She Left Her Husband Only for Her Best Friend

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]A girl lifted her shirt in front of the whole class just to prove the viral photo was not hers. She even removed her engagement ring and left her boyfriend behind to protect the male friend she had lived with for years. When Hungu was 20 years old, he met a girl named Jay for the first time. She was nothing like the other students. Jay was fearless, loud, and full of energy. One night at a bar, Jay saw Hyan Su passionately kissing someone. The moment she noticed it, she burst out laughing. The person Hyong Su kissed was actually a male professor from their school. That was when Jay realized Hungu liked men.

[00:00:33]Because of fear and shame, Hungu had hidden his sexuality from everyone for a long time. The next day, rumors spread around campus. Some students said they saw the professor entering a hotel with a young man whose face looked similar to Hongus. Everyone stared at him suspiciously, making him nervous. Right then, Jay walked up to him and handed him a lighter. She joked about how funny he looked while sleeping the previous night. Because of her sudden interruption, the classmates thought they misunderstood the situation. Hungu looked at the lighter quietly. He became curious about this strange girl who had just helped him without hesitation. Jay was already famous at school. She partied at clubs almost every night and changed boyfriends often. People constantly talked badly about her, but she never cared. One day, a photo showing a girl's chest appeared on the school forum. Many male students claimed the person in the picture was Jay. Only Hungu defended her and called the boys disgusting. Nobody expected what happened next. In the middle of class, Jay lifted her shirt to prove the photo was not hers. She used the boldest possible way to clear her name. Little by little, these two lonely outsiders became close. Soon, they turned into best friends. One night, Jay told Hungu to stop hiding who he truly was. She said she never thought he was strange or different. Jay had once lived in France.

[00:01:52]Hungu asked her if people there cared about homosexuality. Jay answered honestly. She said, "Foolish people exist everywhere, but there were fewer of them in France." Unlike Hungu, Jay never lived according to other people's opinions. She loved freely, bought beautiful clothes for herself, and always dressed the way she liked. She was afraid of wasting her life, so rumors never bothered her. But Hungu was different. He constantly feared that others would discover his secret. That was why he always tried to hide himself.

[00:02:22]During a school event, Hungu met a boy named Co. The moment they saw each other, they immediately felt attracted.

[00:02:28]Very quickly, they opened their hearts to one another. Co was confident and honest about his feelings. He often showed affection through touch and small physical gestures. Hungu loved him, too, but deep inside he felt trapped by fear.

[00:02:42]Co wanted a serious and lasting relationship, but Hungu could not give him that. He was too afraid to reveal their relationship to the world. The only person Hungu could fully relax around was Jay. At that time, Jay's boyfriend looked like the perfect student on the outside, but in reality, he acted like a spoiled child who depended completely on his mother. That same night, Jay ended their relationship. Later, while collecting laundry outside, Jay discovered a creepy man secretly watching her. Thankfully, Hungu was nearby and helped catch the stalker before taking him to the police station. After that incident, Hunga decided to move in with Jay so she would not stay alone. They signed a co-living agreement and officially became roommates. Their days together felt comfortable and natural. They watched movies side by side, stayed up late studying, and shared almost everything.

[00:03:31]There were no walls between them without even noticing. They spent an entire year living together like siblings. As time passed, they started fighting more often because of problems with their relationships. One day, Jay noticed her new boyfriend constantly liking photos of other girls online. She became suspicious that he was cheating. The boyfriend quickly explained that the girl was only his sister. Then he sweet talked Jay and told her she was much prettier. Jay believed him once again.

[00:03:58]But one night at a club event, Jay saw the same girl in person. Very quickly, she realized the truth. The girl was not his sister at all. She was actually his real girlfriend. When Jay confronted him angrily, he did not apologize. Instead, he protected the other girl and insulted Jay harshly. He said no man would ever truly respect her because of her revealing clothes and constant breakups.

[00:04:21]He called her nothing more than a dirty rag. Jay felt completely shattered after hearing those words. She called Hungu and asked him to meet her at a bar so she would not feel alone. But Hungu was struggling with his own problems that night. The previous evening, Co invited him to join what he called a guitar club. Hungu trusted him and agreed to go, but after arriving, he discovered it was actually an LGBTQ rights group.

[00:04:45]Hungu became nervous immediately. He feared that joining the group would expose his secret identity. As he prepared to leave, troublemakers suddenly attacked the group's booth and destroyed it. Hungu stayed behind to help Co. during the chaos. The attackers beat him badly. Because of his injuries, Hungu could not go to the bar.

