Romance for You - Chapter 3
Seo Ji Ho finished his business and brushed past Yi Soo as he left the club room.
At that moment, a unique fragrance cut through the coffee scent and permeated Yi Soo’s nostrils.
This smell…
She had definitely smelled it somewhere before.
It was a scent that sharply awakened Yi Soo’s mind, which had been momentarily blank as she tried to sort out her tangled thoughts.
When she came to her senses, she realized she hadn’t even thanked him in her flustered state.
“Hey, wait a moment!”
Yi Soo belatedly ran out.
In that time, he must have already taken the elevator, as the empty elevator screen’s numbers were changing from 2 to 1.
“Don’t you remember me?”
Yi Soo was confused, recalling Ji Ho’s incredulous expression.
No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t remember meeting Seo Ji Ho before.
All she could recall was the lingering scent of perfume in the place Ji Ho had left.
Where had she smelled it?
Yi Soo felt stuffy, as if her insides were blocked.
**
Even though it was the weekend, Yi Soo woke up early in the morning.
As she lay in bed staring blankly at the sky outside the window, Seo Ji Ho suddenly came to mind.
Everyone had been in an uproar yesterday because of the membership application he had left behind.
Would he come to the next club meeting?
Where had he found her student ID?
That incredulous expression and scent from yesterday.
Ugh. She didn’t know.
After pondering fruitlessly, Yi Soo got up and headed to the bathroom.
After showering and getting dressed in the dressing room, she turned around and noticed a bag sitting crookedly in the display case.
Yi Soo furrowed her brow.
If you use someone else’s things without permission, you should at least put them back properly.
She tried to ignore it, but it kept catching her eye and bothering her.
“Yi Soo, I believe you’ll get along well with Yoo Mi since you’re understanding and mature. Be kind to your younger sister. But if anything’s too difficult, you can always talk to Dad.”
That’s what her father had said five years ago when she returned to this house.
What counted as too difficult and what was bearable?
The words “I believe in you” weighed heavily on Yi Soo’s shoulders.
It felt like she had to say she was fine even when she wasn’t.
Yi Soo went out to the terrace connected to the bedroom, partly to clear her mind.
Just then, the door burst open with a bang.
Yoo Mi could be seen stumbling in, still in her pajamas with a sleepy face.
Not noticing the terrace, Yoo Mi looked around the bedroom and inner study while dragging her slippers, then naturally entered the dressing room.
“Where on earth is it?”
“…Why are you looking for me?”
Yi Soo asked as she came inside, responding to Yoo Mi’s mumbling.
“Ah! You startled me! Were you in your room?”
Yoo Mi turned her head in surprise as she came out of the dressing room.
“On the terrace. What’s going on?”
“Mom’s family is coming for lunch.”
That was Yoo Mi’s reason for seeking out Yi Soo early in the morning.
Yoo Mi glanced at Yi Soo’s expression, then shrugged and left the room.
It was a morning that called for a long sigh.
**
The school library was quiet.
Yi Soo chose a novel and sat by the window.
She had left home abruptly before Yoo Mi’s maternal relatives descended upon the house.
She wasn’t in the mood to meet friends and have fun, and she was tired too.
This was the place she had chosen after wondering where to go at a time like this.
A quiet place where she could stay for a long time and not feel out of place being alone.
Yi Soo gazed blankly at the leaves swaying in the wind outside the window.
Her stepmother, busy preparing food, had smiled and said to go ahead when Yi Soo said she was leaving.
Given that she even sent Yoo Mi out, maybe she had been waiting for Yi Soo to leave on her own.
On weekends like today when Dad was out of the house all day, her stepmother often invited her family over.
Not long after Yi Soo had moved into this house, she had unknowingly stayed home and encountered them.
They had greeted each other awkwardly, and Yi Soo had gone upstairs.
“Is she going to live here permanently?”
“Why did she suddenly decide to live with her dad?”
“If her mom agreed to take care of her, she should have followed through to the end.”
“Raising someone else’s child is no small matter. And she’s a teenager too.”
“I don’t know what kind of bolt from the blue this is. It’s like living with in-laws. She’s really a thorn in my side.”
