Strongest Kim Min-Ja

It was 2 years ago. Mija met Team Leader Kang Minho in the hotel lounge, not in the company. It was also the day she broke up with her long-time boyfriend. It was both a lucky and an unlucky day in many ways.

Her boyfriend Sung-tae said sarcastically, while looking at the alcohol. “Do you know how many starving children can be helped with this glass of wine?”

That was something she knew. The 29-year-old Mija just wanted to get out of her messy life together with the beautiful scenery of the hotel lounge.

“All of them were plastered with luxury goods. There are things with empty heads going around there.”

Sung-tae never got tired and steadily wiped out. “If you don’t like it, shall we leave?”

“I’m not going out. I’m going to eat all of this.”

He continued to complain while putting the canapes in his mouth. Mija gave a soulless answer: yes, yes, and so on. She took the wine without hesitation. The first she drank was bitter and strong.

“Jung-hee… How did he win?”

“It’s like a service for VIP guests who checked-in the hotel. But he said he didn’t need it.”

“Huh. Popping up, you wanted to show off.”

Her hand holding the fork tightened.

Jung-hee was Mija’s irreplaceable friend, though she wasn’t attractive enough to pretend to be good at work.

“It’s a little annoying.”

“You’re acting sensitive today. Let’s not be slaves to the bourgeois in this capitalist society.”

While eating Sung-tae asked, looking up strangely.

“Do you know what day it is?”

“What day? Wednesday? I don’t know. As you know, the Civil Service Exam is coming and it’s not that easy. So, I’m busy studying.”

“Today is the second anniversary of our meeting.”

“That already? In the meantime, you’ve also aged a lot. Look at your dark circles. Whoa! It is not a joke.”

With a student loan, she was also supporting an unemployed boyfriend. Mija was stuck in her life.

In college days, she looked a little chubby. Where did the plump body go as the slender body supported it precariously?

On the contrary, Sung-tae’s face was not able to gain weight, and oil flowed through it.

“It’s been two years since we first met.”

“Yes, two years.”

Mija suppressed her anger and tried to understand Sung-tae.

How hard could it be to do that. 

‘You’ve been unemployed ever since. And probably you’re not ashamed of yourself.’

“Why? Do you want me to buy you a bag?”

Sung-tae drank alcohol like crazy

“That’s not what I meant.”

“You know, I’m just saying. I like you because you’re different from women who skip the backs of man. Do men have to buy for women? In an era of gender equality, it’s an outdated idea. It’s the 21st century.”

“Why do you live in the 21st century and miss my spine?”

“What? What did you say just now?”

The words that I was talking to myself just popped out of my mouth.

“Are you making some money now? You paid a little more for the date? It’s all thanks to someone that you could make money. I helped you when you were a contract worker.”

“I’ve only helped Agari for three months. I’m even grateful for it. Yet, I’ve been dragged around for two years.”

“Wow, that’s why the black-headed beast wasn’t picked up. Okay. What should I say to you?”

“Is it just a shame that you want to spend a day as special, as if you were in love with someone?”

“In love with someone? What is that? The love for pathetic people who are addicted to SNS?

There was a piece of cheese stuck around the laughing Sung-tae’s mouth.

“After all, you are such a woman. I am a little disappointed today.”

The boyfriend, who once called her special, turned Mija into a woman who only wanted anniversaries to be remembered.

“If this is going to happen, let’s break up.”

It was a word that blamed her for all the trouble. If it was the usual, she would apologize until Sung-tae’s heart was relieved.

However, it was time to stop such a foolish act. What a soon-to-be 30-year-old  Mija, needed was money and not men.

“Alright. Break up.”

“What?”

Mija spurned her seat and got up. She nearly thought she was going to ascend to heaven because her body and mind became so light. But the ascension was difficult.

The weapon-like Sung-tae held Mija’s wrist.

“What are you doing now? Leaving rudely without an apology. If it’s like this, we’re really break up”

“This is me. We’re really done.”

The calm voice of Mija made him even more violent.

The people around began to crowd.

“I thought you’d be different. What a disappointment.”

“Uh. I’m a normal human being. So, let’s go each other’s way”

“Mija, I think you misunderstood something”

The phrase made a lot of excuses. She got tired quickly.

As a last farewell gift, Mija let Sung-tae talk on and on.

She looked around absent-mindly, hoping it would all be over soon.

Then, she found a handsome man with a halo shining backwards, even from a distance that makes his face look blurry.

‘How does it feel to live with that face? I envy you, handsome.’

Everyone also glanced at the handsome man.

