Between Us is X (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 71

The next day, late afternoon.

Yoon Bin was sitting alone in the company office.

He rested one arm on the armrest and tilted his head sideways against it.

Each time he tensed and relaxed the legs stretched out before him, his swivel chair moved idly left and right.

Directly in front of him sat the smartphone for live streaming, which a staff member had just set up and left behind.

It was almost funny—he never got nervous anymore, no matter how big the camera, yet here he was, tense in front of this tiny lens.

Ever since learning that Eun Su hadn’t quietly endured her complicated family situation and diligently attended school as he’d assumed—but that it had been entirely different—he couldn’t stop thinking about everything.

He hadn’t seen, nor could he have known, just how dark some of Eun Su’s days had truly been.

At a time when most of their peers were eating meals prepared by their parents, receiving allowance money, and attending school while occasionally throwing harmless tantrums, Eun Su had already been abandoned by her birth mother and forced to start living alone while watching her stepfather’s every move—it was more than enough reason for heartache.

Yet, on top of all that, even her friendships hadn’t been easy.

When he read the post saying she’d been bullied and hadn’t gone on the school trip, and when he saw the group photo showing only Ju Han’s face, he’d felt something indescribable.

He knew well enough that even if he hadn’t been an overwhelmingly busy rookie idol back then, there’d have been little he could actually do—but regret and something resembling guilt kept lingering.

Eun Su herself had brushed it off lightly, saying she simply hadn’t wanted to waste money.

She’d explained that going on the trip would have meant splitting her already tight living expenses from part-time work, and honestly, she hadn’t wanted to go that badly.

But as he listened to her words, aside from feeling pained, he started noticing something odd.

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