The day he first met Chairman Baek came to mind.

[Dash] You… are Taejoon.

[Dash] Who are you?

[Dash] I’m… your mother’s… friend.

Chairman Baek, who looked at him with unusually warm eyes on the day they first met.
However, even if someone who opened their young daughter’s closed heart and took care of her with all their sincerity was a person from a simple employer’s perspective, it was impossible for an employer to take care of the deceased employee’s son to such an extent.

Nevertheless, Chairman Baek did that until the moment of death. Looking back now, it was excessive kindness.

Taejoon thought it was sympathy for a child who lost their mother.

And when Chairman Baek knew who he was and understood the situation, he thought it was projecting the image of his daughter onto himself.

But now everything has become clear.

As if the last puzzle he had been searching for had finally fallen into place.

The completed picture was cruel beyond words.

“Not sympathy… Was it guilt?”

Rather than receiving sympathy, he burst into bitter tears. Betrayal overwhelmed him.

In the harsh truth, he once again felt dizzy.

In the end, Taejoon got out of the car and took the elevator. Anyway, it was impossible to spend the night in the car.

Opening the door and entering, the red sensor light greeted him.

Entering with staggering steps, Taejoon headed to the bathroom in the living room. But this time, unlike the unsettled stomach, he couldn’t vomit.

After washing his face and looking into the mirror, a strange man appeared. Although the appearance was Kang Taejoon, everything about the man in the mirror was unfamiliar.

Only then did he realize.

That he could no longer become yesterday’s Kang Taejoon.

That he could never go back to yesterday when he didn’t know today’s truth.

With a choked-up heart, he wanted to see Seorin. Even though she was right there in the bedroom, the distance felt as vast as a thousand miles.

How should I look at your face?

The moment he heard Chairman Baek’s name as his mother’s secret lover from Go Yeonghee, the first person that came to mind was Seorin.

Because of the unbelievable truth, they had become a relationship that was now too difficult to put into words.

So, nausea rose.

He resented his mother who had gone back first. But the dead don’t speak.

In the end, unable to withstand the longing, Taejoon came out of the bathroom with staggering steps and headed to the bedroom. The fact that he desperately wanted to see her in this situation was unbelievable.

However, it wasn’t easy to enter the bedroom. Holding the doorknob outside the bedroom for a long time, he stood there.

Even though he could see her right away if he opened this door, to him, it was as if the bedroom was an unreachable sanctuary.

Still, Taejoon slowly opened the door and headed to the bedroom.
He entered the bed and cautiously embraced her from behind. She lay there motionless, as if deeply asleep.

Even just holding her from behind like this, her warmth seeped into him. And the sweet scent of her skin, lingering around his nose, intoxicated him.

In this embrace, memories of the first moment he met her resurfaced, accompanied by the pleasant aroma of coffee under the clear sky in San Francisco.

‘You were so beautiful back then.’

He fell in love at first sight. From that moment until now, every moment spent with her flashed through his mind like scenes from a drama, each moment shining like a jewel.

However, those moments that shone brightly had twisted and distorted in the face of a cruel truth without mercy.

So, what will happen to you and me?

I wish I didn’t know the truth.

If only I could turn back time. Or even if I could have amnesia, I wanted to go back to yesterday when I didn’t know today’s truth.

‘If so, could we have been happy?’

It turned into regret.

Why had he harbored doubts about his mother’s death for so long?

Solving that doubt wouldn’t bring his dead mother back.

Just bury it as a fleeting memory of the past.

[Dash] Let’s… have a child. Not a child who looks like me but a child who looks like you. If I have a child… I hope the child resembles you.

The words Seorin said a while ago deeply touched him. At that time, the future that seemed to be within reach disappeared like a mirage.

Because of this unbelievable truth.

And because of his regretful actions dwelling on the past.

“Huhuhuk….”

When the tears he had been holding back finally burst, he bit down on them. His whole body ached as if it would explode.

It felt like he was going to die.

I hope someone would please save me.

Although he could swallow the sound of crying, the hot tears of frustration and regret turned into a stream that couldn’t be stopped.

After silently crying for a while, Taejoon could finally calm down.

After letting out emotions through tears, the truth was finally accepted.

No, maybe he had given up, unable to struggle any longer.

Now all that remained was letting her go. However, Taejoon couldn’t let her go.

Can I really live without you?

He wasn’t sure.

Now that he couldn’t even imagine a life without her.

So, he asked.

“Seorin, what should I do?”

It was a question thrown, thinking she wouldn’t hear it.

But at that moment, her eyelids, which had remained motionless in the darkness, slowly lifted.

And within her long eyelashes, her eyes, locked within the pupils as soaked as his, slowly opened.