Bamboo Forest Manager - Chapter 396



Excuse

Shall I be honest?

I like strong women.

That doesn’t mean I like getting hit, nor does it mean I like bullies.

I like people with a strong will.

That’s why the first person I felt attracted to in the English department was Oh Yoonji.

“What are you doing?”

But.

“Hurry up and get in.”

The person in front of me looked too strong.

So strong that I couldn’t dare to approach recklessly.

“Ahem.”

Awkwardly, I clear my throat and glance at the door.

Could I escape?

I thought about it but quickly gave up.

The moment I imagined the senior chasing after me like a hunting leopard, I felt like I would wet myself.

He was probably much faster than me, so I wouldn’t be able to escape.

If it turned into a long-distance race, there might be a chance, but I wouldn’t even get that far.

“……”

Did the senior know what I was thinking?

He stood there with his arms crossed, watching me intently.

The moment I turned my body, he looked ready to jump over the ring and pounce.

In the end, I slowly stepped into the ring, feeling like I was putting my head into the tiger’s mouth.

“Senior, please go easy on me.”

“It’s sparring.”

Why doesn’t it feel like sparring?

The senior was warming up.

His abs, shaped like the number 11, were clearly visible, and his body was indeed impressive.

Unlike Yoo Arin or Choi Iseo, his muscles stood out more.

‘No, this isn’t the time to be thinking about that.’

Ding!

The bell rang, signaling the start of the sparring.

My heart was pounding as I experienced sparring for the first time in my life, but it felt more like fear than excitement.

I naturally assumed that my senior would make the first move, just like the two guys he had just knocked down, so I took a guard stance I had picked up somewhere.

I pressed my hands firmly against both sides of my face to minimize the impact.

But unlike before, my senior tackled me.

“Ugh!?”

My body lurched forward and I fell flat.

My senior mounted me.

I don’t know what happened next.

He moved quickly, and in an instant, my senior had me in a chokehold from behind.

“Ugh?!”

“This is how you do it. There’s a simple way to subdue someone.”

He wrapped his legs around my waist and tightened his arm around my neck.

At first, I wondered if this was something men and women should be doing, but that thought quickly vanished.

“Ugh! Ugh! Senior, please save me!”

I felt like I was going to die.

Man or woman, it didn’t matter; my survival instinct kicked in, and I struggled.

“Stay still.”

My senior whispered in my ear.

The moment I heard that, I stopped resisting.

I felt like a hostage with a gun pointed at my forehead.

I couldn’t see my senior’s expression, but I had a feeling he was smiling slightly.

Because I could sense the excitement in his voice.

Once I had calmed down a bit, my senior loosened his grip slightly.

“Haah!”

In truth, it wasn’t tight enough to choke me, but I still took a breath.

I felt like I needed to do something.

My senior whispered to me, now that I had calmed down.

“Why did you bring them here, young master?”

“Huh? Oh… I just wanted to exercise and have a drink with the guys.”

Chanwoo had been whining about being lonely, so I thought we could exercise and drink together.

After all, once I go to the army, I won’t even be able to look at alcohol.

“I should be getting overtime pay, you know?”

“Of course! I’ll tell hyung-”

“No.”

*CHOMP!*

I got bitten!

On the ear, no less!

“Huuk?!”

My ear got bitten and I panicked, trying to wriggle free, but my senior, as if savoring a taste, slightly tugged and sucked on my ear.

“I, I don’t taste good!”

“Mmm.”

Releasing my ear, my senior asked with a smile.

“Don’t you remember back then?”

“Huh? I don’t remember anything?”

“When you did it in Hawaii, you bit my ear and all.”

“……Ah.”

That’s right.

I did do that.

I remembered doing all sorts of things to my senior, saying it was foreplay.

“Are you, by any chance, getting revenge right now?”

“A little…? That, and bringing the kids was also kinda not cool.”

“No, senior. But we can’t be doing this right now. I’m already the husband of three children- ACK!”

My neck was immediately constricted.

