Hyuk Joo had said he would wait for her at the cafe, but Eun Soo didn’t think he really would.
He was not the kind of person to waste time.
“There’s no way.”
Eun Soo shook her head vehemently.
But the thought, ‘what if’, lingered in her mind.
Eun Soo looked up at the clock. The hands were swiftly moving past five and nearing six.
Two in the afternoon.
The time Hyuk Joo had mentioned.
Even if he had waited, nearly four hours had passed surely more than enough time for him to have left.
Eun Soo put down her cup of tea and walked outside.
She’d slept a long nap, and felt she needed to move around to tire herself out a bit. That way she would be able to sleep at night.
As if arguing against the implication of her action in stepping out of the townhouse, Eun Soo made excuses to herself.
“It can’t be. It won’t be.”
The man Saet Byeol had mentioned at the cafe must be someone else, not Hyuk Joo.
There were quite a few tourists who occasionally sought out quiet places to visit alone. It must be one of them. It had to be.
Due to the continuous rain, the grass in the cafe yard was sopping wet.
Eun Soo carefully stepped on the stepping stones spaced out like steppingstones.
And as soon as she stood in front of the cafe, Eun Soo couldn’t help but be surprised.
“……”
The face seen through the glass was clearly Hyuk Joo’s.
Just in case, she thought it couldn’t be……
Eun Soo swallowed hard. Her throat stung.
Though Hyuk Joo had said he would wait, she had thought it was just a kind of hardline tactic he’d used to achieve his goal of meeting her.
So far, she had always been the one waiting, so Eun Soo found this situation strangely awkward.
It was uncomfortable, as though she was standing in a place where she shouldn’t be.
Maybe she should just leave as it is.
Eun Soo, who had been contemplating, soon approached the cafe again.
Their relationship wasn’t something that would end if she ignored it today. At some point, she had to have such a moment with Hyuk Joo. Only then could it end properly.
As she stood in front of the cafe entrance, the automatic door made a sliding sound and opened. At the sound of the door opening, Hyuk Joo raised his head.
“……”
“……”
Eun Soo quietly watched Hyuk Joo, who was getting up upon seeing her.
Dressed in a neat white shirt and a deep navy suit, he looked tidy.
He was no different from the Moon Hyuk Joo she had faced countless times over the past two years.
Perhaps due to his characteristic indifferent expression, he even looked serene.
Could that be why?
Eun Soo felt her complex swirling emotions begin to calm down.
What was it that I wanted to say when I met him?
Eun Soo thought as she walked towards Hyuk Joo. But her mind was a blank slate, nothing came up.
“Eun Soo.”
“……”
“You came.”
Hyuk Joo’s voice was profoundly subdued.
Eun Soo responded by nodding her head briefly and sitting down without a word. Once she had sat down, a waiter, who seemed to have been waiting, brought coffee.
Glancing at the coffee with rising steam, Eun Soo spoke to the waiter.
“Just a cup of warm water, please.”
“Yes.”
The waiter promptly placed a cup of water on the table.
Eun Soo pushed the coffee cup aside and wrapped her hands around the cup filled with water. At her action of pushing away the coffee, Hyuk Joo cocked his head.
“You like coffee.”
“If I drink it now, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep.”
Eun Soo awkwardly smiled and took a sip of water. As she put down the cup and turned her head, she locked eyes with Hyuk Joo who was watching her.
Was it because of work?
Hyuk Joo’s face, seen up close, showed faint signs of exhaustion.
It seemed like the important company work he had mentioned was not yet completed.
Hyuk Joo was always short on time. Because of that, Eun Soo still couldn’t believe that he had been waiting for her this whole time.
“I really didn’t think you would wait.”
“I told you I would wait.”
“……”
Eun Soo firmly closed her lips. At the same time, she clenched the cup in her hand tightly.
Suddenly, she remembered the lie she had told him.
She had said she would wait.
She had also sincerely told Hyuk Joo, who was flustered at her words.
I miss you, she had said.
It was a phrase she had been holding back for a long time, feeling as though it was a bomb being thrown into their calm relationship.
While saying words mixed with lies and truth, Eun Soo felt both sad and happy.
“Eun Soo.”
“……”
“I was shortsighted.”
“What do you mean?”
“……Everything.”
At his vague response, Eun Soo gave a light laugh.
By his admission of being shortsighted, Eun Soo finally realized why she had come to this place.
She had come to start anew.
Of course, Hyuk Joo had no place in that new beginning.
“I was also shortsighted.”
“……”
“When you called in the early morning after the engagement ceremony, I should’ve just said let’s not get married. Then we wouldn’t be broken like we are now.”
Eun Soo slowly added the next words.
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
