“Oh, no. I’m fine. Why did you call me?”
“Well, do you happen to know Yura’s phone number?”
“Yura? Why would you… ”
“I have something to ask. It’s a personal matter, so I want to contact her directly rather than through the company messenger.”
As she hesitated in response to my words, rolling her eyes as if in thought, she reluctantly opened her mouth.
“I’ll ask Yura and let you know!”
“Okay.”
She probably wouldn’t teach her… But it wasn’t Inha’s fault.
Sure enough, one hour before leaving work, I heard Inha’s response that it might be difficult to teach Yura the answer she had asked in the morning.
So, I just left a message for her through the company messenger.
“Okay. She’s ignoring it, huh?”
As the quitting time approached, I turned on the stopwatch and waited.
Ding!
“Manager, if there’s nothing special today, can I leave first?”
“Do you have everything packed up and ready to go?”
“Yes? Haha.”
“It’s a joke. Okay, if everyone has nothing to do, let’s leave early like Manager Mun.”
As soon as I got permission from the manager, I quickly left the office. Heading toward the HR department was my destination.
“Oh? Manager Mun, what brings you here?”
Kim, the HR team leader, frowned and asked when she saw me.
“Oh. Can I see Yura for a moment?”
“Yura? She left early today.”
“What?”
“She left early because she wasn’t feeling well today.”
I fell for it.
She had definitely run away. Just yesterday, she was confidently sipping alcohol with Hantaei at a bar.
“All right, I understand.”
After greeting Kim, as I was about to turn around, Manager Kim was entering the office, coming from somewhere. Kim Hyeong-seok, who turned his head and scowled at me, greeting him with a grim expression.
Some might find it welcoming.
I quickly left as if he were a transparent person.
“She ran away.”
“Who?”
“Yura. That woman. I asked for Baek In-ha’s phone number, and she must have told her not to teach me. I left a message on the company messenger, but she didn’t respond, so as soon as I left work, I went to the HR department, and they said she had left early.”
“I have her number.”
“What?”
I was surprised. That Ji Seo-jun has Yura’s number. The surprise was brief, and a mixture of puzzlement and annoyance came at once.
“Why do you have her number?”
Like General Noh, who was wondering why he didn’t touch more, the charming tail slapped my hand with a ‘thud’. When I stopped touching with surprise at Ji Seo-jun’s words, it seemed that it annoyed, and it growled and even rattled.
Naturally, Lim, who had been staying at Ji Seo-jun’s officetel since Nam Jun-mo went on a business trip for a long time, was now naturally living there as if it were his home.
“A long time ago, when I first joined the company, that woman explained various things in the HR department. There should be messages that came to my phone back then. Just a moment.”
When Ji Seo-jun got up to find his phone, Lim, the general, also stood up abruptly and followed Ji Seo-jun with his eyes.
“She’s still around.”
Fortunately, Ji Seo-jun, who had saved the message as important information, handed me the number.
“What should I say?”
Today, the woman who ran away. She probably wouldn’t admit her fault easily.
“For now, let’s suggest a meeting.”
I nodded and sent a text to Yura.
“Mun…Da-yul here. I went… to the office today.”
I muttered the words one by one and wrote down the text.
“What are you going to say when you meet that woman?”
Ji Seo-jun asked, eyeing the phone in my hand.
“I’ll apologize.”
“Apologize?”
“Yes, a sincere apology. It’s tiring to hide behind the pretty emotion of ‘liking’ and hurt others without even knowing what she’s doing. I’m fed up with it now.”
Perhaps surprised by my determination, General Lim quickly got up and repositioned himself a bit away from me. Ji Seo-jun, who was watching General Lim leave, had wrinkles on his forehead, indicating deep contemplation.
“I’m suddenly curious, but… How did you endure rumors and people gossiping about you, spreading strange rumors, and not letting it bother you?”
When we were in kindergarten, children would timidly watch those who volunteered to be my partner, and instead of watching them, I would hold their hands and leave the classroom. Despite becoming a public figure since elementary school, Ji Seo-jun managed to keep his distance from girls, focusing on his own tasks. Even when he transferred in middle school, and rumors about him spread like wildfire, he didn’t bat an eye.
Upon careful consideration, Ji Seo-jun had never shown a hint of being swayed by such rumors. He was just a thick-skinned kid, thinking of himself as someone who wouldn’t be influenced by such things.
“Focus.”
“Huh?”
“If you concentrate on one thing, those things won’t bother you.”
“What were you focusing on?”
“Studying?”
Ah. It was advice that didn’t apply to me at all.
“And you.”
“Me?”
With his chin in his hands, Ji Seo-jun’s eyes shone.
“You never had a quiet day because you were too busy fixing things.”
“Fixing things!”
“Can you tell me one by one?”
As I got irritated, “Where should I start from…” mumbled Ji Seo-jun, trying to recall.
“My oldest memory is when we were in kindergarten.”
Do I have to go up to that point? I looked at Ji Seo-jun’s mouth with an uneasy heart.
“I wanted to go to the bathroom, but the kids started fighting because they wanted to be my partner. Since the teacher was busy stopping the fight, I went to the bathroom alone and accidentally… got my pants…”
“When did I!”
“Offer me a duck’s foot? So I wiped it with my own handkerchief…”
“Stop!”
“Tell me something else?”
Becoming friends and lovers with an old friend. It turned out that even my embarrassing history was remembered by my boyfriend.
“Thinking about it now, I was okay because of you. But now, I can’t help you with your current self.”
In an instant, sadness filled Ji Seo-jun’s eyes. Looking at those eyes, my eyes began to tear up. I buried myself in Ji Seo-jun’s arms, not wanting him to see my tears.
“Because it’s you. Because it’s you, it’s okay for me to be swayed by such things. If it were for another reason, I wouldn’t have a reason to endure. So don’t say such things.”
Ji Seo-jun pulled me close and embraced me deeply. The familiar scent of Ji Seo-jun filled my nostrils.
“Thump, thump.”
The sound of Ji Seo-jun’s heartbeat reached my ears, tapping into some part of my heart.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
