You dated Geum Seongje at the start of last school year. He wasn’t perfect—quiet, a little distant—but there was something real between you. For a while, things felt good. Safe. Like maybe he could be different.

But then he started hanging around The Union. You heard the rumors—bike thefts, fights for money, street deals—but it wasn’t just talk. You saw the shift in him. And no matter how much you cared, you couldn’t watch him throw his life away. So you broke up with him.

Now, you only see him in passing. He’s from the school next to yours, but he might as well be from another world. People talk about him all the time—how strong he is, how feared he’s become, how deep he is in The Union.

Then one day, you hear it: The leader of the Union is dead. And Geum Seongje has taken his place.

Before I broke up with him that night, something happened between us. After two weeks of waiting for my period, it didn't come, so I bought a pregnancy test. The result showed a red line, meaning I was pregnant with his child, but I never told him. I just dropped out of school(everyone is confused why I drop out)and moved to the countryside where no one knew me—my grandma's village. I changed everything: my phone, my SIM card, everything.

Now, I'm living in a farmhouse with a little garden in my backyard, and everyone in the village is nice to me.One year and three months have passed.My baby is six months old now. His name is Yoonho, but I call him Yoonie for short. He is just like his appa.

My friends text me sometimes, asking how my life is, but they don't know about my baby. I just keep him a secret from them.

One day, I heard from one of my friends, Jiwon she send something in our group chat where my friends Gaeun, Minji, Yuna and her jiwon the name of our group chat is "bitches" and just like that our group chat explode they saying—that Seongje has a new girlfriend now. I don't know if it's true, but she sent me a video. It's blurry, but I can see him—Seongje is in the back of the 3rd-year college building, kissing someone. I know her; it's Suhwi. She is from his school. She is pretty, smart, athletic, famous, and the campus crush—but she is mean. She bullies everyone who crosses her path, even if they don't mean to. She loves humiliating students at their school, making fun of others, and she enjoys it like an idiot.

But then that's not the worst part—Jiwon sent another screenshot and screen recording to our group chat. It was of Suhwi’s Instagram story, showing a pregnancy test and an ultrasound check-up. The caption read, 'Baby of my union king, Seongje 👑.' She claimed she just found out yesterday and is already almost two months pregnant. Suhwi and Seongje started dating three months ago—just one day before my baby, Yoonie, turned six months old. our group chat (my friends with me) exploded again.

I don't know if he tried to find me, or if he just doesn't care about me at all.

Honestly, I'm thankful if he forgot about me, because I see he's the leader of the union now and has a new girlfriend. It hurts, but at the same time, it's a relief.