“It looks like the things President Yoon used are still here.”

“I told them not to throw away anything in this place. I wanted to clean it up myself.”

Grandfather had asked to preserve the state before he passed away.

I wanted to handle the family’s heirlooms personally, even if I didn’t know about the others.

Approaching him as he looked at the display shelf, I nodded my head.

Jaeha looked surprised, gazing at me as if questioning.

Throughout the house, there were Grandfather’s works displayed.
“Yes. Taking pictures was his hobby. Not only those but also the pictures from my childhood were all taken directly by Grandfather.”

Approaching Jaeha, I looked at the pictures and lingered on the family photos.

Carefully, I opened the glass door.

Starting from my childhood photos, all the way to the wedding picture with Ji-han, everything was framed beautifully.

As my eyes scanned the photos, they stopped at the family picture placed in the middle.

“You kept this picture like this…”

It was a photo taken the day before my wedding with Ji-han.

In the center, Grandfather was seated, with my parents on the left and Ji-han and I on the right, all smiling.

It made sense that the time of my parents and Grandfather froze before the ceremony.

How much did they look forward to their granddaughter’s wedding to display it on the shelf?

Thinking of the past, my heart ached.

Then, I saw Ji-han, who was brightly smiling.

“I didn’t know until now. That my future would be so bleak.”

Our wedding ended in disaster.

In an instant, I lost my family.

Suddenly, so many things changed.

On the way to the family home, I wished several times that all of this was just a dream.

That I hadn’t buried my parents in the cold ground today.

That I didn’t have to move forward for revenge even in this situation.

I was so exhausted that I wanted to let go of everything.

“I wish it’s all a lie…”

After struggling like that, in the end, I was left alone.

In a moment when I was about to burst into tears due to overwhelming loneliness.

Carefully, Jaeha approached and embraced me from behind.

As if he could read my thoughts. I opened my eyes to the warmth I felt from him.

“Beautiful. Dazzling, even.”

Unconsciously, his face, which had approached, touched my cheek.

The loneliness that had penetrated deeply into my heart due to his whole body warmth gradually faded away.

“Even by just looking at the photos, I can tell. That you were truly loved and grew up well. You’re smiling so beautifully.”

Strangely, the endless flow of negative thoughts disappeared like melting snow at Jaeha’s words.

Right now.

“Of course, the person in the husband’s seat here is not me but Seo Ji-han, so it doesn’t feel good in my heart.”

I wondered why those words didn’t come out.

At Jaeha’s words, I unintentionally smiled faintly.

“So, you shouldn’t have broken off the engagement with me. Then the person in this seat would have been Mr. Jaeha.”

“Yeah. We shouldn’t have canceled that marriage.”

Regret emanated from Jaeha’s low voice.

When I tried to avoid by looking at his face, Jaeha buried his face in my neck.

What is he thinking?

His breath on my neck tickled.

“Should we take a picture too?”

“A picture?”

“Yeah. A family picture.”

A picture.

Thinking of taking a picture with him made a smile involuntarily appear on my lips.

“Sure. Let’s take a family picture.”

In response to my answer filled with excitement, Jaeha also smiled gently.
Jaeha chuckled as he looked at the large boxes he had filled and still had a lot of luggage left.

“At this rate, I might get sick. Were you planning to do all this alone?”

“Yeah.”

Originally, I planned to organize everything alone without Jaeha. Now, looking at him, I realized it was a completely wrong idea.

Laughing at the awkwardness of looking at Jaeha disgusted, I said, “When you organize without thinking, even complex feelings get sorted out. It’s better when the body is busy.”

“Even so… If I weren’t here, you might not have been able to come home today.”

The number of boxes, neatly filled with only important items, was enough to fill the warehouse.

In the midst of busily moving the boxes, when I looked at the clock, it was already late at night.

“Ha. It seems like it’s almost done, let’s take a break for now.”

Jaeha stopped what he was doing and sat on the sofa in the center of the home office.

Watching him like that, I also sat next to him.

When I leaned back and sat down, fatigue suddenly overwhelmed me.

As the body that had been moving non-stop stopped, thoughts that had been postponed gradually rushed in.

“Oh.”

Jaeha seemed to have felt that too and came closer to me where I was sitting.

Then, he reached out and lightly tapped my forehead.

“No bad thoughts for a while.”

His fingers brushed my forehead where they touched.

Unintentionally, I turned completely away from Jaeha and sat facing him.

The Jaeha in front of me was a side of him that I, in my past life, had never seen.

Was he originally such a playful personality?

Or, like me, has he also changed?

Suddenly, I became curious about Jaeha’s inner thoughts. Why did he decide on revenge?

“I’m curious about Jaeha.”

“All of a sudden?”

“Why did Jaeha accept the partnership proposal I made?”

He propped his chin and stared at me with a sluggish gaze.

“So, you’re curious about why I’m trying to get Hojin now.”