[00:05:03]Meanwhile, Jay knew nothing about what had happened. She waited for him alone.

[00:05:08]the entire night. One night, Jay accidentally drank something a stranger had secretly mixed into her drink. While she was intoxicated, she made a terrible mistake. The next morning, she woke up feeling angry and ashamed. As soon as she returned home, she noticed the trash bags were still sitting by the door.

[00:05:25]Hungu was supposed to throw them away, but he forgot. Jay suddenly exploded in anger. She scolded Hungu for breaking their agreement about household chores.

[00:05:34]But deep down, her real pain came from the promise he broke the previous night.

[00:05:38]Hungu became irritated, too. He complained that Jay never cleaned up properly and always left fallen hair everywhere. Their argument quickly grew worse. In frustration, Hungu slammed the door and walked out. But after leaving, he heard Jay crying alone inside the room. His expression changed immediately. Worried, he turned around and rushed back to ask what happened. At the same time, Jay noticed the injuries on his face. Her anger disappeared, and she became concerned for him, too.

[00:06:06]Later, they quietly shared a meal together. The fight slowly faded away.

[00:06:11]That night, they finally began opening up about the deepest parts of themselves. Hungu admitted that his mother already knew he liked men. She never yelled at him or cursed him.

[00:06:21]Instead, she started going to church more often. Every night, she secretly prayed inside his room, hoping to drive away what she believed was evil. Hungu confessed something painful. He said he did not want to die. He simply did not want to keep living. Jay then shared her own painful memory. Back in middle school, her class once had an art assignment to draw a milk carton.

[00:06:42]Everyone else drew perfect cartons, but Jay drew a crushed one instead. Her classmates laughed at her for being different. The bullying became so cruel that she eventually dropped out of school. Since then, she understood how easily people attack anyone who stands out. After revealing these hidden wounds, the bond between them became even stronger. The next morning, Hungu noticed a tattoo on his wrist. Jay had one, too. They slowly realized what happened the previous night. After getting drunk together, they had impulsively visited a tattoo shop. In excitement, they tattooed each other's names onto their bodies and promised to remain best friends forever. Not long after that, Jay discovered she was pregnant. Hungu stayed by her side and accompanied her to the hospital. Instead of comforting her, the doctor harshly criticized Jay. He blamed her pregnancy on her careless lifestyle and claimed she did not respect herself. Unable to bear the humiliation, Jay ran out into a nearby alley and burst into tears. She could not understand why people judged others so cruy and so easily. Hungu quietly hugged her without saying a word. After that day, Jay slowly began changing herself. She cleaned her messy desk, focused seriously on studying, and searched for a stable job. It felt like she was trying hard to become the person society expected her to be. Later, Hungu enlisted in the military. Without him around, Jay felt bored and lonely at school. Soon after, she left for Australia to study English. Even while living far apart, they continued sending postcards to each other for years. Their friendship only became deeper with time.

[00:08:15]Eventually, Jay graduated and returned to Korea. She found work at a marketing company. After completing his military service, Hungu also returned to the tiny apartment they once shared. By then, Jay had changed a lot. She was no longer the carefree girl from before. Most of her time was consumed by work. Instead of talking excitedly about romance, she mostly complained about her strict boss.

[00:08:38]Meanwhile, Hungu began studying for a degree while also searching for employment. Around that period, Jay started dating a lawyer. But Hungu's relationship with Co became more difficult and complicated. One day, Co told Hungu he planned to come out openly to his family and friends. Hearing this made Hungu upset and afraid. He broke up with Co and accused him of ignoring his feelings. But in truth, Hungu was still running away from accepting himself. At the same time, Jay slowly started losing her true personality as well. Whenever she went shopping, she saw many clothes she genuinely liked. But she stopped buying them because they did not fit her office image and her boyfriend disliked those styles too. Even so, Jay encouraged Hungu not to rush into finding just any job. She told him to continue chasing what he truly loved.

[00:09:26]Hungu dreamed of becoming a writer, but because of financial pressure, he gave up on that dream. Instead, he studied a subject he hated simply to earn money.

