Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 22

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Episode 22

So right now, Yeon-jae was just moving her lips slightly, waiting for the right timing. But the perceptive Hyeonoh asked first.

“Do you have something to say?”

“Huh. How did you know?”

“You’re being so obvious about it. I could tell from when you were writing in your notebook.”

“Ah, come on! Shh! Why do you keep poking at other people’s painful wounds?!”

Hyeonoh chuckled as if something was very amusing.

…How annoying.

“Anyway… Sunbae, are you interested in being introduced to one of my classmates?”

“A blind date all of a sudden?”

Hyeonoh rarely showed much surprise, but this time he stopped walking.

Shin Yeon-jae, who always went around alone, had a classmate? And one close enough to introduce to him?

That doesn’t make sense, does it?

So Hyeonoh asked bluntly.

“Are you feeling sick somewhere?”

“No? Do I look pale?”

“Never mind. Let’s stop this.”

Yeon-jae, who understood his meaning a beat late, went “Ah~”

“That’s not it. My classmate saw us walking together and asked me to introduce her. She asked me to arrange just one meal for the two of you alone. So I’m just asking for now, and if you don’t want to, I’ll refuse on my end.”

“Hmm.”

Hyeonoh thought as he pushed open the door to the fast food restaurant. He wasn’t particularly interested in blind dates, but…

‘A classmate that Shin Yeon-jae knows.’

I’m kind of curious.

“Alright, sounds good.”

Yeon-jae’s eyes widened.

Actually, even while asking, she hadn’t had high expectations. She wasn’t confident that Hyeonoh, who seemed to have high standards just by looking at him, would accept the proposal without any conditions.

But to agree so readily like this.

“You’re accepting right away without asking anything? Are you serious?”

“Yeah. I’m serious.”

Well, meeting Shin Yeon-jae’s classmate for a meal isn’t that difficult.

* * *

And so, a few days later.

Hyeonoh arrived at the meeting place.

For someone going on a blind date, his appearance and outfit were exactly the same as usual.

Hyeonoh knew absolutely nothing about his blind date partner.

Just that she was from the same school, Department of Korean Literature. Yeon-jae’s classmate. That was it.

For blind dates, people usually check each other’s faces beforehand and exchange numbers.

However, Hyeonoh personally didn’t really like the process of checking the other person’s face before a blind date.

The thought of both people picking and choosing their best selfies to send seemed a bit ridiculous.

So he skipped the photos and just asked for contact information.

“Skip the photo, just give me the number.”

But there was no response. When Hyeonoh noticed the silence, Yeon-jae finally spoke.

“…But that friend is an anti-technologist, so she doesn’t have a smartphone.”

“What? In the 21st century?”

“…Yes. There are people like that.”

“Well, I’ll be.”

Hyeonoh made an incredulous face and let out a deflated laugh, then quickly shrugged his shoulders.

“That works out well.”

Hyeonoh found the process of exchanging messages and weighing options too bothersome anyway.

“…Just decide on the meeting place and time, and I’ll relay everything. I’ll also tell you what to look for on the day.”

For that reason, Hyeonoh was now at the meeting place, looking around for a girl with long brown hair, about 160cm tall. She was supposed to be wearing a red cardigan… ah, there she is.

But for some reason, she felt familiar. There was something about her that didn’t seem unfamiliar.

Hyeonoh tilted his head, but eventually matched the conditions Yeon-jae had given him one by one and walked toward the woman.

He tapped the shoulder of the woman who was looking at her phone and cautiously spoke.

“Hello… huh?”

The woman who met his eyes tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled awkwardly.

“Why are you here?”

At that moment, Hyeonoh glanced at the phone in Si-eun’s hand.

She was supposed to be an anti-technologist, but her smartphone looks perfectly fine.

“Ahaha. That’s what I’d like to know…”

Since it was supposed to be a blind date, Hyeonoh had chosen a meeting place not near the school, but in what’s commonly known as a good neighborhood for dating.

‘I’m not in the mood to date someone I already know.’

But if he left now, Si-eun would be embarrassed more than anything.

He didn’t know what had happened, but Yeon-jae, who had arranged the blind date, would probably be in trouble too.

