The Art of Seduction: I Win Over the Abstinent Tycoon with Face Reading

[No misunderstandings, sweet from start to finish, both devoted only to each other, mutual pining]

An eighth-floor hallway, two doors, three meters between them.

He waits for her at the entrance to their apartment complex and says, “I was passing by.”

She takes in a cat, but the landlord won't allow pets. He says, “Keep it at my place.”

He is too timid to speak up first, hiding every “I like you” behind “just happened to” and “while I was at it.”

Later, she asks him, “Do you have a girlfriend?” He says, “No.” She asks, “Then I think I might like you a little. Do you like me?”

He says, “I do.”

Then he adds, “I should have been the one to say it first.

You're braver than I am.”

A story that begins with living “across the hall.” There's no need to rush. Take it slow. After all, they live right opposite each other, and they have all the time in the world.