He raised his head arrogantly, ignoring the surrounding gaze.

It was a hot gaze that seemed to strip off the clothes she was wearing.

It must be coincidence.

The handsome man’s gaze was directed toward Mija.

It was a look as if he knew her well.

‘If ​​you want to be crazy, let’s go crazy. Why would such a man look at me?’

I don’t care. I’ll head off first.

Turned.

“…So what are you going to do!”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“Don’t pretend you didn’t hear.”

“I really didn’t hear that.”

Sung-tae thought that Mija was ignoring him. In addition, doubts arose about her.

The handsome man, who had only watched from afar, felt that the two were unusual and moved his body.

“Well, you got another man, don’t you?”

The two years of pushover life that she had endured with Sung-tae made her explode.

“You don’t have a conscience? How much money do you owe me? There’s no time for me to meet a man leisurely. I worked like a dead cow. And I warn you, my friend, don’t ever speak ill of me again. Talk one more time. Then it’s in my hands!”

Now, the hottie was so close and she almost got hands full of soap smell. Perhaps he just finished the shower and came down as the soap scent passed through the tip of Mija’s nose.

Sung-tae said with a poor face that the world would never be again.

“Yeah, you wouldn’t need a boyfriend with an uncertain future like me. So you betrayed me? Wasn’t love enough? Is money so good? Ha. I love you… I do, even if you betrayed me.”

“What. What’s wrong with you all of a sudden?”

If Sung-tae became the world’s poorest person, Mi-ja became the world’s worst woman.

The man’s footsteps toward Mija stopped. The closer she got, the more she was amazed by the beauty, even the frowned eyebrows looked beautiful.

Meanwhile, Sung-tae continued to shovel alone.

“If you beg me now, I’ll forgive you.”

Sung-tae smiled cheesyly and grabbed Mija by the shoulder.

“When I say it in good words.”

“I forgive you.”

“What a shame. Forgiveness.”

She walked away calmly.

It was the moment when Hapkido, who said it was useless for everyone to get a job, shone.

Before leaving, Mi-ja seemed to have heard the laughter of that handsome man.

* * * * * *

Miji wished it would all be over soon.

Sung-tae acted like a loser till the end. He began threatening and acted conciliatory, and eventually made a text attack cursing her all the way.

‘I have to change the number first. Should I change my cell phone too?’

There was enough money. Because the maturity date of the savings account was approaching.

She imagined hitting a job. However, the reality was that her entire fortune worthed only 7,200,000 won.

For someone, that could be a one-room deposit with a few months of tax, or it could be a year worth of college tuition fees.

She was clumsy with money and couldn’t be independent at home or enter graduate school.

Jung-hee proposed to live together in India for two years. It was the most attractive plan for the current Mija.

The imagination of giving up one’s job is a butterfly.

Mija couldn’t afford to throw everything away.

Even today, she’s energetic and a brave middle-aged woman.

She got on the bus while fighting with him.

[Mija, Let’s go together? How long will we live? This is an opportunity.]

“Don’t worry. I’ll live until I shit on the wall.”

[Will you buy everything if you leave? India is a place you must go once in your lifetime. You can meet your true self through torment and suffering]

“I’ve already met my true self and endured hardships. You can go to India alone.”

[Don’t do that. Let’s go together.]

“Let’s hang up. The Team Leader is coming from the head office. So I’m busy this morning.”

[Team Leader? Is he handsome? How old is he?]

“Arthur. If you’re a manager-level Team Leader, you’re going to lose your father.”

[Look at the world with hopes. Who knows? Maybe a third-generation chaebol who conceals his identity may come. It’s a shit car or a  Mercedes-Benz.]

“I guess the genre of your life is romance. What to do, my genre is a thriller. I want you to be alive.”

[Not an adult?]

“Thank you. Then, I’m really hanging up now.”

Mija hurriedly finished her phone call with Jung-hee and went into the office that read ‘Production Team’.

The members of Team Jin Won who came from a distance were waiting for Team Leader Seon chae, as Lee Yeol-jong.

“Miss Kim, step aside. Wouldn’t it be lower for Miss Park to stand in front of you? Huh? It’s a painting with Miss Jung.”

Director Byun pushed Mija out, who was standing in the front row, and put Deputy Park on the spot.

Deputy Park stared at the door with a grim look.

Realizing that pretty girls were pretty even with a sullen look on their faces, Mija went to the corner.

Choi Hyun-min, who was still a contract worker, greeted her with a bright smile. Overall, he was a man with a soft impression, and his cute appearance that his eyes would be bent like a half-moon if he smiled in contrast to his solid physique.

