Talking about bad timings, he had a share of incidents whenever Myeongju was around...

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"You know... even if you didn't drag Sergeant Seo along to tell me that lie about you two going out, I wouldn't still go out with you. You really shouldn't have even bothered."

Myeongju glanced at him in disbelief as she elbowed him. "Really? Or you're just trying to save face right now?"

Sijin frowned at her. "I'm serious! I mean, even before we met each other properly I've already known about you for quite some time. You don't think if I won't make a move on you if I did have some kinda feelings for you?"

Myeongju took a sip of her coffee as she mulled over it. "Made sense... but now you're offending me! Why won't you make a move on me?"

He waved his hand at her. "Don't act like you don't know. Our fathers have known each other far longer than us, I ended up hearing about you even before we properly met. And talking about that... we did use to see each other when we were kids—ouch! Why did you do that?"

"So, what're you trying to get at?" asked Myeongju again after kicking him on the legs. Sijin stared at her angrily as he massaged his sore legs.

"That means it'll take more than your pretty face to make me see you more than just a friend, okay?" he said, before hastily jumping away to avoid another kick from her. He made a face at her. "I swear! One day I gonna get a pretty girlfriend, just to spite you! A far prettier girl than you!"

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"Is Big Boss your nickname?"

"It's a callsign. What's yours?"

"Well, I don't know..." He watched her trying to decide what name to use as one suitable callsign popped up into his head.

"Pretty Girl?"

She laughed. "Please stop it!"

"You looked like one." The words just came out from his mouth. He couldn't stop himself...

"I'm not a pretty girl... but I looked like one?"

"Sometimes."

"Sometimes?" she exclaimed, before laughing. And he just loves it when she laughed. She looked so pretty when she laugh and smiled. And her laughter sounded like music to his ears...

"Can I interrupt you two lovebirds?"

Sijin immediately looked up towards the speaker. It's Yun Myeongju. Since when has she been standing there?

"What're you doing here... instead of at the headquarters?" he asked, since he thought she was supposed to be assigned to Taebaek HQ. Not Mouru camp.

Like an obnoxious little girl, Myeongju spoke. "I'm here to marry you."

He cast a quick glance towards Moyeon before snapping back. "Hey you! Don't try to scare me like that!" He was used to hearing her making jokes like that with him all the time. But right now, Moyeon was here!

"Did I actually scare Yoo Sijin now? Wah!"

This girl... of all her timings. As if excluding him out when she posted the gift package to his team earlier wasn't bad enough. Sijin glanced towards Moyeon again to see her reaction. Myeongju started her report as he kept looking at her, checking to see if Myeongju's presence bothered her. The two didn't look like they were in good terms before and he's not sure if it'd be even worse now. Especially since he already told her about his complicated relationship with Myeongju.

As much as Moyeon kept trying to not get too close to him, he still wanted to get their relationship to work... and Myeongju wasn't exactly helping with things.

"I'll let you two talk..."

Was she mad? She did look annoyed. Was that good? That should be good... right? He watched as Myeongju and Moyeon exchanged words with each other before she walked out of the door. He's really sure that there was something big between the two.

Still, he really liked it. Seeing Moyeon talk back towards Myeongju. She really sounded annoyed with her. But that aside...

"I was wondering... what's the relationship between you and Dr. Kang?"

Myeongju sounded as if she was hiding something or it might just be him. But still, it didn't change the fact that she's as rude to her as she was with him despite their differences of age.

"Don't get too chummy with her. I don't want her to be my sister-in-law."

"What kind of a family tree was that? You said you came here to marry me."

"Oh, you're right. Anyway..."

She grinned. She definitely did. He'll definitely pay her back on this. For sure. But before that...

"I told you. See, she's prettier than you."

Myeongju rolled her eyes at him. "Hah! You wished!" She frowned. "I don't really get your taste in girls."

Sijin glanced towards the now-closed door to his office and started wondering about Kang Moyeon. Ah, Myeongju just has to pop up at the worst timings.