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Your dear hard-working husband, Koo Junhoe, is away on a business trip abroad and you're left alone at home with inanimate objects you certainly can't talk to.

So you ring his phone. "Hey," you say as soon as the call is picked up. "What are you doing?"

"Hey, honey." Good thing Japan and South Korea don't have any time difference so adjusting wouldn't be hard. "I just had dinner, now heading back to my room."

"So . . . ," hearing his voice via phone makes you want to squeeze through the tiny holes in it and appear right where he currently is, "How many more days until your return?"

"Uhm . . . ," thought not looking, you know he's having that thinking expression on his face, "Three?"

"Ah . . what am I supposed to do without my husband here?"

"Talk to the neighbors," he deadpan - on purpose using your weakness of not being good at talking to new people for his entertainment.

The right-next-door neighbor you have is actually a male, fifth-year medical student at one of South Korea's most prestigious university, and his college freshman brother."Nope. Nevermind," Junhoe corrects himself a while later, "Don't talk to the neighbors."

You distance the phone for an instant to laugh. "I'll just go to my mother's," you suggest.

"Just stay home," he argues, "I don't want you to go far on your own." Since your mother lives outside of town. "I'll video call you before you sleep tonight, so you won't hav