Synopsis
“Because I thought you’d never become a bother to me.”
That was Ha-jun’s answer when Eun-jae asked why he had chosen to marry her.
Even so, she was happy.
He was the man she had admired since childhood, the unrequited love she had cherished for years, her very first love.
“Do I really have to say outright that you’re exhausting?”
“Ah…”
“You’re not a child anymore. The days when other people constantly took care of you are long gone.”
Even when he treated her like a child and pierced her heart with cruel words, she endured.
She hoped that someday he would understand her feelings.
She hoped that someday he would remember her.
“Do you even have a family that can support you? Any inheritance left behind? With nothing but that body of yours….”
She endured her mother-in-law’s harsh insults, clinging only to the hope that she might one day receive her husband’s genuine affection.
But then—
“I’m carrying his child.”
“……”
“For the sake of his child and mine, please divorce him.”
Those words shattered her.
And so, she had no choice but to leave him—
Without him ever knowing that his child was growing inside her.
*
Ha-jun picked up the handkerchief left behind in the empty room.
The handkerchief he had once given to a troubled child more than ten years ago had been carefully preserved, still spotless, as though it had been a treasured possession.
So it was you.
You recognized me first.
His young wife—
Always nervous.
Always unable to hide how much she loved him.
My woman.
My woman… has run away.
