mini/ep ∞  yuri

When I met Changmin, I wasn’t sure if he was for real. His iciness and calm personality towards everything looked to me as if he didn’t have a heart nor did he want one. He was a man perfectly content in his own solitude, despite how intelligent and attractive he was to the world. He would talk to me curtly and ignore me – and that almost never ever happens. I liked that. I have never met anyone like him before so I guess I also saw him as a project. Like a toy, to say a little cruelly. I wanted to see him break.

So when my father announced one night at dinner that I would be marrying the son of his biggest shareholder, Shim Incorporation, I was relieved to find out that it would be Changmin. I didn’t feel anything for him, at the time, but he was so cold that it was fascinating. Yunho-oppa was never like that. He always had a smile on his face for me. Changmin never did.

I didn’t expect to see another side of Changmin once we stepped on Korean land. I had tried for months to get him to open up to me but he always kept me far away and treated me like a pestering little sister. I didn’t mind of course, but it annoyed me just a bit as well. But to see him so shook up by our arrival in Seoul was interesting. He had begun to crack – and the Changmin I knew in Japan became a distant memory…

Then I met the girl whose name he whispered so silently one night, and the Changmin in Korea had begun to look even more appealing.

I befriended her, and was surprised to realize I liked this girl as well. Yoona was vibrant, beautiful and kind. I could definitely see why Changmin loved her but couldn’t understand how two people so in love could hurt each other. In that instance, I wanted to start a new project. I wanted to set things right.

But I didn’t expect to fall in love in the process.

Watching him look her, think of her – watching him love her silently, even after he had decided for himself to give her up, struck something inside me that I had kept well under my control before. The twinge wasn’t much at first, but gradually it had started to cut deeper and – there it was. I was in love all over again. Only, it wasn’t in my favor. Just as I expected it wouldn’t be, considering it was Shim Changmin.

“Changmin-oppa?”

I found him putting away some of his things in boxes. Books, cds, even clothes. I eyed every