Upon receiving Seowon’s call, Seoyoon, sitting in a franchise cafe near her home, clutched a cup containing warm latte.
“I won’t have much time. I plan to go to the sauna with my mom.”
Seowon’s thick eyebrows twitched.
Seeing Seoyoon, enjoying a pleasant time with her parents as Seojian, made him vaguely realize that Kanghyun had decided to break up.
So this is why Taeganghyun can’t pull himself together.
Seowon sighed softly and looked directly at Seoyoon.
“Please meet President just once more.”
This might cross a line, lack courtesy, or be presumptuous, but one had to try to save a person.
“I don’t think Director has come all the way here to say that. My talk with my brother is over. He said he would send me off.”
“Director’s approach was wrong. It’s not normal, yes. But you know better than anyone that he can’t live properly without Seoyoon.”
“…I’ll leave first.”
Seoyoon stood up from her chair.
Amidst the already complicated emotions, she didn’t want to hear Seowon’s additional words.
“When I heard that Seoyoon was dead!”
“…”
“I tried to follow and die.”
“What are you talking about now…”
“Literal. I tried to die with her, but I failed, and I’ve been saying that for five years since then. If I mourn for only five years and go, Seoyoon will forgive me.”
Seoyoon slumped back into her seat, unable to resist, her eyes tightly closed.
“During the time when I thought Seoyoon was dead, you really struggled a lot. You went to the arboretum every day, clutching only Seoyoon’s photo. You waited only for Seoyoon…”
Seoyoon, biting her lower lip, trembled her clenched fist on her thigh.
“Do you know that this year is the fifth year? I was afraid I wouldn’t survive this winter. But fortunately, Seoyoon was alive.”
“Why five years…”
Seoyoon covered her widely opened mouth with her hand.
“More than five years is too hard.”
“Okay, then just remember and mourn for five years.”
As Seowon talked about the meaning of five years, memories rushed back.
The days when he commuted to Hannam-dong apartment. His figure, eating cold rice and having a fit of nausea when he saw someone with the same face as Han Seoyoon.
His words that said at the end of organizing the annoying things that he thought there would be Han Seoyoon.
Seoyoon shook the fist tremblingly above her thigh.
“Do you know how much I was scared that you would find out when I thought Seoyoon was dead? So I prepared for a while to let you know about her death. But Seoyoon is alive, so I didn’t have to do it.”
Seowon stood up from behind and looked at Seoyoon with earnest eyes.
“Seoyoon, I’m sorry to ask you like this. But…”
Leaning towards the table, Seowon stared at Seoyoon with desperate eyes.
“Can you please give me a reason to live by meeting me just once more?”
Seoyoon stood up again, not looking back this time.
“Seoyoon, if you do this, President will really die.”
Seowon’s pleading voice echoed from behind as he leaned forward all the way to the table.
Contemplating whether to go to Hannam-dong where Kanghyun is or not, Seoyoon randomly hailed a taxi and headed to the arboretum.
Kanghyun wanted to meet the tree made by Kanghyun’s grave for Han Seoyoon and Seojian buried under that tree.
Getting out of the taxi and stepping into the carefully managed burial ground, Seoyoon, walking steadily, looked down at the nameplate still placed there.
“I tied it. In life or death.”
Yes, I asked to be scattered in the sea.
In his obsessive attachment that wouldn’t end even in death, an empty laugh somehow escaped.
Seoyoon sat hesitantly in front of the large tree and carefully examined the photos placed around the tree.
A photo of herself wearing a yellow kindergarten uniform, riding on Kanghyun’s rocking horse.
From elementary school to middle school, high school, and university.
Photos taken with him, who attended graduation ceremonies without missing a single one, guarding my side.
She knew that, for Taeganghyun, she was a unique existence, even if it wasn’t necessarily love, growing up receiving his affection in the shelter he created.
And Taeganghyun was such an existence for her.
As she quietly looked at the photos, tears welled up in her warm eyes.
The fear of what would happen if her brother really died rushed in an instant.
She would resent and hate him even if he were alive.
“Yoona.”
As if gesturing to come back home, a tender voice calling Han Seoyoon’s name echoed in her ears.
The time that had long been mortgaged to Kanghyun seemed to be finally trying to play its role.
Eventually, she didn’t know if she had forced herself to live as Seojian buried under this tree.
I should stop dreaming here.
I have to return the parents to the twins buried under this tree.
As her determination solidified, the tears falling on the dry grass became thicker.
“Oh, you’re here? Jian, let’s quickly go to the sauna… Did you cry?”
Seoyoon, who returned home with a pale face, looked at her mom, whom she would soon part with, and smiled faintly.
“I have something to say.”
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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