CEBF Ch 2 part 1

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Yu Daon became weird. She was already a smidge outside of normal, but the way she treated him these days was obviously different.

WooHyun sifted through his memories to pinpoint exactly when this all began.

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‘KyungChan, I don’t want to hurt you. You’re a good guy. You’d be wasted on a kid like me. That’s how kind and good you are. So you should meet someone who likes and treasures you.’

He had bought some chicken and was on his way to Yu JaeOn’s house. Suddenly, he heard someone’s voice that did not hold an ounce of truth or sincerity. WooHyun stopped walking. The words sounded like they were straight out of a B movie script.

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The moment he realized that those words had left the mouth of Yu Daon, WooHyun was even more bewildered.

‘Yu Daon! Did you even like me at all?’

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‘Don’t come to my house again. Whenever you do this, it makes me uncomfortable. Just accept that we’re over.’

The more this played out, the deeper he was sucked in. WooHyun was glued to his spot as he crossed his arms and watched the two of them shoot this adolescent, slice-of-life movie. There were other people who were watching the couple with interest as well.

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However, the moment this large boy grabbed Daon, flustering her, WooHyun intervened. He also felt a little bad that she would be the famous star of the neighborhood gossip tomorrow.

It probably started that day. From that day on, he noticed that Daon was looking at him as if she were looking at a stranger.

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At first, he thought she was avoiding him because she was embarrassed to face someone who had witnessed her break-up. However, even after a few days had passed, Daon continued to act suspiciously.

He had finished his flight and had just returned home. In order to shake off some of the exhaustion, WooHyun walked out to a secluded space near his apartment complex. He pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

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After lighting the tip, he inhaled. Huu, as he lifted his head and breathed out, the cloudy smoke flowed out of his mouth. Suddenly…

He saw Daon sneaking between the parked cars and poke her head out. She began looking around.

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‘How can she be so unpredictable every time I see her?’

WooHyun followed Daon with his narrowed eyes as he observed her movements. Daon finally walked through the entrance of her apartment lobby. She kept looking back as if she were looking for something.

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She was probably looking for him. Even though no one said so, WooHyun had a strong feeling that he was right.

“…tain. Captain?”

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When he heard someone calling him, WooHyun was shaken out of his thoughts and returned to reality. 

WooHyun, the co-pilot, and the rest of the crew members were all exiting into the arrivals terminal of Incheon airport. One of the flight attendants walking next to him smiled up at him.

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“Did something good happen? Why are you smiling like that?”

Was I smiling? WooHyun furrowed his brow and fixed his expression.

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“We were all thinking about eating dinner together to celebrate our safe flight. You’ll come with us, right, Captain? Let’s share a nice drink as well.”

Celebrate a safe flight? If that were the case, they’d be drinking every single day. WooHyun hid his true thoughts and smiled politely.

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“I have a previous engagement, so I won’t be able to go this time around.”

“You have something this late at night?”

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When he saw how her eyes widened, WooHyun looked down at the watch on his wrist. It was ten o’clock at night.

“You’re right. It’s too late to have dinner now.”

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“Huh? You’re changing the subject again. You always have an excuse and never hang out with us. Do you have some kind of hidden treasure at home? You’re always eager to go home. Or… maybe a girlfriend?”

He could clearly see her eager eyes fill with disappointment. WooHyun had already experienced something like this many times since he was young, so he was now used to it. Now, whenever he came across someone who was interested in him, he was good at letting them down politely.

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“If I have a previous engagement at this time, that’s probably true, right?”

When he gave her his coy answer, the woman’s bright eyes grew dark.

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“Goodbye then…”

“I’ll head in first. Good work, everyone.”

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To WooHyun, sharing a meal with his colleagues was like working overtime. This was because the superficial face he showed them was completely different from who he really was at home.

WooHyun wasn’t brazen or bold, but he was working on creating a well-rounded social life. However, after a long flight, he didn’t want to focus on controlling his emotions.

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‘That bastard is damn unpleasant. So what if he has a pretty face? His personality is in such bad shape.’

It was in middle school. Back then, he didn’t know how to hide anything, and he let his nasty personality show. Because of this, he had many enemies. Wherever he went, he was always the target of someone’s envy. And the person who appeared in front of someone like him was Yu JaeOn.

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‘Hey, don’t you have any friends?’

‘Why do you want to know? It’s none of your business.’

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‘Wow, jeez. Look at how you talk. I was just saying that if you don’t have any friends, let’s eat together, dude.’

JaeOn accepted him for who he was. WooHyun wasn’t sure if it was kindness or just straight up stupidity. Either way, WooHyun liked how easygoing Yu JaeOn was.

