Visible Love - Chapter 11

Soo Young, who had roughly washed her hair with soap in the living room bathroom, came to the kitchen with a towel wrapped around her head.

Unexpectedly, Woo Jin was sitting at the table, having set up the dishes with forks and all.

That V-neck knit he wore before was revealing his collarbone, which stretched out in a straight line as usual. Another employee benefit?

“Wow, how did you set everything up?”

Soo Young quickly turned her gaze to the table and asked in surprise. However, Woo Jin didn’t answer and just stared blankly at the pizza.

His gaze was directed at the pizza, but his nose was catching her scent.

The familiar soap smell mixed with her unique body odor was emitting a strange fragrance.

Really, did she take a shower? His body tensed up strangely. As if reading his inner thoughts, Soo Young quickly said,

“I just roughly washed my hair with soap.”

“W-who said anything?”

Feeling like his thoughts had been exposed somehow, he retorted gruffly. Wondering why he was suddenly in a bad mood, Soo Young slightly raised her fist before pouring cola into the cup in front of him.

“There’s cola to Seol Woo Jin’s left. On the right, there’s a fork and…”

“I set it up myself.”

“I’m just letting you know I poured the cola.”

“You could have just said that.”

Watching Woo Jin continue to grumble, Soo Young let out a sigh of patience. She thought his pretty girlfriend must be really amazing.

“It would have been better if we ate earlier. It’s probably not as good now that it’s cold.”

She muttered as she deliberately placed a slice of pizza on his plate with a sound.

“It’s because you were being greedy.”

“I was trying to eat the side dishes your girlfriend brought. It’s nice to eat right away when she put in the effort to bring them.”

At that, Woo Jin’s hand, which was about to pick up the pizza, stopped midway. His amber eyes turned towards her as he asked,

“Who?”

“Your girlfriend. I saw her.”

Woo Jin tilted his head for a moment before frowning and saying,

“What girlfriend? She’s my sister-in-law, sister-in-law.”

“Sister-in-law?”

“Seol Ji Hyun’s wife.”

“He’s married?”

Soo Young asked loudly without realizing it. Woo Jin took a bite of pizza and said,

“Yeah. You didn’t know?”

“Of course I didn’t know. Huh, he was a married man.”

As Soo Young muttered in a daze, Woo Jin sneered with his mouth covered, full of pizza.

“Why? Are you disappointed?”

“What? Why would I be disappointed that he’s married?”

“You sound disappointed.”

“I’m not!”

“Seol Ji Hyun is quite good-looking, right? Though I’m better.”

Soo Young responded to his words as if she had been waiting. It was a question she had wanted to ask before but kept holding back out of courtesy.

“Aren’t you too confident about your face? Do you know what your face looks like?”

“Of course.”

Though it was a bit hazy from being so long ago, he remembered being noticeably handsome. Just going out the school gate would elicit cheers from girls.

According to Seol Ji Hyun, his hair and pupil color had changed slightly since then, but since his facial structure remained the same, he must still have a handsome face.

Everyone consoled him saying it was good he didn’t get burns on his face, but he sometimes thought it might have been better to get burns rather than injure his eyes.

However, whenever he thought that way, Ji Hyun would scold him, asking if he knew how much those who got burns suffered.

Don’t you think not being able to see is not difficult? While thinking negatively and reluctantly chewing pizza, Soo Young spoke subtly in front of him.

“Actually, I’m told I’m pretty a lot too.”

Woo Jin’s eyebrows twisted slightly. His mouth, which had been chewing pizza, also stretched long, but regardless of his expression, Soo Young spoke cheerfully.

“I saw on YouTuX that you can roughly guess someone’s appearance from their voice. Is it the same for you, Seol Woo Jin? I have big eyes with double eyelids. My nose bridge is the standard height for Korean women, and my lips are small and plump. What you might call cherry-like lips. How about it? Can you imagine roughly?”

“…Are you trying to scam me because I can’t see?”

At his dry words, Soo Young shouted as if frustrated.

“I just stated completely objective facts!”

