The night before, even after three attempts, she couldn’t hear Hyun’s voice. There was no response to the message either.
She couldn’t be sure if he would come. Despite leaving a message asking him to come for a talk, considering his state, the probability of him not coming was high.
‘Ah, what should I do?’
Cheol-yong observed Arin, who was lost in worry. Still covering the part-timer’s mouth, he turned the conversation.
“Boss, where should we go for dinner today?”
To lighten the atmosphere that Cheol-yong had sunk into, he jokingly asked.
“What do you want to eat?”
Arin suppressed her expression and looked at Cheol-yong.
“Well, if the boss is treating, can we go to an expensive place?”
Cheol-yong replied with a nonchalant expression.
“Sure, today, I’ll treat, so feel free to say whatever you want.”
Upon Arin’s words, including Cheol-yong, the employees cheered.
“Then, I won’t refuse, let’s go to an expensive place.”
Arin nodded with a smile.
‘Maybe she wants to alleviate guilt…’
She looked at each member of the Memorya family, thinking.
They didn’t know what she was going to say today.
Like getting vaccinated before getting sick, saying it’s a gift to people seems too obvious…
Today, she decided to say that she would leave Memorya for a while. As the atmosphere became awkward, it was the conclusion she reached after much consideration.
With the current atmosphere of the store, she didn’t know when the quality of desserts might decline, and more than anything, it seemed to stress the people working together.
In a situation that could last indefinitely, someone had to leave.
‘And the one leaving shouldn’t be Hyun-oppa but me.’
Swallowing the words she couldn’t spit out, Arin bit her lower lip tightly.
‘Memorya will continue to run even without me, but it won’t if Hyun-oppa is gone.’
It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that most of Memorya’s desserts were made by Hyun.
The identity of Memorya was Hyun. So, it was only right for her to quit.
Letting go of affection and leaving Memorya, which had allowed her to live, was much more painful than she thought.
Even now, just thinking about it made her heart ache.
So, she had to leave even more.
To prevent the Memorya she cherished and loved from fading.
A little later,
“Hyung.”
“Hyungnim.”
Hyun, dressed in comfortable clothes, opened the store door and came in.
People who were sitting greeted Hyun. Arin couldn’t approach him and sighed with relief from a distance.
“Shall we move, then?”
“Yes.”
The place they arrived at was a high-quality Korean beef specialty restaurant.
“This place is really expensive.”
At the part-timer’s words, Arin shook her head left and right.
“It’s okay. Today, I’ll eat whatever I want.”
Another cheer erupted among the staff.
Even in the bustling situation, Hyun silently looked down at the menu.
Arin looked at Hyun, who hadn’t turned around once since arriving at the store, with a bitter gaze.
Not even an hour passed, and empty plates piled up on the table.
As the speed of ordering slowed down, and around the time hands were about to reach for desserts that weren’t the main menu.
She stood up and spoke to the people.
“Actually, today I prepared a place like this because I have something to say to all of you.”
Except for Hyun, everyone’s gaze turned toward her.
“First…”
My throat felt tight. The vague thought of quitting and the sincere decision to quit had different weights on the heart. This morning, I practiced countless times while looking in the mirror. The more I practiced, the more my heart wavered.
Even before starting, my eyelids became warm, and my emotions surged. I worried if I could express it well.
‘I didn’t know I would let go of Memorya with my own hands…’
In a time that might become forever, I decided to leave the place that was my life.
With my own will.
Arin tightly clenched her small fist, to the point where the blood vessels bulged.
“I want to apologize to all of you for delivering this message. I’m really sorry.”
After finishing her words, she bent her waist to about 90 degrees.
“Boss?”
“What’s going on!”
“Get up quickly, why are you apologizing?”
Even without looking, she could feel the confusion of the people who were perplexed by the bewildering voices from all directions.
Gazes poured down from above her head.
Her heart soared. Affection for Memorya, which had been the driving force of her life, overflowed. The thought of ‘the end’ seemed to bring tears. To suppress the crying that was about to burst, she tightly clenched her fist.
“I plan to leave Memorya in a week.”
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
