgusting to see you pretending again.”

Jeong Gukk turned around towards the others and said, “How about it, isn’t this scene exciting? You can remember these images for your whole life, and whenever Kim Mingyu puts on airs or Yun Seojun puts on a kind face in front of you, you can mock them in your heart.”

No one else dared to offend Kim Mingyu, with heads low and eyes averted, but they felt that it was a good point in their hearts.

“Jeong Gukk!” Kim Mingyu bit out through clenched teeth, “You’ll regret what you did today!”

Jeong Gukk turned abruptly and looked at Kim Mingyu, saying, “Want me to regret it? Bring it on, we’ll wait and see who regrets it in the end.” (1)

After Jeong Gukk left, everyone else went back to their rooms as well. They were all in a state of complete excitement and impatience to tell others what just happened, so this event would definitely spread as quickly as possible.

As the wooden walls slowly closed, only Kim Mingyu and Yun Seojun were left in the glass room, and Kim Mingyu jumped out of bed. He smashed everything that he could smash, but still couldn’t alleviate his anger, while Yun Seojun tearfully held his own legs on the bed.

Kim Mingyu didn’t care about the reputation of being a cheater; who among the rich didn’t have any tangled feelings and affairs. However, he was an extremely face-loving person (2), and being trapped in bed and watched by a crowd was a matter of great shame.

Yun Seojun was most afraid of being looked down upon and looked over. Although people might not insult him openly because of his relationship with Kim Mingyu, who knew what they would say behind his back. Whatever he did after this, they would certainly mock his inconsistencies and hypocrisy.

When Cha Eunwoo entered Jeong Gukk’s room, he looked at him and asked, “Have you vented your anger yet?”

“Vented?” Jeong Gukk poured himself and Cha Eunwoo a small glass of wine, then sat down and said, “This was only a small punishment, the real venting of anger is yet to come.”

Cha Eunwoo didn’t know what Jeong Gukk had experienced in his past life, so Jeong Gukk couldn’t possibly explain to him how much he hated and despised Kim Mingyu and Yun Seojun. Since his last life, the only thing he deeply loved anymore was the man who gave him warmth.

“Sorry, I got you involved.”

“Whatever,” Cha Eunwoo shrugged. “I did promise to help you, and I’m naturally not afraid to offend Kim Mingyu. He can’t do anything to me.”

Cha Eunwoo’s grandfather was a very powerful person. As long as his grandfather was there, Kim Mingyu couldn’t touch Cha Eunwoo. In the previous life, it was exactly because Cha Eunwoo’s grandfather suddenly died that Kim Mingyu’s grandfather had the opportunity to use the Cha family.

But in this life, Jeong Gukk would change each of these regrets one by one.

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