“I can’t accept your feelings. Not now.”

Facing his confused expression, she sobbed and said,

“After one year, and one more month.”

“…….”

“By then, you’ll be twenty years old. If you still like me at that time…”

Only then did the man understand the meaning and asked, seemingly in disbelief,

“Really? Will you accept me then?”

“Can you wait?”

Seungju urgently grabbed Eunseo’s frozen hand. Embracing her cold hand with his large, warm hand, he nodded his head several times.

“I can wait! Whether it’s two years or three, I can wait as long as you need.”

Expressions like being an adult or being thirty-three didn’t come out. The face of a boy with an adult’s appearance was filled only with pure joy.

Rather, Eunseo felt sorry for asking him to wait.

“Won’t you get tired and change your mind while waiting?”

“No. I won’t change. I will keep liking only you, continuously.”

Each word flowing from his lips was sweet and dreamlike. Eunseo realized once again that the person she had secretly admired for so long was indeed him.

“……Okay.”

Suppressing the desire to embrace him tightly, Eunseo took a big step back, looking straight into his eyes.

“Until then, let’s maintain this distance between us.”

“…….”

“Work hard and return to your place. I’ll do my best in my position and keep looking for Eunho. If you keep working like this, time will pass quickly.”

As if there were an invisible barrier between them, Seungju did not take that one step forward. However, it didn’t seem like he was not in a hurry either.

“Before that, if my memory comes back, I won’t have to wait a year, right?”

Eunseo smiled faintly.

Seungju firmly believed that he had liked her from the beginning. However, Eunseo didn’t think so, and that’s why she was still scared.

What if he despises me when the memories return?

Wouldn’t this promise we made now become just a piece of tissue?

However, Eunseo decided to accept even that. She didn’t want to let go of his hand to the point where she had endured and suppressed her desires for so long.

‘What did you do to me while I lost my memory?’

If he scolds me then, let’s just silently listen.

If he blames me, let’s sincerely apologize.

With these thoughts hidden in her heart, Eunseo smiled.

“Yeah.”

The evening Eunseo was dragged to the security team.

“Why isn’t he answering the phone at all?”

Even after several calls from the company, Seungju didn’t answer. In a hurry, Suna reluctantly took a taxi and rushed to Eunseo’s house.

“Mister, please hurry! I’ll pay you double!”
Upon arrival, Suna repeatedly pressed the doorbell and, not satisfied with that, pounded on the door with her fists, shouting,

“Seungju! Open the door! Quickly! It’s urgent!”

A little later, Seungju, wearing an apron, opened the door with a bewildered expression.

“Oh, Suna noona? What’s going on? Where’s Eunseo noona?”

It seemed she couldn’t answer the phone because she was in the kitchen.

“Eunseo has been taken to the security team! It seems they found out you shared internal information with her!”

Suna spoke without taking a breath.

“We need to go to the company right away. Have you been practicing acting all this time? There’s no need for a long explanation; just say you saw that data, and we’ll take only Eunseo with us.”

However, after a moment of thought, Seungju surprisingly shook her head.

“I can’t go right now.”

“What are you talking about? Eunseo must be suffering by now. We need to go rescue her immediately!”

“But I can’t go right now.”

Seeing Seungju repeating frustrating words, Suna felt her heart explode.

“What about Eunseo then? Are you just going to leave her like that?”

“The CEO is going to appear at the company in a month. We can’t just take Eunseo and leave right away. Other people will quickly come running.”

Suna was taken aback. Her mind was too hasty, and she hadn’t considered that.

“What do we do then?”

Seungju asked.

“Noona, there’s employee information on the groupware. There are photos of executives too.”

“But… it’s not just one or two people. You expect me to memorize all of that? Right now?”

“I can do it.”

Seungju said forcefully.

“I have to.”

“That’s how it happened.”

The next day after the incident, Suna finished explaining when they met at the company and stuck out her tongue. Fortunately, other team members, except Suna, seemed unaware, and there was no sign of any objection. Kwon Seunghyun took a day off.

“Unbelievable. He truly lives up to the nationwide genius title. Memorizing the names and photos of executives, even searching for articles while doing it.”

Eunseo recalled his attitude toward the executives yesterday.

“Director Kim, I’m glad you look good. Any aftereffects from the surgery?”

“Manager Choi, sorry for not attending your sibling’s wedding. Congratulations, albeit belated.”

“Director Park, how was your business trip to Dubai?”

In fact, he said all that without recognizing the people, just memorizing and reciting it.

It sent shivers down her spine, realizing it belatedly.