‘Why couldn’t I turn them down?’

After Jiyoon finished reading a picture book, Shinhae had gone into her room to pick another. In the meanwhile, Jiyoon pondered over her thoughts.

Even if she couldn’t turn down Shinhae’s doe-like eyes and Sungyoon’s desperate expression, she really had stepped over the line by following them home. She was a single woman of marriageable age, and yet, she was having dinner with a divorcee and his daughter. It was something people might gossip about. If the person who had asked her was anyone else, she would have been firm in her refusal.

Despite all of these facts, Jiyoon was currently inside Sungyoon’s house.

‘Why?’

She once again asked the question.

No, she already kinda knew the answer.

She discreetly looked towards Sungyoon, who was cooking. He was using a wooden spatula to stir meat in the frying pan. However, a burnt smell was emanating from the meat, so something must have gone wrong.

When he took care of Shinhae, he had a relaxed expression on his face. When he was away from Shinhae, the expression would go blank, and he would turn into a gloomy person. That kind of person was sweating bullets while cooking a dish. He looked as if he was fighting a life or death battle. A laugh naturally escaped her mouth, and at the same time, she felt her heartbeat speed up a little bit.

‘Is this for real?’

Even if...