By giving her his umbrella and heading back to the café bare himself, he also risked catching a cold.
Moreover, his suit jacket was now draped over her shoulders.
“You could catch a cold too.”
“It’s okay.”
“……Then I would feel uncomfortable.”
Upon hearing Eun Soo’s words, Hyuk Joo clenched the umbrella handle.
While they were standing under the same umbrella for a brief moment, the slender raindrops had thickened.
Each time a raindrop fell on the umbrella, it made a loud thud.
Seeing Eun Soo’s face becoming pale, Hyuk Joo could no longer delay.
“I’ll take you to your front door.”
“……”
“That’s okay, right?”
Eun Soo slowly nodded her head.
Hyuk Joo gently wrapped his arm around her shoulder. It felt even thinner.
Every time he held Eun Soo, Hyuk Joo was worried that her delicate body would break. That’s why he was always careful.
For a moment, he was flabbergasted.
He was careful with her body, but he couldn’t be the same with the words he directly said to her.
He had not considered at all that the words he threw could hurt Eun Soo.
This was the consequence of his selfish behavior.
If this was a punishment, and if this would somehow soften Eun Soo’s heart, then no matter how much his heart tore or how much he suffered, it was okay.
But Hyuk Joo was anxious and impatient because he didn’t think Eun Soo would give him a chance.
He wanted to grab even the smallest opportunity for her to look at him by saying something. But his mind was blank as to what to say.
What if the words he uttered made Eun Soo move further away?
Hyuk Joo’s face grew darker as he continued to worry.
“We’re here.”
“……”
Eun Soo stopped in front of her house.
Had she been living this close all along?
The short distance felt cruelly close.
Eun Soo took off the suit jacket that was draped over her shoulder and handed it to Hyuk Joo.
“Thank you.”
“…Eun Soo.”
Hyuk Joo grabbed Eun Soo as she tried to turn away.
He wanted to say something, but Eun Soo was the one who spoke first. She smiled and said to Hyuk Joo,
“I’m leaving here in a few days.”
“…”
“I’m going to start all over again where people don’t know me.”
Eun Soo ended the conversation with a more relaxed face than ever.
“I guess this is really the last goodbye. Thank you for everything.”
Eun Soo reached out her hand first.
“Take care.”
“…”
Hyuk Joo looked down at the hand in front of him.
He couldn’t grab Eun Soo’s hand that was indicating the end because he felt it would be the end forever.
Eun Soo’s hand slowly dropped.
“Eun Soo.”
“…Yes.”
“The thing about me trying earlier.”
His throat felt choked for a moment. Swallowing the rising emotions, Hyuk Joo calmly said,
“It wasn’t that I was going to try to love you.”
“…”
“It was that I wanted to try to earn a chance to cling on, because I wanted to be forgiven by you.”
“…What’s the point of doing this now.”
Eun Soo shook her head briefly.
Their relationship had been shattered from the beginning. They had tried to patch things up while living together, but it was impossible for a broken relationship to be whole again.
Because they didn’t know that, they exerted effort and tried hard, and as a result, they were heading towards the end, leaving scars on each other.
“I’m going in. Be careful on your way.”
“Eun Soo!”
Hyuk Joo’s shout rang out, but Eun Soo did not turn around.
She knew that if she encountered him here again, she would definitely repeat the same past. She didn’t want to harbor vain hope again, knowing she would get hurt, and flounder within it.
It didn’t matter when she was alone, but not now.
Eun Soo had a presence that she had to protect.
Returning to the cafe, Hyuk Joo started the car. Then he moved the car in front of the entrance to the townhouse where Eun Soo was staying.
The sight of Eun Soo being caught in the brief rain because he was late to realize did not disappear from his mind.
The neighborhood with the townhouse was sparsely populated.
It would be a big deal if Eun Soo was sick by any chance.
“…”
As he exhaled, his breath fogged up the car window.
The rain stopped as the night deepened.
He turned off the heater he had left on for a while, and Hyuk Joo looked outside. Light was shining from the window of the house where Eun Soo was staying.
“She’s not sick, is she?”
Hyuk Joo picked up his phone.
Just as he was about to find and dial Eun Soo’s new number, the light in the window disappeared.
There was a sense of relief that it seemed like she had turned off the light and was going to bed.
However, an anxious thought soon crossed his mind again.
Maybe she turned off the light to go to the hospital because she was sick.
Hyuk Joo started the car and moved it in front of Eun Soo’s house.
He got out of the car and waited.
However, Eun Soo did not come out again, as if she had gone back to sleep.
“She’s okay……”
Relieved by the thought that Eun Soo was not sick, Hyuk Joo exhaled.
He returned to the car. He planned to endure like this until morning.
Normally, Eun Soo would wake up around seven o’clock. So, after finishing his morning exercise and taking a shower, Hyuk Joo used to sit on the chair and wait until Eun Soo woke up.
“…”
Those countless days, the value of which he hadn’t realized at the time, were now desperately longed for.
If the events of the past few days were a dream, then he could have held on to Eun Soo somehow…
However, the reality was cruelly clear.
Eun Soo’s lips that had said it was the end, her expression laughing refreshingly as if she had sorted everything out, every single one of her voices.
His chest felt crushed as if a heavy lump was pressing down on him.
Hyuk Joo leaned his body against the car seat and tilted his head back.
He firmly closed his eyes and then opened them.
The darkness was so thick that he could not see an inch ahead. A hollow laugh came out between his lips, as the darkness without any light resembled his current state.
“What a fool.”
His pathetic self, lamenting only after losing what was precious, was unbearably pitiful.
He wanted to see Eun Soo.
Hyuk Joo closed his eyes again. But for some reason, Eun Soo’s face did not come to mind.
Even thinking about her seemed to be a luxury, and Eun Soo’s face that had been ingrained in his mind was blurry.
“Eun Soo.”
Hyuk Joo, who was calling out Eun Soo’s name faintly, picked up his phone. And he clicked on one of the videos stored in the phone.
It was something they had shot when they had gone to the villa together.
He had learned how to make seaweed soup for her on her birthday.
He didn’t know how many times he had played this video since that day.
He wanted to cook delicious seaweed soup for Eun Soo.
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Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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