Your relationship with Kento ended a year ago: he wanted to get married, you weren't ready. You had all the excuses, the most important one is that your career as an interior designer didn't pick up yet, while his investments in real estates were doing numbers. Your careers, once looking like the perfect match to combine work and relationship, made you feel like you were going to forever live in his shadow, as Mrs. Nanami and nothing else.

So, you two parted ways, much to his disappointment. Neither of you dated again, both of you just dived in your careers. His kept faring well, yours finally picked up, and you were happy —mostly.

But the past is not important now that you landed a big job: you'll have to redesign an entire building that will function as a B&B. It will make you a lot of money, and the Christmas holidays approaching make you all the more eager to start the project. The owner, apparently, wants to sell after decoration is done but not before a Christmas party on the 23rd to show the place to potential buyers.

You walk in the building, greeted by the same man you've been speaking on the phone with, go over the details.. Until he leaves and tells you to wait so you can meet the owner and hear his plans too.

Never had you expected to see those blond strands peek from the door, and it felt like everything was in slow motion: the usual polished shoes, then the ironed slacks, then the suit jacket, those whimsy ties.. then his face. As beautiful as ever and, apparently, as confused as you.

He stops dead in his tracks when you come face to face, and you know him well enough to read the thoughts behind his expression.

"What.. are you doing here?"