The Girl Who Went to a Motel with Another Man
“I should hurry. Otherwise… it might get complicated…”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“We’re not alone right now, right?”
Yeonwoo asked in a panic, his thoughts racing.
“Then? Could it be Yeon Jeong-ho?”
“No. It’s nothing like that.”
Seon-yeong took a deep breath and spoke.
“I ran into my senior that I’ve liked since back then.”
“A senior? The one you like, Hye-na?”
“Yes.”
She paused for a moment, then added honestly.
“Handsome, from a good family…”
Seon-yeong added with complete frankness.
“He’s been turning Hye-na down for a long time, saying the feeling isn’t there. But today… he might not refuse.”
“I see. Okay, I’ll call you later.”
The call ended just like that.
Seon-yeong glanced at her phone for a moment, then stepped back inside the shop.
The atmosphere at the table had already shifted.
The two women were looking over the bill, cleaning up their spots.
“Eh? What’s up? You two heading home?”
Seon-yeong asked in surprise.
“No… I’m switching tables with my senior. You should come too.”
Seon-yeong studied Hye-na’s face closely.
She could clearly sense the unspoken signal.
‘Don’t worry too much about it.’
The look of an old friend who could read between the lines.
“Haa… Hye-na, you little rascal.”
Seon-yeong swallowed her curse in her mind.
‘She really went all out today.’
“No. I’ll clean up the rest here. You two go ahead. I’ll… stay a little longer and join you later.”
Hye-na glanced at Seon-yeong.
A grateful look crossed her eyes, followed by a guilty expression.
Taeyoung, too, looked pleased on the inside, but added a proper word out of politeness.
“Why? Come with us.”
His tone was gentle, but the decision was already made.
“I was planning to treat my juniors to something delicious after a long time.”
“Really? Together?”
“Uhm? I… really am.”
Seon-yeong narrowed her eyes at her senior who was stuttering.
“No. Treat Hye-na to lots of good food. Hye-na’s feeling a bit down today.”
She paused for a breath, then smiled as naturally as possible.
Taeyoung nodded, and Hye-na silently picked up her coat.
She linked arms with the senior and walked out of the shop together.
***
A short while later, Yeonwoo entered the izakaya.
He scanned the inside once.
Spotting Seon-yeong, he headed straight toward her.
**Subject Information**
**Emotion Value:** 12 [Auto]
**Name:** Kim Seon-yeong
**Age:** 23
**Occupation:** University student
**Issue:** Guilt over her friend (Hye-na)’s relationship with another man, and defensive love (self-justification in progress)
**Remote Connection Possible**
**Remote Connection Active – Emotion Manipulation Available**
**Location Tracking of Target Enabled**
“Eh? You’re alone?”
Yeonwoo sat in the chair and asked.
His breathing was ragged from rushing over.
Seon-yeong smiled brightly at his arrival.
**Emotion Value:** 24.. 28.. 32.
“Hye-na?”
Seon-yeong hesitated a moment before answering.
“Oppa was a bit late.”
“Haa… really?”
The single glass on the table seemed even emptier.
“Then… you went out with the senior you liked, right?”
“Yeah.”
**Activate Location Tracking for Target: Kang Hye-na**
**Location of Target: Y and Y Wine Bar**
‘Y and Y Wine Bar?’
Yeonwoo’s gaze lingered in the empty air for a second.
‘It’s right around here. Just the two of them…’
He could find her anytime.
But he didn’t feel like going right now.
‘She was devastated, so it’s better if I just let her do whatever she wants.’
‘Maybe… this way of venting is better than anything else.’
Yeonwoo felt strangely relieved that Hye-na had chosen this kind of rebellion.
“I see… I was late.”
“You could have just not looked for me, right?”
“Found her? I would have found her.”
“Hye-na… looked completely heartbroken when she left today…”
Seon-yeong studied his face.
“What exactly happened?”
She asked cautiously.
