Unrequited Love Obsession Diary - Chapter 59

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Episode 59

It was an incredible coincidence.

No matter how much they lived in the same apartment complex, she never thought she’d run into Dohan like this.

Feeling happy, she tried to greet him.

“Oh! Dohan sen…”

But those words couldn’t reach their conclusion and stopped midway.

It was because she discovered another person next to Dohan.

A woman. And a very pretty woman at that.

She was in a place where the light didn’t reach so her face wasn’t clearly visible, but her flowing dress and high heels were obviously date attire, and she was standing quite close to Dohan.

“Aren’t your shoes uncomfortable?”

Dohan asked briefly. The woman nodded. Dohan lightly supported her.

“This should be fine.”

“Wait a moment. I’m worried because it looks unstable to me.”

The woman said with a laugh.

“Oppa, don’t do this where people can see. You’re making my heart flutter.”

Since Dohan had said he was an only son, she obviously wasn’t his younger sister. Yeon-jae was momentarily flustered.

But she couldn’t immediately understand why she was getting flustered.

‘Could it be because of that woman…?’

Because it seemed like Dohan had another woman? But what right did she have to feel this way?

She was so flustered that she didn’t even realize she had called out to Dohan but then failed to greet him properly.

“Oh. Yeon-jae.”

Dohan himself calmly approached Yeon-jae.

Yeon-jae belatedly bowed her head. As Yeon-jae stood there as if rooted to the spot for a long time, Hyeonoh, who had been sitting in the driver’s seat, also found it strange and got out of the car.

And seeing Dohan in front of the apartment, he greeted him.

“Hey, Lee Dohan.”

“Oh, why are you coming out here?”

Hyeonoh shrugged his shoulders. And without any particular response, he just stood motionless with his hand resting on the car door.

The gazes of the four people intertwined with each other.

The person who ended this strangely flowing situation was Yeon-jae.

“Well, I’ll be going in now! Thank you for today!”

Yeon-jae bowed toward Hyeonoh, then also bowed her head toward Dohan and the unknown woman.

And without looking back, she headed straight toward the apartment complex.

From a distance, she heard someone calling “Wait, Yeon-jae,” but Yeon-jae never looked back.

However, she couldn’t tell whether it was Dohan or Hyeonoh who had called her.

* * *

The next day, Yeon-jae woke up with a haggard face.

Even when returning from Sokcho to Seoul, she had thought she could finally sleep comfortably without any worries or concerns for the first time in a while.

But she couldn’t fall asleep more than ever before.

Yeon-jae, who had entered the bathroom to brush her teeth, was startled by her own reflection in the mirror as she was about to put the toothbrush in her mouth.

Dark circles that had reached under her eyes in just one night…

Moreover, today was the day she had a Department of Business Administration class with Dohan.

‘I shouldn’t have skipped yesterday’s class, I should have skipped today’s instead…’

She sighed involuntarily.

‘That woman next to Dohan… what exactly is she?’

But there was another reason for her deeper sighs.

‘Just because there was an unfamiliar woman next to Dohan, do I have any reason to react as if Dohan had betrayed me?’

Last night, Yeon-jae had come home as if fleeing.

Seeing the man she liked looking intimate with an unfamiliar woman, she had overreacted in her confusion.

But at the time, she was so flustered that she didn’t even realize her reaction was excessive.

Lying on her bed at home, Yeon-jae questioned herself.

‘Do I really have the right to feel this way?’

Yeon-jae knew it too.

‘Dohan and I… we’re nothing to each other.’

But without realizing it, Yeon-jae had started to hope.

After her date with Dohan last time, she had hoped that maybe she was becoming someone a little special to Dohan.

Hope changed its name to delusion and inflated in size.

Because she had the ridiculous delusion that she and Dohan were already something to each other, she had shown an absurd side of herself.

Not only Hyeonoh but Dohan must have been bewildered too. How strange must she have seemed to them?

They had only just gotten closer.

Moreover, if Dohan really did have a girlfriend, or something similar, there might be no more chances for her.

Her phone had been blinking non-stop since last night, but Yeon-jae didn’t have the energy to look at it.

After finishing brushing her teeth, Yeon-jae burrowed into her bed and pulled the covers over her head, overwhelmed by self-loathing.

In the end, Yeon-jae skipped the Department of Business Administration class she was supposed to take with Dohan.

Since she couldn’t skip her afternoon Department of Korean Literature class too, she headed to the classroom with a cap pulled low over her head.

As soon as she entered the classroom, the first person to make eye contact with Yeon-jae was Si-eun.

As soon as Si-eun saw Yeon-jae’s haggard face, she asked.

“Shin Yeon-jae! Is something wrong with you?!”

“No…”

“But why do you look like you’re dying?!”

