Kim Chae Won was rummaging through moving boxes.

She was looking for her tablet PC to bring to the hospital with Noh Jae Min’s wedding video.

As Kim Chae Won approached as if to take it out right away but kept searching for a while, Choi Yoo Gun, who had been watching, approached.

“If it’s not here by now, it’s probably not here.”

“I guess it’s not in this box.”

Choi Yoo Gun, looking around at several sealed boxes, turned his head back to Kim Chae Won.

“Use mine. I’ll bring it to you.”

“Ah! I remembered. It should be in that office supplies box over there!”

Choi Yoo Gun snatched the box cutter from Kim Chae Won’s hand and walked to where she pointed.

Slicing open the box with the sharp blade, it was full of items that would be on a desk, like desk clocks and pens.

Kim Chae Won, who had been watching, quickly recognized and picked up her item among them.

“I found it!”

As Kim Chae Won checked if it was working properly, Choi Yoo Gun turned his head back to the box.

As Choi Yoo Gun was organizing to prevent dust from getting in, his gaze stopped on a pouch with a rabbit picture drawn on it.

“What’s this?”

“Oh!”

Kim Chae Won’s eyes, which had flowed carelessly, widened like a rabbit’s in an instant.

“Gasp!”

As Kim Chae Won tried to snatch it away in surprise, Choi Yoo Gun instinctively held the pouch up high.

“What is it that you’re so surprised about?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

Looking at her face, it’s clearly not nothing.

Seeing her reaction, he doesn’t want to give it up easily.

Kim Chae Won, having read his thoughts, stretched out her hand, standing on tiptoe as if to snatch it away, but couldn’t even get near his raised hand.

As if upset that it’s not working, Kim Chae Won’s lips move in dissatisfaction.

“Give it back quickly. That’s… my underwear.”

“But why are you hiding it? If it’s underwear.”

“That’s why… because it’s underwear, I don’t want to show it.”

Because it’s not ordinary underwear.

Kim Chae Won moved her lips anxiously, worried that Choi Yoo Gun might open it.

“What kind of underwear is it?”

“That.”

She couldn’t honestly say it was a bra and panties with rabbits and bears drawn on them, like the pouch.

Although she treasured it meaningfully as it was the first underwear her mother bought her, she really didn’t want the image of wearing such cute underwear to be imprinted on the man she liked.

“The more you hesitate, the more curious I am.”

The playfulness on his face deepens.

“Oh no!”

As Choi Yoo Gun lowered his hand as if to check, a flustered Kim Chae Won quickly reached out her hand, but he raised it again to a height she couldn’t reach.

Kim Chae Won bit her lip with a resentful expression and said.

“Are you going to be like this?”

But he tilted his head slightly as if to say he would.

“You’re making me more curious.”

Kim Chae Won, staring blankly at Choi Yoo Gun, took two more steps closer to him as if about to do something.

It seemed like she was going to reach out again, but she wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head on his chest.

A surprised Choi Yoo Gun gently lowered his head.

“Give it to me.”

Choi Yoo Gun, looking at the woman leaning against him, soon laughed silently.

He didn’t really intend to look since she disliked it, but he persisted expecting her reaction. Take it if you can.

He thought she was going to use some extraordinary feminine wiles when she approached with that unique look.

Who knew she’d be this cute.

“Give it to me, I said I don’t want to show you.”

The hand that had been stretched to the sky had already come down.

The warm body temperature touching his chest made everything surrender.

As expected, she’s a woman who knows how to melt someone.

“You.”

Choi Yoo Gun, wiping the smile off his face, looked down at her round eyes and said.

“You need to be punished.”

Who told you to be this cute.

If you’ve melted someone, you need to take responsibility.

At that moment, Kim Chae Won, sensing Choi Yoo Gun’s changed gaze, snatched the pouch and distanced herself.

Choi Yoo Gun, no longer interested in the pouch, laughed as if dumbfounded at Kim Chae Won’s escape.

Kim Chae Won, looking at each other, maintained distance from the approaching Choi Yoo Gun while holding back a smile.

“Are you running away?”

“Don’t do this.”

“What did I do?”

While looking at each other with tense gazes, wondering who would move first.

“Oh!”

Kim Chae Won’s arm, which was about to run away first, was caught by Choi Yoo Gun.

Then her waist was wrapped, and her head was lifted.

