Kwon Seungjoo abruptly stopped walking. Without looking in this direction, he spoke.

“…It seems like a good time even when you have business.”

As if giving a work instruction, the tone was devoid of any emotion. Anyone who heard it would have thought it was a discussion related to work. The secretaries around seemed to understand it that way too, as there was no fluctuation in their expressions.

However, Eunseo immediately understood what it meant. She had been thinking about that all the way to work.

Of course, even though she understood, she couldn’t help but be bewildered.

“Yes?”

Surprised and without realizing it, she blurted out, but there was no response. Kwon Seungjoo moved on as if he never said anything, distancing himself as he walked. It was to the extent that she wondered if she had heard wrong.

Eunseo rode the elevator in a daze.

Na Eun’s voice, which echoed in her ears, made her face suddenly feel hot.

Upon reaching the office, Suna greeted her warmly.

“Good morning, Eunseo!”

As soon as Seunghyun left after becoming the team leader, Suna returned to her original seat, which was next to Eunseo.

“But why is your face so red? Is something wrong?”

“Oh, that’s… I turned the bus heater up too high.”

Eunseo mumbled.

She still hadn’t told Suna the truth about Seungjoo recovering his memories. Even though she had left the fan club, Suna was still very happy when she became close to the admired Kwon Seungjoo for so long. Now, she couldn’t bring herself to say that he had returned to the cold person he used to be. Especially considering Suna had been feeling down since Chris left.

So, Suna still thought that Seungjoo was pretending to be an adult and had gone back home when he returned to the company.

“Do you often contact Seungjoo?”

“Yeah.”

“But why doesn’t he answer calls or check messages?”

Suna tilted her head curiously.

“He left his phone at home. It was originally a phone I used in the past. Now he must be using his original number again.”

“Really? Then next time we meet, I should ask for his new number. No, wait. Is he on the company messenger?”

As Suna was about to turn on the company messenger to get the CEO’s number, Eunseo panicked and stopped her.

“Don’t do that!”

Suna, who didn’t know that the man sitting in the president’s seat right now was the original ‘Kwon Seungjoo,’ was about to send a message like, ‘What is our Seungjoo up to?’… Eunseo shivered at the thought.

“Why?”

“He said he wants to focus on work for a while, so I haven’t been in touch either.”

“Really? Ah, I miss our Seungjoo. But now he must be careful, right?”

Suna nodded regretfully. Eunseo secretly wiped her chest.

The immediate problem now was what Seungjoo said to her in the morning.

“It seems like a good time even when you have business.”
Why wouldn’t there be any business? In fact, there were endless things she wanted to ask.

Exactly when and how did the memories come back?

Did she retrieve all the lost memories, or are they slowly coming back in fragments?

The note was written by her own hands, so why did she throw it away so passionately?

Why, on that day, did they… kiss?

There were so many things she was curious about, to the point where she couldn’t determine which to ask first.

But if she had to pick the most curious one, it was this.

On the day of the accident, why did the car hit her instead?

In any case, there was an overflowing amount of business. Eunseo took a deep breath and contacted the secretary’s office.

I contacted you because there is a matter with the president.

As if they were waiting for it, the secretary’s office immediately scheduled an appointment.

As Eunseo went up at the appointed time, a female secretary who was working alone welcomed her.

“The president is still in a meeting. He said it might be delayed, so please go in and wait. Come this way.”

“Ah, okay.”

Following the secretary inside, Eunseo was startled and stopped in her tracks at the sight of an object that came into her view by chance. A familiar notebook was placed on the secretary’s desk. It was Seungjoo’s notebook.

“Um, is that…?”

“Oh, it was found in the president’s office trash can, so I thought he might look for it later and kept it just in case.”

Eunseo asked cautiously.

“That, I brought it to the president on that day. Could you return it to me, please?”

Without asking further, the secretary simply nodded, as if she knew what Eunseo was talking about.

“That’s right.”

Relieved, Eunseo felt like tears would burst forth.

In fact, what Eunseo regretted the most that day was not bringing the notebook with her. She shouldn’t have left it there in the trash can. At that time, she was so shocked that she couldn’t even think that far.

Hasn’t it gone to the garbage dump yet? Even now, should I search through the company’s waste disposal bins? She had thought of all sorts of thoughts too late, but to think it would be recovered intact like this. She was so happy that tears were about to drop.

“Thank you very much, Miss Secretary.”