Unromantic Summe
언로맨틱 써머Synopsis
“Same as always, Se-im. You’re the only one who can see the top of my head.”
Cha Taemok, Director at Hoemok Group, had appeared on Mangwoldo.
Looking so refined that the caretaker’s daughter of the villa could hardly dare to stand beside him.
“Annoying as it might be, that’s the truth.”
He was even wiping the mud off the other side of my sneakers.
As if he had never once gotten dirt on his own hands in his life.
Yet Cha Taemok had never been able to ignore the dirt that clung to me.
“So what choice do I have?”
He casually tossed the handkerchief aside, raised one knee, and planted both arms on either side of me.
The first thing I felt was the sharp tip of his nose pressing into my cheek.
Then our lips met.
At that moment, somewhere nearby, a cicada cried out—
Meeeee—
It sounded like the signal that our summer had begun again.
“Protect at least yourself. You can manage that much now.”
Was the problem you, who showed up determined to tear this island apart?
Or was the problem still me—my unimpressive twenty-eight years of life?
“Move.”
Our connection should have ended as nothing more than a reckless summer fling from those days.
“You’re basically telling me to go die.”
Yet his large footsteps only closed the distance instead.
When I instinctively grabbed Cha Taemok’s arm, it felt even firmer—perhaps hardened by the years.
“Just because you couldn’t see me for a while, you think we were apart, Han Se-im.”
“……”
“I’ve been living with you the whole time.”
I couldn’t even guess how long this summer would be.
That summer when I only hoped the heat would be strong enough—
just enough that the coming goodbye wouldn’t melt away.
<Unromantic Summer>
