Synopsis
“Let’s show them who they’ve been looking down on all these years just because I’m a high school graduate.”
At twenty-seven—the perfect age to go to university—Yoon-ah burns with determination to earn her diploma and prove she’s not someone to be belittled.
A country girl with only a high school education—that was the label she had to hear over and over throughout her married life. After about six years of enduring her husband’s infidelity and her in-laws’ contempt, she finally gathered enough evidence of his affairs, secured a divorce, and began living a life of her own.
With excitement in her heart, she attends the first day of the new semester—only to discover that the mentor assigned to her is someone she never expected.
“Number 36. That’s you, right?”
“…Yeong-won?”
It was Yeong-won, the part-timer who had been working at the café she opened with her alimony. What were the chances of such a coincidence?
Quiet and reserved, never one to share much about himself, Yeong-won was not an easy person to approach.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“…Tell you what?”
“That you applied to the Business Administration program at Yeonhui University.”
“Ah… Was that… something I should have told you…?”
But as the days pass, something changes in the way Yeong-won looks at her. Looking back, Yoon-ah realizes—he had always been by her side.
Just as she begins to notice this shift, Yeong-won suddenly asks her a question:
“Boss, are you close with Assistant Manager Park Chang-min?”
“…”
“Do you enjoy being with him?”
There was something strangely unsettling about his question, and Yoon-ah found herself at a loss for words. An unexpected silence settled heavily between them.
