158. face
What is the first quality a programmer should have?
great creativity? hard work sincerity?
Both are obviously essential elements.
If you don’t have creativity, you can’t be a good programmer because you can’t write efficient and good source code.
Also, since coding is not a task that can be done in a day, it is a task that must be done for as little as a month or as long as several years, so if you are not sincere, you cannot be called a programmer.
But there was something more important than those two.
It was ‘fitness’.
As with all things, physical strength is the most fundamental factor in doing everything.
If you lack stamina, no matter how smart you are, you cannot come up with creative ideas and opinions, and a person without stamina is not likely to be sincere.
So, Hoyeong did not neglect exercising in her previous life.
In particular, mountain climbing was his favorite sport…
“Ugh···. Ugh···.”
Hoyoung was breathing hard as he climbed Gwanaksan Mountain.
In the past, it was a mountain that I climbed lightly like jumping up the back garden, but in this life, I had to run several businesses at the same time and go around the world to meet, so the aftermath of neglecting exercise under the excuse of being busy is coming back like this.
“Even at the age of forty… It wasn’t like this. Phew- that’s a huge lack of exercise.”
Hoyeong blamed herself for her stamina, which was incomparable to that of the past.
“What is forty?”
“yes?”
Looking back, Lee Jin-chan was looking at Ho-young with a puzzled face.
“Aren’t you having a hard time, senior? If I keep going like this, I will go to the goal at 40.”
It was Ho-young who was just talking about what he thought of, but Lee Jin-chan giggled and said, as if that was funny.
“I know. I never thought you had this side.”
“I didn’t even think it would be like this.”
“okay. Hoyoung-ah, if you’re tired, take it easy. I will go up first.”
“…I know.”
Lee Jin-chan strode past Ho-young and climbed the mountain.
Hoyoung smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking that the reason he thought he could stay up all night was only thanks to his age in his early twenties.
“Are you okay?”
“Ah, Sumin Ha. it’s okay. It’s hard because I haven’t exercised in a long time.”
“Gwanaksan is steeper than I thought. It is one of the highest mountains in Seoul. So, in a way, it’s natural that it’s difficult.”
Hoyoung smiled.
Is it because the text I saw on the gate board yesterday overlapped?
Ha Soo-min, who speaks seriously even when it’s not a big deal, felt cute.
“Would you like some water?”
“Water? It’s good. I drank all my water earlier.”
Ha Su-min took a water bottle from his backpack and handed it to Ho-young.
“thanks. What’s in your backpack?”
“Are you here?”
Ha Su-min was embarrassed and replied, as if he hadn’t even thought about what Ho-yeong would ask.
“Just, water, food, and fresh…”
“This isn’t hiking, it’s the level of camping, right?”
“Ho, in case you don’t know…”
Seeing Ha Soo-min, whose face was turning red, Ho-yeong smiled and said,
“I have a question, can I ask it?”
“yes.”
“When is your birthday by any chance?”
“Birthday?”
“Is it July 20th by any chance?”
Ha Su-min’s already big eyes widened even more, as if he was surprised by Ho-young’s words.
“How did you know?”
“Did I guess?”
“…yes.”
Hoyoung chuckled.
The ID that posted on the gate board yesterday was su0720.
Hoyeong speculated that it was Sumin Ha who wrote the post, and su was Sumin’s su.
And I thought 0720 might be my birthday for some reason, but it hit the mark.
‘Celebrities also naturally use the Internet and gates. I knew from the numbers that it was already widely distributed in Korea, but I feel it when I see examples like this.’
Hoyoung felt good.
The Internet penetration rate in Korea has already reached the penetration rate of the early 2000s in the previous life.
That’s 10 years ahead of time.
“Now that you’ve rested, let’s go up again.”
“okay.”
Ha Su-min didn’t know how Ho-young knew his birthday or why he laughed to himself, but he decided not to think deeply.
“Isn’t your bag heavy? I’ll take it.”
Hoyeong picked up Sumin Ha’s bag that he put down with great enthusiasm.
And then, I immediately put it back on the ground.
‘What is so heavy?’
This time, Ha Soo-min laughed when he saw Ho-young with a puzzled expression.
Then, as if it were too light, he put on his backpack.
“I need to do some exercise.”
Then, with a smile on his face, he spit out a word to Hoyoung and started to climb the mountain at high speed.
Hoyoung was barely following Ha Sumin, so he couldn’t reply.
.
a few hours later
All the members of the climbing group came down after seeing the summit and gathered at Baek-suk’s house at the end of Hassan-ro.
“Keueu, after all, Baeksuk and acorn jelly after climbing.”
Lee Jin-chan said after drinking a cup of makgeolli.
Hoyoung said to him in a puzzled tone.
“Isn’t it useless if you exercise like that and eat alcohol and baeksuk like this?”
People were enjoying their meals, ordering plenty of green onion as well as alcohol and meat.
“Why is it useless, what is the purpose of our mountain climbing?”
“You want to increase your stamina?”
“okay. That’s it.”
Lee Jin-chan put an acorn jelly into his mouth and ate it deliciously before continuing.
“The purpose of mountain climbing is not diet. You’re trying to be healthy. Exercising with good people, and eating delicious food. This is health.”
