When Your Pain Becomes Mine

Chapter 35: Chapter 35.

 

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The next day, at the CEO’s Office in Consencio.

He came to the office right from the airport and called Ojae.

“Can’t you do things right? I went to the other side of the world. What was this?”

He was angry in his usual irritated tone. At his appearance, Ojae breathed a somewhat relieved sigh.

“Oh… I’m glad you’re angry.”

“What?”

“When I was talking to you in London, you were supposed to get angry, but it was too good to be true. I thought you had gone crazy because of shock.”

“Is that what you want?”

“Oh, no, no.”

Ojae quickly refused to comment.

“It was the information from a few months ago. What happened?”

“I clearly heard that the CEO of DNBM was getting in touch with a local CEO in London…”

Ojae blurted out his words, seemingly incomprehensible.

“Find him as soon as possible. We don’t have much time anymore.”

“Okay.”

Ojae responded clearly and began to check the documents he was carrying.

Soon, Ojae’s mouth was dry, and he pulled a lollipop out of his pocket and put it in his mouth.

“What’s that?”

“Huh? This? It’s the documentation that came from the Kids Fan Plan.”

Ojae answered with a rod of candy in his mouth while holding the paperwork.

“Not the paper. What’s that in your mouth?”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

Ojae thought the candy was disgusting him. He pulled the candy out of his mouth and hid it behind his back.

Gyeonhui asked while glancing at him before moving his gaze to the papers,

“… you have some more?”

“What, Candy?”

Ojae looked at the candy that he was holding and responded.

“Yes.”

Ojae looked incredulous, and pulled out a piece of candy from his pocket then threw it out to Gyeonhui.

He put the candy in his mouth without thinking and reviewed the papers. Ojae thought Gyeonhui’s recent behavior was odd. Ojae glanced at him, quizzically.

“Why are you glancing at me like that? Is eating candy so weird if I was the one doing it?”

“Oh, no. Just… You don’t eat sweet stuff.”

“I don’t know. I just really want one right now.”

With his mouth full, Gyeonhui took the candy that he had eaten from his mouth and looked back at it.

“Maybe… You…”

Upon hearing Ojae’s words, he had an exciting thought.

“No way…”

Gyeonhui quickly unfolded the calendar on the table to confirm the date.

After confirming the date with the candy in his hand, he said, “… It’s a week before she…”

It was about a week before Sun’s monthly period. The pain in his lower back reminded him of it again.

“… Crazy.”

His heart started to get annoyed. He could feel the pain before her period started.

“… Where is she?”

Gyeonhui asked in a sinking voice.

“Huh?”

Ojae did not understand his intentions as he looked at him from far away.

“… Where is she now?”

Gyeonhui’s face was stern like he would go wherever she might be right away.

1. Maybe It’s a good thing

Oaje looked at him and slowly started speaking.

“Will you be visiting her? What will you say?”

“That’s…”

Gyeonhui exhaled a long sigh while scowling.

There was nothing that could be changed by going to her and asking questions. Instead, it seems that he was caught up in this situation with her.

“Stop being mean to her, try being kind.”

Gyeonhui looked up at Ojae’s words.

“What?”

“Why don’t you buy some medicine for her? The other day, when we took her to the hospital, she got an IV, and you felt much better. Take her to the hospital.

“Are you crazy? Why would I do that?”

“Because you’re sick. I’m not.”

Gyeonhui stared at him with a sultry glance.

“What I meant was just prepare in advance.”

Ojae spoke cautiously, seemingly unwilling to provoke Gyeonhui.

“Get her medicine and take her to the hospital again? No, I can’t.”

Gyeonhui shook his head vigorously because he had not yet heard an explanation as to why she was pulling out his hair in the parking lot.

“So who would do it? It looks so weird If I do it. She might notice everything.”

“Oh, really…”

Gyeonhui didn’t know how to deal with his soaring annoyance.

“It’s all up to you. I can’t help it, huh?”

Ojae calmly persuaded him, knowing Gyeonhui’s personality well.

“Huh…”

With his eyes closed, Gyeonhui slowly looked up and let out a long sigh. He rose from his seat and walked toward the door.

“Where are you going?”

“You said that I have to do something, right?”

Gyeonhui responded nervously and went out of the office.

‘Bang.’

When Ojae heard the door close, a smile crossed his face.

“… You guys are so adorable, so sweet.”

Ojae struggled to resist his own bursting laughter.

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“I’m glad I lowered the unit price a lot, though.”

Sun visited the subcontractors in the morning and was feeling better on the out-of-work business, so her steps were light.

She dropped by the subway station but stopped after she passed the stalls.

The chocolate in the black wrapper caught her eyes

“I’m suddenly craving for sweets.”

She checked the date in her head and nodded slowly.

‘It’s that day again soon…’

It was a pain that came every month, but she wasn’t getting used to it.

“Sir, I’ll take this.”

After paying for the chocolate, she unwrapped the chocolate on the spot and placed it in her mouth. The sweet taste spread to the tip of her tongue, and she felt better.

“… I’m happy.”

She walked again with a pleasant smile.

Then, a text message arrived on her cell phone.

‘I’ll be arriving at noon.’

It was Eunwoo.

“Oh my! The lunch appointment!”

She forgot about her appointment with him for a while because of important business meetings.

She remembered reminding herself when she went to work in the morning, but she forgot about it because she was preparing for the meeting.

Stunned, she quickly checked the time on her cell phone.

20 minutes before 12 o’clock.

Luckily, she still had time before lunch.

“I’ve still got some time.”

She rushed to the office.

***

Consencio Food Market on the first floor in the basement.

“Are you really buying all of this?”

The food market attendant was surprised as if she had not seen anything like this in her entire life.

On the checkout counter, every chocolate that they were selling at the market seemed to be piling up.

“Yes, what’s the problem?”

The attendant shook her head upon seeing Gyeonhui’s scowling.

“Wait a minute. I think it will take a while…”

The attendant diligently scanned the barcodes, but it was taking a while to get it done.

“Huh? Hello. Mr. President.”

“Hello.”

Several employees recognized and greeted him.

“Hmm.”

Awkwardly greeting them with his eyes, Gyeonhui stepped a little back from the checkout counter.

“Hah…”

After paying, Gyeonhui sighed when he saw the plastic bags in both his hands.

“What am I really doing now?”

However, there was no other way for him to get a little less sick.

“Yes. This is for me.”

He persuaded himself by recalling what Ojae had said.

“Hmm.”

He covered the bag with his body and waited for the elevator.

Then the couple who were sitting in the garden at the center of the hall caught his eye.

The female employee pulled out a packed lunch she had hidden, and the male employee opened his eyes wide and couldn’t keep his mouth shut. When the woman showed off her injured hand, the man blew gently on her finger.

As he watched, he suddenly remembered one of his old memories.

As his expression steadily hardened, the elevator arrived with a sound.

With a bitter expression, Gyeonhui got in the elevator.