“Seol Ji Hyun just said you were a young lady in her 20s. If you were as pretty as you say, Seol Ji Hyun wouldn’t have stayed quiet. He would have been very excited and exaggerated in his description.”

“Tch.”

Suddenly there was the sound of a chair being pushed back. Although it was a sound he really hated hearing, he didn’t mind it much when it was her moving.

As he felt her presence right next to him, Woo Jin flinched and leaned his upper body back.

“I’m going to hold your hand for a moment.”

“Ah…”

Before Woo Jin could answer, Soo Young gently lifted his fingers and made him touch something. A warm and soft feeling. This is…

“W-what is this?”

Though he shouted, he didn’t pull his hand away. If it had been someone else, he would have been startled as if touching a bug.

“I’m letting you touch my face. To see if what I said is true.”

As soon as he realized what was touching his hand was her face, Woo Jin remained motionless like a robot for a while. Soo Young removed her hand from his and said,

“Okay, I’ll take my hand away, so just feel the outline roughly. Whether it’s a scam or not. You’ll probably be su-urprised.”

Still, Woo Jin couldn’t move a finger.

When he lowered his eyes with a stiff expression, Soo Young thought she might have been too forward and was about to move her face back.

Just then, he suddenly spoke in a low voice.

“Don’t move.”

Soon, Woo Jin’s fingertips began to carefully trace the contours of her face.

At the ticklish yet strange feeling, this time Soo Young’s body stiffened.

The hand that had been tracing the outline of her face slowly moved to the center and began to brush her eyebrows and nose bridge.

At the fingertips that touched lightly as if touching fragile glass, Soo Young felt a strange sensation in her legs.

Soon, as his fingertips touched her lips, both his hand and her face separated at the same time.

“Ah, um, how was it? Not a scam, right?”

As Soo Young hurriedly spoke with a bright red face, Woo Jin also quickly straightened his posture and stammered.

“I-it is a scam. Why is a woman’s face so big? I thought I was touching a man’s face.”

“What!”

For a moment, Soo Young unknowingly clenched her fist. How could he say such a thing to a woman! Yeah, your face is tiny!

Meanwhile, Woo Jin gulped down cola while rubbing the fingertips that had touched her face with his thumb under the table.

Judging by the contours he felt with his hand, she was even smaller and more refined than she had described herself.

Her eyebrows were neat, and whether her nose bridge was average height for Korean women or not, he couldn’t tell, but it was straight and refreshing.

Moreover, her lips… they felt exactly like the gummy bears he had eaten as a child. Chewy and soft, would they taste the same too?

Rubbing his bloated stomach from gulping down too much cola at once, he hurriedly got up from his seat.

Ignoring Soo Young’s words asking where he was going without eating the pizza, he fled into his room.

He always teased her about having lewd thoughts, but the imagination floating in his mind right now was truly uncontrollable.

It snowed even though it was only early October. It wasn’t heavy snow, but it was definitely snow falling like sleet. It seemed to be an abnormal weather event.

While everyone was marveling at the early snow, Soo Young had no leisure to enjoy it. She was properly late for her part-time job.

She couldn’t sleep at all last night, recalling over and over how Woo Jin had touched her face the night before.

Whenever she closed her eyes, she could feel his exploring touch, so she couldn’t even close her eyes.

How could his face be like ice, yet his hands be so warm? No, not just warm, but almost burning hot as if touched by fire.

Thanks to that, she dozed off snoring in the library until the person next to her woke her up, complaining it was noisy.

When she checked the time, it was already 2 o’clock. Even if she hurried, it would take at least 30 minutes.

Since she didn’t know his contact information, she couldn’t call, so she had no choice but to run from the subway station.

She realized she hadn’t bought lunch only when she arrived at the front door.

Well, there are side dishes his sister-in-law brought yesterday at home. When she thought his girlfriend had brought them, she didn’t really want to eat them, but now that she knew his sister-in-law brought them, she felt they should be eaten quickly before they went bad.

