After the Breakup

◾️Character Introduction
Ex-boyfriend: Works in the department next to mine, 4 years younger than me. A man with excessive jealousy.
Mr. A: Male, my colleague, my ex-boyfriend's senior, married.
Mr. H: Male, coordinator of my department, no official title, 1 year younger than me, single.
Mr. O: Male, Mr. H's assistant, no official title, same age as me, married.
Ms. M: Female, administrative staff in the ex-boyfriend and Mr. A's department, single, lacks common sense.
Ms. Y: Female, in the same department as me, single mother, knows that I was dating my ex-boyfriend.

I told Mr. A that I wanted to talk to him about my ex-boyfriend, and we decided to go out for drinks together after work.

By the way, Mr. A didn't know we were dating,
and it seems he had always been curious about what happened to our relationship.
He knew that my ex-boyfriend had been pursuing me.

Mr. A: "Did he cause you any trouble?"
Me: "Actually, we were dating, but we've already broken up."

Mr. A: "Wait, hold on. I didn't notice at all, and you've already broken up!?"

He was incredibly surprised.
We were very thorough about not letting anyone around us find out. lol

I told Mr. A the story from when we started dating until we broke up,
and I asked him various things about the drinking party with Ms. M.

・My ex-boyfriend was praising Ms. M strangely, and Mr. A also felt like, "Is he trying to lead her on...?"
・Ms. M was also starting to get interested.

See! I told you so...!!
Not only is he leading her on, but people around him think he's hitting on her!

Mr. A seems to have played around quite a bit in his single days,
so when I asked him if he had ever had a messy breakup with a woman in the past, he said,

I always meet them properly and break up cleanly,
so I've never had any trouble.

For someone who played around, he's surprisingly decent.

Mr. A also said,
Since we'll still be involved at work,
if you say you want to meet one last time,
surely he would agree to that, right?
he told me.

Both Mr. A and I thought that my ex-boyfriend was a decent person.
Up until this point, I had trusted him.

Well, it turned out he was a psychopath beyond what Mr. A could have imagined.

Before going to pick up my belongings,
I tried asking him if we could meet after all.

He: "I have no intention of meeting you, and I don't want you to say things like that right before coming.
I'm scared you'll try to stay at my place, so don't come to pick up your things."

He probably thought I would cling to him, but
my point of view was
・I wanted him to tell me in words
・I wanted to break up with a smile at the very end
・I wouldn't know how to face him at work if we broke up over LINE
that was my opinion.

Regarding how to handle things at work in the future,
even though he wouldn't even let me talk to him at work until now,
he told me, "Why don't you just do whatever you want?"

He's really holding a grudge and being petty.

I told him I didn't say not to talk to me,
and that I just said we should try not to let people know we're dating, but he ignored me.
He's such a guy who jumps to conclusions on his own that
I'm just dumbfounded.

Also, I really wanted to go get my things,
and honestly, I didn't want someone who is now a stranger (since he said that once we break up, we're strangers with no feelings) touching my underwear, so when I told him that,

"Then can I just throw them away?" is what he had the nerve to say.

Isn't that way too psychopathic??? lol

I'm sorry, but I saw the LINE message and burst out laughing,
so I took a screenshot and sent it to A. lol

A said, "Whoa, that's scary... that's way too psychopathic."

Isn't it pretty impressive to make someone of the same gender recoil like that?
It was so funny that I thought about sending a weird reply, but
in exchange for me doing what he said,
my ex would cover the shipping costs,
since there are breakable cosmetics, I wanted them packed properly,
so I gave him instructions on which items didn't need to be sent,
and decided to have him send them via courier.

My ex probably doesn't think I burst out laughing.
He really gave me a good laugh.

As I thought, during my conversation with A,
I was certain he had feelings for M,
and since I wanted to say what I had to say at the end,
well, it was a so-called self-destruct LINE message,
but since he said he'd listen if it was on LINE, I sent him a bunch of stuff.

Well, that turned into quite an argument too.

When I pressed him about the drinking party,
he said something like, "I guess you didn't trust me."

How could I possibly trust a guy who constantly praises other women? lol

I really think he's such an arrogant guy,
now that I look back on it.

And regarding M, he also said,
"I think your jealousy toward M is arbitrary, and fundamentally different from my own jealousy, don't you think?"

He's back to his habit of using difficult words...! lol

He definitely doesn't use the word 'arbitrary' in everyday life.

No, seriously, this is so lame.
If there's a guy who intentionally uses difficult vocabulary,
you should really stop seeing him.

It doesn't make him look smart at all.
On the contrary, it makes him look stupid.

By the way, I looked up the meaning.

Arbitrary is a termthat describes behaviorbased on an individual's willoremotions. This word is used to indicate situations where subjective judgments or arbitrary interpretations are made. Arbitrary actions or decisions are generally considered to ignore laws, rules, or fairness, and tend to have low social standing. However, in the realms of art or creative endeavors, arbitrary expression can sometimes create new value. Arbitrary behavior values individual freedom and creativity, but at the same time, it also carries the potential to disrupt public order or infringe upon the rights of others.

Isn't your jealousy also arbitrary...????
Isn't that just your personal feelings too...???

I was too tired to even point it out,
so I just let it slide.
It was so funny that I couldn't help but burst out laughing. lol

While I was sending various things over LINE,
he kept tapping the LINE reaction stamps
and unilaterally cut the conversation short.

After that, we both confirmed that our belongings had arrived safely,
and then I was blocked on LINE.

When I reported this to A,
she said, "What's the point of blocking someone on LINE when you see them at work???"

Even A was completely put off by this.

By the way, I had intended to send a message on LINE to my ex saying that I had explained the situation to A,
but since I was blocked, I couldn't send it.

While I thought it might be fine not to tell him,
I felt it would be pitiful for him to go on without knowing that the situation was known (sympathy),
so I asked A to tell him that she had heard the story from me.

When A told him later,
apparently he said something like he would have preferred to tell her himself if he was going to tell her at all,
but I don't care about that.

By the way, when we were dating,
I told him it was okay to talk to A,
but it was my ex who decided not to.
It was a compromise on my part, but you were the one who decided not to do it!

Honestly, at this time, I still hadn't gotten over my feelings,
and the desire to get back together hadn't disappeared either.

It's strange why I was so in love with him,
but there was still a part of me that believed in him somewhere.
That he was actually a good person.

Well, I would be betrayed in various ways after this.

To be continued.