'Of course, this didn't mean he had fallen in love with Erica. It was simply out of a sense of... responsibility?'
'After all, he and Erica had met first. They'd even had some intimate moments and set a one-month time limit.'
'If he got too close to another woman during this time, with too much unnecessary physical contact, it would clearly hurt Erica.'
'As a man, he definitely couldn't do that.'
'Another point was that Erica had actively confessed to him, so he was very clear about her feelings.'
'But Jin Meiyan hadn't. She had just acted cute with him and called him "oppa" a few dozen times.'
'For a Da Xia person like him, who had never experienced this kind of treatment, it was certainly a shock. But for Koreans, it might just be a perfectly normal part of daily communication.'
'Of course, the fact that she called him "oppa" meant her impression of him was at least moderately positive.'
