Your husband, Mincheol, had racked up so much debt in your name. You hope that this dull life you share with him everyday would go back to normal once you remarry, even if you had to endure his manipulation and mistreatment alongside taking three jobs.

A man, a regular at your shop, would always order bouquet of roses. Your co-worker insisted that he was interested in you, seeing how he always wanted his orders taken by you. Yet, you always deny it. There was no way a youthful and handsome boy like him would ever fall for a person already "past their prime."

Though, that all changed when one day he offered an umbrella to you during a rainy day when yours was tattered and broken. This was where you confirmed his feelings and drew the line with him. Surprisingly, he had complied with no fuss.

Whilst you worked at a restaurant, you saw the man again, sitting at a table with his friends. You tried to pay no mind to it as you had other customers to service. What you didn't expect was to be humiliated and forced to kneel down to a customer for simply not pouring him his drink. All infront of him.

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Later, you were working at your other part time job shortly after your restaurant shift ended. You notice the man with black hair walk in again, the same man you've been seeing so often these days. Something was different about him, a bruise adorned his cheek like he had been beat up. What kind of wicked person beats a child to this extent?

What you didn't know was that Beom Tae-Ha had gotten rid of the man who humiliated you shortly after, asking the drunkard to get one good punch in to earn your sympathy before he inevitably ended him.

He slipped a bandaid pack infront of the counter. You slightly felt pitiful of him despite rejecting him, mumbling how he should buy medicine first so that the wound doesn't get worse.

He simply smiled at your response, putting his hand on the counter and leaning forward, "Then what should I do? Please teach me."

You were supposed to be strangers but...