I Quit My Job and Run a Café - Chapter 52



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Episode 52

It was a struggle and a learning experience from Kang Na-yoon.

When I first started acting, I starved because I had no money.

Because if you enter a small theater as the youngest, you’ll be living almost penniless until you build your career.

Wouldn’t it be okay if I gradually gain recognition for my acting and establish myself?

no.

From now on, it was real.

Even if you have money and a feast is laid out before you, you still can’t eat it.

“Wow. Nayun-ah, you seem to have gained some weight. Let’s lose some weight before we start our next project.”

“Nayun, you look so good these days! You look so healthy~”

“Is it because of the project you’re working on this time, Nayun?”

They were all different words, but in the end the meaning was the same.

You’ve gained weight, so lose weight.

For Kang Na-yoon, who originally loved to eat, it was such a difficult task. Even more so than when she was poor and couldn’t buy food!

‘I want to eat it too… … .’

There was even a time when I was on set and saw the staff lining up in front of a food truck, and I unconsciously approached them as if I was possessed.

But soon I had to be dragged out by the manager.

“Nayun-ah. Just hold on for a little longer. Even if you eat just a little, your face will swell up, so you can’t eat it now.”

“We have to eat to live, so let me eat some too!”

“You have to endure to survive. Okay. Let’s eat this salad lunch box. Oh! There’s sausage too.”

“I’m biting into the chicken breast sausage!”

No matter how much I protest to the manager, it’s no use.

It’s not like I want to do that because I’m a manager.

‘I understand, but I can’t live like this!’

I can’t stand it anymore, I’m on the verge of exploding.

I ran out, leaving the filming set behind.

At this rate, I felt like I was really going to have an accident today.

I don’t know what kind of accident it was, but… … I was sure that it was an accident that would have been reported in the society section, not the entertainment section.

That’s why I came out.

Of course, there was nowhere to go.

This is because the filming location happened to be in a rural area somewhere between Gyeonggi-do and Gangwon-do.

Since I have no connection to this place, I have nowhere to go right now… … .

“It’s so late at night that no place is open! Ugh!”

Because it’s the countryside, everything closes early.

Cafes, restaurants, and even street stalls!

How did I escape and end up like this… … I have no luck.

The fever is rising.

My face was hot. My chest was filled with anger, to the point where I wondered why I was doing this.

Is it because I’ve been suppressing it for so long?

It’s a good thing I ran out of the set, otherwise I would have had an accident already.

It’s fortunate that it’s still a rural area with few people.

“Haa─.”

I stopped the car to cool my head a bit more.

This won’t do. I feel like I’m losing myself.

Should I go back before I have an accident?

If we go back like this, it might end up as a fleeting breeze.

But my hands and feet don’t move.

‘Will it really be okay if we continue like this?’

The anger still simmering inside you remains the same?

I just raised my head, unable to make a decision, with only questions.

however…….

“huh?”

I saw something I hadn’t seen before when the car was moving in front of me.

what?

It was a small sign on the side of a country road.

Strangely, it caught my eye even though it was dark. So I came to my senses and walked slowly… … It seemed to say ‘cafe’.

And beyond the signpost, a light was visible on the path.

* * *

A glass of mint tea that Soo-ah ordered, and a glass of peach juice that Sia ordered.

The drink was made in a flash.

I gave the children the things first and then glanced to the side.

There was a customer there wearing a mask and a hat.

‘It’s strange how often I get guests like that.’

Both Go Na-eun and Mushruby had a fairly high percentage of customers of that type.

In that case, that customer might also be from the entertainment industry.

Of course, that had nothing to do with me.

I don’t know much about celebrities anyway, so I’m not really interested.

Rather, I am more interested in the aura.

Since I was still looking at the menu, I decided to take my time thinking about that place and checked inside.

In the kitchen, a bunch of Shine Muscat grapes, beautifully ripe, were being dried.

I didn’t use any medicine on this, so I just washed it off with water mixed with vinegar.

‘Because in order for the sugar water to coat properly, there has to be no moisture.’

Now that I’ve drained the water once, I pick out the eggs one by one and clean them.

