“Marriage Blue”

Episode 1 | Prince on a White Horse

박지민

Your boyfriend is cheating on you right now.

“Unlike you, I have a real woman who even set the venue and date.”

Thud. It felt like my heart sank to the tips of my toes. I could feel my heart rate accelerating throughout my body.

김여주

…lie

I pretended like nothing happened and looked straight into the man's eyes. It was my first time seeing this man and I believed he was lying to me.

박지민

I guess you're the type that trusts men easily.

It seemed like she was laughing, or she was joking, or there was something serious in her words. I asked back, “Do you think I trust men?”

박지민

Yes, that too, hugely.

김여주

I don't trust men, I trust Woohyun oppa.

There was one reason I trusted him. Because the time that Kwon Woo-hyun and I spent together was not short.

If I doubted my brother because of that one unverified word, it seemed like the trust I had built up over three years of dating would turn into a piece of paper overnight.

박지민

Well, that trust will collapse today.

박지민

See with your own eyes and hear with your own ears. Whether what I say is a lie or not.

The man took his hands out of his pockets, walked towards me step by step, finally stood in front of me, and held out his hand to me.

박지민

Can I show you myself?

김여주

You're going to show me directly?

박지민

How to build trust with a guy you just met.

Before I could even grab his hand, the man grabbed my wrist lightly, pulled me towards him, and headed off somewhere. I didn't even know where that place was.

In the middle of one of the many hallways of a wedding dress shop, the man took my wrist and led me out into the hallway, then stopped walking quickly at a curve.

김여주

Why are you here now?

박지민

fizzle.

The man who covered my mouth with his hand. He said he would prove it, but what kind of unexpected action is this? I glared at him with my eyes raised.

The man pointed down the hallway with his index finger, telling me to look away from him. Soon, a ‘familiar voice’ that shouldn’t be heard was heard.

권우현

Yeah, I'm sorry, Yoon Jung Ah oppa... I suddenly had to go on a business trip, so I'm sorry I couldn't choose a dress.

Oppa?, Dress?, Business trip? Words that would make anyone suspicious flow out of Woohyun’s mouth. I pushed away the man’s hand that was covering my mouth to listen carefully, and pressed myself against the wall.

권우현

If this hadn't happened so suddenly, we would have chosen the dress together. I'm so sorry.

A woman's voice could be heard on the other end of the phone, comforting him, saying, "It's work, so what? Of course it's okay."

권우현

Please send me a picture. I'll choose one that suits 'our' Yoon-jung.

김여주

……

Kwon Woo-hyun, who had been using the affectionate voice that he had firmly believed was only for me, was using the word ‘we’, which he had never used for me, to another woman.

김여주

...This hurts quite a bit...

Selfish bastard. I tried so hard to trust you until the end... and now you're abandoning me.

박지민

Now it's proven, right?

The man took his hand away from my wrist. I smiled in vain and asked, ‘Why did you tell me this?’ The man said this.

박지민

Because a wedding is supposed to be happy. That's why. It seemed like the two of you wouldn't be able to get married anyway.

I unconsciously touched my forehead. How could it be this miserable? If only I had seen the cheating with my own eyes, if only I had come out as the opposing team. It wouldn't be this miserable.

I felt cheated. If you had no intention of getting married in the first place, why did you accept my proposal?

I put down my hand that was resting on my forehead and looked up at the man. It wasn't the man's fault, but the man who kept telling me this fact

I felt so resentful.

김여주

...I'll go back.

박지민

Aren't you going to cause a ruckus?

My steps toward the fitting room were stopped by the man's question. A mess... I wondered what was the point. I still loved that guy,

My heart is so empty, it's miserable.

김여주

...I don't do that.

박지민

......

The woman struggled back into the fitting room. If she had seen that much, I would have thought she would have made a scene, hit me, and swore at me.

This ended too blandly.

박지민

I said this with the intention of breaking the store window. This isn't fun.

The woman, who looked like she was about to collapse and burst into tears, retraced her steps, and just then she heard the sound of a man walking toward her, perhaps because he had just finished talking on the phone.

Bam, ㅡ

권우현

Oh, I'm sorry. I should have looked ahead and walked carefully...

When my shoulders bumped into that guy, he seemed pretty nice for a cheater. Or maybe he was just pretending to be nice.

This guy was wearing a tuxedo with his hair neatly put up, as if he had tried it on with that woman earlier. It feels dirty. I designed this.

박지민

I'm curious, are you getting married?

권우현

yes?.

With an expression that seemed to say, “Why are you asking such an obvious question?” When asked if he was going to get married, Woohyun opened his eyes wide and asked.

권우현

...Of course I would, since I came all the way to a wedding dress shop.

I found myself laughing without realizing it. There was no need for you to go to the trouble of lying to me.

The man must have felt like I was laughing at him, because this time he frowned slightly and spoke in a lower voice, unlike before.

권우현

...What do you want to do now?

박지민

I'm not saying anything. I'm just really curious. Who you'll choose.

With a smile on her face, she patted the man on the right shoulder and said, ‘If possible, don’t get your clothes tailored here. There’s no clothes for a philanderer like you.’

권우현

...!, what are you saying now…

As I was walking with the man behind me, I raised my hand and waved it so he could see it. I wonder what choice the woman will make.

As I was walking back to my studio, a female employee who worked at the shop started running towards me from the end of the hallway.

Again, again, again, ㅡ

박지민

What's going on?

“Designer, that priest from earlier… he just passed away.”

The only employee who knows that the woman's future husband is having an affair. He is wary of even mentioning it.

박지민

Oh, really?

When I answered nonchalantly, the female employee who had been staring blankly asked cautiously, “Why on earth did you tell me about the affair?” I answered the question calmly.

“Just like that. Someone taught me.”

“A woman says that the person she loves looks like a prince charming. At least, I don’t think he looks like that to her.”