On the first day he went out, he didn’t think about leaving the room, but on the second day, Woo Jin seemed to have gotten used to it, coming out of the room after a walk to eat lunch and drink tea.

Soo Young, who had been very nervous, was inwardly relieved by his stable appearance and sipped her instant coffee deliciously.

“It’s going to get cold soon, so we’ll have to dress warmly when going out.”

“Why dress warmly just to barely go to the entrance?”

“You never know, we might go a bit further if your walking speed improves.”

“Don’t push it. If you do, I might not go out at all.”

Woo Jin growled. Who exactly was this walk for? Soo Young rolled her eyes secretly at Woo Jin.

“Keep your eyes straight. You’ll get cross-eyed.”

At his words, which seemed to know everything like a ghost, Soo Young quickly lowered her eyes.

She thought he was fine since he wasn’t cooped up in his room, but he was just as sensitive as on the first day. It seemed he only appeared accustomed on the outside.

“If you’re done with your coffee, go inside and rest.”

“What are you going to do?”

“I need to clean the house a bit.”

“It won’t make a difference anyway, just sit down.”

“Why won’t it make a difference? It gets cleaner when I clean.”

“When I touch it with my hands, the dust is still there. You know I clean it again? These days I’m replacing exercise with cleaning.”

“What are you saying? I really do it properly…”

But she felt slightly guilty. She had never been confident about cleaning. Even now, she was doing her best not to make the housekeeper look bad, and it had improved a lot.

But it seemed to show. Is it that I can’t feel the difference that even a person who can’t see can feel?

Soo Young glanced at the kitchen and hallway. To her eyes, she could only see shiny floors, let alone dust.

“Also, don’t you clean the bathroom? It smells of water.”

“Water smell? You can smell that too? Are you a bloodhound?”

“Don’t you think it’s strange that you can’t smell it?”

“Well, I’ve never smelled it before…”

Soo Young’s voice trailed off at Woo Jin’s look of contempt.

“You know only you and Seol Ji Hyun use the outside bathroom? The fact that it smells like that means it hasn’t been cleaned in a while.”

Soo Young thought that Woo Jin must be more tired from his overly developed senses than from being blind.

For his part, Woo Jin felt uncomfortable as the house seemed to be getting dirtier since Soo Young arrived. There were cockroaches he’d only seen in school storage rooms, and his hands felt grimy when he touched things.

He thought about asking Ji Hyun to call a disinfection company for a day, but the thought of strangers barging in again made his head throb.

“I’m not originally a cleaning major. I majored in education.”

As Soo Young grumbled, Woo Jin retorted as if he’d heard the strangest thing.

“Who majors in cleaning? There’s no Cleaning Department, you know? This is just a difference between clean and dirty. I’m clean, you’re dirty.”

“Sheesh, it’s a difference between being fussy or not, you know? How do you know if it’s clean or dirty if you can’t even see?”

“That’s the point. Even I who can’t see knows, so why don’t you…”

Woo Jin’s expression grew increasingly contemptuous. They knew from the beginning that they were from different worlds, but as they talked, it seemed endless.

Yet, why they kept wanting to stay together was something neither Woo Jin nor Soo Young could quite understand.

Just then, Woo Jin’s phone started chirping. He hesitated whether to answer the call or not after hearing the sound.

Wondering who it was, Soo Young glanced at his phone and saw ‘sister-in-law’ displayed.

“It’s your sister-in-law. Answer it.”

At that, Woo Jin angrily grabbed his phone.

“Why are you looking at other people’s phones?”

“Come on. I didn’t mean to look, I just happened to see it. Then you can look at my phone too!”

“Can’t. See. I can’t see, remember? Are you a goldfish?”

While the two were bickering, the phone that had been chirping several times fell silent. Then soon, a knocking sound was heard from outside the door.

“Oh? Someone’s here.”

Woo Jin said with a tired expression.

“It’s my sister-in-law. Open the door. She always calls to ask if she can come in when she’s in front of the house.”

Soo Young hurriedly went to the entrance and opened the door.

Yeon Seo was surprised to see the girl from next door she had met last time opening the door, looked around wondering if this was the right house, and then greeted loudly.

“Ah, hello? You’re… the niece, right? Soo… Hee?”

Soo Young realized for the first time since coming to this house that her name was so difficult to remember. She had been called Joo Young, then Lee Soo Young, and now she had become Soo Hee.

Already accustomed to her name being mispronounced, she confidently stated her name.

“It’s Kim Soo Young.”

“Ah, that’s right!”

What’s right? Somehow, she thought the CEO and his sister-in-law were well matched.

“When do you get off work? I didn’t know you were still here.”

“I get off at 4 o’clock.”

“Huh? It’s past 4 now?”

Just then, a large presence was suddenly felt from behind, and soon a sharp voice interrupted the conversation between the two.

“We were having tea.”

“Ah, young master. I’m sorry. You didn’t answer the phone…”

Meeting him for the first time since being scolded harshly last time, Yeon Seo glanced nervously at Woo Jin. However, Woo Jin was just staring into space without saying anything.

Soo Young, sensing the awkward atmosphere, quickly gestured and said.

“Please come in. I was just about to leave anyway.”

“Why are you leaving so early?”

As Woo Jin asked her, looking straight into her eyes, Yeon Seo looked back and forth between Woo Jin and Soo Young.

“A guest has arrived, so I should go.”

Just then, Soo Young’s phone rang. It was Yeon Ho. Thinking she had found a good excuse, Soo Young quickly took the phone and scurried to the kitchen.

“Senior So!”

At her voice, Woo Jin’s expression soured. Why does that So senior or Horse senior or whatever keep calling at this timing…!

