Chapter 85 – What Do You Mean, a Mistress

Click.

Cha Ra-ri and Chu Eun-su got off at the entrance of a small-to-medium-sized department store.

“You remember well, right? If you get excited, I will cut it off like a knife on my own, so don’t feel hurt.”

“Yeah. Understood.”

Recalling the note Geum Nae-yeong gave her, Cha Ra-ri clearly pointed out the precautions to Chu Eun-su one last time.

Ding.

As the elevator arrived, the two resolutely stepped inside without a word.

Cha Ra-ri tapped the button for the third floor with her finger. As the button lit up, tension spread inside the narrow space.

“So, she is the woman at the Urban Style store here on the third floor, right?”

Chu Eun-su nodded slightly. Her face was stiff, showing her nervous air as is.

Cha Ra-ri lightly tapped her shoulder.

“Don’t worry, Eun-su. Just trust me.”

Clack.

As soon as the door opened, Cha Ra-ri held her head high and walked down the third-floor corridor with powerful clicks of her heels.

Arriving in front of a store, they briefly checked the mistress’s face, scanned the inside of the store once, and then turned their steps as if heading to the next store, stopping naturally at an ambiguous point between the two stores.

Chu Eun-su let out a long breath, gulped, and stood next to Cha Ra-ri. When she sent a signal that she was ready, Cha Ra-ri questioned Chu Eun-su first.

“Ah… I feel really like crap. So, the woman who had an affair with your husband works in this department store?”

At Cha Ra-ri’s question, Chu Eun-su gritted her teeth and answered.

“Yeah. That’s what they say. But my mood is extremely dirty right now… I feel like I won’t leave her alone if she gets caught.”

“Really? But… it’s a very insignificant department store. She must be working shamelessly somewhere here, right?”

Cha Ra-ri raised her voice even more.

“Where does a bad bitch dare steal someone else’s man? I will truly make it so that bad bitch can’t show her face around.”

At that moment, the mistress, who was tidying up the display stand, heard their voices, leaned out of the store slightly, and glanced at them out of the corner of her eye.

Cha Ra-ri added words again.

“—is what you want to go around saying, right? Eun-su?”

“Right. Honestly, I also used to wonder why words like ‘adulteress’ or ‘mistress’ existed… but we must teach those bitches who seduce married men a proper lesson. So they can’t show their faces out of shame.”

At Cha Ra-ri’s words, a middle-aged woman passing by the women’s clothing store overheard the talk, glanced back, and chimed in.

“Oh my… excuse me, I happened to overhear while passing by… what do you mean by mistress?”

At the middle-aged woman’s words, Cha Ra-ri smirked.

The advice Geum Nae-yeong taught her flashed through her head.

How to Avoid the Crime of Insult

① Do not swear by targeting a specific person.

Do not state directly any clues such as name, workplace, appearance, or characteristics. Swear, but make it ambiguous so that who it is cannot be specified.

② Swear by expressing your own emotions.

Instead of conveying it in a way that specifies others, express your own emotions like ‘my mood is…’

③ If people gather, expand the scope to apply pressure, but again, never specify the opponent.

* Precautions: If things go wrong and the police intervene, state ‘I have no memory at all’ and immediately retain Attorney Geum Nae-yeong.

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Cha Ra-ri nodded and spoke to the middle-aged woman in a friendly and natural manner.

“Well, my friend’s husband… oh my… said he was working overtime on the weekend, but had an affair with a woman working here.”

“Oh my goodness! Really?”

“Yes. Well, I can’t say who it is… but a truly bad bitch who seduced a married man is working here.”

“Oh my… No, in this department store, there must be a ton of female employees…

But she recklessly seduced a perfectly fine married man? How can someone be so wicked while wearing a human mask?”

“I know, right!! Fearlessly, oh my…”

As if it didn’t feel like someone else’s business, the middle-aged woman’s emotions seemed to gradually rise upon hearing the story.

“No, how absurd, you’re leaving that alone? Grabbing that bitch’s hair like this, whoosh, and shaking it wouldn’t even be enough!”

The middle-aged woman suddenly raised her arm and mimicked grabbing hair in the air.

Another woman passing by, who saw that, suddenly poked her head in.

“Excuse me, who seduced a married man?”

“Someone seduced this decent wife’s husband! Oh my… I must see that bitch’s face! Daring to seduce a married man while doing business in the neighborhood? What uneducated behavior!”

The excited middle-aged woman raised her voice.

“Wait… let me see… this is not something our Jeongsu 2-dong Women’s Association can just let pass!”

Giving a snap of her hand, the woman opened her cell phone’s leather case with a thud, and began to make a call to someone.

“Yeah, it’s the Women’s Association President. Manager, you know the UL Department Store here, right? Oh my, they say a woman who seduces a perfectly fine married man works here! Women’s clothing store! Now is not the time to go hiking, come quickly!”

As the woman hung up the phone and made a fuss all over the neighborhood, the ladies gathered around began to curse along and agree.

Once people gathered to some extent, Chu Eun-su opened her mouth as if she gained some courage.

“…I won’t leave it alone. I will make sure she clearly knows for the rest of her life what kind of results her choice produces.

Getting fired from the company is basic, and if she changes companies, I will visit the company she moved to.

If that woman gets married, I will chase her to the wedding hall holding a placard. Saying ‘the woman who had an affair with a married man every weekend.’ A bad bitch who breaks a peaceful home has no right to live happily.”

