“Do you want to go on a blind date, Yeon Woo? He’s my boyfriend’s senior.”
As Kyung Ah quickly flipped the marinated intestines sizzling on the grill, she asked.

Yeon Woo choked on the soju she was swallowing and coughed.

“I don’t want to.”
“Just go out and have lunch with him. He works near your company, right? He’s at L Corporation.”
“No, I’m fine. I have to quit and change jobs soon.”
Yeon Woo, who nonchalantly spilled the words, frowned as she downed the remaining soju.

She had vowed to quit drinking after the endofyear disaster with Kwon Jun Hwi, but nothing went as planned because of him, so she craved alcohol just a few weeks after making a serious resolution.

“You’re changing jobs? Where to?”
“No, first I need to quit.”
“You caught the quitting disease again. Buy a bag on installments or something. Then, as you pay it off, your quitting disease will be cured.”
This is what real friendship is. While receiving attacks instead of comfort from her friends, Yeon Woo shook her head incessantly.

“But I can’t quit. They won’t approve my resignation no matter what… ugh, I don’t know.”
“So, you’re not quitting then? Go on the blind date.”
“No, no. Hey, I’m serious.”
Ji Hye, watching Yeon Woo down another glass, gestured at Kyung Ah to let her in on the situation.

“What happened?”
How much of this huge incident could she share?

She could never tell the truth. Somehow, she ended up sleeping with her incharge attorney, and she was trapped, unable to escape freely.

“I was bitten by a vicious dog… it feels like the dog is holding onto me and not letting go…”
So, Yeon Woo explained as indirectly as possible.

“The attorney with a personality disorder you mentioned before?”
“Who is he to not let you quit? What’s his name? How old is he? Do you have a picture?”
“Should be on their law firm’s website, right? Let’s see his face. I’m curious.”
Why was the conversation going this way?

As Kyung Ah eagerly leaned in with her phone, Yeon Woo hesitated before typing ‘Kwon Jun Hwi’ into the search bar of the Ro&Yul website and handed it over.

“Kim Yeon Woo, are you kidding?”
“Hey, that hurts.”
The sharp slap on her arm from Kyung Ah stung, causing Yeon Woo to grimace.

“I thought he’d be a tiny Chihuahua yapping around when you said ‘dog’. But he’s more like a growling, ultrasexy Siberian Husky!”
“I know this guy! He occasionally appears on ‘100minute Debate’, right? Yeon Woo, was he your incharge?”
Amidst this, Ji Hye, who recognized Kwon Jun Hwi and was excited, rummaged through her phone and showed a bizarre post.

A collection of suit fashion from the topoutput lawyer of the Judicial Examination. The title was very odd from the getgo.

“When you appear on TV once, the forum goes crazy! Most celebrities should back off. Why are you only telling us this now? Do you have him on social media? Did he follow you back?”
“Are you guys even thinking about my concerns right now?”
“Look at this. Attorney Kwon Jun Hwi’s watch is worth more than our three salaries combined!”

“Not just one or two, you know?”
Even as Yeon Woo expressed her frustration at her friends’ indifference, her eyes involuntarily glanced at her phone screen.

‘It must have been a considerable collection of watches scattered all over that house’s dressing room.’
Not stopping there, Ji Hye started to probe Yeon Woo for various rumors about him.

“Is it true he’s rich because he’s the son of a chaebol spy?”
“What? Probably not?”
“What about him being a silver spoon from a wealthy family with a large farm in the provinces? Is it true he even practices law as a hobby?”
“I don’t know.”
“I heard that because of him, Cha Ye Rin and Shin Ju Ah were ripping each other’s hair out on set. So they say they’ll never work on the same movie or drama again?”
“Well, maybe?”
Looking back, Yeon Woo didn’t really know much about him.

What she did know… were a few revealed preferences, a painful past he had shared in the process of resolving a misunderstanding, and his secret behavior faithful to his instincts.

But that was definitely not all there was to Kwon Jun Hwi.

After that night, if he had acted coldly and consistently like himself, Yeon Woo could have calmly accepted it.

But he had formally asked Yeon Woo out. As if it was the obvious thing to do.

Suddenly, she remembered that although they had shared intense situations, they had never shared their feelings and thoughts.

What Kim Yeon Woo was to Kwon Jun Hwi. What Kwon Jun Hwi was to Kim Yeon Woo. There were far more parts that couldn’t be explained.

Was it okay for her heart to be swayed just because they had been briefly intimate?

A fundamental question was added on top of the reason that he was just her boss, a man she couldn’t handle, who oscillated extremely between hot and cold.

Even Yeon Woo wasn’t sure about her own feelings. She was in a state where she couldn’t decide whether to not be swayed by him, or whether she wanted to open up to him.