“You must have bought a new pair of shoes. It’s pretty.”

He whispered to Mija in a song.

Her shoulders shrank by themselves.

It was a nice voice, nicknamed ‘ear boyfriend’.

The corners of her mouth twitch automatically. She was working hard on the waves.

“Okay? Isn’t it too much for me?”

“No. It looks great on Deputy Kim.”

She held the night with a red face and laughed, then hit Hyun-min’s shoulder without hesitation.

“Hyun-min, you’re going to throw up blood. Stop hitting.”

“When did I hit you?”

“Your shoes are pretty.”

Deputy Park suddenly turned her head in vain for a second remark.

It seems that the shoes weren’t bad because of the evaluation of Park, who doesn’t say anything even if she dies soon.

Mija turned her ankle around. It looked more luxurious under the light.

She recalled Carrie’s lines. ‘Even If you take all the money, you’ll never be as good as my manolo blahnik.’

“Those were the shoes I bought after hesitating several times.” Jeong-hee said to Mija, who was hesitant about the price tag.

“Good shoes take you to good places. Even if you can’t make it, Manolo Blanick won’t lose.”

Now that Hyun-min whispered, the shoes were worth the price.

Hyun-min tapped Mija’s shoulder, who was immersed in shoes.

Hyun-min whispers at a distance close enough to get his lips stuck in the bread.

It tickled like pollen on her heart.

“Deputy Kim, this evening…….”

Before his words were finished, the door of the office opened.

She said “later” and straightened herself up.

The new Team Leader was very tall. He had a sharp eye on his immaculate face, as if he had worked in the office.

It was a rare handsome face.

Was there a celebrity who looked like him? It seemed like she had seen him somewhere. 

“Nice to meet you.  I’m Kang Min-ho, the Team Leader dispatched from the business team for the facility project. “

There couldn’t be two beautiful people under the sky. That face caught everyone’s eyes.

“Oh, that guy…”

The handsome guy she saw yesterday introduced himself as Team Leader Kang Minho.

Recalling the phone call with Jung-hee, Mija had a wild imagination that she would eat everything in any genre if that was a face.

‘However, the main female character is only me. If I live with a guy like him, won’t I be expelled?’

It was 2 years ago. Mija met Team Leader Kang Minho in the hotel lounge, not in the company. It was also the day she broke up with her long-time boyfriend. It was both a lucky and an unlucky day in many ways.

Her boyfriend Sung-tae said sarcastically, while looking at the alcohol. “Do you know how many starving children can be helped with this glass of wine?”

That was something she knew. The 29-year-old Mija just wanted to get out of her messy life together with the beautiful scenery of the hotel lounge.

“All of them were plastered with luxury goods. There are things with empty heads going around there.”

Sung-tae never got tired and steadily wiped out. “If you don’t like it, shall we leave?”

“I’m not going out. I’m going to eat all of this.”

He continued to complain while putting the canapes in his mouth. Mija gave a soulless answer: yes, yes, and so on. She took the wine without hesitation. The first she drank was bitter and strong.

“Jung-hee… How did he win?”

“It’s like a service for VIP guests who checked-in the hotel. But he said he didn’t need it.”

“Huh. Popping up, you wanted to show off.”

Her hand holding the fork tightened.

Jung-hee was Mija’s irreplaceable friend, though she wasn’t attractive enough to pretend to be good at work.

“It’s a little annoying.”

“You’re acting sensitive today. Let’s not be slaves to the bourgeois in this capitalist society.”

While eating Sung-tae asked, looking up strangely.

“Do you know what day it is?”

“What day? Wednesday? I don’t know. As you know, the Civil Service Exam is coming and it’s not that easy. So, I’m busy studying.”

“Today is the second anniversary of our meeting.”

“That already? In the meantime, you’ve also aged a lot. Look at your dark circles. Whoa! It is not a joke.”

With a student loan, she was also supporting an unemployed boyfriend. Mija was stuck in her life.

In college days, she looked a little chubby. Where did the plump body go as the slender body supported it precariously?

On the contrary, Sung-tae’s face was not able to gain weight, and oil flowed through it.

“It’s been two years since we first met.”

“Yes, two years.”

Mija suppressed her anger and tried to understand Sung-tae.

How hard could it be to do that. 

‘You’ve been unemployed ever since. And probably you’re not ashamed of yourself.’

“Why? Do you want me to buy you a bag?”

Sung-tae drank alcohol like crazy

“That’s not what I meant.”

