What was the reason for the hostility? Haneul thought for a moment before shaking that thought off. Anything could be a splendid reason to hate someone.

For example, talking to them when they are in a bad condition because someone happened to be smiling when they stepped on poop, because there was someone next to them just when they needed someone to vent their frustration on.

People resented each other for the most trivial reasons.

It was a pain to look into it, and even if it was known, it wouldn’t change anything.

As such, the best thing to do when someone hated you was to just turn away from them.

There were some people who would chase with a knife in their hand, but Dawoon was empty-handed at least.

“Am I in the early stages of human disgust?”

Haneul let out a vain chuckle before putting on her clothes. A book she read before had this phrase: The more you know, the more you hate, the less you know, the more you love.

When she thought about it now, there were no other words that expressed life better than that.

However, even in these words that sounded like absolute truth, there were always exceptions. Knowing someone too well would only leave love for that person, even turning the hate into love.

Her husband was like that. They were in a relationship where they...