Bamboo Forest Manager

198 – 192. Chan-Woo’S Here

“…….”

Today’s drinking spot was a pork belly restaurant.

An all-you-can-eat restaurant with cheap prices and large portions.

Personally, when I decided to go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant, my mind was at ease.

Even though I grew up eating delicious food without worrying about money since I was a child.

That was in the past, and now I’m a college student looking for a part-time job.

I still have some money left over from working at Gold One, but I can’t live on that alone for a year.

Before entering the all-you-can-eat meat restaurant.

I was waiting at the playground, the meeting place, to meet Chan-woo.

Chan-woo wanted to introduce me to his new girlfriend separately.

‘How many times will I be introduced?’

Including the current one, it’s the third time in my memory.

And he’s dating a girl from the English literature department.

Now, it seems that external exports are being made from the construction and public works departments.

“Anyway, don’t worry about handsome guys.”

I grumbled and waited while swinging on the swing in the playground.

“What are you doing?”

A familiar voice came from behind.

It was Oh Yoon-ji, whose hair looked much redder than usual, perhaps because of the sunset.

“Oh, oh. Hi.”

I hesitated a little, but I thought I greeted her well enough.

Oh Yoon-ji patted my shoulder and sat on the swing next to me.

“Don’t be awkward. We’re just friends now.”

“Can you do that?”

“If that’s what you want.”

Whew.

I felt a complex mix of emotions, but I couldn’t express them in words.

So I just kept my mouth shut, and Oh Yoon-ji asked.

“Why are you waiting here? The others went into the restaurant first?”

“Chan-woo told me to meet him here for a moment. But why are you here?”

“I was looking for the smoking area and ended up here.”

What?

“You smoke? You didn’t smoke before.”

“Is it because life is hard? I started smoking.”

As she said that, she reached into her pocket and I grabbed her wrist.

“Don’t smoke and give me all your cigarettes. Why would you put something bad for your body in your mouth?”

“Are you worried about me?”

I met Yoon-ji’s gaze as she sat on the swing and looked up at me.

“I’m just nagging.”

I couldn’t say that I was worried, so I answered evasively, and when I tried to pull the cigarettes out of her pocket.

“Ta-da.”

What came out was a lollipop.

Chupa Chups.

“I was just kidding.”

“Ha.”

I was relieved for nothing.

I sat back down on the swing and swung it around to get some air, when a question suddenly came to mind.

“Then why are you here?”

I asked as I looked at Yoon-ji, who had put the candy in her mouth, and she looked at me clearly and answered.

“I came to find you because you weren’t here. Or to wait for you to come from outside.”

I stopped swinging.

Yoon-ji gave me a frustrated smile as she watched me.

“Can’t I do that?”

“No, it’s not like that-.”

“Kim Woo-jin!”

Just as I was about to answer, Jung Chan-woo walked towards us from a distance.

He had promised to introduce me to his girlfriend, but I didn’t know why he was coming alone without his girlfriend.

“Where’s your girlfriend? You said you’d introduce me.”

“Oh, hahahaha.”

Jung Chan-woo scratched the back of his head awkwardly. He glanced at Yoon-ji next to him and whispered softly.

“We had a fight and she went home.”

“You had a fight? You?”

Chan-woo, who looks like a cold city man on the outside, but is actually well-mannered, what could he have to fight about?

“Um, my ex-girlfriends often contact me, and she found out about it.”

“This is really-!”

Just as I was about to say something like, “You crazy bastard.”

Next to me, Oh Yoon-ji was looking at me with her eyes blinking.“……That could be- Ha. I don’t know. It can’t be. But it also seems like it could be.”

“I told him that we should just be friends, but he got angry.”

“So. Are you going to go in to eat?”

“No, it’s a department dinner, so I don’t need to go. I came to tell you that.”

“Whew, Chanwoo-ya. Shouldn’t you get some dating coaching or something?”

“They say that stuff is all a scam.”

After talking briefly with Chanwoo, I look at Yoonji again.

“A boy friend……?”

Her expression seemed a bit touched, but I decided to just let it go for now.

Chanwoo ended up leaving, saying that he would go and appease his girlfriend, and only Yoonji and I remained.

“That’s good, Woojin-ah.”

