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Jin Youngseo was sitting at the bar of a very swanky hotel, downing soju and feeling very sorry for herself. Her father had recently promoted her to Marketing Director of Marine Group - Beauty division and she was in Busan to attend the Cosmetics International expo, except the company she had wanted to bring in, had last minute announced that they would be going with Kang Holdings Pty Ltd.
What a waste of a trip. She sighed, taking another shot. She had wanted to make a big impression on the other directors, she knew they all thought nepotism was pushing her through the ranks but dammit she was good at her job. That new up and coming company with all their organic products would have made a great get for her. She didn't notice someone else sit next to her until he had politely coughed and asked for the bottle opener.
Startled out of her thoughts, she turned to him, "Ah sorry, here." She gave him a once over as she handed him the bottle opener. He was tall, even though he was seated and had a dimple when he smiled back at her. His metal rimmed glasses reflected off the soft lights that lit the bar area. He's handsome, thought Youngseo. Maybe my trip isn't totally wasted.
"Are you waiting for someone?" Wow too forward Youngseo. Her tipsy mind just stopped her from slapping her hand to her forehead.
A half smile appeared on his face and he shook his head. "Just wanted a drink. Been a long day at work."
"Oh, are you here for the Cosmetics expo too?" It was a huge conference but Youngseo felt like she would have remembered this handsome face.
"Yes, though this is the first one I've been to. Just new to this marketing area." He took a long swig of his beer.
Ah, maybe a junior employee for a rival company. She definitely would have remembered if a guy like this worked in her division.
He motioned to the bartender for another beer. "Did you want another drink too?"
Youngseo shook her head no, she probably shouldn't. She was on a business trip and knowing the vultures at work, it would somehow get out if she got absolutely wasted at a conference.
"I was just going to order some food, if you'd prefer that?"
She raised an eyebrow, ok this guy was definitely hitting on her. There were worse things to do then spend an evening with an attractive man.
"Youngseo." She held out her hand and he shook it briefly, it was warm and she felt a little thrill run through her.
"Sunghoon".
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She stubbed her toe, trying to get her shoes and coat off at the same time, Youngseo made a sound half moan, half giggle.
"Are you OK?" Sunghoon whispered against her mouth as he steadied her against the hotel room door. He'd taken off his glasses when they had entered his room and in the soft light of the hallway, Youngseo could see his eyes full-blown with want.
She answered by pulling at his neatly tucked in work shirt and pressed her mouth to his again. This was definitely a better way to spend her evening, as she made quick work of his buttons.
After a couple of hours at the bar talking, eating and drinking they had both taken the elevator to get to their respective floors and as they were going up, Youngseo perfectly buzzed thought, why the hell not? And promptly kissed Sunghoon on the lips.
She'd surprised herself, the crazy work hours to set up that new deal only for it to fall through, the new director role and just constant pressure from her parents rolled into one, where only a certain type of release would do. Sunghoon had stood stock still the entire time and Youngseo had started to pull back, maybe she'd read the signals wrong? When he'd grabbed her by the waist and backed her against the glass wall. The elevator had opened and closed on her floor without them realising as they were too busy trying to kiss the other senseless.
An "Excuse me" broke through the horny haze as the elevator pinged again and an old couple stepped in. Sunghoon let go of Youngseo's waist and grabbed her hand and stepped out of the elevator onto his floor.
She glanced around the hotel room, as she pushed Sunghoon's shirt off his broad shoulders. In the back of her mind she noted that it looked like her room but in reverse. The bedroom was on the other side but it had the same fixtures, same white sofa although it was a nicer view as this room was facing the sea instead of the city.
He was shirtless now, they'd both managed to take off their shoes and he seemed conflicted between trying to unbutton her shirt or just touch the skin under it. Youngseo wasn't helping at all, as her hands roamed across his abs, someone works out, she thought appreciatively. Sunghoon groaned, wrenching himself away from her lips and inhaling her perfume against her neck, placing small kisses there before biting her skin. That would probably leave a mark, but the sound Youngseo made as he did it, made him do it again.
Haphazardly making their way to the bedroom, Sunghoon effortlessly lifted her off the ground never breaking contact with her swollen lips, managing to knock over a lamp as Youngseo's long legs wrapped around him. The back of his knees hit the bedside table before finally falling backwards so that she was straddling him on the bed. She slowly grinded against him, feeling him harden against the fabric of both their suit pants.
He'd given up on the buttons of her shirt, instead running his hands everywhere underneath, giving both breasts a gentle squeeze.
