Chapter 10

Jeong Wonil’s go-to target for unfiltered complaining was an unexpected figure: his cousin, Jeong Soohyun. Soohyun was the only son of his late uncle, the bluest of blue bloods in a fiercely proud clan, and the new master of the mansion in question. Born cold and aloof, Soohyun somehow put up with him anyway—which made Wonil feel that sinking his hooks into him when they were kids had been well worth the effort. Since he’d whined at Soohyun right around his morning commute, complaining, “I’m dying, buy me a drink, let’s drink ourselves to death today”—he was bound to hear back sometime during the week. That meant they’d meet up by the weekend, where Wonil would suggest pork belly and