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‘Hey, Na WooHyun. Our house has an animal that is rarer than a unicorned lion. Do you want to see it?’

‘What are you talking about? If it ends up being some kind of imaginary animal, I’ll kill you.’

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Young WooHyun couldn’t help but grow curious at JaeOn’s tempting offer. Therefore, after school ended, he followed JaeOn back to his home.

At first, he was shocked to find out that JaeOn lived in the apartment building right across from his place. He was shocked for the second time when he found out that the rare animal JaeOn was talking about was his little sister.

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Tap. WooHyun entered the driver’s seat of his car and pressed the start button to turn on the engine. After adjusting his rearview mirror, he looked at his reflection.

His lips were stretched into a smile. It wasn’t that surprising. So this was why the flight attendant had asked him why he was smiling.

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WooHyun stroked his lips with his fingertips. If he had to choose the most surprising moment in his life, it would probably have to be that night.

‘Oppa, do you have a girlfriend?’

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When Daon had asked him this, he saw a look in her eyes that was very familiar to him. Excitement or disappointment. Teetering on the line between both.

When she first asked him, he felt his heart sink and quickly changed the subject. When she asked him again, he wanted to see what was going through her head. He wanted to know why she was being like this all of a sudden. But when she asked him a third time, he was probably…

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‘What if I don’t?’

‘I was going to kiss you. Can I?’

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…not in his right mind.

‘Do you even know how?’

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In the closed space, the tension enveloped his body. He didn’t want to see the excitement in Daon’s eyes turn into disappointment.

In that moment, she was no longer Yu JaeOn’s younger sister, Yu Daon. She was a stranger who had intruded into his personal space.

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An invisible force pulled him in.

‘Teach me.’

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As soon as he saw her wet lips, he felt his cock harden. Logic took a step back, and instinct took over. Now confronted with such an irresistible temptation, he reacted like a beast.

Nothing like this had happened before.

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By the time he returned to his senses, he was drunk on Daon’s scent, and his lips were sliding down her bare skin as they both panted for breath.

He saw their disheveled clothes and Daon’s languid eyes.

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WooHyun slowly closed his eyes. Just recalling this incident caused his lower half to grow stiff.

If he hadn’t returned to his senses just in time, he might have crossed a point of no return. Just the thought of being grabbed by the nape of his neck by Yu JaeOn gave him a headache as if he’d swallowed a block of ice.

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Suddenly, he felt his phone vibrate. When he saw the caller ID, WooHyun narrowed his eyes and answered the call.

“Yeah, what is it?”

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— Where are you? Are you in Korea?

JaeOn’s characteristically rakish voice flowed out of the receiver. WooHyun felt like he could understand why Daon often looked at JaeOn as if he were pathetic.

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“Yeah, I just arrived.”

— Then let’s go out for a drink.

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“I’m tired.”

— Hey, what’s the point of having a friend who lives in the same neighborhood? It’s at times like these that we should be unburdening our problems to each other, right? I know you must have run into some problems during your flight, and…

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“Did you fight with SoYoung again?”

— ……

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Seeing as how there was no reply, it seemed that he’d hit the mark.

“Where should we go? Your place?”

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— No… It’s dangerous here because Yu Daon is here. She’ll just go slithering back to our parents to tell on me. Ugh, that sneak! I feel like she was my mortal enemy in a past life. She’s always taking SoYoung’s side and treating me like I committed some kind of high treason. And if she’s there, she’ll eat all the snacks, and all that will be left is the bad liquor.

“Then where should we go?”

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— What about that snack bar at the large intersection? Meet me there.

After finishing the call, WooHyun pressed down on the accelerator. As soon as he put some distance between him and the airport, the roads were completely clear.

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Whenever he went to JaeOn’s place, he’d always find Daon stuffing her face with food at the corner of the table. WooHyun didn’t have much of an appetite and would often skip meals, but whenever he saw Daon eating, he’d feel his appetite return.

Realizing that he would not be seeing Daon eat today, he couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

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“Hey, WooHyun. Tell me. Was I wrong?”

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“I’m not sure.”

How could they have continued to date for six years when they always fought over the smallest things? WooHyun let the words go in one ear and out the other as he picked up his glass.

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Even if WooHyun took his side now, JaeOn would be back to chatting and giggling with SoYoung after a few days as he bragged about his relationship. Whenever that happened, WooHyun would be the one who felt embarrassed for taking it seriously.

