Her face was clearly just awoken, was it due to the sweat, or was it because of the disheveled hair. Her appearance was overly fatal that it seemed to momentarily stifle speech.

“Why are you here?”
The man’s voice was unintentionally threatening.

Was he angry, for coming into his room arbitrarily?

It could be. Wasn’t he a person who meticulously divided his space?

“I’m sorry. I heard a strange noise….”
Caught by the wrist, and under the gaze of the man that enveloped her whole body, Eun Jae couldn’t move an inch. The silent air strongly clutched her heart.

“You shouldn’t just walk into a man’s room alone.”
The distance became so close that even his breathing could be heard. Eun Jae’s pupils quivered without restraint under the pressure from the man’s eyes.

“It’s dangerous.”
The feeling of her hand laid on his chest was poignant.

The clearly defined abs that could be felt through the thin tshirt, the intense gaze that seemed to burn directly into her, the vibrations of the man’s robust heartbeats transmitted through the fingertips.

Eun Jae struggled to escape from the man’s grasp, but to him, it was merely squirming.

“Can’t you let me go….?”
As if to mock her words, Sun Woo pulled the hand he held even harder.

“No, I can’t.”
With a ridiculous response, Eun Jae, who was being helplessly pulled by the man’s strength, ended up being wrapped in his broad chest.

Watching her already large eyes widen, Sun Woo simply looked at Eun Jae with a playful smile.

“I dislike it.”
Sun Woo continued to speak, leaving Eun Jae without words. The time she spent in the man’s embrace felt like an hour for every minute and second, his body was too hot.

The heat had colored Eun Jae’s face and the tips of her ears red. Her heart was pounding as if it had been put out, fast and large. Two connected hearts throbbed at a similar pace.

“…It hurts.”
Despite Eun Jae’s plea of pain, Sun Woo only slightly loosened the grip on her wrist, but did not let go for a long time.

In the morning, having made her face flush, the man himself was calm.

He casually set the dining table and ate facing each other.

While she was so uncomfortable during the meal that she could hardly remember whether the food was going into her mouth or nose, or what was on the morning menu, it seemed to be a normal morning for him.

‘Only I am uncomfortable, only me.’
After finishing his meal, the man prepared coffee as per his usual routine and took a short break to look at his paper.

7:40 AM.

As if he had set an alarm, the man, who got up at the exact time, picked up his jacket and briefcase and headed for the front door.

Soon the front door would open and the man would leave the house. She was fidgeting in the middle of the living room, biting her innocent nails. The man’s voice echoed from the end of the hallway.

“Miss Ji Eun Jae.”
“Yes?”
“Come over here for a moment.”
At the man’s call, Eun Jae walked towards the entrance. When she reached the end of the hallway and her eyes met the man’s, she slowed her pace and slowly approached Sun Woo.

“Aren’t you going to see me off?”
“See you off?”
Looking at Sun Woo, wondering what on earth he was talking about, the man who had flung the tie he was holding around his neck asked again.

“Do you know how to tie a tie?”
“I’ve never done it before….”
At Eun Jae’s words, Sun Woo raised his eyebrows.

“Try it.”
“You know how to do it.”

“Article 2, while the marriage relationship is maintained, the wife and husband should do their best—”
“Ah, I got it.”
As Eun Jae grimaced and moved closer, Sun Woo’s lips curled slightly. Eun Jae, with her head bowed low, held the tie in both hands and fumbled with it.

After a while of fumbling without finding a clue, doing this and that, Sun Woo, who had been quietly watching her, chuckled with a ‘tsk’ sound.

“You’ll be up all night.”
“I told you I’ve never done it before.”
“Try it, you’ll have to keep doing it.”
“Me? Really?”
“Couples do this when they get married.”
Married couples? As Eun Jae was stuttering in response to the question, Sun Woo’s warm hands, smiling lightly, overlapped over Eun Jae’s hands—

“Watch carefully and learn.”
The overlapped hands together started the big knot of the tie.

Eun Jae’s heart rate, which had been increasing steadily, sped up endlessly. She could not even look at the man’s face, let alone the tie.

When the knot started to get complicated, Sun Woo, who had gently let go of Eun Jae’s hands, tied the knot of the tie himself. As he pulled the tie straight, Sun Woo whispered quietly.

“Tomorrow, Ji Eun Jae will do it.”

Early in the morning, Miran was taking a call from Eun Jae.

[Mom, I didn’t sleep well last night. I think I’m going to be late.] “You must be tired. Sleep more and don’t come today.”
[No, I said I would come today.] “One day off won’t kill your mom. You must be busy preparing for the wedding, why bother? If you have time, make one more side dish for Mr. Yoon.”
Just then, the door to Miran’s sick room softly opened and Hye Ji entered. Miran removed her face from her phone and politely greeted Hye Ji.