When Your Pain Becomes Mine

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When Eunwoo's car left the city, it ran along the Han river road.

Sun looked out the window silently and thought about things that just happened.

'Chaekyeong Jin...'

Chaekyeong was still so pretty, and she was a lady of dazzling beauty.

Sun kept thinking that the two of them seemed perfect together.

Sun shook her head hard to forget her accelerating imagination regardless of her will.

After reading her frustrated expression, Eunwoo pulled the car over in a Han River parking lot.

"This place is..."

"Let's go for a walk."

Eunwoo responded with a smile and stepped out of the car before her.

Sun, who had a sullen expression, reluctantly unfastened her seatbelt and left the car.

As she stepped outside, she noticed the open view of the Han river as she felt a cool breeze.

The sight of the lights swirling in the river was enough to draw Sun's attention.

"Isn't it so pretty?"

"Yes. It's the way I used to go to work every day… but I didn't know this place."

Sun said while looking at the night view with a comfortable feeling.

"There are a lot of beautiful places in Seoul if you look around closely."

As she agreed with him, Sun nodded slowly.

'... I'm sorry, but don't get me wrong. We've broken up.'

She felt ashamed because her voice was trembling uncontrollably when she said it, and she regretted it.

"Hah…"

She closed her eyes and slowly started speaking about what she really thought in her mind.

"... Why am I so stupid?"

"Why do you think that?" Eunwoo looked at her and asked.

"Yesterday, I thought that I could be confident in front of him this morning, no, until I met him."

"Do you think you were not?"

"... You were there with me. My voice was trembling, and I couldn't look at him in the eye."

"That's not how it looked like to me..." Eunwoo, who was still watching her, said in a low voice.

"Sorry?"

"Oh, no." Eunwoo suddenly adjusted his voice.

Sun looked at Eunwoo in doubt.

"If you don't have anything to say, please go away, because I don't want to be disturbed." Eunwoo jokingly mimicked what she had said to Gyeonhui at the restaurant.

"Oh, stop it, please." Sun's face turned red in embarrassment.

"You haven't said that to anyone before, have you?"

Eunwoo's question reminded her of an old memory for a moment.

As far as she remembered, she never said so to anyone.

"Look at you. You've become stronger, Sun."

Hearing this, Sun nodded slowly. "I think I still have a long way to go."

Sun looked at the Han river with a bitter smile.

Eunwoo, who was looking at her, approached her and stopped.

"… Hey, Sun."

Sun turned her face upon hearing his soft voice.

Looking at her with solemn eyes, Eunwoo pulled her shoulder gently and embraced her.

Seeing his natural hug, she stopped with her eyes wide open.

Maybe she was amazed.

Sun's heart started beating quickly.

Eunwoo's hard c.h.e.s.t covered around her, and his crisp scent hovered over her nose.

"Dr. Park..."

Sun felt awkward and carefully called Eunwoo.

However, Eunwoo embraced her a little tighter.

"... I'll help you to forget him."

His voice gently echoed through her ear.

His fast heartbeat was conveyed to her c.h.e.s.t.

63. Her Heart Rate

In the president's office.

He could hardly forget Sun's face as she smiled in front of Eunwoo.

'Trickling.'

As the golden whiskey filled the glass, he emptied it at once in one gulp as if he were thirsty.

"Hah."

His face, while exhaling out a shallow sigh of relief, was already turning red.

He almost emptied the whole bottle and tried to fill the glass with a bottle of wine again.

Then Chaekyeong, who was watching him, took away the bottle from him.

"What are you doing?" He looked at her with narrowed eyes.

"Don't do this, I'm worried about you."

Unlike what she said, her face seemed relaxed.

"You're worried? For me? Don't you think that's something so unlike you?"

"It's no wonder that a man who I think of as a spouse is like this because of his ex-girlfriend; besides, it's actually you who did something that isn't like you."

Hearing her point that out, Gyeonhui furrowed his eyebrows.

"Since when did you ever cry or laugh because of a woman? What the hell happened to you?"

Gyeonhui could not refute Chaekyeong's words.

When he pulled himself together, things were already out of order, not knowing when the trouble with Sun had happened.

"Hah…"

With a deep sigh, Gyeonhui tilted his head back.

The intoxication and dizziness overlapped at once.

He clutched his head frustratedly and opened his eyes again.

"I understand."

"Understand?" Gyeonhui furrowed his eyebrows and asked her again.

"I've heard about your trouble with how things are not going well regarding the merger and acquisition. You might lose your position if you don't make it happen."

"Did Mrs. Shin say that to you, that she is going to kick me out of this company If I can't do the merger and acquisition?"

"You know more than me that that's her. She is great at separating business from her personal matters."

He closed his eyes and clenched his molars while making a loud noise.

"... I said I can do it."

He barely suppressed his anger, and she looked back at him after hearing his words.

"I'm going to make it, so go and tell her to oversee it. Got it?"

His eyes were filled with blazing anger.

'Knock, knock.'

Then, with the sound of knocking, Ojae entered.

"It's time to prepare for the event."

Ojae didn't know the situation as he spoke to him.

"Drawing? Oh..."

He recalled Ojae's report that he had forgotten.

"I have to go to improve the image of our company."

He blinked and tried to get up from his seat, but he stumbled about drunk.

"Gyeonhui." Ojae, who was watching him, rushed to hold his arms.

"What is it? Are you drunk?"

"It's okay. I'm fine."

"Ha, take a break. I'll contact Nam, the executive."

"Let go of me. I'm not drunk." Gyeonhu shook off Ojae's arm.

"Gyeonhui!"

"I said I can do it! What's wrong with all of you with that!?"

When Gyeonhui yelled at Ojae, he pushed him away and exited the office.

"... What's going on?"

Ojae was embarrassed and asked Chaekyeong.

"I don't know…"

She was only smiling quietly while shaking her head.

'Tang, tang, tang.'

Then, they heard something fall in the hallway.

Without looking at the situation, Ojae knew what was going on, so he hurried out of the office while biting his lower lip.

'Bang.'

When the office door closed, Chaekyeong slowly stepped forward and headed to Gyeonhui's desk.

She slowly grabbed the nameplate that was labeled 'Gyeonhui Woo, CEO.'

"Gyeonhui Woo..."

She was looking at the nameplate with affection as if the nameplate were Gyeonhui, and she quickly walked towards the window. She could see the beautiful night view of Seoul underneath the building that stretched out like a black forest.

"Should I crack him more?"

With a giggled smile, she pulled out her phone and started making calls somewhere.