Kim Chae Won, looking up with a surprised expression, met his black eyes.

A smile flows across his face looking down at her.

*

Everyone continued their meal, making clattering sounds with their spoons.

“Ah, the bean sprout soup is so refreshing, mother-in-law.”

Young Tae glanced at Mrs. Kim and let out a hearty laugh.

“As they say, meals are best eaten at mom’s house with mom? Eat a lot, Mom!”

Her daughter, trying to make a good impression to get even one more piece of property, also visited to make an impression on Mrs. Kim.

“Chew slowly and thoroughly, mother-in-law.”

“After the meal, please try some tangerine tea I brought.”

Not to be outdone, the daughter-in-law and son-in-law also added words.

“Ugh!”

Ho Tae, who was eating meat, was startled by his father’s signal under the table to say something.

“Uh, yes. Grandmother, have some more of this soy-braised beans. It’s good for brain health and prevents dementia, ack!”

Ho Tae awkwardly laughed at his father’s second signal to stop saying unnecessary things.

“Anyway, it’s good for your health. Haha.”

“Yes, everyone eat well and evenly.”

“Yes.”

After answering in unison, the meal continued, and Ho Tae picked up his spoon again, recalling Jenny’s voice.

‘Somehow the new sister-in-law showed up at the wedding hall today and caused a commotion!’

Kim Hee Joo, suspecting her husband’s infidelity, had secretly sharpened a knife and appeared at the banquet hall.

So he understood why she was there, and he also knew that Choi Yoo Gun was there because he happened to be holding a founding anniversary party in the hall next door…

It was already the second time he had witnessed the two of them together.

Well, that aside, Choi Yoo Gun’s particularly affectionate gestures and gaze.

In such a situation with Choi Yoo Gun, naturally, his girlfriend or a woman he was meeting for marriage should have been standing there.

But Kim Hee Joo…

Why did Choi Yoo Gun look at Kim Hee Joo with those eyes?

Why did Choi Yoo Gun touch Kim Hee Joo with those hands?

“…It’s definitely strange.”

“What is?”

Startled by Mrs. Kim’s reaction to his unconscious muttering, Ho Tae quickly waved his hand.

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Mrs. Kim, chewing and swallowing her food, asked again while scooping more rice.

“Ho Tae, are your wedding preparations going well?”

“Ah, yes! Grandmother.”

“Now that you’re getting married, you should cut down on drinking.”

Ho Tae, raising his eyebrows in surprise, soon grinned.

“Grandmother, please. I barely drink now.”

“Well, that’s good. Ah, tell that girl to come and have a meal again. I only saw her once when she came to greet, and I haven’t been able to take care of her since.”

“Yes, grandmother.”

Ho Tae, who answered quickly, soon straightened his back as a thought occurred to him.

“Grandmother! How about the four of us meeting this time – Jenny and me, and Yoo Gun hyung and his prospective bride?”

“Hm?”

Mrs. Kim turned her head to Ho Tae, taking her eyes off the soup bowl.

“Since they’ll be family anyway, it would be good for Jenny to get to know her face before the wedding and build a good sister-in-law relationship.”

“Hmm. That sounds good too. It’s nice to greet and get along in advance like that.”

As Mrs. Kim nodded at Ho Tae’s words, Ho Tae’s aunt, who had been waiting for a chance to interject, opened her mouth.

“But mom, how did you connect them? Did you look for a marriage information company or something?”

“Hmm, she’s James’s daughter. Ah, you wouldn’t know. He’s just a president I know through business.”

“James? Is he a foreigner?”

“No, that James is Korean too, but he got citizenship while living there.”

Ho Tae, who was rolling his eyes with chopsticks in his mouth, seized the moment and interjected.

“Ah, then does the prospective bride use a foreign name too? Like James?”

“No, she has a Korean name, Kim Chae Won.”

“Ah, Kim Chae Won. That’s a pretty name.”

Ho Tae put her name in his head for now.

The existence of a clearly identified prospective bride, that is, the prospective bride named Kim Chae Won, is set aside while Choi Yoo Gun has fallen for Kim Hee Joo?

Clearly something is strange and seems solvable but unsolvable, but somehow it feels like if I know a little more, it might help in getting the Seongsu-dong house.

“Then, grandmother, about that prospective bride!”

“Aigo, stop asking and just eat. Greet her later when you meet her.”

