The Textbook of a Lover - Chapter 47

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47.
Do Ah was watching him with a disapproving gaze. Cha Kyung withdrew his attention from the rearview mirror and spoke.
“Kang Nahee asked if you had any plans next weekend.”
An exasperated sigh leaked past Do Ah’s lips.
What, she’d invited the whole Alumni Association Mountain Climbing Club? Was he out of his mind?
“You said you’d go?”
“Is there a reason I shouldn’t?”
“You’re not even part of our Alumni Association.”
“According to Nahee, you can invite acquaintances in addition to family and lovers.”
“Shouldn’t you have at least given me a heads-up?”
“Why? Were you planning to say no if I went?”
The corners of Cha Kyung’s mouth were lifted, but there was no playfulness in it.
“That’s not it, but frankly it’s awkward. We’re not even actually dating, and you’re showing up at my alumni gathering.”
A brief silence fell.
“Don’t worry. I’m going as Nahee’s acquaintance.”
At those words, something inside Do Ah turned to ice, and then immediately began to boil.
Contract or not, she was the one who’d officially taken on the title of his girlfriend, and he was coming as Kang Nahee’s acquaintance?
An unpleasant emotion jabbed repeatedly at her chest, and then Cha Kyung twisted the knife further.
“If you really want to seduce Nahee, an event like this is perfect, isn’t it?”
He was saying this was what Do Ah had wanted. She had no grounds to argue back.
A tangle of jealousy and pure hatred for Nahee knotted her mind into a mess.
“……Do what you want.”
In the end, Do Ah said just that and turned her gaze toward the window.
Streetlight streamed endlessly across the glass.
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The MT destination was a pension complex at the foot of Bukhansan.
The moment Do Ah pulled her suitcase across the crushed stone, her classmate Su Jin came running with a wide wave.
“Do Ah! You actually came. I figured you wouldn’t show.”
“You were the one who begged me to come. Said you’d drag me here if I didn’t.”
“That’s right, good call. There’s an ass-clown here, and you had no business avoiding it.”
After unpacking their things, Do Ah and Su Jin made their way toward the Barbecue Area.
But from a group washing leaf vegetables not far away, a familiar name drifted over.
“……Seriously, what a shock. Do Ah and Woo Kyung-jun weren’t just dating. I never imagined she was a stalker and he was the victim.”
“No wonder. She was way too obsessed with him. That was sketchy from the start. Poor Nahee must have had such a hard time in the middle of all that.”
Fire flashed in Su Jin’s eyes.
As she was about to stride over, Do Ah grabbed her arm to stop her, then stepped forward calmly.
“Seniors.”
At Do Ah’s dry voice, the shoulders of the alumni gathered in the corner flinched.
“What exactly was suspicious about me? I’d like to know too.”
“What? You were eavesdropping?”
“You were broadcasting it loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear — what eavesdropping?”
Su Jin fired back from beside her, and one of the alumni averted her eyes, her mouth opening weakly.
“I mean, it wasn’t me. Nahee said that……”
Do Ah stepped closer, twisting the corners of her mouth upward.
“Did I ever once call myself a stalker while Kyung-jun and I were dating?”
“That’s……”
“You stole your friend’s boyfriend, cheated on him. And because you didn’t want to be criticized for it, you painted me as a stalker. And I’m dating someone else now too.”
All eyes snapped toward Do Ah.
“So don’t believe all the nonsense Kang Nahee and Woo Kyung-jun are spreading.”
Cold silence fell over the Barbecue Area. Do Ah turned and walked away without further explanation.
Su Jin clapped her solidly on the back with satisfaction.
They hadn’t taken more than a few steps when the one face Do Ah most wanted to avoid blocked her path.
Kang Nahee.
“Do Ah, you came? I really didn’t think you’d actually show.”
Do Ah’s gaze instinctively moved to what Nahee was wearing.
The outfit was technically athletic wear. Or rather, something masquerading as athletic wear.
