“Cancel all my meetings.”

“Excuse me?”

“I’m busy today.”

The employees looked at each other in confusion.

Ji-ho never canceled anything at the company.

—

In his office...

Seo Hyun was sitting there, feeling uncomfortable.

—This is really weird.

Ji-ho was sitting at his desk across from him...

Staring at him.

Saying nothing, just staring at him.

—Are you going to keep staring like that?

Silence.

—Do you feel uncomfortable?

—Yes... I feel uncomfortable...

Pause.

And then...

Ji-ho puffed out his cheeks slightly.

—You’re so mean, Hyun.

Seo Hyun blinked.

—...What?

—After everything I did for you, you treat me like this...

That’s not very fair, Hyun.

He crossed his arms, clearly annoyed.

Seo Hyun...

“You’re not even nice to me. Don’t you feel the same way, Seo Hyun...?”

Hyun looked at him, as if he were someone else—more tender and childlike.

“I don’t get it.”

“Ten minutes ago, you fired an employee.”

“He...

“He deserved it.”

“And now you’re... throwing 

a tantrum?”

Ji-ho looked away.

“It’s different with you.”

Silence.

“I don’t like people.”

Pause.

“But I like you.”

—

Hyun felt something strange in his chest.

I don’t understand that guy.

Why does he do that?

“He seems like a child, but at the same time he’s a calculating person.”

“But I won’t deny that he looks cute when he acts like a child.”

Seo-hyun thought...

—

“But what I didn’t know...”

was that Kang Ji-ho had been waiting nine years for this moment.

—

End of Chapter 3:

“Only with you... can I be like this.”