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love interest lee seonghwa

backup love interest lee jongsuk

birthdate + age december 8, 1986 + 30

occupation real estate agent

 

humorous, easygoing, honest

softspoken, tactless, inconsiderate

 

lee seonghwa is a man of many traits, and many people would definitely say he's a humorous person. although he isn't one to say much, he becomes the life of the party with his jokes and funny remarks, and everyone seems to be excited whenever he's around. he definitely knows how to be a moodmaker and often times, yeonha will be curled up and laughing her heart out, due to a joke he said. he's also very easygoing and tends to just go with the flow a lot of the times. it takes a lot for him to be mad, since he just brushes things off easily, never really getting too worked up over small things. he's patient because of that and is pretty carefree towards life in general. seonghwa says he only lives once, so he should live it while being happy, and being relaxed is what makes him happy. also, he's a man of honesty and believes that he would rather be told the truth than to be lied to out of "kindness". he's very sincere with everyone he meets, and tells the truth at all times, even if no one really asked for it. 

despite that, he's quite softspoken and isn't a man of many words. most of the time, he is gentle with his speech and doesn't particularly talk too much, unless if it's yeonha, and it's rare for him to yell (until later on, of course). it isn't off for him to keep his mouth shut for a long period of time, and while it may be a bit awkward at first, people get used to it quickly. because of his blunt honesty, seonghwa tends to be a bit tactless at times and sometimes has issues with being sensitive towards other's feelings, which gets yeonha anonyed and upset at times, due to how easily upset she can get from his harsh words. others find it offputting that he can be so tactless, but he just can't help it; he believes that you have to be honest, no matter what excuse there may be. seonghwa also tends to be a bit inconsiderate sometimes and will focus on his needs first before anything else, although he doesn't mean to do it on purpose. he thoughtlessly does things that hurt other people, and may seem really insensitive, but he doesn't mean to; it just happens, but it doesn't mean that it excuses him from being inconsiderate to others. while there are a lot of people who love seonghwa and his qualities, there are just moments where they find him quite annoying and hurtful, but regardless, he is just someone who tries his best and doesn't actually mean to hurt others.

 

their first meeting min yeonha met lee seonghwa when she was 27 years old, due to his sister being one of her clients. she was meeting lee jaehwa to discuss various information that related to her marriage, if there was any prenuptial agreement, and more, and seonghwa happened to tag along for moral support. to be honest, yeonha was interested when she first saw him. he was definitely handsome and judging by the way he talked to her, he was both polite and intelligent, which was a huge plus in her book. despite that, she was a professional woman (which she kinda regretted at the time), and didn't bother to ask for his number or anything when he left ("stupid yeonha, you always ruin your chances!"), so she was just stuck with his name and it didn't help that he didn't come back any other time afterwards. just when she was starting to lose hope in him ever coming back, he showed up with jaehwa one day, and yeonha's heart leaped. it was finally her chance! well, that's what she thought until she realized she was too dang shy to make her move on him, but who could blame her? he was so hot! plus, the fact that she was rusty in dating also contributed to her shyness at that very moment. what if she rejected her? she would've cried out of embarrassment right then and there. yeonha, feeling hopeless once more, resumed her duties and she thought that it'd be the last she'd see of him, until he asked her for her cell phone number and she nearly shrieked. this was her one lucky moment that had been bestowed upon her by the gods themselves (not even a single god, she means all of them), and yeonha would never reject a gift from the gods. she exchanged numbers with him (while ignoring jaehwa's giggles from two feet away), and thus, that was the start of their relationship. 

as for seonghwa, he was definitely interested in yeonha when he met her, as she seemed pretty and sensible at the same time, but he was pretty scared to ask her out as well. he noted her professional demeanor and the fact that she barely looked at him, so he thought that she wasn't interested in him at all. he hesitated on asking her for her number right before jaehwa was done, but honestly, getting rejected in front of his older sister, who was getting a divorce, was just too depressing for him. plus, someone as pretty as her probably had a boyfriend already, or so he thought. as they left, seonghwa had no intentions of telling his sister about his feelings, or at least initially, but on the way home, she would not stop making jokes about how he could not stop staring at the pretty lawyer and how he should've made a move. it took her chiding him for many days before he finally relented and came back to the law firm with her, just so that he could ask out yeonha, and when he asked the blonde haired girl for her phone number, he swore he could hear his heart jumping out of his chest. when she saw her eyes widen in shock, he wasn't quite sure if it was a good or bad thing (he was leaning moreso on the latter), but when she agreed and told him his number, he couldn't help but smile in relief. 

