Chapter 209
Hyunwoo and Suji left the hotel at dawn and left for the east coast.
It was the first ti they ca to the coast to watch the sunrise.
There were few who ca to see the sunrise like them because of the bad weather.
But Hyunwoo and Suji didn’t care. What’s important to them was not watching the sunrise, but spending ti together.
The wind was pretty strong. Though it was mid-sumr, the wind was cold as it was early in the morning.
Hyunwoo hugged her from behind and quietly watched the horizon on the sea.
That was it. Though it’s past sunrise, the sun could not be seen anywhere because of the cloudy sky.
She didn’t expect it from the start, so she had no reason to be disappointed. Both of them were watching the heartless horizon quietly as if it was more important for them to be there together than watching the sunrise.
They had breakfast at a nearby restaurant and went back to Ansan.
Suji proposed a different idea this ti.
“Can I co with you to Seoul?”
Hyunwoo found it hard to accept. It didn’t matter to him, but not to Chan. Chan could freely talk with Hyunwoo in the presence of Ani & Funny employees like Kyungsu and Sanggyu. But he could not if Suji were with Hyunwoo.
When Hyunwoo was hesitating, she made a sullen expression. But she quickly looked out the window as if she didn’t want to show her look to him.
Suji said in a calm voice, “I can just go shopping while you’re seeing him. I’ll see you after you’re done.”
That would not be a problem, and Hyunwoo thought it was a pretty good solution.
But he couldn’t feel glad about it because she still seed depressed, looking out the window.
“Sorry, let try to find more ti after that.”
Suji didn’t reply. Maybe she was thinking he couldn’t keep his promise.
Hyunwoo arrived in Seoul a little early, so he tried to soothe her troubled mind by taking her to a departnt store to buy clothes and a necklace.
But she wasn’t interested in that kind of stuff.
What she wanted was just one thing. It was Hyunwoo to spend more ti with her.
It was almost noon.
As the appointnt ti was approaching, Hyunwoo felt sorrier towards her.
But she let him go and said in a calm voice, “Have a good eting. Let take care of myself here.”
“Maybe I’ll discuss with him about business. The eting might last longer than expected.”
“Got it. Don’t worry about and have a good eting.”
Hyunwoo hurried to the appointed place.
Left alone at the departnt store, Suji slowly went around the store. She didn’t need to hurry because the only purpose of her staying there was to wait for him.
She kept checking the ti on her watch almost every ten minutes.
Already one hour passed, which she felt was longer than two hours.
At that mont, a strange man’s voice was heard in her ears.
“Suji”
She turned her head to find a fine and handso gentleman looking at her.
Her eyes opened wide at him. Though she saw him in a long ti, she could not forget his face.
“Oh, my god! You’re Jungsu, right?”
He was her senior by three years, who she t at a volunteering club in college. He was tall and handso. As a law major, he was pretty smart, so everybody expected he could pass the bar exam easily.
Above all, he was from a rich family, so he drove a foreign car worth tens of millions of won when he was attending college.
He was also a pure-hearted guy.
In his college days, he had a girlfriend. As a freshman, he t her on a blind date with the girls form a different college.
Suji had seen her before.
In short, the couple didn’t look like a good match. She had a fine figure with good character. But there was nothing special about her. She was neither beautiful nor charming.
Nurous other girls tried to seduce Jungsu, but he was not tempted by them.
That’s what he said when approached by other girls.
He continued to date the girl until he graduated.
Of course, Suji liked him secretly. Maybe she might have liked his image as a pure-hearted man.
“How long has it been since we saw each other last?”
It was the first ti he saw Suji since he graduated from college.
“It looks like six or seven years,” said Suji.
She felt sowhat strange. Even though she had not t him in many years, she didn’t find him strange at all. She montarily thought she might have had so romantic feelings about him.
“Wow, you look like the sa girl as when you were a sophomore in college. Indeed, you are!”
She smiled bashfully, wrapping her face with both hands.
“By the way, is your house in Seoul? To the best of my knowledge, it was in a provincial city.”
Suji’s eyes beca wider at that.
Though she liked him very much, she didn’t rember where he lived, but he rembered her location accurately. The fact that he knew her house was not located in Seoul surprised her a lot.
“Well, I lived in Ansan, but recently moved to Hwasung. Hoho,” said Suji, hiding her laughter with hand.
Jungsu showed pleasure when he heard ‘Hwasung’.
“Really? Actually, I have been transferred to Hwasung.”
Co to think of it, he majored in law, and she learned from soone that he passed the bar exam.
“Oh, are you now a judge or a prosecutor?”
“Prosecutor. I’m working at the Hwasung branch of Suwon Prosecutors’ Office, starting next week.”
“Wow, I’m glad to hear that!” said she gladly, clapping her hands.
He smiled happily and said, “Well, I was concerned a bit because I don’t know anybody in Hwasung. I’m a bit relieved to know Suji lives there.”
“Please let know when you co down. Let treat you to a al. Hohoho.”
Suji smiled at him, but her peculiar smile with her eyes seed to suggest in others’ eyes that she had so good feelings about him.
Jungsu felt the sa way. Whenever she smiled at him, his heart got fidgety.
“Sounds good. By the way, what are you doing here?”
“I was just shopping.”
“What a coincidence! How can I run into you like this here? And that in this crowded departnt store?”
“You bet!” said Suji, with a look of wonder.
“They say there is no coincidence in the world. Maybe it’s our destiny that we have run into each other like this? Hahaha,” said Jungsu, laughing heartily as if he felt awkward after having said that.
She felt sowhat strange, so she didn’t reply.
“Are you here alone?”
“No, with a boyfriend,” said Suji nonchalantly. She thought he was still dating the girl that he had t in college because he was a pure-hearted guy.
But he looked sowhat sad when the word ‘boyfriend’ ca out her lips.
But he quickly hid his sad look and looked around.
“Really? Where is your boyfriend? You have to introduce him to !”
At that mont, she blushed. It looked like she was discarded by her boyfriend.
But she didn’t want to get away with it by lying to him.
“He’s eting sobody for an appointnt.”
“Why did he leave you alone here instead of going together?” Jungsu made a queer expression on his face.
“Well, it’s not a eting I can attend with him. In fact, my boyfriend should have co here alone, but I insisted that we co together. I can hang around by shopping anyway.”
“I see,” he said, nodding his head.
But he cast a pitying glance at her, which she didn’t like. She wanted to change the topic.
“Are you here alone? What happened to the girl you were dating?”
“Well, I broke up with her long ti ago. When I joined the army, she deserted .”
“Oh my god!”
Suji was surprised a lot. How can a woman desert such a fine guy who even passed the bar exam and had a rosy future?
As if he read her mind, Jungsu smiled bitterly.
“When I ca out on leave, I learned that she was dating another guy. That really sucked. She asked to forgive her just one ti, but I couldn’t. So, I broke up with her.”
No, she could understand the situation.
“Did you get another girlfriend after that?”
“As you know, you don’t beco a judge or prosecutor as soon as you pass the exam. You need to have good scores at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. So, I only focused on studying. I had no ti to date.”
Suji looked at him with a pitiful expression.
As if he felt her look was a bit pressuring, he gave out a hearty laugh.
“Haha. It’s a bygone story. By the way, I’m glad to et you here. In fact, I have bad taste in clothing. If you are free, can you help buy clothes? I think you have better taste in clothes. Won’t you?”
“Sure, let help you.”
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