All My Firsts Are You (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 66

You said your life’s top priority had become me, but the reality that I was the one dragging down your long-held dream felt overwhelming. Your boundless love gave me certainty that I belonged by your side, yet I remembered clearly how brightly you smiled—like you owned the whole world—every time you made a film.

Your words about wanting to spend your whole life making movies, and the blissful expression on your face when you said them.

More than our newly restarted, still-fragile love, I began to feel increasingly convinced that protecting the dream you’d cherished since childhood was the right thing to do.

I couldn’t tell anymore if it was right for me to stay beside you as the lover who makes you say, “Should I just not go?”—narrowing your whole world down to just me.

Maybe you were overestimating first love. Perhaps, because of those long years you believed you’d been abandoned, you were clinging desperately to a love that wasn’t actually so extraordinary.

And maybe, just maybe, my love was becoming poison to you…

That was why. That was why, at the very moment most crucial in Jun’s life, he considered giving up his entire career. Everything became suddenly clear because of those three syllables—my name.

The answer to the blunt question I’d just asked myself began rising sharply into focus. My eyes stung beneath the lids.

“I’m really sorry I have to say this, but having watched you from the sidelines since you first started making indie films, I simply couldn’t stay silent any longer.”

“…….”

“Director, you’ve only just had one successful project. ‘Promising newcomer,’ ‘talk-of-the-town film,’ ‘Best Screenplay award at a Japanese film festival’—all those labels will soon fade away. That’s exactly why your next project is more important than anything else. You’ve even got ongoing discussions with renowned directors from the UK and the US. I truly believe this is the pivotal moment to seriously build your career.”

“…….”

“So, there’s no reason for you to settle down in Korea just because Lee Ha Ru is here. Not for Kim Jun, the film director.”

It made perfect sense. She was right. Jun’s dream. The place Jun was meant to reach. I was the one grabbing his ankle as he spiraled upward along that high, winding staircase.

That was it. To Kim Jun, the film director, I was meaningless.

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