Yeo Woon decided to apologize first. It’s always best to apologize as quickly as possible.
“I’m, I’m sorry!! Did you…did you get it cleaned?”
“The suit couldn’t be cleaned. I put up with its filthiness and took it to the cleaners, but they said it couldn’t be washed or dry cleaned due to its unique fabric.”
“What?!”
Yeo Woon yelled out unconsciously, her pupils dilating in genuine surprise.
How could there be such a suit in the world? If it couldn’t be cleaned, did he…?
“I threw it away.”
Yeo Woon felt as if she had heard the sky falling down.
Faced with a situation she had never encountered before, her mental calculator froze. She couldn’t even imagine how much that suit must have cost.
Even if she sold all her assets, would she be able to compensate for that suit? On top of the cost of dealing with the paparazzi photos…
Yeo Woon’s vision swirled. It seemed she might lose all her assets due to one mistake made while drunk.
“So, hohohow much…might it be?”
She tried to ask as calmly as she could, but her trembling lips were beyond her control. Seol Ji Oh gazed at Yeo Woon, who was stuttering, and then suddenly chuckled. Watching him, Yeo Woon’s pupils wavered.
Why is he laughing, making me anxious?
Yeo Woon felt her heart tighten, terrified of the amount that might come out of Seol Ji Oh’s mouth. Her palms were already sweaty.
After a shaky period of silence, the words Seol Ji Oh finally uttered were unexpected.
“You seem a bit different today?”
“Pardon?”
“That day you were a bit…”
As Seol Ji Oh seemed to recall that day’s Yeo Woon, furrowing his brows, she responded as if making an excuse.
“That day, I had just finished shooting and went straight there. I’m not usually like, like that.”
Seol Ji Oh looked at Yeo Woon, pulling up one corner of his mouth. Today’s Yeo Woon indeed seemed quite different, just as she had said.
Yeo Woon, with her clear skin and light makeup, her short brown hair halftied back, looked remarkably young.
“Why did you pretend not to know me that day?”
“Ah……”
Yeo Woon recalled her drunken self yelling at Seol Ji Oh. As the memories from that day flooded back, her face began to heat up.
“Why did you look at me with those eyes?”
“Pardon? What kind of look?”
“Resentment. Hurt. Something like that.”
Seol Ji Oh asked, his gaze meeting Yeo Woon’s. She blinked in surprise. It was natural that her eyes expressed hurt and resentment. After all, Seol Ji Oh had intentionally ignored her.
But seeing him today made it clear. It wasn’t that Seol Ji Oh was pretending not to know her. It seemed he genuinely didn’t.
Yeo Woon was torn.
Should she tell him that the bitpart actress, hopping from one parttime job to another, was actually his closest friend when they were young? Or should she not?
What if he dislikes her?
But at the same time, she was curious as to what happened that he had no memory of her, and she was also worried.
Yeo Woon cautiously opened her mouth.
“Have you ever heard my name before?”
“No.”
“Did you live in Seongbukdong when you were young?”
Instead of answering, Seol Ji Oh narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Yeo Woon.
“We…we lived in a threestory house. There were a lot of pine trees in the garden, and the tree with a nice fragrance, a goldrain tree! And there was also a wooden bench and a table under the pine trees.”
At her explanation, Seol Ji Oh’s expression slightly crumpled. Yeo Woon thought she might have gotten it wrong and was trying to recall when Seol Ji Oh said coldly,
“Are you stalking me? Are you some kind of fan?”
“What?! No!”
Startled, Yeo Woon raised both her hands and vehemently shook her head.
“I lived next door! Next door to your house, Seol Ji Oh!”
“Next door?”
“Yes. You and I… we were friends for 6 years.”
“Who was?”
“You, Seol Ji Oh.”
Seol Ji Oh’s brow furrowed sharply. Yeo Woon looked at him, taken aback by his expression.
Was it so unpleasant that we were friends?
“Don’t you really remember?”
“Not at all.”
“Why can’t you remember?”
Seol Ji Oh was silent for a moment at Yeo Woon’s question. Seol Ji Oh, who had been looking at her as if trying to see through her, opened his mouth after a long pause.
“I had an accident, a big one.”
“An accident…?”
“I can’t remember my childhood after that. That was when I was in the second grade of middle school.”
Yeo Woon looked at Seol Ji Oh in surprise, her eyes wide open.
Actual memory loss? So you don’t have any memories before you were fifteen?
“Were we close?”
“……Yes.”
“But I remember different people living next door.”
“I lived there until I was in the second grade of middle school… I had to move suddenly.”
Seol Ji Oh propped his elbows on the table and rested his chin in his hands. Then he looked intently at Yeo Woon’s face without saying a word.
Feeling uncomfortable under his gaze, Yeo Woon turned her head slightly and looked somewhere into the void.
He did the same thing at the convenience store last time, why does he keep staring at people like that?
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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