Aqsa
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Chapter 2 Coffee Master Is Way Too Strong This Café Is Suspicious A little while later, inside a car speeding down the road. Song Ra-yoon had a serious expression on her face as she gripped the steering wheel. I never expected him to propose a deal to me first. The coffee from Café Essence. At first, she'd thought it was just the placebo effect. But after drinking it for the second time, she became certain. There was something inside that coffee—something she didn't know…-
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Chapter 1 After Retirement, I Opened a Café Coffee Master Is Way Too Strong Kang Seung-gyun, currently in his mid-thirties. About ten years ago, I was completely obsessed with coffee. Being a Q-Grader and an R&D Master was practically the bare minimum. I was once considered a rising star in the industry, having even won the trophy at the World Barista Championship (WBC). And the job I chose after leaving that glamorous career behind? I became the exclusive personal barista of the…
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Chapter 11 She hadn't been able to get a good night's sleep. The day before the CSAT, she absolutely had to sleep well to be in good condition, but she kept waking up throughout the early hours of the morning. It wasn't because she was nervous. Tap. The sound that kept reaching her whenever she was about to fall asleep. Tap, tap, trrrrr……. The noise periodically seeped through, as though someone were playing with a ball outside her bedroom door. She wanted to find out what the…-
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Chapter 10 The CSAT was only three days away. These days, self-study had become the norm even at school. Eum left the house with a scarf wrapped tightly around her neck and a mask covering her face. The air had suddenly grown so cold that she could truly feel the meaning behind the phrase CSAT cold snap. Hunching her shoulders as she made her way toward the bus stop, she suddenly heard a short honk. “Huh?” She turned around with a hopeful feeling, and there stood a familiar…
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Chapter 9 “Enough. That’s far enough.” Jihoon raised his right hand. Eum looked aggrieved. “Why? Why won’t you let me finish?” “Because everything you say with such a serious expression is completely ridiculous.” “That’s not true.” Even as Eum grumbled that he was being too harsh, she eventually said what she had wanted to ask. “Why did you wait for me today?” When Jihoon fell silent, an awkward stillness settled over the car. In the dim interior, with…
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Chapter 8 Eum devoted herself to preparing for the CSAT day and night. She wasn't lacking confidence in the exam itself. Studying had been her only friend throughout her lonely school life, after all. She was actually confident that she could get a Grade 1 in every subject. The problem wasn't her grades. Since the condition was that not a single mistake could be allowed, what she needed was mental training. Taking a listening test amid noise. Solving long reading passages while holding back…
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Chapter 7 Time passed. There were now only about two weeks left until the CSAT. It was the time of year when students preparing for the exam and even their parents became increasingly sensitive, while everyone lived almost like monks in order to maintain their condition. But not every exam-taker was the same. “Teacherrrr!” Ever since the conversation about her marriage to Assemblyman Park, Eum had come to see Jihoon every single day—no, several times a day. She had become like a summer…
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Chapter 6 After finding out that Jihoon had left the school, Eum could no longer live her life normally. She could no longer concentrate on studying, and the CSAT, the most important exam of her life, had been pushed to the back of her mind. The only thing filling her thoughts was Seong Jihoon. She shed tears, but she didn’t cry. She didn’t even know whether she had the right to cry. Classes were over. The students streamed out of the classroom like the tide going out, leaving Eum alone. She was…
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Chapter 5 Ever since the day she had been half-embraced by Jihoon, Eum felt as though she had been placed under a spell. Whenever she looked up at the clear blue sky, she saw his face, and the rustling autumn leaves carried his scent. Even when she listened to English listening exercises, she heard Jihoon’s voice. To her, the entire world was Seong Jihoon. Eum knew that what she had was lovesickness, but although she had diagnosed herself, she couldn’t find a cure. In that state, her…
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Chapter 4 When she turned her head, she saw her younger sister, Yeon Bora, with her face pressed close to the car window. Bora had placed the side of one hand against the window and leaned in close, apparently trying to get a look inside the car. Caught completely off guard by the sudden situation, Eum swallowed nervously. “I should get going now. Thank you for today.” Eum hurriedly put down the jacket and opened the door. She opened it only as much as necessary, worried that rainwater…
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