Lee Jin-chan gave a long speech to Ho-yeong and laughed while drinking makgeolli.
“If you can’t talk, it’s not even if you’re mean.”
Hoyoung also smiled at him.
The mountaineering party eventually evolved into a drinking party.
In fact, it went more naturally because everyone here expected it.
The master was makgeolli, but it was not Hoyoung who would give up drinking.
Last time at Lee Jin-chan’s after-wedding party, many people drank and enjoyed themselves in such a large space that it was impossible to get close to each other unless they were sitting at the same table.
But today, there were just over ten people, and since everyone was in one room, we were able to eat and drink more happily than before.
“Hey, I have something to ask you.”
Ha Su-min, who had drunk a lot of makgeolli and got drunk, grabbed Ho-young by the sleeve and said,
“Please speak.”
“Why didn’t you call?”
Did you say alcohol makes you brave?
I don’t think it’s limited to men.
Ha Su-min, who couldn’t see Ho-young’s eyes properly, looked straight into his eyes and said.
Hoyoung met Ha Sumin’s eyes and shrugged his shoulders as if it didn’t matter.
“You may not believe it, but the note you gave me was wet and smudged. I don’t even have a phone number, so how can I contact you?”
“…!”
Ha Su-min’s eyes widened again.
His expression was almost the same as when Hoyoung celebrated his birthday earlier.
However, the feelings I have are different from before.
“Anyway, I’m sorry. I don’t know why I’m apologizing.”
Hoyoung smiled and poured Ha Sumin a drink.
“It’s a foul…”
“What?”
“Oh, nothing.”
Ha Su-min was worried that he might hear a new pounding sound.
It’s like a real foul.
With a face like that, a smile like that.
“Aren’t you saying that I’m annoying you?”
“no. why?”
“Either I’m annoying, or you don’t have any intention to contact me at all… Then it’s okay if you don’t have to contact me…”
Ha Su-min blurted out his words.
For Hoyoung, it was questionable how Sumin Ha could sing on stage with such a personality.
But now that didn’t matter.
“Not at all. I think it would be good for Sumin Ha to have a little more confidence.”
“… thanks. I will give you the correct number today, so please call me.”
“Okay.”
bang-
They lightly bumped the brass rice wine glasses Hoyoung and Ha Sumin were holding.
‘Today’s broadcast funk is worthwhile.’
In fact, Ha Su-min participated in the meeting today by omitting all of the schedules scheduled for today.
At the broadcasting station, she said that she was sick, and fortunately, Sumin Ha had never been like this before, and people at the broadcasting station believed her words perfectly, perhaps thanks to her sincere appearance.
She thought it was really good that she came out to this meeting today, even if it was overdoing it.
After a long time, I exercised in the mountains and ate delicious food.
And I was able to have a good time with pleasant people.
But the most important reason above all others.
If he hadn’t come out today, he wouldn’t have been able to get to know Hoyoung so well.
When he thought of this, Ha Su-min laughed.
“What’s so funny?”
“just···. It’s fun to do this together. Actually, I have been active in the entertainment industry since I was very young, so this is the first time I have had a meeting like this.”
Hoyeong seemed to understand Ha Soo-min’s feelings.
Because he was having a new fun at the first meeting in his life.
“no wonder. I think I know what you mean. It’s my first time today too.”
“okay?”
“yes. I hate crowded places. It’s the first time I’ve ever had a club or a meeting like this.”
“It didn’t look like that at all.”
Hoyoung made a puzzled expression.
“How did you look?”
“Well···. flirt?”
“Me?”
Seeing Hoyoung pointing at himself with an expression of no understanding at all, Sumin Ha smiled pleasantly.
And then I suddenly realized.
‘It’s been a while since I’ve laughed so comfortably…’
Her job is a celebrity.
He was someone who always had to laugh in front of the TV.
Because laughing is my job, sometimes the act of laughing was difficult.
That’s why I became more and more timid outside the camera, and I never expressed my emotions…
‘I can really genuinely laugh in front of this person.’
Ha Su-min felt like he realized something important, even though it was really trivial.
Suddenly, I wondered why I was interested in Hoyoung in the first place.
Is it cool to see society?
Just because you have a pretty face?
She shook her head.
A relaxed gaze that seems to know everything in the world.
But the absolute solitude of being alone in this world.
The moment she first saw Ho-yeong, she might have instinctively judged that he was a similar person to her.
And she was finally able to make up her mind.
‘I guess I like this person.’
Ha Su-min decided to admit his feelings clearly.
And once again, Hoyoung and his eyes met.
Then, involuntarily, an eye smile formed.
A genuine smile, strangely different from the laughter I’ve had so far.
Ha Soo-min smiled dazzlingly.
.
After the meeting went well, Hoyoung took a taxi and returned home.
After washing his face, he glanced in the mirror.
“uh?”
Then, in a moment of surprise, I looked back in the mirror.
It was unmistakably his own face.
However, Sumin Ha’s face, which had a dazzling smile a while ago, seemed to come to mind.
“Am I crazy?”
Thinking to himself that it must be because he drank too much, he washed up and lay down on the bed.
But he had no choice but to jump right up.
“Are you really crazy?”
When Hoyeong closed her eyes to sleep, all she could see was Sumin Ha’s smiling face.
