Peninsula: My Top-Tier Landlord

The ramen was cooked, and Kang Seulgi stirred it a couple of times with her chopsticks before turning off the heat.

"Unnie, do you really want to know?"

"Yes, it's better to be embarrassed sooner rather than later." Bae Joo-hyun nodded. It's better to know sooner rather than later when she'll be teased and at a loss.

Kang Seulgi didn't answer, but instead walked behind Bae Joohyun, pressed close to her back, and put her hands on her shoulders.

Bae Joo-hyun took a step forward, turned her head, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm demonstrating for you, so play along. Now you're the brother-in-law, and I'm you, and you did this last night..."

Kang Seulgi hugged Bae Joohyun's neck and kept rubbing her big head against her, reliving the scene from last night.

But as I rubbed against her, I felt the temperature rising, and when I looked down, I saw that this unnie had turned red!

Kang Seulgi immediately covered her ears, and the next second there was a sharp bang.

That's so embarrassing!

Fortunately, Ye Fan wasn't here, otherwise she would have wanted to crawl into the cracks between the floor tiles.

I have been harmed by alcohol and women, and from this day forward, I will abstain from alcohol!

"Hey, don't worry, unnie. Even though we're pretending to be a couple, we're still a real couple. And it was just a little rubbing against each other, no kissing, and we didn't give anything away, right?" Kang Seulgi patted the older woman on the shoulder and walked back to the stove to serve the ramen.

"What do you mean it was just a little rubbing?" Bae Joo-hyun was speechless. It was as if she was trying to do something.

Getting drunk is embarrassing enough, let alone something like this happening.

Even after Kang Seulgi had brought the ramen to the table, Bae Joo-hyun was still asking for more specific details, especially whether Ye Fan had said anything.

"My brother-in-law didn't say anything. He just took you back to the sofa and then left with his sister."

Did he send you any messages?

Bae Joo-hyun picked up her phone and saw that Ye Fan hadn't sent any new messages.

"no."

"That's it, my brother-in-law didn't say anything. Okay, unnie, hurry up and eat." Kang Seulgi picked up a noodle, blew on it, and put it in her mouth.

Um~

It tasted good, but it felt like something was missing. I'm thinking of going to mooch a meal there.

Bae Joo-hyun wasn't in a hurry to eat. Instead, she opened her chat with Ye Fan, thought for a couple of seconds, and sent him a thank you message.

"I'm so sorry about last night, thank you for taking me home." She opened the emoji page and sent a slightly dead emoji.

The message received a reply quickly. Ye Fan replied that it was okay, and then advised Bae Joo-hyun to drink less alcohol in the future.

Ye Fan woke up around 9 a.m. He had drunk quite a bit last night, and his mouth was dry when he woke up early in the morning, so he went out to find water. He didn't feel anything when he drank the liquor, but it had a strong aftereffect, and he had a headache after waking up.

"My alcohol tolerance wasn't like this before, it's just that I haven't drunk in a long time." Bae Joo-hyun's fingers flew across the keyboard as she sent the message, trying to defend herself.

"Your previous alcohol tolerance was just one more bottle, right? Seulgi already told me, it feels about the same."

"Luckily, those fans don't know about this, otherwise you might have another nickname."

"What nickname?"

"Pei Liangping."

Bae Joo-hyun chuckled. "Didn't you name it that? What, you carried me back here, are you going to become my hater now?"

"Iron powder is black, isn't it?"

She can talk, though.

Thinking about what Ye Xin had told her about his past and how he was a little bit of a closet pervert, Bae Joo-hyun's lips curved into a wider smile.

"Why are you awake so early? I remember you drank a lot yesterday, didn't you?" Bae Joo-hyun typed her reply as naturally as if they were having a casual chat.

Seeing that her older sister hadn't touched her chopsticks yet, and was smiling while holding her phone, Seulgi raised an eyebrow and tentatively asked, "Unnie, are you chatting with your brother-in-law?"

"Yes, I sent him a message to thank him. He woke up a while ago and is having dinner with Xiaoxin now." Bae Joo-hyun nodded, opened the photo Ye Fan sent, and flipped the screen to show Kang Seul-gi.

The photo shows Ye Fan cooking home-style dishes. Kang Seulgi glanced down at the instant noodles in the bowl and felt that they didn't taste good at all.

"Unnie, how about we go get a free meal?"

"What are you saying?" Bae Joo-hyun rolled her eyes at her, picked up her chopsticks and started eating, while continuing to play with her phone, replying to Ye Fan's messages and Ye Xin's messages at the same time.

The two added each other on Kakao last night. At first, Ye Xin kept calling her "sister-in-law," which made Ye Xin blush a little, but after being called that all night, she gradually got used to it.

