Kang Sujin, aged eight, prompted by her father to learn more about foreign culture decides to watch a foreign movie. In it, she sees a woman playing a strange game with flowers. "He loves me, he loves me not." The woman chants in her language, plucking off a single petal at each statement. "He loves me," pluck, "He loves me not."

The flower reveals to the woman in the movie, that yes, he does indeed love her. And by the end of the movie, the woman lives happily ever after with her beloved. Curious, Kang Sujin decides to try the same thing.

The flower tells her he loves her.

All her life, Kang Sujin has been taught not to show emotion. "Women are weak because they're too emotional. You have to think rationally and not be so sensitive!" Her father always yells at her. But right now, she is young. She hasn't yet learned her lesson.

"Ew! Get away!" The boy, Park Youngsu, pushes her to the ground. He looks at her in disgust. She has just confessed her feelings to him. The flowers had given her courage to be honest with herself about her feelings for once. And Kang Sujin had taken the leap and confessed to a boy she liked.

It hasn't turned out as planned, however.

"I don't like you!" He yells. Sujin first looks like she's about to cry. But then something in her snaps and she gets a sudden urge to be mean. She knows that what she's about to do is wrong. But she feels so angry that she can't help it.

She gets up and yells, charging towards the boy. She pummels him to the ground, but he is bigger than her, and stronger. He rolls her over and starts hitting back. Before the children can really hurt each other, another boy arrives and pulls Kang Sujin back as she scrambles to get another hit on Youngsu.

"Stop it! Sujin-ah, stop! The teacher will punish you!"

Sujin stops struggling against Lee Suho's grip.

"She started it!" Youngsu tattles to Lee Suho, the most popular boy in school. The boy who only talks to Kang Sujin.

"Doesn't matter. Boys don't hit girls." Suho commands. Park Youngsu looks at the pair angrily but decides to leave.

"I had him." Sujin claims

"No, you didn't." Suho lets her go. He is tall for his age, but skinnier than Sujin.

Still dealing with residual anger from her rejection, Sujin punches Suho in the chest. Suho takes it but doesn't reciprocate. Sujin punches him again.

"Why won't you hit me?" She demands.

"Boys don't hit girls." Suho repeats. This is a strange concept to Sujin, because her father has never applied this philosophy with her. Suho's statement makes her want to cry and perhaps Suho sees this sentiment on her face, because he suddenly hugs Sujin. He is an eight year old. He doesn't yet realize what a gesture like that can do to a girl.

"I hate you." Sujin's voice is muffled in Suho's arms.

"No, you don't."

She laughs into his chest.

That is the day Kang Sujin decides that she will only follow Lee Suho, and no one else. She follows him to high school, even though her father wants her to attend a private, more prestigious institute. She follows him to work in his humble start-up, even though she has to leave behind a life in medical school. And she follows him to a new city, even though that would take her away from her newly divorced mother.

She follows Lee Suho wherever he goes, not realizing he isn't following her back.

The flowers warn her. They tell her again and again, that no, whoever he is, he doesn't love her. But Kang Sujin doesn't listen. Her heart wants what it wants. And it wants Lee Suho.

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"Stop ruining my flowers," Suho takes the vase out of Sujin's reach just as she is about to pick another flower to destroy. Petals are strewn over Suho's desk. Kang Sujin has been at her little game again.

And she doesn't like what the flowers keep telling her.

"Why do you care? Its just flowers." Sujin has her feet up on his desk. No one else in the world would ever dare to do that with Lee Suho. But no one else is Kang Sujin.

"I happen to like these flowers." Suho says, taking the seat reserved for guests in his own office as Sujin lounges in his chair.

"Why?"

"I just like them." Suho evades the question.

Sujin eyes the label on the flower wrapping. "Aaaaah! Its from that sad little shop Jukyung has been talking about."

Suho blushes but Sujin doesn't notice. He is glad she is not so perceptive when it comes to him. "Did you see her proposal? I think it could actually help restart the community service program we used to run before." He says.

