The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 221

Chapter 221: Chapter 221

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A boy with tangled hair, who looked like he rushed to this place, was directing his eyes to this side, holding his hand against the doorway and breathing heavily. His red hair-ends slowly shook sideways and subsided as his shoulders shook. Ban Yeo Ryung then completed her sentence.

“… he kidnapped her… Eun Hyung!?”

“Yeo Ryung…”

Uttering her name like a sigh, the boy who’s called Eun Hyung strode toward them.

‘Oh, geez,’ the male customer’s mind began to race. Earlier, the sight of her sneezing was so cute that he became speechless, but at the next moment, some random guys dashed into her with napkins, so he couldn’t address his well-prepared remark to her. Now, an extraordinary-looking red-haired boy appeared in front of them!

‘I must speak now!’ with that thought in mind, the guy urgently opened his mouth.

“E… e… xcuse me! I’d like to order!”

“Yes, what can I get for you?”

Blinking her eyes, Ban Yeo Ryung lowered her head toward the guy to listen to his order. He then pouted with his hot cheeks on fire.

‘Um… I… I’d like to have a hot… cup of coffee like your… h… eart…”

As soon as he dropped the last word, the air around the counter turned colder.

Lifting his head, the guy could see that Ban Yeo Ryung was giving a gaze so frosty that a part-timer working in the service industry shouldn’t have. Meanwhile, the red-haired boy, who got closer to them, showed a sign of perplexity on his face. Since the boy kept his head down earlier, his hair blocked the guy from looking at his face, but now that they were in a close distance, the guy could tell how handsome the boy was.

His pale skin that goes so well with his red hair looked so flawless even from a near view that one could safely compare it to porcelain; his nose ridge and jawline were as immaculate that one might think it was laser-trimmed. The boy then directed his green-gray eyes on this side, making the guy on the line flinch.

The red-haired boy might feel angry about encountering a guy who was throwing such a remark to the girl. After all, the boy looked like he was close with her; however, unexpectedly, the guy couldn’t find any sign of fury in the boy’s eyes at all.

That was when the guy turned his head in wonder. Ban Yeo Ryung’s sweet angel-like voice pulled himself together.

“Sir?”

“Oh, yeah!”

The guy turned around in a hurry. When their eyes met, Ban Yeo Ryung was, unexpectedly, showing a bright smile like a goddess.

‘Oh lord, is she touched??’

The moment when a ray of hope came into the guy’s heart, Ban Yeo Ryung continued in a frigid voice.

“Let me get you an Iced Americano.”

“… Um, yeah.”

Only then did the guy understand the meaning within the red-haired boy’s eyes, which showed a feeling of sympathy.

Ban Yeo Ryung, indeed, knocked the guy down without anyone’s help. When he left the counter in an unsteady gait, she showed a swiveling smile while looking up at Kwon Eun Hyung, who came closer to her.

“Do you also want an Iced Americano?” she asked with a grin.

Kwon Eun Hyung turned his mouth up slightly to resemble the hint of a relaxed smile. He then replied, “As cold as your heart?”

“Nah, my heart is warm to you guys.”

Ban Yeo Ryung and Kwon Eun Hyung giggled at each other. Handing him a menu, she then suggested something to drink and asked with her eyes wide open.

“But why are you here already? Aren’t you also preparing for the event?”

“Well, I’m just living off their family,” said Kwon Eun Hyung nonchalantly.

He then suddenly rolled up his sleeves as if he felt hot, which made Ban Yeo Ryung become at a loss of words. She remained silent for a second, cast a glance at somewhere else, agreed hesitantly as Kwon Eun Hyung looked at her dubiously, and dropped her gaze at the floor with an awkward look on her face.

Kwon Eun Hyung seemed to assume that it was his fault for having such a lacking explanation. Tilting his head, he continued his words slowly.

“The stars of the party are Yoo Chun Young, Gun hyeong, and Shin hyeong. No one expects that I would attend that event.”

“Huh?”

He raised his arm under the rolled-up sleeves to sweep his hair back.

“I’m just going to that party, or else Chun Young’s parents will feel upset if they find me staying alone in the house; besides, I can’t leave Chun Young alone too…”

‘Though he isn’t a kid left near the shore.’

Speaking further to that point with a grin, Kwon Eun Hyung stared at Ban Yeo Ryung, who stayed silent until then. He then slowly lowered his head to make eye contact with her.

“Yeo Ryung?”