Ye Xin said her brother Ye Fan was going to take her out for a walk later and asked if she wanted to come along.

After thinking about it, he realized that he had troubled Ye Fan so much last night and hadn't thanked him yet, so he decided to treat him to a meal.

"Seulgi, are you alright today?" After putting down her phone, Bae Joohyun asked Seulgi, who had already finished her ramen and even drunk half of the soup.

"It's okay." Putting down her bowl, Kang Seulgi shook her head. She had quite a lot of rest time this month, except for hosting an event on the 10th.

"Let's go out for a walk together later, Xiaoxin invited me."

"Oh?" Kang Seulgi took a tissue to wipe her mouth, looking at her older sister with a playful expression.

"My brother-in-law must be here too, right?"

Xiao Xin has only been in Seoul for two days. If she wants to go out and have fun, Ye Fan will definitely go with her. Besides, it's the weekend, and Ye Fan is off work.

"Yes, he's here too."

"Why don't you all go out and have fun? What would I do if I went out with you?" Seulgi joked.

Bae Joo-hyun's face flushed slightly as she glared at Seulgi. "Are you going or not?!"

"Yes, of course I'm going!" As soon as the eldest sister's imposing manner was announced, Kang Seulgi immediately sat up straight.

After clearing away the dishes, Kang Seulgi went back to her room to change her clothes, then put on some light makeup, which took ten minutes. She grabbed her bag and went to the living room to wait. After playing on her phone for twenty minutes, Bae Joo-hyun finally came out of her room.

Kang Seulgi chuckled to herself. This older sister had put a lot of effort into her makeup, but she didn't point it out.

"Unnie, are you driving or should I drive?" When they arrived at her car, Kang Seulgi pressed the unlock button.

"Is there any difference?" Bae Joo-hyun asked, puzzled.

"If you drive, I'll sit in the back seat; if I drive, you sit in the back seat," Kang Seulgi said matter-of-factly.

"This..." Bae Joo-hyun understood what Kang Seul-gi meant: if she was driving, Ye Fan would sit in the passenger seat; if she wasn't driving, she and Ye Fan would sit in the back seat, since they were "couples" now.

"Then you can drive."

After thinking it over, Bae Joo-hyun decided to sit in the back seat. It was Seulgi's car, so it was better for her to drive herself.

"OK~"

Driving to the entrance of the residential area, she immediately spotted Ye Fan and his sister waiting by the roadside. She stopped in front of them, rolled down the window, greeted them, and then pointed to the passenger seat.

Ye Xin understood immediately, ran a few steps to the passenger seat, opened the door and got in.

Seeing the two's subtle actions, Ye Fan shrugged, opened the back door, and saw Bae Joo-hyun looking dignified with a gentle smile.

Wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and a blue-green striped jacket, with her hair tied in a bun and black-rimmed glasses, she looked more like a girl next door who had just started college than a mature woman in her thirties.

Looking at that bright smile, Ye Fan's eyes flickered, and he was momentarily taken aback.

"What's wrong, brother-in-law? Are you captivated by unnie's beauty?" Kang Seulgi, in the driver's seat, noticed Ye Fan's expression and teased him directly.

Bae Joo-hyun didn't say anything, but simply kept the corners of her mouth turned up.

"Cough, I was indeed struck by her beauty, she's gorgeous." Ye Fan readily admitted, then gently patted his chest to calm the little deer down.

To be honest, Bae Joo-hyun's outfit really appealed to him, and perhaps it was also because of last night; the little deer in his heart started to stir.

Kang Seulgi shifted gears and continued driving, then said, "I've never heard you praise unnie's beauty before, brother-in-law."

"Did I praise you?" Ye Fan frowned; he remembered praising you.

"You only said 'pretty,' that's all. You didn't say anything else, not nearly as much as you did today," Kang Seulgi continued, trying to sabotage and support her.

"Isn't everyone aware of Irene's beauty?" Ye Fan said with a smile.

"Brother-in-law, you can't just give me that perfunctory answer. You have to praise your lover more. Just like growing flowers, you have to water them often for them to bloom beautifully."

"Others' praise is just that—others' praise. But a lover's praise is always different from everyone else's," Kang Seulgi continued.

"That's right, bro. If I were you, I'd be praising your wife every day." Ye Xin continued to join the group chat, while complaining to her brother, "Can't you be a little more sensible? Your wife is so beautiful, you should definitely make the most of her."

Ye Fan's forehead creased with annoyance. He wouldn't even mention his own sister, who was a bastard, but what was up with Jiang Seulgi?

Isn't she the one who knows the ins and outs of his relationship with Bae Joo-hyun the best? Why is she so interested?

Bae Joo-hyun turned her head away, pursing her lips to suppress a laugh. Although she was embarrassed, it was quite amusing that her two younger sisters, Seulgi and Ye Xin, started talking about how Ye Fan had made her look bad as soon as they met.

