Chapter 754 – #160_Let’S Stop Now (7)
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Despite such a tiring and mentally exhausting day, Sharon was not allowed a good night’s sleep.
It was only natural.
Even if she just dozed off for a moment, Siwoo would appear in her dreams.
Unlike the streets of Sinchon, which were filled with happy memories, she saw herself hurling harsh words at him.
She kept seeing the image of him grabbing her wrist, begging her to let him explain properly just once.
“Huuung…. Hwaaang….”
Then she would wake up and cry for a long time, and when she had no more strength to cry, she would fall asleep as if collapsing, only for Siwoo’s dream to appear again as if it were a lie.
After repeating this about five times, Sharon gave up on sleeping.
Instead, she decided to soothe her time with the beer stocked in the refrigerator.
Why do characters who have been dumped drink alcohol in dramas and movies?
If she borrowed the power of alcohol, maybe this painful night would be a little less painful.
-Tss!
“Gulp, gulp, gulp….”
Sharon stood at the kitchen island, drinking canned beer without any snacks.
The refreshing gulp and the barley scent that pricked her nose.
“Is it… a little better?”
The feeling of her stuffy chest being relieved definitely seemed to help somehow.
At least it was much better than when she was crying and tossing and turning in bed.
Sharon quickly finished one can and opened the next.
“Sniff….”
Actually, there was a story behind drinking beer in this officetel.
It was the drink she and Siwoo had most enjoyed when they watched movies.
Buying four cans of imported beer for 10,000 won at the convenience store right below and enjoying them with popcorn or squid was how Sharon and Siwoo enjoyed movies.
“Was my memory this good….”
Memories of playfully putting cold beer cans on each other’s necks, or of imitating the toasting scenes in movies, flashed by in an instant.
She sniffled endlessly and emptied the four cans she had taken out.
“It doesn’t help at all….”
But even with the tipsy feeling, she didn’t feel any better.
Rather, the pain of the breakup, which had become even more vivid, only pierced her heart.
“Then why do people drink….”
In the end, Sharon concluded that the idea of ‘drinking when you break up’ in movies and dramas was just PPL.
That there was no point in drinking any more.
With her gloom adding to her gloom, making her feel ultra-gloomy, Sharon rubbed her swollen red eyes and got up to put the useless canned beer back in the refrigerator.
At that moment.
-Beep beep beep beep beep
-Beep beep beep!
The sound of entering a number on the door lock rang out.
Soon, a warning sound that an incorrect number had been entered was heard.
Sharon, who was about to go to the refrigerator, froze.
Through her alcohol-slowed thoughts, all sorts of ideas popped up like beer foam.
What is it?
Is it someone from another house who pressed the wrong button?
Or is it someone related to the Geminai family who was originally supposed to stay here due to an administrative error?
If not, could it be Siwoo?
“No way….”
Sharon tried to deny her thoughts.
It was sad and difficult, but she had armed her heart with resignation and giving up.
She didn’t have the confidence to handle the despair when this vain hope shattered like a bubble.
“It can’t be….”
It couldn’t be.
She had declared a breakup, hardened her heart, and poured out harsh words to him.
Siwoo always considered Sharon’s feelings first.
Even if he wanted to hold on, she believed he would respect Sharon’s wishes, so she pushed him away.
So, there was no way he would come looking for her after just one day.
Maybe she had drunk too fast.
This was either a hallucination from being too drunk or she was still dreaming.
-Beep beep beep beep beep
Nevertheless, the sound of the dial ringing again made her heart beat faster and faster.
Sharon held her breath and stared at the front door.
-Click!
“…….”
“Ah….”
The beloved lover she had missed so much, who had been a part of all her happy memories.
It was Shin Siwoo.
He opened the front door and came in, just like when Sharon would go out to the rooftop for a cigarette while waiting for him.
Yeah, right.
It’s a dream after all.
She received the inheritance, but it was an incomplete inheritance, and she failed the experiment and immediately fell into debt.
She hadn’t made any decent profit catching homunculi for 10 years, and all her investments had failed.
Sharon had always been strangely unlucky.
There was no way such a good story would unfold for Sharon.
But the cold water droplets on the beer can in her hand.
Siwoo’s appearance, which was too vivid to be a fantasy or a dream.
They vehemently declared that this was reality.
This is too much.
She must have cried so much that her eyes were swollen, she wasn’t wearing any makeup, and her hair was a mess.
All she was wearing was a tank top and shorts.
She wanted to show Siwoo only her pretty side.
Amidst the random thoughts that popped up like an escape from reality.
“Ah, um, Sharon…. I didn’t mean to open the door and come in.”
“Why did you come? We said it was over.”
Sharon said in a cold voice.
Nothing would change like this.
Nothing would change anyway.
To Siwoo, she was just a burden, and even if he miraculously came to Sharon, who was longing for the old memories, nothing would change.
So Sharon squeezed out her last bit of courage.
The courage to break up with Siwoo.
If she could just shake him off coldly this time, she could really end it.
Siwoo’s face, which had been hesitant to speak, also hardened at Sharon’s cold tone.
“Why are you making that face? It makes me feel like I’m the bad one.”
Looking at his shocked face like a discarded puppy, she wanted to hug him without thinking.
