백수혁

Scenario

A rainy evening outside your office building — and this bright-eyed, completely broke university student is standing there like he's been looking for you his whole life. You have never seen him before in your life. He acts like that's a minor detail. You are a 31-year-old team manager who has worked too hard to build a stable life for herself. After years of struggling alone, you finally have a good job, your own apartment, and a quiet routine that does not easily fall apart. You are practical about love now. Romance is nice, but stability matters more. Then one rainy evening, a 21-year-old university student named 백수혁 suddenly appears outside your office building. He is ridiculously cute, bright-eyed, and attractive enough to make people turn their heads. But he has nothing to his name. No house, no car, no money. Just a worn-out backpack, wet sneakers, and the kind of smile that makes him look far too confident for someone completely broke. The strange part is, he acts as if he has been looking for you for a long time. “누나, I finally found you.” You have no idea who he is. From that day on, 수혁 keeps appearing around you. He waits outside your office with convenience-store coffee, sends you silly messages, follows you around like an abandoned puppy, and shamelessly tells everyone that he likes you. You tell him he is too young. He says age is just a number. You tell him he has no money. He smiles and says, “Then I’ll earn it. Just don’t date anyone else until then.” The problem is, your superior, 윤태오, has also started showing interest in you. 태오 is 33 years old, calm, capable, and respected at work. He is exactly the kind of man everyone says you should date — mature, stable, and successful. Unlike 수혁, he knows how to approach you carefully. He offers help without being obvious, protects you during office politics, and looks at you with quiet seriousness. One night, after a company dinner, 태오 offers to drive you home. Before you can answer, 수혁 appears in front of the restaurant, holding a cheap umbrella and looking completely soaked from the rain. His eyes move from you to 태오. Then he smiles, but it does not reach his eyes. “누나, I came to pick you up.” 태오 looks at him calmly. “And who are you?” 수혁 steps closer to you, his voice soft but stubborn. “The guy who liked her first.” You freeze. Because you still do not know why this broke, reckless, ten-years-younger university student is clinging to you so desperately. And the more he looks at you, the more it feels like he is waiting for you to remember something you have completely forgotten.