Sujin purses her lips, thinking. "Maybe. I don't know if the board will agree. But she did a good job, didn't she? I told you that girl had potential." Sujin grins triumphantly.

Suho nods, a little lost in thought. "Yeah. Lim Jukyung's great."

Sujin will never get to know, why Lee Suho didn't want to hire Lim Jukyung. It wasn't because she wasn't qualified. It was because Lee Suho liked her, and he wouldn't have been able to date Jukyung if she had been an employee.

"Good, then our wager is settled." Sujin holds out her hand. Lee Suho groans as he hands over hundred dollars worth of money.

"I hate you." Suho says.

"No, you don't. And besides, this is going to that flower shop Lim Jukyung likes so much."

"You? Flowers? I thought you hated flowers." Suho tilts his head to the desecrated flowers lying on his table.

"I don't hate flowers. Flowers hate me."

Suho laughs at Sujin's strange logic.

When Sujin returns that day, she has a huge bouquet in her hands.

"Okay. I think Lim Jukyung might be on to something."

"What?"

"That flower shop. Its actually pretty good! Check out this bouquet that guy made for me! You know what these flowers mean?"

"No?" Suho asked, confused at Sujin's enthusiasm.

"It means Fuck You," Sujin says excitedly.

"What?" Suho narrows his eyes, further confused.

"These flowers. They tell the receiver to fuck off. Isn't that amazing?!"

"So that bouquet... who's that for?" Suho says unsuredly

Sujin rolls her eyes, "Are you even listening? The guy makes bouquets that have hidden messages! Think of how popular that could be? He should be making millions. I think we really can help him."

"But... you're telling someone to fu—"

"Oh, would you forget about the expletive for one second?"

Suho grinned. It had been a while since he had seen Kang Sujin this excited. "Alright, tell me more about the shop."

So Sujin does. And Suho listens avidly. He has heard about how the flower shop owner saved Jukyung from a bunch of hooligans. And with Sujin's seal of approval, Suho is convinced that the man is someone he would like.

"You have to tell me who the flowers are for. I'm dying to know." Suho says.

Sujin's enthusiasm fades. In a small voice, she says, "My father called. He said he wanted to meet."

Suho hesitates before saying, "But do you want to see him? You know he's always got an agenda when he calls you like this."

Sujin sighs. "I know. I know he's probably going to try to use me to further his own image. But I thought... maybe just once... he actually missed me."

Suho is the only one Sujin can admit this to. And Suho is the only one who would understand. He looks at her empathetically.

"Well at least you've got the right gift for him."

She takes the Fuck You bouquet to see her father. She is glad she has done so, because the meeting turns out to be a forced blind date with a Councilman's son. Sujin is heartbroken at this reveal. But she hides it all away. She would never let her father see her emotions. Because revealing her true feelings would be a form of weakness.

This is a lesson she is glad her father taught her.

Seeing her father embrace the Fuck You bouquet gives her some solace. She decides she likes that flower shop and goes to visit it again and again.

She tries to get the owner to take her advice, spruce up the place, make it more attractive. But the man dressed like a punk rocker doesn't budge. She can tell he isn't just bad at running a business. Something is holding him back. Something is forcing him into hiding.

Kang Sujin doesn't know why, but she feels she understands the flower shop owner. Han Seojun. From the moment she saw his long spiky haired head and his pierced face, she knew he was just like her. He too put up a front to keep the world out. He too had been hurt once. He too was lonely.

Perhaps that's why she feels a kinship to him. Perhaps that's why she keeps going back to the shop. And perhaps that is why she is happy for him, when she discovers that he likes Lim Jukyung.

"Ho-ho. Just look at your face." Sujin can read him just from his expressions alone. His face is always open and honest and his feelings for Jukyung always shine through.

She is glad he has someone. She thinks he and Jukyung will look good together. But when she sees him that one night, sitting on the bench with his shoulders hunched over, she can tell, that it hasn't worked out for him.

