Chapter 158

Phone pressed to her ear, Sae-i stayed quiet for a long moment.

In the cool pre-dawn air, a question had suddenly flickered through her mind.

In my last life, after I died so miserably... what had Ryu Do-gyeong been like?

Back then, Ryu Do-gyeong had already all but reached the very top of Seohae Group.

The undisputed heir of a Seohae Group that held the whole of Korea in its grip.

Had a man like that even heard that she'd died?

Or had her uncle buried every trace of it, so that Do-gyeong never learned a thing and simply went on living as he always had, without even a last sign of her left behind?

If he had known.

The boy who used to grab the hem of her pants as a child, whining that they should grow up together — once he learned that she'd stopped, frozen in time…