Preventing me from speaking, my senior answered with a smile.

“Young master, do you know something?”

“Yes, a-ack?!”

“You see. While I was in college, I’ve taken care of more than a few little runaways during group projects, you know?”

“Ah, I-I understand, hah!”

“There’s one thing all those jerks have in common. The first time is difficult, but the second or third time is easy to run away.”

I decided not to ask about what became of their future.

They probably met a far more brutal end than I’m facing now, right?

“If it were just one person, I would have accepted it.”

“…?”

“Whether it was Yerin, Iseo, or Arin. If you had chosen just one person, I wouldn’t have clung on so pathetically.”

The determination in my senior’s voice.

I can even feel the resolve not to waver anymore in the arms wrapped around my neck.

“But it’s not one, not two, but three. Woojin, it’s three!”

Squeeze!

“Ugh! Woojin, I’m dying!”

Only when I tapped did my senior loosen his grip a bit.

“You never know! Three could become four! Four could become five! What I really can’t stand is if I give up and three becomes four?”

Saying he really couldn’t stand it, my senior tightened his arms again.

“Then it means I didn’t need to give up.”

Is this how someone stuck in stocks feels?

It seems my senior decided to endure rather than give up amidst the conflict.

“Those kids are three!”

Actually, they’re not pregnant yet.

“If they were pregnant at the same time, you’d need to take care of your s*xual desires during that period, young master.”

“……”

“The youngest son of the Wooju Group. You could say he’s the richest man in South Korea. He’s even kind-hearted, so he tries to take care of anyone involved with him.”

“……”

“Even if that person is a concubine.”

“Senior?!”

“Logically and practically speaking, you’re a man I should never let go of. For the sake of my dirt-poor family! For the sake of our children! Office wife? Concubine? I’ll be anything!”

“W-wait a minute, senior!”

“You’ve been bitten by a trashy woman, young master!”

The senior’s grip momentarily weakened as she shouted.

Not missing the chance, I immediately freed myself from her grasp and twisted my body.

I couldn’t completely free my legs wrapped around my waist, so I couldn’t create distance, but I ended up facing her at close range.

“Ugh?!”

There she was, her face flushed, tears welling up in her eyes.

“Does someone who approached for money make this kind of face?”

As I stared at her and asked, she hurriedly covered her face with both hands.

When I grabbed her wrists and moved them aside, she bit her lip tightly.

As she tried to slowly free her legs and escape, I pressed down on her waist to stop her.

“Ugh?! It’s touching!”

“Bear with it! I was very conscious of your chest until a moment ago too!”

“Why are you standing?!”

“Maybe my reproductive instincts kicked in at the face of death! More importantly, don’t avoid the question and answer me! Is this the face of someone who approached for money?!”

As I shouted, the senior tried to respond but seemed to choke on her words and closed her mouth.

“Just.”

Softly.

“Understand it that way.”

She muttered, pretending it was an excuse, but it was her true feelings.

“If I don’t find an excuse like that, it doesn’t make sense for me to keep liking you rationally.”

“……”

“Young master.”

Her wet, glistening eyes met mine.

So close, her hot breath on me, that instant, I couldn’t help it, the urge to kiss her surged up.

She had found a reason to obey me.

Had forcefully grafted a reason to love me, the woman in front of me, a moment where I wanted to conquer her right away.

“Ughhh.”

“Ugh, my head.”

The voices of the guys who’d fallen out of the ring drifted up.

I quickly pulled back and stood up.

‘Ugh, shit.’

Almost got fucked there.

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I had to admit, I’d been completely sucked into Senior Joohee, like I was under some spell.

It just goes to show how charming she is.

“What the, I’m sure I stepped into the ring for sparring and then I don’t remember.”

“Uhm, I, I’m going home.”

While Ahn Hyunho and Jung Chanwoo just mumbled their own nonsense.

The senior, who’d been lying in the ring, slowly got up.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

She glared at the two of them, grinding her teeth.

“You gotta work out, you little shits.”