Black mesh fabric — completely see-through underneath — and cut so short that even the slightest movement exposed her navel.
The bottoms clung skin-tight from the thighs down, drawing every line of her legs in stark detail.
‘Surely she’s not planning to go hiking dressed like that? She’d be a mosquito buffet.’
Su Jin squeezed Do Ah’s arm.
Do Ah snapped to attention and met Nahee’s words head-on.
“If you didn’t think I’d come, why did you call my boyfriend?”
Nahee’s lip trembled slightly. She met Do Ah’s gaze directly, refusing to back down, and opened her mouth.
“Our Alumni Association is holding an event and I asked him if he’d like to sponsor it. He agreed readily, so I asked if he’d like to attend while he was at it.”
“So the two of you coordinated all this behind my back?”
“Am I supposed to report every time I meet with the executive and ask your permission?”
Nahee let out a scoffing laugh, her voice rising. Do Ah watched her with eyes gone cold.
“Yeah. From now on, you get my permission. He’s my boyfriend. That’s the normal courtesy — you ask your partner before you do stuff like that. I guess stealing other people’s boyfriends is your hobby, so you didn’t know better. But you’d better learn.”
“What? What are you saying?”
Nahee’s face flushed scarlet at Do Ah’s words, her voice faltering.
Do Ah left without hesitation, and in her wake, a noisy murmur erupted.
“Wait, was the Hyunsin Group executive Nahee brought supposed to be…… Do Ah’s boyfriend?”
“I thought he was just one of her connections. Didn’t she say that in the group chat?”
“What was that about stealing boyfriends being her hobby?”
“Didn’t Do Ah just say that? That Kyung-jun was someone Nahee stole from her?”
“Anyway, Do Ah’s got pull. How did she meet the Hyunsin Group heir?”
The alumni’s murmurs reached Nahee’s ears as they glanced sidelong at her.
“Do Ah’s really funny. She’s got some nerve making up lies about people.”
Belatedly, Nahee tried to defend herself, but nobody paid her any attention, let alone responded.
‘What the hell is this!’
She’d planned to use Cha Kyung to reinvent herself, but everything shattered the moment Do Ah showed up.
‘She was acting like she wouldn’t come, so why’d she suddenly show up!’
Nahee’s pride took a deep scratch, and she made a silent vow.
‘Stealing boyfriends is my hobby? Fine, if that’s what I am, what makes you think I can’t do it again? A thousand times over if I have to. If it’s for getting the man I want!’
With that, she left without helping with the meal preparations.
The others, their interest waning, soon scattered and got back to preparing the food.
Do Ah did the same. She and Su Jin headed to where the griddle was set up.
She ended up taking on work that had been Nahee’s responsibility, but it couldn’t be helped.
Someone had to fill the empty space.
They were busy — washing vegetables on one side, preparing meat on the other — when it happened.
Vrroooom―
The deep engine sound split the mountain’s silence in an instant.
Every head at the Camping Ground snapped toward the entrance.
Gliding down the gravel path like treading on down, a flawless black Maybach slipped into the grounds.
The alumni’s hands froze. Their jaws dropped to the floor. Someone even dropped the tongs they’d been holding with an audible clatter.
“Crazy. You know how much that car costs?”
“Is that guy really the Hyunsin Group heir? Do Ah’s boyfriend?”
Breathless exclamations burst out. Do Ah, too, set down the vegetable basket she’d been holding and went rigid.
Whoosh.
The thick driver’s-side door opened smoothly.
And beneath the forest’s dim light, long legs clad in a perfectly tailored, unwrinkled dress shirt and dark slacks extended out.
It was Cha Kyung.
‘What kind of person shows up to a mountain club outing dressed like that? You can tell the clothes are expensive at a glance. Is he someone who doesn’t care if stuff like this gets ruined?’
Even as Do Ah mentally griped, she couldn’t tear her eyes from Cha Kyung as he stepped out like a scene from a movie.
“Oh my, the executive! You really came!”

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