Last night.
After Seung Won pushed Da Hee away and left, Da Hee sat dumbfounded in her chair.
“Let’s just break up.”
That was the only thing Seung Won said after the kiss ended.
“…What?”
“Doing this right now won’t be good for either of us. You know that too.”
Da Hee felt like she couldn’t breathe.
She had known about Seung Won’s feelings for a while, but she never thought they would come to a breakup so soon. Just an hour ago, she had been happy with the latenight snack he brought.
“Seung Won, don’t say scary things like that. I know you’re angry at me. But you don’t even care about Hye Ju, and you’re getting mad just because of your own baseless assumptions and jealousy. Does it make any sense to break up over this?”
“No. Breaking up is the right thing for us.”
“Fine, then let’s take some time for ourselves. I’ll wait until you calm down. Okay?”
However, Seung Won left the office without giving a response.
If things continued like this, a breakup was the natural course. When Seung Won made a decision, he followed through. He was slow to the point of frustration in his thinking, but once he decided something, there was no turning back.
For him to say the words “let’s break up” meant that he had been thinking the same thing for a long time. That hurt Da Hee even more.
“Break up? Who can break up just as they please? Until I give permission, it’s absolutely not allowed!”
She had to somehow hold onto Seung Won’s heart. No, if she couldn’t hold onto his heart, she had to create a situation where he couldn’t leave.
But no matter how much she racked her brain, she couldn’t find an answer. She had spent 16 years in school, from elementary to high school and university, but nowhere had she been taught how to hold onto someone’s heart once they decided to leave.
“Aaargh!”
Da Hee suffered, tearing at her hair in anguish.
“What should I do if I break up and go to Hye Ju? They’re not together now, right?”
Her toes tingled with anxiety. She even thought it would be better to die than to see that sight.
Da Hee pressed her lips so hard that blood almost came out.
“Even if we break up, Hye Ju is absolutely offlimits!”
She loved Seung Won. She also loved Hye Ju. But it was unbearable for two people she loved to love each other.
To Da Hee, who had spent a painfully lonely school days, the two of them were the first ones to give her a sense of belonging. In the sense of the three of them, she was happy for the first time and felt a sense of stability.
The moment she learned about Hye Ju’s feelings for Seung Won and Seung Won’s feelings for Hye Ju. The anxiety that she might be pushed out of that fence alone was her biggest concern.
Da Hee, who was nibbling on her nails nervously, took out a photo she had put in her diary. It was a sticker photo taken with Seung Won about a week after they started dating. Looking at the photo of them kissing each other’s cheeks, a good idea suddenly crossed her mind.
“Could this buy me some time?”
Office romance, secret love, love triangle.
Just thinking about it, it was a keyword that would easily catch people’s attention. Even if only ten people gathered, there were bound to be one or two who liked the opposite sex, especially in a company, where rumors spread easily in a closed and monotonous community.
That’s why they all met discreetly behind the scenes. Seung Won had also suggested hiding it from the company for a while.
“I don’t want to get involved in unnecessary gossip. Our hyung is already in the spotlight as the representative, and if it’s known that we’re dating, it will become a hassle. Even if our work is slightly intertwined, people will start gossiping about who helped whom and who benefited.”
What if it becomes known that Seung Won and I are dating? And then I meet Hye Ju right after?
There was no one in the company who didn’t know about Hye Ju, Seung Won, and Da Hee, the three musketeers. People would gossip and spread all sorts of rumors about their relationship, whether it was the truth or just rumors.
Seung Won probably wouldn’t move recklessly, knowing his age and that he wouldn’t want to invite criticism on Hye Ju.
“Yeah. Now I can’t do anything about it.”
Da Hee looked around with a desolate gaze.
Then she let the photo slip from her hands.
“Yeah, that’s right. Actually, I did it on purpose.”
On the rooftop where the wind blew.
Da Hee slumped her shoulders like someone who had resigned herself to everything. Hye Ju swallowed her surprise and tried to catch her breath.
“Why did you do that?”
“Seung Won wanted to break up.”
“No, no matter what…!”
“Hye Ju.”
Unable to understand, Hye Ju widened her eyes, and Da Hee quickly knelt down in front of her.
“Save me, please.”
“Hey, what’s wrong with you? Get up. Huh?”
“Please help me, Hye Ju…”
Hye Ju was too shocked to say anything. She quickly lifted Da Hee, who was kneeling in front of her. But Da Hee didn’t even flinch.
“I feel like I’m going crazy lately. I know Seung Won only has me, but I’m still going crazy with anxiety.”
“Why?”
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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