Chapter 159
“Because, of all people…… Seol Suhyeon is maddeningly beautiful.”
Jeonghan spoke with a pained expression, his face twisted.
“No matter how hard I tried not to love you, no matter how much I struggled, the moment I met those eyes, I fell into this damned love!”
At the sight of the man’s face, steeped in agony, Suhyeon’s heart clenched painfully.
“If you ask why I loved you—damn it, I…….”
Jeonghan covered his eyes with his large hand.
“……You…….”
Suhyeon covered her mouth with both hands. Do Jeonghan turned his head, his shoulders trembling as he wept with his hand still over his eyes.
Hot tears streamed down Suhyeon’s cheeks as well.
When Jeonghan lowered his hand, he looked at Suhyeon.
“You can hate me and despise me all you want.”
He struggled to push out his voice, crushed by emotion.
“I won’t ask you to love me back.”
With his brows furrowed, he closed his eyes tightly and exhaled a hot, shaky breath.
“Don’t run away.”
Reopening his eyes, Jeonghan spoke, his face filled with torment.
“Just stay by my side. Don’t go anywhere.”
“Hhic…….”
Suhyeon sobbed, covering her mouth with her hands.
What should she do with this man?
He wouldn’t let go, clutching her heart so tightly that she couldn’t even breathe.
What on earth should she do?
“Please, Seol Suhyeon.”
With bloodshot eyes blurred by tears, Jeonghan glared at her and pulled her close.
So cold…….
Suhyeon flinched as their skin touched.
Jeonghan’s body was as cold as ice, showing how long he had been outside searching for her.
“Please.”
As if refusing to let go, Jeonghan hugged her tightly, and Suhyeon couldn’t push him away.
Suhyeon returned with Jeonghan to the hotel where they were staying.
After seating him on the bed, Suhyeon spoke.
“I’ll make something warm for you, so just sit here for a moment.”
As Suhyeon quickly turned to prepare a warm drink to help him warm up, Jeonghan grabbed her wrist.
“Ah…….”
He pulled her close and sat her on his lap. As he gazed closely into her startled eyes, Suhyeon lowered her gaze as if to avoid him.
Looking down at her long eyelashes, Jeonghan opened his mouth to speak.
“……When you won the trial.”
When he brought up the story of their divorce, Suhyeon froze and raised her eyes.
“That moment when you freed yourself from me.”
Jeonghan spoke, his deep gaze fixed on Suhyeon.
“That was the moment I admitted that I love you.”
“…….”
Suhyeon inhaled softly. Jeonghan continued speaking, gently caressing her cheek with his still-cold fingertips.
“Until then, I denied it. I tried to deny it. Because it wasn’t something I was supposed to feel.”
Jeonghan’s low voice sounded utterly exhausted.
Just as Suhyeon had come here weary and drained, he, too, seemed like a man who had spent all his energy searching for her.
Yet his deep eyes still burned darkly.
“That’s why I thought I was tormenting you, breaking you. I told myself I wasn’t loving you, but simply destroying you.”
A self-deprecating curve suddenly formed on Jeonghan’s lips.
“But no matter how filthy it was, I couldn’t do it.”
Jeonghan slowly ran his hand down Suhyeon’s cheek.
“That’s why I tried to end everything with that trial. I thought, ‘Good, if I can’t let you go myself, at least you’ll end it for me.’”
His eyes grew deeper, more subdued.
That’s what he had tried to believe. But……
“When the trial ended, I realized it. Ah, I can’t ever let Seol Suhyeon go, not until the day I die.”
A bitter laugh twisted out of his lips.
“This damned emotion won’t disappear, not even in death.”
The moment his feelings for her overwhelmed even the lingering guilt that had plagued him—it all began then.
“If loving Seol Suhyeon is a sin that condemns me to hell, then what’s the big deal? I’ll fall willingly.”
Even if it meant never seeing his parents again, even after death.
“I chose to love you.”
Even if it meant hearing their resentment.
“No.”
Jeonghan’s eyes burned fiercely.
“I never had a choice to begin with. Because I had already fallen in love with you.”
“How…….”
Suhyeon lowered her trembling gaze and bit her lip.
Her small chin quivered, and tears fell in heavy drops.
“Seol Suhyeon.”
Jeonghan lifted her face, gently cradling it in his hands.
Suhyeon, with tear-filled, furrowed eyes, looked at him and said,
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