21 I would just have to ask Song Hyun-Shik directly. (1/2)

”That really doesn't prove anything, does it?” Ji-Eun voiced her thoughts. ”If they're lovers or...”

Jaehyun shrugged. ”You asked me about a connection. And I'm just telling you what I saw. It's really up to you to decide what to do with that information.”

Ji-Eun downed her entire glass and wipe her mouth with the back of her hand. ”Are you saying they might be secret lovers? And that they fought over something that day?” Ji-Eun asked.

”Looks like it,” Jaehyun nodded. ”That may not necessarily be true, but we can't discount that scenario too.”

Ji-Eun sighed openly. ”It's not that I'm doubting you or anything, Jaehyun-ssi. It's just that... you know, that person already became a public figure within our industry, so any news about that would have been given special attention. Unless...”

”Unless?” Jaehyun probed.

”Unless one or both of them agreed to have that kind of arrangement,” Ji-Eun's eye slit up and scoured through her phone again. ”Hold on.”

Jaehyun stood up to refill her glass and to get another beer. At the rate she's been drinking, he might as well get some side dishes she can much on, he thought as he re-entered his kitchen.

”Oh Jaehyun!”

He heard her loud call and he all but ran over. He saw Ji-Eun standing in the middle of his living room, pointing at her phone excitedly.

”What?” He asked. ”What happened?”

”Look at this!” She pushed her phone near his face. ”This article!”

Jaehyun couldn't make out the words since she's holding the phone very close to his face, so he took it from her and stepped away to read on his own. He read silently, his eyes darting back and forth across the screen. After a minute or so, he looked up and smirked at her.

”Yes,” he said, handing her phone back. ”That might be because of it. The Little City's employees are not really allowed to date. Their working contract forbids them to do so.”

I forgot that this article was included in the company profile that I gave her a few days ago... Jaehyun thought as he watched her stuff her phone away. How could I let that one get by me anyway?

He mentally berated himself.

”I get it now,” Ji-Eun shrugged. ”Why they were both acting weird at The Little City's studio.”

Well, it would have been weird of them to act out a tender, crying scene in a public street if they were not lovers or something, Jaehyun thought, inwardly sighing.

”What do you plan to do then?” Jaehyun asked.