Knowing Brother-Chapter 8

Choi Seol-woo, who was burying his face in the desk and looking at the collapsed Jenga tower, looked at his phone out of habit. He also wanted to stop the habit of looking for ‘Hyun-like Dae-young’ among the message notifications.

Feeling so suffocated, he turned on the app and called out the name of his smart friend.

“ChatGPT. Do you know Whistle Man?”

- [“Whistle Man” is one of the urban legends or ghost stories in Korea that mainly originated from internet communities. This story is about a man who follows people around at night while blowing a whistle. It is known to be very scary especially if you encounter this man in a dark street or alley.

The Whistle Man approaches people while blowing a whistle, and it is often set up that he follows them all the way even if they run away. These types of ghost stories are usually told with the purpose of creating fear in people, and they are not real people or events... ... ]

He chuckled to himself. The one who followed him all the way was exactly Won Dae-young. Seol-woo continued to ask with a blank face that could not distinguish between sleepiness and sadness.

“ChatGPT, what should I do if I can’t have someone I want?”

- [It can be really hard when you like or want someone but they don’t accept you. The important thing in such a situation is to deal with it in a healthy way for both yourself and the other person. Here are some tips:

1. Accept your emotions: Don’t deny or suppress your emotions, but acknowledge and accept them. It’s natural to feel sad or hurt.

... ...

5. Time will heal: Emotions tend to subside over time. It may be hard now, but as time goes by, your feelings for that person will gradually fade.]

“Time heals emotions? It’s already been a long time.”

- [If the emotion still remains even after time passes, there may be several reasons. Among them, it is important to understand why the emotion is not resolved. Let’s look at some possibilities.

1. Root of the emotion: Not all emotions will be resolved simply by the passage of time. If you don’t understand the root of your emotions or if you haven’t resolved the root, your emotions can persist.

2. Habitualized emotions: Sometimes, thoughts or feelings about that person can become hardened like habits. If you repeat the same emotions for a long time, they become a part of your daily life and don’t easily go away.

3. Regret or attachment: Regret or attachment can hold onto emotions for a long time.

4. Lack of new experiences: If there were no new experiences or people to replace those emotions, you are more likely to stay in those emotions. You may need to find new opportunities for yourself and shift your emotional focus elsewhere. ƒreewebɳovel.com

5. Internal conflict: You may have an internal conflict where you don’t want to let go of those emotions or can’t let go. This can be a sign that you are spending more energy maintaining those emotions than trying to sort them out... ... ]

“Why is it so complicated? Can’t I just erase him from my life?”

- [If you feel so bad that you want to erase someone from your life, it must be a really painful situation. Unfortunately, I can’t do that for you. However, I can help you find a way to forget that person and sort out your feelings on your own.

1. Distance yourself: Reducing or cutting off contact with that person can be a huge help in sorting out your feelings... ... ]

“ChatGPT, it’s hard for me to do. Can you just erase them?”

- [Sadly, it’s not possible to erase someone’s memories or feelings all at once. It’s really hard to have those painful feelings... ... ]

“Fuck, if I could do that, I would’ve done it a long time ago.”

- [I understand that it’s easy to get emotional in difficult situations... ... ]

“Can you just erase them?”

- [I understand that it’s really hard to feel those feelings... ... ]

“Why on earth did he come into my life?”

- [It’s natural to want to understand why that person came into your life... ... ]

“ChatGPT, I’m having a hard time.”

- [It’s natural to feel really difficult emotions when you’re in a difficult situation... ... ]

“Daeyoung, I’m having a hard time.”

The faint streetlight that came in illuminated the whistle above the window. I had a fantasy of black stars falling on the wallpaper that had left marks from moisture.

I brought out the childish prayer I had when I was young for the first time in a long time.

I wish I could fall asleep like this and be reborn. I hope I’ll be normal when the sun rises tomorrow.

If that’s hard, I hope the two people I care about forget me. Mrs. Choi and Daeyoung. They’ll live more comfortably and affluently without me. So when tomorrow comes, I hope that in some form, I won’t be me.

“But I... have to go to work tomorrow... I haven’t finished analyzing the income statement yet.......”

The night deepened above Choi Seol-woo’s head as she muttered in her sleep and fell asleep.

The Jenga tower that had collapsed gave her psychological stability.

She had been too obsessed with that bastard who had been her special friend. Looking back, everything was something to kick the blanket over.

“Huh! Hair? Are you crazy, Choi Seol-woo? Are you trying to summon a clone? The middle school competition uniform. I’m going to get rid of it, I’m going to get rid of it. I’m going to throw it all away before it gets possessed by a ghost.”

