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“Why?”
“Hurry up.”
Moon Dowon wiggled his right eyebrow, looking displeased.
But soon, Siho’s phone was placed in Joohwan’s hand.
“Curious, aren’t you? How we found out?”
“…Did you follow me?”
“No. I’m explaining this because it’s me. So, you really have to treat me well. Where else can you find someone as kind as me?”
Joohwan manipulated the phone and then turned the screen towards Siho.
The red dot showed the location in detail, from the position to the building.
“…You installed this? On my phone?”
“It’s a new app that just came out. Someone I know developed it.”
When Siho’s eyes widened as he questioned Joohwan, Moon Dowon answered listlessly as he approached and sat down next to him.
“What kind of app gives such specific locations?”
He didn’t know who introduced it, but he knew it was an app made with malicious intent.
‘I must be crazy. This isn’t a normal place.’
He internally sighed a breath of self-reproach for letting his guard down.
As he nervously chewed his lip over the unexpected situation, Kang Taeyun, who was standing beside him, pulled his lip out with his thumb, telling him not to bite it.
“You’re angry.”
“Anyone would be angry.”
Siho looked up at Kang Taeyun, the most rational of the group, expressing his injustice.
His eyes, as dark as Joohwan’s, had a decadent feel.
“That’s why you should have chosen only one person, not three.”
Kang Taeyun slowly blinked his eyes, implying that if he had, this wouldn’t have happened.
The revealed chilly gaze overlapped with the look in his eyes when he had held a knife while peeling fruit.
Pretending not to know, Siho turned his head and asked Moon Dowon.
“When did you install it?”
“When I put in the number.”
“…Doing that without the other person’s consent is a crime.”
“You consented.”
“When?”
“The day you said you were getting the keys made. You answered carelessly. You told me to do whatever I wanted.”
A confusing sigh escaped at Moon Dowon’s unfiltered words.
Siho remembered the day he saw the three men off at the front door, answering vaguely because he felt he was going to be stuck at home due to the key issue.
He recalled waving his hand, telling them to do as they pleased because he was preoccupied.
Since he had directly said it, he was somewhat responsible for this mistake.
As Siho looked blankly with a vague expression, Joohwan tapped the table with his index finger.
“You stalked us, and you don’t know? What kind of people we are and what our personalities are like?”
“…”
“You know better than anyone, so why the surprised look?”
He wasn’t wrong.
The three men remembered him as their stalker, so they probably felt no guilt about this kind of behavior.
‘Why did the pre-transmigration Seo Siho chase after them, even knowing they were like this?’
He couldn’t understand the Seo Siho before the transmigration.
No, perhaps investigating what kind of people they were should have been the priority from the start, not just plotting an escape.
Because you need to know your opponent to escape.
Regretting his past foolishness, Siho looked at the three men, one by one.
He admitted they were the kind of people anyone would desire, with their handsome looks that drew attention and their position as top Alphas.
‘I was too complacent.’
It would have been better if the book had detailed information about them, but their stories, aside from what happened in bed, were vaguely described.
It was understandable since it was a book meant for the protagonist.
“Why are you staring? Did you fall for me again?”
“…”
“Staring at me like that makes a person’s heart flutter. And I can’t kiss you here.”
Joohwan rested his chin in his hand and smiled gently.
His cheeks looked like they might redden even though his eyes had only narrowed slightly.
Siho swallowed hard in nervousness, and Kang Taeyun, who was beside him, grabbed his chin and turned his head.
His slightly lowered gaze was sticky.
“Aren’t you paying too much attention to just one person?”
Kang Taeyun thrust his head close, reminding him that he had three lovers, not one.
When Siho blinked his large eyes rapidly, Kang Taeyun chuckled and slowly licked Siho’s lips with his tongue.
Kang Taeyun’s action in such a public place was embarrassing.
As Siho’s face flushed like a ripe persimmon, Kang Taeyun lightly tapped the area his tongue had touched with his hand.
“If you stare so obsessively at just one person, the others get jealous.”
“…People are watching.”
“That’s why I only gave you a warning. I would properly do it if I wanted to, but I don’t want you to be unable to function socially.”
Kang Taeyun gave a gentlemanly smile, implying that he was letting it go with just this much.
