“Hae Joo felt her consciousness fading alarmingly.

Unlike during the fashion show, his overheated skin made harsh contact.

Do Jun revealed his frantic eyes and temperature, almost making him unrecognizable as the same person.

His breath reached Hae Joo as well.

When the lingering scent passed through her throat, the fragrance of the hydrangeas mingled and soaked in.

“Can I be special to you?”
Hae Joo shivered at Do Jun’s question, which hoped for an answer immediately.

“Perhaps.”
It was Hae Joo’s response.

Though it wasn’t explicit, both her cheeks had reddened.

At their second meeting, Do Jun had asked if they would divorce or live together.

Looking back now, he had never intended to divorce.

There was no room for hesitation or conflict.

After a dizzying whirl of enchantment, finally…

“Alright. That’s enough for me.”
Hae Joo didn’t know what romantic emotions were.

All along, even liking someone desperately had been a luxury.

To her, Do Jun confessed awkwardly.

Under this starlit night.

“I’m getting feverish from you, Mr. Do Jun.”
“What?”
“Your lips are hot.”
“Is that so?”
“You seem different.”
“I feel dizzy.”
“Is it because of me?”
“Because I like you.”
Hae Joo reached up and touched Do Jun’s forehead.

Feeling the unusually high temperature, she checked her own forehead.

Indeed, Do Jun was dizzy.

“Mr. Do Jun, your forehead is hot.”
“Is it alright to be a little sick now?”
“What do you mean?”
Hae Joo’s hand started to sweat at his inexplicable words.

“Up until meeting you, I couldn’t afford to be sick, let alone rest.”
“Mr. Do Jun.”
“Now I want to be comfortably sick.”
Hae Joo guessed that Do Jun had also been running forward, not looking back.

Although she didn’t know in detail how he had lived, she could feel it.

“You might get sick.”
“I’ll rest a bit and get up again.”
Do Jun stepped down from the gas pipe he had climbed.

For a moment, he felt really dizzy.

Since starting his business, he hadn’t taken a single day off. With no distinction between weekends and holidays, he had worked continuously to get where he was.

“Whew…”
After coming home, Hae Joo had even reduced her sleeping time, and recently had even spent several nights awake.

Yet, she couldn’t afford to rest for a day, reaching the peak of exhaustion.

“I should go inside.”
Her condition wasn’t good.

After parking the hastily parked car in the garage, she leaned her head on the headrest.

She had intended to catch her breath and then go inside.

Not knowing how much time had passed, the car door opened wide.

“Mr. Do Jun!”
Hae Joo had come down to the garage.

She again put her hand on his forehead and then held a thermometer to his ear.

“What are you doing?”

“Just stay still.”
The temperature check was over and a short machine beep echoed. Hae Joo, having seen the number that had popped up on the small screen, raised both her hands.

“It’s 37.8 degrees Celsius.”
“It’s not high.”
“But it’s not low either.”
“I frequently had a slight fever. It’s fine after taking medicine and sleeping.”
Only then did Do Jun get out of the car.

Thankfully, he hadn’t drunk alcohol that day.

“Let’s go to the hospital.”
“You can stop by on your way to work tomorrow. It’s not serious enough to go to the emergency room.”
“But tomorrow is Saturday.”
“I’ve never taken a day off on the weekend.”
“That’s not acceptable!”
Hae Joo was firm.

She stood in front of Do Jun and adamantly declared.

“You absolutely have to rest tomorrow. And you have to go to the hospital.”
“Now?”
“It turns out there’s a hospital around here that’s open late. Let’s go.”
“Never mind.”
“If you keep refusing to listen!”
Hae Joo made a fiercely scary face.

At her puppylike behavior, Do Jun couldn’t help but chuckle.

“I’m going to run away!”
“To think you’d say that…”
“So, get back in the car quickly.”
Hae Joo turned on the navigation to the hospital she had found on her phone.

Fortunately, they managed to arrive just before the hospital closed.

The greyhaired doctor only had one thing to say to Do Jun.

“You’re overworked. Eat well and rest.”
“Okay.”
With the admonition to return if his fever got worse, they left the examination room.

All the way home, Hae Joo didn’t stop nagging.

“See? It was a good thing we came to the hospital, right? The doctor also said to eat well and rest.”
“……”
“How can you work without a single day off? You’re really going to end up in serious trouble.”
“……”
“Are you listening to me?”
“Huh? Yes.”
“Why are you overworking yourself like that?”
Do Jun looked at Hae Joo as his eyelids lifted.

Her luminous, fair skin was intriguing even late at night.

“To support you.”
The car was just entering the garage.

Hae Joo, having turned off the engine, twisted her body and asked about the incomprehensible statement.

“What do you mean?”
“I just wanted to provide you with a comfortable home and a stable life when you arrived.”
“Why would you do that, Do Jun?”
Hae Joo asked, pretending not to know the reason.