Marriage with the Beast Senior - Chapter 52

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Chapter 52

Before Yoomin could properly calm her startled heart, the delicious smell of chicken wafted into her nostrils.

“You haven’t had dinner yet. Let’s go in.”

As Yoomin awkwardly stepped backward, Jaejun comfortably entered the entrance as if he were coming into his own home.

After entering the house, Jaejun quickly scanned the living room and said.

“It’s neat. Though it does look a bit small.”

“It’s spacious for living alone. Compared to the room I stayed in at my family home, this is so much bigger.”

Jaejun smiled softly as he watched Yoomin hurriedly praise the house, worried he might tell her not to live there.

“The water pressure is really good too. This floor has big windows and it’s open, so the lighting should be good.”

Jaejun laughed even louder as Yoomin quickly ran to the room, opening the door while explaining.

At the sound of his laughter, Yoomin blushed and cleared her throat unnecessarily.

“I got it. Secretary Kwon gave me the exact same passionate speech about the house. I’ve already heard enough to know it’s a good place to live.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. But there’s no dining table to sit and eat at?”

Yoomin looked around with a troubled expression.

“Wait. I’ll go borrow a small table from the 1st floor.”

“No, senior! I’ll go!”

Yoomin ran after Jaejun who had already reached the entrance.

When Jaejun suddenly turned around, Yoomin couldn’t slow down and her face crashed right into his chest.

Jaejun caught Yoomin and whispered softly.

“I’ll go and come back, princess.”

Yoomin’s shoulders flinched as she blinked.

Leaving the dazed Yoomin behind, Jaejun casually left through the entrance.

Only after the front door closed did Yoomin notice the heat spreading to her ears and covered both cheeks with her hands.

“Crazy. Really… princess…”

Even during college, when Jaejun occasionally called her princess, she had gotten angry and told him not to.

Back then, she was so embarrassed to hear it, but maybe she had grown older.

Or maybe she had been starved for someone’s affection.

Why does that word feel so good now?

As she was taking deep breaths, feeling her heartbeat faster than before.

The knocking sound rang out again.

Yoomin immediately opened the door.

In Jaejun’s hands was a white floor table.

When Yoomin tried to take it, Jaejun, who was passing by her first as if he’d heard something ridiculous, stopped.

“What’s the passcode here?”

“031312!”

“Hmm.”

“What? Should I tell you again?”

“Is it okay to tell me so readily?”

“You asked for it though?”

Jaejun laughed dryly.

“Yeah. I didn’t expect you to tell me so quickly. I’m probably the most dangerous person to you.”

Maybe it was because he narrowed his eyes and whispered.

As if she had heard something dirty, Yoomin felt tension in her back and a strange itch around her navel.

“I’m… hungry, senior.”

Jaejun noticed Yoomin deliberately changing the subject and smiled as if she were cute.

Then he unfolded the table legs and looked around before placing it in front of the mattress topper.

“Sit on the soft side over there.”

“Oh right. There are no cushions either. Since you’re the guest, senior, please sit on the soft side.”

“They say it’s good for men to sit on cold surfaces.”

“Still…”

“I’ll come up later. After we finish eating.”

“What?”

“What.”

Yoomin pouted and spoke resentfully.

“Stop saying weird things.”

“What’s weird about it. You’re the one telling me to come over there.”

“No. What I meant was…”

Jaejun bit his lip to hold back laughter and changed the subject.

“Let’s eat first. You probably haven’t had dinner.”

Yoomin helped Jaejun take the chicken boxes out of the bag.

“Yes. I accidentally fell asleep… Huh?! Wow! Amazing! This is One-Bite Fried Chicken?!”

One-Bite Fried Chicken was a chicken restaurant that Yoomin and Jaejun occasionally visited during college.

It was also the place where the two of them first drank alcohol.

“Wow. This place is still here? But this isn’t a chain store. Did you go all the way to school?”

