Flowers Are Bait

Chapter 235:

Lee-yeon clenched her teeth.

Her breathing grew more labored, and she couldn’t understand why it hurt so much and made her feel so unwell. It was just a minor injury... But her emotions had taken control, and she couldn’t help it.

“Haah... Really...”

“Are you okay, Director?”

“No.”

“What?”

She wasn’t okay. Nothing was okay.

It was all because of Kwon Chae-woo’s sudden and belated appearance that disturbed everything.

Lee-yeon dropped the safety helmet, gloves, and weed whacker one by one to the ground. She took deep breaths, trying to calm the repeated rising of her chest.

“Huh? Director, where are you going? Director...!”

There was no place left for Lee-yeon to retreat to.

Between Kwon Ki-seok’s proposal to help her escape from Kwon Chae-woo and the stifling and warm bioinvasive species coiled around her wrist.

Now, it was time to make a deal.

She would not go back to Hwaido without creating one.

***

As she strode down the corridor, Lee-yeon’s bundled hair bumped against the nape of her neck. With each step, numerous crossroads lay under her feet, but Lee-yeon crushed them beneath her as she walked on.

She remained completely engrossed in her emotions until she unceremoniously opened and entered Kwon Chae-woo’s room without knocking.

The room was dimly lit, with black curtains blocking out the light.Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

In the dry silence, the air purifier mechanically hummed.

Strangely, the mechanical sound had sucked all the life from the room.

Lee-yeon wandered about the lifeless room.

Lee-yeon spoke with her reddened eyes, her voice cold and resolute.

“I’m going to get out of here.”

“Yes, I understand.”

He nodded as if he knew. However, the prominent adam’s apple in his throat moved once significantly.

Lee-yeon felt even more uncomfortable as she noticed a hint of obedience in his attitude.

“Regardless of what Kwon Chae-woo does or how hard you try, I want to stay as far away as possible. But I don’t understand why I keep getting bothered...!”

Lee-yeon clenched her own hair and bit her lower lip. It was a reflexive act of pushing the other away and resisting, a stubborn defense mechanism.

“I won’t do it.”

Kwon Chae-woo interjected softly.

“I won’t ask you to go back to that time, Lee-yeon.”

He whispered in the darkness, his voice steady.

“I know that the summer we spent together is already over.”

“...”

“I also know that you will never come back, Lee-yeon.”

Kwon Chae-woo, tormented by summer’s symptoms, had come to the painful realization that everything was just self-satisfaction and illusion.

He clenched his fist.

“...So, I’m not asking you to come back or accept me again.”

Instead of taking a step forward, Kwon Chae-woo instead took a step back.

“I want to start anew.”

Lee-yeon’s heart fluttered as if stung by those words.

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