Chapter 126
Chapter 126
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 126
Chapter Title: Justice is Alive
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Justice is alive.
Why do I say that?
Because Park Su-hwan and Jang Ji-won broke up even though I didn't lift a finger.
How did that happen?
"How could he do this to me?!"
Park Su-hwan got caught cheating on Jang Ji-won...
Everyone, isn't that how life goes if you live like Jang Ji-won? That's the usual outcome.
"Why does this always happen only to me...?!"
"Why do you think...?"
The drama starring Jang Ji-won, which I thought had ended early due to low ratings, has returned for Season 2.
In Season 1, Jang Ji-won divorced and met her new husband, Park Su-hwan.
This episode went like this.
The two were sharing locations on some couple's app, and Park Su-hwan's location pinged at a karaoke bar. When she asked him about it, he said he was there with some older guys he knew.
Playing the thoughtful girlfriend, Jang Ji-won wanted to win over Park Su-hwan's friends, and while she was at it, be the only girl there. So she packed a lunchbox and sneaked over to the karaoke bar.
And there she found Park Su-hwan singing face-to-face with a freshman girl from our school, just the two of them.
After the song ended, as Park Su-hwan flipped his bangs and got down on his knees on the karaoke floor, offering her a silver ring he bought from OXT...!
Jang Ji-won threw the lunchbox she'd brought right in Park Su-hwan's face, made a huge scene, then ran out crying and wandered the night streets.
- Jeong Eun-seong's reaction upon hearing this: Am I the only one living a boring life?
"He won't even write me a letter when I beg him for one, saying it's too cringey...! But to her?!"
"Oh..."
"He buys her rings! Hairpins! Hand cream!"
At this point, Jang Ji-won must have a grudge against hand cream.
The moment she came to school, she threw herself into my arms (why me?) and started sobbing. Jeong Eun-seong looked at her awkwardly and whispered.
"But do people eat lunchboxes at karaoke?"
"I don't know..."
"If I actually tried, so many guys would be after my number... Seriously..."
"..."
"My stomach is in knots... I can't eat, I can't sleep..."
"Oh..."
The other kids arriving one by one glanced at her with awkward expressions, but Jang Ji-won was fully immersed in her drama filming.
"I can't even breathe..."
"Yeah, yeah."
I patted her half-heartedly.
"Park Su-hwan messed up."
After everything Jang Ji-won had done for him, how could he betray her like this?
Jang Ji-won never got mad when he treated girls like BJ streamers, or when he dumped all the awkward situations on her and pretended not to know.
She probably wouldn't get mad even if he committed a crime. As long as he didn't cheat. He couldn't keep that one promise, and now this mess.
"I'm going to tell the homeroom teacher."
"About what?"
"The Help Paper! Do Ha-jun and Park Su-hwan were in on it together!"
"Oh..."
She's finally spilling it.
She'd kept it hidden faithfully until yesterday, but now that Park Su-hwan cheated, she's bringing it up?
"The teachers won't believe you. You'll just hear 'you're mad because Park Su-hwan dumped you.'"
"Then what do I do! I have to see him ruined!"
"Just close your eyes and imagine it."
In truth, Park Su-hwan was already ruined after the BJ incident, and you saved him, but... I won't mention that now?
After rubbing snot all over my clothes for a while, Jang Ji-won declared she had to get revenge and ran off to the teachers' office.
I looked down at my dampened top awkwardly and asked Yeon-hee.
"Yeon-hee, what are you gonna do?"
"About what?"
"Jang Ji-won. Now that she's broken up with Park Su-hwan, she'll cling to you again. What are you gonna do?"
Kim Ga-eun, arms crossed, chimed in.
"That's typical of girls like her. Only looking for friends when they don't have a boyfriend."
"Exactly."
And that's how the situation turns out?
The guys in Park Su-hwan's group who used to hang out with Jang Ji-won will ghost her like it never happened.
They weren't friends with Jang Ji-won; they were just friendly with Park Su-hwan's girlfriend.
The girls are already sick of her, so no one will want to hang out.
So Jang Ji-won is left with zero friends to cling to.
100% she'll come whining to Yeon-hee again.
"What are you gonna do?"
Yeon-hee shook her head at Ga-eun's question.
"Unlike Ji-won, I actually learn from experience."
I don't want to waste my time on someone who comes crying to me for comfort, sucks up my sympathy, then ghosts me the second she gets a boyfriend again.
