The First Time I Leaned on a Man's Shoulder—That Man Was Him
Leaning on a man's shoulder for the first time...
Even today, the first time I had leaned on anyone's shoulder.
Throughout the whole day of running around, the scent that gently rose from his embrace carried with it a faint musk, mixed with the faint scent of sweat.
That scent was so sweet... it caught me off guard all at once.
'Am I crazy?'
My heart pounded as if it might burst out of my chest, and I felt as though I was going to lose my mind.
Since I was an elementary schooler, I had never gone on a date.
From childhood, I had dreamed of becoming an actress, and I had endured it all this time for the sake of my future self.
'Now that I'm older... isn't it time for me to experience romance?'
I was lonely, and I had even wanted to give up.
Just like that, when I was exhausted and crying, a face shone brightly like the hero from a movie, reaching out a hand to me.
The phrase "falling in love at first sight"... I had always thought that was only a story.
'But I ended up being the protagonist in the story?'
I quickly pulled my head away from his shoulder and looked up at him.
This man... this man had made me crave him.
I had held out so well up until now...
but this man broke through my solid barrier in just one day.
While sitting in the car heading home, I kept turning everything over in my mind.
If that man hates me, what should I do...?
Shouldn't the woman be the one to make the first move like this...?
Wouldn't he think I'm an easy woman...?
In just one day... is this really correct?
But all those thoughts vanished the moment I saw his face when we got out of the car.
'I want him... I must have that man!'
Perhaps the alcohol had given me a strange courage.
Or perhaps the frustration of not being able to let him go right now had shaken me to my core.
But what was wrong with that?
A man I liked had appeared, and I wanted him.
Even if I had to borrow the courage from the alcohol, I wanted that man.
The reward I had endured for so long... I wanted it now, from him.
'Ah... I don't know! Just sleep with that man tonight! I'm just going to go crazy!'
Everything inside me exploded and shattered. No! He had made me explode!
That man had to take responsibility.
Since he had made me fall in love, he had to take full responsibility for me.
'I can do it...'
I had seen it countless times on the internet.
The way to seduce a man... the way to seduce a man... the way to go to bed with him in just one day...
Finally... finally! The moment had come for me to use those things.
I stared blankly at the elevator button in front of him and whispered softly.
"Eighth floor... Our home is on the eighth floor."
Eighth floor, Kang Minhyuk.
Congratulations~ I hope you sleep over at our home tonight... and that you get to have me.
"Unni. Have you sobered up a little now?"
"No... my head still hurts. I'll take you home~"
Leaning on his arm, I looked up at him.
The man blushed and looked at me.
'As I thought... this man clearly has feelings for me.'
His gaze, which secretly glanced at my body, felt evident.
'Of course, being a man, there's no way he wouldn't crave me~'
Got it! And it's so cute~ You can see everything soon, but why are you looking so carefully from now on...
'Hold on a little longer~ Just wait a bit, and this unni will show you everything...'
Even though it was my first time, my confidence rose.
For that innocent-looking man, I had a strange confidence that even though I was the unni, I should be the one leading.
Tch... Trust unni. Unni will definitely make it very enjoyable for you tonight...
The elevator carrying us headed toward the eighth floor in a lewd atmosphere.
Seduction Mastery
Meanwhile, inside the elevator, Kang Minhyuk was on the verge of bursting out laughing.
'What the heck is that!'
Si-a was probably a bit too groggy in the car.
With a trail of saliva at the corner of her mouth and pillow marks all over her face, she leaned her head on my shoulder.
"I'm dizzy... take me home~"
And that crazy, cute aegyo—what was that?
Her face, which had been coldly handsome, was completely ruined by aegyo, and her appearance was so adorable that I wanted to record it and tease her with it later.
'Cute... people have to see this side of our actress...'
My judgment had been right.
Her next work had to be Park Hye-kyeong's Lovely Lady.
Yeah, I'd talk to PD Park Ji-ho.
While thinking those thoughts, I looked at her face as she clung to my arm.
'Unni... just wait a little. Just wait a little, and I'll definitely add the title of national actress to your name.'
She seemed to have noticed my feelings and smiled bashfully while facing me.
'But is this unni... really into me? Even today... she drank, ate meat... she should have her figure under control.'
The next role was a chaebol's tomboy daughter... so she had to be sharp yet cute.
That meant she probably needed to lose 3 to 4 kg right now.
Her profile said 163 cm and 45 kg, but actually it was probably 49 to 50.
She definitely needed to lose a little more... the camera would like her best look.
-DING! Eighth floor.
Just as the elevator announced our arrival at her home.
'Okay... let's do it! Even if unni hates me a little... I have no choice!'
