Because of the water streaming down my face and my tangled hair, I couldn’t open my eyes.

Moreover, when I realized that my feet couldn’t touch the ground, my grip on Jae Ha’s arm tightened.

“My feet can’t touch the bottom.”

“Oh, your feet can’t touch? Was it this deep here?”
My vision was obscured, and my feet didn’t touch anything. I heard a frantic voice in my ears.

“I thought you were joking, I didn’t intend for both of us to fall like this. Really.”

“…Haah.”

“Relax your body. I’m holding onto you.”

He gripped my waist tightly.

Despite knowing that Jae Ha was there, my entire body was stiff, and I couldn’t relax.

This wasn’t something I could control by my own will.

“What if we keep sinking…?”

“People can only float in water. It’s tough for me too if you keep struggling like this.”
I couldn’t see ahead, so I didn’t know what expression he was wearing. However, being closely pressed against him, occasionally, his thigh grazed mine.

Thinking of Jae Ha, who was supporting my weight, I felt guilty.

Slowly, I relaxed my body. Being in Jae Ha’s embrace gave me a sense of relief.

“You did well. Close your eyes. I’ll tidy things up.”

I followed his words and closed my eyes.

With my eyes shut tight, I could only hear the sound of the water swaying as Jae Ha moved.

It didn’t take long before Jae Ha’s hand touched my cheek.
It felt as though every cell in my body had awakened, even though it was just a cheek. Despite the cold water, the places touched by his hand felt strangely warm.

Unaware of everything, he swept the water and tangled hair away from my face.

“Can I open my eyes now?”

“Not yet. I haven’t finished tidying up.”

He replied in a voice filled with my question.

Suddenly, his hand, instead of my hair, touched my cheek, and my cheek tingled.

“It feels like I can open my eyes now.”

But when I actually tried to open them, I hesitated.
At some point, Jae Ha began to regain consciousness, and his small hand also became sensitively responsive. His touch felt scalding, to the point where I thought I was in hot water, everywhere his hand reached.

As I pondered, I became curious about what expression he might be wearing.
Even though I had told him not to move, would he be upset about thrashing around and falling into the water?

Or perhaps, like me, was his mind noisy and complicated?

As my thoughts stretched out, Jae Ha’s touch on my cheek grew distant.

“Can I open my eyes now?”

With the thought that I couldn’t stay in the water like this forever, I slowly opened my eyes.

At first, my vision was blurry, but it gradually cleared, and Jae Ha in front of me became sharper.

My heart, which had started to pick up speed slowly, was now pounding in my ears.

Thinking about the expression he might be making for me, tension crept over me.

“…….”.
Our gazes met.

His eyes, which held me, were as deep and impenetrable as an unfathomable ocean.

I took a sharp breath. If I had known it would be like this, I should have turned away instead of meeting his gaze.

In Jae Ha’s eyes, which were looking down at me, I could read a strong desire, and I instinctively tried to move away.

“You shouldn’t move like that.”

With that, he lowered his upper body and stared at me intently.

I blinked my eyes, unable to understand what he wanted.

“Hold my neck.”

“Why, why?”

“Well… because we’re going to leave from here.”

He brought my numb arms to his neck and wrapped them around.
His arms, which had been wrapped around my waist, descended to cradle my thighs.

In an instant, my body, which had been submerged beneath the surface, emerged from the water.

I found myself in a strange position, looking down at Jae Ha from above.

I had never looked at him from this angle before.

Perhaps it was from being in the water and coming out, but his hair was disheveled, tousled.

Unconsciously, I reached out and brushed the hair that was about to touch his eyes.

Perhaps because of the water, Jae Ha’s face shone even more transparently.

Gradually, my gaze followed his features downward, and it paused at his lips.
Today, his lips, which seemed unusually reddened, parted after a moment.

“Have you seen enough?”

I raised my gaze at the faintly audible voice.

Our eyes met as Jae Ha looked up at me with half-closed eyes.

Perhaps it was because he was soaked in water, but Jae Ha seemed even more enigmatic today.

His dark pupils that gazed at me intensified in an instant.

He quickly emerged from the pool, and he didn’t take his eyes off me until he sat on the poolside.

“In a place like this, in such a state, what do you expect?”
His gaze followed down, revealing the contours of my body due to the clothes clinging to me because of the water.

Being white, the clothes seemed semi-transparent, giving a glimpse of what lay beneath.

“Jae Ha, perhaps you should look the other way.”

Whether he heard my softly spoken words or not, Jae Ha stifled a hollow laugh.

“Why not? I’m a man too.”

Watching him casually utter those warm words, I bit my lower lip. Being with Jae Ha constantly led to situations with an unusual atmosphere. What I needed wasn’t a romantic connection, but a partner who could perfectly assist me in seeking revenge.
What I needed was not a romantic relationship but a partner who could perfectly complete my revenge.

However, the more I became entangled with Jae Ha, the less revenge was on my mind.

I found myself caring about how I appeared to him and becoming overly sensitive to even the smallest glances he cast my way.

His unrequited love interest was in the same boat.

“I guess Jae Ha has someone special,” I thought, and I should have left it at that.

But my attention remained fixated on his first love.

“I don’t have time for this.”

With an obsession for revenge consuming me, love felt like nothing but a luxury.
In reality, my allowed married life wasn’t that long. It was expected to last no more than a year at most.

After completing our revenge, we had decided to go our separate ways a year later.

Jae would reclaim the Hojin Group, and I would search for a professional manager to oversee the Double U Group.

However, I felt like I was the only one in a hurry.

His two eyes, swaying as if harboring some special emotions towards me, had ensnared me.

Emotions I had deeply suppressed for a long time towards him were now tangled and flooding back.
The shock, confusion, and a sense of betrayal I felt when I first watched that interview video resurfaced.

But now, more than those complex emotions, it was Jae Ha who irritated me.

The fact that he confidently showed a video where he claimed to like another woman to the woman who would soon become his wife.

And suddenly, I became curious about how this man would react when caught off guard.

I reached out and cupped his cheek.

As my touch made contact, Jae Ha’s eyes began to shake wildly.

“What’s the matter? It was just a joke, Seo Jae Ha.”

“…….”

“And it seems like you’re just as defenseless on that side.”
I pulled Jae Ha’s face closer to me with both hands.

His body, which had been submerged in the water, clung tightly to me as I led him.

I didn’t know he would come out like this, and I didn’t expect his partially open lips to close.

I wiped his lips, still moist from the water, with my fingers.

“In the future, Jae Ha, you should be more cautious too.”