chapter 3

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Despite Jae-yeol being the one teasing Hae-soo about another drink, he's the one to decline this round, leaving a wine-soaked Hae-soo fuming in her room. Next thing we know, she's ringing a bell, which sets off an alarm throughout the entire building and Soo-kwang's tics. (Do they live above the cafe?)

Interestingly, the corner of Jae-yeol's mouth twitches at the irritable noise, and Hae-soo barges into his room moments later asking what the hell his deal is. She isn't at all interested in getting to know him, and by the time their other housemates file in, she declares that Jae-yeol move out.

It's now that Sunbae Jo notices Hae-soo's inside-out shorts and Jae-yeol's wine-stained shirt, which has him barking at them both to put up with it since the living arrangements aren't even permanent anyway. When Soo-kwang agrees with the idea of kicking out their newest roomie, Hae-soo declares the motion passed-the only rule in this house is that majority rules.

Jae-yeol won't let this go without an explanation; he orders Sunbae Jo and Soo-kwang out of the room, only for them to hilariously plop onto Jae-yeol's bed instead, much to his annoyance.

Still, it looks like they're stuck with an audience for this argument, and they both agree that she doesn't particularly care for him. He notes that she neither thanked him or apologized after the Rage Issues incident, and sent him a measly text about compensation instead. She says that people normally take that as a sign of never seeing each other again, but he's not normal, is he?

"You're like a hunter hunting down his prey. Once you've fixated on a woman in that head of yours, you have to lie her down on that bed of yours somehow to see the end of it, don't you?" Hae-soo counters, "A self-absorbed narcissist like yourself..."

Jae-yeol cuts her off, "So you're saying... that you're fixated in my head? You think you're that attractive?" Snerk. I love that Sunbae Jo bears the same expression as I do right now. *grabs popcorn*

Hae-soo laughs and says that a hunter's only interested in eating its prey, not figuring out whether it's attractive or not. Jae-yeol says he's not that hungry. Haha. When Hae-soo asks their audience if this qualifies as sexual harassment, Sunbae Jo chimes in, "You started it." Soo-kwang: "Sounds about right."

Hae-soo declares firmly that she won't end up in his bed, so he can get out of this house. "Don't lie in it," Jae-suk retorts. "Even if I try to, just don't get in." Then he looks her up and down and asks, "What? Afraid that you might crawl in there of your own volition?"

Jae-yeol sincerely apologizes for being the instigator of her recent breakup, but it was a genuine mistake and he didn't know. She scoffs at that, wondering how he could have been such a know-it-all in their debate then-is he THAT dense?

She may not believe it since he doesn't look like the type, he replies, but he really is that slow on the uptake. That's why his girlfriend plagiarized his book and was betrayed by his best friend, Jae-yeol finishes.

Noting his idea board, Hae-soo changes the topic, asking if he enjoys using other people's pain to quote them like that for his book. "I sell off my pain for profit, so what does it matter if it's someone else's?" he fires back, then writes down the words she spoke moments ago, arguing that he likes that line.

Jae-yeol agrees to move out as per her wishes, but that means everyone else is evicted, too... because he bought the entire building and now owns everything in it, including the cafe downstairs.

Naturally, the news bums all the housemates except Jae-yeol out, and there's a hilarious beat when Jae-yeol accurately predicts an oncoming thunderstorm, leaving Sunbae Jo to muse that he's a shaman.

Sunbae Jo wastes no time to blame the situation on Hae-soo's temper, defending their new building owner. To make matters worse, they've got less than a week on their current lease, so what's Hae-soo going to do about it?

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