Sharon bit her tongue until it bled and turned her head away.
“I’m sorry. For making you worry every day, and for bringing other people every time.”
“Stop! I don’t want to hear it. It’s hard for me too!”
The beer can slipped from Sharon’s hand and rolled across the floor.
“Go back…. I don’t want to be here with you.”
It was really hard to say things that were the opposite of what she felt.
Sharon couldn’t hold back and turned her back.
She wasn’t going to look back until she heard the door close.
At that moment.
With a strong force, Sharon’s wrist was grabbed.
Just the slightest touch of skin sent shivers down her spine.
It was because she had touched his warmth that she had missed so much.
Sharon deliberately pulled her hand away roughly, afraid that she might be consumed by the happiness that filled her to the brim.
“Let… go!”
But Siwoo didn’t let go.
Instead, he grabbed Sharon’s wrist even more firmly and pulled her into his arms.
“No. I can’t let go.”
“Let go!”
“Let go right now!”
“I can’t let go!”
The two of them were having a K-drama-style argument.
But there was no way Sharon could break free from Siwoo’s firm grip.
Actually, Siwoo wasn’t the type to act so recklessly.
When Sharon first responded sharply, he felt like he was suffocating.
But now he was sure.
“I’ve lived with you for over a year, do you think I wouldn’t know?”
“…What?”
“You’re lying.”
It wasn’t just wishful thinking.
He could be sure.
When Sharon lied, she had a habit of pressing her index finger with her thumb until it hurt.
Siwoo had noticed the body language Sharon had shown the moment she said, ‘Go back…. I don’t want to be here with you.’
In other words, both the words ‘go back’ and ‘I don’t want to be here with you’ were lies.
“Let’s talk properly again. I’ll apologize a hundred or a thousand times. If there’s anything to fix, I’ll fix it.”
“No, I don’t want to…. No matter how much I say….”
“I need you, Sharon.”
A straight gaze that didn’t waver even a bit pierced Sharon.
And his words that she had wanted to hear so much pierced her heart.
The words that he needed her.
The words she wanted to hear more than anything.
“Ugh…. Ugh….”
Tears streamed down her face.
Her throat felt hot, as if she had swallowed a steaming cup of tea.
The pent-up sorrow and longing, the yearning, the love, the inferiority and self-loathing that had tormented Sharon every day.
The sticky emotions she had been forcing down and swallowing all at once surged back up.
“I’m…. I’m nothing anyway, you’re…. No matter how much I tell you, you’ll do dangerous things again…. Everyone else is so great, but I’m nothing. I really have nothing…. I’m a mess…!”
The jumbled words, not knowing what she was even saying, were mixed with her sobbing breath and flew out haphazardly.
“I keep making debts. I’ve been relying on you from the beginning to the end, and even when I know you’re in danger, I can’t do anything…! And yet, I resent and envy Amelia and Duke Elroa…. I’m so pathetic….”
If someone else heard this, they wouldn’t be able to fully understand why Sharon had made this decision.
But Siwoo understood why Sharon had said she wanted to break up.
There was no need to hear a logical explanation.
Understanding each other as if a red thread connecting hearts had been created.
Wasn’t that what lovers were?
“It doesn’t matter.”
Siwoo grabbed Sharon’s shoulders and hugged her tightly, as if to imprison her so she could never escape again.
“You’re enough as you are.”
That one sentence was enough to make Sharon’s flimsy facade crumble.
Looking at Siwoo with tear-filled eyes, she asked with trembling lips.
“I’m…. I’m not as strong as other people…. I’ll only be a burden to you.”
“You’re a witch, and you’re going to live with me for the rest of your life. You can take your time.”
“I don’t have any money either. I need a lot of research funds every day…. I can’t even get investments.”
“I’ll earn it. It’s not like you’re doing research with borrowed money.”
“I’m not that pretty or cute….”
“You’re so pretty, you’re cute, your hair is like a fairy’s. Your eyes are sparkling.”
Sharon, who was leaning on Siwoo, who was holding onto her weakened heart.
And Siwoo, who was making cheesy promises and compliments that he would never normally make.
Yes.
This was the power of reconciliation.
Right now, the two of them were deeply immersed in their own world.
Sharon, who was curling up like a shy squirrel, twisting her hair around her finger.
“Really…?”
“Of course. I fell in love with you at first sight when you were working at the convenience store. I fall in love with you every time I see you these days.”
“Uuuu…. You’re lying. Siwoo is a liar.”
“No, you’re really cute, okay?”
Each of Siwoo’s words that affirmed Sharon made fireworks of joy explode in her heart.
It was so embarrassing, but she wanted to keep hearing it.
“…Is Sharony that cute?”
Sharon, who was twisting her body and asking Siwoo for confirmation with a cute, nasal voice, finally noticed the scene behind Siwoo’s broad shoulders.
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
From the moment Siwoo opened the door and came in, the depth of field had become shallow, and all the focus had been on him.
Therefore, she had only now discovered the figures of Odile, Odette, Amelia, and Elroa, who had been out of focus and treated as a blurry background.
They, who had been making bewildered expressions, quietly closed the door when they made eye contact with Sharon, and left the two reconciled lovers alone.
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