She stepped forward and said to Ye Fan, "Alright, he's already praised him, so you two stop staring at him."

Kang Seulgi: "Oh my, unnie's starting to defend her husband, huh?"

Under Kang Seulgi's constant teasing and jokes, Bae Joo-hyun got used to it and immediately replied, "Then I definitely have to protect my boyfriend."

Ye Xin bit her collar, wanting to scream. Although she was her sister-in-law and she even shipped the two of them, she was really jealous of her older brother!

In contrast, Kang Seulgi exclaimed loudly, incredibly excited. Her older sister, who had initially seemed so awkward, was now saying something like that!

Unnie is starting to change!

Was it his praise of Ye Fan that had an effect, or was it because of his drunken act of carrying Ye Fan home last night?!

Kang Seulgi was still driving and didn't have the energy to analyze the reasons, but based on this sentence alone, she was determined to continue to help him out!

Who is the most powerful media personality in the Korean entertainment industry?

Okay, then it must be me, Seulgi!

Not only Seulgi, but Ye Fan was also somewhat surprised. They had been pretending to be a couple for more than two weeks, almost three weeks, during which time he and Bae Joo-hyun had maintained a respectful relationship.

It means you don't bother me, and I don't bother you; we only get together to put on a show under specific circumstances.

Moreover, after these few interactions, he discovered that Bae Joo-hyun wasn't the kind of woman who was very outgoing or cheerful, so it was quite surprising to hear her say that.

Looking at Bae Joo-hyun's beautiful profile, Ye Fan took a deep breath and turned his head away from her.

Damn, Bae Joo-hyun's outfit today really appeals to him. Her round face is not only pretty, but she also has a girl-next-door vibe. The bun hairstyle and glasses are just too much!

"Brother-in-law!!"

"Look, even unnie has said that, don't you have anything to say?" Kang Seulgi exclaimed excitedly.

"I…"

Looking at Bae Joo-hyun's unfairly smug face, Ye Fan was speechless for a moment, his mind in turmoil!

"I……"

"I want to say that I'm late..." Ye Fan's mind raced, and then he thought of a meme from the internet that should be enough to handle this situation, so he blurted it out.

"Oh? That's great, brother-in-law!" Kang Seulgi was a little surprised that he reacted so quickly. She had never heard such a statement before, and he answered the age question perfectly.

Bae Joo-hyun rested her chin on her hand, looking at Ye Fan beside her. Although her words implied that she was old, they didn't sound offensive.

Ye Xin pinched her chin, feeling that the sentence sounded familiar. Wasn't this the comment under those videos of rich women?

It's not that you're too old, it's that I missed out on your youth, I'm late, isn't that the kind of comment it is?

But it seems like they really enjoyed it. Are these cheesy pickup lines so popular abroad?

Although she was puzzled, Ye Xin didn't expose him for her brother's sake.

Ye Fan took his phone out of his pocket, opened Kakao, and sent a message to Bae Joo-hyun: "Are you okay?"

Her phone vibrated. Bae Joo-hyun unlocked it, glanced at it, and typed a reply: "It's okay, isn't this just an act?"

"You've helped me out the last few times, I can't keep bothering you."

Seeing Bae Joo-hyun's reply, Ye Fan raised an eyebrow, turned to look at Bae Joo-hyun beside him, and found her smiling at him. His heart began to pound again, and his heart raced wildly.

Ye Fan turned his head, constantly adjusting his breathing, trying to calm the frenzied deer down.

Calm down, calm down!

Don't get addicted. You can fool others, but don't fool yourself!

Seeing Ye Fan's emotional reaction, Bae Joo-hyun's lips curled slightly. It seemed that Xiao Xin was right.

Upon arriving at their destination, Kang Seulgi parked the car and put on a baseball cap and sunglasses, while Bae Joo-hyun only wore a mask; her hairstyle didn't suit the hat very well.

After Bae Joo-hyun accepted the setup, the roles of offense and defense were reversed, and Ye Fan became the one who felt embarrassed.

After strolling around the scenic spots, the three girls would stop to take pictures together whenever they came across a nice view, while Ye Fan would help carry their bags, acting as a "tool".

Looking at his "girlfriend" sandwiched between his younger sister and Kang Seulgi, Ye Fan kept trying to mentally prepare himself and stop overthinking.

As he drifted off into thought, the familiar scent of perfume drew near again. Ye Fan snapped back to reality and found Bae Joo-hyun standing beside him, raising her hand to make a half-heart gesture towards the camera of Kang Seul-gi and her younger sister.

Ye Fan subconsciously raised his hand and made the other half of a heart shape.

Although their hands were not joined together to form a complete heart, the distance between them had been reduced considerably.