Kang Chan went into the house and found his parents in the living room.

“How are you?” Yoo Hye-Sook asked Kang Chan.

Kang Dae-Kyung winked from behind Yoo Hye-Sook.

“I feel a lot better after I took the medicine. I’ll head inside my room for now and sleep.”

“You overworked yourself too much, which is why you’re not feeling well.”

“I guess I really did.”

Kang Chan went into his room and lay in bed. He didn’t have a cold, but it was true that he had overworked himself. He heard people say this and that about the opposition party, something about the position of the Director of the National Intelligence Service, and even about impeaching the President. It felt like he had butted into a mud-slinging, which was worse than people pouncing at him with a filet knife.

“I should sleep. It’s not like things are going to change even if I worry about it,” Kang Chan told himself.

He soon fell asleep, then woke up early in the morning.

Kang Chan remembered Yoo Hun-Woo’s plea to not do immoderate workouts yet, so he skipped working out in the morning. Instead, he adequately washed...