The whispered voices from the living room had carried clearly up to the second floor through the open window.
It was the first time Yi Soo had learned her stepmother’s true feelings, who always smiled with an angelic face.
Her stepmother probably never imagined that voices from downstairs could be heard so clearly.
Considering the relationship between a stepmother and her husband’s daughter from a previous marriage, it wasn’t incomprehensible, but Yi Soo was only 15 at the time.
Yi Soo had swallowed her bitter tears alone, holding onto the hope that she would live with her mom again if she just endured for 5 years.
Now even that hope was gone.
Yi Soo shook her head as if to shake off the thoughts and opened her book.
As she was nearing the end of the book:
Pitter-patter.
Yi Soo looked up at the sound of rain tapping on the window.
Was rain in the forecast?
Yi Soo opened her phone to check the weather.
Rain from 3 PM to 10 PM.
Oh no. And she didn’t have an umbrella.
She always checked the weather before going out since there was no one to bring her an umbrella if it rained, but today she had left in such a hurry that she hadn’t had time.
Of course it would rain on a day like this.
She looked around hoping to see a familiar face, but there were few people in the library on the first weekend after the semester started.
Yi Soo got up after finishing her book.
Thinking she might get a coffee, she went down to the basement cafe, but there was a notice saying it was closed for interior renovations.
It was a bitter Saturday afternoon in many ways.
**
The spring rain of March poured down like a summer monsoon.
The fiercely falling rain seemed to swallow up the world.
Ji Ho’s car with its right turn signal on entered the school grounds in a smooth arc.
Ji Ho was on his way home after a team project meeting and had agreed to drop off his classmate Junwoo in front of the school.
“You can let me off here.”
Junwoo, who was about to get out at the main gate, said looking at Ji Ho.
“Didn’t you say you were going to the library? Might as well drive you since I’m in the car anyway.”
The rain was so heavy and the wind so strong that using an umbrella was meaningless.
“Aw. I’m touched.”
Junwoo clasped his hands over his heart, looking pleased.
Because of Ji Ho’s appearance that made him seem like a loner and the impressive background he came from, even Junwoo had prejudices about Ji Ho at first.
But Ji Ho was humble when he seemed like he would be arrogant, and occasionally caring in an offhand way when he seemed like he would be prickly. Like now.
He was also a friend who was so overwhelmingly impressive that it went beyond envy, and sometimes Junwoo felt an aura that seemed unapproachable.
Just as Junwoo was thinking he had really lucked out in having such a friend, the car stopped.
“Ji Ho, thanks. Get home safe.”
As the passenger door opened and Junwoo’s retreating figure could be seen getting out, Ji Ho’s eyes, which had been gazing indifferently, suddenly widened slightly.
Ji Ho tilted his head over the steering wheel, his gaze returning to the front of the library.
With each left and right sweep of the wipers clearing away the rainwater, Jung Yi Soo’s figure appeared and disappeared repeatedly.
Wearing a mini bag that looked like it could barely fit a phone and wallet, with one hand in her pocket and the other briefly extended into the rain before pulling it back.
She looked troubled. Jung Yi Soo frowned as she looked up at the distant sky, then gazed meaningfully somewhere.
Ji Ho wondered what she was doing, then noticed there was no umbrella in sight.
Ha. A soft sigh escaped.
So what.
Ji Ho turned his head forward and slowly lifted his foot off the brake.
Why did she keep catching his eye?
Surely she wasn’t going to get soaked in this rain.
The car was moving forward, but Ji Ho’s gaze remained fixed behind.
Jung Yi Soo’s blurry figure could be seen in the side mirror.
The slowly moving car stopped again not far ahead.
**
Yi Soo stood at the edge of the library roof, staring intently at the student union building.
There was a convenience store and club rooms there, so if she could just make it that far, she could probably get an umbrella.
It was across the way, but there was a wide road in between, so the distance was quite far.
Maybe it would take about 20 seconds if she ran.
She extended her hand slightly into the rain, and raindrops fell heavily with a pitter-patter.
A sigh that felt like the ground might collapse escaped her.
Dad had said he was coming on the last flight from Jeju.