"Fuck. You're so hot," growled Sunghoon, their foreheads touching as they separated to breathe. Youngseo using this brief respite to quickly pull her shirt off, managing to not snag her hair on the buttons. Now they were nearly chest to bare chest, her white lace bra the only barrier which Sunghoon deftly unclasped, moving his large hands across her back before placing one firmly over her left breast. Youngseo grinned, a moan escaping her as his mouth moved down her chest and gave her other breast a lick then a full kiss.
"So hot." His breath felt cool against the wetness he'd left with his tongue. She would have been content to continue grinding against him while he played with her but he had other ideas. Sunghoon rolled them both so now he was on top of her; he left a trail of kisses down her stomach, his hands tugging at her pants until they were completely off and only her underwear was left. She mentally high fived her past self for wearing the matching set to her lace bra, the dark look Sunghoon was giving her definitely said he appreciated it.
He quickly shucked his pants off too, leaving his boxers on, though it did nothing to hide his raging erection. He placed a soft kiss on her inner thigh, a questioning look at her as he moved his hands to her underwear. She pushed against his hand becoming a little frustrated at how gentle he was being. He didn't need any further prodding, swiftly removing her underwear and licking the wetness at her center before sucking her clit, making Youngseo cry out, her head falling back onto the pillows. Holy fuck she had not expected that from what she had originally thought was a mild mannered guy down at the bar.
Sunghoon made eye contact with her, his tongue managing to delve further as his hands used her thighs as leverage for better access. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Youngseo was close and he'd only really just started, vaguely she felt embarrassed that a stranger could so easily bring her to orgasm when Sunghoon slid a finger in and all thoughts aside from Fuck, yes, yes, FUCK left her head.
Sunghoon smiled against her stomach as she came down from her high. Even though her legs felt like jelly, Youngseo's competitiveness came out and she pulled Sunghoon up to her before rolling them both so that she was back on top.
"You're still wearing too much", she purred, pulling off his boxers and stroking his hard member. Sunghoon's lips captured hers again, swallowing the moan he made as Youngseo continued to stroke him. She pushed him further back against the bed frame as she slowly made a trail of hot kisses down his chest to the tip of his cock. Youngseo smirked as she watched Sunghoon's eyes roll back as she started with a swirl of her tongue to the tip to the base.
Yes definitely a better way to spend her evening.
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"You what?? You are wild, you know that, right?" Shin Hari looked across the tteokbokki pan at her best friend, Youngseo.
"I know! He was just really handsome and easy to talk to and really I was having a bad day."
Youngseo skewered a piece of meat and dipped it into the pan. It had been three days since her one night stand but this was the first time she could talk about it to Hari face to face.
"Yea but you didnt even say bye, you just left in the middle of the night. How do you know he's not out there pining for you?" Hari pointed her chopsticks at Youngseo's nether regions. "Or worse, given you a disease."
Youngseo rolled her eyes, "You really think so poorly of me! We used protection." Punctuating the last word with her skewer.
Truthfully when she had woken up with Sunghoon wrapped around her and a slight hangover headache, she had wanted to just stay cocooned in that warmth. However, her more sensible side finally reared its head. What were they going to talk about in the morning? She had never had a one night stand before. What if he didn't want to see her in the morning? That would hurt her more than she cared to admit. What if he wanted more? She doubted her parents would approve of some junior employee from a rival company. So the best thing was to extract herself from the situation and leave it as a happy memory she could replay later on the next time she was horny.
"Anyway, enough about me. Tell me what happened with Minwoo, was that necklace I found last week your birthday gift?"
Hari's face immediately saddened. "Nope, don't want to talk about what a mess I made there."
Youngseo hated when Hari got like this due to Minwoo. Curse him and his tasty food. "Hey, let's go to that new karaoke place, my treat since I missed your birthday having to go to that stupid expo." Youngseo smiled brightly at her friend, "Free booze on me."
Before Hari could reply, Youngseo's phone began vibrating on the table.
She groaned. Hari patted her hand. "Your father giving you a hard time again?"
Youngseo's father had been trying to call through all day. She had managed to get her secretary to field those calls. She didn't need a lecture on why she hadn't secured that new company but now he was calling out of work hours. Reluctantly she answered, "Hello Appa."
Hari continued to eat as Youngseo gave a lot of non-committal uh-huh, hmm sounds. She was just taking a sip of her beer when Youngseo suddenly yelled, standing straight up and banging her hand on the table. Hari choked on her drink, slapping her chest as she motioned to Youngseo to sit, as other patrons at the restaurant glared at them. Youngseo ignored her, her voice rising, "I am not going on another blind date!" Before another cry of 'argh' and a 'FINE' before Youngseo slumped back in her chair, closing her phone.
