Bamboo Forest Manager

185 – 179. Love Seeker

– I can sue them if you want me to.

My older brother called me out of the blue.

My brother’s voice, which he started speaking in right away, was sincere.

– If that’s what you want.

“How did you know?”

– I have a capable secretary.

My sister-in-law must be quite busy.

But how did he know about the school’s bamboo forest and find it?

I thought only current students could use it.

– Let’s not waste time on useless talk.

When I showed signs of wanting to dig deeper, my brother quickly cut me off.

– To get back to the topic, I can sue them for real if you want me to. I was also thinking of contacting the community manager of the bamboo forest.

My brother is usually thorough, but there are times when he’s sloppy.

That was especially true when it came to family matters, and even more so when it came to me.

“What are you going to say to the bamboo forest manager? Tell them to give you the profiles of the kids who sniped me?”

– That’s the general idea.

“The manager doesn’t know their profiles. They use their student ID numbers to log in, but they don’t have their personal information.”

But now that I think about it, the student ID numbers are added every year, so how does the bamboo forest get updated?

I don’t even manage a server or anything.

– You know more than I thought.

I smiled, thinking I’d gotten one over on my brother, who seemed surprised.

“I’m the manager.”

– …….

My brother was speechless.

That alone made this call worth it.

“That’s why I orchestrated this sniping incident. I even mentioned the legal team to the kid who sniped me.”

– Hmm.

My brother’s voice lightened, as if he thought I had handled the situation better than he expected.

“The seniors are a bit annoying. But it’s a bit pathetic for a 22-year-old to be sued by a large corporation just for posting a few things online.”

Even though I’m still 21.

Even 22 is still young in society.

– You’re old enough to take responsibility. I don’t know if you’re being merciful or just pretending to be.

“Half and half. If they just send one of their legal team members to give me a business card, that’s enough.”

That alone would be enough to make me keep my mouth shut and finish college.

Don’t even think about taking legal action.

Rumors would start to spread that the chairman of a large corporation was using his power to deal with a malicious comment left by someone on his son.

And then the related details would spread too.

That he had relationships with two women, that he had a promiscuous history, and so on.

‘Or maybe it wouldn’t matter.’

The problem is that it’s true.

Those who have had a lot from the beginning also have a lot to lose.

“I’m just going to make them keep their mouths shut. I don’t want to hurt the kids.”

– Okay, I understand. But…….

My brother hesitated for a moment and then sighed before replying.

– Don’t make me bring up your womanizing again. I’m telling you not to become one of those reckless chaebol sons.

His words cut like a knife.

I couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly.

“Brother.”

– …….

“Can I have some money?”

I tried to change the subject, but my brother didn’t answer and just hung up the phone.

Anyway, the incident was over for now.

I figured the seniors who had sniped me would come and apologize soon, so I would just play hard to get for a while and then pretend to give in.

If possible, I would like to do it in a place with a lot of people around.

Once I thought I had the situation under control, I suddenly felt hungry.

‘Ugh, I don’t feel like going to the cafeteria.’

The cafeteria food is cheap and filling, but it’s not that great.Living in the dormitory, it was too much of a hassle to go all the way to the cafeteria to eat.

I was just rolling around in my room, playing games on my phone.

Knock, knock.

A cautious knock.

“Is this Choi Iseo?”

I thought it was Choi Iseo, so I opened the door, thinking we could go out and get something to eat.

“Uh, oh, hello?”

There, lined up, were the third-year seniors who I had expected to snipe me.

“Wow, what is this?”

I let out a gasp without realizing it.

I thought only a few of them had sniped me in the bamboo forest, but seeing so many of them here, it seemed like they had coordinated with each other and done it systematically.

Wouldn’t they get punished more severely for that?

Maybe they came because they were getting pricked themselves.

“Hey, Ujin. We think we made a mistake, so we wanted to apologize.”

“I’m really sorry. I’ll even kneel if you want me to.”

Hmm.

I thought I would feel a little better seeing them like this.

But seeing the seniors like this, I felt sorry for them for no reason.

Wouldn’t this make me weak-hearted?

“There’s a place in the city that serves delicious steamed chicken. Can someone go get two servings of cheese soy sauce steamed chicken to go?”

“I’ll go!”

A boy senior who looked quick on his feet moved.

Good.

I was going to order three servings because I felt weak-hearted, but I reduced it to two.

“How long will it take?”

“30 minutes!”

“……Huh? Did I hear that wrong?”

“20 minutes!”

“15 minutes.”

“I’ll be right back!”

He waved his hand in greeting.

The other seniors looked at me blankly.

It seemed like they were just now starting to understand what situation they were in.

“We’re not at the age where we should be talking about the law or anything like that, right?”

Aren’t we almost twenty?

We’re at an age where we’re more used to getting things done with our bodies than with the law.

“Does anyone here happen to be taking the Modern Anglo-American Poetry class this semester?”

Two people raised their hands.