"Take this from someone who knows a thing or two about heartbreak." Sujin tells Han Seojun, "It is never about not having the other person. Ah-nee, you survived well enough before Lim Jukyung, didn't you? What's to say you won't survive after her too? Heartbreak isn't about not getting your love. It's about pride. You put yourself out there, but she decided she didn't want what you had to offer. That's why you're hurting." She said it as-a-matter-of-factly. "It's not her absence. It's the fact she thought you weren't good enough."

Sujin had felt proud of herself for giving out such sage advice. Unfortunately, she hadn't been able to apply her advice to herself.

She discovers them kissing in the supply closet. They've been hiding their relationship all this time. Sujin had noticed that Suho was getting closer to Lim Jukyung; he would take her to lunches that he previously shared with Sujin, he would whisk her away to business trips that Sujin was supposed to take and he would share secret projects with her that Sujin would have no idea about.

She had initially been worried that perhaps Suho had seen a competence in Jukyung that Sujin had lacked. An intelligence that Sujin didn't have. But all this time, it didn't occur to Sujin that Suho might have had other kind of inclinations towards Lim Jukyung. Because her entire life, Sujin had always seen herself standing beside Suho.

"Sujin-ah..." Suho says, embarrassed to have been caught. But he doesn't let Lim Jukyung go. He doesn't push her away. He holds onto her as Sujin stares at them in shock.

Sujin is heartbroken all over again. But she doesn't let it show. She keeps a straight face as Suho explains the situation. Apparently, Lim Jukyung has been a girl that Suho had been searching for all this time.

Suho had met her as a child. While he would be comforting Sujin at school, Jukyung would be comforting Suho in the comic bookstore. Suho had fallen in love with her back then. But she had moved away and Suho had been left in that comic bookstore, all alone. When the old man had to close up the store, Suho had helped him keep it open because he was waiting for Jukyung to return.

"So, you see, everything, this company, all of it, was for her." Suho thinks Sujin will understand. He thinks his feelings for Lim Jukyung are strong enough to convince Sujin.

And Sujin doesn't know how, but she manages to convince Suho she doesn't mind his relationship with Jukyung. She even tells him she is happy for him. But on the inside, she is crumbling. On the inside, she feels like she's dying.

But she can't crumble. She can't die. Because she has to work. She has to keep this company—that was apparently for Jukyung—afloat. It sickens her that her life's work has all been so Lee Suho can walk off into the sunset with another woman. It annoys her that the woman now works at the same company.

Sujin wants to kick herself for ever considering Jukyung's application. I should have thrown away her resume the minute I had seen it.

Sujin feels that her world has come apart. Everything she had believed in has turned out to be a lie. The one person who she thought would always be there for her has abandoned her and now she's left all alone.

Picking off petals wasn't the only bad habit Kang Sujin had. Over the years she had found that scrubbing her hands clean helped her find some sort of balance. It helped keep the pieces of her together. As if she could wash off all of her bad thoughts from just washing her hands.

She had lost that habit once her parents had divorced and her father was no longer in the picture. But now that habit is back and she spends all of her time in the bathroom, unable to leave, unable to stop scrubbing.

Is this how its going to be from now on? She wonders. Is this my life now?

Something happens, however. The flower shop owner, that Han Seojun, shows up at her company, asking for help.

At first it pisses Sujin off that Suho would want her to spend all of her time on Lim Jukyung's pet project. She doesn't want anything to do with Lim Jukyung or anything even remotely related to her.

"I'll be straight with you. I do want to have you onboard as a client. But I never meant to be doing this myself. I have much more important things to look after."

But then, a thought occurs to her. What if he's here to win Lim Jukyung? What if this entire thing is so he can show Lim Jukyung that he is just as good as Lee Suho? Of course! That had to be it. Why else would he come to the very person who had broken his heart?

Sujin recalls her advice to Han Seojun. You wanna get through this pain? Well then you need to recover your pride. That is the only way you will be able to fully move on. You need to become someone better. Someone she regrets letting go. And when you become that person, you'll realize that you don't want her anymore, and you won't be heartbroken.