Yeon Seo carefully observed Woo Jin’s expression as she followed him to the kitchen.

“Ah, you’ll come in 15 minutes? Okay. I’ll be waiting in front of the complex.”

As Soo Young hung up the phone and put it in her bag, Woo Jin asked sharply.

“Why does that So senior keep calling?”

“I told you last time. His school is nearby, so he picks me up on his way home.”

“That’s what I mean. Why is he picking you up? Didn’t you say you weren’t dating?”

“We’re not dating, but he’s a ‘male friend’.”

“Male friend?”

“A friend who’s a guy.”

“How can there be friends between men and women?”

“Why not? We’re not dating but we’re friends, aren’t we?”

Yeon Seo was watching Woo Jin and Soo Young’s fiery exchange without breathing, as if watching a youth drama.

“How are we friends?”

“Ah, employer and employee?”

“It’s not like that.”

“Then what?”

As Soo Young asked with an innocent face, Yeon Seo also covered her mouth with both hands and waited for the young master’s response.

Well… well…!

However, Woo Jin just chewed his lips and turned to leave the kitchen.

Oh no! Next time then? Feeling disappointed, Yeon Seo silently stamped her feet. When’s the next time? When?

Realizing she might not get to see the next time, Yeon Seo hit her chest with her fist. She was so curious!

Belatedly noticing Yeon Seo standing in the corner, Soo Young hurriedly bowed her head and said.

“I’m sorry. We don’t get along very well.”

Don’t get along? What do you mean? Yeon Seo stared at Soo Young with her large eyes lined with mascara wide open.

Her husband had told her that by looking at her eyes, she could tell whether someone liked the young master or not.

Looking at the sister-in-law who was silently staring at her, Soo Young was worried that she might have appeared too rude to the house owner. What if she tells her husband later that I was too disrespectful?

However, unaware of Soo Young’s concerns, Yeon Seo smiled brightly and said.

“Our young master…”

The words ‘seems to like you a lot’ lingered on the tip of her tongue, but fearing she might get scolded by Woo Jin again for speaking that way, she changed her words.

“Is a bit prickly. You know, right?”

“Ah, yes.”

Soo Young responded neither strongly agreeing nor denying Yeon Seo’s words.

However, Woo Jin’s words kept replaying in her mind.

− How are we friends?

Then, aren’t we friends? Soo Young had thought they were friends in her own way, but she felt hurt inside that Woo Jin didn’t think so.

Just a housekeeper, huh? Tch, maybe I should terminate this long-term work contract!

Soo Young pouted her lips, bowed her head to Yeon Seo, and left the house.

Suddenly, she missed Yeon Ho.

He slowly raised the blinds that had always been lowered. According to Ji Hyun, the entrance of the complex could be seen from his room window. Being in the front building, the view was supposed to be good or something.

At the time, he had yelled angrily about what the view had to do with him, but now he was very curious about the situation at the complex entrance.

Because Soo Young had said she would go to the complex entrance.

He raised the blinds and even opened the window, but no matter how much he strained his ears, he could only hear the sound of the wind, not people’s voices.

He couldn’t see, but he couldn’t take his eyes off the direction of the complex entrance.

Just then, riding on the sound of the wind, he faintly heard the sound of a car horn and a familiar voice calling out ‘Senior So’.

A man who’s a school teacher and drives to pick her up. It was as ordinary as could be, but there was nothing Woo Jin could do about any of it.

The hand holding the window frame turned into a fist, and then that fist suddenly struck the window with a thud.

“After listening to visually impaired people, we found out that the spaces in braille are printed slightly differently. We can’t feel the difference, but for those who rely solely on their sense of touch, that difference is noticeable.”

“Could this be due to the displacement that occurs when it’s printed on plastic paper? They say it’s not incomprehensible, right?”

“For it to be profitable when commercialized…”

The meeting continued for hours as they touched the small printer and the bumpy plastic papers it produced.

Even businesses targeting non-disabled people were being shut down if they weren’t profitable, so a business targeting only disabled people was seen as pouring water into a bottomless pit.

Therefore, the main purpose of this meeting was to develop products targeting both disabled and non-disabled people as joint consumers, as it would be difficult to match the unit price if they only catered to the needs of the visually impaired.

“How is the pop-up book project for children progressing? Isn’t it important to match the 1mm spacing for pop-up books just like braille? It seems that would allow for more delicate expression of the pictures.”

“We could also consider making braille book covers like pop-up books…”

Just then, an employee carefully knocked and entered the meeting room.

“CEO, it’s your wife, she says it’s urgent…”

“Ah, could you ask her to wait for a moment?”

Ji Hyun answered kindly while closing her eyes and comparing the braille of a regular pop-up book and a braille book with her hands. However, the employee didn’t leave and spoke in a careful tone.

“Um, it seems something has happened to Writer Seol Yong…”

“What?”

At the mention of Seol Yong, Ji Hyun and everyone in the meeting room stopped talking and turned their attention to the employee. Ji Hyun quickly left the meeting room, leaving the director in charge of continuing the meeting.

Ji Hyun took the phone handed by the employee and spoke in a lowered voice.

“Yeon Seo, why? What’s wrong?”

“Well, the young master punched the window, so we called Dr. Kang, and the doctor says he needs to go to the hospital to get stitches, but he keeps refusing to go.”

“Punched? Why on earth. Ah, okay. I’ll come right now.”

Ji Hyun went back into the meeting room to explain the situation and left the rest to Director Oh.

Everyone resumed the meeting, used to the CEO being absent.

Although no one had ever seen Writer Seol Yong in person, because of the CEO who would drop everything for his affairs, the employees all felt as if Seol Yong was a person inside the company.