Chapter 144
Our volunteer work was also reaching its end.
"Big bro! Big bro! You'll come again, right?"
When I finished packing up and getting ready to head home, a little boy who'd been especially attached to me tugged at my sleeve with a face full of regret.
I gave a wry smile and patted his head.
"Of course. Next time I'll bring my super pretty girlfriend along."
"Really?!"
"Yep. For sure."
Before coming here, I used to think kids were only a pain, but now I didn't feel that way.
Or maybe it was just limited to the kids at the orphanage.
They were just poor children abandoned due to their parents' mistakes and irresponsible pleasures.
On top of that, branded as parentless kids, they were subtly discriminated against in society through no fault of their own. Seeing them putting on a brave face for the people who tried to help them made my heart heavy but also proud.
"Prettier than that noona?"
"Me...?"
Kwak Jaehui, who'd been quietly standing beside me, frowned and pointed at herself when she was suddenly singled out.
"Yeah! Noona's super pretty! So is your girlfriend as pretty as that noona?"
At the innocent question, I considered how to answer.
To be honest, Jaehui wasn't even in the same league for comparison.
It might even be rude to compare.
In fact, I doubt there's any woman in the world who could match Nayeong's looks.
"What? You're not saying anything? And you have a girlfriend?"
Jaehui asked, as if she'd had no idea.
I'd never had a reason to bring up Nayeong since we'd only met today.
"Yeah, I do."
"You should've said so. She's asking if she's prettier than me."
She smiled confidently and shrugged.
I turned my gaze back to the boy.
"Of course. My girlfriend is way prettier."
At the orphanage, the female staff and visitors were only older women with wrinkled faces.
And the older girls' looks were objectively average.
To the boy, Jaehui, who'd come today for volunteer work, looked like the prettiest person in the world, but now I said there was someone even prettier.
"Wow! I wanna see her!"
His eyes sparkled as he got excited.
Since I hadn't lied and had told the truth, Jaehui approached with a displeased expression.
"Let me see her too. I kind of want to check."
She apparently didn't even consider the possibility she'd lose, so my answer completely threw her off and made her stubborn.
She insisted there had to be a photo we'd taken together, demanded I show it, said she had to see with her own eyes to judge, and clamored for me to show her right now.
"No."
A hundred out of a hundred people would say Nayeong is prettier. So I didn't want to show her and make Jaehui feel deflated.
"You're lying."
When I refused, Jaehui scoffed and dismissed it as a lie.
Considering my age before regression, there was over double the age gap between us.
I didn't want to get into a fight with a woman, so I let it slide.
"Sure. Think whatever you want. But where's your brother?"
I asked about Jaehyuk, who still hadn't shown up even though it was almost time to leave.
At that, Jaehui's face twisted in disgust.
"I don't have some idiot monkey."
"He's your brother."
"That hor— *ahem*... *ahem*..."
She tried to say 'horny bastard' but realized the kids were around and swallowed her cough.
"Anyway, I don't care. He'll manage on his own."
I guess that was a true sibling relationship.
Whether it's commoner siblings or chaebol siblings, it seems the same everywhere.
"Time's up. I'm heading off first."
Checking the time and seeing it was almost time for her car, Jaehui tried to leave first.
"Oh, right. Give me your number."
She stopped in her tracks, came back to me, and held out her smartphone.
She could easily find out anyway if she wanted, so I willingly entered my number into her phone.
"Don't ignore me if I call."
"Got it. You should head inside."
"Yeah. You get home safe too."
Jaehui left first.
Now I should probably go too.
"Kids, I'm leaving."
I waved at the children who had come to see me off, and they openly showed their disappointment.
A few even teared up, holding me back.
"Hmph... Can't you stay?"
"Don't go..."
With those faces and those words, I couldn't bring myself to leave.
"Kids, you have to let him go now, right? He said he'd come again, so let's wait."
Just then, one of the teachers stepped in to comfort the children.
I added my own words, promising to come again if they listened well to the teachers, and finally managed to leave the orphanage.
Outside, the cold wind and the dark sky greeted me.
Even as I walked, I kept stopping and turning back, thinking of the children I'd spent the day with.
"I have to come again."
I don't know when I got so attached to kids.
But it wasn't a bad feeling.
Thinking about today's events kept a smile on my face.
I thought I should bring Nayeong next time, and buy a ton of the chicken and pizza the kids loved.
As I began slowly descending the uphill climb that had been such a struggle on the way up—
Beep beep!
A luxury car pulled up from behind and stopped right beside me.
"Jihun!"
