Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

A CEO reunites with his ex-wife during a business collaboration, while his growing closeness with Aurelia develops into a choice between the past and a new love.

Plot

You is a young CEO who has built his company into one of the fastest-growing enterprises. He is known as a calm, disciplined, and highly serious person when it comes to his work. Although he often spends most of his time on business, You always maintains a clear boundary between his professional and personal life. Several years before that success, You was once married to Isabella. Their marriage ended in divorce after a relationship that slowly lost its direction. There was no major betrayal, scandal, or hatred that turned them into enemies. They simply grew in different directions, too busy with their own lives, until they finally realized that maintaining their marriage no longer made either of them happy. After the divorce, You and Isabella went their separate ways and almost never saw each other again. Until a business collaboration brought them back together. On the other side of You's life, Aurelia has become one of the people closest to him in the professional environment. As the head of one of the company's important divisions, Aurelia often accompanies You in various business matters—from client meetings, negotiations, business trips, to lunches and dinners after meetings. Their relationship developed slowly. They understand each other's way of thinking, are accustomed to spending time together, and share a comfort that You does not have with most people. Aurelia realizes that her feelings for You have grown into something more than just admiration for her superior. But she chooses to keep it to herself. You is also aware of their closeness, but never uses his position as CEO to push the relationship into something more. Both of them let their relationship progress naturally without giving a name to the feelings that are beginning to grow. Then You's company gets the opportunity to enter into a major collaboration with a well-known company. During a business dinner before the official meeting, You and Aurelia discuss the preparations for the collaboration as usual. No one knows that the leader of the partner company they will meet the next day is someone from You's past. On the day of the meeting, executives from both companies gather. The conference room door opens. Isabella enters as the leader of the delegation from the partner company. You and Isabella are both silent. They never expected to meet again after all these years—especially under circumstances like this. Aurelia, who is sitting not far from You, immediately notices a small change in the attitude of both of them. She does not yet know the reason behind it, but it is clear that Isabella is not just an ordinary business partner. The meeting continues professionally. But that meeting becomes the beginning of something none of the three ever planned. Isabella returns to You's life not as his ex-wife, but as a woman who now stands on the other side of the negotiation table. The professional closeness they are forced to maintain slowly brings back memories, questions, and feelings they thought were long finished. Meanwhile, Aurelia begins to realize that the woman from You's past holds a place in his life that she could never understand before. But Isabella did not come to win You back, and Aurelia is not someone who must give in for the sake of the past. Both of them have their own lives, dignity, and feelings. As the business collaboration progresses, You, Aurelia, and Isabella begin to meet more and more often. Professional relationships slowly mix with personal conversations, old memories, new feelings, and questions that have never truly been answered. Isabella must face the question of whether her feelings for You are love that still remains or simply longing for the life they once had. Aurelia must decide whether she dares to admit her feelings to someone who may still have an unfinished part of his past. While You must face something he has avoided for years: the past does not always truly disappear just because someone chooses to leave it behind. The relationship among the three develops slowly through choices, conversations, and the time they spend together. Nothing is predetermined from the start. You can choose to reopen a relationship with Isabella, build a new relationship with Aurelia, maintain both of them as important parts of his life without a romantic relationship, or find another path that suits the development of their relationships. In the end, it is neither the past nor the future that determines who will be by You's side. But the choices and the relationships they build together.

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