When Your Pain Becomes Mine

***

"Hmm."

A low sigh leaked from Gyeonhui's mouth while he was reviewing the report.

On the desk was a lot of data from Consencio's last quarter's earnings to this quarter's expected earnings. The growth trend that was skyrocketing had gradually plateaued.

"If this continues…"

It was clear that Mrs. Shin and other shareholders would not stand for this.

Many people wanted to bring him down from his position at all costs.

Gyeonhui had to do everything he could to acquire the merger and acquisition of DNBM right away.

'Knock, knock.'

With the sound of knocking, Ojae entered.

"There will be a meeting with the strategic planning team and a drawing event at six o'clock. You will not need to do anything but visit there."

Ojae reported Gyeonhui's schedule today.

"... Who will be drawing the entry?

Gyeonhui asked, still listening.

"Executive Nam is going to do it."

After a while, Gyeonhui started speaking.

"Are the journalist coming in too?"

"Yes, the majority of newspapers will come to the event."

"Well, then I will do the drawing."

"What? By yourself?"

Since it was something that the president did not have to do, Ojae had no choice but to question it.

"There's a lot of talking going on about the merger and acquisition of DNBM. We need to give the public some positive impression about us."

On his calm words, Ojae nodded with a smile.

"I got it. I'll get in touch with Executive Nam."

"Okay. You're dismissed."

When Gyeonhui answered, he went back to reviewing the reports again.

When Ojae tried to leave the office when a worried expression appeared on his face as he stopped and asked Gyeonhui, "... Have you decided?"

"About what?"

"Her."

"I told you that I will take care of it."

"Gyeonhui…"

"Do you still have more to report?"

Hearing his sinking voice, Ojae could not speak further.

"... All right. Come to the lobby on the first floor at 8 o'clock."

After Ojae reported everything to Gyeonhui, he exited the office with a solemn expression.

'Bang.'

"Hah…"

When Gyeonhui heard the door closing, he breathed a long sigh.

He turned his head and picked up the tablet PC beside him.

He looked at the application screen that was running.

The screen was showing Sun's pulse going back and forth between 80 and 120, and the increasing distance from the building was 120 meters as she moved from it. Also, a lot of data revealing her health condition in detail was shown on complex graphs.

"It seems that she had delivered it to Sun properly."

He smiled in satisfaction.

***

There were a lot of kitchen products on display in the large-scale household goods aisle.

After looking at the various products, Sun scrutinized the kitchen products with character designs on them.

"What do you think? Did you take a look?"

After hearing Eunyoung's question, Sun showed the cutting board that she was looking at.

It was a cutting board with a well-designed cute character painted on it.

"Oh, it's pretty."

"Isn't it? I think it's a great idea to put the character designs on the majority of kitchen products as well as cutting boards and knives. I think it's also great to incorporate the characters into all this tableware for the kids."

"Well, it sounds like a good idea."

Eunyoung nodded like she agreed with Sun's thoughts.

As Sun said, the demands for characters in the market had been growing steadily in recent years.

"Guess what this is?"

It was a unique shape with a blade in the circular plastic that was shaped in all directions.

"It looks like a cutter because I see the blades, but why does it look like this?"

Eunyoung could not understand the purpose of it from a distance, so she asked Sun.

"This is an apple cutter. Put it on an apple and press down on both sides. The part with seeds falls to the middle, but the rest will be divided into eight pieces."

"Cool..."

"This is for removing pineapple seeds, and that's a banana cutter. There is a strawberry seed remover. Aren't they so cool?"

"Wow, I didn't know about any of these."

Eunyoung looked at the products like they were so novel to her.

"I think it would be better to incorporate our characters into products because the characters make them more unique."

"Yes. Let's pick a few and take them."

Sun smiled at Eunyoung's suggestion.

"Well, don't you have to go?"

Eunyoung asked as she checked the time looking at Sun.

"Huh? Why?"

"Don't you have a blind date tonight?"

"Oh my..."

Ari must have spoken to Eunyoung already.

"It's actually a great idea. If you're going to clear your mind, it's better to do it faster. Nothing good comes from hesitation. You saw how it worked with me."

"No... you have nothing to do with this…"

"I had been in denial over him for five years, knowing that his care for me had already left. I was in pain for five years. I don't want you to do that."

Sun looked at Eunyoung with a sad face.

When Eunyoung felt Sun's eyes, she smiled bitterly.

"By the way, where did Ari go?"

Eunyoung looked around to find Ari.

"Her face looked dark when we had lunch together. I think something's going on with her."

"Well..."

Sun mumbled the end of her sentence because she also wasn't sure what was going on with Ari.

"Go on, before it's too late. I will find Ari and take her. See you tomorrow."

"Bye."

Eunyoung was already moving away to find Ari in the crowd.

"Eunyoung…"

Sun always felt so sorry for Eunyoung and was grateful for her because she considered Sun as her own younger sister and took care of Sun all the time.

"Ari, Ari!"

Eunyoung turned her head around to find Ari.

While watching Eunyoung, Sun remembered walking on the pilgrimage trail in the past.

Eunyoung looked like she was wandering frantically in search of something, but she didn't know what it was or where it was.

Eunyoung was also trying to find something she might not have been able to find.

'I had been in denial over him for five years, knowing that his care for me had already left. I was in pain for five years. I don't want you to do that.'

Her cynical words had implied her regret, but at the same time, it conveyed her care for someone who was more in pain than her. Like a sojourner who had walked on the path before leaving an arrow for other sojourners following behind, Eunyoung's words were like those arrows for Sun.

In retrospect, everyone had been hurt with heartbreak.

She was also one of those people.

An ordinary person who fell in love with someone ordinary got hurt but fell in love again.

"Hah..."

Sun nodded slowly with a long sigh.

"... You can do it, Cheonsun."

Sun clutched her small fists tightly while closing her lips securely.