SOS! I’m Being Forced to Be a Villain - Chapter 42

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Episode 42

The woman who met my eyes curved the corners of her eyes into a round smile. Seeing that pretty smile, my stiffly frozen hand trembled involuntarily.

‘Is she really talking to me?’

Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min should have been downstairs too.

‘Maybe I can finally…’

I was thinking that I might escape from being forever single, get a girlfriend, and even date, when I suddenly stopped.

It was true that I was surprised by this sudden and completely unexpected situation. But that was just pure surprise, quite different from the fluttering feeling that makes your heart pound and your face flush red.

Not even a tickling sense of anticipation bubbled up. What arose first was anxiety and awkwardness about having someone I’d need to share my weaknesses with, and fear toward conflicts I’d never experienced that might happen in the future.

And most of all, Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min kept flickering in my vision.

‘…You’re completely crazy, Yu Baek-hwa.’

I stared at the woman shaking her phone as if urging me, just chewing on my innocent lips.

‘Why am I thinking of those bastards in this situation?’

Was it because I was trying to meet a woman instead of a man, despite being a villain in some BL novel or whatever? Was that why I felt this inexplicable unpleasant emotion and hesitated to grab the opportunity that came before me?

‘Damn it, what does it matter to me whether they date each other or not!’

…But even if I suddenly started dating, there was no way Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min would let me go. They weren’t the type to withdraw their strange interest in me and return my freedom just for such a trivial reason at this point.

Then, Lee Chung-hye, who couldn’t stand watching anymore, suddenly intervened. Pulling me behind her back, she spoke firmly to the woman blocking our way.

“Sorry, but please leave.”

A clear expression of refusal. The two women who had been blinking with expectant eyes each flinched. Soon one turned bright red as if her face would burst from embarrassment, while the other drooped her shoulders in disappointment.

The one who had confidently held out her phone was the woman looking dejected with disappointment. Unable to back away immediately due to regret, the woman who had been fiddling with her phone with its screen turned off slowly lifted her head. Then she looked straight at me, frozen in confusion behind Lee Chung-hye.

“Not your friend, but do you feel the same way?”

“…”

“I don’t mean to pressure you, just as friends even…”

Before the woman could finish her sentence, Lee Chung-hye opened her mouth.

“And you should follow proper order.”

That tone was quite… sarcastic, unlike the firm but polite one from before.

“I already called dibs on this person.”

“…What?”

“…What?”

I scrunched up my face. I immediately tried to grab Lee Chung-hye and turn her around with sharp hands, but she turned around first to face me.

Lee Chung-hye’s pretty face showed not a trace of wavering. With just a shameless and calm expression, with an attitude without any hesitation, she took out her phone from her pocket.

Soon a sleek black phone approached me.

“Could you give me your number?”

I was so dumbfounded that no curse words came out. While I just moved my gaping mouth, the two women behind Lee Chung-hye tried to understand the situation with puzzled faces.

“Weren’t you two… friends?”

“We are friends. We just met.”

Lee Chung-hye turned her head and curled up the corners of her mouth.

“I approached because this person looked so cute, and it turned out we’re the same age and go to the same school? It’s fate, right?”

Damn, what fate!

I tried to refute quickly, but perhaps because I was too heated up, my tongue stiffened and wouldn’t move as I wanted. While I was just suffering internally from frustration I couldn’t express, the woman who finished understanding the situation clapped her hands. For some reason, the woman’s eyes were sparkling.

“It’s fate!”

“Right?”

“What…!”

Before I could urgently explain, the two women bowed lightly. They even left Lee Chung-hye an encouraging message to fight on, and quickly turned away, making their earlier lingering regret seem meaningless.

I stared blankly at their retreating figures and grabbed Lee Chung-hye’s arm forcefully.

“Hey…!”

“What, Yu Baek-hwa? Are you going to give me your number?”

Lee Chung-hye curved her eyes mischievously. I got goosebumps and reflexively swatted her arm away.

“You, you crazy bastard. I have no intention of having that kind of relationship with you! It’s disgusting…!”

