Unable to confess her honesty, So Yeon cast her gaze out the window where the twilight had deeply settled.

The silent place felt like no one would visit unless they were looking for a villa. Did he really bring me all this way just for a meal? If not, then…

No, was it wrong to follow him fearlessly in the first place? Now that it has come to this, should I…

Should I tell him everything?

No, no, I can’t do that. What can I do now? Instead of explaining and making excuses in detail, I’d rather bite my tongue.

Holding her shaking heart tightly, So Yeon quickly covered her trembling lips.

But he was not the type to miss what she was hiding.
“Why does your face look like that when you claim to remember nothing?”
As if mocking her, Seo Jun looked at So Yeon with thinly opened eyes. Leaning leisurely back in his chair, he seemed to constrict her breath with his extremely arrogant posture.
“Yes, I remember. But you know too, it was just a transaction, not a pure heart. There can’t be anything real in a situation that started with a lie. I brought it on myself, but when you held me, it was a substitute for that woman.”
“Substitute?”
“I know that much. You were still troubled because you couldn’t forget Yu Jung Hwa then, and even now…”
As she spoke, her mind became a chaotic mess. So Yeon, who was in a hurry to get out of there, paused in her words, and Seo Jun quickly intercepted her.
“What evidence? Don’t tell me it’s because you didn’t answer the former representative’s question earlier?”
“….”
Why did she bring up that embarrassing story? So Yeon, who made one mistake after another today, had no choice but to nod lightly.
“That wasn’t even worth answering.”
“You don’t always say meaningful things.”
“Well, most are useful….”
“So ‘I don’t know who it will be, but I’m upset.’ That must have meant something too? You were seriously worried about the person I was going to meet before.”
Interrupting Seo Jun’s words, So Yeon suddenly poured out the lump buried deep in her heart.
“Ha….”
A hollow laugh flowed from Seo Jun’s mouth.

It was a spontaneous laughter, as the person who said they couldn’t remember anything at all repeated exactly what I said.
“Look, you can’t speak, right? Shall I speak for you? With those words, you drew a line and nailed it to me. You wanted to make sure that it wasn’t more than a onenight relationship.”
“Did I seem like that kind of person?”
“Yes. You are exactly that kind of person!”
“Ha, really?”
“….Yes!”
So Yeon, who got up abruptly from the chair, left the dining table at the same time as her answer.

I ruined it.

I ruined this precious time.

I couldn’t control my shaking heart and it ended up like this.

I can’t think of anything anymore. I just want to disappear without a trace as dust even for a second. So Yeon, who was enveloped in confusion and selfloathing, ran blindly down the forest path outside the villa.

Not even knowing whether the direction her legs were moving was a dead end.

Her mindlessly running legs stopped.
“Ah, what should I do……”
So Yeon couldn’t help but despair for a moment.

She only realized now that she had left her bag with her wallet and phone in the villa. She even thought about going back, but she was already too far to know where it was, and So Yeon was in real trouble.

Where is this place?

The surroundings were so dark, not a single light. Fortunately, the nearly full moon brightened the dark view, but the forest full of bushes and trees looked incredibly eerie. The more she went, the more she felt the same places repeating.

However, nobody had pushed her out, losing her way in the middle of the forest was her own doing. So Yeon walked bravely through the dark bushes, just like she had to fight her way through life with her own tenacity.

But no matter how far she went, there was no path.

No matter how much she scrubbed her eyes and looked around, all she saw were grass, dry branches, and a rough ground covered with dirt and gravel.

Endlessly walking through such wilderness, her skirt kept getting caught on something, and her foot in the shoe wobbled dangerously. Eventually, the heel of her right shoe came halfway off, and her stumbling calf was badly scratched by a branch.
“Ouch! Shit, it hurts……”
When she examined her leg, she saw blood seeping up over her unraveled stockings. But as if a wound was now something trivial, So Yeon sighed and straightened her bent back with a nonchalant expression.

It was at that moment.
“Ah!”
Startled like a deer, So Yeon stepped back and fell to the bare ground.

The rustling noise had come too close to her hearing and startled her, but it was the vague vision buried in the darkness that brought extreme fear.

Instinctively clenching her fist, So Yeon looked around the desolate surroundings. A rodent? A deer? She figured it would have to be something that small, but sweat beads had already formed on her forehead.
“Come out if you dare, tiger! I’m not scared at all! Just show up, I’ll bite you all!”
Even with the bluff, it was a bit bearable.

The moment she stood up, forgetting how to get up when she sat down in surprise.
“Ah!”
As soon as she raised her head, she saw a large figure close up and screamed as if she was about to die.

In a split second, she realized it was a person, but her punch, which was more afraid of people than wild animals, was quite quick and ambitious.

Whoo!

Thud!

But the man’s movement was quicker.
“I knew you were reckless, but I didn’t know you’d sting like a bee.”
Seo Jun, who caught So Yeon’s wrist in the air and gripped it, smirked. The man’s shining face was even more dazzling as the bright moonlight shattered above it.
“Mr…Mr. Tae?”
As soon as she realized the person who frightened her was Tae Seo Jun, So Yeon had a realization.

This radiant face, this deep voice…she had missed him insanely all this while. The dark and chilling forest path was less scary because she kept thinking of this man while walking.

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