As soon as he called her name, she fled without even realizing her shoes had come off. Her small face was filled with fear.

The woman who had been so bright and affectionate to Seungjoo during his memory loss now couldn’t even look him in the eye. Seeing her trembling from head to toe, unable to stop shaking in front of him, he could see how miserable he must have been.

Just now, she shouted at him with tears streaming down her face.

[If it were Seungjoo, he would never do this. If it were him…!]

During his memory loss, she completely saw the Seungjoo then and the Seungjoo now as entirely different people.
That’s not true. He was Seungjoo back then and he is Seungjoo now. The things that happened with her during the memory loss, those emotions, decisions—they were all vividly alive within me.

But Eunseo was different. She liked only the eighteen-year-old boy; not the adult me.

Seungjoo couldn’t bear that. So, unknowingly, he made a noise and expressed his anger.

[Is that trivial thing so precious that you would dig through the trash in front of others?]

The more he tried to suppress his anger, knowing that her heart was drifting further away, the more he couldn’t control his frustrated rage.

I want to do everything for her.

I want to give her everything.

My feelings haven’t changed at all.

However, facing himself in front of her, she didn’t even give him a glance, continually chasing after the elusive illusion of a goblin-like figure that didn’t exist in the world.

“…….”

The man who had become a stranger to himself quietly writhed in agony.

[Why are you so obsessed with that note?] [Don’t speak thoughtlessly!]

After causing a commotion and crying a lot, Eunseo, who had left Seungjoo’s office, didn’t immediately return to her office. Her face was visibly marked by tears.

Fixing her makeup in the powder room, applying a cold drink to her swollen eyes, causing a ruckus, and only then did she return to her seat.

“What’s wrong? Eunseo, why were you crying?”

Seoa’s eyes widened as soon as she saw Eunseo.

Eunseo sighed inwardly. Yeah, pretend you didn’t see a ghost.

In the end, she skipped lunch and, sitting face to face in an empty meeting room, explained everything that had happened to Seoa, leaving out the kissing part because it was embarrassing.

“What? Seungjoo regained his memory?”

Seoa jumped up from her seat.

“When? How? What happened?”

Eunseo shook her head.

“I don’t really know. It might have been the day he brought gimbap. He said he came after contacting you.”

“Yeah. She messaged me that Eunseo seemed really down, asking if she could bring lunch. But did he really regain his memory after meeting me?”

“It seems so.”

“But why did you cry after meeting Seungjoo? Did Seungjoo forget about you by any chance?”

“No. It’s not that….”

The tears that had stopped suddenly burst out again. It would be understandable if she forgot after all, but to remember everything and still react like that…

When explaining about the note, Seoa’s eyes seemed ready to pop out.

“You threw that in the trash? The one you wrote with your own hands?”

“Yeah, twice. Just now too.”

“Wow… Is this for real… For six years, I’ve been a fan of that kind of person….”

Seoa sighed, looking up at the ceiling. Then, after a moment, with a determined expression, she said sharply.

“Eunseo, just forget about Seungjoo, no, forget about Kwon Seungjoo altogether.”
Thinking of introducing a guy, Seoa suggested, but of course, it was Seoa.

“Let’s both fangirl over Yunho.”

Even in the midst of choking back tears, Eunseo managed to laugh.

“Chris dropped out. He won’t be seen again once he goes back to the States, so, well.”

“That’s, the atmosphere is strangely turning around.”

Suddenly, Seoa’s eyes lit up.

“What are you talking about?”

“To put it bluntly, it’s a bit complicated. It’s not certain yet, but there might be hope.”

For the production team of ‘Idol Project 10,’ abbreviated as ‘Apten,’ the results of the second round of voting were nothing short of a tragedy.

It was good that all the trainees who were roughly planned to debut made it through the 30th place cut except for one. The problem was that the one left was an essential trainee who couldn’t be eliminated.

The broadcasting station producing ‘Apten’ is DWnet, and DWnet is operated by DW Entertainment. The headquarters of DW Entertainment is none other than Daewon Group, and that trainee, Choi Won, happened to be a relative of the chairwoman of Daewon Group, Ms. Jieon Hwa!