Chapter 74: Bear With Me
What had he thought the first time he saw Ha Giyeon?
Thin? Pitiful? Kind? Pretty?
If you ignored appearances...
“Precious.”
Like a snowflake sealed inside a delicate glass orb—small, fragile, rare.
Though he sometimes showed signs of maturity, those moments didn’t feel like true adulthood. More like a child pretending to be grown up. Just as age eventually forces you into adulthood, Ha Giyeon seemed like he was pushing himself forward, step by step.
“Every day was the same. I went to work, came home... I felt like I’d spend the rest of my life like that. My life wouldn’t change, and it bored me. Everything about it bored me.
But then you showed up. And you smiled.”
When he smiled, he didn’t try to act like an adult.
It was pure, untainted. That smile felt so rare and valuable that it felt like luck just to witness it.
Every time those soft corners of his lips lifted, Son Suhyeon felt something even better than that first time he'd tasted ice cream as a kid.
He’d always thought that saying about smiles being contagious was nonsense, but it wasn’t until later that he realized he was smiling, too.