Despite knowing they were going to get married, she deliberately called his name affectionately, added that they were alumni, as if to emphasize that they were even closer.
Now that her feelings for the man had changed, things that had no meaning back then came flying like daggers.
She felt ridiculous for her excited state just a while ago.
I shouldn’t have come. It would have been better if I hadn’t seen it. It would have been more comfortable if I didn’t know.
If only it wasn’t my wallet.
Eun Jae remembered the route she always passed by bus. She slowly walked the path that the bus took.
She absolutely couldn’t face the man with those feelings. No, she didn’t want to see him.
Despite promising to do her best so that she wouldn’t regret her choice, and reassuring her in that way, how could this happen.
She was upset.
She had given her heart freely, and was hurt by the heart that didn’t return.
It was ridiculous.
She laughed hollowly, spurring her slowed footsteps.
After about 10 minutes of walking, her phone rang in her pocket. It was Ye Rim. Eun Jae looked at the screen and laughed bitterly.
“It’s a ghost, a ghost.”
When things were calm, there was no contact, but invariably, when her mood was down like this, she got a call.
Only after clearing her voice a couple of times, Eun Jae pressed the call button.
Because Ye Rim knew about me the second most after my mother.
“Yeah, Ye Rim.”
[Is everything okay?]
“What could be… wrong.”
A moment of silence passed. Eun Jae chewed over her own voice that she had just let out. Did the part where she hesitated in the middle of her sentence give it away?
As expected, Ye Rim’s firm voice came through.
[Where are you? Let’s meet now.]
A noisy bar. On the round table were halfeaten chicken and two glasses of beer that had been scraped clean.
Unlike Ye Rim who looked fine, Eun Jae who had turned bright red from just one 500ml glass of beer, her words had already begun to slur.
“…Ah, it’s absurd.”
“Hey, Ji Eun Jae. Stop drinking.”
When Ye Rim asked if anything had happened, she had kept gulping down her beer without replying, and it had come to this point.
A sigh flowed from Ye Rim constantly.
She had forgotten, her alcohol tolerance. Wasn’t she a woman who got drunk on even one can of beer?
A loud ring from a phone on the table had been going on for a while now.
“The phone is ringing.”
“Tch, I’m not answering.”
Eun Jae seemed to check the screen, but soon frowned and tossed her phone aside.
“Does he think I will answer? No way, he should be fooled too!”
“Hey, aren’t I being seen by your prospective husband?”
Her eyes were wide open, and trying to speak with clear pronunciation, even though it was inaccurate, was both cute and amusing.
Ye Rim was refilling her empty glass with beer while laughing.
“Ye Rim… shall I tell you a secret?”
The hour and minute hands pointed to 9 o’clock sharp. When he came back from work, she was not at home.
There was only one day left for the deadline. Although it was a schedule he had set himself, he couldn’t delay any longer and had to talk about it today.
He thought she might have stopped somewhere, but after an hour and two hours had passed, Sun Woo started to get worried.
She had never been out this late before, and she was always the one who kept in touch, wherever she went.
Sun Woo, who was sitting on the sofa with a serious face, picked up his car keys and jacket, and stood up without hesitation.
Sun Woo, who came out in front of the officetel, scanned the path where she might walk.
Looking down at the phone that was not connecting, he let out a deep sigh.
Come to think of it, he knew nothing about her. Not even a friend who he could contact in such a situation.
The cold wind blew over his longsleeved shirt. The night air with a severe temperature difference was quite chilly. The image of Eun Jae, who was wearing a thin knit when they ate lunch together, came to his mind.
“She must be cold.”
Gripping the jacket tucked into his waist tightly, Sun Woo widened his search radius outside the officetel.
As Sun Woo, who was slowly running his fingers through his hair, heard his phone ringing from his pocket. Seeing the caller, he hurriedly pressed the call button.
“Miss Ji Eun Jae, where are you now?”
Sun Woo’s voice was raised. At a glance, it seemed like an angry voice. But in truth, it was a voice filled with worry.
[I’m Eun Jae’s friend, Ye Rim.]
An unfamiliar voice came through, causing him to fluster, and the words that followed were even more shocking.
[Eun Jae’s a bit drunk.]
While Sun Woo seemed to lose his words as if he had a mind freeze, Eun Jae’s friend’s voice came again.
[No, she’s very drunk.]
“Drunk? You mean she’s been drinking?”
It sounded like she was propping someone up, and the woman’s labored breathing could be heard intermittently.
“Do you want to come and pick her up?” She asked, and before Sun Woo could even answer, Ye Rim quickly continued her words.
[Oh, aren’t you that close?]
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Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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