While the girls were talking and thinking about boys, the boys meanwhile were thinking of other things.
Jang Shin was deep in his thoughts while the other two men busied themselves acquainting with the others. He silently kept drinking his fruit wine while his mind wandered. He was not like the two men whom these powerful people would stop and greet.
Jang Shin did not have an excellent status like theirs, nor did he had an exceptional ability to make up for it. He was just... a relatively capable man of low status who was trying hard to become someone worthy.
But the path was hard.
However, in order to become someone Jang Shin could be proud of, this process was necessary. Even if he had to sacrifice some things...
Jang Shin drank another sip again.
He would not desire what he could not afford.