[00:09:34]Later, he spent his days sending resumeums everywhere. One evening while riding the subway home, Jay noticed an exhausted woman wearing clothes very similar to hers. The woman could barely keep her eyes open after work. As Jay looked at the reflection in the train window, she suddenly realized she had become exactly the same. Her passion and energy had slowly disappeared. That same night, the heater in their apartment stopped working. To stay warm, they ended up sleeping in the same bed together. The next morning, Jay climbed playfully onto Hunga's back like she always did. But at that exact moment, her boyfriend walked into the room and saw them together. Filled with rage, he punched Hungu immediately. To protect Hungu, Jay suddenly revealed the secret he had hidden for years. She told her boyfriend that Hungu was gay. Her boyfriend looked at Hungu with disgust.

[00:10:22]He called him a freak and demanded that Jay throw him out of the apartment. Jay only gave a cold and bitter smile. Then she removed her engagement ring and broke up with her boyfriend on the spot.

[00:10:32]But Hungu did not feel grateful.

[00:10:35]Instead, he felt deeply hurt and betrayed. He became furious that Jay had exposed his secret so casually. Jay, however, could not understand why he kept hiding himself from the world. She argued that constantly living in fear was meaningless. Their argument turned into a huge fight. In the end, Hungu packed his suitcase and left the apartment. Their friendship seemed completely broken. After Hungu moved out, Jay spent her evenings alone. She ate dinner silently and watched television without smiling anymore.

[00:11:04]Meanwhile, Hungu often stared quietly at the lighter Jay once gave him, lost in memories and regret. One night, Hungu finally confessed a secret to his mother that she had already known for years.

[00:11:15]The following evening, he discovered an old movie ticket his mother had carefully kept hidden away. It was a ticket for one of the most famous LGBTQ themed films released in recent years.

[00:11:25]That moment slowly changed something inside him. For the first time, Hunga began accepting who he truly was. Later, he visited the LGBTQ rights group he once feared so much. There, he met his former boyfriend, Co again. But things had already changed. Co now had someone new by his side. Trying to hide his sadness, Hungu handed Co a pair of shoes. Those shoes had once brought them together in the past. Now they became the symbol of their final goodbye. Even after their fight, Jay continued supporting Hungu quietly from a distance. One day at work, a co-orker made a hateful comment about gay people.

[00:12:02]Jay immediately became angry and argued back without hesitation. That night, Jay returned home and noticed the lights were on inside the apartment. For a moment, she happily thought Hungu had finally come back. But when she entered, she saw her ex-boyfriend waiting there instead. The man accused Jay of secretly cheating with Hungu. Consumed by anger, he suddenly became violent. He punched and kicked her brutally to release his rage. Jay quickly grabbed her phone and escaped from the apartment. While walking alone on the street, she called Hungu. She could not even speak properly. But the moment Hungu answered, he immediately understood something terrible had happened. Just before the call, he had already noticed several missed calls from her ex-boyfriend.

[00:12:44]Hungu calmly told Jay to stay strong and report everything to the police. Then he started running non-stop toward the bar owned by her ex-boyfriend. Soon, the violent man was beaten badly right in front of the police officers. Even then, the man continued yelling angrily at Hungu. He demanded Hungu prove that he was really gay. This time, Hungu no longer hid the truth. To protect Jay, he finally revealed his secret without fear. He openly said that he was gay and that Jay was his closest friend. Later that night, the two sat together on a quiet street. Hungu told Jay that co already had a new boyfriend now. He admitted that he regretted not being brave enough to fight for love in the past. Jay quietly wrapped her arms around him without saying anything.

[00:13:27]After everything they went through, Jay slowly regained her confidence again.

[00:13:31]One day at work, a senior employee started bullying a new co-orker. This time, Jay refused to stay silent. She even smoked a cigarette that women in the company were forbidden to smoke.

[00:13:41]While doing it, she joked sarcastically about the unfair treatment women face there. Nearby, a man quietly watched her. He became deeply attracted to Jay's bold and confident personality. Before long, the two of them fell in love.

[00:13:55]Watching Jay smile brightly again. Hungu felt relieved. It was like seeing the carefree and shining girl from the past return once more. Not much later, Jay's wedding day finally arrived. Hungu sincerely congratulated her and danced happily at the celebration. Deep inside, he felt thankful for every year they spent together. Because of Jay, he learned how important it was to value himself and accept who he truly was.

[00:14:19]After the wedding ended, Hunger returned home alone. There, he quietly began writing his very first novel. Meanwhile, during her honeymoon trip, Jay suddenly called him. Laughing happily, she teased him by suggesting a new boyfriend for him to date. As Hungu listened to her cheerful and fearless voice on the phone, he could not stop himself from smiling.