“You know, I’m just saying. I like you because you’re different from women who skip the backs of man. Do men have to buy for women? In an era of gender equality, it’s an outdated idea. It’s the 21st century.”

“Why do you live in the 21st century and miss my spine?”

“What? What did you say just now?”

The words that I was talking to myself just popped out of my mouth.

“Are you making some money now? You paid a little more for the date? It’s all thanks to someone that you could make money. I helped you when you were a contract worker.”

“I’ve only helped Agari for three months. I’m even grateful for it. Yet, I’ve been dragged around for two years.”

“Wow, that’s why the black-headed beast wasn’t picked up. Okay. What should I say to you?”

“Is it just a shame that you want to spend a day as special, as if you were in love with someone?”

“In love with someone? What is that? The love for pathetic people who are addicted to SNS?

There was a piece of cheese stuck around the laughing Sung-tae’s mouth.

“After all, you are such a woman. I am a little disappointed today.”

The boyfriend, who once called her special, turned Mija into a woman who only wanted anniversaries to be remembered.

“If this is going to happen, let’s break up.”

It was a word that blamed her for all the trouble. If it was the usual, she would apologize until Sung-tae’s heart was relieved.

However, it was time to stop such a foolish act. What a soon-to-be 30-year-old  Mija, needed was money and not men.

“Alright. Break up.”

“What?”

Mija spurned her seat and got up. She nearly thought she was going to ascend to heaven because her body and mind became so light. But the ascension was difficult.

The weapon-like Sung-tae held Mija’s wrist.

“What are you doing now? Leaving rudely without an apology. If it’s like this, we’re really break up”

“This is me. We’re really done.”

The calm voice of Mija made him even more violent.

The people around began to crowd.

“I thought you’d be different. What a disappointment.”

“Uh. I’m a normal human being. So, let’s go each other’s way”

“Mija, I think you misunderstood something”

The phrase made a lot of excuses. She got tired quickly.

As a last farewell gift, Mija let Sung-tae talk on and on.

She looked around absent-mindly, hoping it would all be over soon.

Then, she found a handsome man with a halo shining backwards, even from a distance that makes his face look blurry.

‘How does it feel to live with that face? I envy you, handsome.’

Everyone also glanced at the handsome man.

He raised his head arrogantly, ignoring the surrounding gaze.

It was a hot gaze that seemed to strip off the clothes she was wearing.

It must be coincidence.

The handsome man’s gaze was directed toward Mija.

It was a look as if he knew her well.

‘If ​​you want to be crazy, let’s go crazy. Why would such a man look at me?’

I don’t care. I’ll head off first.

Turned.

“…So what are you going to do!”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“Don’t pretend you didn’t hear.”

“I really didn’t hear that.”

Sung-tae thought that Mija was ignoring him. In addition, doubts arose about her.

The handsome man, who had only watched from afar, felt that the two were unusual and moved his body.

“Well, you got another man, don’t you?”

The two years of pushover life that she had endured with Sung-tae made her explode.

“You don’t have a conscience? How much money do you owe me? There’s no time for me to meet a man leisurely. I worked like a dead cow. And I warn you, my friend, don’t ever speak ill of me again. Talk one more time. Then it’s in my hands!”

Now, the hottie was so close and she almost got hands full of soap smell. Perhaps he just finished the shower and came down as the soap scent passed through the tip of Mija’s nose.

Sung-tae said with a poor face that the world would never be again.

“Yeah, you wouldn’t need a boyfriend with an uncertain future like me. So you betrayed me? Wasn’t love enough? Is money so good? Ha. I love you… I do, even if you betrayed me.”

“What. What’s wrong with you all of a sudden?”

If Sung-tae became the world’s poorest person, Mi-ja became the world’s worst woman.

The man’s footsteps toward Mija stopped. The closer she got, the more she was amazed by the beauty, even the frowned eyebrows looked beautiful.

Meanwhile, Sung-tae continued to shovel alone.

“If you beg me now, I’ll forgive you.”

Sung-tae smiled cheesyly and grabbed Mija by the shoulder.

“When I say it in good words.”

“I forgive you.”

“What a shame. Forgiveness.”

She walked away calmly.

It was the moment when Hapkido, who said it was useless for everyone to get a job, shone.

Before leaving, Mi-ja seemed to have heard the laughter of that handsome man.

* * * * * *

Miji wished it would all be over soon.

Sung-tae acted like a loser till the end. He began threatening and acted conciliatory, and eventually made a text attack cursing her all the way.

