Chapter 1
I blinked.
The world moved slowly.
No.
The moment itself had stopped.
There was not even the smallest gap between the two men.
Schwindel lowered his tall body as his long silver-blue hair shimmered under the moonlight, and he wrapped his arms tightly around Panen’s fragile body from behind.
When Schwindel’s large arms completely trapped Panen’s trembling shoulders inside his embrace, Panen could not move even an inch.
As Panen twisted his neck, trying to escape, his curly platinum hair became messy, revealing his long, white neck.
With a lazy smile on his lips, Schwindel pressed his thick red lips against that white neck.
It was a kiss with no hesitation, as if he was leaving a mark that declared Panen belonged to him.
Soon, Schwindel’s lips and red tongue began to touch, lick, and suck on Panen’s pale neck.
Under Schwindel’s persistent kisses, Panen’s neck and shoulders could be seen trembling.
Luna realized it completely.
There was not even a space as small as a fingernail for her between those two men.
Schwindel had called her to this greenhouse tonight to make her understand this fact.
She blinked.
But the moment was still frozen here.
Drop.
Drop.
One drop, then another drop of unknown tears fell onto Luna’s hand.
Her hands had been held together so tightly that the backs of them had turned bright red.
Even as thick tears fell, her eyes were still filled with more tears.
She felt dizzy, as if the thin thread of reason that had barely remained inside her mind was about to snap.
Just as her vision began to blur, Schwindel slowly raised his head and their eyes met.
As always, that smile that cruelly captured Luna’s heart spread around Schwindel’s eyes.
His greedy lips were still fixed on Panen’s reddened neck.
His beautifully curved eyes were fixed on Luna’s pale face, which had lost all color.
Cruel.
This is too cruel.
She finally let out the tears she had desperately held back.
Closing her eyes, Luna slowly collapsed.
She thought she could faintly hear a voice.
“Luna, Luna… do mirage!!”
“Luri, Luri… Lee Luri!!”
“Huh? Huh?!”
Only after Sowooju called her several times and shook her shoulders did Luri finally come back to her senses.
She had been sitting in a luxurious Italian restaurant all evening.
The owner chef personally explained each dish, and expensive wines were placed on every table.
Luri shook the wine bottle with only a little left inside.
“Lee Luri, are you okay?”
Sowooju looked down at her worriedly.
“Okay? If I’m not okay? Is there anything better than this? The day my lifelong soulmate has an engagement ceremony? Haha……”
She spoke carelessly, not even realizing that her tongue was completely twisted from drinking.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to deceive you all this time…… But I just couldn’t bring myself to tell you.”
With a height of 185 centimeters, silver-gray hair slightly covering one eye, grayish blue eyes, a strong chest visible through his white shirt, broad straight shoulders, a smooth inverted triangle figure from his shoulders down to his waist, and a sexy yet innocent expression—
Sowooju was a man who lacked nothing.
There was only one problem.
All of those things now belonged not to her, but to his manager.
Luri, a third-year employee at a large company, was a woman who naturally attracted attention wherever she went.
She was 165 centimeters tall, with large brown eyes, long natural brown hair, and a pretty face.
If she had to pick one thing to thank her mother, who used to run a drinking business, for, it was probably this beautiful appearance.
Her clever mind might have been inherited from the father she had never even seen.
With a delicate face that looked like she had never experienced hardship, she seemed like someone who had lived an easy life.
But Luri proudly believed that she had suffered just as much pain as anyone else.
For someone like her, the man who had comforted her since childhood and who she could rely on was the amazing man in front of her.
Sowooju.
He was a model in his tenth year.
She had first met him when she was in third grade of elementary school.
Back then, he was a middle school boy four years older than her.
From that day until now—
It had already been sixteen years.
The time they had spent together.
Ha.
But Sowooju was gay?
This man?
How?
Since when?
He had never once said that he liked men or that he was dating someone.
Had he perfectly hidden it from her?
Had he betrayed her?
Why hadn’t he told her all this time?
It would have been better if this was just a hidden camera prank.
Her mother, whose liver had completely failed because of her drinking business, had died three years ago.
After that, Luri depended on Wooju even more.
He never complained.
Instead, he willingly embraced her.
From her mother’s funeral, when she had no idea what to do, to moving houses, entering her company, and even ordinary daily life—
There was nowhere his hands and heart had not reached.
She thought she should not rely on him too much.
But if there was only one person in the world she could trust, she firmly believed that person would be Wooju.
Actually, she was sick of men.
Because of her mother, who had constantly caused her pain because of men, Luri had never even dreamed of dating or marrying.
Boyfriend?
Husband?
She could throw those ideas away.
As long as Wooju stayed by her side, she did not need even one other man.
Wooju, a successful model, was often busy.
But he gave her something more important than time.
He gave her his sincere heart that cared for and worried about her.
Other people sometimes joked in front of her, saying Wooju was a sly fox who only cared about her.
But she did not care.
To her, he was always a big tree that gave her everything.
Even though she lived as a BL fan because she hated real men, she believed that if she ever met a man, dated someone, or got married—
That person would naturally be Sowooju.
But that Sowooju was having an engagement ceremony?
And with So-yoo, the manager who always looked like he wanted to devour him?
Hadn’t they worked together for about a year?
Who was the person who complained:
“How can I get rid of that guy?”
What?
Was that all an act?
Why?
Because he was afraid she would stop them if he said they were dating?
Because he thought she would grab his ankle and ask why he was leaving her?
Because she would stare with shocked rabbit eyes and ask how two men could date?
Damn it.
Damn it, Sowooju.