“What’s good?”

“That you have a boy friend.”

“…….”

I said I wasn’t listening.

In any case, we ended up going to the samgyeopsal restaurant together.

Everyone was already gathered, grilling meat, eating, drinking, and enjoying themselves.

“Wow, look at all that meat grilling.”

For some reason, Yoo Ah-rin, who was holding tongs and grilling, grumbled and gestured towards us.

Then she saw Yoonji next to me, and her expression hardened slightly as she stopped moving.

“The atmosphere itself doesn’t feel like the English Literature Department.”

Rather than the English Literature Department, it was more like an atmosphere where everyone invited their acquaintances and enjoyed themselves together.

Perhaps because of that, it wasn’t a strange sight for Yoonji to join us.

I tried to find a seat, but it was already ambiguous.

Seo Yerim and Yoo Ah-rin were sitting with Han Bom from the Design Department and Lee Seo-ah from the Theater and Film Department.

Choi Yi-seo was surrounded by other students from the English Literature Department.

Of course, that was to be expected, since Choi Yi-seo was popular and had a lot of friends.

“Oh no. My seat was taken too.”

Yoonji lamented that her seat was gone.

I wondered if there were any seats left, but then I noticed an empty seat.

It was the seat in front of Ahn Hyunho at the four-person table.

“Why are you sitting here?”

The guy who grumbled at me was Ahn Hyunho.

He had just arrived and was grilling meat, so I smiled awkwardly and replied.

“Let’s just sit together. There’s nowhere else to sit.”

“You can just get a new table. I have something serious to talk about.”

“That’s why I can’t.”

If I got a new table, Yoonji and I would be sitting together.

I wasn’t going to repeat the mistake that Chanwoo had just made.

Yoonji sat down naturally next to me and greeted Ahn Hyunho. He knew that we had dated in the first semester, so he looked slightly surprised.

More than that.

“Something serious? What’s so serious?”

I decided to get ahead of Ahn Hyunho before he could say anything related to Yoonji.

Judging from the spoon and chopsticks next to her, it seemed like someone had been eating with her.

“Kyua said she wanted to talk to you. She just went to get some drinks.”

“Sunbae, I’m here-”

Kyua, who had just arrived, saw Yoonji and me and her expression hardened.

I smiled as if nothing was wrong and introduced Yoonji.

“Hello, this is Oh Yoonji. She took a leave of absence last year. She’s back for the second semester. Be nice to her.”

“Oh, hello.”

“This is Kim Kyua. That’s all I really know about her.”

“It’s Lee Kyua.”

Hmm, I didn’t even know that.

“What are you two talking about so seriously? Let’s just ignore them and do our own thing.”

“That’s right, we always hung out together when I was around anyway.”

“Why are you bringing that up again…….”

“Because I’m bitter about it…….”

My jaw dropped, but I decided to eat some meat for now.

I was about to get my own tongs, but Ahn Hyunho was already grilling the meat so that it wouldn’t burn.

“Well, Kim Woojin already knows everything.”

What could I not know about the relationship between Kyua and Ahn Hyunho?

I was the one who played Cupid, after all.So, both of them decided to talk it out.

It seemed like they thought it would be difficult to talk if they didn’t do it now.

“So, Gyu-ah. I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can date someone who cheats.”

“Can I get one serving of soybean paste stew? Do you still only eat doenjang with meat?”

“Hyun-ho oppa. It’s true that I did that before. But it’s really not like that anymore. I’ve changed my ways.”

“Yeah, you only eat doenjang. The chewy texture and savory taste of meat go well together.”

“Do you expect me to believe that? You were the one who shot me with a sniper rifle in the bamboo forest last time, right? You were called a reptile.”

Oh right, I still have the bamboo forest frozen.

I can release it later.

“It’s really great that the meat is all-you-can-eat.”

I nodded in agreement with Yoon-ji’s words as I quickly grabbed a piece of cooked meat.

“I’ll do that. I’ll have to remember this place.”

“It’s all cooked.”

“Oh, thanks.”

At that moment, Gyu-ah, who had been caught as the one who had shot me with a sniper rifle, panicked and made an excuse in a hurry.

“Th-that wasn’t me!”

Yoon-ji looked at me.

