Summary
“Let’s show them who they’ve been looking down on all these years just because I only graduated high school.”
At twenty-seven, the perfect age to go to college, Yoon-ah is determined to earn her degree and prove she is not someone to be ignored.
All through her marriage, she kept hearing the same insult: “Just a country girl who only finished high school.” For six years she endured her husband’s affairs and her in-laws’ contempt. But quietly, she had been collecting proof of his cheating. Finally, she got a divorce and started her new life.
Excited to begin, she goes to her first day of class—and is shocked to see who her assigned mentor is.
“Number 36, right?”
“…Young-won?”
It’s Young-won, the part-timer who works at the café she opened with her divorce settlement money. What are the odds of such a coincidence?
Young-won is quiet, almost too quiet, and never talks about himself, which makes him hard to approach.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“…Tell you what?”
“That you were applying to Yeonhee University’s Business Department.”
“Oh… was that… something I should have said…?”
But as time passes, Yoon-ah notices something different. His eyes look at her differently now. Thinking back, she realizes he has always been by her side.
Just as she starts to notice the change, he asks her an unexpected question.
“Boss, are you close with Deputy Manager Park Chang-min?”
“….”
“Do you enjoy being with him?”
His words feel strangely sharp, almost unsettling. Yoon-ah doesn’t know how to answer. Suddenly, an awkward silence fills the space between them.
