Contract Marriage with Memory Loss on Top - Chapter 59

Still, there was no answer coming back. Was he still on his way home…? As it was nearing quitting time, the roads would have become even more complicated, so it was meaningless to estimate the arrival time.

“…Hah.” A small sigh burst out from between Yeon-woo’s teeth and his body slowly slumped down. His legs that were trembling had lost strength. Although it was too early to be relieved as he hadn’t confirmed Ki-won’s condition yet, since the location was home, the strength in his legs dissipated prematurely.

He couldn’t relax until he confirmed Kwon Ki-won’s condition with his own eyes. Yeon-woo grabbed the doorknob and stood up, pulling himself together from his dazed state. Right, let’s not get too scared. Since the doctor didn’t recommend hospitalization, Ki-won would be coming home. When he calmly thought about it, it could also be interpreted that the extent of the injury wasn’t severe, so Yeon-woo repeatedly told himself not to be unnecessarily afraid.

“Will he answer the phone now…?” If he wasn’t in the hospital but on his way home, he might have the leisure to answer his call. Yeon-woo, who returned to the living room, wandered around near the front door for a while and then headed to the sofa. He chose to sit quietly, as Ki-won, who would open the door and come in, might be surprised to see him.

Ring, ring-. Ring, ring-. The dial tone continuously went on, but there was no difference from when he had called in front of the court. The dial tone still didn’t get cut off and soon switched to voicemail.

Could his cell phone have been lost or broken? It was a plausible assumption since he had been in a traffic accident. Yeon-woo gulped down cold water with an anxious heart. If he could have talked to Ki-won even once, he wouldn’t have been this anxious. He wanted to hear from his mouth that he was okay, but reality didn’t help Yeon-woo.

That’s when it happened. The phone placed on the dining table started vibrating and making noise. Yeon-woo, who noticed that a call was coming in, immediately grabbed the cell phone. He hoped it was Kwon Ki-won, but the caller was the chief secretary.

“…Hello?” Did something else happen to Ki-won? Yeon-woo carefully opened his mouth. As he received a call from the chief secretary at a time when Ki-won hadn’t arrived yet, nothing was more nerve-wracking than that.

– Let me introduce myself again. This is Seo Wonjae, the chief secretary.

“Yes, what’s the matter again…? Hyung hasn’t arrived home yet, is this call about that?”

– Ah, Director Kwon will be coming up soon.

It is said that the driver who was attending to Ki-won reported that he had entered the underground parking lot a little while ago. Yeon-woo’s face brightened at the fact that he would see him soon, but before long, he tilted his head. He couldn’t figure out why he was calling him when Ki-won was about to arrive.

Silence momentarily flowed through the phone. The more the chief secretary hesitated, Yeon-woo’s tilted head kept tilting without finding its place.

Beep, beep-. The sound of the front door key turning was heard, even though he said Ki-won would be coming up soon. Yeon-woo, who raised his eyebrows, opened his mouth to say, ‘If you have nothing to say, I’ll hang up,’ but the chief secretary opened his mouth at the right time.

– Actually…

Yeon-woo ran to the front door while listening to the secretary’s slow voice. The unlocked door was slowly opening.

– Director Kwon has lost some of his memory.

At the same time as the front door fully opened and Kwon Ki-won’s figure standing upright was revealed, Yeon-woo froze. What is this about right now? Yeon-woo, who frowned, lightly hit his ear with a weak force, thinking that his ear was wrong.

“What? What did you say about hyung…?”

Yeon-woo, whose mind had turned white, slowly lowered the cell phone from his ear and stared at Kwon Ki-won as if enchanted. At first glance, Ki-won didn’t look like someone who had injured his head. However, the dressing visible between his calmly lowered bangs was definitely foreign. It looked like the wound had been stitched up and a large gauze pad was placed on top, and a little blood was visible on top of that.

The chief secretary’s voice could be faintly heard from the phone that hadn’t been hung up yet, but Yeon-woo didn’t bring the cell phone back to his ear. No, he couldn’t.

Memory loss. There was no way. Even now, Ki-won was… he was…

Yeon-woo’s inner thoughts that denied reality eventually got cut off abruptly. It was because he noticed that Kwon Ki-won’s expression looking at him was different from usual.

“Hyung… you said you were in a traffic accident.”

If it were usual, he would have answered that it was okay, that he was sorry for making him worry, but today was different. It was a moment when the ‘memory loss’ that the chief secretary had mentioned didn’t come across as a joke.