He wants to steal her from Lee Suho! Sujin thinks.

Sujin gets the familiar urge to be mean again. She knows in her heart of hearts that she should let Suho go. She knows she should move on.

But she can't.

When Han Seojun looks at her, telling her, I don't want this either. But you're the reason I am here in the first place. She looks back and thinks, Is this all to win Lim Jukyung back? But Han Seojun isn't able to read her face. He isn't able to realize what Kang Sujin's strange logic. But Kang Sujin is convinced she is right.

And if he wins Lim Jukyung, then I get Suho back.

So, she helps him. She helps him set up his entire business all over again, properly this time. She changes his shop, convinces him to reach out to more people and opens him up to the world.

And the world seems to love him. They adore his silent gestures and fawn over his handsome face. Sujin wishes they could hear his voice. They would all die in delight if they did.

She thinks it's a travesty that Seojun's voice has been caged up. If Lim Jukyung had heard it, she would have dropped Suho in an instant.

Wait, what? No, I did not just think that.

Her efforts don't seem to be enough, however. Lim Jukyung still isn't paying any attention to Han Seojun. She's doesn't even visit that much anymore. Her attention is fully turned to Lee Suho. She doesn't even ask about Han Seojun that much. "I know he's in good hands, Kang Leader-nim." She tells Sujin. "I know you will make him a success."

This is not going to work.

Kang Sujin decides she needs another way of breaking up Lim Jukyung and Suho. She needs Suho to see that Jukyung is not right for him. She needs him to see that the right person had been beside him all along and that he didn't need to wait for some girl who liked the same horror comics as he did.

So Sujin comes up with a plan.

Their company has a strict policy about interoffice dating. They allow employees of the same level to date, but a boss and a subordinate cannot. Any whiff of a relationship sends the subordinate right out the company and the boss gets demoted. Which is why Lee Suho and Lim Jukyung have to sneak around the office and pretend they're working, when really, they're just making out.

Kang Sujin knows she'll get caught. She knows Suho will find out. But in her mind, she thinks that if she can just get him away from Jukyung, then Suho would come to his senses and everything would go back to the way it was.

She decides that the Annual Awards Ceremony is the best answer. They have a series of presentations they give to the clients and the board about the year's achievements. That includes pictures of employees in various activities. Sujin decides she will sneak in a picture of Suho and Jukyung there. Once the board finds out, they will kick Lim Jukyung out. And Lee Suho would be safe, given that he is the CEO. No one could ever replace him.

Sujin knows its mean. Sujin knows its wrong. But Sujin isn't thinking straight. All she's thinking about is getting her home back. Because that is what Suho is to her. He is her home. He is the one who she confides in. He is the one who understands her. He never judges, he never thinks she's too mean or too cold. He sees her for who she is, and she never has to pretend to be perfect around him. After a hard day of work, Suho is the one Sujin wants to get back to. He is her solace.

And right now she feels homeless. Unsafe, unwanted and unloved.

She gives Suah and updated file and tells her it doesn't need to be proofread. The ceremony is months away, but Sujin likes to plan ahead. Besides, she has another deal to seal.

She needs Seojun to start pursuing Jukyung.

It baffles Sujin why the man isn't chasing Lim Jukyung yet. She's given him everything; fame, popularity, wealth. His face is now trending online, girls fawn over him at every turn and his shop is earning more than he could have possibly imagined. He has everything a girl could want and more. So, why isn't he chasing after Lim Jukyung?

She's an idiot, that Lim Jukyung. If she saw Seojun just for a day, she would forget all about Suho.

Sujin gives Seojun and Jukyung a day together. Having Seojun get a makeover is the perfect ruse and it kills two birds with one stone. Seojun will get a more palatable style, and Lim Jukyung will see how amazing he is. Sujin sets up everything perfectly. She even makes sure they get time alone to get to know each other.

