“I think we need to stop seeing each other.” She was looking at the tearful eyes of Sungmin and felt like her own heart was breaking. But not a single tear fell from her eyes. She held her hands together like she was holding on to the last branch and below her was a long and deadly fall.

“Is that what you really want?” he was hoping that she would say no, she could feel it from his words. He never forced her to do anything that she didn't want to do and it was the same this time around.

“Yes.” she would hate that word, that moment for the rest of her life. She knew that but still she had to do it.

“If this is about the dating ban, that's not a problem anymore.” she wanted to touch his face, wipe those tears from his face but she couldn't. It would only give him hope.

“It's not about that.” she didn't want the reason to come from her. He needed to find out on his own.

“It's about eomma, isn't it?” right on the money. She shook her head nonetheless. She didn't want him to hate his family. At the end of the day when all the shows, concerts and dramas were over, he would have them to lean on if something goes wrong in his life. She was willing to live in Korea, away from her family just to be with him. She had learned how to cook Korean food, speak in Korean, write in Hangeul and every thing else a new bride would have to know. She could teach English as her job so she would have her own money. She was not going to be a gold digger as his mother had called her out to be. But when his mother said that Sungmin would be disowned for being with a non-Korean, that was when her will buckled. Family was important for her and she didn't want to deprive Sungmin of that.

“I have to go back to the Philippines. My parents are telling me that I need to go home as soon as possible. My father is sick.” It was true but he's always had hypertension. She was sure he would get a heart attack wh