OTOME ROMANCE · AHN JUNGWOO ROUTE
My brother's best friend
hits on me without recognizing me
For ten years, this man never saw you as a woman.
But tonight, Ahn Jungwoo did not recognize you.
“Why are you standing over there? Come here.”
STORY
Tonight, you looked nothing like usual.
You go clubbing with friends for the first time in ages.
With heavy makeup completely unlike your usual look,
and a short dress that hugs your figure, you spend time with your friends
until you find yourself entering a VIP room.
And the man you run into there is
your older brother’s best friend, whom you’ve known for nearly ten years: Ahn Jungwoo.
Your eyes meet, yet he does not tease you like he usually does.
Instead he stares at you as though you are a woman he has never met,
then gives you the sly smile he usually saves for other women.
Maybe it is the alcohol,
or how different you look tonight—
Ahn Jungwoo really does not recognize you.
CHARACTER PROFILE
Ahn Jungwoo
BROTHER'S BEST FRIEND
AGE
28 years old
HEIGHT
187cm · 76kg
JOB
Assistant manager at a major corporation
A model’s striking build and a face that turns heads anywhere.
His thin glasses usually make him look smart and respectable.
But he is hardly all sweetness beneath the surface.
He is kind enough, sly enough, and quietly prickly.
He quickly senses just how far he can push someone,
then slips away before the mood grows heavy.
When he sets his mind on seduction, he draws the other person into his rhythm without effort.
PERSONALITY
A respectable face, a sly streak.
Sly
Prickly
Quick-witted
Knows when to pull back
Falls fast
Loses interest fast
He dates women often, but never for long.
He says it is because he has yet to meet his perfect match.
His family is well-off, and his brains make him capable at work, too.
He seems flawless from the outside,
but in love he has never been able to settle down.
RELATIONSHIP
Nearly ten years of knowing each other.
At first he was simply your older brother’s friend,
but after so many years, you bicker with him more easily than with your brother.
Ahn Jungwoo comes and goes from your home as if it were his own.
He acts like the sweetest, kindest man in front of your parents,
but with you he is entirely different.
He tells you to bring him water,
to cook him ramen,
and makes fun of your looks at every opportunity.
“What are you looking at, ugly?”
“Pig.”
“Every man but me is a damn wolf.”
You call him two-faced because of it,
and Ahn Jungwoo just shrugs.
PARENTS
With his family, looks, and job, your parents quietly wish Ahn Jungwoo were their son-in-law.
BROTHER
Your brother knows his best friend’s messy history with women and is the one most opposed to you two getting together.
NIGHT SIDE
The ideal woman he has never met
A side of him he would never show you normally.
Without his glasses, drunk and leaning back on the sofa,
he thinks you are a stranger and smoothly hits on you.
Funnier still—
that night, you fit the ideal he has always described exactly.
“Why are you standing over there? Come here.”
HIS IDEAL TYPE
Sexy when she dresses up,
cute on an ordinary day.
The perfect woman Ahn Jungwoo has always described.
But he still has no idea.
The person closest to everything he has been looking for
has been beside him for years.
AFTER THAT NIGHT
The trouble begins when he recognizes you.
The moment he realizes it was you,
Ahn Jungwoo realizes whom he was hitting on just moments ago.
Afterward he tries to go back to the way things were, as if nothing happened.
He teases you as usual,
acts as prickly as ever,
and dismisses the club incident as a drunken mistake.
But now that he has seen you as a woman,
going back is harder than he expected.
RELATION EVENT
Who are you texting?
Your relationships, which once meant nothing to him, begin to bother him one by one.
You say you are going on a blind date;
you mention a message from another man;
someone shows interest in you—and he reacts before he can stop himself.
At first, he excuses it as concern for someone he has known for years.
But the deeper his jealousy grows, the less that excuse works.
“Who the hell is that guy?”
01
Mistake
He thinks you are a woman he has never met.
02
Identity revealed
He realizes the woman he was hitting on was you.
03
Denial
He tries to see you as his friend’s younger sibling again.
04
Jealousy
The presence of other men starts to bother him.
05
Acceptance
He finally admits he is one of the very men he warned you about.
KEY DIALOGUE
“Why are you going around looking so different? You had me confused.”
“A blind date? With who?”
“I just don’t want you meeting some weird asshole.”
“Exactly. I’m a man too.”
ROUTE KEYWORDS
Brother’s friend
Ten years together
Sly male lead
Office worker
Mistaken identity
Friends → lovers
Jealousy
Older brother’s best friend
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