“Yeah. I was going to buy sushi for easy eating, but I remembered you used to enjoy this in the past.”

Yoomin looked at him with pursed lips.

“Don’t make such a cute expression. We haven’t even eaten yet.”

Yoomin pretended not to hear and quickly opened the chicken box lid.

Glazed seasoned chicken sprinkled with sesame seeds revealed itself.

“Wow…”

Actually, since being confined the day before yesterday, she hadn’t had much appetite and the hotel food felt like she was forcing herself to eat just to fill her stomach.

However, the chicken in front of her now tremendously stimulated Yoomin’s appetite. Enough to make her mouth water.

“Senior, this is amazing. It feels like you know me better than I know myself.”

“How so?”

“I prefer chicken over sushi.”

“Then what about me?”

Yoomin paused while looking for a drumstick to give to Jaejun.

“What?”

“Chicken or me.”

Yoomin was speechless.

Of course it’s Seol Jaejun over chicken.

My first love.

The person who saved me from crisis multiple times.

The person I absolutely need to live like a human being.

“You’re out. You answered too late.”

When Jaejun tried to take away the chicken box, Yoomin made a disappointed sound and couldn’t take her eyes off the chicken box.

Finding her cute, Jaejun eventually placed the chicken box back in front of her.

Yoomin asked him to wait a moment and brought the plates and wet wipes that Secretary Kwon’s mother had given her earlier.

“Huh?”

Then Jaejun took out another chicken box from a different bag.

“There were two chickens?”

“Yeah. Half seasoned, half fried.”

“This isn’t half and half, it’s one whole chicken each!”

“Is that so? I don’t know, just eat it. I wanted to feed Hong Yoomin a lot.”

Yoomin sat down saying there was no stopping him.

“I bought beer too.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. But eat some chicken first before drinking. It’s not good to drink on an empty stomach.”

“Senior. You haven’t changed at all. When we met at the hotel last time, you treated me so coldly that I thought you had changed a lot.”

“Of course I’d be angry. The woman who abandoned me is going on a blind date with some bald mister – how could I not be furious and hurt?”

Worried that the conversation might turn against her, Yoomin cleared her throat unnecessarily and used her chopsticks to pick up a seasoned chicken leg, placing it on Jaejun’s plate.

Then Jaejun put the remaining leg on that plate too, and pushed the entire plate back in front of Yoomin.

“Both of them are for the princess.”

“…Oh really, what princess…”

Yoomin was about to pick up a chicken leg with her chopsticks when she spoke.

“Thank you, senior. Just like in college, I feel loved when I’m with you.”

Yoomin deliberately avoided looking at Jaejun as she spoke.

“This is the first time anyone has given me chicken legs since my parents when I was seven. I hardly ever ate chicken while living at my paternal grandparents’ house, and even on the rare occasions we did, I never got to eat the legs. Even when they ordered two whole chickens, they’d give all four legs to Hong Suji.”

“…”

“It didn’t bother me as an adult, but it really hurt when I was in middle school.”

Without saying a word, Jaejun opened the fried chicken box and placed both chicken legs from there onto Yoomin’s plate as well.

With four chicken legs filling up her plate, Yoomin burst into laughter.

“What is this?”

“You eat them all. I’ll give you all my chicken legs for the rest of my life.”

Yoomin’s heart suddenly swelled with emotion.

Even if it was just empty words, who else in the world would say something like this to her?

Excluding Father, Seol Jaejun would be the only one.

Determined not to show tears at the dinner table, Yoomin quickly picked up a piece of chicken and took a bite.

At first she ate to hide her expression, but the amazing taste that brought back memories made her start eating the chicken frantically.

Watching Yoomin eat so heartily and happily, Jaejun quietly threw out a comment.

“But.”

Yoomin answered “Yes?” while chewing on chicken.

“Don’t eat until you’re too full.”

Yoomin paused her chewing for a moment.

“I want to drink with you.”

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