Teto-nyeo Lee Yun-seo
Teto-nyeo Lee Yun-seo
"You're fucking late. Can't you hurry up and get here?"
"...."
You are opening your mouth.
"Do you know how many weeks I've waited? I was so bored I thought my neck would snap."
"...."
You are speaking.
"Hello, Dohyun-ssi. Are you listening?"
"...."
Your voice, which I've missed so much.
It is reaching my ears.
"Dohyun-ssi?"
You are alive and moving.
With a playful smile, and a triumphant expression.
It's not the heartbreaking, sorrowful sight, nor the desolate sight of the light of life fading away.
You aren't the calm version of you who had accepted the end.
The confident you, whom I thought I would never see again.
I missed you so much.
"Are you crying?"
My eyes are burning.
Tears are flowing.
"...Why are you crying?"
"...."
"Hul-jjeok, damn it."
Right in front of me as I took slow steps, Lee Yun-seo was there.
"I wanted to reunite with a smile."
"...."
"You're making me cry too, hul-jjeok, you idiot."
We cried.
We hugged each other and cried for a long time.
In a world filled with countless pains, we relied on each other and endured.
Even if terrible misfortune tried to tear us apart.
I am overcoming even that and holding you.
Yun-seo is in my arms.
The living Yun-seo.
Feeling Yun-seo's warmth for the first time in a very long time, I cried until my throat felt like it was tearing.
*
"Why is a guy crying so loudly? I thought my eardrums were going to burst."
"Look who's talking."
"I'm a girl, so it's fine, bleh."
"That's a sexist remark, you know?"
"And what are you going to do if I'm being sexist?"
I peeled an apple and fed it to Yun-seo.
She took a bite and swallowed it.
"Chew it well. You'll choke."
"Are you my mom? There's a limit to how much you can worry."
"So you're saying I shouldn't worry?"
Yun-seo, who chewed and swallowed the rest of the apple, leaned her head against my chest.
I gently stroked Yun-seo's hair.
"How's the illness?"
"It's fine. They say it's going well. The treatment was very late, but I'm pouring a ton of money into it to fix it."
"You're not lying, are you? Like hiding something important again just so I wouldn't worry?"
"Nothing like that. I have better things to hide. Do you know how much money you've poured in?"
Since Yun-seo's illness had worsened significantly, the 500 million won we initially expected wasn't even close to enough.
"...Really."
Yun-seo, who had been rubbing her head against my chest.
She lifted her head and met my gaze.
"Thank you so much, Dohyun-ah."
"Yeah."
"Thank you so, so much."
Yun-seo's hand strokes my hair.
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be in this world anymore."
And she guides my ear to her chest.
"My heart is still beating."
"...."
"I had given up on everything, to think a miracle like this would happen."
Her heart, which was pounding just like mine, was intuitively telling me that there was absolutely nothing wrong with her health.
"I still can't believe it."
I, who had pulled my head away from her chest, asserted.
"You won't believe what's coming next even more."
"Huh?"
"You need to know what real money tastes like. What real money-wasting is."
I stepped back for a moment to show my whole body to Yun-seo.
"Behold me, decked out in luxury goods. This all adds up to 10 million won."
"Really?"
"This is your future from now on. A life where you can do everything you want, buy everything you want."
I rolled up my sleeve to show her the watch on my wrist.
I asked Yun-seo.
"How is it? Does it suit me?"
"I only see your face, so I'm not sure."
"...That came out of nowhere."
A playful look appeared on Yun-seo's face.
She got up from her seat and wrapped her arms around my shoulders.
Without giving me a chance to prepare, she suddenly pulled me hard, and we dove onto the bed.
Because of that, Yun-seo and I ended up piled on top of each other on the hospital bed.
"This is what a real 'hook' feels like."
"...."
I straightened my arms to lift my lying body.
The angle was somehow me on top of Yun-seo.
"...Shall we do it like this?"
"Huh?"
"We did it while drunk that day. We should try it sober once."
My pants were bulging.
"...Even so, we're in a hospital."
"It's a private room, so it's fine. And it's not time for the nurses to come yet. For at least the next two hours, it's just you and me."
Yun-seo unbuttoned her hospital gown.
Usually, you don't wear underwear under a hospital gown, so if one more button comes undone, parts that shouldn't be seen might be revealed.
Finally, the next button was undone, and her shoulder line was revealed.
As the collar slipped down and I was gulping,
She laughed, "Pu-heup."
"Just kidding, just kidding."
"Ah."
The clothes stopped just before anything could be seen.
"I'm not supposed to do anything that puts a strain on my body yet. Did you get excited?"
"...."
"Tell me honestly, you were excited, right? You were. You bastard, look at it standing tall. Pu-heu-heu-heup."
Recently, I felt the need to awaken as a Teto-nam.
"How can you get turned on by a sick patient? Am I that hot? But what are you going to do? The doctor said not to."
I get teased way too much.
"I should listen to the doctor."
Ha-rin noona, A-yeon, since I'm just staying still, aren't they just looking for angles to pounce on me?
"Pu-heup, pu-heu-heu-heup, u-eup?"
Following A-yeon's teachings, I blocked her chattering mouth with my lips.
"Chu-reup-"
Yun-seo's pupils widened into circles.
Actually, I didn't intend to go this wild originally.
But since I've been getting sexually appealed to so much lately, the sexual desire I was holding back exploded.
"Jju-up chup."
It's not like I'm a eunuch.
She comes at me wearing a negligee.