It felt good to think that she could treat Won Dae-young as she did everyone else, without much affection.

Choi Seol-woo, who was stuffing all the Jenga sticks, hair, and uniforms into a trash bag, paused in front of the window. The morning sunlight shone on the red whistle.

After thinking about it for a moment, she decided to keep one whistle. It wasn’t really a memory with Won Dae-young, but rather a memory from her school days.

Even when he threw away the trash bag and shook his hands, Choi Seol-woo thought he could somehow get along with Won Dae-young. He was so shocked by that bastard’s true feelings. He thought he could just close his heart and get along.

He didn’t even realize it was an illusion.

That wasn’t the only unexpected development. Who would have thought that Choi Seol-woo would contact Executive Director Yoon Ji-hwan first while drunk?

It happened the very next day.

When he arrived home, exhausted after working overtime, there were two or three shopping bags from a Chinese department store in the kitchen/living room. When he asked what they were, Mrs. Choi answered indifferently, lying down with a pack on.

“Dae-young gave you some when he brought you home yesterday? He said he bought you winter clothes and a cosmetic for me before he returned home. He said he got a medal.”

“.......”

“I told you to get a good ampoule from the massage shop and apply it, and you know what he said? It’s funny.... The lady’s beauty is known nationwide, so why are you fooling me with such tricks? He has big shoulders and hands, and it looks like he boiled and ate a hundred snakes, so many women would cry.”

“.......”

“I’m so grateful that you take care of me like family. Next month, Mom will give you money, so make me some herbal medicine. I’m going to win my first Olympic medal.”

Choi Seol-woo, who had been gritting his teeth, answered in a dark voice.

“......If he takes care of his body more there, it’ll be a big problem. It’ll cause more scandal?”

“What...? Haha!”

“And if you make herbal medicine for her next month. Are you going to postpone your savings deposit again?”

“Uh... um? How did you know that?”

“Don’t get anything from Dae-young from now on.”

Mrs. Choi, who had been laughing without noticing, finally saw Seol-woo’s dark face. Mrs. Choi sat up.

“What’s with your expression? What happened at work?”

“Mrs. Choi. I have a favor to ask. Don’t ask me anything, just give Dae-young back.”

“......Okay. I didn’t even open it.”

Mrs. Choi nodded while looking at Seol-woo with a puzzled look.

Seol-woo grabbed his shopping bag without even changing his suit. He called a taxi and headed straight to Won Dae-young’s house.

Won Dae-young was living alone in an apartment with complicated financial issues. He had visited frequently during his rehabilitation period, so he already knew the entrance and front door passwords.

He got out of the taxi and headed to the 9th floor. As he stood in front of the front door, he could hear the TV from inside. He had turned up the volume so high that he could hear the loud sound even without putting his ear close to the door. I thought he didn’t watch entertainment shows much, but it was strange.

He quietly pressed the front door password. He was going to tell her straight in the face instead of just leaving it in front of the door. Don’t give her this kind of thing again.

Seol-woo opened the front door and was shocked by the unexpected scenery inside the house. All the lights were turned off and even the curtains were drawn, so the living room was pitch dark. Only the TV light was illuminating the sofa.

And from the front door to the room, a black Team KOREA T-shirt, a handbag, a bra, a one-piece dress, briefs, and a cell phone were scattered on the floor one by one. They had thrown them off so hastily that men’s and women’s underwear were mixed together and rolled around the living room.

The woman’s underwear had the logo of the underwear brand she had seen when she met Ha-young-seo a few days ago written on it.

“Ah... haah! Oppa....”

“Ah... um....”

The man’s deep breathing sounded low, revealing his sexual pleasure. His panting breaths became rough as if they were {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} scraping the floor. The sound of flesh slapping against flesh was thick. The woman groaned with her breathless breath.

“Yeah, yeah! Oh yeah, it’s full, it hurts... it feels so good...!”

“Haa..., squeak.”

The naked friction sound of flesh and flesh joining resonated through the darkness. The sound of sweat and sticky body fluids dripping was louder than the laughter of entertainment programs.

It felt like their naked bodies were visible in the darkness. Seol-woo muffled his footsteps and took a step back.

As he took a step back toward the front door, a secret scene came to mind in Choi Seol-woo’s head. Won Dae-young grabbed the legs of the woman lying down and had heated sex. He greedily sucked every part of her small body and moved his waist fiercely. His firm body, tanned from intense training, crushed the woman so that she couldn’t move at all. His back muscles and glutes were soaked in sweat and thickly slippery.