Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 20

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Episode 20

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Monday, the start of a new week.

Who said Monday was a garbage day? Yeon-jae’s cheerful steps heading to school were those of someone who clearly had something good going on, even if you saw her running at 300 kilometers per hour.

Why, you ask?

Why else? The reason was right inside this phone.

Yeon-jae was still messaging with Dohan.

Monday’s first class was a business administration major lecture that only she and Hyeonoh attended together.

When she arrived at the classroom, Hyeonoh was already there sitting down. For some reason lately, he had been quite diligent about attending classes.

“Oh, you look like you’re in a good mood?”

When Hyeonoh’s eyes narrowed, it became impossible for her to play dumb.

‘I have to pretend I don’t know until the end.’

However, Yeon-jae had no talent for lying, and especially in front of someone as sharp as Hyeonoh, such resolutions were bound to become meaningless.

“Don’t tell me you succeeded in getting his personal contact?”

Had even a minute passed?

“…I succeeded.”

In the end, it was a complete confession ending.

“Are you still messaging privately?”

“Well, yes, but…”

Yeon-jae trailed off for a moment.

They were continuing to contact each other, but the context wasn’t exactly ordinary.

She wasn’t even sure if this could be called a flow that was really being continued.

“There’s one problem…”

Yeon-jae swallowed her embarrassment and requested SOS from Hyeonoh.

Yeon-jae lowered her head so others wouldn’t see, covered her phone screen completely, and secretly showed Hyeonoh only part of the messages.

The full story went like this:

After receiving a private message from Dohan, she was so nervous and didn’t know what to do that a whole day passed just like that.

It wasn’t until Sunday morning that Yeon-jae hurriedly sent a reply before Dohan could misunderstand it as being left on read.

Haha I’m even more grateful!!

A reply came quickly.

Have a fun weekend~

You too, senior!!!

Yeon-jae just bit her nails while waiting for Hyeonoh’s reply. However, another day passed with only the “1” next to the speech bubble disappearing.

And now there still hadn’t been a reply.

“He read it but there’s no reply…”

Hearing that, Hyeonoh was left speechless and thought:

‘…Is this girl an idiot?’

Hyeonoh’s face became deliberately serious. Even if this had been a conversation exchanged between people who actually had something going on, Yeon-jae’s reply could be interpreted as an intention to end the conversation from the other person’s perspective.

‘I knew Shin Yeon-jae was a complete novice with dating experience approaching zero, but I didn’t know it was to this extent…’

Unfortunately, Hyeonoh’s impression of Yeon-jae was still considerably influenced by her freshman days.

That is, an impression of being bold and detached from worldly affairs.

She was definitely not the type expected to show herself flustering around because she liked someone like now.

Who would have thought she’d be an idiot clinging to a message that the other person already considered the conversation over, waiting for the next reply while worrying about being left on read.

So for the first time since Hyeonoh decided to help Yeon-jae, he got a headache wondering where to start guiding this complete novice junior.

“What should I do with this innocent lamb?”

Hyeonoh muttered while managing a headache that seemed ready to come on at any moment.

“Why, why? Did I say something wrong here??”

“What wrong thing to say, you’d have to have had a conversation first.”

“Ah, is that what it is?”

“What do you expect from such a short conversation? This is where the conversation ends. If you didn’t want to end it, you should have thrown in some simple question at least. You’re already talking like someone who wants to stop around here.”

Having said that much, Hyeonoh hit his chest as if frustrated.

“…I see.”

Only then did Yeon-jae also put away her phone with an embarrassed face and straighten up.

“I did respond poorly. I should have sent a message that would keep the conversation going…”

“It’s okay. At least you did message privately. I never thought it would develop into a relationship where you message every day from the start. I was actually half-doubtful whether private messaging would even be possible, so this is doing well enough.”

“Ah, so I did well?”

Yeon-jae asked with wide eyes as if she had found a spark of hope.

“Yes. Ms. Shin Yeon-jae, considering your level, you put in proper effort.”

Yeon-jae genuinely felt relieved and patted her chest.

Watching that, Hyeonoh scoffed that there was no fuss like this fuss.

“I think so too, honestly.”

Yeon-jae admitted this as well. To spend an entire day worrying about being left on read.

But when she realized that her contact with Dohan, which she thought would continue, was essentially over, she felt a bit deflated.

Yeon-jae’s shoulders drooped before she knew it. Hyeonoh patted her back.

“Cheer up. There’s still plenty of time.”

“Yes…”

Meanwhile, the classroom was already full. Shortly after, a group text arrived from the teaching assistant.

【Class will start in 30 minutes due to the professor’s personal circumstances.】

Yeon-jae unconsciously looked up at the wall clock. The class start time had already passed by quite a bit.

At this point, Yeon-jae and Hyeonoh also closed their books and began chatting.

“Still, thanks to you senior, I got to message privately, so I’ll buy lunch today. Today for real!”

“Forget it. I’m too embarrassed to accept a meal bought with allowance money.”

“You’re the same college student though.”

“Actually, I have 10,000 shares of NVIDIA. Hynix averaged at 100,000 won. I bought Bitcoin when it was 10,000 won each too.”

“Really?”

“You believe this?”

Ugh.

“Ah, before long when you two start dating, I’ll be the only one left out. Aw. How lonely. Can a single person live being this lonely?”

Yeon-jae’s face reddened at the words guaranteeing romance with Dohan.

“But senior, are you lonely? Do you want to date too?”

“Of course.”

“Last time you said you weren’t really interested.”

“That was then and this is now.”

“Your thoughts change as easily as flipping your palm.”

“A man’s heart is like a reed. But why do you keep asking? Why? Are you going to introduce someone?”

“…No. I don’t have many friends so I can’t even if I wanted to.”

Hahaha. Hyeonoh held his stomach and laughed.

“Sometimes you seem like you don’t know yourself at all, but at times like this, you’re amazingly good at self-objectification.”

Yeon-jae pouted and averted her gaze. Actually, her heart was still tickled by the ‘romance’ joke Hyeonoh had made earlier.

Soon the door leading to the podium burst open. The professor entered with no sign of being in a hurry and started class without delay. Hyeonoh quickly focused on the lesson.

But Yeon-jae was different. Her gaze remained on the book, but she was actually lost in other thoughts.

‘It really is all thanks to Hyeonoh senior.’

Hyeonoh’s contribution was absolutely crucial in getting her this far.

That’s why she would often get annoyed at Hyeonoh’s silly jokes but ultimately end up agreeing with him.

Looking at it closely, it seemed like things Hyeonoh did for fun, but in reality, there wasn’t a single thing that benefited him.

In the end, Hyeonoh was the person who looked after Yeon-jae better than anyone else and helped her succeed.

Yeon-jae absentmindedly rolled her pen between her fingers as she thought.

‘I really want to… repay Hyeonoh sunbae somehow.’

But how? In what way could she repay him?

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