With my heart set, I cautiously opened my mouth so she wouldn't be upset.
"Um..."
"Um..."
She also seemed to have something to say to me?
Our mouths opened at the same time right in front of her home door.
"Ah! You speak first, unni..."
"No... you first."
"No, unni... my words aren't that important, unni you go first."
At my insistence to speak first, unni closed her mouth for a moment and swallowed hard.
Her expression showed she probably wasn't feeling well at all.
'No way... it can't be?'
In movies and dramas, this always happens.
Coming right up to the house and suddenly vomiting or something...
Then it's over. Then... I might have to stay up all night cleaning that and go to work with no sleep tomorrow.
I prayed in my heart that wouldn't happen and looked into unni's eyes.
'Please... please... unni, don't do that!'
Perhaps my pleading worked? An unexpected word came out of unni's mouth.
"Um... Minhyuk-ah. Can we eat cake at unni's house?"
"Cake?"
"Yeah... come in for a bit and eat cake. There's an extremely delicious cake... you'll really love it?"
Fire erupted in my stomach... what was this unni's schedule? She wanted to eat cake?
No matter how new I was as a manager... how did she see me!
"Caaake?"
"Yeah... wanna try a bite?"
"Unni... are you in your right mind right now? You're an actress! An actress! What time is it? Eating cake!
Please snap out of it... unni, what is your job!"
"Huh...?"
"Look. One slice of cream cake is 200 calories. Two slices is a bowl of rice, right?
How many kg are you right now, unni? Profile says 45, but honestly it's 49, right? Unni won't do photoshoots?
Not filming the next work? But cake? Are you in your right mind?"
At 3 a.m., right in front of her home door, my storm-like scolding made her face freeze.
'Was I too harsh?'
"U-um... sorry, unni. But this is all... for your sake, bone and flesh advice... aaaah!"
-THUD! The pain that stung my shin like tears was transmitted.
The unni who had been listening to my scolding couldn't hold it in anymore and kicked my shin hard...
With her sharp, pointed high heels...
"Kk, kkaaah! Unni, cake still won't work! Absolutely not! Kkueueung."
Even if it didn't work, it didn't work... absolutely no cake!
I had only said it out of worry for her, but it seemed she felt it as overstepping.
Though painful... I could endure this much pain.
"Hey... Kang Minhyuk, are you stupid? Stupid?"
"No... no cake..."
"You can't even eat it? You idiot! I don't know... I'm going in. You do it yourself!"
-BANG! With her face flushed red, she blamed me and went inside the house.
I knocked on her home door and shouted for her sake until the end.
"Unni... I won't eat cake even if you give it! How could I eat it when I can't even eat it! So don't eat cake at all!"
-BANG! She probably kicked the door with her foot, maybe because she was very angry.
"If you really want to eat, just have one slice... and exercise tomorrow for sure!"
-BANG! The sound of another kick came again, and a firm will to kill her if she said one more word came through.
"T-then rest, unni... I'll see you at the company tomorrow..."
I still didn't understand.
This wasn't the kind of person who would get so angry just because I wouldn't let her eat cake...
'Maybe our Si-a unni has bulimia...?'
It was possible.
The tension on the set and Director Kim's abusive words and bullying...
Those things had probably put a huge stress on her.
'Rather than dieting, stress relief might come first...'
I was worried.
Good works and good roles were good, but managers' job of managing actress stress was no less important...
But I didn't know.
Right now, I was the one who had made her feel most humiliated and given her the most stress...
Today, I was the one who had made her angriest.
None other than me, the moron who couldn't even eat cake... the manager who hid his regression, Kang Minhyuk...
That's how today I created Kim Si-a's biggest black history in the present-day South Korea, called one of the three greatest faces.
Regret and Reckoning
A few days later... inside a quiet bar where we used to share our secret stories in the past...
"Huu... so you're Kang Minhyuk? JS Planning?"
"Yes, it's Lee Ji-yeon, right? I'm Kim Si-a's manager. Kang Minhyuk."
"For a manager, you're quite handsome... here, drink a glass."
-CLINK... whiskey poured full into the glass with lots of ice.
'Wow... that woman is really crazy...?'
Swallowing hard. Is this called aphrodisiac or something?
Her dynamite body, the charm point next to her lips, and that bewitching gaze...
I felt my whole body tense as she licked her lips.
'Who am I? Where am I?'
Clearly that woman... wasn't the type I remembered...
Or perhaps I had come to the wrong person.
I had contacted her to make Director Kim fall, but...
her appearance was completely different from the one I remembered.
"Drink one and... I want to talk for a long time..."
With a wink, her appearance made my mind feel hazy.
What the hell was going on...?