I leaned against the wall, lost in lonely thoughts.
‘Come back, Seol Yu Bin…’
It had been three weeks since Seol Yu Bin left. During that time, we had midterm exams and switched to summer uniforms.
And nothing happened.
After leaving the letter, Seol Yu Bin was nowhere to be seen.
I even went to the infirmary and Seol Yu Bin’s classroom again, but no one had seen her.
‘Where did she go…?’
But thinking about it, it was rather fortunate.
Now that Seol Yu Bin had definitely left a letter saying she would leave.
If Seol Yu Bin appeared at school now, it wouldn’t be Seol Yu Bin but Seol Yu Hwa in disguise as a bullied student!
‘Damn it. What do I do now?’
I tried so hard to avoid the original story, but in the end, Seol Yu Bin left just like in the original.
Even faster than the original!
‘I dug my own grave…’
I banged my head against the wall.
These days, I was living in constant fear, not knowing when each day would end.
‘What will happen to me when Seol Yu Hwa comes?’
Originally, I would have run around with the mindset of ‘I’ll twist the original story!’, but not anymore.
Because I realized that no matter what I do, what’s meant to happen will happen.
‘At this rate, will I really end up hospitalized for 8 weeks?’
Feeling anxious, I called out the system for no reason.
[o_o?]These days, the system strangely seemed powerless too.
[o_u]When I asked why, the answer was ‘because Seol Yu Bin is gone’.
The details are as follows.
This system gains energy from the characters in the novel world.
Seol Yu Bin, the villain who played a major role in the story, was quite a large source of energy.
So now that Seol Yu Bin has exited, the system has no choice but to be drained due to lack of energy.
‘…Well, it might be better to be quiet.’
I’m already dying of anxiety, so if the system nags next to me, I feel like I’ll explode.
[-_-zzZ]It roughly meant power saving mode.
I put the system away again.
“Sigh.”
I let out a deep sigh.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing.”
Yoo Hee Na tilted her head.
“You’ve been strange lately. Is something really going on?”
I must have been too obvious for her to worry.
“It’s really nothing. More importantly, did you do what I told you?”
At that, Yoo Hee Na flinched.
“…You didn’t do it, did you?”
“No! I did it!”
Yoo Hee Na belatedly took out a workbook from her bag.
I took the workbook and opened it.
And what I faced was a clean paper without a single pencil mark.
My hand holding the workbook trembled.
“You didn’t do it!”
Yoo Hee Na avoided my eyes and feigned ignorance.
‘This girl!’
I trembled with anger seeing that.
To put it simply, these days I was tutoring Yoo Hee Na.
Why was I doing that? Of course, because Yoo Hee Na wanted me to.
It started on the day the midterm exam results came out.
Yoo Hee Na, who somehow got her hands on my report card even though I never showed it to her, said.
Yoo Hee Na snatched my report card and looked it over in admiration.
It was natural for my grades to be good. I studied. Unlike those delinquents living somewhere.
‘At this age, I can’t believe I’m opening high school textbooks again.’
Fortunately, my brain became as sharp as my body became younger.
Anyway, my grades reflected the amount I studied. That’s all.
But Yoo Hee Na seemed to find that amazing.
The reason Yoo Hee Na showed such interest was simple.
Yoo Hee Na was bad at studying.
It wasn’t that she was dumb or anything, but she had spent most of her time in the hospital until middle school, so she just fell behind in her studies.
That’s right. Yoo Hee Na had the role of ‘the male lead’s sickly childhood friend’.
I heard she used to spend more time hospitalized than living at school in the old days… I don’t know the details either.
But then wouldn’t it be difficult to graduate due to lack of attendance?
Well, it wouldn’t matter since this is a novel anyway.
Anyway, because of that, it was hard for Yoo Hee Na to keep up with the school curriculum.
It was natural for her grades to be bad.
She even got last place in the entire school before.
After seeing my report card, Yoo Hee Na followed me around and begged.
I refused at first because it was troublesome, but it was even more troublesome to have Yoo Hee Na keep following me, so I ended up accepting.
So starting last week, I’ve been tutoring Yoo Hee Na in the second infirmary. By the way, the ban on entering has been lifted.
“You said you would solve all of this and bring it back!”
…Of course, the path was never smooth.
When I raised my voice, Yoo Hee Na pouted and protested.
“But… it’s hard!”
I’m going crazy, really.
By the way, what I told Yoo Hee Na to solve was a middle school first-year math workbook.
‘I should have just said I couldn’t do it till the end.’
I never thought I’d have to start all over again from here.
I regretted agreeing to tutor Yoo Hee Na.
A sigh naturally came out.
‘Okay, there’s no point in getting angry now that it’s already done.’
Let’s calmly respond for now.
I suppressed my agitation and said calmly,
“What exactly was difficult and how?”
At my words, Yoo Hee Na rolled her eyes as if thinking for a moment.
“Just everything from the beginning?”
What do I do with this…
I was genuinely worried about Yoo Hee Na’s grades.
Just then, Sung Ji Chan entered the infirmary.
“What, you guys haven’t left yet?”
“Ji Chan!”
Yoo Hee Na immediately got up from her seat and ran to Sung Ji Chan.