‘I have to change the number first. Should I change my cell phone too?’

There was enough money. Because the maturity date of the savings account was approaching.

She imagined hitting a job. However, the reality was that her entire fortune worthed only 7,200,000 won.

For someone, that could be a one-room deposit with a few months of tax, or it could be a year worth of college tuition fees.

She was clumsy with money and couldn’t be independent at home or enter graduate school.

Jung-hee proposed to live together in India for two years. It was the most attractive plan for the current Mija.

The imagination of giving up one’s job is a butterfly.

Mija couldn’t afford to throw everything away.

Even today, she’s energetic and a brave middle-aged woman.

She got on the bus while fighting with him.

[Mija, Let’s go together? How long will we live? This is an opportunity.]

“Don’t worry. I’ll live until I shit on the wall.”

[Will you buy everything if you leave? India is a place you must go once in your lifetime. You can meet your true self through torment and suffering]

“I’ve already met my true self and endured hardships. You can go to India alone.”

[Don’t do that. Let’s go together.]

“Let’s hang up. The Team Leader is coming from the head office. So I’m busy this morning.”

[Team Leader? Is he handsome? How old is he?]

“Arthur. If you’re a manager-level Team Leader, you’re going to lose your father.”

[Look at the world with hopes. Who knows? Maybe a third-generation chaebol who conceals his identity may come. It’s a shit car or a  Mercedes-Benz.]

“I guess the genre of your life is romance. What to do, my genre is a thriller. I want you to be alive.”

[Not an adult?]

“Thank you. Then, I’m really hanging up now.”

Mija hurriedly finished her phone call with Jung-hee and went into the office that read ‘Production Team’.

The members of Team Jin Won who came from a distance were waiting for Team Leader Seon chae, as Lee Yeol-jong.

“Miss Kim, step aside. Wouldn’t it be lower for Miss Park to stand in front of you? Huh? It’s a painting with Miss Jung.”

Director Byun pushed Mija out, who was standing in the front row, and put Deputy Park on the spot.

Deputy Park stared at the door with a grim look.

Realizing that pretty girls were pretty even with a sullen look on their faces, Mija went to the corner.

Choi Hyun-min, who was still a contract worker, greeted her with a bright smile. Overall, he was a man with a soft impression, and his cute appearance that his eyes would be bent like a half-moon if he smiled in contrast to his solid physique.

“You must have bought a new pair of shoes. It’s pretty.”

He whispered to Mija in a song.

Her shoulders shrank by themselves.

It was a nice voice, nicknamed ‘ear boyfriend’.

The corners of her mouth twitch automatically. She was working hard on the waves.

“Okay? Isn’t it too much for me?”

“No. It looks great on Deputy Kim.”

She held the night with a red face and laughed, then hit Hyun-min’s shoulder without hesitation.

“Hyun-min, you’re going to throw up blood. Stop hitting.”

“When did I hit you?”

“Your shoes are pretty.”

Deputy Park suddenly turned her head in vain for a second remark.

It seems that the shoes weren’t bad because of the evaluation of Park, who doesn’t say anything even if she dies soon.

Mija turned her ankle around. It looked more luxurious under the light.

She recalled Carrie’s lines. ‘Even If you take all the money, you’ll never be as good as my manolo blahnik.’

“Those were the shoes I bought after hesitating several times.” Jeong-hee said to Mija, who was hesitant about the price tag.

“Good shoes take you to good places. Even if you can’t make it, Manolo Blanick won’t lose.”

Now that Hyun-min whispered, the shoes were worth the price.

Hyun-min tapped Mija’s shoulder, who was immersed in shoes.

Hyun-min whispers at a distance close enough to get his lips stuck in the bread.

It tickled like pollen on her heart.

“Deputy Kim, this evening…….”

Before his words were finished, the door of the office opened.

She said “later” and straightened herself up.

The new Team Leader was very tall. He had a sharp eye on his immaculate face, as if he had worked in the office.

It was a rare handsome face.

Was there a celebrity who looked like him? It seemed like she had seen him somewhere. 

“Nice to meet you.  I’m Kang Min-ho, the Team Leader dispatched from the business team for the facility project. “

There couldn’t be two beautiful people under the sky. That face caught everyone’s eyes.

“Oh, that guy…”

The handsome guy she saw yesterday introduced himself as Team Leader Kang Minho.

Recalling the phone call with Jung-hee, Mija had a wild imagination that she would eat everything in any genre if that was a face.

‘However, the main female character is only me. If I live with a guy like him, won’t I be expelled?’