The roulette wheel spun round and round before stopping, pointing at Ina.

Coincidentally, they had decided to play a game of truth or dare, so Ina smiled awkwardly at Jeonghun’s friends.

A friend sitting next to Jeonghun asked first.

“I’ll start with an easy question. When was your last kiss?”

“Ah…… Yesterday.”

As Ina answered in embarrassment, the friends made ‘oooh’ sounds and tapped the table.

“Is Jeonghun a good kisser?”

At the next friend’s question, Ina smiled awkwardly and nodded her head yes.

The friends made ‘oooh’ sounds again and gave Jeonghun a thumbs up.

However, unlike them who were enjoying themselves, Ina’s expression was gradually hardening.

She was already unhappy about the sudden plans, and now a game of truth or dare with Jeonghun’s friends whom she was meeting for the first time……

In this extremely uncomfortable situation, Ina was grudgingly staying put.

And this time, it was Jeonghun’s turn.

Jeonghun, whose face had turned red from drinking a lot, stared intently at Ina.

He wasn’t one to drink often, but once he got drunk, he would drink until he was completely wasted, and at those times, he would become incoherent and spit out harsh words to Ina.

With that piled up as it was now, the moment Ina looked at him with a stiff expression, wondering what words would come out of Jeonghun’s mouth this time, Jeonghun opened his mouth.

“You…… How many guys did you sleep with before meeting me?”

In an instant, the table was enveloped in silence as if cold water had been splashed on it.

“Hey! You crazy bastard. You call that a question?”

A surprised friend grabbed Jeonghun’s shoulder.

“Why? This is a game of truth. Say it. How many guys did you sleep with?”

Jeonghun, whose eyes had already glazed over, demanded an answer from Ina.

Ina closed her eyes tightly.

She could hear the sound of the string of reason snapping in her head.

“Ina. You don’t have to answer. This guy seems to be drunk and not in his right mind now.”

Another friend sitting next to them stopped Jeonghun in surprise.

Ina looked at Jeonghun like that, then quietly picked up her handbag and stood up.

She had barely endured the uncomfortable three-hour drinking session, but to hear such vulgar and insulting remarks……

There was no longer any reason to remain in this unpleasant situation.

“What? Hey! What are you doing?”

Jeonghun got up to follow her, glaring.

The friends next to him quickly sat Jeonghun back down in surprise.

After glaring at Jeonghun silently for a moment, Ina opened the door of the bar and left.

As she went outside, the chilly October wind blew eerily.

As Ina took out a scarf from her handbag, she made eye contact with a man who was on the phone next to the bar door.

The man, wearing a black hoodie and a baseball cap, stared intently at Ina as their eyes met while he was on the phone.

Feeling awkward under his gaze, Ina wrapped the scarf around her neck and slowly moved her feet.

It had been 5 months since she started dating Jeonghun.

She didn’t mind Jeonghun, who was lively and had good manners when they met on a blind date arranged by a friend, and she ended up dating him because of his active pursuit.

They were the same age at twenty-nine, so she was considering marriage while dating him, but after a month of dating, Jeonghun gradually began to obsess over Ina.

He came to pick up Ina every day after work, and if Ina happened to work late, he would wait in front of the company until she came out, suspecting that she might be meeting another man.

He had also been caught secretly looking at her cell phone.

Whenever Ina’s phone rang while they were together, he tried to see it somehow, and if the other person was a man, he became irritable regardless of who it was.

He tried to confirm his affection by being excessively physically affectionate, and if Ina was meeting a friend, he would come to that place or keep calling until Ina parted with her friend, eventually making the uncomfortable friends get up first.

As the intensity of his obsession grew more severe, to the point of suffocation, today Jeonghun suddenly took Ina to a gathering with his high school alumni.

It was extremely awkward in front of friends she was meeting for the first time, but she tried to smile and continue the drinking session, but Jeonghun threw the worst grenade at Ina.

What kind of man in the world would ask his lover how many guys she had slept with?