And she had no boyfriend to call.
Just as she was about to take a step into the rain, thinking there was no other choice:
“Are you planning to get soaked in this rain?”
Instead of cold rainwater, a sweet voice moistened her ears.
At the same time, Yi Soo’s arm, grasped by a firm hand, was suddenly pulled back.
Startled, Yi Soo whipped her head around.
“Oh? You’re that…”
Yi Soo recognized Seo Ji Ho at a glance, but not knowing what to call him, her words trailed off.
“…You don’t know my name?”
Ji Ho muttered as if to himself, looking down at Yi Soo.
He was about to say that she might not know since they hadn’t formally introduced themselves, when:
“I do know.”
Ji Ho, who had used formal speech yesterday, was now speaking casually after meeting again a day later.
Well then, I guess I will too.
“It’s Seo Ji Ho, right?”
At Yi Soo’s confident voice, Ji Ho nodded lightly with a small smile.
“…This time you recognized me right away.”
“Haha. Of course. Of course I’d recognize you.”
After her initial surprise, Yi Soo spoke with a wide smile.
She couldn’t be more relieved to see a familiar face when she had felt so lost.
It felt like finding a rescue ship after drifting alone on the vast ocean.
“…”
At Yi Soo’s bright smile, Ji Ho was momentarily at a loss for words.
Is she happy to see me?
He thought Yi Soo’s brightly smiling face looked as fresh and pretty as spring.
Feeling a bit dazed, Ji Ho looked at Yi Soo and asked:
“Were you really planning to run through the rain just now?”
“Uh… I thought there might be an umbrella at the club room. There’s also a convenience store over there.”
“You were going to run all the way there?”
When Yi Soo nodded slightly, Ji Ho burst out laughing in disbelief.
He had wondered, but she really was planning to get soaked in this rain.
“You’ll be drenched before you get there.”
“The weather forecast said it’ll rain until 10 PM, and I don’t know anyone here and don’t have an umbrella. I had to do something.”
‘Someone she knows and an umbrella, huh…’
Ji Ho raised an eyebrow slightly as he mulled over Yi Soo’s words, then let out a soft chuckle.
Now he understood why Yi Soo had smiled so brightly earlier.
What kind of misunderstanding had he had for a moment?
Ji Ho thought he should simply lend her an umbrella and go, as he opened his mouth to speak.
Yi Soo also opened her mouth, belatedly remembering what she had meant to say when she met Ji Ho.
“Then…”
“Yesterday…”
Their voices overlapped as they spoke simultaneously, then stopped.
Ji Ho rubbed the back of his neck with one hand as he said:
“You go first. What about yesterday?”
“…I wanted to thank you for finding my student ID.”
“Mm.”
“I was too flustered to ask yesterday, but where did you find it?”
Now that he thought about it, she had looked completely bewildered yesterday.
She must have been curious this whole time.
“On the plane. It had fallen by my feet.”
“Ah…”
Yi Soo’s mouth opened slightly in surprise.
Yi Soo recalled that day in her mind as she continued speaking:
“Then maybe when I spilled my bag…”
“I helped pick things up.”
Ji Ho finished Yi Soo’s sentence.
“You didn’t recognize me at all yesterday, but now you remember?”
It felt like all the scattered puzzle pieces had found their place.
She had wondered, but…
So that man back then was Seo Ji Ho.
Yi Soo stared intently at Ji Ho’s face with a look of disbelief, then slowly moved her lips:
“…I remembered that scent from that day.”
Ji Ho frowned slightly at the mention of a scent.
“I really liked it.”
Yi Soo took a deep breath.
“This scent right now.”
Ji Ho lifted one arm to his nose.
“It’s not that strong of a fragrance…”
She remembered this?
“It was the first time I’d smelled that scent. What perfume is it?”
Yi Soo looked up at Ji Ho as she asked.
Yi Soo’s brown eyes sparkled with curiosity as she asked the name of the perfume.
Those eyes had been filled with tears just yesterday.
“Follow me. I’ll show you right now.”
Ji Ho stepped decisively under the widely opened umbrella in the rain.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s her child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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