Well, it made sense, the man had such looks that any woman would glance at him once or twice. Moreover, his physical appearance, even just sitting there, was so excellent that it wouldn’t be overshadowed even among Westerners.
However, this time, he had chosen the wrong person.
He was the third man to approach Seo Rin just this week, and moreover, she was not the kind of person to lose her senses to stunning visuals.
Just as her coffee had cooled down, Seo Rin, despite the man’s expression of interest, stood up without a word in response, closing her book.
That was her first encounter with Tae Joon.
However, there was one thing she overlooked, his natural charm and patience. What she anticipated to be their last encounter was merely the beginning. Because he came and sat at her table the next day as well.
“I’m sorry. Yesterday, I was……”
But once again, he couldn’t finish what he wanted to say. Because she stood up from her seat even before he finished his sentence.
His appearance was attractive, and his manner of speech was flawless. In any way, he was a lad who had properly experienced foreign culture. To him, Seo Rin might have been just an object of curiosity. She didn’t particularly want to pander to his curiosity.
After that, Seo Rin deliberately avoided the café for a while. She deliberately avoided the place because it seemed that her indifference wouldn’t solve the problem for the third time.
A week passed like that, and Seo Rin, missing the smell of coffee from the café, visited the place again.
Fortunately, the man was not there.
But as she sat at her favorite window seat and opened her book, a large shadow cast over her. Instinctively, Seo Rin knew it was him.
“Excuse me……”
She couldn’t hold back any longer. After consistent ignoring to this degree, one would think he would get the hint, but he seemed relentless.
Thinking she needed to say something this time, Seo Rin cut off his words sharply and raised her gaze.
“Should I change my café, or will you?”
A hint of confusion crossed the man’s face at her cold refusal. In the end, Seo Rin, closing the book she was reading with a thud, rose from her seat.
“Fine. I’ll change.”
As she walked out the café door, the man followed her. Without looking back, she tried to leave the place with quick steps.
She had no interest in men. She didn’t have time to spare for men, nor emotional leeway.
But at that moment, clear Korean words poured out from behind her.
“My name is Kang Tae Joon. I’m… I’m also Korean!”
And those Korean words cut through the clear air, pierced into her heart, and lodged there.
Her hurried steps abruptly stopped.
It was not because she missed Korean, which she had been tired of hearing until a few months ago.
Nor was it because she met a Korean in a foreign land.
The only reason she stopped was because of his name, which strangely didn’t feel unfamiliar.
When did I hear that name?
No.
No matter how much she thought about it, she had never heard the name Kang Tae Joon. Still, her feet, as if bewitched by the three letters of his name, refused to move.
Her nose tingled, and her parched heart held a sweet moisture.
As if she heard the name of an old lover she had sealed in her lost memories.
Or as if she heard the name of my love from a past life that she couldn’t even remember.
But Seo Rin had no lost memories, and she was not a person who believed in past lives.
But, why… why.
What’s in a name?
Despite all the inexplicable ironies, in the end, Seo Rin had no choice but to turn her fleeing steps around and look up at Tae Joon.
Whispering low the name that just by hearing it, stirred her heart,
“Kang… Tae Joon…”
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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