The Law of Webnovels

Chapter 188: Chapter 188

Law of the Web Novel Article 17: the female protagonist in the web novel is most vulnerable to horror movies, especially ghosts, haunted places, darkness, mice, bugs, etc. When she confronted those things, the female protagonist would fall into a male protagonist’s arms instead of handling them gallantly. Yikes! I was legit scared!

If the heroine was usually proud of herself and had a personality like, “Ha! I can do this alone!” It would work twice as well as before!

The male protagonist then gets attracted to the girl’s unusual feminine character…

Oh, no! It’s not the right timing to think about these things; thus, I stretched out my hand and touched Ban Yeo Ryung’s pale cheek. She was breaking out in a cold sweat for real.

I should have remembered that Ban Yeo Ryung had been covering her eyes as if she came to the theater to watch her palms instead of the horror movie. I totally forgot about that. I was also scared but not as much as Ban Yeo Ryung, though…

Looking at how Ban Yeo Ryung sweating from every pore with a pale face, I felt like everything that I had thought until now was all too foolish. Ghosts? Why would we even need one when she was already so scared right now with just this? Ban Yeo Ryung would definitely faint even after seeing the ghost of a cute puppy…

‘Perhaps, there wouldn’t be any ghosts appearing. Just a ghost puppy was enough to scare her, after all!’ I realized these new things and asked Ban Yeo Ryung.

“Are you sure you want to go there, or do you want to go back?”

“No, I’m okay!”

“Wow, you’re so stubborn…”

‘I’m afraid she might cry later,’ with that thought in mind, I grabbed Ban Yeo Ryung’s arm tightly.

Usually, Eun Jiho, Ban Yeo Ryung, and I would have set a rendezvous point and go wherever together; however, seeing what was happening now, I suddenly missed how Eun Jiho would ease our fears through emphasizing how brave he was by saying, ‘Dude, I can beat even the ghost of the ghosts!’

If not, then Yoo Chun Young might have helped us at the very least. He wasn’t funny, but ghosts and wisps would never scare him. I fetched a short sigh.

Only our footsteps resonated around the alley for a while. The school was visible from a distance. We walked for quite a long time; however, the school was nowhere to be seen near us. Meanwhile, there didn’t seem to be any people around. I could not even see an ant in the dark alley where Ban Yeo Ryung and I were walking.

The uneven concrete walls surrounding us and a dusted car parked under the telephone pole… Suddenly, I sensed the presence of someone behind us. Ban Yeo Ryung and I turned our heads back at the same time. We then turned pale.

A sleek car that had remained soundless until now was following us without turning their headlights on. If the vehicle didn’t hit something earlier, then we would never have known that the car was following us closely. When those thoughts came to my mind, I got goosebumps.

‘What the heck,’ I grasped Ban Yeo Ryung’s wrist in a hurry. Ban Yeo Ryung, who had keen perceptions except for love-related affairs, also seemed to have finished judging the whole situation at that time.

“Run!”

That was when her urgent voice burst out like a lightning strike. I heard a sound coming out as the window went down.

“Oh, hold on! Yeo Ryung, mama!”

The voice was too familiar for us to encounter in this situation, so I blinked in surprise. ‘Oh my god… that voice is…’ Even in this urgent situation, the voice, that brightened the ambiance just through its mere presence, sounded very intimate.

When the car door opened, a swaying, light-brown hair came into my sight.

The boy then slightly jumped out of the car and smiled at us; however, his grin looked somewhat awkward than usual.

“Um, hi…”

Even his voice sounded out of strength. As if she also noticed that, Ban Yeo Ryung blinked and looked at me. She asked me, ‘What’s wrong with Jooin?’ through her eyes. I shook my head to indicate that I had no idea either. I then turned back to look at Jooin.

“Hmm, you didn’t want to run into us, huh…?” I asked.

I didn’t know what to say further; therefore, I rolled my eyes awkwardly while waving my hand in the air.

Jooin looked like a kid who got caught for making trouble. He was just staring at me in the dark. When he reacted like that, it looked like he was looking up at me, although he was taller than me.

Thus, to put it simply, Eun Jiho might have told Jooin how he confided Jooin’s story to me; Jooin might know that I heard his mother’s story. Meanwhile, Jooin never reached me out, probably because he didn’t know what to say to me at all.

He was coming toward the bolted school to participate in the courage test by car. When he saw both Ban Yeo Ryung and me, he couldn’t cut across us, nor could he go together with us; therefore, he followed behind us quietly with the headlight turned off.

Everything made sense at that point. At last, I looked at Jooin again.

Jooin showed a face full of vibrant smile as if he noticed what I realized just through my gaze and words alone. He then looked back and dropped a remark.

“Noona, I met my friends now, so I’ll go with them. Thanks.”

“Oh, really? Are they your friends?”

As soon as I heard the word ‘noona,’ a dense yet soft and sweet voice emerged through the open window. It was a beautiful woman’s voice, one that could freeze the summer heat.

The voice sounded, for real, unique. ‘What a gorgeous voice,’ I thought while blinking my eyes. I then came across something in my head.

As I took a closer look, I realized that the lady was riding… a BMW! It wasn’t a rarely seen car in the streets of Seoul; however, women had to pay high insurance for imported vehicles. In other words, a young lady who could drive a luxury car like that meant that she was from a wealthy family… When my thought reached that conclusion, the car door suddenly opened.

A chic stiletto came into my sight. When the other side of the high heel came out, the lady got herself out of the car eventually and shut the door with a thud. She then slightly pulled down her sunglasses and looked at me through the open space.

Her glance looked a little frightening compared to her smoothly curved face and slim body. Her thick, brown, wavy hair reached her waist. She was taller than average, which made her look like a model. Overall, her face glowed dazzlingly.

It wasn’t easy to receive this kind of assessment from me, who grew up watching Ban Yeo Ryung for a long time. I, however, frowned my brows while staring at her. Once I had my gaze locked toward her, the lady also furrowed her beautifully shaped brown brows.

‘Uh… um… huh…?’ Before I could react further, she then strode toward my direction. She walked, oh, so quickly despite wearing a pair of 20-cm-tall heels.

When she finally stopped her steps right in front of me like a well-disciplined soldier, she looked at Woo Jooin and opened her lips.

“Is this girl the one that my Eun Hyung likes?”

“Excuse me?!”

“Huh?”

As I screamed instinctively while being freaked out, Ban Yeo Ryung also yelled out loud beside me with a faint voice. ‘What did you just say about Eun Hyung?’ Feeling dizzy, I looked up at her.

It wasn’t as much as Ban Yeo Ryung, but she also was surrealistically beautiful underneath the summer eventide. Her appearance resembled a marigold blooming in a dusky field. As soon as I had that thought in mind, the lady shoved her face into my sight. I then blinked my eyes.

“Let’s see. It’d be either the two of you. Well, you look more like Eunmi than her. Jooin, is it her?”

When she stood straight after bending her waist and got away from me, I, at last, drew in a loud puff. What came out of her mouth at the next moment was, however, an unfamiliar name.

I flickered my eyes. As if she was thinking the same, Yeo Ryung murmured from beside.

“Eunmi? Who is she?”

“Oh, noona. That’s…”