The Country Life Diary of a Gangster's Secretary

Chapter 80

The Country Life Diary of a Gangster's Secretary - c80

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“Ah, those crazy bastards, I’m telling you. The nerve of those pathetic fools to try to mess with anyone.”

“Hey, watch your mouth in front of the boss, okay? You little punk.”

“I’m pissed off, that’s why! Those bastards dared to do that to our boss.”

Today, Seongjin walked down the humid corridor, ignoring the chatter behind him while dressed in a stylish Hawaiian shirt.

He was rubbing his shoulders as if his body was stiff. The bulky subordinates following him also looked a bit tired.

“Ah, this was the outfit Hyeseong said looked the best on me. Damn, it’s all ruined.”

Seongjin clicked his tongue as he looked down at his clothes. They were covered in someone’s blood.

“Boss, Hyeseong has never once said your clothes looked good.”

“He said it before. That this outfit was nice.”@@@@

The subordinates’ clothes were in a similar state. The white dress shirts were stained red.

“That’s... he only said it seems like the best out of the clothes you have because you kept asking his opinion...”

“What? That’s not true. You wanna die, punk?”

Seongjin suddenly raised his hand towards Baek-do. He instinctively flinched. Seongjin grumbled that he would ask Hyeseong again when he comes later and went inside the office.

“What? Why are you so late?”

“Says the guy who came in late after drinking.”

Inside, a disheveled-looking Ihyeok was slowly getting up from the couch.

“The job.”

“Yes, Boss! We finished it successfully. Man, those neighborhood bastards were so persistent, we broke out in a cold sweat. They’ll probably all leave within this week. The shops that held out till the end all closed too. We should be able to proceed with the demolition work as planned without any issues.”

“Okay. Good work.”

Ihyeok took out a cigarette from inside his jacket and put it in his mouth. Baek-do quickly ran over to light it for him.

Taesung’s current source of funds was corporations. They were making daily profits by having their backs and taking on jobs for money. This time, it was related to a local redevelopment project. They had jumped into a kind of demolition work to cover their backs.

“So, your answer?”

“Pardon?”

Baek-do, who was lighting the cigarette, flinched slightly at the icy voice.

Ihyeok took a deep drag and tilted his head back. Baek-do, who was standing behind him, made nervous eye contact and gulped. Although his gaze seemed languid, as if still tired, the chill felt from it made it difficult to open his mouth.

“I asked why you were late. The old men were already giving me shit asking if you guys were doing your job properly.”

“Ah, that’s...”

Baek-do clenched his fists tightly. His hands were itchy from the sweat gathered there. In fact, he had forgotten. That Ihyeok was someone who could make an expression like that.

Recently, the atmosphere in this office had definitely changed a lot because of one pale-looking college student who came to visit. That’s because Ihyeok would do a complete 180 whenever Hyeseong was around. Even Baek-do, who initially didn’t like him, acknowledged Hyeseong for this reason.

But lately, Hyeseong had stopped coming to the office. The reason was nothing special – it was exam period.

Apparently, he declared that this time he would practically live at the library, pulling all-nighters to study, so the Taesung office had been filled with cigarette smoke recently.

“Hey, Kwon Ihyeok. Did we finish our job on time?”

It was Seongjin who stepped in while Baek-do was tensely unable to speak. Baek-do looked at Seongjin, who saved him from Ihyeok’s murderous glare, as if he was his savior.

“Then why are you only coming now? What’s with that attitude? Don’t tell me you got beaten by some old neighborhood men.”

“That’s not it. Hah, this is embarrassing to say... We got ambushed on the way back after finishing the job.”

Seeing that, Dohyun’s face was colored with despair.

Although Dohyun always studied together with Hyeseong during exam periods, this time was the hardest. The reason was because Hyeseong was studying like crazy.

Dohyun got up from his seat first, thinking he might really die if he stayed here any longer. Hyeseong gave him a wordless goodbye with his eyes and turned his gaze back to his books.

1 hour, 2 hours passed and before long it was close to midnight.

Hyeseong looked around. Most of the students had left the reading room and only a minority of students like Hyeseong remained.

‘Should I take a break?’

Hyeseong stretched and took his cell phone, heading out of the reading room. Even if he said he’s taking a break, all he did was buy a drink from the vending machine.

Hyeseong familiarly walked up to the vending machine, inserted money, and pressed the button for an ion drink.

With the clattering sound, he picked up the cold drink that came out and went outside the library for a bit. Then he sat on a bench, cutting through the dark night air. In the utterly silent campus, Hyeseong blankly looked up at the night sky and drank his beverage.

There was no grand reason why he decided to overdo it this exam period. It was simply to unconditionally get the top score and win a full scholarship.

In high school, he was often called a genius, but surviving in this prestigious university where guys who were sick of hearing that gathered was quite difficult.

At first, he easily received full scholarships, but the moment he had to come up with tuition money due to his gradually falling grades came in the blink of an eye. Of course, thanks to that, he did meet Ihyeok.

In fact, there was no problem with next semester’s tuition thanks to the money Ihyeok gave him for running errands and what he provided as wages.

However, Hyeseong wanted to resolve it with his own strength. So this time, he was betting his life on studying.

“I miss you, Ahjussi.”

Hyeseong muttered out of habit.

I’ll make sure to brag if I get the scholarship. Just as he was thinking that and turning on his phone, a call from Ihyeok came at that moment. Startled that it happened right when he was thinking of him, Hyeseong quickly answered the phone.

“Hello.”

– Hyeseong.

“Yes.”

The low voice. The voice that resembled the night was so nice to hear.

– What are you doing?

“Studying, of course.”

– You should sleep at night. So you can grow taller.

A silly joke. But even that was nice.

“I’m already fully grown. Why aren’t you sleeping then, Ahjussi?”

– Well, I was going to sleep but I forgot something.

“What’s that?”

Hyeseong fiddled with the innocent soda can. He felt like a girl exchanging love letters. His heart beat faintly. His body, infiltrated by excitement, fidgeted without him realizing.

– I didn’t hear your voice. Today.

The soda can made a loud noise as it crumpled in Hyeseong’s hand. He wanted to say something, wanted to brush it off nonchalantly, but his heart was beating so fast that he couldn’t open his mouth.

– Studying isn’t everything in life. That’s what I learned from living. Don’t overdo it and come home. Okay?

“...Okay.”

With a sweet and short “good night”, the call ended like that. Hyeseong couldn’t leave the bench for a while.

At that moment, Hyeseong realized. What kept sleep at bay wasn’t caffeine or rest, but that person’s voice.

It seemed there would be no problem pulling an all-nighter as planned today.

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