"Friends aren't on standby. This happened because of Ji-won's karma... She went all-in on her boyfriend and lost her friends. Isn't that her responsibility?"
"Yeah. Makes sense."
You can't just seek friends when you need them. Friends have feelings too.
"Ji-won was the one who ditched the friendship first. Not me."
"Right."
Smart girl, Yeon-hee.
Her devoted boyfriend cheats, she loses her friends. I cleared up the hand cream incident, but the class's opinion of Jang Ji-won is still bad.
'Her boyfriend cheating on her is probably the worst punishment for Jang Ji-won.'
Jang Ji-won: Out.
Oh, right. What about Do Ha-jun?
This one got resolved in a surprisingly unexpected way.
"Who's the empty seat over there?"
"Do Ha-jun."
"He's absent again today?"
"Yeah."
"Nice."
Do Ha-jun...
Hasn't shown up to school since that day.
Funny, right?
He hasn't even been disciplined yet. They just asked him to explain what happened, but he got scared and chose to avoid it.
'It's no big deal, why is everyone making such a fuss? Why call my parents over something this small!'
'Ha-jun, how is this no big deal? Mocking and insulting your classmates, secondary harm to the victims without considering their feelings, and then retaliatory defamation.'
'...'
'If this doesn't feel like a big deal to you right now...'
'Waaah...'
'...Is Ha-jun crying right now?'
That's the last thing Do Ha-jun said.
So very Do Ha-jun.
Isn't the situation serious?
Nah. According to Jeong Na-jun from our class, he's online gaming every day. Posting stuff like 'No school is pure bliss lol' while pretending to be tough in his room?
He told his mom he can't go to school because there are too many tough girls.
His mom, who showed up last time in a pink tennis skirt like our girls' uniform, apparently said fine when he refused to go to school.
Poor son bullied by those fierce girls, so she bought him a new RGB keyboard and gave him her card for paid game items.
When the worried homeroom teacher called...
'Teacher, put your hand on your heart! Have you ever truly empathized with my child?! What did he even do wrong! Can teachers just take one side unilaterally?!'
...Or so she said.
Apparently, after a break, they'll transfer him to an all-boys school with no bad girls.
At an all-boys school, he'll realize girls at least treated him like a human.
Friends will kick his butt yelling 'kick practice!' and he won't even complain, sometimes getting smacked in the back of the head, and using his mom's card to cover PC bang costs for friends.
Blessings on your all-boys school life ahead.
Anyway.
We're happy not seeing Do Ha-jun's face, and Do Ha-jun... well, he's (temporarily) happy munching seasoned chicken with his long nails alone in his room while gaming...
Do Ha-jun: Out.
* * * "Looking back now, I was honestly scared shitless back then."
"Language."
"I was really scared. Everyone knows I'm dating you... How many times did my name come up? At least ten, right?"
"Don't worry about it. It got scrapped anyway."
"How can I not? I couldn't even look the kids in the face that day."
Has this girl ever talked to me normally before? Is she doing this because she wrote my name on the form and got called out? Is she talking to me now to spy, then trash-talk me behind my back? Bang Eun-ji trembled, hugging herself with her arms.
"I think that parent who reported it was reckless. If you're gonna report, bring evidence yourself. What kind of stunt is this?"
The principal got swayed, and geography was bad too... but whatever, it's resolved.
"Rest easy, Princess."
I bowed to Bang Eun-ji, who nodded.
She pretends not to like it when I call her princess, but she does.
"What? Have you ever seen a pig princess like this."
See? Her mouth's twitching up.
"For starters, you're not pig-like. A princess is defined by bloodline, not size."
You don't buy it? Then want to study world history with me and find all the fat princesses in history? She backed away when I suggested it.
Jeong Eun-seong, following at a safe distance because Bang Eun-ji stutters just looking at her own face, blinked.
"Even if it's bloodline, looks matter too!"
"No. A princess needs virtue and wisdom."
There was a princess-turned-empress who thought like you, obsessed with looks so much she got stabbed with a needle but didn't notice because of her corset and died.
"Words alone won't convince you, so let's study world history together..."
"I believe you, I believe you!"
Bang Eun-ji freaked out, and we entered the drama club room.
"What are we doing today?"
"Meeting. Ji-su probably came early to set up... Oh, there she is."
I waved to Ji-su in the room.
She looked back and forth between me and Bang Eun-ji, then beamed.
"Kang Da!"