Just how much had Park Jeonghun looked down on me all this time?

Did he think of me as a possession that he could grip in his hand and shake around as he pleased?

I had endured his endless obsession, thinking that he was like that because he loved me too much, but now I clearly realized.

Park Jeonghun was garbage-level waste that couldn’t even be recycled.

Thinking that I really needed to put an end to this now, I was walking when suddenly someone snatched my wrist from behind.

It was Jeonghun.

Jeonghun, who had come out at some point, glared at Ina, panting.

“Let go.”

Ina said, but Jeonghun didn’t let go of her hand.

“Do you think I’m a joke? Do you think I’m enough of a joke to ask how many guys you slept with in front of my friends?”

When Ina asked with a contemptuous look, Jeonghun smirked.

“Why? Feeling guilty? With how many guys did you sleep that you can’t even count?”

Ina bit her lip hard and shook off his hand, but Jeonghun gripped it even harder and dragged Ina away.

“Let go! Let go of me!”

Ina shouted, but Jeonghun didn’t let go, and passersby began to glance at them.

“Let go! Let go, you crazy bastard!”

Then Jeonghun whirled around and showed the whites of his eyes.

“What? Crazy bastard? Hey! Are you crazy?”

Then he mercilessly twisted Ina’s wrist.

“Ahh!”

The moment a scream escaped Ina’s mouth, someone grabbed Jeonghun’s shoulder.

Jeonghun irritably turned around to see a man standing there.

It was the man in the black hoodie that Ina had seen in front of the bar a little while ago.

“Let’s stop this, shall we?”

At the low voice, Jeonghun frowned deeply.

“What? Who are you?”

Instead of answering Jeonghun’s words, the man looked at Jeonghun’s hand holding Ina’s wrist.

“Let go of her hand first and then talk, okay?”

“What did you say? You bastard?”

As Jeonghun shouted, the man looked at Jeonghun with a chilling expression.

“Who are you calling a bastard?”

“What? This bastard, really!”

Jeonghun let go of Ina’s hand and threw a punch at the man.

At that moment, Jeonghun’s elbow, which was stretched out behind him, struck Ina’s mouth, who was standing behind him, and Ina sat down, covering her mouth.

The man easily dodged Jeonghun’s punch, and the drunk Jeonghun staggered and fell over to the side.

Startled by the sudden situation, Ina touched her numb mouth and blankly looked at the two men.

Then the man walked over to Ina and held out his hand.

“Are you okay?”

But Jeonghun got up with a roar and swung his fist at the man again.

However, the man’s body movements easily avoided it, and Jeonghun staggered and fell over again.

“Hey! What the?”

At the noisy sound, Jeonghun’s friends who had come out of the bar shouted in surprise.

The friends supported Jeonghun from both sides and stood him up.

“What? What’s going on here right now?”

The friends asked, alternately looking at Jeonghun and the man.

“You bastard! You’re dead!”

Jeonghun shook off his friends and threw a punch at the man.

This time, the man didn’t dodge and tightly grabbed both of Jeonghun’s wrists.

Jeonghun tried to pull his hands out, but they trembled at the man’s terrifying grip.

However, the man glared at Jeonghun with a fierce gaze, his expression not changing one bit.

A friend of Jeonghun who was watching grabbed the man’s collar and shouted at him to let go.

“Read the situation, will you?”

The man pointed at Ina, who was sitting with her mouth covered, with a nod of his head.

“What?”

Only then did Jeonghun’s friends look at Ina.

“Your great friend over there was trying to forcibly take this lady away.”

Surprised by those words, Jeonghun’s friends looked at Ina with startled eyes, and Ina, who had been sitting there in a daze until then, slowly got up.

When she touched her numb mouth, blood was slightly smeared on it.

It was blood from her lip that had been split when she was hit by Jeonghun’s elbow a little while ago.

Seeing the blood on Ina’s lip, the friends couldn’t say anything and looked at Jeonghun, and Ina slowly walked over to the man.

