In the cozy blanket, Mijoo suddenly opened her eyes.
The unfamiliar space. She remembered coming to Siyun’s house in the storm last night.
Mijoo cautiously looked behind her.
‘I’m sure we fell asleep together.’
There was no sign of Siyun, who had been lying next to her.
Anxiously, Mijoo sat up and pulled up her shower gown that had slipped off her shoulders.
‘Two grown-ups in one bed and nothing happened!’
She hadn’t expected anything in the whirlwind of life that was last night. But now that she realized nothing had happened, she couldn’t help but scoff.
Mijoo lay back down at an angle and curled up weakly. Then, a practical thought suddenly hit her.
‘7 a.m. Immigration office.’
Mijoo sat up quickly and looked around. There was no clock in the bedroom, which had only a bed. The room, covered with blackout curtains, made it hard to guess the time.
Straightening her gown, Mijoo stepped out of the bedroom and first looked for a clock to check the time.
It was already past 7 a.m. Her heart began to race. She looked around, but Siyun was nowhere to be seen.
“I’ll take care of this.”
Siyun’s confident face telling her not to worry came to mind.
“Did he go alone without waking me?”
Mijoo grew uneasy. She found her phone, hesitated, but then mustered the courage to call Siyun.
Her heart pounded with the uniform ringing tone, but the call went unanswered.
“He must be meeting the immigration officers by now.”
Mijoo felt anxious that something involving her was happening without her participation.
But the root of her anxiety was the fear that the person beside her might disappear without a word.
The trauma of losing her parents at three and becoming an orphan haunted her daily. The fear that someone beside her might silently and tracelessly vanish.
That’s why she had avoided getting close to people and had shunned intimate encounters.
Her sudden attachment to Siyun had been an exception.
“He wouldn’t just not come back to his own house, would he?”
Being in Siyun’s house somewhat alleviated her anxiety, but Mijoo still nervously fidgeted with her fingers.
“Should I call again?”
She only needed to press the redial button, but Mijoo couldn’t bring herself to do it.
The most rational thought was that he was too busy handling the matter to answer, but deep-rooted fears of being ignored and abandoned prevented her.
At that moment, Siyun was sitting with a man and woman who claimed to be immigration officers and his lawyer, Denny Kim, at Mijoo’s house.
The two, who had been so assertive in front of Mijoo yesterday, were now deeply sighing, and the male officer had a busted lip.
Denny played CCTV footage from 7 a.m. that morning on a tablet. It clearly showed the two posing as immigration officers and talking about collecting a fine.
And when their scam was exposed, they tried to flee, leading to the man falling and busting his lip, all captured on video.
“Ah… there was no CCTV before.”
The man muttered as if it was unfair.
“Until yesterday, there wasn’t. But installing CCTV overnight for security isn’t a difficult task.”
“Please let us off this one time.”
“Let off? Really?”
Siyun looked at Denny sitting next to him.
“You just admitted everything in this video.”
Siyun nodded indifferently at Denny’s statement, and the man and woman bowed their heads, glancing around nervously.
“I’m sorry. I was just doing what this man told me to.”
The man who had impersonated an immigration officer glared at the woman. However, she was desperately trying to save herself from the situation.
“I’m sorry, really sorry. But I have a sick family at home. We needed money for hospital bills.”
“And your sick family told you to go out and scam people?”
Siyun’s harsh voice made the woman flinch and clasp her hands together.
“No, that’s not it. But it’s true my family is sick. Please, just don’t report us.”
“Passport! Hand it over.”
Siyun extended his hand, and the man cautiously took out a passport from his vest pocket. Siyun snatched it and flipped through it, checking the details inside.
“I can’t guarantee you haven’t committed any illegal activities with someone else’s identification all night.”
“No, we haven’t done anything like that.”
This time, the man was quick to respond.
“Why would we do something risky overnight when we were supposed to receive money today?”
“You just admitted to trying to extort money. No, what kind of immigration impersonators are you, admitting to your crimes so easily!”
Denny looked at Siyun incredulously.
“Yes, we did wrong, so please just let us off this one time.”
Aware of the seriousness of impersonating immigration officials, the man and woman prostrated themselves, eager to avoid being reported. However, Siyun was not one to let illegal activities slide easily. His determination was clear on his face, making the fraudsters even more desperate.
“We didn’t actually take money from that woman. We just wanted to scare her a bit.”
“Just attempted, you say?”
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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