Jian walked out to the parking lot, bidding Kang Hyun farewell as he climbed into the driver’s seat.

With his injured arm, Kang Hyun ignored Jian’s worries about calling a driver, and returned home, longing for relief from the backandforth of rest and pain. He trudged into his sanctuary, a space that yearned for deliverance, and leaned against the bed frame.

Despite the discomfort of his stiff shirt and tie, which spread out over his spacious shoulders, he could not easily undo them as they had been touched by Seo Yoon after such a long time.

Fiddling with the dressing bandage that covered his heated wound, Kang Hyun tipped his head and stared at the ceiling.

The sight of Seo Yoon in the arms of a strange man wouldn’t fade, so he tried blurring his focus, closing his eyes, and even futilely placing the back of his hand over his closed eyelids.

In front of her, he would casually suggest a company dinner, but he had no tolerance for other hands touching Seo Yoon.

It tormented him.
“Please.”
Overwhelmed by a terrifying desire that threatened to rise again, the desire that he had to abandon for Seo Yoon’s sake, the desire that led Seo Yoon to death, Kang Hyun curled up, holding his head in his raised knees.
“Did you see Ha Jun, too? He’s a friend.”
He thought there was a chance he could not be a friend. To Seo Jian, he was merely a work supervisor, so there was no need to share personal details honestly from the start.

What should I do if they really are close? Can I bear to watch you loving someone else?

Cold sweat formed on Kang Hyun’s neck as he was lost in this fantasy.

He couldn’t tolerate any hand touching Seo Yoon, regardless of age, gender, or relationship, so it couldn’t simply be described as jealousy.

To Kang Hyun, Seo Yoon was not a being that could be defined by such a fragmented word.

Witnessing the thing he hated most with his own eyes tried to rob him of even the last remnants of his sanity.

Aren’t you seeing happy Yoon without you, clear as day with your own two eyes?

Despite repeating it dozens of times in his mind, facing Seo Yoon next to a stranger brought out his worst impulses.

I won’t act badly as I did before, even if you don’t smile at me, I’ll smile diligently.

I wanted to beg you to return as Kang Hyun’s Seo Yoon.

All the resolve he had built up was nothing but arrogance and hypocrisy before confronting reality.

So Ye lingered with a lavish flower basket on the floor of the secretary’s office, waiting for Kang Hyun.

Despite Kang Hyun’s threat to report her as a stalker, she intruded on his space again without any concern.

She lived such a superior life that she could confidently endure any damage, even if she was actually reported.

Kim So Ye, who had lived a life of luxury without any shortcomings under the protection of her father Kim Seok Hyeon, a hotelier not only in Korea but also all over Asia, had one thing she could not have: Tae Gang Hyun.

From the start, So Ye, who had Kang Hyun in her heart, quickly pushed her father to arrange a meeting when she heard the news that he was looking for a marriage partner.
“Did you check the conditions?”
“Of course. I have a man too. I have no intention of interfering with Mr. Kang Hyun’s private life. For people like us, marriage is a business, why would love be important?”
The contract conditions of a businessoriented marriage included his hidden lover, but she confirmed the marriage, proudly boasting her broadmindedness to generously accept that woman.

What was important was to stand beside Kang Hyun first. Chairman Tae Seok Jung, who would become her fatherinlaw, swore that he would never let go of Seo Yoon, no matter what happened before the wedding, and So Ye herself was confident she could crush that shameless woman.

She hadn’t anticipated the traffic accident, but it was resolved well and the engagement ceremony was completed, so she planned to proceed with the wedding after Kang Hyun sorted out his feelings.

So Ye’s waiting, who couldn’t give up Kang Hyun, continued for as long as 4 years, and now it wasn’t different from obsession.
“Mr. Kang Hyun!”
So Ye, who was applying another layer of lipstick to her already red lips, raised her arm suddenly when she spotted Kang Hyun.

Seok Won, who happened to meet eyes with Kang Hyun as he was flipping his cellphone with the name Yoon Ju flashing continuously, bowed his head in embarrassment.

Seok Won, who often encountered Kim So Ye because he was closely watching Kang Hyun, still didn’t think her acting like a fiancée looked normal.

When Kang Hyun stopped walking, Ji An, who had been following him, chattering nonstop about the agenda from the executive meeting, also had to stop.
“What is it?”
“It’s a gift to celebrate your return.”
Kang Hyun didn’t even glance at the flower basket that So Ye was extending, instead, he loosened the tie that was choking his neck.
“I was very rude last time. Let me formally introduce myself. I’m Kim So Ye, your fiancée, Kang Hyun.”
“Oh, hello.”