“Shin-hwi!”
“…….”
“Yang Shin-hwi!”
After Kang called his name twice, finally, a glimmer appeared in his vacant eyes.
Who could call themselves more urgently than someone standing on the boundary between life and death?
Shin-hwi turned her head and doubted her own eyes.
The sight of Kang rushing towards her seemed to stretch in slow motion.
Amidst the slowly passing time, he looked at her and let out a fleeting, breezy smile.
“What am I seeing right now?”
It felt like she was witnessing a fantasy.
“Haah, haah… I got you!”
Only when her grip on his clothes confirmed it wasn’t an illusion did she realize.
Kang, who had raised her head, stepped on the railing and pulled him down, shouting in frustration.
“Do you even know where you are? Get down immediately!”
As Shin-hwi was pulled down, she asked in amazement, “How did you know?”
“Is that really important right now? Why isn’t the patient in the hospital and acting like this here?”
He gazed at her intently and said, “Senior, do I look like a patient to you?”
“…….”
“No, I’m perfectly fine.”
Sin Hwi raised both hands as if inspecting her body and shrugged her shoulders. However, Kang immediately countered.
“If you’re not feeling well, you’re a patient.”
“…….”
“It’s not your body, it’s a hole in your heart. You need to go to the hospital before it gets worse, before everything inside spills out.”
“…….”
“Even if you endure because you’re not in pain, everything just pours out. So no matter what you do, it won’t fill up.”
Filling up, but feeling as empty as a shattered vase, she understood that emptiness well. However, as Kang spoke, Sin Hwi, who had been listening quietly, wore a perplexed expression.
“Senior, you don’t actually believe the news, do you?”
“…….”
“I don’t have something like depression. I don’t even know what that is, and now there’s only one thing left for me to do. Am I going to die saying I’m crazy?”
With a somewhat bewildered smile, he said,
“That’s right.”
Erasing all the remaining traces of a smile, he continued,
“Don’t overdo it.”
Like a biting remark that pricked at her discomfort, it was a sharp blow with substance.
Kang looked at Sin Hwi with a face that seemed like she could burst into tears at any moment.
It was when the gaze had become uncomfortable that he spoke again.
“Anyway, just go on your way.”
“Well, I’m glad then.”
“……?”
“If I worried for no reason, it’s really, really fortunate.”
Since all the horrifying articles that poured out turned out to be false, she truly thought it was fortunate.
And she hoped that it was the truth.
However, Kang’s reaction seemed to make his expression even more complex and subtle.
Silence hung in the air.
For a while, their gazes continued to meet in that state, but neither of them spoke any further.
What broke into the space between them was Samyoung’s voice.
“Kang-ah!”
He, who had followed her belatedly, called Kang’s name from a distance. San was with him.
Seeing the two of them, Sin Hwi furrowed her brow, and she shouted,
“Don’t come!”
She reached out her hand as a signal for them to stop.
Just wait there until we finish our conversation.
The approaching footsteps of the two men came to a halt.
Samyoung seemed quite perplexed, unsure of what to do, while San quietly observed the situation between the two men.
Seeing this, Sin Hwi chuckled and said,
“Senior, you have an exceptional ability to read people’s minds.”
“…….”
“I was almost certain you were just here to watch and was about to get annoyed.”
Although she didn’t know him well, the current appearance of Yang Sin Hwi was so unfamiliar that it made her doubt if he was the same person she had seen on set.
The Sinhwi who used to be kind and easygoing to everyone did not exist here.
She recalled that someone once said there might be a tremendous shadow and sadness behind his smiling face.
Kang looked around.
A car passed quickly on the road, but there was nothing good about delaying the time.
People would recognize her sooner or later, and then the problem would only get bigger.
“Let’s go in my car first. We can talk there.”
“I don’t want to.”
Without a moment’s hesitation, he brought up the refusal, still wearing a smiling face.
However, at this moment, there was a peculiar vulnerability in him that would make it not surprising at all if he jumped off the bridge right away.
It felt like uneasiness had taken over his whole body as if he were sensing something, and his hands were trembling.
What should she do?
How could she get out of this place?
As she contemplated these thoughts, Kang belatedly realized that his face was a mess upon closer inspection.
A half-moon scar above the eyebrow and at the tip of his right jaw.
The lower lip with the bandage was clearly torn.
“Why does your face look like that?”
“I fell down the stairs.”
Sin Hwi spoke as if spitting out a rehearsed answer, the fear of being questioned evident.
As she stared at him, her eyes sharpened, he subtly avoided her gaze.
“…Ah. Was my response too quick?”
Male lead reborn without memories — but he still falls for her.
The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…
Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.
Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.
The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”
When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…
The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced
