He was good-looking, but it wasn’t because he was good-looking. Anyway, there was no point in saying it, as they probably wouldn’t believe it anyway.
Instead of answering, I turned my head towards the window. The breeze that seeped in through the slightly open window felt refreshing.
“Oh, but this mountain road really has no signs of straightening out. Hyunsoo, is it going to be like this all the way ahead?”
“I’ve never seen it not be like this for an hour. Were all the roads in this world curved from the beginning?”
There was a hint of irritation in his tone.
“Why are these vending machines filled with flower tea with Kim Kanghoon smiling so much? People like us who are so sensitive must have put them here to relax.”
I looked at Kim Kanghoon’s photo attached to the label wrapped around the flower tea PET bottle with Hyunsoo’s words. It didn’t seem to make much sense.
Even at that moment, I couldn’t help but think of Jun’s face above Kim Kanghoon’s.
“Eun noona, I think we probably wrote the title of our project wrong from the beginning. Instead of ‘Where is your first love?’ it should have been ‘Your first love is probably doing well. (feat. Without searching)’.”
Why is the conversation going this way again?
I wanted to shout that it was what I wanted to say at that moment, but instead, I just pressed my lips tightly and glanced at Hyunsoo.
“No, in the first place, planning the project with ‘first love’ as a keyword was the problem.”
Although the words that rose in my throat saying that it was you who put my story secretly after the project was approved, I swallowed them.
“No, in the first place, it was a problem that Haru noona made her first love in such a remote countryside village. I’ve never seen anyone dating so unenthusiastically from the beginning of a relationship in a place where it’s hard to even drive in.”
Because of the two of them who kept teasing me with my first love, the air I had just breathed out turned into a sigh. My tightly closed lips opened for a moment.
“It was probably wrong from the beginning that we chose this winding road. It’s not that my first love was wrong. Then, you should have said from the beginning that it was a problem for me to become a broadcast writer.”
It was a sentence filled with disappointment.
“Maybe it was wrong from there too.”
Hyunsoo, who spoke as if joking but also seemed sincere, even from behind, his smile seemed mischievous.
“Even though I’ve only been in as the youngest writer for about a year, I thought there might be some things that I’ve gotten used to, going through all sorts of things with Eun noona and Haru noona. But when I think about it again, I don’t think I’ve ever really heard Haru noona talk about her boyfriends properly.”
As my lips hesitated and mumbled about relationships that everyone else was doing without special comments, Hyunsoo didn’t give me a chance and continued with his words.
“Even when we were discussing this project proposal, there was nothing said about it, so I guess Haru’s memories of her first love aren’t that great. Well, beautiful memories of first love are rare anyway, so I thought about it alone and passed it by.”
At that moment, my gaze shifted to the side because of Jeeongeun’s subdued voice.
“So why bring up something you’ve already thought about and moved on from again? Sometimes, things that are too beautiful, and so, when you bring them up again after you’ve already passed them by, it’s still a bit sad and painful, there’s love like that.”
“Are you saying that every time you bring it up now, you’re going in search of your regretful and sad first love?”
At Hyunsoo’s clear response as if he really didn’t know, Jeeongeun and I both remained silent without saying who would speak first.
After a few times of letting Hyunsoo’s question pass by my ear, Jeeongeun finally loosened her heavy lips.
“It’s because earlier, there was a conversation about why Haru became a broadcast writer. No, it’s not that I’m trying to say that you shouldn’t have become a broadcast writer.”
Looking at my slightly sullen lips, Jeeongeun added an explanation and then began to continue the flow of the story.
“Of course, I knew that you wanted to become a broadcast writer since you were in high school. There are many professions in the world, so I said I’d think about it slowly. At that time, you were naturally introverted and had an indecisive side, so I thought it was like that. But then, suddenly, I had a thought…”
The reaction was quick. My sensitive heart had already begun to reveal its presence with a throbbing sensation.
“You didn’t mention it since you came back from your language study in Japan. No, you didn’t really say much for a while. The atmosphere changed strangely, so I was curious about what happened, what could have changed like that, so I wondered.”
In my head, I was already recalling the conversation Jun and I had in the living room filled with the stillness of the night.
Love is wider than you think, so you can’t prepare your heart before it comes to you. I didn’t know that then, and the image of myself and Jun at the age of twenty flashed together.
Ah, I’m thirsty.
As I barely raised my eyelids, I saw the dim night air through the gap in the window.
The place I’m staying in now is a small room on the second floor. I didn’t feel like going down to the first-floor kitchen, so I tried to lie still and sleep, but my thirst didn’t go away easily.
With a feeling that seemed as if sleep was sticking to my eyelashes, I took a step. Since the surroundings were dark, and the route was unfamiliar, I was careful with each step on the low-ceilinged stairs leading down from the second floor.
Feeling the cold texture of the wood and the lowering step with my toes, I was walking down step by step.
“Ah!”
When I had descended about halfway down the wooden stairs, my foot landed on a split part on the right corner. Startled, my left foot, which I had set down, slipped down the end of the stairs, and I fell to the ground as it was.
“Ha… You scared me.”
Jun’s voice brushed past my ear.
Although I had clearly fallen from the stairs, my foot didn’t touch the ground.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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