Yeon-jae didn’t have many people to consult about her troubles, and for this kind of man problem, Si-eun seemed more appropriate than Hyeonoh, who was Dohan’s friend.

Eventually, Yeon-jae said cautiously.

“Hey. Do you have some time after class later?”

“Of course!”

* * *

Sitting across from Si-eun in the Humanities Building Lounge, Yeon-jae confessed everything that had happened between her and Dohan over the past few days.

And Si-eun’s first words after learning about all of this were:

“Isn’t this a fish farm?”

“…A fish farm?”

“Yeah. Fish farm management.”

Si-eun searched for “fish farm management” on her phone and showed Yeon-jae the definition.

【The act of not going all-in on one person but simultaneously meeting multiple people of the opposite sex and managing those relationships】

It wasn’t that Yeon-jae didn’t know what a fish farm meant and was asking.

“No… but what’s troubling me is, I’m not sure if Dohan and I have a romantic enough relationship for the term ‘fish farm’ to apply.”

“What are you talking about! What crazy guy would buy hotel buffet for a girl he has no feelings for?!”

“That was just because he received meal vouchers…”

“Do you know how much a hotel buffet costs?! Adult dinner for two people is almost like a college student’s monthly allowance! He’d rather sell it on Carrot Market. Is that senior rich?!”

“I’m not sure about that…”

Seeing that he lived in the same apartment complex as Yeon-jae, he probably wasn’t wealthy enough to be out of reach. Though considering he went to Canada for language study every vacation during childhood, his family didn’t seem to be in difficult circumstances either.

“Oh. And I also treated Dohan to a premium box movie…”

“But didn’t that senior ask you to go eat first?”

Si-eun hit her chest in frustration.

“Ugh. Yeon-jae, I’m really going crazy from frustration… That was definitely something romantic. Whether it was actually a fish farm or not, at the very least he was giving you room to interpret it as something romantic!”

“Really…?!”

“Yes, I’m telling you it’s true! It makes no sense for you to be gloomy while worrying about what kind of relationship this is. You have the right to be angry! But Yeon-jae, I think you’re getting a phone call right now?”

Yeon-jae’s gaze turned toward her phone screen placed at the corner of the table.

The caller’s name displayed in the center of the screen was ‘Senior Dohan’.

“Oh, wait. Huh. It’s Senior Dohan…”

“Whoa, hey. Amazing. Go answer the phone. I have to go to my next class anyway.”

“Okay. Thank you so much for listening to me today.”

“Make sure to give me an update when we meet later!”

The ringing sound that had been going on while she said goodbye to Si-eun had turned into a missed call.

She briefly blamed herself for missing the chance to talk.

Soon the phone rang again. Yeon-jae took a deep breath and answered the call.

“…Hello.”

-Oh, Yeon-jae.

“Yes?”

-Why didn’t you come to class today?

“Oh, that’s…”

Yeon-jae didn’t know what to say, so she just rolled her eyes while gripping the phone tightly with both hands.

“That’s…”

-Is something wrong?

“No, no…”

-You’re not sick, are you?

“No…”

-Then maybe…

“Yes.”

-Is it because of what happened yesterday?

“…”

Thump thump thump.

Her heart was beating fast. Sweat had started to seep from the hand holding the phone.

-Are you at school right now?

“…Yes.”

-Could we meet for a moment and talk?

* * *

Dohan said he would wait at the School Cafe on the way to the Liberal Arts Building.

It was the place where the two had met and talked a few days ago.

After hanging up with Dohan, Yeon-jae checked the messages and missed call records piled up on her phone for the first time.

Now that she looked, Dohan wasn’t the only person who had called her.

Before Dohan’s call came, there were missed calls from Hyeonoh that had accumulated first.

Even the call with Dohan wasn’t his first attempt. It was the fourth call he made after leaving three missed calls before.

Somehow it felt like things had gotten bigger.

But Si-eun’s words kept circling in her head.

“You have the right to be angry!”

The moment she was thinking that.

“Yeon-jae.”

Dohan approached without warning and sat across from Yeon-jae.

Yeon-jae swallowed.

Why did senior ask to meet me?

Maybe he wants to explain about yesterday’s incident to me? This was the hopeful side, and among the despairing possibilities was this:

‘Maybe he’ll tell me to keep our distance now since he has a girlfriend…’

However, before saying anything, Dohan handed her a bundle of papers.

“Today’s notes.”

“Oh, thank you…!”

It was a photocopy of the textbook covering the material covered in today’s class. Written neatly in mature handwriting, rare for a man.

An awkward silence surrounded the two. Dohan was the first to break the silence.

“The woman you saw last night.”

“…”

“Her name is Kang Ji-o, she’s Kang Hyeon-o’s younger sister.”

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