“Oh, I don’t have time to do the assignment this semester?”

I smiled brightly and asked for a handshake.

The two of them approached me and shook my hand respectfully.

* * *

“Whew, whew!”

On top of the fast-moving treadmill.

I breathed heavily as I ran hard.

Lately, I had been into exercising.

I didn’t know I would become like this.

If you ask me if I enjoyed exercising, that wasn’t it.

Even now, I wanted to jump off the treadmill right now, take a shower, go to the dorm, and lie down.

However.

Don’t people say that if you have a dream and a goal, you don’t give up on your desires right away?

I was running tirelessly for my purpose.

“Whew.”

Thinking I had run enough, I stopped the treadmill and got off, wiping the sweat off with a towel.

“Excuse me, over there.”

A woman spoke cautiously.

There were other women who seemed to be her companions behind her, glancing at me.

“Yes?”

I asked back, wondering what it was, and she suggested shyly.

“If it’s okay with you, could you teach us how to exercise? We don’t know how to use the equipment yet.”

“Oh……”

I let out a gasp without realizing it.

Was this what they called gym hunting that I had only heard about?

It seemed like my hard work exercising had paid off.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t do strength training, so I don’t know how to use the equipment.”

Of course, I declined.

Besides, it wasn’t a lie.In fact, I hardly use any strength training equipment except for the lower body.

But of course, they didn’t believe me.

If that’s the case, why come to the gym? You could just run along the riverside trail.

‘I came here because I got a gym pass.’

One of my third-year seniors had skipped the gym for a year and only went once, so he gave it to me when he offered.

So I was planning to come to the gym from time to time in the future.

“T, then isn’t it hard to build muscle? It doesn’t seem like you need to lose any more weight here.”

“Oh, I’m not exercising to build muscle.”

Of course, it would be nice if I did.

I had no intention of trying to sculpt my body or build muscle.

“…….”

At this point, it seemed like the woman was starting to think it was strange.

I put a wedge in the conversation.

“To have s*x for a long time.”

“……huh?”

She asked again if she had heard correctly. I answered her again clearly.

“I want to have s*x for a long time. My girlfriend wants to do it for 48 hours, so I have to work hard to do it at least similarly.”

“Oh, I see.”

“So I know how to use the lower body equipment. Do you want me to show you?”

“No! No! It’s okay! Have a long and loving relationship with your girlfriend!”

“Thank you for your support.”

When I clenched my fist and answered, the woman was startled and ran away to her friends.

Honestly, I know it was a crazy statement.

But I guess you could say I put up a wall.

“What are you doing?”

At that moment, I heard Yua-rin’s voice from behind me.

She had already started PT and was glaring at me with her sharp eyes.

It seemed like her PT had ended.

I answered, shrugging my shoulders confidently.

“Well, those women asked me to work out with them. So I told them we had different goals.”

“Different goals?”

“Yeah, I told them I was exercising to have s*x for a long time. Then they cheered me on.”

“…….”

Yua-rin glanced at the women.

They were huddled together, and when their eyes met, they ran away as if to avoid her.

“……Do I look like a horny b*tch who’s making you exercise so you can have s*x for a long time?”

“I was talking about Seo Ye-rin, not you.”

“No, aren’t you being misunderstood?”

I glanced at the women.

It seemed like they were right.

“Well, what about it? It’s possible.”

“Are you trying to lose? More than that, how can you say you’re exercising with another girl in front of me?”

Yua-rin put her hands on her waist and pouted.

“……Didn’t you give me permission?”

Unlike Choi Yi-seo, she still hung out with me and didn’t seem to be in any trouble, so I thought it was okay.

“Are you crazy?”

Yua-rin growled as if she was going to attack me right now.

I don’t know if she just took it as a joke and let it go, or if she was going to do it.

“Okay, let’s eat since we worked out. I want to eat something delicious because I’m stressed out because of you.”

It seemed a bit contradictory to say that I wanted to eat something delicious after just working out.

Anyway, while I was following Yua-rin to the locker room.

“Whew!”

Boom!

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A handsome man lifting a heavy weight.

Jung Chan-woo appeared right in front of our eyes.

“What? Were you here?”

“This gym is so big.”

We didn’t know he was here, so when we greeted him, Chan-woo just turned his head slightly and nodded.

“Hello.”

Dark circles under his eyes.

A strangely thin and gaunt appearance.Despite the decadent beauty he exudes, today too, his appearance is magnificent.

“What’s going on?”

When I asked out of concern, Chan-woo let out a long sigh.

He looked at us alternately and said.

“Please…help me.”

* * *

After finishing our workout, we went to a cafe.

“You’re going to eat something sweet after exercising?”

When I asked in disbelief after seeing the cake we ordered on the table, Yoo-ah-rin grabbed a fork and clicked her tongue.

“She’s not feeling well right now. She’s going to eat something sweet to get her energy back.”

At that moment, Chan-woo, who was sitting across from us, reacted ambiguously.