“You think I do?”

Lee Chung-hye twisted her lips irritably and let out a sigh. Looking at her, I flinched around my eyes.

“Then why…”

“Because you were about to give your number so readily without any fear, so I helped you. You’re someone who belongs to someone else, aren’t you?”

I belong to someone else? What does that mean…

“You’re Seo…”

I suddenly reached out and covered Lee Chung-hye’s mouth with my hand. Her lips trapped helplessly under my palm didn’t try to move forcibly and stayed quietly closed.

“There’s a limit to nonsense, stop babbling. Why do you keep picking fights since last time!”

Instead of trying to respond with her blocked mouth, Lee Chung-hye tapped the back of my hand with her fingertips. Then with a glance that swept the surroundings, I glared at her with narrowed eyes before belatedly understanding the meaning.

I bit my lips and fidgeted while turning my head. I kept forgetting, but this was a bookstore. Even if the atmosphere wasn’t completely quiet, it wouldn’t be okay to make loud noises.

Fortunately, no one was glaring at us this time either, but it seemed I should be more careful in the future. Swallowing a sigh, I removed the hand that was blocking Lee Chung-hye.

“Stop the nonsense, please.”

“I’m serious about wanting your number though.”

“Stop being sarcastic…!”

I snapped in a lowered voice mixed with air. But unlike before, Lee Chung-hye was holding her phone screen in front of me with quite a serious expression.

“I thought about it, and we have absolutely no way to contact each other.”

I stared at the number keypad on the screen with trembling eyelids.

“Even though it may not look like it, aren’t we in a relationship sharing the world’s secrets? We should meet occasionally to talk and share how the novel is progressing.”

It was a valid point. If not for the ridiculous situation that just happened, I would have nodded saying it was a reasonable opinion and immediately entered my contact information.

When I sent a suspicious look, Lee Chung-hye shrugged.

“If you don’t want to, forget it. From what I can see, Seo Jung-hoo and Kwon Tae-min seem to be holding onto you pretty tightly, so try your best on your own.”

“…Damn.”

I grumbled quietly and reluctantly reached out my hand. Then I pressed the screen with my heated fingertips and entered 11 digits.

Glaring at my trace that would inevitably remain on Lee Chung-hye’s phone, I muttered dissatisfiedly.

“Save it and leave me a message. I’ll check later and save your number too.”

“Maybe I should save it as ‘Crazy Bastard 3’…”

I glared fiercely at Lee Chung-hye who was muttering without even listening to what I said. Whether she couldn’t feel my murderous gaze or was pretending not to know, or knew but wasn’t threatened by it, Lee Chung-hye showed no particular reaction.

I cursed under my breath as if for her to hear, then staggered for a moment and leaned against the bookshelf. I had come up to the 2nd floor of the bookstore to look around and try to heal myself, but I was already exhausted even though I hadn’t looked at a single book yet.

Leaving Lee Chung-hye behind as she fell into contemplation about contact name storage, I straightened my disheveled clothes. Soon, as I rolled my eyes and looked around, I stiffened in shock.

“…Seo Jung-hoo?”

When did he come up to the second floor?

That tall height and appearance that stood out clearly even from a distance. That was definitely Seo Jung-hoo.

I couldn’t tell if he came up to the second floor looking for me, or if his feet just led him here while browsing books. That wasn’t the important issue right now anyway.

I hurriedly stepped away from the bookshelf and pushed Lee Chung-hye’s back with difficulty.

“What, why.”

“Get lost quickly…!”

“What do you mean, Yu Baek-hwa.”

“Seo Jung-hoo came up to the second floor!”

Lee Chung-hye, who had been pretending not to listen to me and focusing only on her own business, froze while even trembling. Soon, with a face that turned pale, she looked around and without any more hesitation, kicked off the ground.

I glared at Lee Chung-hye’s back as she moved away without even saying goodbye to me until the end. I thought about giving her the middle finger, but instead just kept my fist clenched tight while staring in the direction where Lee Chung-hye had disappeared.

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