I’m Obsessed With the Suspect - Chapter 23

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23

These were indeed suspicious stories for typical part-time work rules. Almost like codes, or secret warnings.

And finally, her eyes landed on the last rule.

“* Sometimes people come to the wrong store. Please make sure to hand them over to the manager.”

Cheong-a gripped the paper with the work rules tightly and brought it right up to her nose.

‘People who came to the wrong store?’

The work rules were saying that there were quite a few such people at the store.

Perhaps these people were the ones Yang Dongjun had mentioned. And the managers knew this secret.

Her heart began to beat rapidly.

It was a moment that was both bewildering and thrilling.

A dull confidence rising from deep in her stomach wrapped around Cheong-a’s entire body.

‘Look at that. I think I found it properly? I really am lucky.’

Cheong-a began quickly making various plans in her head.

She would probably just need to tell the manager that she ‘came looking for Luna’. Then she could naturally reach the merchant ship Yang Dongjun had mentioned.

She thought about asking Park Inkyu for help with this.

But she soon abandoned the idea.

He had already introduced himself as a detective and become acquainted with the owner.

Then Senior Sung-min?

But this was equally problematic.

Oh Sung-min looked too much like a police officer from every 360-degree angle. As if he had been born wearing a police uniform.

In a short time, Cheong-a’s plan had even reached the point of deploying Team Leader Jeon Hong-nam, who had the most menacing appearance in Violent Crimes Unit 2.

‘No, why doesn’t our team get assigned cute rookie officers? The team leader looks too scary, so that won’t work…’

It was when Cheong-a had been lost in thought for quite a while.

A large shadow fell over her.

Cheong-a raised her head to check the large silhouette blocking the light. Slowly, for quite a long time until her neck nearly broke.

And what she met at the end of her gaze was

“Ah, you’re the new part-timer?”

A familiar face.

Cheong-a’s eyes blinked as she examined him.

“…Min Yoo-shin.”

Such words unconsciously spilled from Cheong-a.

“Hm?”

But the man’s reaction was utterly calm.

For a moment, there was no conversation between the two.

Cheong-a couldn’t take her eyes off him, wondering if she had mistaken him for someone else. While she was doing so, afternoon shift manager Se-yeon approached them.

“Ah, please introduce yourselves to each other. Here’s our night manager, Mr. Min Woo-jin.”

Flustered Cheong-a’s gaze mercilessly alternated between the two managers’ faces.

“That… Huh? Yes? Manager?”

“Hello. You’re Bokseon.”

The man introduced as night manager Min Woo-jin looked directly at Cheong-a’s face and smiled. Cheong-a didn’t know what to answer.

No matter how she looked at him, the introduced man had Min Yoo-shin’s appearance.

Ah, of course he was somewhat different from the face she saw every day at the hospital.

Nevertheless, all of Cheong-a’s instincts were shouting that this man was Min Yoo-shin.

Seeing Cheong-a scanning the night manager’s face for a long time with her lips just moving, Se-yeon laughed. “Were you surprised because the night manager is so handsome?”

No, that’s not it.

“Our boss really has amazing taste. I don’t know where he found such a handsome manager.”

This person, he’s the guy who was a professor at Boksan University Hospital.

He’s not someone who should be here, you know?

Cheong-a’s head turned up to meet Min Yoo-shin’s gaze directly.

“Min… Min Yoo-shin!”

He gave a mischievous smile.

“I said it’s Min Woo-jin? This girl keeps saying strange things. She’s not going to be unable to understand instructions at work, is she?”

At those words, Se-yeon giggled and patted the man’s shoulder.

“Oh, don’t say strange things. Bokseon did really well at work!”

“Really?”

Only Cheong-a’s expression wasn’t good as she watched this.

The man in front of her was definitely Min Yoo-shin.

If he wasn’t Min Yoo-shin…

“…How do you know that I’m Bokseon…”

“Ah.”

The man took the work rules from Cheong-a’s hand and smiled.

“You called me last night. Saying ‘Hello, Manager. This is Bokseon.'”

Cheong-a’s pupils moved left and right mercilessly as she tried to organize her thoughts.

“You seemed friendly, so I liked that.”

Looking directly at the face of someone who was Min Yoo-shin but claimed not to be Min Yoo-shin made her head even more complicated.

