“You okay?” Mark asked as he gave me some water. 

Mark’s new manager drove us home and Jang Mi had been asleep since the start of the car ride. 

I nodded, “Everything is just…shocking. I feel like my life is one big birthday surprise gone wrong.” 

He laughed, “Why is that?” 

“Well for starters, your strict company pretty much forced you to pretend you hated me. You lost your memory in a car accident, I got pregnant with your child, raised her without you, and then now my own best friend is in love with me,” I replied, explaining the situation. 

“I know. If there’s anything I regret, it’s what I said to you after I signed up for ‘We Got Married’. If I could turn back time, I would have left the company.” 

“But, you love your job.” 

“But not as much as I love you and our daughter.” 

“If only life actually turned out to be that way,” I sighed, burying my face in his chest as he hugged me. 

“You know…I think one part of this “birthday surprise” really went right,” he laughed, trying to make me smile. 

“Hm?” 

“That I remembered you. And all it took was for me to see you again.” 

“I…,” I began hesitating if I should say it since it’s been so long. 

“I love you, baby,” he smiled. 

Baby. I missed that. 

“I love you so much.” 

// One Week Later // 

Mark had been staying with us at night, telling only his manager about the two of us. Jaehyun hasn’t been talking to us and this was probably the longest I’ve gone without talking to him since high school. 

It broke my heart to know that my friendship with Jaehyun wasn’t the same anymore. I knew I wanted both him and Mark to be in Jang Mi’s life, but with how Jaehyun feels, it was almost impossible. 

“I love you, my beautiful daughter,” Mark smiled, carrying Jang Mi around the house. 

“I love you, appa!!” she yelled, giving him a kiss o