To You Who Found Me (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 86

Hye Yoon’s way of contacting him was like this: around 6 a.m., she’d send a brief greeting message, then immediately turn off her phone. The next contact would come shortly before or after midnight—again, just a simple “sleep well” message.

On the first day, utterly baffled by the sudden blackout, Ji Ho called her the moment her nighttime message arrived. He’d wanted to jokingly—but genuinely—tell her this was going too far, but the words stuck in his throat.

“Wow… Ji Ho-ssi…”

“Are you done now?”

“Yeah…”

“…You must be exhausted. Go to sleep right away.”

Her voice, though happy to hear from him, strained under the effort of fighting off sleep. That’s why he could only manage those two short lines. The next day, their calls followed the same pattern, but by the third day, he, too, started replying only through messages.

Now, five days later, he’d developed the habit of pressing Hye Yoon’s number from time to time—even though he knew her phone would be off. And his heart kept swelling up without warning, again and again.

“I miss you… I miss you…”

Had he really been this impatient? A desperate thirst, as strong as his disappointment in himself, was slowly gnawing away at his reason.

“Hey, but you…”

Bong Gi scrutinized Ji Ho, who was sitting on the sofa in the CEO’s office. He’d stopped mid-step, forgetting the weight of the thick stack of papers in his hands. From head to toe, the more he looked Ji Ho over, the more incredulous he became—until a hollow laugh escaped him.

Ji Ho finally looked up at Bong Gi, noticing his unmistakably blunt stare. Today marked ten days since he’d last seen Hye Yoon. His senses had dulled to everything around him, his nerves strung tight only for that one emotion.

“…Huh?”

“Did you just come back from working out?”

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