“Oh, of course. Is it enough to only visit the wedding? We should visit the baby’s first birthday party, entrance ceremonies, family events, all of them! Since her parents educated her like that, they will get cursed at together.

Where does a mindless bitch try to live normally after smashing someone else’s home? By the way, who is that bitch in this store?”

As the voices of the middle-aged woman and Chu Eun-su grew louder, even people who were looking at clothes in other stores gathered one by one.

The mistress, as if realizing that those words were about her, turned pale in an instant. And seeing people gathering more and more,

as if she had to stop this situation first, she approached Cha Ra-ri cautiously and spoke quietly.

“Um… customer. This is the store entrance… how about having the conversation over… over there?”

At those words, Cha Ra-ri smirked, opened her wallet, and took out a card.

“Those clothes marked as ‘new arrivals’ here? Give me all of them by color. In size 44.”

“Yes… Pardon?”

“Don’t you sell clothes? I’m spending money. Please pack them well.”

“Ah… yes…”

The mistress took the card in a daze with wide eyes.

At that moment,

Cha Ra-ri grabbed her hand slightly to stop her. And very slowly, she put her mouth close to her ear and whispered in a low voice.

“You should listen. It’s your story.”

At Cha Ra-ri’s whispering voice, the woman’s face turned black in an instant.

Cha Ra-ri smirked, spoke, and turned her body toward the surroundings again.

“Please pack them slowly. Since we have plenty of time.”

Meanwhile, the middle-aged woman was making Chu Eun-su speak.

“Is this decent lady the party involved?”

When Chu Eun-su slowly nodded at the middle-aged woman’s question, the middle-aged woman clicked her tongue.

“Leaving behind such a pretty wife… how could he do that?”

Cha Ra-ri replied.

“Did he have an affair because his wife isn’t pretty? He just got vain.

Although the husband is equally a bad guy who couldn’t pull himself together, the bitch who had an affair with a married man while clearly knowing he has a family is also a crazy bitch.”

“Oh my! How dirty. Seriously, my goodness.”

The moment the middle-aged woman shook her head in anger, another woman waved her hand from behind and called people.

“Oh, it’s here! Here, come and listen to the story!”

Perhaps thanks to the Women’s Association President who made calls earlier, neighborhood ladies gathered in crowds, and the third-floor women’s clothing store bustled like a marketplace in an instant.

“Oh my… they say there is such a woman in this department store. But that wife is kind enough not to even let us know who… having an affair leaving behind such a decent person, tsk tsk.”

“No, aren’t you going to grab her hair? You should just pull out all her hair! Truly wicked, isn’t she? Who is that bitch, let’s see her face.”

“In this neighborhood, everyone is connected… shouldn’t we make it so such a person can’t do business?”

A few employees from nearby stores also approached and began to whisper while listening to the story.

The mistress’s hands handling the wrapping paper trembled, and her pupils shook as she looked back and forth between Cha Ra-ri and Chu Eun-su.

At that time, the store manager approached the mistress and spoke to her.

“Oh my… did you hear? They say there is a woman having an affair with a married man in our department store! Who on earth is it? How absurd. Isn’t she crazy? If such a thing gets rumored nowadays, life is finished…”

The words poured out by the women continued, and the mistress listened to all those sounds without even being able to raise her head, only packing.

The middle-aged woman questioned Cha Ra-ri.

“But is the young lady here… a friend? Ah, how loyal. Coming along together.”

Cha Ra-ri nodded with a slight smile.

“Of course. I can’t just sit still while my friend is struggling. I actually work at a law office. That’s why I told this friend to file a lawsuit, you know?”

People’s gazes focused on Cha Ra-ri.

“Our attorney is extremely famous for divorce lawsuits. If we put our minds to it, we could scare her out of her wits with various lawsuits, but my friend said ‘just once, I will give a chance,’ so she held back.”

“Oh my goodness!! Heavens, she’s an angel! Why let her off? You should make such a bitch go broke!”

Amidst the murmuring, the mistress tied the ribbon wrapping several times, but her hands kept slipping.

After a while, Cha Ra-ri spoke to the people.

“…Just a moment. Since I bought some clothes… I should grab them and go now.”

The mistress finished packing with trembling hands and handed the items to Cha Ra-ri. All kinds of curses from people had already pierced into her ears as is.

“Customer, here it is.”

“Ah… thank you.”

Cha Ra-ri looked at her slightly while holding the shopping bags in both hands.

“And… there shouldn’t be any occasion for me to come back to refund these clothes, right?”

At Cha Ra-ri’s last words, the mistress’s pupils shook greatly, and Chu Eun-su, who was watching that sight from the side, stared at the mistress and whispered in a low voice.

“It’s only this once. Letting you off like this without saying your name.”

A silence flowed for a moment.

The mistress’s pale lips trembled slightly, but no words came out of that mouth.

Cha Ra-ri and Chu Eun-su turned around and left the store as if nothing were wrong.

The mistress stood blankly until their backs completely disappeared, then stumbled and went into the breakroom.

“Eun-su, are you okay?”

“Yeah. Although my anger isn’t fully resolved… thank you anyway.”

“Okay. Do you want to have a cup of tea for a bit?”

“No. Now I should have a showdown with my husband. That bitch must have contacted him.”

“…Should I wait by your side?”

“No.”

Chu Eun-su took a slow deep breath.

“I will handle it from here.”