Villain Training (3)

Since this morning, I’d been camped out at Min Ye-won’s regular café for about three hours.

I had been sitting there so long, staring only at my smartphone until the ice in my third iced Americano had almost completely melted, that my head was starting to feel numb.

‘Waiting around doing nothing is a little tiring.’

Going by Min Ye-won’s usual pattern, she would probably show up around lunchtime, but there was no harm in preparing thoroughly just in case.

I had maintained the original novel’s story as much as possible, but there was no knowing how the minor variables I had created would affect things.

Min Ye-won might wake up a little earlier than usual and go out for a walk because she was in a foul mood, or Jo Jinhyeon, who was seething with resentment toward me, might pressure Min Ye-won over the phone from early morning.

Even so, Min Ye-won’s basic pattern of visiting this regular café, ‘Heaven’s Sweet,’ to change her mood whenever stress built up wouldn’t change, so to make contact as quickly as possible, I needed to appear before her while pretending—however forcedly—that it was a coincidence.

About two weeks remained until academy entrance.

Once academy life properly began, I wouldn’t be able to have a ‘natural encounter’ with her, since she would be attending a different academy.

So before then, I needed to exchange contact information and firmly establish the relationship between master and slave...