“……I’m losing muscle.”

“Stop whining and eat it. When did you ever care about your muscles?”

The slight resistance was quickly suppressed, and we ended up resetting all the exercise we had just done with coffee and cake.

Still, it seemed that Yoo-ah-rin’s words were true, as she seemed to have regained some energy after eating something sweet.

Her expression became much more relaxed.

“See, she’s always been the type to feel better after eating something sweet.”

“……I don’t feel much better even after eating something sweet.”

When I answered back as if I was grumbling, Yoo-ah-rin smiled and grabbed my cheek.

“Oh my? Are you jealous? Look at you, why are you so cute?”

“Can I leave you guys alone?”

Chan-woo chimed in, saying he didn’t want to see us flirting. Yoo-ah-rin let go of my cheek in embarrassment and focused on Chan-woo again.

“So what was it? Did you say you broke up with your girlfriend?”

“I said I think we’re going to break up. Something, something like she’s seeing another guy.”

At those words, I couldn’t help but slam my fist on the table in anger.

“What?! She’s cheating on you? Have you ever seen such a trashy bastard!”

“Trashy bastard. Calm down.”

“……Yes, sir.”

Did he say misandry?

Anyway, I decided to just sit there and sulk, as Yoo-ah-rin had said.

If I spit on Chan-woo’s girlfriend, it would be like spitting on my own face.

“Don’t insult my girlfriend!”

But Chan-woo got mad at me right away.

This kid is really out of his mind.

“Hmm, but it’s not easy for her to meet another guy while she’s with you.”

Yoo-ah-rin was right.

Is Chan-woo usually that handsome?

When it comes to women, it’s Seo Ye-rin.

When it comes to men, it’s Jung Chan-woo.

Isn’t it already set in stone?

It was hard to understand how a handsome guy from the construction department could cheat on his girlfriend, but on the other hand, it was hard to understand how he could be cheated on.

‘Or is it not?’

Suddenly, I remembered Chan-woo’s past behavior and asked him cautiously.

“By any chance…have you and your girlfriend been fighting or something lately?”

“Jung Ah-rang? Lately-.”

After hesitating for a moment, Chan-woo began to tell his story.

“Oh, Ah-rang said something to me about how I don’t contact her enough. But it’s not my fault, it’s Ah-rang’s fault.”

“You didn’t contact her, but it’s your girlfriend’s fault?”

I wondered what he was talking about.

Chan-woo nodded his head bluntly.

“Yeah, I was working a part-time job.”

“A PC room part-time job?”

“That’s right, the manager suddenly said he was short-staffed, so I worked a part-time job for about 12 hours.”

“But? You could have replied or contacted her, even if it was just for a short time.”

I wondered what the problem was, but Chan-woo shook his head firmly.

“I was working. I shouldn’t be making personal calls.”

What the hell.

Has he always been like this?

“So you just left her alone without even replying?”

“Yeah.”

“……””I explained it to her after it was over, but she wouldn’t accept it. She kept asking me if I was seeing someone else.”

‘What the heck is this….’

I guess you could call it the sorrow of a girlfriend who has a boyfriend as handsome as Chan-woo.

I guess if you don’t contact her, you never know what she might do or who she might be with.

Especially once she gets to know Chan-woo well, she’ll see that he’s actually innocent, unlike what she thinks.

“Is that all? I think there must be more to it when I saw it?”

Yoo Ah-rin seemed to have a hunch, so she asked him as she waved her fork around like she was interrogating him.

Chan-woo thought about it for a while longer and began to spill the beans one by one.

An anecdote about how she went shopping for clothes but said she had bought everything and waited for him at a cafe.

An anecdote about how she didn’t take any pictures of her girlfriend when they went out, but only took pictures of the surrounding scenery.

An anecdote about how she changed her profile picture on Tok to a famous actress that Chan-woo liked.

“Damn it, just break up with her. I can’t listen to this anymore!”

In the end, Yoo Ah-rin surrendered and gave Chan-woo a blow to the head.

“Ouch!”

Chan-woo, who had been hit, put his head in his hands and looked sad, but to be honest, I thought he deserved it.

“Yeah, this isn’t fair. If you’re going to give someone your face, you have to take something away from them.”

Jung Chan-woo has a sense of romance, while Seo Ye-rin has a sense of s*xuality.

In this way, wouldn’t it be more fun if something was a little broken somewhere?

“No, she wasn’t like this until high school, so why did she change so much?”

Yoo Ah-rin was frustrated, wondering what the problem was.

Among the two people who came into the cafe, I saw a familiar face.

“Oh, that person…”

I pointed to him without realizing it, and Chan-woo opened his eyes wide in surprise.

“That’s, Jung-ah?”

Chan-woo’s girlfriend, Heo Jung-ah, a freshman in the Department of Civil Engineering, came into the cafe with another man’s arm around her.

“Oppa!?”

Heo Jung-ah was startled and looked embarrassed.