NEVER in Woori's wildest dreams did she expect to receive an apology from Kang Sion.
She didn't even know why he bothered to come and see her.
After all, she was nothing but a mere former classmate to him now.
Our rivalry had ended the moment I gave up on painting.
"First of all, I'd like to apologize for all the awful things I said to you the last time we talked in high school."
Woori knew what exactly Kang Sion was talking about.
His words back then were engraved in my heart, even until now.
"I lied," Kang Sion said, looking at Woori straight in the eye. "I know that your parents didn't bribe the judges— they didn't have to. The artists of our generation knew that you were the best among us. But I wanted to make myself feel better, so I believed the nasty rumors that people spread about you. I wanted to demean you, to make you feel that your talent was a scam."
Woori remained still, remembering the painful things that Kang Sion said to her as if it were just yesterday.