I get a 10-minute deep kiss.
And she whispers that she booked a hotel room for tonight.
Huh?
There's a limit to how much one can endure.
Especially with Yun-seo, I have a history of having a hot time with her already.
Perhaps that's why the psychological resistance was less.
"...Pu-ha."
A string of saliva hung down.
A kiss that lasted about a minute.
Yun-seo was catching her breath with a flushed face.
"Yun-seo-ya, shut up."
"...Yes."
Heart shapes floated in her eyes.
*
It was always like this.
Even if I seem like a Teto, the foundation that makes up me, Seo Dohyun, is estrogen.
'Did I kiss her for no reason?'
It hadn't even been 10 minutes, and my head was already filled with wicked thoughts.
Thinking about the bombshell I had to drop next, I wondered why I did that.
Still, well, I don't regret it.
I shared a physical connection with a woman I like.
It would be worse to regret this.
"But Dohyun-ah. What was that thing you were going to say the other day but didn't?"
"Huh?"
"You called a few days ago, and your tension was down. Did something happen?"
Yun-seo asks while fiddling with her own lips.
The time has come.
"That is..."
I take a deep breath and open my mouth.
Then I close it again.
After taking another deep breath, I really, truly open my mouth.
Ah, wait a second.
Let me decide how to start before I speak again.
"Why is he like this?"
I spoke well to A-yeon, so why am I like this with Yun-seo?
Maybe it's because I've already reached the final chapter of a man-woman relationship.
I took Yun-seo's first time.
And then revealing the truth that I'm cheating on her was, truly, the worst thing a man could say.
"You asked if I had another girl."
"Yeah."
"I'm sorry. I do."
But I don't intend to hide it and carry on like my father.
I'd rather reveal the truth and get slapped.
"...Huh?"
"How this happened is..."
The reunion with Ha-rin noona.
From the things that happened with her, to the fact that we might end up having a ceremony to avoid a political marriage.
On top of that, even the fact that A-yeon has romantic feelings for me.
I told her everything truthfully.
Things that are hard to believe happened in the short time, less than a month, that Yun-seo was away from Korea.
Of course, I hid the truth about Phantastia.
I only told her that due to Ha-rin noona's circumstances, we might have to get married.
Yun-seo, who heard all my anecdotes, falls into silence.
A long silence covered the hospital room.
"...And in that situation, you just gave me a deep kiss?"
"...I'm sorry."
Yun-seo stares at me intently and sighs lightly.
"...It was a restaurant only I knew about."
She continued, fiddling with the blanket covering her.
"Actually, well, I have nothing to say. To put it bluntly, we aren't even dating."
"...."
"At most, we have one 'fait accompli', but these days, aren't 'sex-buddy' relationships common?"
She isn't showing it, but she definitely looks shocked.
"You're my life-saver. You lent me nearly a billion won. Is it possible for me to be angry at you?"
"...Yun-seo-ya."
"I know my place well. For me, who has nothing but a face, trying to be your equal would be shameless."
Like that, Yun-seo kept her head down for a long time.
I can't see her expression.
The touching, lovey-dovey atmosphere of the hospital room from just a moment ago instantly turns cold.
Just as I was feeling restless,
Suddenly, Yun-seo snapped her head up.
"So I just threw away my conscience."
"Huh?"
"Die, you son of a bitch!"
Yun-seo's fiery punch exploded into my stomach.
"Aack!"
It was power I couldn't believe came from a sick, weak girl.
"How dare you leave me, the heaven-like Lee Yun-seo, and take in two other women?"
"...One of them isn't exactly an 'other' woman, though."
"If you're divorced, you're strangers, don't talk back!"
A feast of punches followed, pa-ba-ba-bak.
"Do you know how many times I've been street-cast, huh?"
"Aack! Aack!"
"Do you know how many people tried to get my number when I was working part-time, huh?"
"Wait, time, time!"
"You should be grateful to the world just to have me, and you have two more women? Forget 'time', die, you jerk!"
Not satisfied with that, she puts me in an armbar.
I tapped the bed floor, declaring absolute surrender.
"Surrender, surrender!"
"Surrender?"
"I lost, so stop, please stop."
"I'll let it slide this once."
As expected, Lee Yun-seo is the one who normalizes the atmosphere.
I rubbed my stinging stomach and held back the screams leaking out.
"...I don't care how many women you fool around with. Do you know why?"
"Because we aren't dating?"
"No? Because anyway, what they're eating..."
Yun-seo grabs me by the collar and pulls me in.
"It's the leftovers after I've eaten."
I had forgotten.
Unlike the two people who only talk about pouncing, pouncing, she actually did it.
And that too, while drinking on the day we met.
"Whether you get married or take concubines, do whatever you want."
"...."
"I will never give up on you... If I eat you in front of that woman who's a chaebol, in front of that ungrateful younger sister."
The origin is different.
"Wouldn't they also be shocked and run away?"
She is different from the mediocre Egen-nyeo who regret their pasts.
Despite her messed-up past, Yun-seo doesn't lose her self-esteem.
The pinnacle of narcissism who keeps "Because I'm pretty" on her lips.
Having even cured her only weakness, her illness, she is now a true queen with no hesitation and nothing to be ashamed of.
"Go on, try marrying that woman."
The name of the Teto that Egen Ha-rin, Egen A-yeon, and Egen Dohyun can't even touch the toes of, is none other than Lee Yun-seo.
"I'll make sure you end up stamping those divorce papers."
She is my first love.