One of them naturally went into my mouth.

Come to think of it, I haven’t even tasted it.

Misread!

When I put it in my mouth and chewed it, the first thing I felt was the chewy, popping texture.

And then the juice that bursts out is… … .

“Wow? What is this?”

I was surprised. Why is this so delicious?

I expected it to be delicious, but it exceeded my expectations.

The first thing I felt was the scent.

A sweeter and more refreshing scent similar to mango spread throughout my mouth.

‘They say Shine Muscat is a green grape with a mango flavor. It’s true.’

It was on a whole different level from what I had eaten in the city. And what about the sweetness felt from the juice?

The peaches and apples the village chief gave me were sweet, but these were even sweeter. They were as sweet as honey.

it’s good.

I felt that the tomatoes from my garden were sweet, but the real fruit, not the vegetable, was on a whole other level.

“This is awesome.”

I found myself continuing to pick up the eggs with my hands without realizing it. They were so sweet that I thought I would get sick of them, but that wasn’t the case.

The fresh scent like mango gave me a refreshing feeling.

This… … After eating this, I wonder if I won’t be able to eat anything that isn’t from the garden.

“I have to coat this in sugar water… … .”

I thought about it for a moment.

Should I just leave it like this?

Once you taste it, you will definitely like it.

But still.

‘Because I decided to make it.’

It’s a bit odd to let that expectation go away.

Actually, I’ve only seen it, I’ve never tried it myself, so I’m curious.

‘Then first… … .’

I picked another bunch of grapes, which were already half gone.

And then while washing and drying again, I put sugar and water in a pot in a 2:1 ratio and boiled it.

Slowly cook over medium to low heat.

The point is to dissolve the sugar without stirring it.

And when the sugar is completely dissolved and bubbles start to form, it’s ready.

Confirmation is that when you drop the sugar water into ice water, it hardens and breaks easily… …now!

Crunch!

“oh?”

I dropped it in ice water and the sugar water solidified. I took it out and broke it, and it broke without much resistance.

I think this would be an interesting texture?

My slightly negative feelings have returned.

In fact, if you consider the amount of sugar added, there wasn’t much difference from sprinkling sugar on tomatoes.

It looks like it takes a lot of work to see it.

‘I should try this too.’

I thought that I should refrain from looking at it with such a negative gaze.

There really isn’t much difference between canned peaches.

It’s just mixing something delicious with something even more delicious to make it even more delicious.

Back to being serious again… … .

The original recipe calls for boiling it a little longer here and turning off the heat when it turns golden brown.

Then, it was said that the density of the sugar water increases and the sugar water is coated thickly.

So I kept the heat on very low and spun the Shine Muscat on a skewer over it.

I rolled the Shine Muscat grapes in the bubbling foam, and a very thin layer of sugar water coated them.

“oh?”

It’s quite fun to see the fruits coated in a shiny glass-like coating.

But there was no time to admire it as we had to hurry before the sugar water burned.

The rest were also rolled out quickly.

One by one, one by one.

After the finished Shine Muscat Tanghulu were placed so that they did not stick to each other, they were dried thoroughly.

“There are so many really interesting things.”

Back when I was young, instead of snacks like this, dalgona, made by adding baking soda to sugar, was popular.

The sugar-soaked dumplings had a smooth surface with a glossy sheen.

They say that this tastes better if you put it in the fridge for a while and eat it cold, so I decided to leave it in for a bit.

And when I sneaked outside, I could see Su-ah and Sia whispering.

“Right? Doesn’t it seem right?”

“Yeah. It’s delicious.”

“No. Not that one. That older sister over there. Isn’t that Kang Na-yoon?”

“I don’t know. Huh? Sir, can I have another glass of this?”

To be exact, only Suah glanced at the guests and whispered. Regardless, Sia drank a glass of drink in an instant.

And as soon as he saw me, he placed an additional order.

“If you drink a lot of beverages, you’ll get full. Is that okay?”

“Yes. This much is okay. For now.”

They say you eat a lot. Is that true?

