SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 30

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Episode 30

Whether startled by the sudden demand, Lee Chung-hye blinked his eyes with a displeased expression. The sight of him acting as if he knew nothing after brazenly looking at someone else’s photo was disgusting, so I raised the corners of my eyes.

“Don’t look at it carelessly. Don’t touch anything, and don’t show any interest either.”

“…I wasn’t looking at you.”

“Anyway, don’t touch it.”

Lee Chung-hye, who had been giving me a dissatisfied look, eventually nodded his head. No matter how bad our relationship was, he wasn’t someone who was completely unreasonable, so I thought he would understand if I said this much.

Moreover, we were sharing a secret fact that we couldn’t dare reveal to others.

“We should start talking soon.”

Lee Chung-hye was the first to bring up the opening. I led him toward the living room sofa as if I had been waiting for this.

We sat at opposite ends of the L-shaped sofa. Though no one had suggested or proposed it first, we naturally found the seats farthest from each other.

While I stared intently at Lee Chung-hye, he leaned back crookedly against the sofa backrest. Seeing him even cross his legs on top of that, it seemed he had no awareness that this was someone else’s house. Or perhaps, as I had felt earlier, he was just born excessively shameless.

Would you like to check the profile information of ‘Main Soo Lee Chung-hye’?

After scanning the text of the blue window that suddenly filled my vision as if it had been waiting, I slowly opened my mouth.

“Do you see this kind of thing too?”

“How would I know what ‘this kind of thing’ means? It’s only visible to your eyes, not to other people’s.”

Lee Chung-hye grumbled in a lukewarm voice, but he also fixed his gaze on empty air and added:

“I see it too.”

Would it kill him to answer properly from the start without the sarcasm?

I swallowed those words instead of spitting them out. If Seo Jung-hoo or Kwon Tae-min had been here, I wouldn’t have even tried to hold back and would have blurted it out. With exaggerated expressions and curses mixed in here and there.

Instead, I let out a silent sigh. There might only be Lee Chung-hye and me in this world who could share this secret, so I didn’t want to create unnecessary conflict.

Slowly rolling my eyes, I roughly read through the system window that was hanging down.

Name: Lee Chung-hye

Age: 18 years old (Seolam High School, 2nd year, Class 1)

Role: Main Soo of the novel ‘Only Two’

Background: This character is loved by those around him due to his naturally kind and gentle nature… (Read more)

Current emotional state: Shallow hope, anxiety, stability, anticipation, excitement

Inner thoughts: You are not yet close enough to read the target’s inner thoughts.

‘…Excitement?’

Why is he excited? What is he excited about?

If he were visiting a friend’s house for the first time, it would be natural to feel excited or anticipatory. But we weren’t friends, and Lee Chung-hye wasn’t here to hang out.

‘But why on earth?’

I narrowed my eyes as if trying to read his intentions and looked him over before speaking.

“What are you excited about? What’s gotten into you?”

Lee Chung-hye, who had withdrawn his gaze from the air, turned his head. After seeming to think for a moment, he casually shrugged his shoulders.

“I’m not excited because of you, so don’t worry about it.”

“What, what?”

“Yu Baek-hwa, you’re being overly self-conscious.”

I scrunched up my face. As I glared at him without any intention of hiding the hostility that was blazing blue, Lee Chung-hye twisted up one corner of his mouth.

“You know I can read the emotions you’re feeling too, right?”

Only then did I feel a sense of ‘oh no.’ When I flinched, he let out a hollow laugh.

“Anyway, we didn’t come here because of these trivial issues.”

“…How much do you know, from where to where?”

I asked while subtly gauging the situation. This was another procedure to check whether the system would step in to stop us like it had in the alley earlier. Lee Chung-hye might be protected and loved because he was the lovely protagonist called ‘Main Soo,’ but I wasn’t.

‘Damn, they’re not going to suddenly pop up again and take their anger out on me, are they?’

The system and the men in black under it were beings who would appear wherever I was, whenever, and even casually enter my home entrance password. So no place felt like a completely safe haven.

Baseless fear faintly arose. As I fidgeted with my cold wrist, Lee Chung-hye quietly provided an answer.

“I probably know everything. Unless there’s more information beyond what’s visible right in front of us.”

“…You mean the system windows? The profile information and such.”

“Yeah. That.”

Only then did I release some of the tension from my somewhat stiffly frozen body. There was no interference from the system, and no men in black suddenly bursting through the entrance door. This meant that Lee Chung-hye knew the secrets of this world like I did, and it was essentially safe for us to share related conversations.

I even relaxed the strength from my rigidly straight back. As I leaned back into the soft sofa, an unforgettably intense memory suddenly came to mind again.

“As expected, there’s no way you’d act like an innocent and pitiful female protagonist.”

Lee Chung-hye slightly frowned.

“Acting cute, being coquettish, trembling whenever I got a little closer… What did you call me? Something like ‘Chung-hye’?”

“…Ugh.”

Lee Chung-hye, who had quietly gasped, raised his hand to cover his mouth. However, there was no way to completely hide the skin that had turned red from his face to his nape.

“Just… shut up…”

“I thought you were possessed by a ghost or something. I was seriously disgusted.”

“Do you think I wanted to act like that? I was so dumbfounded when you suddenly ran over and grabbed me by the collar. And then when Seo Jung-hoo heard us…”

Lee Chung-hye, who had been muttering, suddenly closed his mouth and blinked. Soon, he turned his head again and reflected me in his blue eyes full of displeasure.

“What are you?”

For some reason, I felt like I could understand the dozen or so meanings contained in that brief question. But I deliberately pretended not to know and played dumb.

“What do you mean. Why.”

“What are you to Seo Jung-hoo? From what I saw earlier, you seem pretty entangled with Kwon Tae-min too.”

“Entangled with whom? Can’t you see I’m being one-sidedly tormented?”

“Turns out your role and mine have switched, haven’t they? No matter how I look at it, you’re the one caught between them…”

“Ahhh! Shut your mouth, don’t say another word!”

I suddenly screamed and covered my ears. As I breathed heavily with anger, Lee Chung-hye had already returned to a calm expression and just shrugged his shoulders.

“It suits you well. So do your best.”

“This bastard really…!”

Unable to bear it any longer, I was about to straighten my back when I stopped my movement. Buzz buzz, the phone I had put in my pocket rang mercilessly, making its presence known.

I didn’t need to look at the screen to know who the caller was. There was only one person who would contact me both officially and privately.

I irritably pursed my lips and took out my phone. The familiar saved name I had expected came into view.

[Yu Bae-hyun]

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