“Hye-na didn’t say anything at all.”
Yeonwoo let out a quiet laugh.
It wasn’t really a laugh.
More like a sigh.
“Well… I have nothing to say either. Why weren’t you with her? You waited for me even though Hye-na wasn’t there?”
“Yeah. I waited for you, Oppa.”
**Emotion Value:** 44.. 47.. 49.
“Why?”
“Well…”
She shrugged with a small smile.
“I kind of felt like it.”
Her emotion value had climbed above 50 just from being with Yeonwoo.
Yeonwoo had assigned meaning to those numbers while watching people around him.
Between lovers in the 40 to 50 range, it meant passionate love.
When he manually set it, it was the zone where emotions could overpower reason.
In other words, from everything he’d experienced so far, Seon-yeong loved him.
Seon-yeong continued.
“Oppa. Are you really breaking up with Hye-na?”
“Well… I don’t want to, but dating isn’t something you do alone.”
“Do you love her a lot?”
“It seems like it.”
Yeonwoo’s immediate answer left Seon-yeong with a hollow laugh.
“It’s annoying…”
She pouted, smiling.
“You seem to want me to break up with Hye-na.”
She said in a slightly playful tone.
Seon-yeong didn’t look away.
“Then… you never know. Maybe I’ll get a chance too.”
For a moment, Yeonwoo’s words caught in his throat, and he chuckled.
“Haa… that feels good. A beautiful girl like you likes me…”
“Tsk… you’re just happy with that?”
Instead of answering, Yeonwoo just smiled.
It was evasive, yet left room at the same time.
At that moment, Yeonwoo felt a gaze scanning him.
He turned his head instinctively.
And—
“Huh.”
It was A-yeong.
Park A-yeong.
Yeonwoo’s first love.
The woman who gave him his first heartbreak.
She sat a few tables away.
The lighting was a little off, but he could tell instantly.
The face looked different, yet the same.
And opposite her sat a man who looked very handsome.
“Damn…”
Yeonwoo’s expression hardened.
Seon-yeong noticed.
“Why?”
“Oh… that’s…”
“Why? Do you know her?”
Seon-yeong urged.
“Yeah. My ex-girlfriend.”
Seon-yeong’s eyes narrowed for a second.
She turned her head slowly, following Yeonwoo’s gaze.
And soon, she spotted the woman.
A semi-tailored suit.
Beige blouse with navy skirt.
Classic neat office look.
“That woman in the beige blouse and navy skirt?”
Yeonwoo reacted immediately.
“Yeah. Don’t stare like that.”
“Hmm…”
Seon-yeong propped her chin on her hand and looked again.
“She’s quite pretty. Oppa must be really dazed.”
“Tsk… where’s the man who doesn’t like pretty girls?”
“Well… still… I think I’m prettier than that girl…”
The words sounded like a joke, but her eyes were deadly serious.
Yeonwoo let out a dry laugh and turned his head.
“Enough. Now it doesn’t matter…”
“Oppa.”
“Hm?”
“Want to kiss me?”
Yeonwoo was startled.
“Eh? Suddenly a kiss? Out of nowhere.”
“Why? We’re already sleeping together… a kiss is nothing.”
Seon-yeong was calm.
She continued with an even more relaxed expression.
“And I don’t want to send a message to my ex-girlfriend saying ‘I’m doing great. I’ve completely forgotten about someone like you… and I met someone prettier than you.’”
“Oh ho… I kinda like that.”
“If I kiss someone like me… that message would hit really hard…”
Yeonwoo chuckled at her words.
And he stared at Seon-yeong in silence.
**
**
Her words weren’t baseless bravado.
She had a slightly cold demeanor.
She always wore bold, revealing clothes in her signature style, but she kept a perfect line, which only made her look more elegant.
A beautiful appearance that drew eyes.
The type of man would have no choice but to glance at her at least once.
