Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Twenty-two

Hyungwon

It has been a few days since the meeting with Minatozaki Sana's lawyer friend, she has agreed to help forge her identity so that she is able to live her life as another person, it is her wish to do that and I can't stop her from doing that. It is her life anyways, I can only help her keep the secret of being the Minatozaki empire's only heiress and be by her side when she needs my help.

In a few weeks, she is going to become Woo Yiwon officially and Minatozaki Sana will not exist anymore unless someone finds out about it. I hope that she can live the life that she has always wanted to live, I really don't approve of her actions but I can't control what she is thinking and it is her life.

And she is happier than she was a few days ago, she started smiling even when she is dealing with such difficult customers in the restaurant and serving so many dishes at once, she didn't complain of the hard work but instead she is glad that she is able to work here. I advised her not to work in the restaurant before she officially becomes Woo Yiwon because it would be risky for her, people would find her and then take her back to the place that she came from but she fought hard with me that she wants to work in the restaurant.

She would rather risk people finding out about her true identity than to rot at home, she has been staying in the apartment ever since I brought her back from the hospital and played along with her as her boyfriend, she wants to enjoy life others want and she doesn't want to waste her time loitering at home.

But it doesn't mean that she doesn't rest at all, she never takes any breaks when everyone takes breaks once in a while. It is bad for her body to continue working for 8 hours straight without taking a break, and she might collapse anytime soon.

I have tried multiple times to tell her to take a break when she comes into the kitchen to bring the orders out but she ignores me each time, pretending that she didn't see that I was trying to make gestures at her telling her that she should rest. I have gotten so frustrated with her, why she doesn't get the clue that she needs to rest or she will collapse very soon?

"Hyungwon, you doing okay?" Minhyuk asks me as he is cooking another one of the dishes. "You look so mad and I don't know if I should comfort."

"I am okay, I am doing my job well. You know that new girl right? She hasn't taken a break ever since she started working here and it is had for her health that she works without resting at all." I told him about Minatozaki Sana.

"Oh really? She looked rather energetic to me, isn't she always like that? I have seen a lot of these girls who have a lot of energy in them, they don't feel as tired easily and they can work for a very long time." He commented. "Why? You haven't seen any girls like that?"

I shook my head. "I am afraid that she might collapse anytime soon since she is staying at my place, for the time being, I might as well care a little more for her," I told him. "That is what a tenant does for a fellow tenant."

"Then you are a very good tenant to Yiwon ssi, you don't really seem to show any emotions to anyone except for her. Do you have any feelings for her?"

I coughed, why does he have to ask me this question? "Feelings? Does it look like I like her? She is just a tenant and she will be a fellow tenant to me for the rest of my life until she moves away to somewhere better." And she is probably going to move away as soon as she becomes the real Woo Yiwon, she is not going to stay in this shabby apartment for the rest of her life, it is such a miserable place to stay in and I bet that she wishes to get away from me at every opportunity she gets.

She is still the only heiress of the Minatozaki empire and she is used to a lavish lifestyle all her life, she wouldn't be used to the lifestyle that I have been leading for the past 23 years of my life. It would be better for her to continue to live the life that she has always led, and she is surprisingly adapting to this new life quite well.

Maybe it is because that it is a whole new experience and she is completely new to it, it is a totally different life that she has been leading and it would be better for her to try something new. And she was tired of her old life, the life that everyone wanted in exchange for a life that she would always be struggling to put food on the table. And she looks like she is determined to live this life because it is the only source of happiness for and it is the only reason why she has been looking happier than before.

"Help! Someone has fainted, come help!" There was some commotion outside and it sounded that it could have been Sana who collapsed while at work, I immediately put everything down and ran out of the kitchen.

There was indeed someone who collapsed on the floor and it is a waitress, she is very petite and very fair. There was a crowd around her and I pushed everyone aside in order to get to her and I realized that I have been doing that for nothing because it wasn't Sana who collapsed but another waitress, Sana didn't collapse at all and I got all worked up for nothing.

But I still did my very best to the end and I called an ambulance and sent that waitress to the hospital, I did what I have to do even though it wasn't for Sana. I walked back to the restaurant after the ambulance drove off and Sana was there, smiling at me. "Great, you have done such a great job." And she made her way back to the restaurant.

I don't know why but it made my heart flutter when she smiled at me like that, and I want to see that smile again.