Knowing Brother-Chapter 5
In this situation, the ‘real’ Won Dae-young would comment like this. ‘I didn’t know that the kid who brags about being the youngest managing director here and there had a hobby of sucking men’s buttholes.’ When Won Dae-young’s laughter lingered in his eyes, Managing Director Yoon cleared his throat.
“Hmm... and, I know it’s a bit too much to ask Seol-woo this....”
“.......”
“I’m careful, but I can’t just let this go.”
The managing director put his hand in his pocket. It seemed like he was trying to take something out.
Choi Seol-woo, judging that this was a tactic to prepare the groundwork for a so-called confession attack, quickly turned his back. He already planned to confess his true feelings when Won Dae-young returned to Korea, but he didn’t want to make things even more troublesome.
“Let’s talk about it later. I don’t have time.”
“I’m sorry, I can do it in a moment.”
By this point, it would have been obvious, but Director Yoon was following Seol-woo briskly. When he looked back to say something, he thrust something in front of Seol-woo.
What he saw was a mobile phone screen with an internet newspaper article on it.
“Is this true?”
Choi Seol-woo blinked twice as he read the article, clearly showing his annoyance.
<Won Dae-young, a gold medalist in track and field ❤ Ha Young-seo from ‘Assembly’, caught in the pink love atmosphere>
A sports star and a girl group member couple?
Ha Young-seo visits the national team’s dormitory ahead of the Asian Games...
What did I say?
If you wish earnestly, it will come true? I told you that people who want to make money by selling books are talking nonsense.
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The subway digital billboard was plastered with Won Dae-young’s photo. Track and field hero. World class. There was a place that put up a group photo of the four relay runners with the phrase ‘Team KOREA’, but the main character was clearly Won Dae-young.
The company was the same. It was noisy with stories about the gold medalist who made track and field a popular sport for a short while.
“Everyone is crazy because they won a medal in track and field. Did you see? He’s handsome. Even if he dates a celebrity, it’s acknowledged. Ha Young-seo is also famous for being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. People with rich families and good people date, and I’m the only one single.”
I deliberately held back on revealing that they were close, because I thought a barrage of questions would explode. The news quickly churned out articles that could make money.
<Won Dae-young and Ha Young-seo deny dating rumors>
<Dismissing them as ‘just close friends’>
It seems that Won Dae-young’s sports management company responded quickly. In any case, the fact that a female celebrity visited the national team’s dormitory and met Won Dae-young was a fact, so the comments overwhelmingly said that they were making a strategic denial.
When I asked Won Dae-young about the truth yesterday, he answered like this.
[<400m track and field crown prince Won Dae-young ❤ ‘Assembly’ Ha Young-seo, caught in a pink love affair> ... View full link]
[What is this]
[No one knew about it] 6:35 PM
Hyung Dae-young like the sky: [Ah. I’ll explain when I go] 6:38 PM
‘Hyung Dae-young like the sky’ is a name that I was forced to save after losing a bet last year. I swear it wasn’t Choi Seol-woo’s free will.
A news article was posted on a portal site that the national team that finished its Asian Games schedule had just returned home. Reporters who flocked to the airport made a video news and short-form footage of the return and shared it online.
<National team arrival live!>
<Korean track and field quartet ‘returns home in glory’ - greets fans with bright smiles>
The national track and field relay team was all awkward as the flashes poured out as soon as the airport exit gate opened. However, out of the four, only Won Dae-young had a relaxed face. He didn’t seem worried even though there was a dating rumor article.
Was it really a speculative article? Oh, I don’t know. He’s busy with work. Choi Seol-woo tried hard to ignore him and focus on the monitor.
The intern who came to the tax department with Choi Seol-woo had studied abroad at an English-speaking school and spoke business English at a native level. He seemed to find it surprising that Choi Seol-woo, who was purely domestic and had no experience working overseas, had been accepted by one of the Big 4 accounting firms right after graduating from college. They were still in a strange battle of wits, so it was taking up a lot of energy.
Choi Seol-woo had to be hired as a full-time employee and earn a high salary no matter what. She didn’t even think about looking easy to her competitors. She had no time to waste energy on dating rumors now that she had to prove her abilities through her work results.
I had been reading and ignoring it since yesterday, and Won Dae-young kept urging me to contact him as soon as I left the airport. There were already two missed calls.
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [Did you forget to check your blood pressure and heart rate?] 11:37 PM
—— Thursday, January 0 ——
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [Choi Seol-woo's answer] 1:13 PM
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [Seol-woo]
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [Should I go to the company and hear the answer?] 1:42 PM
[Oh, nothing much, just think of it as nothing;; It's annoying] 3:21 PM
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [It's been a while since I've been rejected]
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [Choi Seol-woo's rant?]