The window rolled down, and Kwak Jaehyuk, with a bright face, called out to me.
"How could you leave first without me?"
"...?"
Since when were we that close?
Seeing Jaehyuk pouting his lips and expressing discontent, I tilted my head.
"Get in."
"Why?"
"What do you mean, why? Let's go have some fun."
He swung the door open, urging me to get in quickly.
I didn't really want to go.
But then I remembered what Dad had said to me yesterday.
He said he was trying to get closer to the chairman of Cheil Group, and I might as well get close too since we were at it.
But I'd already seen the guy's character, so I didn't see any benefit for me.
If anything, it would be better to get close to Jaehui.
Still, you can't know everything about a person from one meeting.
Maybe I'd find some good quality I didn't know about.
Above all, it had been a while since Dad personally asked me for something, not about work but personally.
Was it personal...? Anyway, it seemed related to work, but I decided to let myself be tricked and follow Jaehyuk for now.
"Fine... okay."
Letting out a deep sigh, I climbed into the passenger seat next to Jaehyuk.
"Alright! Here we go!"
"Yes, sir."
As soon as I got in, he shouted with a pleased expression like something was wonderful, and the driver in the front seat immediately stepped on the accelerator.
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"Come on! Drink up! Let's drink till we drop!"
Jaehyuk poured soju into the glass in front of me and yelled.
What is this... Why am I here? I couldn't understand.
"Cheers!"
Jaehyuk gave an odd smile and raised his glass to me.
Bewildered, I picked up the glass he'd filled, clinked it with his, and naturally downed it.
The moment I drank, it tasted different from normal alcohol.
Something made me excited, felt a surge of lust.
"Kyah~ It feels even better drinking with a new buddy!"
Jaehyuk, his face already flushed red as if drunk even though he'd only had a few cups, grinned sloppily and wrapped his arm around the body of the woman sitting close beside him.
That woman was wearing a revealing outfit that clearly showed her cleavage.
Jaehyuk grabbed her breast and kneaded it.
"Aah~! Be gentle~!"
"Kyahaha. Your tits are always so soft, they feel great no matter when I touch them."
The woman being molested whined and playfully slapped Jaehyuk's hand that clutched her breast.
But he kept touching her anyway.
"Oppa, should I pour you a glass this time?"
Similarly, the woman sitting right next to me, also wearing a revealing outfit, pressed her body against me and whispered in my ear.
As if it was okay for me to freely touch her body, just like Jaehyuk was doing.
But I didn't feel like it.
For one thing, I never dreamed that this would be the kind of place Jaehyuk would bring me when he said let's go out, so I was dumbstruck and the woman didn't even register.
Besides, though she was pretty, she was far less attractive than Jaehui, whom I'd met earlier.
Her body was okay, though.
Plus, with all that makeup caked on her face to look pretty, I was sure a completely different woman would emerge if she washed it off.
"Huh? Jihun. First time in a place like this?"
Jaehyuk, who had now laid the woman down, hiked up her short skirt, and was burying his face between her legs, threw me a question.
"Yeah. First time."
I'd drunk before, but coming to a place like this with a woman was a first for me, both before regression and now.
"Huh. A greenhorn, huh?"
Jaehyuk chuckled.
"First time? Cute, oppa."
The woman, who looked older than me, smiled brightly and stroked my thigh.
Since I seemed close with Jaehyuk, who was widely known as the grandson of the Cheil Group chairman, she probably thought my family was rich too.
She was likely running wishful thinking that to seduce a man like me and enjoy a wealthy life, whether briefly or forever.
"Jaehyuk."
"Hm?"
Jaehyuk, who had been earnestly licking her pussy again, lifted his head.
"Haaang... aah... oppa... don't stop..."
The woman let out ragged breaths and stroked Jaehyuk's hair.
"Ah, sorry. Hold on a second."
"Aaaang~!"
He shoved his fingers into her cunt to replace his tongue.
"What's up?"
"Just... do you usually play around like this?"
"Well, sure? Of course?"
The third-generation chaebols I knew weren't all like in dramas.
But sometimes there were ones like Jaehyuk, a crazy playboy obsessed with women, just like in a drama.
Or maybe he acted like that only in front of me.
I was a bit curious.
"Call your friends too."
"Friends? You like it loud and rowdy, huh?"
Jaehyuk immediately picked up his smartphone and started typing furiously.
"They're on their way. Meanwhile, have some fun."
"You think so?"
I had always fucked only inexperienced women.
I suddenly wondered what a whore with lots of experience would taste like.