“I’m satisfied just looking at SoYoung’s face, you know? That’s why I didn’t pay any attention to things like a date itinerary. As soon as I asked her where she wanted to go, she suddenly got up and got angry. She said that we’ve been dating for a long time and that I should be planning our dates more. She kept shooting her piercing words at me like a machine gun, and… Wow, seriously… I thought I was looking at Yu Daon.”

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JaeOn’s face was already ruddy due to the liquor. He had already been drinking alone before WooHyun had arrived. It looked like he was completely drunk. Well, it was none of his business. WooHyun looked around at their surroundings and nonchalantly opened his mouth.

“Isn’t this around the time when Daon comes home from work?”

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Daon would always come home late after finishing her tutoring work. She always passed this intersection on her way home.

“This place is very open, so she’ll probably be able to see us if she passes by.”

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Then wasn’t it pointless to come out here to drink in order to avoid her?

“Hey, it’s not like she’s Mongolian¹. How can she possibly see us? Don’t even say such a horrible… Ah, that’s right. I heard that your parents have been growing peppers lately.”

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“That’s news to me.”

“My parents visited them when they went to their vacation house and came back with an armful of produce.”

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“Really?”

WooHyun replied indifferently as he poured himself another glass. Whether his parents grew peppers or raised gorillas, he didn’t care.

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“But you wanna know something? Yu Daon’s been acting really weird lately.”

When WooHyun heard the words that he’d been thinking all along, his eyes filled with interest. So he hadn’t been the only one to feel that Daon had been acting weird.

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“About those peppers… My mom put some on the table to eat as side dishes, but Yu Daon kept glaring at the peppers as if she were on a mission to destroy them while scooping rice into her mouth.”

The brief moment of sympathy shattered. Yu JaeOn must have been completely wasted because he was talking nonsense now. WooHyun frowned and clicked his tongue.

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“I know I’ve lived with her under one roof all this time, but I still can’t understand her… Ah, fuck! That surprised me! What’s going on?!”

JaeOn jumped up in surprise and slammed into the table. This startled WooHyun, and he looked up in surprise.

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He saw Daon standing at a distance, panting for breath. A small smile formed on WooHyun’s lips.

“You’re here?”

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JaeOn clutched his chest and raised his voice.

“Are you really a Mongolian?”

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Daon’s cheeks were flushed, almost as if she had run over here as soon as she discovered the two of them. She didn’t even glance at JaeOn as he created a ruckus. Daon’s piercing gaze remained only on WooHyun.

He could tell that she had a lot she wanted to say. A low chuckle escaped his lips.

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“Sit down for now.”

WooHyun tapped on an empty chair. Unlike her usual behavior, Daon hesitated before sitting down. WooHyun placed an empty glass and some snacks in front of her.

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“Have you eaten dinner?”

Daon had still not taken her eyes off of WooHyun and slowly shook her head.

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Normally, she’d shift the tent flaps as she entered, reciting the menu items she’d want to order. Yu Daon was someone who wanted to reduce the time spent waiting for food as much as possible.

WooHyun could immediately tell that the reason why she was acting strange was because of him.

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However, he couldn’t bring up what had happened between them when JaeOn was sitting next to them.

Although JaeOn’s life’s pleasure was to tease Daon, if he found out that WooHyun and Daon had touched lips and even tangled tongues, he’d grab WooHyun by the nape of his neck.

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WooHyun filled JaeOn’s glass and spoke to Daon in an apathetic voice.

“Do you want to eat something?”

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“Auntie, can we have a bowl of udon over here?”

It seemed that she was still hungry seeing as how she yelled out in a resonating voice. Then she moved her chopsticks to the stir-fried cartilage.

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“Eat slowly. We can always order more.”

With WooHyun’s one statement, Daon’s chopsticks froze. Biting the tip, she returned her piercing gaze to WooHyun’s face.

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Daon wasn’t the only one who was acting differently. Around now, WooHyun would have normally said something like, ‘What are you looking at? Just eat.’ But those words would not leave his lips.

WooHyun’s eyes were also lingering on Daon’s slightly parted lips.

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Emptying his glass by himself, Yu JaeOn had long stopped paying any attention to them.

A steaming bowl of udon was placed on the table. Quickly returning to her senses, Daon frantically asked a question.

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“Did you return from your flight?”

Is that what she wanted to say…? WooHyun chuckled when he heard her boring question and answered in the affirmative. Daon began to list some places as she folded her fingers down after each one.

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“Where did you go this time? Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, South America, Africa… probably not Africa, right?”

“Prague.”

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“Wow.”

Wow what? She usually didn’t seem to care where his flights had been. He still clearly remembered what she had said to him when he had come back from a long flight abroad.

