❝Annyongsayo, Mr. Jung.❞ Rosie on the side bowed respectfully to Jung Hoseok.
❝We haven't seen each other for seven years, haven't we? I almost didn't recognize you!❞ Hoseok, who had a straight suit and a pair of gold-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose, with short hair combed back meticulously, was far different from the sixteen-year-old boy who wore a Korean robe in Jungkookie's memory.
The Jeon family and the Jung family had been friends for a long time, and the two had a good relationship since childhood, until Hoseok went to study in the United States when he was seventeen, and the two never saw each other again.
Jungkookie admired Hoseok who was both excellent in character and study and also mature and stable. She had once fantasized about marrying Hoseok when she grew up and becoming his bride.
Over time, the little girl's childhood fantasy has long been a thing of the past.
Now that she met Hoseok again, Jungkookie was delighted, not only because of the reunion with an old friend but also because seeing Hoseok was like returning to that carefree childhood.
❝You still look a lot like when you were a kid, but I haven't seen you for so many years and I thought I might be wrong.❞ Hoseok's eyes fell on Jungkookie's bun and his throat seemed to be blocked by something.
He had just come out of the bank and saw a young woman who looked exactly like the Kookie in his memory, but with her hair tied in a bun, so he was not sure. He had just tried to call out and take his chances, but he didn't expect that it was really that little girl.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Hoseok asked, ❝You... are you married?❞
⦋T/N: In ancient times, young women wore their hair down or in simple styles to show that they were unmarried. Married women wore their hair tied up in a variety of styles depending on social rank and contemporary fashion trends.⦌
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❝Kim...Taehyung...❞
Hoseok carefully savored these two words in the Jazz Cafe and chuckled, ❝This name is very special, but it is also very much in line with his status as a Major General.❞
Just hearing the name, one could imagine what kind of a person Taehyung was.
He was ruthless and merciless towards the enemy and led troops to fight vigorously and resolutely.
Although he did not know who Taehyung was, he had known Taehyung's father, the famous General Kim Hongdae in Seoul City, from an early age.
❝I think so too.❞ Jungkookie also smiled. When mentioning Taehyung, a touch of shyness appeared on her clean and pure face.
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Seeing this, Hoseok's eyes darkened behind the lens.
He was seventeen years old when he went to study in the United States, so he was no longer an ignorant boy. He did have some inexplicable feelings about Jungkookie, who was eleven years old at the time and was like a flower bud waiting to be released, but he was not completely sure whether it was because he regarded Jungkookie as his sister, or because he had the love between men and women for her.
But today, when he saw Jungkookie wearing a cheongsam and her hair in a bun when he invited Jungkookie to the coffee shop to catch up with the old days and then heard Jungkookie say that she had just met and married Major General Kim Taehyung of Seoul City four days ago, the stinging pain in his heart made him realize the truth.
❛He actually likes Jungkookie.❜
He had only just returned from the United States yesterday and planned to go to Jeon's after finishing his work at the bank today.
But now it seemed that he was a step too late after all.
Unexpectedly, the little girl he grew up with got married so soon.
She also became the Major General's wife.
❝I didn't expect that you would choose a soldier as your husband.❞ Hoseok was very surprised when he heard that Kim Taehyung was a soldier.
With the background of Jeon's family and his previous understanding of Jungkookie, he thought that Kookie's husband would be a gentle businessman.
❝Well... I didn't expect it, but he is different from other soldiers, very reasonable, and not as vulgar as some soldiers.❞ Speaking of Kim Taehyung, Jungkookie simply wanted to take out all his goodness and tell about him.
❛If there was anything wrong with Kim Taehyung...❜
She thought that ❛it should be that the sexual needs of her husband were very frequent, such as last night...❜