“What brings you here?”
Life returned to Yoo Hee Na’s face, which had been grayish until just now.
Sung Ji Chan flinched as if surprised by the more-than-expected welcome.
“Me? Well… nothing really.”
“You don’t have anything else to do, right? Then can you wait for me until I’m done? Let’s go home together!”
“Okay.”
Hee Na… now is not the time for you to see Sung Ji Chan. Think about your future report card…
I looked at Yoo Hee Na, who was talking to Sung Ji Chan, with pitiful eyes.
By the way.
‘This guy is here again.’
Sung Ji Chan often stayed in the infirmary after school.
It wasn’t a coincidence that only Sung Ji Chan was in the infirmary during the Hae Sung High School raid last time.
‘Why does he keep staying?’
I was so curious that I couldn’t stand it and asked Sung Ji Chan before.
The answer was this:
It wasn’t just a simple act of rebellion, but it seemed like he also had some complicated family circumstances… I didn’t ask further because I didn’t really want to know.
He probably has a family background like a typical novel male lead.
“Ji Chan, but did you hear about that? Our homeroom teacher said that the test we took this time…”
Meanwhile, Yoo Hee Na, who seemed to have completely forgotten about my existence, chattered with a bright face.
‘…There’s no sign of her coming back this way at all.’
Okay. Now that Sung Ji Chan is here anyway, studying is over for today.
I gave up cleanly and started packing my bag.
“Ah, but what happened to that kid?”
Huh?
I lifted my head at Sung Ji Chan’s words that suddenly reached my ears. Yoo Hee Na tilted her head and asked back,
“Who are you talking about?”
“You know, that kid. The one who went to the amusement park with us last time.”
Is he talking about Seol Yu Bin?
“Haven’t seen her around lately.”
That’s right.
‘What’s up with him?’
As the leader of the delinquents, Sung Ji Chan was an expensive man who wasn’t very interested in those around him.
‘I thought he wouldn’t even know that Seol Yu Bin was gone.’
But it seemed like he recognized her as someone close to him after seeing her a few times.
Yoo Hee Na widened her eyes as if she just realized.
“Yeah, come to think of it, I really haven’t seen her lately?”
You were the one who didn’t know…
Perhaps Yoo Hee Na is even more oblivious than Sung Ji Chan.
Then, Sung Ji Chan said to me,
“Do you know anything?”
“Huh?”
Seol Yu Bin’s letter flashed through my mind.
‘I know… a lot.’
But I couldn’t gauge how much I could say since it was such a personal story.
When I was hesitating, not knowing what to say, Sung Ji Chan spoke,
“Ah, is she not coming because she got rejected?”
What?
“The amusement park, you said you went there to set those two up, right?”
“……”
I guess everyone knew even if I didn’t say it.
Yoo Hee Na raised her voice as if shocked.
“What? She got rejected?”
Sung Ji Chan shrugged.
“She must have been rejected. The guy clearly looked uninterested.”
…He knew that much too.
Well… I also thought it was an expected outcome. That’s why I tried to at least minimize the shock.
‘In the end, I failed.’
Reliving the memories of failure brought tears to my eyes.
Come back, Seol Yu Bin… It’s not too late yet…
Yoo Hee Na spoke with a serious face.
“That’s shocking. I helped her so much, but she failed.”
“It’s not something that will work out just because you help.”
“Still! I tried hard!”
As Yoo Hee Na mumbled, Sung Ji Chan chuckled.
“I’ll have to ask her later. Whether Yoo Hee Na was helpful or not.”
I watched Sung Ji Chan’s face and suddenly became lost in thought.
Ah, could it be.
‘Is this the moment when Sung Ji Chan starts to take notice of Seol Yu Hwa?’
In the original story, one day Sung Ji Chan sees Seol Yu Hwa and starts to take an interest in her, saying ‘she’s somewhat different’.
At that time, I just thought he recognized the female lead’s uniqueness because he was the male lead, but now I had a different thought.
‘Could it be that the original Sung Ji Chan also knew the original ‘Seol Yu Bin’?’
So he noticed that ‘Seol Yu Bin’ had changed to ‘Seol Yu Hwa’ and said those words.
The original story doesn’t show what Sung Ji Chan did in his first year, but he could have easily frequented the second infirmary.
‘Hmm, if so.’
What I’m seeing now… is the scene where the male lead raises a flag with the female lead?
‘……’
Seeing Yoo Hee Na here makes me feel strange.
Somehow, I felt very sorry for Yoo Hee Na.
[This is the timeline separator]Unlike my worries, the school remained peaceful.
Several weeks passed, and there was no sign of Seol Yu Bin—or Seol Yu Hwa.
‘Could it be that… Seol Yu Hwa hasn’t come to Korea yet?’
That was a possibility.
Since the development was different from the original story, Seol Yu Hwa might have circumstances that prevent her from coming to Korea right away.
‘Yeah, would the world’s rank 0 have that much free time?’
Thinking that way somehow put my mind at ease. I opened my diary with a much lighter heart.
‘Let’s think about what to do for the first time in a while…’
Just then, Ban Ha Min ran into the classroom and said,
“Guys! Did you hear that rumor?”
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Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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