‘How could my heart open like this? Returning to a man like him makes me a real fool, but why… Why didn’t I say it sooner? Why didn’t I say it earlier?’
He suddenly stood up, knelt in front of me, and looked up.
“Don’t do that. It hurts if you rub your eyes like that.”
Jaehyuk grabbed Arin’s hand, which was rubbing her eyes, and gently wiped away her tears with a tissue instead. Worry was evident in his touch as he wiped away tears, and his hand trembled slightly.
Arin glared at Jaehyuk with eyes filled with accumulated tears.
She hated him.
She hated him to the extent that the word ‘hate’ was insufficient.
“Don’t wipe it!”
“Arin.”
“I said don’t wipe it. Whether I cry or not, what does it matter?”
Arin once again pulled her hand away from Jaehyuk, who was gently stroking her eyes.
“You’re not qualified.”
Arin pushed away Jaehyuk, who was trying to approach her.
“You’re a really bad person. You know that. Truly awful and beneath human. That’s not it.”
“…….”
“Why do things you’ll regret? It would have been better if you didn’t regret.”
Her pupils, which had hesitated, lost strength. Jaehyuk no longer asked her for reasons.
“Yeah, right. Arin, you’re right. I’m bad.”
“If you can’t speak, you scoundrel!”
Arin pounded Jaehyuk’s chest weakly. His body swayed at the feeble touch that he would have ignored on a normal day, but Jaehyuk endured Arin’s resentment.
“Sob, you scoundrel. You’re good at it when you’re around. If so, it wouldn’t hurt so much!”
“Yeah. I’m sorry.”
Regret stained Jaehyuk’s face.
“Why didn’t you tell me you knew everything?”
“…….”
Jaehyuk’s eyes widened at Arin’s words.
The gaze that collided in the air shook slightly, and the hand that was holding it with weak strength moved away.
“On that night, you said you were my brother who saved me… If you had told me you knew everything, I wouldn’t have hated you this much!”
At Arin’s words, Jaehyuk’s eyes shook violently.
“How could you know that?”
Jaehyuk called Arin with a trembling voice.
Arin couldn’t control the emotions bursting out.
‘Why do we have to end up like this?’
She resented the sky and resented him.
“I thought I was the only one having a hard time, the only one in pain, and the only one suffering. I thought you were still thinking of the old Choi Arin, who suddenly changed at your words. I was angry.”
There had never been a time when Choi Arin’s life was comfortable. She sought love, but no one gave her love in her lonely life.
Arin struck Jaehyuk’s chest more forcefully.
“You should have said it. You should have! Did you still think of the old Choi Arin who collapsed at your words? I was angry.”
Choi Arin’s life had never been comfortable. She sought love, but no one gave her love in her lonely life.
Arin struck Jaehyuk’s chest more forcefully.
“You should have said it. You should have! Did you still think of the old Choi Arin who collapsed at your words? I was angry.”
Knowing that fact, I couldn’t say that I returned to his side. The wounds I received from him were too deep, and I couldn’t choose an option not to hate him.
“I hated you, Oppa… It was because the injustice of feeling alone in the difficulties Oppa caused me. I hated that Oppa, who knew nothing. But why did I leave you alone to hate you when I knew everything? What a fool I am!”
“Arin.”
Jaehyuk was the one who dominated most of Arin’s life.
Arin pushed Jaehyuk away from her life as if carving out her vitality, denying the love she felt. The process was as exhausting as dying.
Arin lowered her head deeply in the face of uncontrollable tears.
“Arin…”
Above her head, Jaehyuk’s voice, soaked with moisture, echoed. She could feel the warmth enveloping her fist, tightly gripping the strength placed on her palm, on her knees.
With a soft touch, Jaehyuk gently placed his head against Arin’s small fist.
“I’m sorry.”
“…….”
“I didn’t think I had the right to say that.”
His voice was soaked.
“So even if I wanted to turn away, I couldn’t dare to. I was too sorry. But… I didn’t have the courage to let you go. Just the thought of losing you turned my world into darkness.”
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
