CHAPTER 274: THE NEXT TO ARRIVE WAS JIN-YEOK

"You lost, Jo-Pil. Now, take off your clothes." Jin-Yeok said and I gulped. Why did this have to happen to me?

Reluctantly, I stood up and started unbuttoning the fixed buttons on my shirt, and just as I was about to unbutton the last, I saw the satisfied grins on their lips.

It was as if they came together just to catch me in their net.

Well, I brought this on myself. I unbuttoned the last fixed button and...

Wait a minute, we’re going too fast.

Let’s rewind a bit.

I know I’ve gotten a few of you confused about the sudden ’take off your clothes’ stuff but that’s just how life works, haha. It takes you unaware.

No, let’s really go back to what happened before all this transpired and why I ended up taking off my clothes without a single complaint.

My masters had arrived one at a time and as soon as they walked into the living room, the first sight that greeted them wasn’t the decorations I had poured my back and sweat into supervising, or the dining table that was filled with all sorts of dishes I had asked the maids to prepare, and neither was it the cool classical music that was playing so softly in the background.

It was me, Jo-Pil, sleeping like a lamp on the couch.

I was dressed in white. Not a white suit but a white waistcoat since I guessed they would arrive in formal wear.

The living room was dimly lit and it was dark outside, so the atmosphere felt just so right for me to fall deeper and deeper into a slumber and not notice what was going on around me.

First to arrive was Ki-hoon. He was dazed for a moment and then he heard the horn of the next person arriving, which caused him to move his feet and walk towards me.

It didn’t look like the horn blares were enough to wake me up so he didn’t bother warning anyone about their horns.

He took a stool and dropped it in front of me. Sat down with his coat in his hand and his eyes glued on my face.

I was like a painting, according to his dialogue. A painting so perfect that the artist could not bear to sell it, so he kept it hidden in his workspace, covered and hidden from the world.

I was so unreal.

Huhu, I knew I was handsome but this guy was giving me so much credit, ahem.

He stared, his eyes lingering on my eyelashes and then my lips.

It had been a few days since he laid eyes on me, but for some reason, it felt like it had been months.

The next person who walked in was Seo-Jun. He arrived just a few minutes after Ki-hoon and just as Ki-hoon was dazed, standing at the entrance and staring at what looked more valuable than a treasure vault, he too stood still.

"My, I’ll be damned." He exclaimed and then walked in, saying no word to Ki-hoon, and leaned on the head of the couch, staring from the other side with no word.

To him, I was a mystery he was still having issues solving but I was a fun mystery. One that made him feel things that no one else could. One that gave him purpose.

The next to arrive was Jin-Yeok.

While he did wonder what the party was all about and what kind of things I would say as soon as he arrived, he was caught by the unexpected.

Just like the others, the party decorations did not catch his attention but rather the scene in front of him with the other two watching me.

Without a word, he walked in and he caught of whiff of my soft scent. Something so delicious and so relaxing that he basked in it and thanks to the purity, he did not get intoxicated.

I could say it was my scent that bought his attention before my appearance.

But of course, a side dish always needed a main dish or a main dish always needed a side dish so his eyes lingered on me.

Thanks to the delicious scent that melted his sense of smell, he found himself lost in me, just like the rest.

And then after him came Min-Cheol.

He was as excited as the rest to see me.

He had been working so hard just so he could finally come home and hug me, hold me, and tell me all about his day, but then when he wanted to come home, I sent the text that no one was allowed to come home until this evening.

He was disheartened but followed my words regardless. He wanted to be a good boy so he listened.

And just so it wouldn’t seem like he was very desperate, he did not leave right away as soon as it was time and waited just a few minutes. Like 10 minutes, which caused him to arrive ten minutes later than the rest.

And then when he walked in, he saw me sleeping on the white couch, dressed in white, and having those three enjoy the sight of me without him.

He felt jealous, but since he hadn’t gotten the chance to stare at me as much as they had, he made no sound and basked in my innocence.

He literally melted when I shifted a little or my lips twisted a bit. Or when my eyelashes twitched as if I was going to open my eyes or my nose wiggled in the air... Those little actions got them blushing and melting.

They had fallen way beyond the abyss and there was no way back from it. They could only keep failing, and the funny thing was... Neither of them was complaining.

Just think of this. I was like a newborn baby whose uncles kept swooning at every little action I made. That’s how it looked to anyone who saw that scene.

Anyway, I finally woke up.

I opened my eyes, not knowing how long I had been asleep or how much longer it would take for my masters to arrive, but then my nose caught the whiff of their Pheromones mixed together, and I immediately sat up, startled.

"You’re up." I heard Jin-Yeok’s voice and turned my head to find them smiling at me.

"You were sleeping so peacefully we didn’t want to wake you up," Ki-hoon said.

"How was your beauty sleep?" Seo-Jun asked.

"Hyung, you look so pretty when you sleep.’

I blinked twice, confused and a bit out of it.

These guys... How long had they been sitting there and watching me sleep?

My eyes caught the time on the wall clock, and my eyeballs literally sprang out of their sockets.

It was 9pm! The designated time for their arrival was 7:30. And if they had arrived on time, that meant they had actually been watching me sleep for more than an hour.

Did they seriously have nothing better to do?!

(They don’t, haha)