As they got down, Joon-won took out his phone to pay, but Min-Seok seemed like an eagle who was searching for his prey as he grabbed his hand before saying, “You don’t need to pay, let me do it.” As he took out his wallet to pay the driver. Joon-won just shook his head before pushing Min-Seok’s wallet away and saying.

“There is no need. I’ll pay for this. You go inside, and I’ll be there. Don’t say anything bad. Just go.” As he pushed him a bit before turning towards the driver once again. Min-Seok wanted to say something, but he held himself back and walked towards the apartment with the luggage.

Paying the driver, Joon-won walked up the stairs with them and opened the flat door. Yun-hee squeezed herself in first as she gasped in surprise a bit. She went inside and looked around the house before exclaiming, “Brother, the house is so normal.. I expected something else.” 

Joon-won, who placed all the luggage inside, stared at her with a deadpan expression before saying, “Did you expect me to grow a zoo in here or something? But, of course, it’s going to be normal. Now let me get you both some water first.” And walked towards the kitchen. 

As he was filling two glasses with water, he heard Min-Seok also exclaim similarly, “Joon-won, I really have to say, this is a big surprise indeed. You are maintaining this place well. By the looks of it, it doesn’t look like you cleaned this entire place yesterday night or today morning. So you must be maintaining this place like this over time. I’m proud of you.” As Min-Seok continued to inspect the house. 

Joon-won sighed hearing him. The old Joon-won might have lived up to those expectations because this place was very bad when he took over the body. He needed to do a lot of cleaning, especially in the kitchen. The entire place reeked of bleach smell for an entire day because of that. 

Coming out of the kitchen with two glasses of water, he handed both of them a glass and said, “Alright, stop commenting about the place. It’s natural I take good care of it. If I don’t, I’ll be kicked out of the place. Now, are you both hungry? Do you want to have an early lunch?” 

Yun-hee shook his head, and Min-Seok replied, “It’s ok, we ate a good breakfast on the bus, and am not hungry. Wait, let me see what you have in your fridge so that I can decide what to cook for lunch.” As he tried to make his way towards the kitchen. 

Joon-won once again sighed and stopped him before saying, “Dad, don’t worry about cooking while you are here. Ok? Just rest for this week. You rarely rest.”

Min-Seok was the type of person who would go crazy if he didn’t do things to help the family. From their childhood he was the one running the family and raising them at the same time too. So the man was constantly doing things, and this was the same this entire time. So it was very hard to make him stop and tell him to have some rest. The man would only disagree.

Min-Seok turned towards his son and simply asked, “Then what is for lunch? Don’t tell me you are planning to order food. I won’t allow it with me here to cook.”

As soon as he said that, Yun-hee butted into the conversation as she asked, “If you are planning to order food, I would like some pizza, please. It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten one.”

Min-Seok looked at her and said, “Yun-hee you had pizza a few days ago when you told me your university decision. So don’t lie now.” 

Yun-hee ignored him and looked at Joon-won instead. Joon-won, on the other hand coughed before saying, “Who said anything about ordering food? I am going to cook lunch for both of you today.” 

Hearing him the first to react was Yun-hee as she fell on the couch and exclaimed loudly while clutching her stomach, “Oh god, my brother is planning to postpone my university admission by at least an entire week by getting me food poisoning the first day I came to the city.” Sounding extremely pitiful. 

Min-Seok also looked at him with a tinge of worry and said, “Joon-won you don’t need to cook. Leave it to me. I’ll cook something good for us, especially because of the journey we had. Ok?”

Hearing both their concerned voices, Joon-won’s face went a bit dark as he replied, “Don’t overreact now. I already showed you both my cooking over many video calls till now, so it’s completely fine, and it’s time you get a taste of it. Also, Yun-hee if this business management thing doesn’t work out, you should try to convert to an acting course, the industry needs your kind of talent.”

Seeing his expression, both remained silent as Yun-hee just sat on the couch before turning on the TV. Min-Seok, on the other hand, grabbed Joon-won to have a face-to-face talk with him. 

“Joon-won I’m happy to see you growing up. You are maintaining your body well, you are maintaining the place you live well. It looks like the gods are smiling on you.” 

Joon-won just smiled as Min-Seok, who already had a few tears, just rubbed his eyes a bit before continuing, “Now tell me. How was this year in Arios? Tell me everything. You don’t need to hide anything from me at all. Ok?”

Joon-won just shook his head and told him some make-up stories. He couldn’t tell him how the original owner of the body was. That guy was a complete moron and a sheep who followed the herd. So he just made up a few stories of his classes and other stuff. 

Min-Seok looked at Joon-won for a few seconds before sighing and saying, “Joon-won, even though I am happy that you are working very hard with all of your studies and doing multiple things now. I also want you to take a seat back for a few hours sometimes to just relax and enjoy your youth a bit more. If this part of your life is gone, you won’t have it again.” 

Joon-won just shook his head and replied to Min-Seok by holding the man’s hand before saying, “Dad, I would rather work hard now then later. If I get a stable footing now as a youngster, I can at least do more. With that I can live the rest of my life with fewer worries. So don’t worry about me at all. I am carefully thinking about each step before taking it.” 

Min-Seok sighed and said while placing his hand on top of Joon-won’s, “It looks like you have everything planned out. It seems like this father of yours doesn’t need to. point things out anymore. You have really grown a lot, and I’m proud.” As he started to shed a few tears again. 

Looking at Min-Seok, who was having tears, Joon-won felt a little odd. He felt many emotions inside, and looking at his ‘father’ talk like that, feeling emotional made him feel happy and proud too. Even though it’s not even been 3 months since he came into the world and this body. Not knowing what to do, he just patted Min-Seok a little. Yun-hee noticed them both and the scene but remained silent, giving them their own space while watching some dramas on the TV.

After that they continued to talk, and eventually, even Yun-hee joined in their talks. All three of them talked about many things, and time passed by. Finally, Joon-eon noticed it was already 12:30 and stood up to cook their lunch. 

He looked at them and said, “Alright, wait here. I’ll go and cook some lunch for us three.” As he said that he walked towards the kitchen, thinking of making some lasagna. But as he was going, he didn’t notice the two tense up a bit. 

It didn’t take Joon-won long to cook, but as he was doing it he could see the two try to spy what he was doing. They would come into the kitchen telling they needed water or spy from the living room itself. 

Joon-won just ignored them and served a good-looking lasagna. Both of them looked at the lasagna on the plates with amazement. 

Yun-hee smelled it, poked it with her fork before mumbling, “It smells and looks like lasagna. Is this a decent lasagna?” And Min-Seom, who was also looking at it, felt the same.

Joon-won just rolled his eyes before taking a bite and saying, “Just start eating. It is a legit lasagna. If you guys want more, there are seconds back in the kitchen.” And just ate while ignoring both of them completely.

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