Golden Time (JungYong)

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With a funny smile, Dongsu put his bamboo sword to the side, and said,

"My friend's father is the director of a fencing center, and I feel like I have to learn somehow."

When Dongsu sat down next to him, Suhyuk asked, "Why should you learn fencing?"
"Well, to be a prosecutor, you should know something about fencing," he said.

What is he talking about? What has fencing got to do with a prosecutor's job?

Suhyuk shook his head. It was impossible for Suhyuk to predict what he was thinking.

"Hey, the kimchi stew smells so good. Please give me a cup of soju, sir!" Dongsu said to Hana's father.

"Hahaha. Yeah, I guess you are stressed a lot because of studying."

After giving him soju, he looked at his daughter.

Hana was just staring at him through the door with her arms folded.

"Hana, do not stand there like that. Just come here and try some."

"I won't drink it," she said and went out.

As he stared at the door where his daughter was leaving, he smiled bitterly.

'She would not open her heart to Suhyuk who came to the store to repent from his mistakes every day. But the day will come someday when both of them will be laughing and smiling because she was not only tender-hearted but also far from having a tough character', he thought to himself.

"Now, toast."

All three toasted and drank some soju.

At that moment, the door opened and Hana came back. With a transparent red nose, she breathed on her hands as if they were freezing.

"One cup of soju will make you warm," Dongsu said.

At his words, she approached them with a reluctant look. And she, still standing, asked for a cup of soju. After savoring a sip of it slowly, she put down the cup and said, "It tastes bitter..."

"Now have some appetizers."

Hana's father gave her a spoon in which tofu and kimchi lay.

Knitting her cute frowns, she ate it quickly.

Her face seemed to lighten a little.

"Wasn't it delicious?"

When Suhyuk asked her that, her facial expression turned prim instantly.

The atmosphere grew increasingly ripe.

Dongsu kept talking to Hana's father ceaselessly, while Suhyuk just smiled listening to their conversation. Hana sipped soju as if the birds were pecking at the feed.

"Where are you going, dad?"

"To the restroom, honey."
Watching him limp on his leg to the outside, Suhyuk sighed a deep breath.

And he muttered in his heart, 'Please wait a little longer. Uncle.'

After he emptied his soju cup at once, Dongsu suddenly looked at Hana and said,

"I hear you're employed at a large company. Don't you see any pretty women in the same class? Please introduce one to me."[1]

She shook her head, holding her soju cup.

"Which lady would like someone like you who's just ignorant and wants to fight with someone?"

Dongsu straightened up his shoulders widely, and said,