When she opened the door lock and entered, the house was as quiet as a mouse, as expected.

Wondering if he might be sleeping in the living room again for employee welfare, she went to check, but it wasn’t the usual welfare.

Soo Young glanced at Woo Jin’s room once before turning her gaze away and unknowingly let out a “Wow!” exclamation. The view of the falling snow from the 10th floor full-length window was spectacular.

Due to the unobstructed view, the falling snow looked really vivid.

She opened the window wide to appreciate the snow more properly. The cool breeze caressing her nose tip felt good.

“You’re late.”

A familiar soft voice was heard from behind. She should apologize for being late, but instead, she exclaimed excitedly.

“Did you see the snow falling? It’s no joke, right?”

Is she a goldfish brain? How many times does he have to explain that he can’t see? Woo Jin sighed lightly.

But suddenly, her scent was strongly felt right in front of his nose. Again, without warning, right in front of him!

Woo Jin’s foot stepped back. Unexpected body movements always made him quite flustered, but what used to come across as annoyance now approached as a slight thrill.

“Shall we go outside?”

The word ‘outside’ bothered him more than the word ‘we’.

“…Why?”

“Let’s go out and feel the snow. This is a weather anomaly. We should experience this. Besides, since you can’t see, you should at least feel it, right?”

“If it’s an anomaly, why should we experience it?”

“Because it’s an anomaly! Anomalies don’t occur regularly, so we should experience it!”

“…Aren’t you working?”

“Oh, I’ll do it soon. Let’s just go out for 5 minutes. How about it?”

“No.”

She didn’t expect him to agree right away, but he was more adamant than Soo Young had thought, which was perplexing.

“Ah, why not!”

“I don’t like going outside.”

“But why?”

At her tone of not understanding, Woo Jin’s brow furrowed.

“Would you want to show other people yourself stumbling and walking because you can’t see?”

“Ha.”

At Soo Young’s sigh that seemed to say she was dumbfounded, his brow furrowed even more.

“What’s with that sigh?”

“It’s good to be confident, but isn’t it a bit much to think everyone will only look at you?”

“What?”

“People these days are extremely busy. Not everyone lives idly at home like you.”

I-idly! Woo Jin unknowingly clenched his molars at the woman’s words.

Where do I look idle? Do you know how I struggle through each day!

“Everyone is so busy that no one cares whether you can see or not, whether you’re stumbling or walking straight? No one is looking, but thinking everyone is watching you and being conscious of it, that’s a celebrity disease.”

Woo Jin’s face reddened at Soo Young’s words.

Does this woman have no empathy? Has she put herself in my shoes? Has she experienced how hard it is to take care of oneself in a world where you can’t see an inch in front of you?

If it were in front of Seol Ji Hyun, he would have shouted, but for some reason, in front of her, he could only vent his frustration inwardly.

If he expressed all these thoughts in words now, she would probably say he was whining like a child. She would.

As Woo Jin turned his body abruptly, she shouted from behind.

“So you’re really not going out? This is a weather anomaly!”

Her mouth, which had been shouting without losing hope, closed tightly at the sound of the door slamming shut.

But then, does that mean he never goes outside at all? Soo Young, suddenly curious, lowered her raised eyebrows and stared blankly at the room.

She thought that no matter how handsome and rich one is, having a disability might lower one’s confidence. Does his family know he lives like this?

Not eating well, not going out, and seemingly not sleeping well at night. She thought someone should be taking care of him, but then also thought that with such a personality, it might be too much to handle at home.

Turning her gaze back to the window, Soo Young’s eyes narrowed.

Is it because she’s looking down from a high place? The snow falling through the sunlight looked like it was blessing this world beyond just being a weather anomaly.

It’s strange why she wanted to experience it with him when she could go out and experience it alone.

She wanted him to feel both that warm sunlight and the cold snow.

Soo Young’s stomach rumbled, asking to be fed quickly as she became gloomy. He must be hungry too.

Deciding that from now on, she should feed Seol Woo Jin first before messing with him, Soo Young slowly headed to the kitchen.

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