HE RETURNED AS A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL (PART ll)

Chapter 206: Agitation and Fabrication (3)

Choi Hwang-Cheol lived like he had given up on life after graduating from high school. He drank and indulged in the pleasures of life with his friends whenever he wanted. He had never been interested in studying, nor could he be further from being an earnest person. Hence, he had been wasting away his university tuition all this time.

Hwang-Cheol had once again gone drinking with his friends. As he was downing a soju bomb in a good mood, the radiant smile of a woman lit up the large TV screen installed in the bar.

[I, Kang Ra-Eun, use this all the time. You can also become beautiful as long as you have this.]

Kang Ra-Eun had modeled for a famous cosmetics brand that was popular among women lately. Hwang-Cheol’s friends couldn’t take their eyes off of the commercial while they were drinking.

“Wow... She’s so damn hot.”

“Fuck, I wouldn’t want anything more in life if I had a girlfriend like Kang Ra-Eun.”

“Hah! Crazy son of a bitch, you think women like Kang Ra-Eun are common? And even if they were, why the hell would they go out with you when they’re so well off?”

Everyone was guilty of dreaming about having a celebrity as their significant other at least once. However, Ra-Eun felt too high up for them to even have such dreams about her. Hwang-Cheol clicked his tongue as he was staring at Ra-Eun on the TV screen.

“She used to be my girlfriend,” he mentioned.

Not a single one of his friends believed him.

“Are you drunk already, Hwang-Cheol?”

“Kang Ra-Eun used to be his girlfriend, he says! There has to be a limit to your insanity!”

“You only barely managed to convince us that you went to the same high school as Kang Ra-Eun by showing us your yearbook, but you expect us to believe she was your girlfriend now? It’d be more believable if you’d said you’re the president’s son.”

In the first place, Hwang-Cheol had blackmailed Ra-Eun into being his girlfriend; even if he were to tell the truth, they had never actually dated. It had simply been all in his head.

When he had first blackmailed her, Ra-Eun had meekly obeyed him despite having a face of disapproval. However, she had become a completely different person overnight. Hwang-Cheol had tried to make Ra-Eun submit through physical force with his high school friends at the time, but they had been the ones to get beaten up instead. Just thinking about her, he could feel his nether region hurting from her kick at the time.

‘Kang Ra-Eun...!’

Hwang-Cheol felt like he needed to do something. He pondered over what he could do to get a good one in on Ra-Eun and his friends that were blatantly ignoring him. And just then...

“Yes, that’s it...!”

Having thought of something, Hwang-Cheol smiled meaningfully. Seeing that, his friends stared at him in wonder.

“This son of a bitch really is drunk.”

***

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“You call this a scoop?”

Smack!

A man flinched as his team leader threw down a file folder hard on top of his desk. His name was Hong Ju-Tae, a reporter. Being scolded by his superior had practically become a daily routine.

“Go get me a hot topic like a proper reporter! What the hell are you doing when your colleagues are living high off of their scoops? Huh?!”

“...I’m sorry.”