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [A promise is a promise]
Skylike Daeyounghyung: [Send me a health check] 3:25 PM
At some point, Choi Seol-woo started to feel burdened by Won Dae-young. I don't remember exactly when it started, but it's been a long time. It was around the first year of high school that he started to sense something tingling in Won Dae-young. It was also around that time that Won Dae-young started to appear in wet dreams and masturbation scenes.
When the stupid act of reproduction was added to Won Dae-young, it felt a little different. It felt heavy and dangerously erotic.
At the time, he thought that this phenomenon was due to his physical and personality characteristics that were optimized for seducing females through sexual intercourse or courtship. That bastard’s sex appeal was so strong that he was affected.
However, that feeling continued until recently, and when Won Dae-young’s specific voice and body odor made his lower body tingle and get hot, Seol-woo knew.
Oh, shit. It’s too late.
It was too late to stop thinking about Won Dae-young.
He decided to open up to him to relieve his unsolvable pain, but it was always difficult. He was already a bastard who hated being linked to gays and bromances. The identity of the male senior in the essay club who used to secretly leave convenience store gift cards and chocolates on the library seat where Choi Seol-woo was sitting was finally discovered by Won Dae-young, who had threatened, “Be careful, it’s not you, Choi Seol-woo.”
As he sighed and rubbed his eyes, the phone rang. It was Ha Young-seo’s number.
Choi Seol-woo looked around and went out to the break room. He loosened his tie, took a deep breath, and answered the phone.
“Yeah.”
- Seol-woo, are you busy? Are you working overtime today?
“Well, why?”
- Dae-young, can you help me choose the gold medal gift? I’ll be there when you’re on time. You know his tastes the best... But if you’re busy, it’s okay! It’s really okay.
Seol-woo, who was struggling to answer, eventually couldn’t overcome his curiosity. He glanced around the office and answered.
“I can leave at eight.”
As promised, a black van honked its horn near the office. Ha Young-seo was wearing a hat, a mask, and sneakers, and was dressed casually. The van carrying Choi Seol-woo began to drive slowly through downtown Seoul.
Ha Young-seo, who had taken off her mask, grabbed Seol-woo, who was sitting across from her, and grumbled in a refreshing voice.
“I was so stressed that I bought it. I asked my manager to buy it for me.”
There were already three shopping bags in the car. I could see the logo of an underwear brand. She imagined herself showing off her body in bold underwear in front of Won Dae-young, saying, “The gold medal gift is... me! Ta-da!” Ha Young-seo could tell how much she trusted Seol-woo as a friend, since she even showed off her underwear shopping bag so casually.
“Thank you for coming. Is your work life hard? It was good that you bought me health food as a job gift the last time we met.”
In fact, Choi Seol-woo had to be careful about special juices, so she gave it all to her mother, but she said thank you.
Youngseo prepared all kinds of vitamin drinks and snacks for Seolwoo, worried that she might get tired. When she quickly asked Hayoungseo to show her the gift candidates, she quickly handed over her phone. The page she had turned on was a VIP-only online mall for a department store.
Won Daeyoung, Hayoungseo, and several of her high school friends were all families where this kind of life was normal. Won Daeyoung would sometimes say, “Our family is well off.” I heard that his grandfather owned a ton of real estate in Seoul and the Gyeonggi area. The house that Won Daeyoung’s mother recently bought was also a luxury house with a garden that you only see in movies.
Thanks to Choi Seolwoo and Won Daeyoung’s perfect joint fraud, they had no idea about Seolwoo’s family’s financial situation.
To them, Seolwoo was not a friend who rented a villa with her single mother who worked as a moving company assistant.
The Choi Seolwoo they knew was a friend with a father who was a high-income goose and a mother who lived as a full-time housewife thanks to her generous income. Everyone knew that Seol-woo’s financial situation was similar to theirs, so showing him the VIP-only mall wasn’t at all an attempt to prank Seol-woo.
Their spending patterns were very familiar to Seol-woo. He asked her while scrolling down without saying anything.
“I just rest every evening and relieve stress whenever I have time. Why, because of the article?”
When Ha-young-seo brought up the dating news, she confessed the truth in her refreshing manner.
“It’s annoying. I’m so sorry I couldn’t take care of you properly during your rehabilitation, so I stopped by for a bit and gave you snacks and supplements for the national team, but I think someone filmed it.”
Ha-young-seo was gnashing her teeth because of how stressed out her agency had been. Anyway, Choi Seol-woo’s heart was greatly relieved when she heard that the article wasn’t true.
“You’re a celebrity, so tell Won Dae-young to come get it instead. Does that guy make women come and go?”
“That’s why I don’t have time. I guess you can’t leave ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) the dorm during the competition.”
“Ah.”
While answering, Seol-woo tilted his head internally. Won Dae-young, before leaving the country, you left the dorm and bought Choi Seol-woo a suit, didn’t you? And you also stopped by to personally check on Choi Seol-woo, who had started her internship, to see if she was doing well?
