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"He kissed her best friend. She watched. He didn't even know it was the wrong woman." Yoon Ara has spent fourteen years carrying a secret she never planned to act on — a love that started on a cold autumn night when she was fourteen, sitting on her back steps the night her mother died, and the boy next door wordlessly handed her a can of barley tea and stayed. She grew up. He became Kang Minjae — CEO, cold and untouchable, the kind of handsome that makes entire boardrooms lose focus. She joined his company telling herself it was for the career, and spent four years pretending the elevator made her nervous for no reason. Then came the dinner. One borrowed cream sweater. Bad lighting. And a kiss that destroyed everything. She never let him explain. She went to her father crying and begging to be sent to Paris, where she spent three years building a life out of the wreckage of a feeling she refused to name. She told herself she was over it. She was not over it. When she returns to Seoul as the executive director of a luxury brand partnering with his company, she is polished, professional, and completely untouchable. Now he is the one chasing her. And the truth about that night — a truth she finds out from the wrong person at the wrong time — doesn't feel like relief. It feels like three years she will never get back.