Chapter 200

He'd done it.

He'd never meant to go and take her hand like this.

Watching Joo Sae-i's blank, dumbfounded face without a word, Ryu Do-gyeong chewed at his lip for a long moment, and found himself drifting back through the past.

When they were children, Joo Sae-i had just been a troublesome little sister, a year younger than him.

"Oppa! Play with me-e-e……"

"Brush the dirt off your clothes first, then come stick to me."

With that precious, doll-pretty face, those flushed cheeks, those round little cheeks — and still, without fail, she'd come back covered in dirt every single day.

Do-gyeong had never quite managed to push away the girl who clung to the hem of his clothes with that spotlessly bright face.

She'd taken to him strangely well, and their grandfathers had been close as brothers, so it had simply seemed natural — that was how it started.…