Right, meat is always the answer when you’re feeling hollow. Lately, I’ve been feeling unusually queasy, anxious, and unsettled, and my energy had been completely drained. The proposition to share a meal of meat together was like a ray of light.
I figured I had to wait for Ji Seo Joon’s dinner invitation instead of heading home, but I didn’t want to linger inside the office, so I was wandering nearby. Swept up in the crowd of people leaving work, I moved aimlessly back and forth and thought about going to a cafe.
A cafe with a clear view of the company entrance.
Though bustling with people who had come for a cup of tea after work hours, I quickly found a place to sit by myself.
I ordered a warm cup of tea and sat down, watching people, when a conversation from behind caught my ear.
“Wow. That girl is amazing. She’s really pretty, isn’t she?”
“Right. I’ve seen a lot of pretty girls recently, but that one is somehow different.”
Where? Where is she, that somehow different girl?
I tried hard not to make it obvious while I searched for the pretty girl.
That’s when she caught my eye. Olive Yu.
Could it be? Are they talking about her? I downed my lukewarm tea in one gulp, stood up from my seat and left the cafe.
Judging by her lurking around, it was certain that she was here to meet Ji Seo Joon.
Just then,
“Jun!”
She was looking towards the company entrance and waving with a bright smile.
I quickly raised my hand higher and waved even larger, calling out for Ji Seo Joon.
“Ji Seo Joon! Over here! Here!”
Ji Seo Joon looked back and forth at the two women calling his name. Then, as if he had a headache, he scrunched his face and shook his head.
Then he plodded towards me.
“Follow me.”
That’s right, Olive Yu! Ji Seo Joon likes me!
That moment of selfpride was shortlived as Ji Seo Joon grabbed my wrist and briskly walked towards Olive Yu.
“You follow me too.”
He grabbed Olive Yu’s bag strap and pulled her along. Like that, Olive Yu and I were dragged along by Ji Seo Joon.
Could the situation have turned out this way? Olive Yu’s sparkling eyes were pointed at me, not Ji Seo Joon, but Moon Da Yul.
“We met briefly last time, right? I was upset because Jun didn’t introduce us.”
“Ah, yes……”
I sent a distress signal to Ji Seo Joon under her pressuring gaze, but he was just staring at Olive Yu, with his arms crossed.
“Olivia. How did you come here without contacting us?”
Ji Seo Joon, who was saying this in such a stylish manner, was clearly irritated.
“Hmm? Ah. I was wandering around after leaving work and realized I was near Jun’s company. So, I decided to wait.”
Olive Yu seemed oblivious to Ji Seo Joon’s icy gaze.
“You should have contacted us beforehand if you had a plan.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t think. I am really sorry.”
Olive Yu, whose face suddenly darkened, looked like a drenched puppy. However, I had no time to pay attention to her state.
“Um, excuse me……”
I was on thin ice. Worried that I might get involved in their conflict.
Her shoulder slumped at Ji Seo Joon’s words, and her shiny, long hair finally fell into the kimchi soup. Olive Yu, still in her dejected state, was oblivious to this.
I fished out her hair and shook it off.
“Did I upset you? If I did, I’m sorry.”
All of a sudden, she turned her head towards me, apologizing with her hair still dripping kimchi soup. I unintentionally held the end of her hair and answered.
“Ah, no. It’s…”
“I’ll buy you something delicious to make up for it!”
Does that mean she wants to meet again? Holding her hair that smelled faintly of kimchi, I pondered her intention.
She deflected my suspicions with the grace of a protective glass shield.
“I actually wanted to be friends with you, Da Yul.”
She said, her eyes sparkling.
“When I was in America, I heard a lot about you from Jun. I thought we could be good friends since it was hard for me to make friends when I first arrived in Korea.”
I scrutinized her as I pressed a wet wipe against her hair.
“Can we speak informally since we’re friends?”
“That might be…”
I sent a stop signal to her sudden rush.
“Ah. Okay…… Then let’s stick to formal language. Whatever.”
Her seeming resilience made me think she was no ordinary opponent.
“Then, at least the number……”
She began rummaging through her bag, which was next to her, to find her phone.
“Huh? Where could it be.”
Olive Yu started pulling various items out of her bag as she couldn’t find her phone.
Various receipts, wallet, two strawberryflavored candies, a chocolate wrapper, two napkins from a franchise cafe, and an ice cream stick? This sight of things continuously being pulled out of her bag seemed familiar.
“Ah! Here it is.”
Only after several more items came out, could her phone escape from the bag.
She unlocked her phone and handed it to me. I obediently took her phone and started typing my number. I thought it wouldn’t be bad to have Olive Yu’s number.
“Ah. Finally, I have a female friend in Korea!”
I heard her rather cheerful voice.
Did I say I would be her friend? I tilted my head as I entered my number into her phone.
She received her phone with a careful hand, saved my number, and at the moment she was about to put her phone back in the bag,
“You should tidy up your bag at this opportunity.”
Ji Seo Joon frowned deeply at the sight of the items coming out of her bag.
He made the same face when he saw the state of my bag, and now I think I finally understood why.
“Huh? Yeah……”
She began tidying her bag with a boiling pot of potato stew in front of her. Something was still coming out of her bag.
“Oh? It was here!”
She pulled something out of her bag with an extremely pleased expression.
“I wondered where it had gone. I’m glad I found it.”
The item she held was a ring. It was a fairly chunky ring, and she slipped it onto her left fourth finger.
The left fourth finger?
I checked several times to make sure it was her left hand I was looking at from across the table. The perfect fitting ring on her finger was sparkling, flaunting its presence.
“That ring is……”
“Oh. This ring is beautiful, isn’t it? It’s a wedding ring I designed.”
“What?”
A wedding ring?
I was shocked and blinked my eyes, looking from the ring to Ji Seo Joon.
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Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
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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…
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