유현 muttered softly as he stared at the restroom door. He already knew who had visited that morning. He was just keeping quiet, thinking 아린 would be troubled if he acknowledged it.
아린’s demeanor had changed since she saw that news.
‘You say you don’t, but I feel like you haven’t completely let go of that man. If you had no feelings, you wouldn’t have looked so shocked at the news of his engagement. The fact that your mother-in-law visited you after three years is probably because you and that man haven’t legally finalized things yet.’
유현’s mouth felt bitter.
“I’m still far off, 서유현.”
How much longer must I wait for you to notice me, standing right by your side?
Initially, he had hoped there might be just a little space for him in her heart. But as time passed, his desire grew stronger.
He wished to be her true love, just as she was to him.
“Haah.”
유현 sighed softly and walked towards the door. At that moment, the doorbell rang, and a shadow entered the darkened café.
Thinking it was a customer, 유현 approached quickly.
“Sorry, we’re closed for the day…”
Upon seeing the customer’s face, 유현’s words trailed off.
“You are…….”
In South Korea, who wouldn’t recognize his face?
Even if he wasn’t a famous man, 유현 would have recognized him anyway.
Because he was the man 아린 once loved.
유현, filled with the thought of ejecting the man before 아린 returned, approached him with a low warning tone.
“Leave this place immediately.”
“……. ”
As the man didn’t budge, 유현 grew impatient.
And the worst became reality.
The sound of the door clicking open and Arin’s voice came from behind.
“Brother, why are you still in the shop…”
Despair washed over Yoo-hyun. He could no longer hear the sound of Arin’s footsteps.
“It’s unbelievable.”
Arin couldn’t believe the identity of the man standing before her.
She was paralyzed.
Was she seeing an illusion?
A person who shouldn’t be there was standing right in front of her.
As the man’s gaze shifted from Yoo-hyun to her, his eyes fluttered intensely.
“……Arin-ah.”
From the tightly closed lips of the man, a dry voice escaped.
The man she once madly loved, longed for to the point of death, and also hated and despised.
“……Ban Jae-hyuk-ssi.”
It had been three years since Jae-hyuk appeared before her.
‘Get a grip, Choi Arin. You need to handle this well.’
Even in her flustered state, Arin managed to compose herself. She consciously used a formal address instead of the intimate ‘brother’.
Did it have an effect?
Jae-hyuk’s gaze trembled violently.
Arin contemplated for a short moment.
Should she send him away, or…
“Brother.”
“…….”
“Sorry for today. Go home first.”
Arin spoke with a reluctant yet firm voice. Yoo-hyun looked at her unwillingly.
“……I’ll wait.”
“No, brother, go first.”
It wouldn’t be good for Yoo-hyun to wait.
“Brother.”
“Alright, I understand.”
Eventually, Yoo-hyun reluctantly turned around and left the café.
After Yoo-hyun left, Arin sat down to face Jae-hyuk for the first time in three years.
Was it because she had just heard about Jae-hyuk’s engagement?
Arin was irked by Jae-hyuk’s pitiful and sorrowful gaze, despite him being about to marry another woman.
Thus, his unfamiliar gaze caused her more resentment and hatred than pain.
“Why did you come to see me?”
Arin spoke in the coldest voice she could muster.
“……Have you been well?”
Jae-hyuk tried to hide his shaky gaze, speaking through his parched, cracked lips.
Arin did not avoid his unfamiliar gaze.
“Ban Jae-hyuk-ssi and I are not in a position to ask about each other’s wellbeing.”
“……Right. That’s true.”
Jae-hyuk’s eyebrows and shoulders drooped as he spoke.
Arin’s heart wasn’t completely indifferent to his feeble voice.
She had tried to avoid seeing Jae-hyuk on purpose.
She didn’t watch the news, and turned off her phone if she saw an article with his name.
But then…
His engagement news yesterday.
Today, his former mother-in-law and fiancée came to see her.
Arin didn’t want her inner turmoil to be exposed.
“What right do you have to come to see me?”
Her voice was as cold as possible.
“What do you have to do with me?”
Despite her words, her eyes kept drifting to Jae-hyuk’s hollow cheeks.
‘Why has he lost so much weight? Is he eating properly? With so much money, why isn’t he taking care of his skin?’
His muscular body was still evident under his suit, but his face was much sharper and leaner than three years ago.
Until just moments ago, she despised Ban Jae-hyuk, who wouldn’t divorce her yet was engaged to another woman.
But Arin found herself overwhelmed by uncontrollable emotions. She suddenly turned her head away from Jae-hyuk.
“Seeing Ban Jae-hyuk-ssi makes me feel bad. I hate it when you come with such a pained expression. It seems hypocritical.”
Leaving him was her choice, but it felt like she was partly forced into it.
It was unbearably hard, to the point of wanting to die.
Even if my family kept demanding money, even if Madam Jung never treated me as a human being. If only he had shown me a bit of attention, I wouldn’t have thought of leaving like this.
Just as a person’s heart can’t be perfectly cut like slicing through radishes, maybe I was hoping, even in the moment I handed over the divorce papers, that he would hold me back.
But Jae-hyuk never looked back at my heart in the end.
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
