He questioned himself, but Jae Oh was already convinced he had gone insane.

This strong conviction was due to an incident that had happened just 30 minutes ago in the car.

An unexpected encounter, like a sudden accident, had stimulated something that no one had ever touched before.

Initially, the clear and large eyes had caught his attention, but seeing them so closely for the first time, Jae Oh couldn’t take his eyes off Chae Yoon.

His gaze, caught by instinct, moved on its own accord.

As it followed the surprisingly prominent nose despite its small size, a set of lips, glowing red with presence, filled his sight.

Those slightly parted lips, the white teeth visible between them, were provocative.

Saliva naturally flowed down his throat as if he was being invited in. An urge he had never felt before surged. An impulse to pry open those small lips and taste everything inside them overwhelmed him.

It was an indescribable emotion. He had never felt such a strong pull before, Jae Oh couldn’t think of anything until Chae Yoon pushed him away.

“Let’s go, quickly.”
When his rational mind returned and realized what he was thinking, all that was left was embarrassment.

It was the first time. The first time he wanted to kiss a woman’s lips.

The kiss he had tried out of curiosity when he was very young wasn’t a pleasant memory.

Because of this, Jae Oh couldn’t understand why he would waste time and effort on such a thing. More than anything, the idea of mixing saliva with someone else was disgusting.

This thinking was valid just a few days ago, but why didn’t he think so today?

Whether it was because her gaze looking at him was clean, or the scent stimulating his olfactory senses was pleasant, he didn’t know the cause. But what mattered was that he definitely thought that if he tasted Chae Yoon’s lips, they would taste sweet.

‘I’m crazy, Han Jae Oh.’
He felt as if he had been stabbed in a vital spot.

He wondered if a longheld notion could disappear in an instant like this.

Moreover, the fact that the woman who made him feel this way was none other than Song Chae Yoon was absurd.

“I suppose you haven’t heard that she has someone she likes.”
A woman who talked about divorce to me, a woman who has someone else she likes.

To desire such a woman.

What the hell is this?

Confused by the current situation, Jae Oh carefully traced back the origin of this incomprehensible feeling.

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The moment when he began to feel different about Chae Yoon was when the word ‘divorce’ came out of her mouth. He then saw a picture of her with another man, which infuriated him even more.

Jae Oh defined this anger as a ‘sense of betrayal’.

They had not shared love, but in another sense, she was the only woman for him. That’s why he felt such intense emotions, and wanted to have a conversation with Chae Yoon.

[“I’m not in that kind of relationship with Deputy Manager Lim.”] He tried to contact her several times because he thought that having a conversation would lead to a conclusion in one way or another, but Chae Yoon did not answer the phone.

He knew she was deliberately not picking up. Yet, for some reason, he started to worry needlessly, thinking that she might not be answering because something had happened.

Even when he saw Chae Yoon react indifferently to Jipil drowning, he realized that Chae Yoon was alright, but his worry did not disappear.

However, there was nothing he could do in this situation, so he decided to wait until Chae Yoon showed up.

Despite his resolve, he ended up seeing a picture of Chae Yoon and Hyun Min entering the same studio apartment.

The moment he saw the several pictures that were sent to his mobile phone, his worries disappeared. Instead, all kinds of messy thoughts tormented his mind.

Even when he tried not to think about it, he kept thinking.

What are you doing now? You must be with that kid.

The thought of Chae Yoon being with another man kept him from falling asleep.

Staring into the night, Jae Oh, who had stayed up, saw the sky gradually brightening, and realized one clear thought.

‘I can’t divorce.’
His feeling was different from the emotions of yesterday, when he didn’t even know why he felt like this and just didn’t want to give her a divorce.

The reason he didn’t want a divorce was clear.

Jae Oh thought that if he divorced Chae Yoon like this, he would just be stuck in endless delusions, doing nothing as he is now.

‘If this continues, I won’t be able to do my job properly.’
He thought this because of his current state, yesterday and today.

He couldn’t concentrate on the meeting, and in his annoyance, he snapped at his innocent employees as if he was catching a rat, not only that, he thoughtlessly cancelled important schedules and went home. If he had done his work then, it would have been somewhat better, but he couldn’t even sleep, let alone work.

This was the first time something like this happened, so Jae Oh was seized with an indistinct sense of unease. It was a sense of hopelessness, not knowing when this state would end.