the penthouse

31 | the meaning of love.

ten stood by the counter. after leaving the party at eleven, he was happy to see that ningning was very excited to share the story she experienced. the whole discussion with mark made ten realise how passionate ningning was about music.

however, he could not help but feel sad for her. who knows what a younger ningning had to go through, fighting for what she wished to have in life. she was never able to pursue music, and was now seeing how others did it.

ten did not know much about mark's past. what he was aware of is that he also gave up a lot, according to different articles and interviews. ten had to laugh at them. while mark had to give up a lot, he still had money.

people like mark had not idea what giving up actually meant. though, it did look as if ningning was hopeful with mark, and the promises he had made for her. she just needed to wait for the right moment.

as ten was looking around the files given to him by the higher staff, about the party, a man came up to him. holding a gigantic bouquet of white roses, the man was trying to tell something to ten.

" i have a delivery for miss. kang seulgi. " the man said, as ten raised his eyebrow. why was seulgi receiving flowers, and from who were they from ? " the person who has bought them wishes to remain anonymous, but.. i will leave these here. "

" okay, thank you very much. " ten replied. he took the flowers from the man, and carefully placed them on the counter. he looked at them, before letting out a laugh. whoever had sent the flowers for seulgi, they surely had a lot to spend.

" what are those ?! " ningning widened her eyes, coming towards the reception. ten could see the excitement in her eyes, as she approached the bouquet. as any other person, she adored flowers. " is this a delivery for someone ? "

" kang seulgi. " ten replied, looking through the list of phone numbers. he called seulgi's penthouse, until he saw that seulgi came out of the elevator, about to walk into the garage. " miss. kang ! these flowers are for you ! " he yelled.

seulgi turned around. while she seemed shocked at first, she quickly smiled and made her way to the reception. she held up the flowers, looking at them with such happiness, ten could swear he had never seen her like that before.

" it must have been painful to bring these up here. " seulgi let out a laugh, and ten could not help but agree. he felt bad for the delivery man, " can you still call down one of my maids, though ? i have a hair appointement to get to. " she explained.

" of course. " ten replied. he held up the phone once again, and explained the situation to one of the maids. seulgi put down the bouquet of flowers, thanked ten and walked away. once ten hung up the phone, he turned to ningning.

" god, how bad i wish to have a rich man. " ningning said, slowly shaking her head. " i want to feel the absolutely amazing feeling of waking up to flowers, and to jewelry, and just the feeling of dating a rich man. " she sighed.

" you do not need to have a man, you can be a rich woman. " ten told ningning, but she did not seem to listen to him. why do all of the work, when she could have someone to do everything for her ? it was stupid, and ten's words did not make any sense.

" speaking about being with rich men, park sooyoung left with jeong jaehyun at the party. he even kissed her hand. " ningning said, looking at ten. she was aware that ten was into gossiping about the residents. " they may be an item. "

" miss. ning yizhuo, i thought you were extremely serious about working ! there is no way you are so open about gossiping ! " ten let out a laugh, as ningning replied by rolling her eyes. " anyway, i am interested to hear more about that relationship. "