I still can’t imagine someone with Sia’s size eating like a food fighter…

Well, since he said he wanted to drink it, I decided to make him another glass.

Of course, before that.

“Customer? Would you like to order?”

I decided to take the order from the customer who put down the menu.

But when I spoke to him, strangely enough, the aura that had been rippling around him disappeared as if it was hiding.

And the customer who had been standing there in a daze reacted belatedly as if he had come to his senses.

“Ah! Um… … That. Do they also sell sundae here?”

“Huh? Oh, sorry. That’s something they bought. It’s not a separate menu item.”

“ah.”

At the same time as the answer, the guest took off the thing that had been tightly wrapped. Perhaps because he had confirmed that there were not many guests, he put it down with relief.

Then a face appears.

‘Are you a celebrity?’

Tae definitely looks like a celebrity.

But I’m not really interested in that, so I don’t really know who it is.

Just because it’s really pretty and looks a lot like a hamster? I think Su-ah knows, so I’ll ask her later.

More than that… … this customer kept pointing at the snacks spread out in front of the children and smacking his lips.

Shouldn’t you have gone out to eat instead of coming here?

“Ah. Is that so… … Then.”

He looks really gloomy when I tell him I’m not selling it.

If you’re a celebrity, you must make a lot of money, so why don’t you just go out and buy something to eat?

[Kang Na-yoon]

*situation

─I am cursed with gluttony due to my obsession with dieting.

Huh? A curse?

SMOOTH SMOOTH… … !!

As I checked the text window, the dark red aura that had been hiding around Kang Na-yoon started to stir again.

It was an aura that seemed somehow ominous.

A more ominous feeling than any aura I’ve ever seen.

It wasn’t a cloudy and dull problem… …it felt like a living thing. It was to the point where I wondered if it was okay to leave it like that.

The auras of the cafe must have sensed it too, as no one was flying around Kang Na-yoon.

He came next to me and clung to me as if he was afraid of even touching me.

Swish.

This reaction was the first time… … but this wasn’t the only problem.

The moment when Kang Na-yoon, who had been gloomy, turned her head towards me!

‘What kind of look are you looking at?’

A look that seems to have turned slightly.

madness.

It was certainly a look that could be called madness.

It wouldn’t be strange if they rushed at me and bit me right away… … Oh, could it be because of the state in the text window?

“customer?”

Let’s calm down.

I definitely felt like this was a different kind of guest than I’ve seen before. I felt like I shouldn’t mess with him.

Maybe a bigger problem than the wild boar we were worried about last time could arise… … .

‘There are children too.’

It’s not just me, and today of all days there are children too…

An alarm bell rang in my head warning of danger.

Churp!

Whether or not, the guest did not answer and just smacked his lips with unfocused eyes.

Seriously, what should I do about this?

I think we should at least have a conversation.

at that time!

“Oh! Sister! Then let’s eat this together!”

“huh?”

Su-ah shouted, wondering how she had heard the words he had almost muttered to himself here.

But does he really have no wrinkles?

I can’t believe you can talk to someone you’re meeting for the first time so easily.

Even at the sound of Su-ah’s voice, the customer who had seemed to have lost his mind just a moment ago seemed to come to his senses, and the slightly dangerous look in his eyes returned to his original look.

“Huh? Really? Is that okay?”

“Yes! That’s Kang Na-yoon, right?”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

“Wow! I watched that drama! Goblin Hotel! I’m a huge fan of that girl!”

Was the word fan the trigger?

The attitude of the customer named Kang Na-yoon changed completely.

Until just a moment ago, when you looked at me, you looked like you were going to eat me… … .

“Oh my! Really?”

In an instant, he transformed into a professional entertainer. As I watched him… … .

‘Surely you weren’t acting… right?’

I had my suspicions, but no.

It may seem that way at first glance, but I definitely saw that aura.

I also saw Kang Na-yoon’s condition.

That was definitely not acting.

It looks okay now, but… … .

‘It’s dangerous.’

Especially the danger I felt from the eyes I saw earlier.

The curse of gluttony… … .

This one just needs to be resolved quickly, unlike Aura?

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