Chapter 344 - Matchmaking (3) – Part 1
Chapter 344: Matchmaking (3) – Part 1
The New Otani Hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo was famous for its 400-year-old garden. Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing were looking down at the koi pond from a bridge in the garden. It was night but because of the street light, they could easily see koi fish swimming there.
“This is indeed a beautiful garden.”
“Let’s go over there.”
Gun-Ho held Seol-Bing’s hand. He was not sure if it was an actress thing but her hand was small considering her height. Seol-Bing didn’t pull out her hand this time.
Seol-Bing seemed to be more open to Gun-Ho, maybe because he was the one who Ms. Mi-Lyeong Lee wanted to introduce to her for a marriage proposal. She still remembered every word that Ms. Mi-Lyeong Lee used in describing Gun-Ho.
‘You’d better find a decent man and marry him while you are still popular. You can’t maintain the top star position forever. It won’t last long. What? Marry a guy who has a wealthy family? You won’t even able to breathe there. I have no doubt that you will get suffocated. Money? We have it too. But that Gun-Ho Goo person is different. He is amazing actually. He is a self-made successful man. He has a good temper and manners. He is at a good age to marry as well. He will let you keep your career. That’s a big plus.’
When Seol-Bing first met Gun-Ho, she didn’t really believe everything he said, especially about his wealth. However, since another actress who had been in the entertainment field for a long time—Ms. Mi-Lyeong Lee—spoke highly of Gun-Ho, Seol-Bing started feeling interested in him. Moreover, Gun-Ho was somewhat a good-looking man. He looked much better than the E Group’s president’s son.
Seol-Bing took out her dark sunglasses from her purse.
“No one would recognize you in this dark…”
“I’d better take every precaution I could. Once words get out, the damage would be really painful.”
Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing went to Satsuki passing by Sekishin-Tei while holding each other’s hand.
“Sekishin-Tei is probably a restaurant, and Satsuki looks like a coffee shop.”
“I think so. I smelled food when I passed Sekishin-Tei. I don’t smell it here.”
Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing took a seat at a vacant table at Satsuki. It was late at night and the lighting at the café was off. Seol-Bing took off her dark sunglasses.
“It’s a shame that you have to cover your beautiful face with those dark sunglasses.”
Seol-Bing laughed.
“What did your parents do for a living at that time?”
“My father was a TV station PD. Enough about me. Why don’t you talk about you, President Goo?”
“My hometown is Incheon City, and I went to school in Bucheon City. I graduated from Zhejiang University; I think I told you that before.”
“So you went to China to study right after you graduated high school?”
“Umm, yes…”
Gun-Ho didn’t tell her that he actually went to a low-ranked college in a provincial city because his high school grade was not high enough to get him admitted to a college within Seoul City and that he then graduated from a cyber college.”
“So, your parents are in Incheon City right now.”
“Right. My parents retired and they continue to live in the same city. They are living in a condo in Guwol Town, Incheon City. I live in TowerPalace in Dogok Town.”
“Did you say TowerPalace? A friend of mine is living there too.”
Once Seol-Bing started opening her mind and talking, she didn’t stop talking. She looked somewhat arrogant at first, but once she became close to Gun-Ho, she acted just like any other girl at her age. At that moment, an old couple walked passing by the bench that Gun-Ho and Seol-Bing were sitting on. Seol-Bing quickly put her dark sunglasses back on.
The old couple looked like Korean tourists. The wife glanced at Seol-Bing and said to her husband,
“Japanese women wear sunglasses even at night, huh?”
Seol-Bing covered her mouth and started laughing, and Gun-Ho laughed along with her.
Gun-Ho hugged Seol-Bing tight. He could smell her perfume.
“Let’s meet in Korea more often rather than in Japan from now on.”
Seol-Bing smiled without giving any response.
“I will send you a text. We can meet at a book café on the rooftop of my building. It’s a really nice place. Or, we can meet at my office in Sinsa Town. Or, I can come to Cheongdam Town where you live if you like.”
Seol-Bing looked at her watch.
“Oh, it’s after midnight. I gotta go.”
Gun-Ho talked to the hotel’s front desk to get a taxi for Seol-Bing.
As Seol-Bing got in the taxi and she was about to leave, Gun-Ho waved his hand. Seol-Bing opened the window half down and waved her hand too.
Gun-Ho thought that he could have done better that night.
“I should have bought something for her, something that she will remember the moment with me with.