"So raincheck on karaoke and drinks, then?" Hari shook her head. Rich people and their rich people problems.
Youngseo sighed, "Sorry Hari, I have to meet my parents for dinner now." She reached out to squeeze Hari's hand, "I promise we will go out for your birthday." She picked up her bag, waving as she walked out of the restaurant "I'll call you later!"
Half an hour later, she entered the private suite her parents always reserved when eating at their favourite restaurant. Her father seated at the front of the table, her mother on the left.
Jin Hyun was shorter than his daughter, wore round, gold rimmed glasses and his default expression was disapproval. Youngseo got most of her looks and height from her mother. Song Hwayong, always had her hair up, Youngseo had never seen her with it down, it was always in a tight bun. She was also blessed with good genes that didn't need plastic surgery to hide wrinkles. Youngseo secretly hoped out of all the things she inherited from her mother it would be that.
"Oh we can start eating now," said her mother motioning her to sit on the opposite side of the table.
Youngseo took her seat, letting out a dramatic sigh. "Eomma, I told you guys not to wait for me, I've already eaten."
Hwayong ignored her daughter, "It's the first day of the new lunar month, you must eat that soup or bad luck will befall you."
Youngseo rolled her eyes. Her mother was what people would nicely term eccentric to her face and behind her back as batshit loopy. She believed in reading ancient calendar charts, zodiacs, consulting psychics, carrying crystals and having a shaman on standby.
"Eat the soup, Youngseo." She didn't know how her father could say that so seriously. Her parents were definitely an odd couple, her father seemed to put up with her mother spouting about weird mystical fate stuff and she listened whenever father wanted to talk about investment portfolios.
Youngseo made a big show of taking a little bit of the soup. Her mother seemed pleased after she tried it. It didn't taste terrible but tteokbokki was infinitely better.
"Good, now darling we shall see good things happen this month."
"Why did you urgently need to see me tonight?" Get this over and done with and maybe she could still do karaoke tonight with Hari.
"You are nearly 30 and still continue to ignore all the viable candidates we've sent your way. The last one, you and your friend nearly gave a heart attack with that exorcism act." Her father glared at her while Youngseo tried to suppress a smirk, that one was a good one. She and Hari had laughed about that for days. Hyun continued, "I'm running out of candidates who would willingly go out with you who haven't heard about these stunts."
Her mother chimed in, "You must also marry within the next two lunar cycles if you want a happy marriage. I've been reading your charts and this is the peak of your powers with fate."
"Eomma..." Youngseo didn't believe most of the mumbo jumbo that came out of her mother's mouth but she did still have a soft spot for the one parent who showed her affection, even the weirder variety. "Do you really think I would agree to marry anyone in two months when I have said no to all the blind dates you've sent me on?" She sighed. "Can't you just let me meet someone naturally?"
Hwayong smiled widely at her daughter, "That is what I am doing. We are just helping destiny along. Your father and I have agreed that we will send you on one last blind date."
Youngseo eyed both her parents suspiciously. "What's the catch?"
"If you don't like him, fine you can find someone else BUT it must be within these two lunar cycles as you must be married by then."
"WHAT?! That's crazy Eomma. I am not going to find someone to marry in two months!"
"Then here's to hoping your blind date goes well," interjected her father. He glanced at his watch, "He will be here in a few minutes."
Youngseo shot straight out of her seat, slamming her hand against the table. "This is an ambush!"
Both her parents remained calm, used to their daughter's outbursts. A light knock against the wall partition and then the sliding door opening, stopped Youngseo from the rest of the rant she had been about to unleash on her parents. She recognised her father's secretary as he motioned to an elderly gentleman holding a cane to enter.
Oh my god, her parents had lost it. They couldn't possibly be setting her up on a blind date with a geriatric. Had she really run through all the eligible young men of chaebol families?
Her father stood, "Welcome Chairman Kang. Please sit, join my family for dinner." The elderly man walked to the other end of the table, briefly smiling at her mother and her before sitting down.
He cleared his throat, "Thank you Chairman Jin. I'd like to introduce my grandson." He pointed to the door. "I said, I'd like to introduce my grandson." He said louder this time before grumbling something under his breath that Youngseo barely caught as that punk better not something something.
A shuffle behind the screen and a tall man appeared, looking peeved to be there.
"Well come in!" His grandfather motioned. He had said something else but Youngseo had completely missed what it was as she stood transfixed by the man who'd entered.
"Oh fuck." She said out loud but she didn't care as the man standing across from her was Sunghoon.
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