1st in Class Hides Regression - Chapter 70

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Ranked 1st in School Hides Her Regression
70
“Why did you ignore my call?! Why aren’t you saying anything?! Huh?!”
That’s right.
Exactly this.
The love triangle incident that unfolded over the weekend between Jang Ji-won, her boyfriend, and the girl from the next school.
As the ranked 1st student in school (ahem), allow me to summarize it for you.
[Summary]
Last Saturday marked the 200 days for Jang Ji-won and her boyfriend.
With exams finally over, the two decided to venture out to Nami Island for a date.
Ji-won suggested it, Ji-won saved up money for their Date Account, Ji-won packed the lunchbox they’d eat there, and Ji-won even bragged to everyone around them that she hadn’t done a thing and her boyfriend had planned it all.
But that morning.
“Ji-won, what do I do? I think I caught a cold from Do Ha-jun.”
“Oh no… Is my boyfriend really sick? Should I go buy you some porridge?”
“It’s not that bad. I think I’ll feel better if I just rest at home alone.”
“Awww….”
Of all days, it had to be their anniversary.
Ji-won felt hurt and disappointed, but she held it in. Guys didn’t like girls who demanded attention twenty-four hours a day, after all.
With time suddenly free, she lay in bed scrolling through her phone all day. Usually in situations like this, she’d call her girlfriends over to kill time, but strangely, they were all busy today.
She dove into her boyfriend’s social media, stalked his friends around him, scrolled and scrolled….
Then she saw it.
Her supposedly sick boyfriend at Lotte World.
At Lotte World with a girl from next school, both wearing cute hairbands, sharing ice cream, taking Polaroid photos together.
-Had so much fun lol♡
@JiWonsBoyFriend
The girl had tagged him and posted it on social media….
And so over the weekend.
-How fun is it to go to Lotte World with someone else’s boyfriend????? What’s with taking photos with your faces so close
@ThatCheater
Answer me
-What are you talking about? Keep your boyfriend in check, will you? I didn’t even know they were dating. Delete the post
They took shots at each other on social media, tagged one another for public execution, mobilized their respective friend groups to hurl insults….
-Like I said, I didn’t know! How was I supposed to know he had a girlfriend lol? We were just hanging out with middle school friends, and your boyfriend asked to come along. Why are you coming at me like this?^^ Control your own boyfriend
While arrows flew everywhere, her boyfriend stayed conspicuously silent.
Word had it he’d even called the girl from next school separately to apologize, but he ghosted Ji-won completely.
And come Monday morning, all hell broke loose.
(Not that it matters much, but there’s something I really want to say.
Ji-won’s boyfriend is ugly.)
“Say something! Do you want to lose me like this?!”
“Stop it. I’m seriously getting angry.”
The classmates watched with great interest as Ji-won cried and shouted while her boyfriend stood there looking utterly embarrassed.
Before the regression, I would’ve told them to go fight it out, plugged in my earbuds, and focused on studying.
Yeah. Like Jung Eun-seong right now—staring intently at a book titled “How to Grow Taller” with a serious expression, completely oblivious to who was fighting and who wasn’t.
But now?
I’m listening with one ear open, dead-eyed….
‘I need to use this when I comfort Ji-won later.’
“We’re breaking up! We’re breaking up!”
Ji-won… you probably think this moment looks like a dramatic scene from a TV show right now.
But in real life, there’s no lighting, no orchestral score placed perfectly at the crucial moment, no dialogue carefully written by a screenwriter.
It’s only a drama to you. Only to you.
“Call her right now, in front of me, and apologize to me!”
“What?! Why is this class so loud?!”
The fight—which I thought was becoming a fine piece of dark history—ended with the first-period teacher’s arrival.
The classmates exchanged hopeful glances.
‘They’re breaking up, right?’
‘Obviously. How could they stay together after that?’
No. They won’t break up.
After complaining about her boyfriend nonstop to us and getting comforted for a while, every time we go somewhere together, she’ll be saying ‘I really should’ve come here with a guy’ on repeat—
About a month from now, they’ll get back together.
And when they hit 300 days, she’ll giggle to us about going to Nami Island then, and we’ll have to cough up 300 won each….
Before the Regression, I was too annoyed to do anything but hand over 300 won. This time, I won’t give her even 3 won.
But for now, let me get some help from an absolutely furious Jang Ji-won.
Lunchtime. I wolfed down my meal and headed out to the School Playground.