Eventually, Hyeonoh stopped scratching the back of his head and gestured toward the busy district.

“Let’s go eat.”

* * *

A few days ago.

Yeon-jae, who had seemed like she wouldn’t budge even if stabbed five hundred times, quietly called Si-eun.

“I’ll introduce you to Hyeonoh sunbae.”

“Huh. Really?! For real?”

“But how should I introduce you? You two already know each other. Don’t you already have each other’s contact information?”

“Ah. That’s true, but…”

Si-eun quickly thought and then answered.

“Yeon-jae. Could you tell Hyeonoh oppa that I don’t have a phone?”

“What?”

“That I’m an anti-technologist so I don’t use smartphones.”

“…Then what about photos? When introducing people, doesn’t the matchmaker usually send photos of each other?”

“Umm. That! Tell him that I think photos these days are a display of self-image forced by the technological civilization called SNS, and I’m refusing them because I believe they damage the authenticity of the self!”

“…I’m not sure if this will work?”

“Just try saying it once. Please?”

“Fine. I’ll try saying it. But if sunbae keeps asking, I’ll tell him the truth.”

“Got it! Thanks so much!”

And so this meeting came to be.

Si-eun wondered if Hyeonoh would believe such ridiculous nonsense, but secretly had some expectations.

Because the Hyeonoh that Si-eun knew seemed like he would be more interested in quirky types than ordinary girls.

Her prediction was spot on.

Thanks to that, she was now facing Hyeonoh in this place without any particular crisis.

Si-eun’s scheme was like this: pretend it was a chance encounter, have a meal together, and naturally lead things into a good atmosphere.

No matter how uninterested two people might be, wouldn’t the atmosphere create feelings when they’re alone having a conversation?

So she thought everything would be fine as long as they could arrange to meet.

She definitely thought so.

‘Haah. It’s all ruined, completely ruined.’

Actually, she expected it would fail the moment she met Hyeonoh. Because as soon as Hyeonoh saw Si-eun’s face, he asked with a very flustered expression.

“You were classmates with Shin Yeon-jae?”

And the question that followed.

“Were you in the Department of Korean Literature?”

He had asked the same thing a few days ago too.

What’s once? Hyeonoh couldn’t remember Si-eun’s major, which she felt like she had already told him two or three times.

So Si-eun could also instinctively tell.

‘Hyeonoh sunbae really has no interest in me at all.’

Perhaps this meeting might be a place to confirm that fact once and for all.

Si-eun quietly followed wherever Hyeonoh led.

Having experienced countless men who pursued her enthusiastically throughout her school years, Si-eun could distinguish between men interested in her and those who weren’t, even with her eyes closed.

In other words, Hyeonoh was completely on the uninterested side.

Anyone else might have felt hurt in their pride, but when the target was Hyeonoh, pride became someone else’s business. Just standing in front of Hyeonoh made the word ‘pride’ disappear from Si-eun’s dictionary.

Si-eun’s heart was already pounding like it would burst just from the fact that she was walking alone with Hyeonoh, having left campus without a single club member around.

Still, Hyeonoh seemed to be making his own kind of effort right now.

‘At least he didn’t question me about obviously carrying a smartphone.’

This was something she had roughly expected. Hyeonoh was basically well-mannered toward women.

Besides that, he was making quite an effort to show an attitude that would at least fit the purpose of a blind date.

He led Si-eun to an Italian restaurant that seemed like it was made for dates.

The lighting, music, menu – everything seemed just right. And he attempted conversation that would be suitable for a blind date…

“Are we going on a club MT again after midterms this time?”

…or not.

“Probably? You’ll come, oppa?”

“We’ll see.”

It was just content not much different from the trivial conversations they usually had coming and going in the club room. An attitude as light as if he were treating a close younger sister.

Of course, even such a Hyeonoh sometimes led conversations with content he didn’t usually engage in.

“How is Shin Yeon-jae in your department? Does she participate much in department activities?”

“Is Shin Yeon-jae clueless in front of her friends too?”

“If you look closely, isn’t Shin Yeon-jae really funny? She’s like a comedy character sometimes.”

For instance, when talking about Yeon-jae. Or when talking about Yeon-jae. And only when talking about Yeon-jae.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————