When he called her in a sweet voice, Ban Yeo Ryung lifted her head and flung a question.

“What are you gonna have?”

Her voice sounded a bit sulky.

‘Why? Yeo Ryung doesn’t show such a face thoughtlessly,’ he thought. Flickering his eyes in surprise, Kwon Eun Hyung answered frankly.

“Um… it’s hot, so can I have an Iced American as you suggested?”

Replying ‘yes’ shortly, she turned around, which looked quite unusual. That was when Eun Hyung hesitantly stretched out his hand to say something but decided to pull it back slowly.

Suddenly, a fierce attack smashed his back. ‘Ouch,’ flinching his shoulders, Kwon Eun Hyung turned around to look back with his eyes wide open. Ban Yeo Ryung, who was returning to the counter just now, was standing before him in a flash.

The moment he tried to ask, ‘What’s up?’ to her, Kwon Eun Hyung swallowed his breath as he found her eyes reddened with tears. Pouting her lips for a moment, Ban Yeo Ryung detached her lips at last.

“You.”

Setting aside her tearful face and hesitant attitude, Yeo Ryung’s voice sounded strict and stern. Kwon Eun Hyung opened his eyes wide, then subdued his feelings and slowly nodded.

Raising her hand to hit Kwon Eun Hyung’s arm, Ban Yeo Ryung kept on her words.

“You are awful.”

“Why?”

This time, he couldn’t help but ask the reason. What came after made him swallow his words.

“Don’t you ever talk like that.”

Uttering that remark, Ban Yeo Ryung quickly lifted her head. Her eyes were full of tears now, but she directed her shiny and heated jet-black eyes on his side. Confronting that gaze, Kwon Eun Hyung felt like he was being penetrated from head to toe.

Meanwhile, her voice continued.

“No one expects you to attend that event? Who? Who would do that?”

“Yeo Ryung, that’s…”

“Are we just nobodies? Huh? Are we just nobodies?”

Kwon Eun Hyung suddenly held his breath. As soon as he let his breath out, something like a warm lump welled up from the depths within his heart but stuck right under his throat.

A hot feeling welled up from his neck to his face. As if the air around him turned thin, Kwon Eun Hyung found it hard to breathe. Puffing slowly, he cast his gaze at Ban Yeo Ryung’s wet eyes. She blinked her lashes then lifted her hand again to hit his arm.

A voice soon continued.

“That’s awful.”

“Yeah.”

With that reply, Kwon Eun Hyung restated his words while swallowing his breath.

“I was awful.”

“You were.”

“I’m sorry.”

Only then did she divert her eyes back into this direction. Kwon Eun Hyung stared at her bright black eyes that were getting dried out in awe as the dazzling light flooded it. She then flaunted a smile.

“Let’s have fun.”

Kwon Eun Hyung couldn’t help but smile brightly again. When he nodded, Ban Yeo Ryung chirped in a cheerful tone as if she forgot how gloomy she had felt just until now. Suddenly, she opened her eyes wide and yelled, ‘Oh!’ that Kwon Eun Hyung felt a little disconcerted.

“Did you forget something? Should I help you?”

Ban Yeo Ryung shook her head and continued in an urgent tone.

“No, it’s not that!”

“Okay.”

“What if Donnie comes here and talks like the guy just now?! ‘I’d like to have a hot cup of coffee like your heart,’ something like that?”

“…”

Hmm, Eun Hyung showed a flummoxed grin on his face.

‘Is she joking around?’ having that thought, he observed the look on her face, but he couldn’t find even the slightest veil of playfulness covering her.

‘Then she’s telling the truth…’

Kwon Eun Hyung tried not to laugh.

Ban Yeo Ryung, this perfect girl, who didn’t leave anything out of the public eye, had two significant flaws. One, she had no wits about love, and the other, when it came to her childhood friend, she couldn’t go through the comprehensive system of thought.

That was when he tried to say, ‘Calm down, Yeo Ryung,’ slowly shaking his head. Clenching her fist out of the blue, Ban Yeo Ryung turned back to go towards the counter gallantly. Kwon Eun Hyung blinked and stared at her in confusion.

It was, of course, one of her duties to go back to the counter as a part-timer, but the way she walked looked quite unusual. The voice then that came after made Kwon Eun Hyung smile quietly and touch his forehead.

“Let’s practice making the hottest coffee in the world.”

“Pfft.”

Kwon Eun Hyung, at last, giggled out loud, thinking, ‘Who can stop her?’