As planned, Yeon-hee was already sitting in the Bleachers with Jang Ji-won. She nodded when she saw us arrive.
“She’s not even pretty! Look, my friend said she looks like some ajumma!”
“Ji-won, you okay?”
I sat down beside Jang Ji-won, who was busy critiquing the other girl’s selfie.
For the record, Ga-eun and Do-yeon—who can’t control their expressions—sat this mission out. It was just the three of us: Se-in, who gets along with everyone; Su-a, who’s blunt; and me.
“Hey! You’re way prettier!”
“No comparison!”
“I mean, her boyfriend… heh, I bet he doesn’t even actually like her that much?”
“Honestly, if your boyfriend saw you two side by side, he’d think you were way out of his league.”
“Right, right. Where else is he gonna find a girlfriend like you?”
“He’s gotta be regretting it like crazy right now.”
“But.”
After feeding Jang Ji-won all the validation she was hungry for, I carefully steered toward the real point.
“So what do you want to do? You want revenge?”
“Of course! I’m gonna make him regret losing me. I’ll make him feel it in his bones—how lucky he was to have me. I’m gonna take everything from him: his friends, his family, everyone around him!”
Is the drama shoot still going on?
“Wow… that’s really impressive thinking.”
Se-in applauded enthusiastically from beside me.
I bit my lip to keep my expression neutral, hiding my trembling hands under my thighs as I continued.
“Then how about you start by reaching out to your boyfriend’s parents?”
“His parents?”
“Yeah! You have their contact info, right? You said they really liked you.”
“Well, that’s true, but…”
“If you tell them what happened, they’ll obviously take your side!”
I urged her to call them.
This was our actual goal.
According to Yeon-hee, when Jang Ji-won hit their 100 Days milestone with her boyfriend, she even sent letters to his parents, plus handmade cookies and a rice cake or something. She wrote to thank them for raising such a good son.
She was always dropping by their place. She talked about getting married right after college, asking them to call her their daughter-in-law even now.
So of course she’d have their number saved.
“Tell them to teach him a lesson.”
“Right. You gotta nip this stuff in the bud early.”
“Exactly. Men are only as good as the woman they’re with…!”
As I said the last part, I gritted my teeth.
Up until that point, our plan had just been to find an opening and get Jang Ji-won’s father-in-law’s number. Once we had it, we were going to either text him or impersonate a teacher, lure him to the school.
But things spiraled in a completely unexpected direction.
“That’s right! Look how much I’ve done for them all this time!”
Jang Ji-won’s words ignited something in her, and she suddenly opened her Cellphone, then started typing out an angry message at rapid-fire speed.
To ♡Mother-in-law♡.
-Mom, it’s Ji-won. There’s something I need to tell you about what happened between your son and me. Even though it happened by accident, I’m ready to take full responsibility for it, and I’ve been trying to have a serious talk with him about it, but he just keeps avoiding me…. As a last resort, I’m reaching out to you. Please help your son take responsibility for his actions.
-And Mom, don’t believe what he says. He’s just full of lies.
…….
…….
…….
Think the exaggeration is too much? That a person like this couldn’t possibly exist in real life?
I’m sorry, but they do. They really do.
They exist!
‘Wait, this is…’
This sounds like she’s confessing to something huge. Kind of like one of those High Teen Parents scenarios.
Is this even allowed?
I quickly locked eyes with my friends, but the message was already sent.
The ‘1’ disappeared.
Jang Ji-won didn’t answer the call that came through immediately from ♡Mother-in-law♡.
“If my mother-in-law wants to talk to me, she’ll have to come to the school.”
Speaking like a villain’s redemption arc in a drama, Jang Ji-won flipped her phone over with an air of indifference.
“…Hang in there.”
She’s definitely going to come to the school now….
The world is spinning.
“W-well, I guess we should get going…….”
I rose from my seat.
“Ugh. I talked so much nonsense I’m exhausted.”
“What? You were doing fine.”
“No. That was really hard.”
I pressed my throbbing temples and climbed the stairs. At the corner leading to the fourth floor, I repeated the line I’d just delivered.
“A man is only… as good as the woman makes him……!”
And that’s when I ran straight into Jung Eun-seong coming out of the Restroom.
Seeing me with my fists clenched tight and eyes gleaming as I spoke, Jung Eun-seong dropped the Toothbrush he’d been holding.
“…….”
“…….”
No, that wasn’t me! That’s not what I believe!

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