Except... Sujin can't understand why it bothers her when Seojun looks to Jukyung for advice on his clothes. I'm right here, she thinks, rolling her eyes, why not ask me? I have better taste.

And she can't understand why it bothers her when Jukyung picks out rings for Seojun to wear. Let him choose! He's a grown man, he can decide for himself.

And she can't understand why it bothers her when Jukyung applies make up on his face. Don't stand so close! Why are you standing so close?

As they walk back to the flower shop where Han Seojun also happens to live, Sujin pretends that all of her irritations are imaginary and that she is unaffected by Seojun and his transformation. When they get back, she pushes Seojun and Jukyung into a dinner date while she goes back to the office to get some paperwork done.

But she can't seem to focus.

What are they doing now?

Did my plan work? Are they together?

Is he talking to her?

He wouldn't just start talking to her, would he? Of course not, Seojun doesn't talk.

What would they even talk about?

What if they aren't talking. What if they're doing everything but talking?

AISH!

Sujin groans and pushes her laptop away, unable to focus. She looks at the time. It is late. Just as she's about to wrap things up and go home, she sees Lim Jukyung pass by her office to go to Lee Suho. Sujin can't believe it. Seojun has sent Lim Jukyung back.

"Yah Han Seojun! I just saw Jukyung leave with Lee Suho! What gives? I gave you a perfect chance to have a long dinner with her?"

It isn't that Sujin was unaware of her own attraction to him. That particular emotion had hit her like a brick on the first day she had walked into his store, and he had looked up at her with those angry, mean looking eyes. But she didn't think it mattered. They wouldn't be around each other long enough for anything to happen. After six months, Han Seojun would go his way, and she would go hers.

So she ignored the warm feeling she got when she was in his presence would ever lead to anything. She ignored her desire to spend long hours working with him. She ignored how his charms and gestures that made her smile. But after that night she couldn't ignore it.

It's that kiss that finally seals the deal. It is tender and sweet and loving. Sujin has never been kissed like this. She has never been loved like this. She never even knew that a boy could love a girl this much.

And she realizes she wants it. This gentle, kind love Han Seojun has for Lim Jukyung. Sujin realizes she wants it too. She wishes Seojun would give it to her instead of Lim Jukyung.

Jukyung already has Lee Suho anyway.

Of course, Han Seojun had been drunk, so he doesn't remember. But Sujin can't seem to forget. Every time she's alone, that kiss is all she thinks about. It consumes her in every solitary moment and makes her heart ache in a way she hadn't thought she was capable of anymore. She feels like a teenager who has just discovered love and she doesn't know what to make of it.

It then occurs to Sujin that perhaps Han Seojun hadn't been trying to revive his shop for Lim Jukyung. Certainly he has not even tried to capture Jukyung's attention nor has he made any moves on her. She comes to realize that perhaps, he has been trying just to recover his pride and nothing else and that baffles her.

A man without an agenda. That's something you don't see every day.

She also comes to realize how foolish her entire reaction to Suho and Jukyung has been. Being around Han Seojun has given her clarity about her selfishness. Hoping to quietly undo her plans, she goes to Suah to change the presentation that would reveal Suho and Jukyung's relationship to everyone.

"Here," She hands Suah another USB. "I was wrong. The previous presentation needed correcting. This is the right one. Give me the old one so that I can delete it."

Suah looks around in her desk and groans. "Oooh, I think I kinda lost is." She says regrettably.

Sujin sighs. "Don't lose this one." She waves the flash drive. "Or I really will get pissed." Sujin warns. In reality she doesn't care. It's better if the USB gets lost. Now she doesn't have to explain why she kept making so many changes to the presentation.

But Suah finds the old USB and forgets about the new one. As she is setting up the slides, she discovers the pictures. At first Suah feels betrayed. Lim Jukyung is her best friend, and she didn't tell Suah she was dating their boss. But then Suah's concern grows. Lim Jukyung could get fired for this.

Suah decides she will fight with Jukyung later. Right now she needs to tell Suho.

"Han Seojun please give us a minute? I need to talk to Sujin."