 

their interactions after a long year of dating, seonghwa finally proposed to yeonha, who gladly accepted. she was incredibly ecstatic to finally be able to get married to her dream man, and they were head over heels for the other. of course, there were critics who said that one year isn't enough to know if a person is the right match for the other, but the couple didn't care; they felt it was meant to be, so they went on with their life happily. after a few months, the wedding was finally conducted and shortly after came a few months of bliss.... until the fights started happening. yeonha and seonghwa had never lived with each other prior to the marriage, and when they came back from their lovely honeymoon and started living as a married couple, they began to bicker a lot. it came as a shock to yeonha because they never really fought when they were dating, but now, they were fighting over little things, such as who would wash the dishes or who would clean the rooms, and it was the same time where both of them felt pressure from their jobs. yeonha had a few ongoing cases that didn't seem to stop and were incredibly messy, and for seonghwa, his employers were incredibly strict and demanding of him, so it didn't help that his wife started yelling at him to clean whenever he got home. it also didn't help that she talked to her best friend (who happened to be a guy) more than she talked to him; it angered him to know that while he was doing his own thing, she would be replying to one of his messages, and it angered him even more to realize that after all their fights, she would go to the friend right away to rant about him. when they were dating, they did not fight nearly as much or as hard, so this was incredibly new to him and he didn't know what to do. he swore that they were incompatible and after all the issues built up and after talking to his friends about it (or actually, more like complain about how his wife was just nagging on him and probably just crushing on her best friend now), he decided to do the deed and get divorce papers. naturally, this shocked yeonha, as she was a divorce lawyer herself, and she never would've thought that a situation like this would've happened. she hated the realization that he fell out of love with her, and recalled that it was only a few months ago where they enjoyed such bliss and promised to be together in sickness and in health, but at that very moment, she felt her heart crash and her soul break. despite that, she refused to sign the papers and that angered seonghwa; not because he was mad at her, but he was mad at the idea of her being stubborn and not doing something that would better their relationship. everyday, he would ask her to just sign the papers and even begged her on his knees to sign them, but she just couldn't. it was impossible for her. she still loved her husband very much, and regretted all those fights and mistakes that had accumulated between them. she didn't know what to do, but she just knew that she couldn't get divorced. he acted very cold once the divorce papers were presented, but for some reason, she wasn't sure if it was because he hated her now or for another reason, but it was hard; min yeonha wanted her husband back, but she wasn't quite sure how she would go about with it. 

 

their ending yeonha stalled the divorce proceedings for a long time and she refused to sign the papers, even though seonghwa was begging her so hard to. she believed that it wasn't what they truly needed, and she tried being a good wife to him again. she started cooking all his favorite foods and coaxing him to eat with her, which he was reluctant to accept at first, and she tried talking to him more, though he was apprehensive about it. he was adamant when he said he wanted to get a divorce and he wanted to stick by it, even though yeonha was showing some changes and a willingness to work things out, but he believed that at that point, it was too late. for her, however, it was never too late, and she just needed to prove it to him. she tried doing everything that she could think of and even asked his sister for advice, and nearly blocked her for an eternity when she texted back with "why don't you just seduce him LOL". regardless, yeonha was really trying and she wanted to improve her marriage with seonghwa. after many attempts and trials at winning back his affection, she just broke down in front of him, which was a shock because she hadn't cried in front of him in a long time. she cried about how she wanted to fix everything and how she didn't want to get a divorce, and even more surprisingly, seonghwa's heart hurt. he couldn't bear to see the woman he once loved crying like that, and immediately tried to console her, reassuring her that everything will be fine, even though he wasn't sure if it'd be. he just wanted her to be happy, and felt bad that he became the source of her pain. after that, he was at least willing to try out fixing their marriage, although he was still kind of set on the divorce, but with each and every passing day, he was slowly starting to remember what he loved so much about his wife. seonghwa wasn't sure exactly when he started falling in love and when he stopped talking about the divorce, but it was clear to him that they were rebuilding their relationship, and it was stronger than ever. they still fought, but at that point, they fought to let the other know about their problems and never let any resentment build up between the two, since that was what had caused the problem in the first place. although it isn't their first time falling in love with each other, a second chance at it isn't so bad.