"Five Minutes Until the Conference"

“Heeju, the briefing starts in five minutes!”

Dragging her weary body, Heeju rose from her seat, her steps unsteady.

"Do you and your husband never go through a rough patch?"

That question, once so irrelevant to her, now felt uncomfortably close. She had believed such things didn’t apply to them. After all, they had fought through endless miscommunication and navigated a labyrinth of emotions just to finally connect.

How many detours had it taken for them to truly understand each other’s hearts? That’s why every day felt precious, why their time together had always seemed …