Kang Hyun reached his hand over Jianne’s eyes to block the annoying sunlight.

The time waiting for Jianne to wake up was not at all regrettable.

Kang Hyun blinked his eyelids slowly and recalled one by one the things she had said she wanted to do for a long time.

He wanted to do everything for her now, but Jianne refused each suggestion to go out.

Her ungraceful body was the problem.

He had said multiple times that his body was fit enough to run on the treadmill right away, but it didn’t seem that way to Jianne.

He suggested making a Christmas tree and putting a rug on the floor.

When he thought that he should do even such trivial things, Jianne’s eyes twitched.

“Did you sleep well?”

Jianne looked around with sleepy eyes and then suddenly sat up.

She didn’t intend to use the same bed as him.

After putting him to sleep, she had planned to go back to the guest room, but she didn’t expect that he would stay there all night to prevent his arms from freezing.
Even in the hospital, she lacked any nursing skills.

“What about Jeonmu-nim?”

“He slept well.”

Jianne quietly knelt down and sat, molding Kang Hyun’s arm, which had served as a pillow.

“Your arm… Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.”

“You should have removed it in the middle.”

“Stop treating me like a patient and let me take care of my lover.”

As Kang Hyun rose up, lifting his weight while pushing Jianne’s shoulders, Jianne, who had fallen back without energy, looked blankly at Kang Hyun covered by the ceiling and blushed.

The heat that had circled around the sofa last night suddenly penetrated her whole body, frighteningly aware that she was lying beneath him.

“Jianne.”

“Yes?”

“Did you by any chance expect me to be like this?”

No way.

He had openly revealed his desires since he was hospitalized.

He wasn’t oblivious enough not to notice the impure sensation reflected in her new pupils.

He could predict that it wouldn’t end with just a kiss someday.

Despite some trivial concerns, the biggest one that had firmly taken root was anticipation.

The moment when she would become completely his woman had been eagerly awaited.

“I did. But during my memory, it’s my first time with Jeonmu-nim, so I’m very clumsy. Uh, I’m sorry for being too stiff yesterday.”

After Kang Hyun paused like that, his mind became noisy.

He felt anxious, wondering if he had disappointed her by stopping so abruptly.

“If you knew, that’s enough.”

Kang Hyun, who let out a dry laughter, neatly combed Jianne’s disheveled hair behind her ear.

“Yes?”

“I’ll handle the rest well.”

Not only did he handle it well, but he could find every part she liked even with his eyes closed.

That’s how deeply engraved they were in each other.

Kang Hyun, who suddenly lowered his head, put his lips on the slender neck revealed outside Jianne’s loose pajamas.

“Ah…”

Jianne, who narrowed her eyes due to the stinging sensation, pushed her hand into Kang Hyun’s back.

The unfamiliar yet thrilling kiss continued down to the collarbone.

Kang Hyun, who blew warm breath into the smooth skin, traced the spots with his fingers where red marks remained.

“Let’s have breakfast.”

“I’m okay. I can do more…”

If you can’t regain your strength at this level, what can you do?

Kang Hyun suddenly lifted Jianne, who was sprawled out, and sat her on his thigh.

He had endured for four years, so there was a lot accumulated, but he had also endured for four years, so he could take it a bit slower.

“Where do you want to put the rug? The entire floor?”

“R-rug? What kind of rug… Ah.”

Jianne, whose soul had been taken away early in the morning, belatedly remembered what she had said yesterday.

“Well, in the hallway, living room, and maybe in Jeonmu-nim’s room too.”

“Okay, I’ll call someone to measure the size. Let’s go buy the tree after breakfast. What else do we need?”

“Jeonmu-nim, still, don’t you need to walk around after releasing the energy in the morning?”

“It’s almost healed.”

“I’ll believe it if you show me.”

Jianne, embarrassed but delivering her desires firmly, spoke bluntly.

“It might be uncomfortable to see.”
“It’s okay.”

Kang Hyun, who hesitated, pulled up the hem of his pajamas to his chest.

There were about two or three wounds, each about the size of his fingers, located near the lower abdomen.

Jianne, who checked the scars for the first time, quickly reddened the corners of her eyes.

“You shed a lot of tears.”

It had been like that since childhood.

In front, he would laugh courageously and make jokes, but hidden in the corner, he would make this expression and sob.

“Don’t cry.”

Kang Hyun, smiling as he found her pouting lips cute, hugged Jianne and comforted her.

It would have been nice if he had hugged the servants of the house who made Seoyoon cry for a while.

Every time he gained a belated realization, his mouth just felt bitter.

Kang Hyun thought it shouldn’t be too late for breakfast, so Jianne, who finished washing lightly, washed the rice and put it in the rice cooker.

Then, she opened the cupboard under the induction to retrieve a hidden bamboo steamer.

Cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, and mushrooms, each steamed, were placed in the bamboo steamer.

However, she also thinly sliced fat-free sirloin beef to accompany it, as she didn’t want to just feed them plain.

After confirming the satisfying composition, Jianne closed the lid of the steamer and opened the refrigerator to find tofu to put in the miso soup.

Holding tofu in one hand and about to close the door, she grabbed a pack of milk stuck in the pantry.

Although she didn’t usually enjoy milk, her taste buds seemed to crave it for some reason.

Jianne poured milk into a transparent glass and put it in the microwave.

When the interior light of the microwave turned on, it made the characteristic noise.

While the milk was heating up, Jianne busily moved around, checking if the tofu and vegetables were sliced for the miso soup and if the bamboo steamed dish was cooking well.

Without much thought, Jianne absentmindedly picked up the considerably heated glass.

“Ah!”

Surprised by the hot heat on her palm, Jianne dropped the glass containing the milk.

Puh.

The glass, which fell onto the marble floor, shattered into pieces.

Jianne, who stared blankly at the spilled milk, knelt down and picked up the small glass fragments.

The speed of Jianne’s eyelids rising and falling while swiping the floor with white milk had significantly slowed down.

At the same time, a sense of déjà vu and a dissociation from reality, like experiencing something familiar before, confused her mind.

The feeling of floating that had been hovering around while Kang Hyun was preparing the food turned into a perplexing dizziness.

In the hazy depths embedded beneath deep sleep, the blurred face of a woman came to mind.

A woman with a coarse, insolent look.

Jianne, who avoided eye contact with the invisible woman and lowered her gaze, clenched her wet hands lively.

“Say it, that we’ll break up. If you break the promise, I’ll accept anything I do.”

“If you don’t want to be branded as a mistress at a young age, keep this promise.”

Who is she, and why is she saying such things to me?
A creepy sensation, as if a bug was crawling up her foot, made Jianne shudder, and a drop of white liquid dripped from her fingertips, which had shivered. Her hands and feet were now covered in milk.

“I’ll clean it up, so get up. Why are you just standing there?”

Kang Hyun, unable to dry his wet hair, rushed out of the bathroom, grabbed Jianne’s shoulders, and lifted her.

“Are you hurt?”

Examining Jianne, who had become a milky mess, Kang Hyun carefully returned to the bathroom.

“Mr. Kang.”

Jianne, dragging her legs that wouldn’t cooperate, called Kang Hyun as he measured the water temperature at the sink.

“It seems like my memory is coming back.”