I’ll tell you everything. From A to Z.

“Let’s move somewhere else for now.”

Having been dragged out into the middle of the street by bodyguards and thrown to the ground, passersby were glancing and watching.

Thinking it wouldn’t be good to attract attention, Doha pulled Sana into a nearby cafe.

They roughly ordered drinks and sat in a corner.

“Why are you looking for that friend?”

To Doha, it was unexpected that Sana was out and about like this. He must have thought Sana would just sit at home, waiting for him. Even though there was absolutely no reason for him to.

Sana remained silent, seemingly not wanting to answer why he was looking for him. He even turned his head away, avoiding eye contact with Doha.

“You don’t even thank the person who saved you.”

He flinched at the remark, then finally looked at Doha.

“Thank you.”

He was cute, bowing his head and giving thanks obediently. It didn’t seem like the image he wanted to be caught in, but when it was time to give thanks, he did it properly.

Doha finding Sana was a complete coincidence. On the way back from Incheon Port, the car was practically at a standstill on the road due to traffic congestion.

The fortunate thing was that he had ridden in a different car from Kim Sinhak on the way back. Kim Sinhak had left first, saying he had to move the goods. He had told Doha to take the password he received to Park Jaemin.

He was idly looking out the window when he saw Sana being dragged out, held by two burly men.

At first, he thought he had seen wrong, thinking there was no way Sana would be in a place like this. However, after seeing him clinging to them even while struggling, he was certain it was Sana.

The other people didn’t look ordinary. Although they were wearing suits, their physique and posture seemed closer to gangsters. ‘Could Kim Sinhak or Park Jaemin have taken action without my knowledge?’

Doha frowned, told the driver to go ahead, and said he would get there on his own, then immediately got out of the car. He crossed the stalled cars on the road and approached Sana, seeing one of the burly men raise his hand.

‘He might get hit.’

The moment he thought that, his body moved first. Although Dragon Holdings was an unexpected opponent, he was also relieved that Park Jaemin or Kim Sinhak weren’t involved.

“I don’t know if the friend you’re looking for is at Dragon Holdings or not, and it’s none of my business.”

Of course, in a way, why Sana was looking for that friend was also irrelevant to Doha. But something was bothering him.

“But are you, by any chance, looking for that friend because of me?”

He asked, just in case, and Sana flinched, then tightly shut his mouth. Doha swallowed a surging sigh and let out a long breath.

“If it’s because of me, you don’t need to do that.”

Sana coming forward and saying he would save him or whatever wasn’t exactly welcome.

Doha kept him by his side because he said he had nowhere to go and was alone, and that bothered him, not because he believed Sana would save his life.

“I never begged you to save my life.”

He spoke deliberately coldly. He felt that if he didn’t draw a line like this, Sana might really do something reckless. This was evident just from him trying to barge into Dragon Holdings alone and unsupported.

Dragon Holdings was different from ordinary companies.

Most people didn’t know it, but it was rumored that the former chairman of Dragon Holdings was the owner of the underworld, bigger and older than the Gangnam Alliance.

No matter how ignorant he was, trying to meet the Chairman of Dragon Holdings alone was dangerous from the start.

Whether it was an exaggeration or truth, it was also rumored that Kang Dohyeok of Dragon Holdings had personally dealt with his father, the former chairman.

Doha didn’t want Sana to have a private meeting with such a person. Especially if it concerned his own life.

“Just you acting out is a burden. And you’re going to call your friend as well? If that’s the case, you should just disappear from in front of me right now…”

“No!”

Sana cut Doha off and desperately shook his head.

“I was looking for Yeon because…”

He seemed to want to make an excuse, but nothing immediately came to mind, so he just bit his lips, deliberating. His eyes darted around, and his face turned crimson. Doha felt a mixture of sighs and hollow laughs trying to escape, thinking, ‘He can’t even lie properly.’

“I had something I wanted to ask…”

For some reason, Sana’s face grew redder and redder, even staining his neck. What on earth did he want to ask that he endured the humiliation of being kicked out by bodyguards?

“So, if it’s something related to me, you don’t need to…!”

“Something a lover should do!”

Doha thought that what he wanted to ask another shaman would surely be about his death. So he was about to say, ‘You don’t need to, don’t do useless things,’ but an unexpected remark popped out of Sana’s mouth.

“Lover…?”

Doha, who had asked back stupidly, soon understood why Sana had said such a thing.

‘You said I could be your lover. I’ll do that.’

After he said those words, Sana seemed to have continuously thought of himself as Doha’s lover. Even though Doha hadn’t explicitly agreed that day.

“So, was that why…?”

Did he not refuse his touch because he thought they were lovers?

Suddenly, his head felt a throbbing pain. At least, thinking that Sana had accepted him because he thought they were lovers, he felt a wave of shame for having touched him so casually.

