“That was the thing I hated the most to hear during my prosecutor days. Diminished capacity due to alcohol.”
“Yes…”
“And I didn’t drink a single drop. I remember everything, so don’t think about glossing over it.”
Negotiation failed before it could even touch the main point in front of the lawyer who was demonstrating his professional skills.

But if things didn’t move on like this, how on earth would he mend the situation?

“So, can’t you… forget what you remember?”
“No.”
His stubbornness. It’s truly annoying.

“Ah, I just… I don’t remember anything! Nothing, really, I don’t remember.”
Yeon Woo blatantly dodged the issue, pretending to take the bowl of ramen she had been eating to the sink.

As she was about to rinse the bowl with water, his arm suddenly came into her view from behind.

“Gah!”
Was he trying to back hug her? His warmth from behind made her body automatically react with a shudder.

The memory of him unusually holding her tight and persistently burying himself in her back at dawn, when she was almost unconscious, came to her mind.

“Why, why!”
“I’m giving you the bowl, why are you so surprised?”
Ah, thank goodness. She received his bowl with a relieved hand and sprayed water on it.

Then, this time, his solid arm really wrapped tightly around Yeon Woo’s waist.

Thump, thump, her heart raced as if it was about to burst.

“…”
“Do you have an appointment this evening?”
Jun Hwi, who was glued to her without a single piece of paper slipping in, asked her, burying his head on Yeon Woo’s shoulder.

His hair had the scent of the shampoo Yeon Woo used daily. It made her dizzy and her mind blank.

“Shall we stay together? It’s the last day of the year.”
“Um…”
“Kim Yeon Woo. Let’s stay together.”
For Yeon Woo, there was a tacit rule among her college mates every December 31st. A gettogether where those without lovers or appointments would gather freely, drink merrily, and count down to the New Year.

So, it was a vague situation where she could say she had an appointment, or didn’t.

While Yeon Woo was delaying her answer, Jun Hwi’s lips slightly brushed past Yeon Woo’s right earlobe.

Isn’t that cheating? The weakest spot, so… that thing yesterday…

The spreading flame was transferred to Yeon Woo’s entire face.

“If you really don’t remember,”
“…”
“I should make you remember.”

Unable to refuse his strong request, Yeon Woo, as if bewitched, ended up riding in his car to his house.

Jun Hwi had boasted that he had food in his house and lots of side dishes stacked in the fridge. She couldn’t believe that she had fallen for that.

Only Kwon Jun Hwi would use the fact that he had a lot of side dishes in his fridge to woo a woman.

Of course, Yeon Woo hadn’t immediately swallowed the bait he had thrown from the start, enthusiastically following his lead.

For the first time in her life, she had a onenight stand, and that too with a boss who had diligently accumulated much more bad than good information about her. There was no way she could calmly swallow food in such a situation.

But if she had to find a reason why she followed Jun Hwi, it was probably because she could not deny the subtle attraction she felt towards him.

It was also because of the secret sense of superiority that only she could see beneath the layer of a man who always dominated with a stoic and restrained charisma.

But… could this ‘attraction’ lead to a deep emotion? She couldn’t definitively decide that either.

Everything was ambiguous, and there was nothing clear. She didn’t accept his proposal in the hope of finding an answer.

She also activated her pride because she didn’t want to become outdated. That unfeeling man seemed quite adept at such situations.

“I must be the only one taking this seriously…”
She decided to take it lightly instead. Since it had come to this, she felt that it would be okay to spend the last day of the year with the decent man next to her, riding the lively endofyear atmosphere.

There was no reason why she had to do the ‘3, 2, 1, Ding! It’s the new year! Honey, I love you, mwah’ with one man for the rest of her life.

…She didn’t know that it would be the lawyer in charge though.

“Wow! You live alone in such a place, Lawyer?”
His apartment was more than twice the size of Yeon Woo’s house from the entrance alone.

Walking on the shining white marble floor and passing through a corridor stretching out like a gallery, there seemed to be about three doors just on the way to the living room.

“So there was a reason why you complained that our house was small.”
“Specifically, I said the bed was small.”
“Ah, anyway!”
Wow! Wow! The sophisticated atmosphere that seemed like it could appear in a drama made her exclaim nonstop. Yeon Woo, who had momentarily forgotten her situation, ran around the sunlit living room like a puppy let loose in the yard.