What is happening right now?

The man in front of her shrugged his shoulders.

“Come on, stop playing around and let’s work. Se-yeon has to get off work now. Let’s quickly finish the handover before it gets late.”

The man naturally pulled Se-yeon’s shoulder and headed to the counter. His movements were nothing if not smooth like a playboy’s.

Cheong-a blankly stared at the two people’s backs.

‘Min Yoo-shin wouldn’t act like that. Ah, or would he?’

Actually, from Cheong-a’s perspective, it would be better if he wasn’t Min Yoo-shin.

If that man was Min Yoo-shin, he would know that her identity was a police officer. Plus, it would mean he had infiltrated PC Pop before her…

“Bokseon! Please clean up the empty seats while I do the handover!”

“Ah… Yes, yes.”

Cheong-a, who hastily answered Se-yeon’s loud voice, picked up a rag and moved.

Of course, she had to keep an eye on the counter with sidelong glances.

The two checked the books and confirmed inventory in the storage without anything special. But despite looking quite familiar with it, Cheong-a’s suspicion didn’t fade.

The handover didn’t take very long. Shortly after, Se-yeon waved lightly at Cheong-a and left the store with a final goodbye saying see you tomorrow.

In the large PC bang, Cheong-a and the man who insisted he wasn’t Min Yoo-shin were left alone.

Cheong-a kept glancing at the man remaining at the counter.

Perhaps it was hard to pretend not to notice that gaze. The man moved with long strides toward Cheong-a and suddenly grabbed her wrist. When startled Cheong-a quickly turned her head, their eyes met.

“Why do you keep staring like that?”

The eyes looking at Cheong-a smiled mischievously.

“Me? No, I wasn’t?”

“Hmm.”

Really. If he just didn’t smile, his eyes were identical to Min Yoo-shin’s. But looking closely at this man up close, he resembled Min Yoo-shin but had a subtly different impression.

Especially the bridge of his nose was completely different.

If Min Yoo-shin had a slightly rougher impression with sharp angles… this one had a perfectly straight and prominent shape.

His teeth were also mysteriously a bit smaller and prettier.

The sharp canines that showed when he smiled caught Cheong-a’s attention for a long time.

Really.

His face seemed even more handsome than Min Yoo-shin’s.

‘Huh? Is he really a different person?’

Looking carefully, his face shape seemed slightly different too. There was no way Cheong-a, who compared criminal composites every day, would miss such things.

‘Right. He’s a bit different. Huh, that’s strange. But why did I think he was Min Yoo-shin?’

She hesitated for a moment with such thoughts.

“Maybe you keep wanting to look because I’m handsome?”

“…”

And the man seemed even stranger than Min Yoo-shin.

At the continued shameless comments, Cheong-a’s eyebrows furrowed deeply toward her forehead. The man paid no mind and laughed “Pahaha!” as he snatched the rag from Cheong-a’s hands.

“You don’t have to work the night shift. I’ll do everything for you.”

“….”

Seeing Cheong-a’s troubled expression, he persistently delivered one more comment to drive his point home.

“I’ll handle all the hard work.”

“….”

“Bokseon should save some energy so we can go to a company dinner after we finish later.”

“A company dinner?”

“Yeah. An intimate welcome party, just Bokseon and me.”

“I, I don’t want to!”

Cheong-a snatched the rag back from the man’s hand and fled to the restroom.

Inside the narrow restroom.

Cheong-a wrung out the rag with all her might and fervor. When her mind was complicated, there really was nothing better than cleaning.

‘Talking about an intimate company dinner, what nonsense.’

A man who resembled Min Yoo-shin, but wasn’t Min Yoo-shin.

The alarm bell ringing in her head and sending warning signals was probably because that man seemed to be just as strange a person as Min Yoo-shin.

Cheong-a stopped wringing the rag and began to organize her thoughts.

‘No, wait a minute. Wouldn’t this actually work out well?’

That man wasn’t Min Yoo-shin.

Then couldn’t she appropriately humor him, become friendly, and dig up secrets about the store? That’s what she was thinking.

‘If I gently seduce him and make him fall for me, then….’

However, unfortunately, there was one thing Cheong-a had overlooked.

She didn’t know how to humor others well.

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