She was asking if I knew anything because I was the manager of the bamboo forest.

In fact, Yoon-ji had contacted me separately at that time to ask if I had been shot.

“She’s right.”

As I muttered while putting the ssam in my mouth, Gyu-ah and Ahn Hyun-ho’s gazes shot towards me at the same time.

“……We were talking to each other. You guys talk among yourselves.”

I swallowed the ssam in a hurry and then tried to pass it off with an excuse.

“See. You’re lying again. If you really wanted to date me, you should have been honest with me!”

“Th-that’s- I was afraid that my seniors would hate me. I’m really sorry.”

“I’ve eaten all the meat.”

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“I should go get some more.”

Leaving the two of them to fight, Yoon-ji and I went to get more meat together.

This place has not only samgyeopsal, but also moksal, gabrisal, and hangjeongsal, so I’m very satisfied.

We brought it back while humming happily, but it seemed like they were still talking about the same thing.

“I’ve cleaned up everything. Really!”

“What does that matter? You could do it again!”

I quietly moved the plate of meat towards Ahn Hyun-ho.

And as the two of them stared at each other, Ahn Hyun-ho gritted his teeth and roughly placed the meat on the grill.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle.

“This reminds me of when we went camping before.”

“Why do you have to bring up the past all of a sudden?”

“That’s all I have. So, what, should I ask you how far you’ve gone with Seo-ra now?”

“……The ramen was really good back then.”

“Right?”

Yoon-ji smiled and checked the meat again.

“So, why the hell do I-!”

“Hyun-ho, flip it over.”

“Oh, okay.”

It seemed like he was about to say something cool, but the flow was cut off because of Oh Yoon-ji.

It seemed like the meat was almost cooked.

As Ahn Hyun-ho talked and cut the meat into pieces with scissors, our chopsticks quickly reached for the meat.

“But there’s no minari here. Didn’t you like that?”

Yoon-ji replied while wrapping the ssam in response to my question.

“Yeah, but it’s a bit much to expect minari at an all-you-can-eat place.”

“Is that so.”

Well, if that’s the case, then that’s the case.

I also wrapped the ssam and took a big bite.

While Yoon-ji and I were eating the ssam together, Ahn Hyun-ho put more meat on the empty grill.

“In the end, this situation is something you brought upon yourself- wait a minute.”

I was watching Gyu-ah and Ahn Hyun-ho talking while chewing on the ssam, but Ahn Hyun-ho’s gaze turned towards me.

“Is there a separate person who grills the meat and a separate person who eats it? Why are you guys the only ones eating?”

“Uwa uwa uwa uuum!”

“Swallow it all before you talk.”

I quickly swallowed it all and then replied.

“Uwa uwa uwa uuum!”

In fact, it wasn’t anything important.

I just answered as if I was making some kind of excuse.

“This son of a b*tch.”Just as the furious Ahn Hyun-ho was about to yell at me.

“Stop?”

Yoo Ah-rin, holding a glass of alcohol, appeared while putting her arm on the back of my chair.

“You son of a b*tch?”

She was staring at me with a forced smile on her lips, which was already creepy.

Woong! Woong! Woong!

At the same time, my cell phone rang.

– Seo Ye-rin: I want to have s*x.

– Seo Ye-rin: I want to have s*x.

– Seo Ye-rin: I want to have s*x.

– Seo Ye-rin: I want to have s*x.

– Seo Ye-rin: I want to have s*x.

I glanced at Seo Ye-rin, and she kept tapping her cell phone while looking at me with a blank expression.

Choi Yi-seo seemed to be okay.

“hahahaha.”

The moment I saw her looking at me with a bright smile, I felt something was terribly wrong.

“Uhm, Woo-jin-ah. This Doenjang-jjigae is your favorite style.”

In the meantime, Oh Yoon-ji appealed to me that she knew my taste well without realizing it.

“…….”

Judging from her smiling eyes, she was not clueless but did it on purpose.

“Ah, this.”

I thought of a word that was much more appropriate than saying it was f*cked up.

“I’ve become Jung Chan-woo.”

I didn’t think I would follow the same path that bastard took.

……But since I’ve become Jung Chan-woo, my shoulders are a little shrugged, and I don’t feel so bad.