Yoon noticed that Lee Jeong Rok's bar was busy when a group of men walked past the cluster of chairs where he was sitting with Park Min Sook and Jeong Rok. An associate of Park Min Sook's, a man by the name of Baek Min Ho, was looking for a lawyer to handle his second divorce. Baek Min Ho who was in his fifties, was well on his way to getting drunk, and making Yoon uncomfortable with his comments about women and love. He asked numerous times why his second wife wasn't young and pretty like the women at the bar. Should he get a third wife like the girl who smiled at him from across the room?
"What's wrong with women?" he asked the group. "Do they just crush hopes and dreams? Do they even believe in love? These women just take and take but what do they give back?" he questioned hopelessly, downing a shot of soju.
"Some men are like that too," Min Sook replied looking at Jeong Rok pointedly.
"Love is give and take, take and give yeabol (honey)," chuckled Jeong Rok nervously. He looked at Yoon. "What do you think love is, Yoon? You know everything there is to know about marriage."
"I don't know everything," replied Yoon quietly, giving his friend a pointed look as he downed his scotch.
"Tell me," encouraged Min Ho sloppily, taking another shot. "What don't I know?"
"Attorney Choi was a widower," replied Park Min Sook. "My husband is correct in his assessment that Attorney Choi does indeed know more than we do about marriage."
Min Ho eyed him, making Yoon squirm in his seat, before the other man leaned back against his chair, and said lazily, "Hmm."
"Oh, you should see him with the girls," Jeong Rok encouraged. "They just flock to him. Why Im Tae San's younger sister chased after him her whole life until-"
"How about a wager?" offered Min Sook to Min Hee.
"A wager?" questioned the older man, interest showing noticeably. He drank another shot of soju before asking, "The terms?"
Min Sook was quiet for a moment before replying. "I wager that Attorney Choi can get a woman in this establishment to go home with him tonight."
Yoon choked on his scotch while Jeong Rok began to protest, "Yeabol."
"I pick the woman?" asked Min Hee.
"Of course," replied Min Sook calmly.
"Surely this is not necessary," offered Yoon weakly, aware that he was putting put in a corner.
"Of course it is, Attorney Choi," answered Min Sook. "Baek Mon Ho here doesn't believe my husband when he says that you know about love."
"But-" counterd Jeong Rok.
"And if I win?" asked Min Ho.
"I will pay your attorney's fees for your divorce," stated Min Sook serenely. "And if I win, you will pay Attorney Choi twice his regular rate."
"Park Min Sook," let out Yoon, his voice louder than normal.
"That one," said Min Ho suddenly, directing his gaze to a woman in her early thirties, lonely-looking as she downed her martini by herself.
"Too easy," replied Min Sook. "She's desperate looking. How about her?" she pointed to a girl in with a gaggle of other girls. "She's young and pretty and very much involved with her friends. She will prove much more of a challenge."
"I agree," accepted Baek Min Ho. "Her with the white dress."
"Yeabol," cried Jeong Rok. "If Im Me-"
"Don't you have customers to look after?" she interrupted coldly, grandly gesturing to the people around them, daring him to contradict her.
"Of course," replied Jeong Rok dimly, excusing himself and reluctantly making his way behind the bar, giving his friend an expression of apologetics and fright.
Yoon turned to the group of women Min Sook had been referring to and his eyes widened in surprise. "The one in the white dress?" he asked hesitantly.
"The white dress," confirmed Min Ho.
"And all I have to do is get her to go home with me?"
"Exactly," replied Park Min Sook. She took a sip of her wine before continuing. "I have complete faith in you, Attorney Choi."
Yoon finished the rest of his drink before setting it down on the coffee table in front of him, standing up, and taking a deep breath before walking across the room.
"Watch carefully," Min Sook told Mon Ho quietly.
As Yoon approached the gaggle of women, he suddenly felt old compared to the twenty-somethings that were soon surrounding him. Some of them he was sure, were young enough to be his children, Colin's age. When he found the woman in the white dress, he touched her shoulder, and was greeted with a bright smile.
"Oppa!" cried Meahri happily. "Park Min Sook Unni asked me to come here tonight with some of my friends. I didn't know you were going to be here."
"She asked you, huh?" Yoon shook his head.
"What's wrong?" asked Meahri, her expression suddenly worried.
"I think she plans on teaching someone a lesson," said Yoon with a glance back at where Min Sook was sitting with Min Hee.
"Him?" asked Meahri.
"He's getting a divorce and whining about it," was Yoon's response. "Have you had anything to drink?"
"A cocktail," she replied. "Why?"
"Because," he responded. "Park Min Sook bet that I could get you to come home with me."
"Why? Of course I'm going home with you. I'm your wife," she let out, a dazed expression on her face. "Am I dreaming?" she asked suddenly, pinching her arm to convince herself of the reality of the situation.
"He doesn't know that," he answered. "Let me get you another drink and then let's go home." Yoon gestured to the waiter who swiftly brought them their drinks.
"Oppa, let me introduce you to my friends," she said while they drank, gesturing to the group of women behind her. "This is Lee Eun Chan, Park Min Yu, Kim Ha Na, and Go Na Ri," she pointed to each one as she said their names and then turned to them and said, "This is my husband."
After the initial greetings and hellos were said, and their drinks were drunk, and a quick glance back at Min Sook, Yoon let out, "Let's go home, Meahri. Ladies, the drinks are on Park Min Sook," he finished, looking at Meahri's friends.
"Okay, Oppa," replied Meahri, smiling. She looked back at Park Min Sook where the older women gave her a nearly imperceptible wink as the pair walked out the door.
"He really did it," cried out Baek Min Ho in surprise. "A pretty young girl like her too."
"That's love," replied Min Sook draining her wine glass.
"How long did you say he has been widowed?"
"I said he was widowed. He's remarried now."
"Remarried? Is he taking her to a hotel, then?"
Min Sook smiled slyly. "Attorney Choi, a middle-aged man got a young woman almost half his age away from her friends and convinced her to go with him. Wouldn't you say that's love?"
"Love?" Min Ho roared with laughter. "That's lust. I wouldn't mind if my third wife were like her."
"That is Attorney Choi's wife."
Min Ho choked on his soju. "That young girl is his-," he gestured, unable to finish the sentence.
"Attorney Choi is not only married to a pretty, young woman but he got her to leave her friends for a fun night on the town in order to go home for a quiet night with him. I think that's love. Don't you?"
"You tricked me," Min Ho accused suddenly.
"You chose the woman. I merely guided your choice," reasoned Min Sook. She took a breath and then continued. "If you want to know what love is, what marriage is, then look at Attorney Choi and his wife who loved despite the obstacles."
As she finished the pair looked across the expanse filled with people and then at the door where Yoon and Meahri just exited.
