“Then, we’ll be taking our leave.”
For Shin Yeon, it was a somewhat…… no, a very awkward situation.
Until the moment she had pretended to be Do Jun’s girlfriend on his phone call, she had never imagined that she would be holding hands with him and pretending to be a couple in front of their old friends.
“Please come in!”
“Please enter carefully.”
“See you again, Shin Yeon.”
Friendlier greetings followed than when she had left alone a while ago.
Shin Yeon smiled awkwardly, then synced her steps with Do Jun.
“I’ll help you with the payment.”
She could not say a word.
Even when that premium card, which she had heard of like a legend, came out of Do Jun’s pocket.
Even when she passed by Park Jin Woo, who was staring blankly.
She just kept looking at Do Jun.
He acted like he was really Shin Yeon’s boyfriend, with not a hint of a change in his expression.
“Can I let go now……?”
Shin Yeon, who had been watching his cues, asked cautiously.
After completing the payment, there was no one in the elevator they had returned to and boarded.
But Do Jun’s hand was still touching Shin Yeon’s.
‘Ah…… It’s scary.’
That was the feeling.
The feeling of holding her mother’s hand, who had pretended to be affectionate in front of people after an accident in her childhood, knowing that she couldn’t get angry.
The moment she was completely tense, knowing she would get a beating when she got home.
She recalled the feeling she had forgotten for a long time.
Mom…… It was really scary back then.
“We’re still at the hotel. Just stay.”
“Yes.”
Shin Yeon responded quickly.
A silent space where only the two of them existed.
The picture of the two holding hands affectionately inside the hotel elevator would have left anyone who saw it with strange imaginations, but the reality was different.
Shin Yeon was just sneaking glances at Do Jun, who wouldn’t even make eye contact with her.
Ding.
As the elevator reached the first floor, Do Jun stepped out first.
Shin Yeon, quite intimidated, followed him with quick steps.
Then.
“Shin Yeon?”
“Huh……? Senior.”
Shin Yeon bumped into Ji Ho, who was heading for the lounge bar.
The protagonist of today’s wedding was dressed plainly, unlike her dress attire from earlier, but her bridal makeup remained.
“Are you leaving already?”
Ji Ho, who was giving a friendly greeting to Shin Yeon, quickly moved her gaze to her hand.
“A boyfriend……?”
She looked very surprised.
“Ah… That’s…”
“Hello.”
Before Shin Yeon could introduce, Do Jun politely greeted, Ji Ho also lightly bowed in response.
“I’m sorry. I thought you’d be late as you didn’t show up when I waited for you, Senior. So, I went ahead…”
In fact, Shin Yeon knew that she was coming to greet, but she had no intention of waiting.
She thought it was enough that she had attended the uncomfortable place for a while at her request.
“I was going to come earlier, but greeting the relatives took longer than I thought.”
“Still, we meet like this. I’ve said it many times, but congratulations on your wedding, Senior.”
“Uh… Thank you for coming.”
“Yes. Then, I’ll go ahead.”
Shin Yeon felt awkward holding hands with Do Jun at this moment, and wanted to leave the place in a hurry.
“Ah, Shin Yeon…”
As Shin Yeon turned around to leave, Ji Ho stopped her with trembling lips.
“Perhaps, up there…”
As Ji Ho spoke, she was glancing at Do Jun.
Seeing her, Shin Yeon wore a momentarily vacant expression.
Ah, I see. She knew.
Somehow, it was strange.
The person who clearly knew how uncomfortable I was at school gatherings, it was strange that she even asked me to attend the afterparty where she might not even come.
Shin Yeon’s expression gradually hardened.
“I want to talk to the senior alone.”
As Shin Yeon gently twisted the hand holding Do Jun, he let go of his strength.
The hand that was let go easier than expected still had the same warmth and inexplicable regret.
“I’ll wait.”
Leaving a simple word, Do Jun bowed to Ji Ho and turned around.
His quick steps seemed to clearly avoid the place.
Once he was far away, Shin Yeon faced Ji Ho again.
“Senior.”
“Huh?”
“You knew, Senior. That Park Jin Woo was coming.”
Even without a clear answer, she knew.
Her trembling gaze was already the answer.
“I like you, Senior. Unlike me who was always hesitating in everything since undergraduate, you were always confident, pretty, cool.”
“Shin Yeon, that’s…”
“It wasn’t because you were so close to Park Jin Woo, but because you, just as you are, were cool. That’s why we became close.”
Ji Ho was a close friend of Jin Woo.
She didn’t mind being uncomfortable with Jin Woo, who was a lover of Shin Yeon, despite the friendship between the opposite sexes.
Ji Ho was neat, and she maintained a distance that would not be uncomfortable with Jin Woo in any way.
She was closer to being his girlfriend’s female friend than his senior, but she wanted to be closer.
“So I wanted to come and congratulate you on your wedding personally, and even though we broke up, I wanted to get along well with my senior.”
Even if we can’t be as close as before.
“….”
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
