"You are not? But then, you act not like your real self. You don't want people to know about your real self. You are concealing your real self from other people. In other words, you are acting as someone else. How can you not be someone suspicious? Your working history is weird too. I think you are a spy. Don't deny it. There are no other reasons I can think of. You can't learn anything new? Stop lying," said Shi Hoon with a serious and scary face.
"I-I-I-I am really not. Please believe me. I just want to know how it feels like working all that jobs. I re—re-really don't have any ulterior moves," said Mi Rae.
"Then, where did you get that much money to buy an expensive car and a freaking 4-storey apartment building? Cleaning jobs, construction jobs, cashier, office jobs at seven different company, four of them had a massive leak of information and two of them went bankrupt after you quit. Not a spy? Huh," said Shi Hoon.
"That is just a coincidence. I am too scare to do that. The building and car, I bought it with my own money," said Mi Rae.
"So, working all that job can buy you a building and a car with cash. Then, there won't be many poor people in this country if that is the case," said Shi Hoon.
"I am not buying the building and car with my paycheck. It was my parent's inheritance money," said Mi Rae. "I don't want to waste their money spending it on daily needs, so I bought the building and car."
"… Your parents leave you with inheritance? According to my investigation, they don't leave you with anything," asked Shi Hoon.
"You investigate wrong. They did leave me and my younger brother with inheritance," said Mi Rae.
"You have younger brother too?" asked Shi Hoon.
"Yes, I do," said Mi Rae.
"But he is not in your family registry," said Shi Hoon.
"After my parents' death, we had a bit of disagreement and he pulled himself out of our family registry," said Mi Rae with a heavy voice.
"…" Shi Hoon did not say anything. 'She didn't look like she was lying. If she lied about this, then, she is a really good actor. I will believe her for now. Jong Min, you idiot. Is this how you investigate?' said Shi Hoon in his mind.
"Even if that is the case, you are still suspicious. Too many coincidences mean it is not coincidence," said Shi Hoon.
"You can believe what you want," said Mi Rae.
"Starting now, you are officially fired from my company," said Shi Hoon with a serious voice.
"Oh, okay," said Mi Rae without much care. "Then, I want my notebook back," said Mi Rae while putting her hand forward asking for her notebook back.
"You don't seem to care that you just lost you job. You are really suspicious," said Shi Hoon.
"There is nothing I can do about that and I can just search for new job later," said Mi Rae. "My notebook. I want to go home."
Shi Hoon stared at how Mi Rae acted. Mi Rae seems to put more importance to her notebook than her job. There was nothing special about the notebook except it was full of information about his best friend, Kang Woo and his family as well as people closed to Kang Woo and Kang Woo's family. However, that information was not something important. It can easily be obtained. Now, Shi Hoon was curious if there was hidden information inside that he missed. Maybe a secret code since she was a spy. Shi Hoon still not convinced with what Mi Rae said until he confirmed her story so, he still suspected her as a spy.
"Shi Hoon ssi, my notebook," asked Mi Rae again. Since she was fired from her job, Shi Hoon was not her boss anymore thus she changed the way she called him.
Shi Hoon took out a notebook from his coat and put it on the table. Mi Rae looked at the notebook, "That is not mine. I want my notebook back," said Mi Rae. That notebook was not Mi Rae's. It was a new notebook that Shi Hoon bought earlier at the book store.
"I know. There is a reason I didn't took out your notebook. I want to propose something to you. You can use this notebook first," said Shi Hoon.
"You promise me you will give me back my notebook if I answered your question," said Mi Rae in a bit of higher voice than she used to.
"I did say that but I change my mind," said Shi Hoon with calm voice.
"What!"
"It seems that your notebook is important to you but it is also an important evidence to me," said Shi Hoon.
"E-e-e-evidence? What do you mean?" asked Mi Rae.
"It is an important evidence that you are a stalker," said Shi Hoon.
"S-s-stalker? I am not a stalker!" said Mi Rae.
"Then, why are you investigating this Kim Kang Woo guy and everyone related to him?" asked Shi Hoon. Shi Hoon did not say that he was best friend with Kang Woo because he wanted to know if Mi Rae knew about it.
"That…" Mi Rae fell silent.
"You did not seem to be closed to this guy so you are a stalker. All these pictures were taken without him noticing. I check and find that he is quite popular. As popular as a celebrity. I feel bad for him so I will hand this notebook to police," said Shi Hoon.
"P-p-Police? Please, I am not a stalker but I admit that I follow him before but that was 3 years ago. All that pictures were from 3 years ago. I never once follow him again for the past 2 years," said Mi Rae explaining everything.
"Why are you following him?" asked Shi Hoon.
While looking at the table, holding both her hands, Mi Rae answered, "I used to be his fans," Mi Rae closed her eyes, "I love him too."
When Mi Rae said that she loves Kang Woo, Shi Hoon face change. He was a bit unhappy. 'She loves him and follow him but still, why didn't she know about me. Everyone else is inside the notebook' said Shi Hoon in his mind, not because he has any feelings towards her but he got annoyed she did not know about him being closed to Kang Woo.
"And why did you stop following him?" asked Shi Hoon.
"W-w-well, I think its not right following him around like that, so I stop," said Mi Rae.
"How do you feel about him now?" asked Shi Hoon again.
Mi Rae sweetly smile and said, "I still love him and will always love him," but mixed with that sweet smile was a sad face, ".. ...h.." she said something else but with super low voice and Shi Hoon did not hear that.
"Is that so? Then, do you want me to help you to forget about him?" said Shi Hoon.
"?? Huh? What do you mean by that?" asked Mi Rae.
"I told you before that I have a proposal for you," said Shi Hoon. Mi Rae looked at Shi Hoon with a question mark face. "Let's date," said Shi Hoon.
"??????? HUH!!??" Mi Rae was shocked. "W-W-What do you mean 'dates'?" asked Mi Rae with red face.
"Be my girlfriend," said Shi Hoon with calm voice.
With her red face, Mi Rae said, "How is that make any sense? Aren't you suspicious of me being a spy?"
"That is different matter and this is different," said Shi Hoon.
"How is that different? If I was really a spy, dating you will give me more chance to steal your company data," said Mi Rae.
"I am not worried about that. You won't be able to steal anything from me anyway," said Shi Hoon confidently.
"But still, you suddenly ask this out of nowhere. We were just talking about how I was suspicious and now you ask me to be your girlfriend," said Mi Rae.
"You know this saying right, 'Put your enemy closer to you'. So, I am putting you near me," said Shi Hoon.
"…That. You don't even like me and there is nothing good about me too," said Mi Rae.
"I might be suspicious of you but I never said I hate you… I might have hated you that time in the elevator but now, I am not. I quite like you. You are good in acting. To say that there is nothing good about you, I think appearance wise, you are beautiful though not as beautiful as a model. So, there is something good in you," said Shi Hoon.
"Shi Hoon ssi, you said I am good at acting. Do you mean you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend?" asked Mi Rae.
"No. I want you as real girlfriend," answered Shi Hoon.
"Real girlfriend? But no matter what, I think this does not make any sense," Mi Rae mentioned the same thing she said before.
"Then, to make more sense. How about I handed you to police as stalker and spy with all the evidence I have or you can become my real girlfriend. This make it much clearer and more sense, right? Make your choice," said Shi Hoon.
Mi Rae showed a complicated face when Shi Hoon said that.