“…But the funny thing is, I couldn’t give up. I couldn’t let you go. I really couldn’t. Since I couldn’t let you go, the only thing I could do was obvious. Waiting for you. Just waiting for you every day.”

Jun gently stroked my back. Just hearing his words told me that he understood how difficult it would be for me.

“This day. I did well. That’s why we met like this, right?”

“Yeah.”

“I did well waiting for you in this house. I always waited for you in this house whenever the season we first met was coming back. You, whose arrival or non-arrival could not be known.”

“Me.”
“I just… I just wanted to. Because I couldn’t let that season pass by….”

“…….”

“And one day, you came. To find me.”

Instead of answering, I nodded my head while leaning against Jun’s chest.

“All the way around here. At the place where we first met.”

“The tears won’t stop….”

I said with a hint of petulance in my sorrowful heart. Jun’s soft laughter tickled my ears.

“We’ve come back to the starting point of our love, so we should only think about loving each other beautifully. It’s too precious to recall the pain in our past nine years of love. Am I the only one who finds it regretful? Aren’t you?”

“No, I do too. I’m really sorry and sad….”

“Don’t say that again. I told you not to.”

Jun buried his head in my neck and, as if to say it’s okay now, tightened his arms around me.

“It feels good like this. The time I spent in pain while waiting for you seems to have vanished from my memory.”

Jun whispered into my ear.

“Haru, I love you.”

I remained quietly leaning against Jun’s chest, then gently lifted my head, approaching Jun’s ear.

“Me too.”

“Say it precisely. Me too, and then.”

Even though my eyes still showed traces of tears, a bright smile appeared on my lips.

“I love you too, Kim Jun. Very much.”

“I know. I know that too. You’re talking for quite a while.”

“Yeah, Kim Jun….”

“Okay, got it.”

Jun’s eyes, which were filled with sadness just a while ago, now seemed to convey that this time with me was truly happy.

I looked at those eyes and nodded. Jun’s eyes crinkled beautifully. I thought I wanted to look at that sight for the rest of my life.

In this house, where every moment of our first love was captured. Always.

“Um, author, by any chance, are the landscapes still attached to that Japanese house?”

“The landscapes? Um…”

“Yes. I’m in the middle of checking the props by comparing them with the photos of the interior you sent before. When we reviewed the script last time, the landscape seemed to be quite an important prop, but we still haven’t received photos of the balcony area.”

These days, as the movie preparation was in full swing, answering calls from the art team had become one of my main tasks.

Although it sounded like a sincere question from the meticulous art director, it was also a reminder for me to work properly, turning me into a constantly shrinking Jjuggle.

“Oh, what should I do? I’m sorry; I guess I didn’t check that part thoroughly. Maybe the same landscape as back then was attached, but…”

“Ah… You’re not sure?”

“Well… I can’t just pass it off saying it seemed like there was something similar. Anyway, I’ll contact Director Kim right away. Should I ask him to take a picture of the building’s exterior and also a close-up of the balcony?”
“Yes, if the size is too small or the sound doesn’t resonate properly because it’s been a long time, it would be better to prepare similar props in advance so that the shooting won’t be interrupted. Since time is a bit tight, I’ll ask for your cooperation.”

It was a consequence of my negligence, but the returning words were quite gentle. The art director approached me with a request in a rather affectionate tone.

It would have been better if she had asked more directly. The slight remorse that had been gradually surfacing started to gain volume. Holding the phone as if she were standing right in front of me, I bowed my head.

After hanging up the phone, a sigh I had been holding back and a bit of fatigue overwhelmed me.

Three days before officially starting the movie shoot at Jun’s house in Japan. Actually, I was a bit drained due to similar phone calls and email exchanges, causing a little setback.

Despite thorough preparations, these minor mistakes began to stand out more as the shooting day approached.

I did some light stretching. Suppressing the urge to rest my body for a moment in the lazy fatigue, I pressed the screen of my phone.

Being tired made me move more urgently. It was the time to urgently request a call from Jun, using work as an excuse. My vitamin, Jun.

The ringtone continued for a long time. Jun’s voice calling me didn’t come out easily. As I waited, the lengthening ringtone made me slightly chubby, puffing air into my cheeks. However, just when I was about to press the end call button, thinking there might be something else,

[Uh, Haru.]

Ah, I got it. Jun’s voice came through the phone.

“Yeah, it’s me, Haru.”

[Yeah. So, Haru.]

Jun’s light laughter made me feel a sense of fatigue dissipating.

[But now it’s the time you should be at the broadcasting station. Did you forget something again?]

I felt embarrassed.

“Yeah, I did.”

Jun laughed as if he knew it would be like this, asking casually as usual.

“Hey, you know that landscape that was on your window. Is it still there?”

[Landscape? What landscape?]

“The one on your window… the landscape… Is it Hoorin?”

“Hoorin? What’s Hoorin?”

[Is what I’m thinking right? What you mentioned, that thing. The landscape.]

“Oh… Is that true?”

[Well?]

“No?”

[Not sure?]

Ha……. With Jun being no help at all, I left him as he was and quietly began to search for the Japanese dictionary by tapping the vending machine with both hands.

When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem

This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Synopsis:

“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”

Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.

Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.

While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the  Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…

Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.

 

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