Sujin sees how distressed Suho is when he interrupts her confession to Seojun. But she figures that its because of the chandelier falling during the award ceremony.

But it isn't. All mirth fades from Sujin's face when Suho holds up the USB she had given Suah, the one with the dangerous presentation.

"Did you make changes to our presentation?" Suho asks calmly.

Sujin blinks in quick succession. Her instinct is to hide her true feelings. So she says coolly, "What do you mean? Of course I've worked on the presentation."

"I'm not asking if you worked on it. I'm asking if you made any last minute changes." Sujin can tell that Suho is at his limit.

"Yeah... I made a couple—"

"Does that include pictures of me and Lim Jukyung?" Suho sounds hurt. He sounds like he can't believe Sujin would do this to him.

Sujin can't lie to him. Out of everyone, he is the one person she can't hide her feelings with. With a gulp, she says, "Listen. I gave Suah a new presentation—"

"Sujin how could you?!"

"Suah has made a mistake. She forgot about the new one or she lost it or—"

"Don't make excuses! Not with me, Sujin."

"I'm not making excuses! This presentation was made months ago! And I told Suah—"

"Suah said you specifically gave her a different file. And told her there was no need to check—"

"I gave her the other file! Its not my fault she forgot! I thought I—"

"You thought you should share pictures of me and Jukyung during our presentation and the board would fire her. You really think you can fool me with your excuses, Sujin-ah?"

With just one mistake, Sujin's entire world falls apart. Her face grows cold and emotionless. She feels attacked and betrayed. And like a man drowning, Sujin scrambles and struggles to keep alive. The only way she knows how to do that is to be mean.

"Tell me. Why did you do this?" Suho asks. Sujin wants to come up with a lie. But she can't. Not to Suho.

"It's because I liked you." She tells him. She expects shock, horror, even disgust. What she doesn't expect is his unsurprised expression. And that hurts her in a way she never knew was possible. "I see you're not surprised. Were you aware of it?"

So all this time, he knew I liked him. All this time... when I was working day and night just for his company, for his dream, he was just using me?

"Are you kidding me right now?! Didn't you say you liked Jukyung too?"

Lim Jukyung? Is he not even going to acknowledge that I just confessed? Is that the kind of spell Jukyung has cast on him? "Jukyung is sweet and warm hearted." Sujin tells Suho, "But I don't give a shit about her. The only person I care for is you. And if she's going to steal you from me--"

"Steal me?" Suho laughs, "am I a toy?"

"Are you laughing?" How can he laugh?

"You..." Suho looks utterly betrayed, "You don't seem like the Kang Sujin I know."

This statement bothers her more than Sujin would ever admit. But you're the only one who knows me Suho...

Something in Sujin snaps. And it call comes pouring out. All of her deeply repressed anger and frustration. Sujin doesn't want to, but she can't keep the words from coming out of her mouth.

"I'm still that same Sujin, Suho. You're the one who's changed. And why... why the hell is it her out of all people?! I've been by your side for ten years! Ten years I've been killing my self to run this shitty company all because of you! Ten years I've been dying for you to look at me just once! And that girl just waltzes in, and you fall for her after just ten days?"

"I never forced you to run this company with me, Sujin. I always thought you wanted this just as much as I did."

"I never wanted this! I never wanted any of this! All I had ever wanted—" Ah, damn. Sujin hates crying. It is a sign of weakness. Her father always hated it when she used to cry. He told her crying is what made women inferior to men "Aish." She furiously wipes her face. But the tears don't stop.

Suho leaves her then. He's gotten what he wanted from Sujin; the truth. Sujin is left all alone in her office, left to cry in her sorrow. She doesn't understand what just happened. But she does understand that she no longer has the friend she used to in Lee Suho. He is no longer her home.

"Is it true?"

Seojun's deep voice surprises her. She gasps and clutches her chest. "You scared me!"

"Did you try to hurt Jukyung?"

"What?"

"I don't fully understand what you did. But you tried to hurt Jukyung, didn't you?"