In fact, if he had met Seon-yeong first instead of Hye-na, Yeonwoo might have fallen for her.
Yeonwoo tilted his head slightly.
“But… you’re not my girlfriend.”
“What does that matter? She doesn’t know that kind of feeling, right? Just give her that vibe.”
“I’m worried about you, not her. Kissing a guy who’s not even your boyfriend?”
“Well…”
Seon-yeong didn’t avoid his gaze.
“I like you. It’s even better.”
“Well… I don’t know…”
“Come on. Open your mouth. I’ll kiss you cutely.”
“Hmm… I don’t know if I’m good at it, but… okay. Here.”
Their faces drew close.
A light peck.
“Eh? Too fast?”
Yeonwoo tried to play it cool.
“That’s enough.”
“Tsk… I wasn’t enough…”
“What? You seem to have another purpose…”
“Well… wouldn’t it be nice if one action could do multiple things?”
“Hahaha, good excuse.”
Seon-yeong moved to the seat next to Yeonwoo.
“On the way here, I saw that woman staring at Oppa the whole time.”
“Stop. Don’t worry about her now.”
“No… I want to do it properly.”
Seon-yeong wrapped her arm around Yeonwoo’s neck and pulled him in for a deep kiss.
This time, she didn’t let go easily.
For over ten seconds…
The kiss continued.
It was forced, but…
Softer than expected.
More natural than expected.
A pleasurable kiss.
Their lips parted.
Seon-yeong looked at Yeonwoo with a slightly flushed expression and said.
“After this level, the woman she missed will feel regret.”
Yeonwoo nodded while looking at her.
“Yeah… anyway, thanks.”
At that moment.
The location information Yeonwoo had set for Hye-na began to change.
‘It looks like she’s moving. Now… is she going home? Or…’
Yeonwoo nodded as if listening to Seon-yeong’s words, but his gaze stayed on the table while his focus was on the status window.
The location marker that had been showing the road for a while changed.
**Subject: Kang Hye-na, Location: Y Motel, Room 307**
Yeonwoo’s breathing hitched.
“Haa… Hye-na… you really ended up like that?”
It was the flow he had expected.
Yet, seeing the expected result right in front of him, his chest sank heavily.
He slowly turned his head.
Next to him sat Seon-yeong.
Much closer than before.
The warmth of the kiss still lingering.
And the affectionate eyes looking at him.
**Emotion Value 52**
Yeonwoo stared at her quietly for a moment, then said in a low voice.
“Will you stay with me today?”
“Huh? Me? With me?”
“Yeah… if you don’t want to, say so. It’s fine.”
“Oppa… I can’t say I don’t want to.”
“Even if I sleep with you, we still won’t be anything.”
“It doesn’t matter. We’ve been like this so far.”
Yeonwoo looked at Seon-yeong’s face for a moment, then took her hand and stood up.
***
At the wine bar, under the soft lighting…
Hye-na unconsciously twirled the rim of her glass.
The purple of the red wine swirled inside the glass before settling again.
“Hye-na, one more glass?”
Taeyoung asked carefully.
When Hye-na nodded, he poured wine into her glass.
Taeyoung hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
“Hye-na, actually… I still have you in my heart. I’ve been rejected twice now…”
Hye-na looked at Taeyoung, tearing her gaze from the glass.
His eyes looked sincere.
But Hye-na no longer needed a man’s sincerity today.
Her mother and boyfriend who betrayed her.
She wanted to throw herself into revenge.
Even when his sincerity touched her, guilt stirred in her heart.
She took a deep breath.
“Hye-na?”
Hye-na snapped back to reality at Taeyoung’s voice.
“What are you thinking about?”
Hye-na stared at him for a long time, then spoke.
“Senior, tonight… will you stay with me?”
Taeyoung was surprised and blinked.
Then joy and doubt crossed his face.
“Hye-na, really?”
“Yeah.”
She stood up and grabbed her bag.
“Let’s go, senior.”