Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Twenty-seven

Yiwon

I stood in the break room zoning out a little because of how tired I am, I have been working so much these days and although I enjoy working as a waitress, it is very tiring to wait on tables. It is not something that I have expected to do once in my life, I lived a very sheltered life and everything in my house is being taken care of by all the butlers and the servants that my father had hired just to take care of my needs, I never need to do everything by myself and there is always someone who will be willing to do on my behalf.

It was always like that in the Minatozaki empire and I longed for the day where I will be able to do everything by myself and not get scolded for doing something that I should be doing as a human being, that is why I loved being Woo Yiwon. Even if I carried the mop along with me from one end of the restaurant to the other, no one will stop me or do the mopping themselves. Everyone here has a role to play in this restaurant and I am required to play my role as the humble and down-to-earth Woo Yiwon who enjoys her low-profile and simple life, it is hard to play this role at first but now I loved being Woo Yiwon.

Being Woo Yiwon allows me to have the freedom that I never had and no one will object to what I want to do, because I am not Minatozaki Sana, I am not required to listen to everything that my father tells me to. I live by my own rules when I am Woo Yiwon and I get to decide what I want to do in my life, and I enjoy living my life without worrying too much about my image in the public as an heiress and I could even yawn without covering my mouth and no one will ever complain.

But being Woo Yiwon means that you are someone who is not owned by anyone and everyone can do anything to you because they think that they can control you by all means. One such example is Chae Hyungwon, the only person other than Myoui Mina who is also known as my lawyer friend and my only friend in the elite place that I was from.

He can be caring at times when he offers to help you to wash the dishes and even clogs the toilet for you, but at times he can be a little annoying and he annoys me almost every day. He would order me around like I am his servant and he would complain about everything that I do, he even criticized the lovely omelette that I had prepared this morning and he even ate it despite him dissing about it a while ago.

He just has to give a comment to everything that I do and most of those comments can be really mean, and he doesn't care about my feelings at all. He even came in between me and Lee Minhyuk earlier this afternoon when Lee Minhyuk wanted me to have a talk with him and he asked me out instead, Chae Hyungwon just had to ruin the atmosphere by appearing out of nowhere.

Does he have nothing to do but to annoy the hell out of me every single day? And he had to ruin my day by telling me that I needed to work an extra day when I have already worked the past 6 days without taking a break, I know that working more days will get me more money but it is extremely tiring and it can take a toll off my health.

I twisted my neck a little and it made a little sound, my neck is so stiff because I have worked so much and I am about to work an extra day when I could rest and do nothing for the entire day. Chae Hyungwon comes in at this time and I glared at him, he looked at me with a confused look on his face. "Why are you looking like that towards me? What did I even do wrong?"

"Was it true that I am supposed to work one more day? The schedule stated that tomorrow is my day off and I have already worked for 6 days, it is too tiring for me to work so many days." I told him. "Did Kihyun ssi tell you directly?"

He nodded. "He did, he told me earlier and I thought that I should inform you immediately."

"Kihyun ssi said that there are no changes to my work shift and I am supposed to take a day off tomorrow, you are totally lying about it."

"Oh really? He said that I must have heard it wrongly then." I slapped his shoulder to vent off my anger at him. "Why did you do that for? It hurts so badly, do you have a problem with me?"

"Why did you lie to me about it?" I asked him. "Do you really hate me that much?"

"Do I? I think that you know that very well that I don't like anyone and I only like myself." I glared at him once more and he sighed. "I said that to chase away Lee Minhyuk, he was totally flirting with you and I thought that I should let him know that dating is a no-no in this restaurant, especially waiter and waitresses since they work together all the time."

And sometimes Chae Hyungwon gets a little weird, he gets a little jealous at things that he shouldn't even get jealous about, and I am talking about him being so protective towards me. I am sure that he doesn't have any feelings towards me and he knows the boyfriend thing is something that was used to help me get out of the hospital, but he is behaving as if the relationship is not made-up at all.

"You were doing that for me, right? To prevent me from going on a date with Lee Minhyuk because you don't like it?" He nodded and I smiled at his actions, he is a little silly but he has his best interests for me. "But what if I still wanted to go on a date with him? I mean that I can do whatever I want and no one can stop me, not even you."

"Don't ever like Lee Minhyuk, he is not what you think that he is. Don't go on that date, he is a bastard." I swear that sentence made my heart skip a beat, how dare he thinks that he can do that to me?