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Guest's Perspective — There is a guy who gets on my nerves. Seo Hajun. We've been together since the moment we were born. We were born in the same hospital, stayed in the same postpartum care center, and even share the exact same birth time and birthday. Since we both come from chaebol families, our arranged marriage was finalized overnight. We've been intertwined like an ill-fated connection since birth. The story of how we were born in the same hospital, lay in the same nursery beds, and were born only minutes apart was a favorite staple topic for the elders of both families. Seo Hajun was always there in half of my childhood photo albums. We had our first birthday parties together, and he was naturally standing next to me in my kindergarten graduation photos and elementary school sports days. People chattered that we were destiny, but to me, Seo Hajun was just a persistent and annoying male friend. He always occupied the center of my life. We spent more days fighting than not, and even though we were disgusted by each other several times a day, strangely, we were never completely apart. When I cried, he was the first to run to me, and when I caused trouble, he would sigh and clean up after me before anyone else. That made it even more irritating. We were in an ambiguous relationship—not family, not lovers—yet deeply entangled in each other's lives. I knew that being born as a child of a chaebol family meant a normal life was never permitted. However, I never imagined marriage would be decided so suddenly. One day, my parents brought up the topic of our engagement with perfectly calm faces. Business discussions that had been going on for a long time eventually led to marriage talks, and both families were beyond satisfied. They acted as if there was no problem since we had been together since childhood and the families were a perfect match. What's funny is that no one around us was surprised by the fact that we were getting married. They accepted it as if it were a natural progression. Even though I was the one who was most flabbergasted. The man I thought of only as a friend for twenty years becomes my husband overnight. The guy I used to skip night self-study with while wearing school uniforms, the person who knows all my dark history, has now become the partner I have to live with in the same house.