“Hyung?” Kwon Ki-won merely silently looked down at the person in front of him. He seemed like someone deeply thinking about something or analyzing the creature in front of him. Each time, Yeon-woo had to feel fear. It wouldn’t have been this scary if he had at least said something. Yeon-woo clenched his fists to hide his trembling fingertips.

“Actually, I got a call from the chief secretary a little while ago…”

While listening to Yeon-woo’s words, Ki-won took off his shoes. That action was similar to the appearance of Ki-won returning after work and him chattering beside him, but the atmosphere was completely different. The warmth of that time had completely disappeared, and only a tingling tension was lingering around.

“He said that hyung has memory loss… haha, ha… I was already surprised to hear that hyung had been in an accident, so I don’t know why he’s playing such a joke.”

Realistically, there was no way chief secretary Seo Wonjae would play a joke on Seo Yeon-woo. However, Yeon-woo, who thoroughly denied the information he didn’t want to believe, turned away from the truth. An awkward laugh came out while he was speaking, and the corners of his mouth trembled.

Ki-won, who had taken off his shoes, took big strides past Yeon-woo and headed to the living room. Since something that could never happen under normal circumstances was occurring, Yeon-woo stared at Kwon Ki-won’s back, forgetting to even exhale.

“Come to think of it, that’s right.”

“Yes…?”

Yeon-woo couldn’t hide his perplexity at the sudden polite speech.

“Secretary Seo told me that I have a spouse.”

“…Wait a minute. What do you mean?”

Yeon-woo’s dazed pupils shook endlessly. His powerless voice became so small that it didn’t reach Ki-won, and his vision was spinning. It was a moment when he realized that Kwon Ki-won, his husband, his employer, had really fallen into memory loss.

“I think he said my spouse’s name was… Seo Yeon-woo.”

Kwon Ki-won calmly sat down, hanging his coat on the sofa. It was a different attitude from Yeon-woo, who was standing dumbfounded in the center of the living room, unable to overcome the shock. Ki-won, who crossed his legs, looked up at Yeon-woo leisurely with his chin resting on his hand.

“Are you my spouse?”

I wish someone would knock me out. Yeon-woo, whose vision turned white for a moment, staggered and barely stood upright.

“Hyung, don’t joke around…”

Please don’t do this, it’s scary. The desperate tone leaked out between his teeth, but there was no particular change in Ki-won’s expression. Kwon Ki-won was conversing with him in his unique languid voice, but the atmosphere itself had changed, making it feel like he was in front of a different person. Yeon-woo shook his head in disbelief at Ki-won, who had become unfamiliar in an instant.

“Secretary Seo said he had contacted my spouse, but this is strange.”

Ki-won rubbed around his chin and then pointed to the sofa across from him with his chin.

“Let’s sit down for now. It seems like we have a lot to talk about.”

Even while speaking, Ki-won checked the time once for some unknown reason. Yeon-woo, who naturally had no way of knowing the reason, timidly approached and took a seat across from him with an anxious expression.

It was unfamiliar. Whenever he sat on the sofa, Ki-won would always come and sit next to him. Sitting face to face like this was only at the dining table, so the feeling of the sofa felt foreign today.

Yeon-woo busily examined Ki-won while sitting across from him. He seemed to have looked over the entire area that could be visually confirmed to see if there were any injured parts other than his head. Ki-won didn’t avoid or show discomfort at the gaze of the person meticulously examining him and quietly observed Yeon-woo.

‘Other than the gash on his forehead, is he okay…?’

He wanted to take a closer look at the wound on his forehead, but it was difficult to check as a large gauze pad was placed above his eyebrows. However, what was certain was that there were bruises around the wound. When he had faced Ki-won at the entrance, he was too flustered to see the parts he hadn’t been able to see, but they were now catching his eye one by one.

With that extent, it must have really hurt. Although it was shaded due to the bangs covering his forehead, the visible bruises made Yeon-woo frown.

“I’ll ask again. Are you my spouse?”

What answer should he give? After pondering for a moment, Yeon-woo hesitantly opened his mouth.

“Yes, to be precise, contractually…”

“How old are you? You look too young.”

What, Yeon-woo blinked his wide-open eyes several times. He was trying to answer the question of whether he was definitely his spouse. It may have been a misunderstanding, but Ki-won threw another question before even listening to his answer. It was as if he avoided it because he didn’t like the answer to the question.