Now, he couldn’t make excuses like, ‘When did I say I’d be your lover?’ or ‘Those were just words because you stubbornly refused to leave.’ Sana’s eyes, looking at him with a clear expression, were too pure. Looking into those eyes, he absolutely couldn’t say, ‘You and I are not lovers.’

“Well, alright. I get it.”

He wasn’t so irresponsible as to lay his hands on someone who knew nothing and then just pretend not to know him.

More than anything, he didn’t want to see those sparkling eyes clouded with disappointment. He had intended to be somewhat intimidating, but if Sana hadn’t been to his taste to begin with, he wouldn’t have resorted to such methods.

‘Lover, huh.’ Things were flowing in an unexpected direction, but he didn’t particularly dislike it.

While wondering what kind of lover he could have in his current situation, he also thought that since they were already entangled, it might be better to keep him by his side until things were over and protect him completely.

“What was it you were curious about, something a lover should do?”

He shook his head and, having mentally processed his relationship with Sana, asked. This time too, Sana couldn’t answer immediately and hesitated.

He was still doubtful if he truly wanted to ask that friend about the role of a lover. It was clearly something related to his prophetic dream.

“Well, that is…”

Sana’s hesitant face flushed crimson, even his earlobes. Doha stared intently, wondering what he had done to make him like that, and eventually, he buried his face deep in his hands.

“What happened yesterday…”

Sana mumbled in a barely audible voice. His voice was muffled by the cafe music, so Doha’s brow furrowed with fine lines as he strained to hear.

“Because I kept only receiving unilaterally, I thought I should do something too…”

Doha barely managed to suppress a laugh at the faint voice. ‘He’s actually worrying about such things.’ It was a concern he had never imagined.

“If it’s something like that, you don’t need to do more.”

He smiled faintly and reached out a hand, ruffling Sana’s hair, who was still deeply bowed. At his touch, Sana raised his head and finally looked at Doha’s face.

“If you have questions, ask me.”

“Eh…?”

“I’ll tell you, so you don’t need to ask anyone else.”

Sana’s face, which had been staring blankly at Doha, grew redder and redder. It was astonishing how red a person’s face could get.

“You said you’d be my lover, didn’t you?”

He didn’t know how they ended up like this, but anyway.

“What do you plan to use that lover for?”

It was probably a desperate excuse he had come up with due to Doha’s prodding. Still, he thought this might be better. Rather than him coming forward to stop his death because he had seen it.

“From beginning to end, I’ll tell you everything, step by step.”

When Doha smirked, Sana’s wavering eyes lost their focus and dropped. His earlobes, flushed crimson, looked utterly cute.

‘Maybe I’ve fallen harder than I thought.’

Thinking of Sana, who had run towards him in a white hanbok on the first day they met, the corners of his lips subtly curved upwards.

If Sana’s words were true, if his death was indeed foreseen, then perhaps Sana was the last gift heaven had given him.

‘To enjoy love to the fullest before dying.’

He wondered if it was an absurd delusion, but wouldn’t it be okay for such an unbelievable thing to happen once in his life?

Sana fanned himself, feeling hot in the face, then picked up his drink with ice and gulped it down.

Then he choked and coughed. As he pulled out a tissue and handed it to him, Doha finally realized. That he had definitively decided to keep this guy by his side.

Dragon Holdings Chairman’s office. Kang Dohyeok, who had been standing by the window looking outside, turned around at the soft knock on the door.

“The person who caused a commotion in the lobby has left.”

At the secretary’s report, his already cold eyes settled into an even cooler gaze.

“He was looking for Yeon?”

“The information desk staff said so. You don’t need to worry. We replied that we didn’t know him.”

The secretary answered preemptively, trying not to displease Kang Dohyeok. Kang Dohyeok silently turned and looked out the window again.

From here, he had watched the entire process of the bodyguards ejecting the person who had come looking for him. Even someone appearing and blocking the bodyguards’ path. They were too far away to see their faces clearly, but the struggle was visible.

“Investigate.”

“Yes?”

The secretary asked back at Kang Dohyeok’s instruction.

“Find out who was looking for Yeon, properly. And the guy who appeared later and took him away.”

“Yes, understood.”

The secretary, well aware that Kang Dohyeok’s nerves were sharper than ever when it came to Yeon, didn’t ask the unnecessary question of why he wanted to investigate.

“And Mooyoung’s whereabouts?”

Kang Dohyeok asked another question to the secretary, who was about to leave.

“We’re still searching, but it seems he’s deliberately hidden himself. There are no signs of any movement to rebuild Muryeong either.”

It was Kang Dohyeok who had forced Muryeong to disband. For one reason alone—to retrieve Yeon from that place—he had shaken up Muryeong, which was backed by powerful figures in politics and business.

And all the political and business figures related to Muryeong as well.

That was how he had protected Yeon. The mere fact that someone was looking for Yeon made him uneasy.

If he determined it was even slightly harmful to himself or to Yeon, he had no intention of being lenient. No matter who it was.