Exotic Love (Novel)

27

As if that deep sleep was a lie, another sleepless night followed.  It was more difficult to fall asleep than before, whether it was worth it for having slept sweetly once.  If I slept for three hours, I slept a lot, and usually I slept less than two hours. Even that was not refreshing at all. There were days when I woke up from half an hour of sleep.

   My head feels heavy and my vision was cramped.  The world is coming into my eyes when I open my eyes, but somehow it feels hazy as if I'm dreaming.  In this case, if I get hit with any kind of stimulant, I will feel better as if i'm finally awake.  However, through trial and error over the past few days, I already knew that nothing were helping at all.

   “Oppa, are you very tired?”

   A woman who approaching me and grabbed my arm asked.  It seemed that even my outwards state was not good enough to the extent that a lot of people said this to me. You want me to go in and rest if I'm tired? I couldn't even rest when I went in anyway.  And it was also a job to go out and meet people like this.  It was an art museum remodeling opening party hosted by a private company.  The responsibility of coming on behalf of Chairman Jung was on my shoulders.

   Yang Hyun-ji was the woman who came up to me when I was watching the works alone after talking to other people. Her parents weren't great chaebols, but they had a moderately sized investment company. It wasn't a class that I had to take care of, nevertheless, the reason why the girl pretended to be close to me was because she was a relative of my friend Yang Sun-woong.  Yang Sun-woong, the third generation of K group, was a friend i get along with when I was studying in the United States. He had a very good relationship with Yang Hyun-ji and was anxious to connect me with her.

Yang Hyun-ji was an actress.  She was well known to the public for the title of Golden Spoon Actress.  She had an oriental style rather than a glamorous appearance, but her acting was not bad at all.  In movies and dramas, she was often selected as a supporting role with a considerable weight.

    “I couldn’t sleep well.”

    “Ah, change the doctor. Want me to introduce you?”

    If there was a doctor who could put me to sleep, Chairman Jung would have made me see that doctor right away. I shook my head and drank champagne.  I didn't want to deal with the girl anymore, so I turned to the picture I was looking at. But the girl crossed my arms and acted coquettish.

    "Oppa, oppa. I actually have something to show you.”

    Again, Why do all the upcoming humans have a favor to ask and expect from me?  At this point, I was also laughing at myself about what I was hoping for in a relationship.  Is it okay for me to approach humans without any purpose?  If we get closer, will my worth increased or be reduced. It is a natural human psychology to think like this.

    Nevertheless, it wasn't too much to let her off the hook. Most of the people who approached me had intentions or purposes, but those who had them were better off. She was not clingy and dirty. If she want to be clingy, it'll be more clingy than I can imagine.

I was led by Yang Hyun-ji's hand and had to come to the table in the hallway outside.  While dragging me, she made a phone call, and one of her attendants was in her place.

   “I’ve picked out a few scenarios, let’s see which ones are better.”

   ….Rather, this arrogance is cute.  It's several times cuter than throw oneself naked.

   “I don’t want to be like this at a party, but it's going to be hard to meet you.  Which one is better?”

   Her attendant lays five books on the table between her and me.  Unexpectedly, I laughed out loud.  However, it was not a bad feeling to see her rather proudly demanding rather than being sullen.

   It was a day when the party wasn't fun anyway, and I didn't want to drink or do drugs.  I thought this situation would be more interesting than having to kill time with old people anyway.  Some of the five scenarios have already been reviewed by me. The three works I didn't know were romantic comedies.  There are three similar roles, probably because she played a lot of roles that were lively and flirtatious. There was also a crime thriller in which she played the role of licorice in a heavy-duty drama, and played the role of a serious accident at the end of the play.  The crime thriller was planned for production here and had already been signed.  Of course, I would have wanted to pick this and hit it, and it wouldn't matter much if it was Yang Hyun-ji as the character.