Sujin's mouth curls in disdain. Lim Jukyung, Lim Jukyung, Lim Jukyung. Why is every man so obsessed with this girl?! "Seriously? You too? What, is Jukyung's family here too to avenge her? Get out, Han Seojun. I've had enough of Lim Jukyung's admirers for one day."

"Yah!" Seojun's yell fills the entire room. For anyone else, it would have been terrifying. But Sujin has always known that his bark was worse than his bite. Han Seojun was a harmless puppy who could never hurt anyone. His glares and yells meant nothing to her.

Sujin gets up to face him, "What exactly is it you want to hear? That I tried to ruin Jukyung's life?" For a second, she wants to tell Seojun what happened. That she had changed her mind about her plan. That he was the reason she had done so and that this was all a misunderstanding. So, she asks him, "Do you believe that I did?"

"I believe you're a twisted person who is capable of anything."

Sujin's mind goes blank for a second. Lee Suho, who Sujin had believed was her best friend knew about her feelings and chose to ignore them. Han Seojun, who she thought had respected her, saw her as a twisted woman. All of this is too much for Sujin. She feels cornered and betrayed.

A familiar feeling takes over her. That urge to be mean again. Much like Seojun's silence, Sujin's anger has been her constant companion and right now it consumes her. If that's how you see me, Han Seojun. Then that's how I'll be. You want me to be twisted? I will be twisted.

Sujin smiles darkly, "Fine. I should tell you the truth then. Yes. I did that. I tried to expose her relationship with Lee Suho so that the board would fire her, and she would break up with him."

It's not the entire truth, but it isn't a lie either. It only confirms Seojun's opinion of her and Sujin doesn't care. If Lee Suho can throw her away for someone he only recently reunited with, and if Han Seojun can think she is a bad person even after she helped him with his shop, then so be it. Let them think she's a bad person. Let them think she did all of these things. Let her be seen as the villain. Lim Jukyung is the main character of this story anyway.

"Ah, you and Lee Suho both make the same faces. How funny."

"Is this all a joke to you?"

"Yes. It is. Now leave. Get back to your precious Lim. Ju. Kyung. I'm sure she's just dying to have so many guys fawning all over her."

"Why are you doing this?" Seojun asks. "Is it because of Lee Suho?"

"Yes." She says without hesitation.

Seojun's nostrils flare, "Then what was with that confession you gave me? What was all that about giving you my—"

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Sujin snaps. She regrets ever confessing to him. She regrets even liking him. "Why can't you just leave me alone?!" She pushes him away. He doesn't budge.

"Were you just lying? Was it part of your plan?"

The look on Seojun's face is torture for Sujin. She can't bear to be in his presence any longer. She wants him to leave. Desperate to get him to go, she lies, "Yes. Yes, it was a lie."

"Why?"

Seojun looks hurt and Sujin can't take it. If she walks out then Seojun would just chase after her. So she tells him something she knows will make him go away. "Jukyung took something of mine. I wanted to take something of hers."

Seojun pauses, "Kang Sujin... were you always such a piece of trash? Jukyung did nothing to you. It sickens me that you would hurt her like this."

Sujin clenches her jaw. She hates Lim Jukyung, hates the fact that Jukyung gets everything Sujin can never have. A loving father, Lee Suho and now Han Seojun. "I can't forgive someone who takes what's mine."

Something happens, Sujin doesn't know what, but Seojun's entire body language changes. He seems defensive and angry, angrier than before.

"I can't look at you anymore. Don't come into my shop again."

With this declaration, Seojun leaves Sujin in her office. Sujin locks the door behind him, not wanting anymore visitors. Her hands are shaking. Her palms are sweaty. The world is spinning around her.

She doesn't know what will happen next with her. She feels scared and confused. Quietly, and slowly, she grabs her things and leaves. She won't get to see Han Seojun again. She doesn't know if she will get to see Lee Suho. What she does know that she needs to cry. But she has no shoulders to lean on anymore.