Chapter 232 - Fat and short

As Jinhee ate her breakfast, her so-called parent's and Jinkyung's eyes stared upon her. Youngchul still hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet. However, that was none of Jinhee's concern.

Leaning against her chair, Jinhee quietly enjoyed the taste of her food whilst remaining unbothered about those eyes, which were gazing upon her. Wherever they were looking at was none of her business after all.

After Jinhee had quickly finished her meal, she pushed her chair back and stood up. Not wanting to go to school with Jinkyung, she finished her food early.

Looking towards Lee Dowon, Jinhee bowed and vocalised, "Grandpa Dowon, I am done with my breakfast and will be taking my leave then."

"Jinhee, I haven't finished my breakfast yet. Wait for me," Jinhee said.

Ignoring Jinkyung, Jinhee turned towards Taehyun and questioned, "Are you done?"

Nodding, Taehyun wiped his face with the handkerchief and stood up. Following Taehyun, Soyeon got on her feet as well.

"Grandpa Dowon, I will be going with Taehyun, so you don't need to trouble your driver," Jinhee vocalised.

Lee Dowon nodded and said, "Sure, do that then."

Before Jinhee could turn her back on Dowon, Jinkyung exclaimed, "Wait! Aren't we going to school together!?"

Turning back to look at Jinkyung, Jinhee smiled towards her and arrogantly voiced out, "Where did you get that misunderstanding? After all, I will be going with Han Taehyun."

Hearing those words from Jinhee, Jinkyung clenched her hand into a tight fist, and holding in her temper, Jinkyung said, "I guess that is understandable. Now that—"

Before Jinkyung could continue, Jinhee turned her back on Jinkyung and began to walk. She had no time to listen to Jinkyung's words on degrading herself. 

Jinhee clearly lnew that after Jinkyung stops, her mother and father will be starting, and she had bo desire to be late to school. 

A groan left Jinkyung's mouth when she noticed how Jinhee was stepping away. Jinkyung was truly determined to make Jinhee pay, and recalling about something, a small smirk formed on her face.

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As Jinhee stepped into her classroom, she started hearing the whisperings of her fellow classmates. However, this time it was not about her, and couple of times she heard them using Hyunbin's name, making her wonder on what the matter is.

Nudging at Taehyun, Jinhee turned to look towards him and questioned, "Do you have any idea on what is going on?"

Shaking his head, he said, "No idea; Should I go around and ask?"

"No need for that. He must have gotten into another fight of his; Let's just concentrate on studying," Jinhee voiced out before opening her bag.

Her exams started tomorrow, and she had to start preparing for them. Jinhee's confidence rose after Taehyun began to tutor her, and with his guidance, Jinhee was confident that she will be able to ace the exams.

Taehyun nodded and vocalised, "I would advise you to take break from studying. You studied a lot yesterday, and I know you're going to be pulling an all-nighter today. So, it's better to calm down now. Don't stress that brain of yours."

"I need to make up for all those lessons I missed, Taehyun," Jinhee said, "And too much studying for few days wouldn't kill."

Before Taehyun could continue, Jinhee heard the door open. Turning her head towards the direction of the door, she noticed that Min Hyunbin had walked in.

Everyone was stealing glances at him, and disgust could be visible within their eyes. Realizing that all of them were staring at him, Hyunbin shot them all a glare.

Although few of the students were frightened by his gaze, most of them scoffed at Min Hyunbin, and their gossiping turned worse. Few of them even reached Jinhee's ear as well.

"Tch! How could he show such haughtiness after what he had done!?"

"I didn't expect any better from him!"

"Exactly, people like him will resort to such dirty methods are stealing papers."

"Even with or without stealing papers, he will—"

Before the boy sitting at the front desk could continue, his collar was gripped by Min Hyunbin. Gritting his teeth, Hyunbin glowered upon the boy, and his stare was enough to petrify the boy.

Nevertheless, the boy tried his hardest to keep on his composure and gave a smug smile towards Hyunbin. If Hyunbin really hit him, he would be getting more trouble than he already was.

"What are you going to do now? Beat up people for being honest? It's not other's fault that—"

Seeing the fist directed towards him, a loud scream left the boy's mouth, and he tightly closed his eyes. However, before Hyunbin's fist could touch the boy's face, his hand was pulled back.

Jinhee felt relief spread over her when she noticed that she had managed to stop Min Hyunbin before he could land a hit on the boy. 

Although Jinhee wasn't sure on what could have happened, she was well aware that Hyunbin's situation would have gone to become worse if he had hit the boy.

Realizing that no hit came towards him, the boy opened his eyes gradually, and seeing that Hyunbin was stopped by Jinhee, he felt slightly disappointed.

If it was not for Lee Jinhee interfering, the boy could have gotten Min Hyunbin in more trouble than he already was.

"Control yourself, Jinhee! Can't you see that he is trying to purposely provoke you!?" Jinhee scolded whilst her stared upon Hyunbin strictly.

However, Hyunbin wasn't the one to easily be quelled down, and he tried to pull away his hand from Jinhee. He wouldn't feel satisfied until or unless he broke that nose of his.

However, she held on to his hand tightly and was not going to loosen grip on it at any cost. For he was her little brother, she felt responsible to protect him.

"Let go of me, Jinhee! Until I burst that fat and short nose of his, I wouldn't feel peace," Hyunbin spatted— His eyes reflecting the anger he felt at this moment.