It Has to Be This Big
“The One Cheongdam has only nineteen households in total, spread across a building with five basement levels and twenty-five floors above ground.”
Floors 2 through 16 were single-level units.
From the 17th through the 22nd floor were duplex penthouses.
And the very top was the super penthouse.
“And right now, the only listings left at The One Cheongdam are the single unit on the 16th floor and the super penthouse, which uses the 23rd through 25th floors.”
When I turned to the last page, I saw the prices.
The single unit was around 15 billion won.
The super penthouse, which took up three entire floors, was 45 billion.
“Hmm…”
I could feel Jeong Hye-yeon’s gaze on me.
I skimmed over the brochure and snapped it shut against the armrest, tapping it lightly with my fingers.
“Not too expensive. Let’s take a look first. I want to see whether it really lives up to the name super penthouse. Whether it’s worth 45 billion.”
Maybe it was because I’d said it wasn’t that expensive, but Jeong Hye-yeon’s face lit up instantly.
“You absolutely won’t regret it.”
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It really was private.
The building’s outer walls rose high like fortress battlements, and the security presence was unmistakable.
“The fifth and fourth basement floors are for private storage, the third and second are parking, and from the second basement up to the first floor, you’ve got all kinds of community facilities.”
Since it stood alone like that, it didn’t give off a sense of sheer size so much as one of privacy and luxury.
“The outer walls are raised about two stories high, so privacy is completely protected. That’s why the home begins on the second floor.”
“I see. For a building with just twenty households, the parking area isn’t all that huge.”
At that, Jeong Hye-yeon’s eyes gleamed.
“There’s a reason for everything. Honestly, 45 billion is an enormous sum, but if you look at the exterior and the facilities of the home you just saw, you might find it a little surprising.”
Then the car started moving somewhere else.
As it entered the mechanical parking system—
“Hm…? Up?”
I’d clearly thought it would go down, since it was a mechanical parking garage.
Instead, the lift rose upward. And as it did, the window showed both the night skyline and a gorgeous view of the Han River at the same time.
Ping—
Right on cue, the parking door opened.
“Wow.”
“It’s a sky garage. A facility where you can ride your car straight up to your home. This is the super penthouse. Here alone, you can park four cars in total. And there’s space for four more in the basement.”
Get out of the car, and you’re home.
I’d seen a setup like this only in the United States, and for a moment I couldn’t even close my mouth.
On top of that, as soon as I imagined all the things you could do without ever getting out of the car and just arriving home directly, my mind started racing.
“It’s a three-story duplex. The first and second floors are like the duplexes in any apartment. The real point is the third floor.”
When we took the elevator inside up to the third floor—
“Pretty amazing, right?”
Jeong Hye-yeon cut off her explanation as if it didn’t even need saying.
A small garden, neatly decorated, and a terrace pool.
Beside it, a barbecue grill, a table, and even a dining set. The perfect rooftop terrace I’d only ever imagined was right here in front of me.
And then there was the cool breeze that swept through it all, along with a view so wide open it seemed to stretch all the way around me.
This is it.
The moment I saw it, I knew.
This is the one.
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I didn’t even need to look at the single unit. I went ahead and signed the contract on the spot.
Besides, since I was paying in full with cash and not taking out a loan, there was no need to sit around waiting on bank approval.
Having money meant buying time for yourself, didn’t it?
“Hoho… You made a very good decision. You really won’t regret it. It’s a home with top-tier conditions for carefully selected residents.”
Since the place was being bought under my personal name, I was in the middle of filling out the paperwork when, through the window, a faint glimpse of Seoul’s landmark Signature Tower came into view.
I remembered seeing it somewhere. Signature Tower had originally been an officetel—in other words, it was classified for commercial use.
Hmm…
Come to think of it, I’d bought the building and the home, but I still didn’t have an office, had I?
I’d even considered setting up an office in the newly purchased building.
But I figured it would be better to leave that place as a stable source of monthly rent.
I need to project the image of a serious investor from this home. I absolutely can’t let people think the owner is some degenerate maniac they should stay away from.
Like a performance.
For higher-tier women. For more Sex Points.
In the building called The One Cheongdam, Song Hoon had to plant the image of a solid, respectable investor.
That way, he’d be able to slip in more easily, without setting off anyone’s defenses.
It might take quite a while, he thought.
Then what about Signature Tower, rising high over there?
Wouldn’t that be where the grove of indulgence for earning Sex Points would unfold?
“Excuse me.”
“Yes?”
“No, I mean that Signature Tower listing over there—is that available too?”
Jeong Hye-yeon’s face was instantly flooded with a smile. Her mouth corners shot upward as if they might split, and her cheeks went red.
“If possible, I’d like the highest floor with a view of the Han River. And this one won’t be purchased for personal use—it’ll be bought and used by a corporation.”
“Oh! Of course, sir! Absolutely! Even if it doesn’t exist, we’ll make it happen!”
Money really was the best thing in the world. What a rush.
***
Somehow, just a week after returning to Korea, I’d ended up signing contracts for a building, an apartment, and an officetel one after another.
