Entering the employee lounge, Narim pondered swallowing a pill.
“Hey, Ji Eunjae. Come with me for a moment.”
“Oh, um… Are you, by any chance… Professor Yoon’s wife?”
The name Yoon Sam called out at the street vendor, for some reason, felt strangely familiar. It turned out to be the name of Professor Yoon’s wife… No wonder he struggled so much.
A bit of disappointment, a bit of pity. Understanding his situation a bit more, Narim found his position somewhat comprehensible.
“You do whatever you want. I already said I’ll understand everything, right?”
Whenever Narim found herself drawn to Taegyu, she habitually recalled the hurtful words he once said to her.
“Sure, let’s meet. If your partner is okay with it.”
“He’s not a kind person, you should know that already. I might be a bit rough today. Why, do you have a problem with this style too? Should I adjust to that as well?”
“What do you want from me! Is your goal to climb up the corporate ladder by seducing the chairman’s grandson?”
The effect was excellent. The disdainful expression, indifferent gaze that he had shown me that day revived one by one. Narim gulped down the water defiantly.
“You jerk.”
Come to think of it, since that incident, we hadn’t exchanged a single word about work. I always avoided eye contact whenever our eyes met.
Still, I should tell him that nothing happened.
Narim stood in front of the sink to rinse the cup. She dipped the sponge, made of spongy material, into the detergent and turned on the water. The sponge, soaked in water, gradually became heavier.
The trivial lie she told him occasionally surfaced in her heart, slowly drowning her.
Stifling and heavy.
“Haah…”
After washing the cup and letting out a short sigh, the mobile phone placed on the table for a moment rang. The content of the message was visible in the preview.
―Miss Narim, it’s Shim Hoseok. You haven’t forgotten our appointment tomorrow, right? I’ll be in front of the hospital at the end of working hours.
A deep sigh escaped her.
While there was an irreversible rift between me and Teacher Yoon, lingering feelings kept chasing him.
Occasionally, when our eyes met, I couldn’t help but avoid his gaze or almost run away like a guilty person.
I find myself thinking of Yoon Taegyu again while looking at another man’s message.
I know I’m a bad person. I know there’s no reason for me to get involved with him anymore. Still, my gaze keeps drifting, and my heart keeps being drawn to him. What should I do about it?
“Pitiful, really pitiful.”
Narim laughed softly as she looked down at the small pill that she hadn’t managed to swallow a while ago in the palm of her hand.
“Love in my situation, what love.”
Kim Driver stopped by Yeorim Hospital on his way back from work.
“This is the Dora-Ji Tea you gave me last time. May I ask where you purchased it?”
“Oh! I bought it at the bakery on the first floor of Yeorim Hospital.”
“My mother really enjoyed it. Thank you for the delicious tea.”
“It’s good that you enjoyed it.”
Before getting off, Grandma Samo always took out a candy package from her pocket and handed it to me. She knew me well enough to feel uncomfortable with anything else.
“They say your blood sugar drops after driving for a long time.”
“Thank you.”
As Kim Driver, putting the candy given by Grandma Samo in the front seat cabinet, he suddenly remembered one thing and smiled bitterly.
Even when he was a driver before, whenever his blood sugar dropped, a friend of mine used to rummage through his bulging pockets and hand me a candy, telling me to eat it one by one.
Even now, the taste of the grape-flavored candy he gave me lingered in my mouth. Kim Driver took out a photo from his wallet and looked at it with mixed feelings.
Then, thinking of the hidden Grandma Samo’s figure, he looked toward the entrance of the detached house.
“Your daughter must have grown up just like that.”
Just recalling it made his eyes swell up. Kim Driver quickly glanced at his eyes and started the engine.
Outside, the weather seemed gloomy, as if it could rain any moment. Just like my current mood.
Stopping by the bakery recommended by Grandma Samo, Kim Driver bought Dora-Ji Tea and, on the way back, it poured heavily.
Starting tomorrow, the official rainy season was supposed to begin, but it seemed to have started a bit early. In the short time it took to park and come home, my clothes were completely soaked in the suddenly pouring rain.
Jae-hong entered the house, shaking off the rain.
“Mother, I’m home.”
“Oh, our Jae-hong is back.”
Despite the pouring rain, Jae-hong, who closed the bedroom window wide open, closed it.
“A lot of rain outside, Mother. You should close the windows when it rains.”
While Jae-hong was out for work during the day, the caregiver took care of his mother all day long.
Jae-hong’s grandmother suffers from dementia.
It’s not the same every day, but sometimes her mind is not complete. It was even more so on cloudy days. Today was such a day.
“Mother, you said the Dora-Ji Tea you had before was delicious, right?”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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