The contrast between Jeonghun in a suit and the man in a casual hoodie and jeans was striking.

Approaching the two, Ina gestured to the man holding Jeonghun’s wrists to let go.

The man looked at Ina with puzzled eyes, then immediately let go.

As soon as the man let go, Ina raised her right hand and slapped Jeonghun’s cheek.

There was a slap sound, and Jeonghun’s face turned to the side.

Jeonghun looked at Ina with surprised eyes, then raised his hand, saying “Has she gone crazy,” but his wrist was immediately caught by the man again.

“Yeah. I must be a crazy bitch to have dated a guy like you for 5 months.”

Ina glared at Jeonghun and spat out.

As Jeonghun’s eyes widened, Ina took off the ring she was wearing and shoved it into Jeonghun’s jacket pocket.

It was a couple ring that Jeonghun had begged to get for their 100-day anniversary.

“Take this ring and get lost from my life.”

Jeonghun’s eyes began to waver, shocked by Ina’s words.

“If you contact me or come to see me after this time, I’ll search the CCTV here and sue you for assault. And if you make a fuss about suing this gentleman here, I’ll sue you too.”

At Ina’s words, the man smirked as if it was amusing.

Then Jeonghun glared at Ina and the man with bloodshot eyes.

“What? You two? You know each other? Is that it? Hey! Seo Ina! Were you cheating on me? Huh?”

Jeonghun shouted with bloodshot eyes.

At those words, the man let out a chuckle, and Ina said to Jeonghun’s friends, holding her forehead.

“Can you take him away? I’m about to call the police.”

The friends were surprised and grabbed Jeonghun’s arms, but Jeonghun shook off their hands and shouted at Ina.

“Hey! Won’t you speak properly? Since when have you been seeing this bastard? Huh? Do you want to die?”

As Jeonghun yelled, the man tried to approach Jeonghun, but Ina raised her hand to stop the man.

The man looked at Ina, and Ina said sorry to him, then walked over to Jeonghun.

Approaching Jeonghun, who was glaring at her with bloodshot eyes, Ina glared at him and said.

“Cheating? When did you ever give me time to cheat? You came to pick me up every day, and on weekends, you stuck to me all day! When I was meeting a friend, you would come and wait until we parted! Except for the time I was working and sleeping, you stuck to me like a leech all day and didn’t let me breathe, but what? Are you asking if I cheated? Is your brain made of udon noodles?”

At Ina’s last words, the man standing next to her burst into laughter.

As Jeonghun stared at Ina with a dumbfounded face, Ina gestured for them to take him away quickly.

The friends hurriedly dragged Jeonghun away, and Jeonghun still looked back at Ina as he was being dragged away.

After Jeonghun and his friends disappeared, Ina took a deep breath, feeling as if a typhoon had swept through, and turned her head to look at the man.

The man also turned his gaze and looked at Ina.

She swallowed reflexively, and the taste of blood pooled in her mouth was felt.

Feeling a bitterness as bitter as the taste of blood, Ina bowed her head to the man in gratitude.

“I don’t know what to say…… to express my gratitude. In this day and age, I’m truly grateful that you stepped in and helped like this even though it wasn’t your business.”

Instead of answering, the man picked up Ina’s scarf that had fallen to the ground and handed it to her.

Ina awkwardly reached out her hand to take the scarf, and the man took off his baseball cap.

Ina’s eyes narrowed as she looked at the man’s face, which was like a beautiful sculpture with fair and clean skin, dark eyebrows that looked as if they were drawn, deep double eyelids under expressive eyes, and a high nose bridge.

Ina, who had been looking at the man as if observing him without realizing it herself, tilted her head.

“Huh? I feel like I’ve seen you a lot somewhere? Why…… do you not feel unfamiliar?”

At Ina’s words that sounded like she was talking to herself, the man smirked and looked straight into Ina’s eyes.

“I thought you might, but now that I see you up close, I know who I am, you know?”

As Ina blinked her eyes, not understanding, the man brought his face close and said.

“Right? Seo Ina.”