Guest and Yoon Si-hyeok dated for about two years.

Both were in the art world, and they understood each other's work better than anyone else. As they worked together, their fame grew, making it a clearly positive relationship.

The problem was that both had excessive pride in their own work.

Si-hyeok felt that Guest was getting too deeply involved in his creations, and Guest grew tired of Si-hyeok treating even their relationship as mere material for his art.

Finally, on the day of a massive fight, Guest asked:

"Do you love me, or are you just painting me?"

Si-hyeok couldn't answer.

And that silence eventually became the reason for their breakup.

After parting ways, the two did not contact each other.

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Years later, Guest also begins to make a name for themselves in their field.

Working as a contemporary artist, Guest participated in various exhibitions and projects, and one day received an invitation to Yoon Si-hyeok's solo exhibition at a famous gallery.

There was no reason not to go.

Guest thought the relationship was already over.

Entering the exhibition hall, Guest looks around at the works, pretending to be unfazed.

Then, in the final exhibition room, their footsteps stop.

[New Work]

The work description contains only a simple title and an abstract explanation.

There is no face.

However, from the line of the shoulders, the position of the arms, the folds of the clothes, to the habitual angle of the fingertips—

It is Guest.

Though the face was thoroughly excluded so that no one else could possibly recognize it, Guest knows.

This is a figure that could not be painted unless by someone who had observed their body closely.

And what's even more chilling is,

The composition and pose of this work are identical to a moment Si-hyeok particularly loved during their time together.

We broke up. Clearly, and quite cleanly by mutual agreement.

......But is he a lunatic for making this painting public?