Of course, The One Cheongdam would remain a secret from everyone.
For the outside world, the face I’d show was Signature Tower.
Though, honestly, that sounded absurd too.
The place I bought was a 69th-floor penthouse with only three units on the entire floor.
And it occupied a ridiculous three hundred pyeong all by itself.
“Well, I don’t think there’s much I need to take with me.”
It had only been a few months, but on the day I was finally leaving the house, all that ended up in Song Hoon’s car were a few suitcases.
“The rest should already have arrived.”
Since both The One Cheongdam and Signature Tower were being furnished from scratch, I’d decided to move in after ordering everything new.
And today was the day all that interior work would finally be finished.
Vroom—
“Ah. Come to think of it, I should get a new car too.”
My car was still a BMW X5.
Not that I meant to replace it. I meant add another one.
“Might as well make it a sports car.”
If I was going to park it in a sky garage anyway, why not make it a sports car?
Like a bull. Or a rampaging horse.
It was a little different in meaning, but still—like dressing appropriately for the occasion.
“Get in!”
“Oppa!”
Today, Kim Nagyeong was in the passenger seat. Kim Nagyeong, beautiful as ever.
Maybe she’d gone full makeup today, because her skin was snowy white, and the summer dress that hugged her curves only made her body look even more irresistible, enough to get me hard on sight.
“You’ve been back in Korea for how long, and you’re only contacting me now!”
“Ah, I’ve just been busy.”
“Still!”
The moment she got into the car, Kim Nagyeong rubbed her breasts against my arm and started kissing along my lips.
“Ahh— You always taste so good.”
“You like it that much?”
“Of course I do. I always do. I should go ahead and hand out your number to all the sisters.”
There’d already been murmurs that maybe I was deliberately not introducing them on purpose.
“Do you like introducing them that much?”
“Ugh. Oppa, you don’t know a thing. You have no idea what it means to spend the night taking your dick. It seriously makes me think I could die from sex.”
“Really?”
My sex drive really had gotten stronger.
“Seriouslyyyy. The sisters need to experience it too. They’re all convinced they’d be different. Ugh.”
She was dead serious. If she wasn’t as worked up with desire as she had been on the first day she slept with me, then—
She shook her head hard.
“So where are we going today?”
“I’ve got a few places to stop by.”
When she heard that I’d come back and wanted to see her, she’d said yes without asking a single question, humming happily and leaning her head against my shoulder like she didn’t care where we went.
“Hm? Signature Shopping Mall?”
As the car headed toward Signature Tower, Kim Nagyeong’s eyes brightened, assuming we were going shopping.
Shopping was fun no matter what, after all.
“Huh…?”
But the entrance was a little different.
Not Signature Mall. Signature Residence.
“A hotel…? No, wait, that’s not the hotel entrance. The Signature Hotel entrance is over there.”
When we went down to the parking level, it was a parade of incredible foreign cars. Not a single domestic car in sight.
“Eek… Oppa, don’t tell me—?”
“Yeah. Oppa moved.”
Song Hoon calmly parked, passed the security staff, and got on the elevator.
“Just like that? You moved? And here?”
Kim Nagyeong had also been to Signature Tower Hotel before. Naturally, she’d gone to stay there—hoteling it with her close older sisters.
Ping—
It took two elevator rides before we reached the right floor.
“Eek…”
I’d thought it would just be some ordinary officetel unit on a decent floor, maybe fifty or sixty pyeong at most.
But the second the door opened, her eyes shook hard.
“It’s a house… but it’s not a house.”
“Huh? What are you talking about? It’s a house, so how can it not be a house? Put your slippers on. This place is an officetel, so they don’t have underfloor heating here.”
White marble floors. A living room bigger than her entire home, right as you stepped inside. And the sofa.
Long hallways stretching left and right, with rooms branching off them.
“Waaah…”
And then—
The Seoul skyline and the Han River, seen from the incredible height of the floor, left her feeling as though her chest might burst open.
“Oppa, what kind of money did you use to buy this place…?”
“It’s a lease. Just a lease.”
I said it casually. If I said I bought it outright, wouldn’t she start suspecting I’d won the Powerball?
“Even if it is a lease….”
I watched Kim Nagyeong, who still couldn’t tear her eyes away from the view outside the window, and laughed.
Wasn’t I the same way the first time I’d walked in here?
“My investments went pretty well.”
“Investments? Huh? Oppa, you invest?”
“Yeah. Just this and that.”
“So we’re living here now?”
“It’s a home and an office.”
Kim Nagyeong, excited, ran her eyes over every room. There were still plenty of rooms whose purposes hadn’t been decided yet.
“Wait, what kind of bed is that…?”
And when she saw the size of the bed in the master bedroom, she was so shocked she couldn’t even close her mouth.
It was big enough for three or four people to sleep together.
“In American terms, that’s an Alaska king-size bed.”
I leaned down and whispered into Kim Nagyeong’s ear, which had already turned bright red with whatever she was imagining.
“If two or three people are going to roll around together, it has to be this big.”