Chapter 49: Idiot

Seung-ah had confessed.

That she liked Kim Yu-won.

Thanks to her master, she realized her feelings, and the moment she returned, she couldn’t hold back the emotions she had suppressed for four years.

When she found out it was his first kiss, she was secretly delighted.

The fact that she was his first, that he hadn’t been taken by other women yet, filled her with joy.

However, a problem arose a year later.

Women claiming to be his wives from other worlds appeared.

Three of them, no less.

Each claiming to have been Yu-won’s wife in their respective worlds.

Fortunately, Yu-won said he didn’t have feelings for them.

While it was tragic for them, it was an opportunity for Seung-ah.

An opportunity to secure his heart before he fully regained his feelings for his former wives.

Of course, Yu-won was kind.

If they continued to be around him, he would eventually regain his feelings for them and embrace them all.

That was inevitable.

But even if he embraced multiple women, wouldn’t there be a ‘priority’ in his heart? Even if there were three other women, it would be fine as long as she held the first place in Yu-won’s heart.

No, she would be happy.

If the man she loved more than anyone loved her most in return, she was prepared to give up everything else.

That’s when she realized.

‘So this is what it felt like.’

Now she understood why those women, who had stood at the pinnacle of their worlds, could give up everything and come to this world.

They were also deeply in love with Yu-won.

They couldn’t live without him. Having lost their hearts to him, they probably didn’t have the capacity to care about anything else.

But the important thing wasn’t how they came to this world.

What mattered was that she needed to become closer to Yu-won before they captured his heart.

Having never been in a relationship before, she constantly pondered how to get closer to Yu-won.

A man experienced in love, having already been married three times.

While thinking of ways to capture his heart, she also considered her advantages over the other women.

Her younger age and the feelings she had accumulated over 17 years were her weapons.

Regardless of their ages in their past lives, Yu-won was currently 17, so wouldn’t she, being the same age, be better than wives over 28?

Of course, she couldn’t be complacent with just that, so she tried to spend more time with him and worked hard to create natural physical contact in the family gym.

Following the advice in a book about how light physical touch could maximize interest, she diligently made her moves and even succeeded in arousing Yu-won.

But it wasn’t enough.

The wives, already intimately familiar with each other, didn’t hesitate to kiss or press their chests against him in public, and as a friend, she couldn’t go any further.

To break through this situation, she needed to become more than just a friend.

Close enough that intimate physical contact, like that of the former wives, wouldn’t be strange.

She had intended to build towards that slowly, but today’s events made her change her mind.

At this rate, she would lose without even properly conveying her feelings.

The thought that she might no longer hold the first place in his heart sounded the alarm in her mind.

She had to act now. If not today, the opportunity might never come again.

It would be too late if she waited any longer.

Driven by that urgency, she found herself outside his dorm room, sending a text message.

–Could you open the door for me?

At the same time, Yu-won’s dorm room door opened.

“What’s up..?”

Seeing his face, her heart started racing again. Calming her pounding heart with celestial energy, she spoke.

“I have something to tell you. Is it okay if I come in for a bit? I’ll leave before curfew.”

“Sure.”

He stepped inside, and she followed. Before he could turn around and say anything, she spoke first.

“Yu-won.”

“Yeah?”

Seung-ah reached out, took Yu-won’s hand, and placed it over her pounding heart.

Even after calming it with celestial energy, the rapid beating could be felt through her chest and onto his hand.

“Can you feel my heartbeat?”

His large hand covered her soft chest, and her heartbeat grew even louder.

“Just being alone with you like this makes my heart race. I feel breathless, my face flushes, and I often can’t even speak properly.”

Holding his hand with one hand, she used the other to pull his head closer, her face close to his, and whispered in his ear.

“I… like… you… a lot.”

Unable to hide it any longer, she confessed the feelings she had harbored for so long.

And before he could respond, she kissed him, silencing his words.

His lips were soft against hers, and his mouth was warm.

Her small, soft tongue explored his mouth, intertwining with his and exchanging saliva.

Slurp-

‘…Sweet.’

Was it sweet because she was kissing the person she truly loved, or was his saliva actually sweet? It didn’t matter.

Their mouths were touching, his hand was on her chest, and he wasn’t showing any signs of displeasure.

He was accepting her, not rejecting her.

Seung-ah felt so happy she thought she might go crazy.

She wouldn’t mind if her breath stopped right here.

She wished this moment could last forever.

As she savored the sweetness of his kiss, that’s what she thought.

Of course, she still wanted to be with him longer, and if she died now, she wouldn’t be able to be with him anymore, so she didn’t continue the kiss until she actually ran out of breath.

When she became breathless, she pulled her tongue away from his and broke the kiss.

It had been a long, sweet kiss, so a strand of saliva stretched between them.

Even watching the saliva break and fall onto his collarbone made her heart race.

She felt like she was about to cross a line she shouldn’t.

‘Would it… be okay to cross it…?’

If she took not only his first kiss but also his first experience, wouldn’t her presence be deeply etched into his mind? Seung-ah even considered that.

However, Yu-won, seeing in Seung-ah’s eyes the same possessive look his former wives had, spoke first.

“Seung-ah, you said you like me, right?”

His voice echoed in her ears. She, who was about to lose her composure and succumb to desire, regained her senses at the single word “like.”

Right.

She was the one who had confessed.

Acting impulsively now might make him dislike her.

She hadn’t intended to incur his dislike in exchange for his first experience, so Seung-ah calmed herself down.

“Yes.”

And she waited for his response.

‘Yu…’

It seemed he’d succeeded in calming Seung-ah down for now.

Her eyes had looked exactly the same as his wives’ had before their first time together, so if he’d stayed passive, something serious might have happened.

He understood that Seung-ah liked him.

And honestly, he didn’t dislike her.

No, if he had to choose, he definitely liked her.

They were friends who had built up feelings over a long time, and if he had to choose the two closest people to him in this life, one would be Seung-ah, and the other would be Shin-woo.

He had always thought they would be together for life.

However, if asked whether his feelings were romantic, he couldn’t easily answer.

Friendship and love were different realms, and he hadn’t seen her as a woman.

He had been flustered when she kissed him last year, but he’d thought it was understandable.

It was only recently, after exercising together, that he’d started to see her as a woman.

His perception of her had shifted to a female friend he was more interested in, but he hadn’t expected her to try to jump the relationship forward like this today.

But he understood.

Imagine if she’d liked him all along, and then women claiming to be his former wives suddenly appeared, and he was kissing them and fondling their chests, showing affection.

Wouldn’t she feel like something had been taken from her? She had been the closest to him, the one with the deepest connection, and then people suddenly appeared, trying to take her place.

Of course, he also understood that from his wives’ perspective, they were suddenly faced with three new competitors, so they were naturally trying to appeal to him more.

‘I’d be an idiot not to realize that.’

But Seung-ah’s confession in this situation was unexpected, even for him. Giving a half-hearted answer would be disrespectful to her feelings.

However, with his feelings in such a muddled state, even if she demanded a proper answer, he had no idea how to respond.

“I’m sorry.”

Unable to give a proper answer right now, he apologized first before starting to speak.

But upon hearing his words, she suddenly started to cry.

‘Uh…?’

This wasn’t what he’d intended.