Hyunsoo was shaking his hips from side to side due to the considerable pain in his back, but both of his hands were firmly gripping the steering wheel.
Come to think of it, we had to book a rental car before coming here.
The face of the Hyunsoo from a few weeks ago, who had joked and winked that he would drive even though Jeongeun and I were both unlicensed, overlapped with his current appearance.
A rush of mixed emotions welled up. Hang in there, Hyunsoo.
“Ihahru, why in the world did you have to drive all the way to this remote mountain village in Japan to meet your first love?”
“…This isn’t a remote mountain village, it’s a seaside village. And at the time, I had no idea that I would have my first love here.”
“Nuuna said you hadn’t met the first love guy since your first year of college, so you were hesitant to come here again. You can go there again late, right? It’s possible to just go and eat awkwardly. I voted for not going again.”
Jeongeun pushed her back deeper, as if it didn’t matter anyway, and closed her eyes, still showing her tired face from nausea.
“I told you it’s not like that.” I just picked out the wrong parts to focus on because I didn’t want to explain in detail.
“That’s because Haru said she met a guy who she briefly stayed with for a month when she did a homestay in Japan. The host’s son. This twisted road is a long way to get there. It’s awkward to go there again late, isn’t it? You might just end up eating and coming back. I made a vote for not going again because I think it was a good decision.”
Jeongeun, who didn’t care because it was a love that was already over, pushed her back even further and closed her eyes as if she didn’t care.
“I told you it’s not like that.”
My tone may have been a bit irritated, but I pressed my Adam’s apple as if to say it wasn’t because of you, Jun, who spoke carelessly, but because my motion sickness was getting worse little by little.
There was no way I could be fine driving on such a winding road for over 30 minutes.
Since a while ago, the dizziness had started, and my head was gradually getting heavier.
In the end, unable to endure any longer, I rested my arm between the windows and leaned my body slightly against it.
In the distance, the slowly overlapping light blue paint, applied three times, on the sea started to protrude its face.
“But seriously, why haven’t you contacted him since then? Even if it’s difficult to visit in person, you could at least make contact once.”
As if questioning the real doubt, Hyunsoo’s head from behind shook left and right.
Even though I was thinking such thoughts in my head, as the familiar seaside hot spring village gradually came into view, I didn’t have to make an effort to remember the emotions from that time were slowly surfacing.
Even the foolish mistakes from that day.
“When I returned to Korea, I left my phone from Japan in the airport restroom.”
“Why didn’t you try calling home at least? You must have communicated through the home phone in Korea.”
“I did try. And since he didn’t answer, it must have stayed as my first love.”
Actually, her parents, who worked as professors and employees at a small provincial university in Kyushu, Japan, had already bought a house in Nagasaki where they worked.
The older sister of that child, who stayed with me in the house I stayed at during my homestay, must have become busy after I returned to Korea and started working at a company.
Having pressed the number several times, repeatedly dialing and erasing, I finally summoned the courage to make a call, but Jun didn’t answer, so it wasn’t very surprising.
Considering that I didn’t contact him first even once using the email address I provided, maybe Jun thought I had given up on continuing our love after returning to Korea.
In the end, the connection between Jun and me, who were supposed to enter the Department of Film and Video at a university in the United States, was unraveled even more easily than I had expected.
“At that time, he should have answered the phone. If he had, we wouldn’t be going through this trouble now. Why does it have to remain as a vague first love?”
“I’m sorry it’s a vague first love,” Jun replied, his voice tinged with irritation.
Hyunsoo said from the side that this was called the butterfly effect, and he added one more.
As the seaside village, which had been visible in the distance, got closer, the me at the age of twenty, who would greet my first love with emotions even clearer and more sensitive than the seawater, and the me at the age of twenty, who was with Jun, began to flicker.
Exactly nine years ago today, on a clear day in June, transitioning from late spring to early summer, our shy love was growing.
Ah, when will this road ever end?
I wonder what’s making me so irritated. The winding road continues to twist and turn without ever straightening out.
It’s the same whether I sit still or look out the window. The headache felt from my temples is getting worse.
Zzz[Dash].
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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