She encouraged Sarang not to feel down just because she got scolded by the team leader.

Quitting over such an issue didn’t make sense.

Worried that the sensitive Sarang might make a wrong decision, Na Young comforted her.

The dinner continued late into the night, and one by one, people began to leave as midnight approached.

When only four were left, Na Young stepped outside with Deputy Seo.

It seemed that Sarang had been drinking heavily due to Do Han.

Hoping they could resolve things themselves, Na Young left the scene.

“Let’s go too.”

Sarang, slightly tipsy, gathered her belongings.

Na Young, who had said she was going to the restroom and didn’t return, sent a message saying she would leave first with Deputy Seo.

“I have something to say.”

“I don’t want to hear it.”

Sarang, holding onto the table, staggered to her feet.

It had been a while since she was this drunk.

She seemed to have drunk as much as when she broke up with Do Han.

As she walked out, Do Han followed her.

Wanting to catch her if she stumbled, but he couldn’t bring himself to touch her.

“Are you really thinking of quitting?”

Do Han closely followed her, ready to intervene if she tripped.

When Sarang didn’t respond, he quickly walked ahead, blocking her path.

Sarang stopped in her tracks and looked up.

“I won’t bother you anymore. So, don’t leave.”

Whether you date or marry Jung Yun Jae, I won’t care, just don’t disappear from my sight.

Do Han wanted to cling to her by any means. He couldn’t bear not seeing her anymore.

“Why not just kiss me? That would be more like Ji Do Han.”

Sarang passed by him with a laugh.

But he again blocked her way.

“Why? Do you really want to kiss me? I’m good at it now.”

Since breaking up with Do Han, she had a few relationships but never got deeply involved.

Her kissing skills were as bad as they were five years ago, but she boasted to reclaim the confidence she lost every time she kissed him back then.

“You have a boyfriend.”

At Do Han’s response, Sarang let out a chuckle.

Somehow, it seemed he wouldn’t care about such details.

“Did you not see other women while dating me? Or maybe, you were just seeing me while dating someone else.”

His silence led Sarang to laugh bitterly.

“I actually suspected you and Park Hye Ri back then. Not just siblings, right? You said you were close. So I thought maybe you two were…”

She couldn’t bring herself to say that they might have been more than just friends.

What did it matter now?

“How is she doing?”

Do Han nodded calmly.

He had a lot to say but feared how she would take it.

“She’s doing well.”

“And the surgery?”

“It went well.”

“In the US?”

“No.”

Sarang let out a hollow laugh.

So the reason they had to break up never really existed.

Now it was clear.

He got tired of her and left her.
The original Korean paragraph consists of 10 lines. Here is the verbatim English translation with the same number of lines:

Sarang, unsure why he reappeared, concluded there was probably no significant reason.

With an indifferent expression, she walked past Do Han.

But then his soft voice reached her.

“Do you remember when Hye Ri was young, how her cousin brother abandoned her?”

Sarang stopped and turned to face him.

Just hearing about it was terrifying and dreadful, unforgettable.

Wondering why he would suddenly bring that up, she looked at him questioningly.

“That was me.”

“……What?”

Not understanding his meaning, Sarang asked again. Do Han decided it was time to finally reveal the truth he had long wished to keep hidden.