Seo-yoon shook her head to and fro. She was full just watching him eat.
Lee Hyun asked once again. “Then two patties…?”
“…”
“Should I give you th-three?”
Just how much was she aiming to squeeze out of him with a single cup of barley tea, she was frowning!
There was once a time when he had shared lunch with Seo-yoon and she had eaten his kimbap at random.
Memories of that time kept popping into his head.
Lee Hyun sighed. ‘I’m not a petty person. I should give sometimes too.’
When he was a kid, he had once gone to his friends holding just a spoon and had gotten a meal. As he recalled that plaintive feeling, he was able to understand Seo-yoon’s perspective.
“Just eat comfortably. Since I’ve never eaten much meat… I mean, because I don’t like it that much. Eat as much as you want.”
Lee Hyun picked up one of the patties and put it in on top of Seo-yoon’s rice box.
Seo-yoon carefully opened her mouth and ate it.
It was such a lovely sight that it could snatch one’s senses away.
After staring at that sight for a moment, Lee Hyun ate the patties too.
Munch munch.
He couldn’t give her much of a side dish as tasty as these patties.
“Why is this so delicious? What kind of meat melts in the mouth, it melts.”
The sight of him holding the ribs in both hands and tearing into them after telling her to eat as she wished!
Lee hyun emptied the lunch box cleanly, leaving not even a single grain of rice behind. Of course, he even left behind Seo-yoon’s share of one patty at the end. He had finished it off so cleanly that he was pleased with himself.
‘She’ll have no complaints if she eats three patties.’
Then, as usual, he pulled out the note that had come with the lunch to read it.
“Will she tell me thanks for eating happily today too? Even if I don’t know who it is, she is a truly warmhearted lady.”
But the were words written on the note Lee Hyun pulled out were different from the usual ones.
I have a request.
Do you have time today after class?
It was the summons of the veiled mystery angel who made him lunch.
How tastily had he eaten the food she had cooked. His mouth filled with saliva when lunch time rolled around. Thankfully enough, he had even gotten to eat short rib patties today.
Seo-yoon was observing Lee Hyun’s reaction with bright eyes.
“I was curious about who it is, this is good.”
With a thankful heart, Lee Hyun wrote his reply.
My class in the business hall on the 3rd floor, room B07, ends at 4. Please come if you can.
* * *
When class time neared its end, Lee Hyun became a little wary.
“What kind of woman is she really?”
Looking at her cooking skill, she was impressive.
“Her faults are that she uses luxury ingredients too unsparingly and that she only uses a brand-name lunchbox, but I don’t think she’ll be a bad woman.”
Lee Hyun had already created his mystery angel in his imagination.
“Huhu.”
Including Choi Sang-jun, Park Soon-jo, and Lee Yoo-jung, others had heard of the mystery angel who packed Lee Hyun lunch. Since she would finally appear today, it was a prime chance to resolve their curiosity.
Choi Sang-jun shook his head knowingly. “C’mon, hyung! Can’t you tell at a glance? There’s no way a girl who brings lunch like that is decent. That’s not normal in the world these days. Yoo-jung, aren’t I right?”
“To be honest… it is strange that she hasn’t shown herself until now even while putting a lunch box in the same place for over a month. Don’t expect too much, oppa.”
“Hyung, you heard what Yoo-jung said, right? A mystery angel is something that only shows up in fantasy stories. She could even be a spinster professor or someone who came from a social service community.”
Even so, the smile on Lee Hyun’s lips did not go away.
That she would make a meal for him had great meaning to him.
“A person who put her all into making a meal for someone else… there’s no way that she’s a bad girl.”
Lee Hyun’s personal relations weren’t all that normal either. Give as much as you receive. Since she had packed him lunch, he had simply come to the obvious conclusion that she was a good kid!
“Then, good work today. Come back with all your assignments finished.”
The professor left the classroom and the students organized their bags one by one. However, there were still students gathered in the area around Lee Hyun.
“What kind of person do you think will really come?”
“Just watch it be an old person. It might even be a student from the physical education department.”
That referred to the martial arts students from the PE department who bowed to Lee Hyun whenever they saw him.
The students who were about to leave the area around the classroom door stopped stock still in their positions, as if frozen.
“Hot damn! It’s senior Seo-Yoon.”
“Huh, does she take her next class here?”
University of Korea’s official goddess!