Misaligned

It had always been that way.
LIm Sujin and Ryu Kyungkwon.
They were never meant for each other.

On the day of her engagement, Sujin, the esteemed daughter of Cheongrim Group, lost her fiancé in a car accident and was left with a limp.

Years later, she reunites with Kyungkwon, the boy she secretly loved back in high school, only to face him as her arranged marriage partner.
But unlike the past, he has grown cold, and at his side already stands his long-time lover, Hye-young.

“I won’t attach any meaning to this marriage. To me, it’s nothing more and nothing less than a business deal.”

“No matter what happens, I don’t want a divorce. I just don’t want to cause my parents any more grief.”

A man with two faces, kind to Sujin only in front of her parents.
A cold husband who turns his back on her no matter how much effort she makes.
After three empty years of marriage, Sujin no longer has any pieces of her heart left to break.

Wounded time and again by Kyungkwon, Sujin decides to put an end to their meaningless marriage. But on the day she finally declares divorce, she hears the words she never dared to dream of.

“Let’s divorce.”

“I think I’ve fallen in love with you, Im Sujin.”

“…What did you just say?”

Startled, Sujin widens her hollow eyes at his sudden confession,
but her heart had already been torn to shreds long ago.

“I’ve spent every day hating you, and yet loving you at the same time. You’ll never understand how hellish that is.”

Kyungkwon, whose words make no sense to her, even brings out their premarital contract, willing to use a child if that’s what it takes to keep Sujin by his side…

They had never fit together, not even once.
LIm Sujin and Ryu Kyungkwon.
The two of them, painting their story of malocclusion.

※This story is set in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Please keep this in mind while reading.