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‘You said you were a pilot. When do you ever go on a flight? It seems to me like you have a lot more free time than an unemployed bum.’

How should he react to Daon’s completely unprecedented reaction? He put on an apathetic front, but inside, his heart was rocked by confusion.

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“…Something like a date itinerary… SoYoung suddenly…! Got angry… Like a machine gun…!”

JaeOn was telling Daon the exact same thing he told WooHyun.

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“Yu Daon, tell me. Is it my fault?”

With the stir-fried cartilage as her side dish, Daon was slurping the udon noodles as she paid no heed to JaeOn’s ramblings. She occasionally placed a stir-fried cartilage on WooHyun’s plate and smiled at him.

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“Tell me. Did I do something so wrong?”

“Don’t talk to me. You’re getting on my nerves.”

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When JaeOn grabbed onto Daon’s arm and shook it repeatedly, Daon turned to him with a cold face and spoke in a low voice.

‘Why do I find that so cute?’

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WooHyun suppressed the laugh that threatened to burst out and slightly covered his mouth with the back of his hand. However, he couldn’t hide the laughter from his eyes.

He closed his eyes. When he opened them, their eyes met. Daon’s cheeks were flushed as she shyly bit her lip.

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“Yu Daon, aren’t you being too cruel? Even if that was true, I’m still your oppa…”

Completely sullen, JaeOn mumbled. Daon glared at him as if he were pathetic in her eyes.

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“Are you seriously trying to use your age against me? So what if you were born a bit earlier than me?”

“How can you… say… that five years is ‘a bit earlier’? This oppa changed all your diapers and basically raised you, you jerk…”

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“Mom said you were on the late side when it came to being potty-trained. You should have focused on changing your own diapers instead.”

Meanwhile, WooHyun took Daon’s full cup of soju and drank it instead. Then he filled it halfway with more soju and pushed the glass in front of Daon.

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He wasn’t sure where she’d learned this, but Daon had a bad habit of filling her glass to the brim. If she drank the liquor like that, she’d often get drunk to the point where she was half-unconscious.

But he wasn’t sure whether Daon was aware of this.

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It was then. JaeOn suddenly began to tremble and pulled out his phone from his pocket. When he checked the caller ID, he went, ‘Uuh, uuuhh!’ and made other strange noises.

“SoYoung. So-SoYoung…!”

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He carefully held the phone with two hands and lifted it up. He bent his body into a low bow and exited the snack bar tent. It was as if he were a eunuch being called by the emperor.

Not long after that, WooHyun received a text message.

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[I’m so sorry. I think I need to go and see SoYoung. I’m really, really sorry. Really.]

There was no need for him to be sorry.

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“Yu JaeOn said he’s leaving to see SoYoung now.”

After checking the message, WooHyun put down his phone and turned his head. Daon, who had been glancing at him with the side of her eye, flinched in surprise as her eyes widened.

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He almost laughed in disbelief. She had been stealing secret glances at him the whole time. Why was she acting all innocent now?

Now that Yu JaeOn was gone, WooHyun felt that he needed to make sure. He didn’t want things to grow awkward between him and Daon.

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To do this, he needed to first uncover the source of Daon’s strange behavior.

“What’s the problem?”

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When she heard WooHyun’s question, Daon’s hand froze as she brought her glass up to her lips. Her eyes widened. She merely blinked at him and didn’t answer his question. To make it easier for her to respond, WooHyun asked another question.

“Is it because you’re lonely?”

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Because this had all started after she broke up with that ignorant, beefy guy, it was a rational conclusion.

She had never shown any interest in him. But now she was asking him if he had a girlfriend, and that she’d kiss him if he didn’t. The reason why she was doing all this and acting so cheekily was probably because she was lonely.

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However, Daon tilted her head as if she didn’t understand what he was saying. She asked back.

“Lonely? Me?”

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“Yeah.”

“I don’t think I’m lonely…”

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Daon looked down at the bowl of udon and murmured. She had finished all the noodles and only the broth was left. WooHyun clicked his tongue and narrowed his eyes.

“About that guy who came to your place…”

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Daon frantically lifted her head as her eyes trembled in shock. Yes, it would be better to take things step by step from here. In order to unravel this tangled situation, the most important thing he needed to do was find its beginning.

“Why did you break up with him?”

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“No, that’s… That is… Uhh…”

Daon was obviously taken aback as her face grew red. She was turning into the same color as the red tent flaps of the snack bar.

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He’d caught the tail. WooHyun’s lips stretched into a smile. He filled Daon’s glass as well as his own. With his chin propped in his hand, WooHyun drank the liquor as he stared at Daon.