Joohwan, who was in front, booed and swished the straw in his glass, and Moon Dowon grabbed Siho’s shoulder with eyes that suggested he had something to say.
“Do it. Both of you.”
His bright voice, which was out of place with the atmosphere, sounded happy, unlike his usual bluntness.
He seemed to enjoy being the center of attention.
“I want to see Seo Siho cry, so do it.”
It was close to a command, but given his way of speaking, it didn’t seem to be said with bad intentions.
Still, how could they kiss here? Siho was disgusted.
“I object.”
“Are you suggesting a breakdown in negotiations?”
“No. I objected because this place isn’t romantic enough. At least, I want him to cry after he receives my gift.”
Joohwan put down the straw he was stirring and leaned back.
A heavy tension filled the surroundings, but Joohwan gave his characteristic smile, mouthed the word, ‘gift,’ once more, and looked at Moon Dowon.
What on earth was that gift?
At the mention of the gift, Moon Dowon didn’t say anything else, only looked disappointed and removed his hand from Siho’s shoulder.
“What gift?”
Was Kang Taeyun unaware?
He asked the two of them.
If you looked closely, even in the novel and now, Moon Dowon and Joohwan stuck together and acted together.
Should you say Moon Dowon listened well to what Joohwan said?
Siho felt like Moon Dowon was unilaterally accommodating him.
“It exists. Such a gift.”
“…”
“I want to tell you too, but it wouldn’t be fun if I did. It’s truly magnificent.”
The word magnificent wasn’t welcome.
The refusal to give even a hint about the gift made Siho want to figure it out out of spite.
With a determined look, he grabbed the lapel of Kang Taeyun’s shirt.
“You’re curious too, aren’t you? I’m curious, but he won’t tell me…”
“You want to know?”
“Yes.”
Thinking a little bit of acting was necessary in a situation like this, Siho lowered his gaze and put on a sullen expression.
He nodded pitifully, and Kang Taeyun gave a faint smile, gently stroking his cheek.
“You only need me when it’s like this, right?”
“Huh?”
“You were only looking at Joohwan until a moment ago.”
Siho thought he was acting perfectly, but Kang Taeyun instantly saw through his trickery.
An involuntary Chih of disappointment escaped his mouth like wind.
“He called it a gift.”
“…That makes me even more curious. Even a hint would be nice.”
“I gave you a hint. That it would be memorable. I even told you it would be magnificent. You really don’t know?”
As Kang Taeyun answered with a lingering tone, Joohwan grinned, revealing his even teeth.
He seemed to be enjoying the situation where Siho was struggling to deduce the answer.
“You must have learned something while you were stalking us. What I like, and what gives me pleasure. If you think about that, you’ll be able to guess it. It shouldn’t be hard for you.”
“…”
“Speaking of which, where did you keep the pictures you took while stalking us? They weren’t at your house.”
At that, the gazes of the other two were also felt. If he confessed to burning them, the atmosphere probably wouldn’t turn out pleasantly, considering the personalities he had seen.
To hide his awkwardness, he smiled with his eyes and picked up the drink in front of him.
“That’s a secret. You didn’t tell me either.”
“Is that the same thing?”
“Yes. Because it’s precious to me…?”
He slightly drew out his words and quickly drank the beverage in front of him.
He was thirsty, and it was an action to avoid the tense atmosphere.
Perhaps he liked the word precious, as Joohwan’s lips stretched into a long smile.
“You must have really liked me a lot. Is that why you immediately agreed to date the three of us? Who has the most pictures? Me? Or Kang Taeyun? Or is it Moon Dowon?”
“Let’s stop. You’re making him uncomfortable.”
“Why? You’re curious too, aren’t you? Who Seo Siho liked more.”
As Kang Taeyun tried to control the situation, Joohwan, with a face full of curiosity, continued to egg him on.
Not wanting to choose a specific person, Siho extended the drink he was consuming toward Moon Dowon.
“Do you want to drink this?”
“…”
“Oh, is it kind of gross since I drank it?”
“No. Give it to me. I’ll drink it.”
It was an action intended to change the flow of the conversation, but Moon Dowon seemed slightly surprised.
His usually emotionless eyes seemed to widen slightly and waver.
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