God of cooking

Chapter 101: The mirror recipe (4)

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It was really clear what those words meant. Jo Minjoon's eyebrows shook. He could only get more perplexed because he had never thought that a situation like this could happen. He had felt that Chloe's eyes were warm and gentle to the point of being strange. However, he had never thought that there would be affection of the opposite sex in it because Chloe was gentle to everyone. He didn't want to become a dull fellow that misunderstood that.

'In the end, I was a dull fellow.'

As he tried not to misinterpret, he couldn't even know the things that were clearly seen by the eye. His heart beat. Was it simply because he was surprised, or because there was a similar feeling like Chloe in him......He couldn't even know that himself because this situation itself was really unfamiliar for him.

"It's not that I want to do something immediately."

Chloe said with a careful voice.

"Whatever answer you give me, we can't do a thing immediately because reality is like that. I'm sorry. But I can only be like this. Because if we were to separate without saying anything, I know that that would be the end. If at least I were to tell you....."

Chloe's words dimmed. An awkward silence flowed. Jo Minjoon just looked at Chloe's face. Because of exercising, her skin was solid, but it didn't mean that even her mentality was solid. Chloe was basically a soft person. It would be a lie if he didn't want to protect her.....

Jo Minjoon's lips trembled. In his mind, his mouth opened a few times, and said many things. But there was nothing he could actually say. It wouldn't have been easy for Chloe to say those words. While he didn't know, she would have pondered, and at the same time feared and expected. Thinking about that time, thinking about her heart, Jo Minjoon couldn't give her an easy reply.

"........I did go out with a girl."

It wasn't someone he fell at first sight. She was a person he met through the connection of a friend. She was a college girl that specialized in the violin, and just like most of music students, she was a girl that grew without lacking even a bit of sophistication.

"She was pretty, nice, and smart. Honestly speaking, she's just the role model men want. And it was also like that for me. She was fine, right. Although I didn't feel my chest boiling, I still thought that that was something that could only happen in dramas or novels. But that wasn't it. Different to me, she really liked me. Really sincerely."

Jo Minjoon's eyes crumpled as if he was suffering. He slowly continued to say.

"A lover is more sensitive towards the others feelings. Just like I knew that she treated me with sincerity, she should also know that I was only acting that I liked her. No, I did like her. Because she was a person you could only like. But the feelings I had back then wouldn't be that different to liking you. That's why we separated... In a really messy way."

Jo Minjoon said that naturally and clearly.

"It's because I like you that I don't want to make such mistakes with you."

In the end, what he said was a decline. Chloe forced to put a plain expression but she sniffed and gulped. It was clear that she was opening her eyes big to hold up her tears. Chloe gathered her hands as if she was praying and covered her mouth and nose, and she opened her mouth in that state. Her voice didn't have strength and trembled as if she was suffering from a cold.

"I have a lot of things I want to say.....But I think that I will crumble if I say those things. Me, and this relation."
".......Whatever you say, I won't change."
"It's not your problem. This......Is a problem of my feelings. So I will say one thing. No, I will beg you for one thing. And perhaps, I would be begging you."