“Ah, yes grandmother. I understand.”

Ho Tae quickly closed his mouth at the sign of annoyance.

“Madam, I’ll put your medicine here.”

“Mmm.”

Butler Gong, approaching with quiet steps, placed medicine and water next to Mrs. Kim and left.

Ho Tae’s gaze shifted to her, who seemed to know a lot.

*

Go Ro Na’s eyelids slowly lifted.

Rolling her eyes to scan her surroundings, the IV needle connected to her arm came into view.

As she recognized it was a hospital, the reality of her life being in the gutter rushed into her head like a tide.

It should have been a dream…

As she was biting her lower lip, the hospital room door opened.

“Are you awake?”

Go Ro Na turned her head again, realizing it was a nurse, not Jae Min, who came in.

“…Where is my guardian?”

“Your mother and father are talking with the doctor right now.”

Go Ro Na, lowering her gaze halfway, hesitated and asked once more.

“Was there no other guardian?”

The nurse, pondering Go Ro Na’s words, recalled another person and made an “Ah” sound.

“I think another man was coming in and out, um. Looking at the clothes over there, he doesn’t seem to have gone far.”

Go Ro Na turned her head to where the nurse pointed, and a black men’s jacket was placed on the sofa.

Only then relieved, Go Ro Na thought for a moment and turned her head towards the window.

Her parents were fighting terribly with each other, and Jae Min got hit once while trying to stop them.

When she sat down helplessly after watching the seemingly endless fight, her surprised mother called an ambulance.

So without anything being resolved, she closed her eyes for a moment and opened them, but it seems nothing has changed.

“Is there anywhere else you feel uncomfortable?”

“…No.”

“Okay, and don’t worry, the baby is healthy and fine. You can be discharged after this IV is finished.”

The nurse, who had been checking various things, turned around.

“Ah, you’re here? Go Ro Na has woken up.”

The nurse, who was opening the door to leave, seemed to have met the guardian coming in and reported her condition.

Go Ro Na, who had been watching the slightly open door, soon turned her head towards the window.

Even if Jae Min begs and pleads that he’s sorry for saying harsh words at the wedding hall, she doesn’t plan to forgive him easily.

How could he say he’s tired of it?

No matter how much she thinks about it, his infuriating words are not easily forgotten.

She plans to never smile easily even if he apologizes profusely.

“Are you awake?”

Go Ro Na’s furrowed brows suddenly relaxed.

Realizing it wasn’t Jae Min’s voice, Go Ro Na immediately turned her head.

“Aiyoo, what’s all this! Really.”

Her uncle, shaking his head saying it’s a family disgrace, came in.

He approached Go Ro Na while folding the jacket placed on the sofa.

“Your father will be here soon. When he comes, just apologize profusely no matter what, okay? I have to go first because I have some business.”

Go Ro Na’s eyes trembled slightly at the sight of him even taking out his phone from inside what was really his jacket.

“Well then, take care of yourself.”

“Uncle.”

“Hm?”

“That… clothes.”

He looked over the jacket Go Ro Na was pointing at and raised his head with an expression as if asking what the problem was.

“What.”

“Are they really yours, uncle?”

“Yes, it’s my clothes, why?”

“…What about, Jae Min?”

“Jae Min my foot. He didn’t even show his face even though you collapsed. He got punched once by your dad and got a nosebleed, and seems to have lost his mind, hey.”

Go Ro Na’s eyes widened.

“Blood? He was hit by dad?”

“He deserved to be hit! He said he was divorced, but he’s not even divorced. We were completely deceived, how can a father just stand by? Huh? We’re not going to let this slide.”

After ranting for a while, he patted her and told her to take care of herself, then soon left the hospital room.

Left alone, Go Ro Na let out a sigh into the air, dumbfounded.

“So you didn’t even come to the hospital… Noh Jae Min.”

It’s a mess. Many things have crumbled into a mess, and the man who should have been a pillar of support by her side during such times was absent.

It wasn’t long ago that they were so devoted to each other just by looking at each other, why has it come to this?

Go Ro Na, clutching the blanket with trembling hands, recalled Kim Hee Joo’s last appearance.

Her, hiding her nails and waiting for the right moment.

“Kim Hee Joo… I will definitely not let this go.”

Go Ro Na, breathing heavily with sharp eyes, tore off the needle stuck to the back of her hand and threw it on the floor.