Could I listen to such personal and intimate stories of his? Yeon Woo struggled for a moment.
However, the curiosity that was deeply suppressed began to desire the facts that started to emerge like solving a puzzle, to the very end.
“But wait a minute. So, what were you and your younger sibling doing in that position at that time?”
So Yeon Woo asked the core question she was most curious about in one shot.
He couldn’t answer right away. He looked at Yeon Woo with his slowly blinking eyes, then turned his gaze away as he ran his fingers through his hair.
It seemed like the beginning of a truly difficult story.
“Do you know what happens when a person can’t sleep?”
“Well, you get tired, sleepy. Your concentration drops. You feel droopy and you want to rest.”
Even though the question seemed irrelevant, Yeon Woo sincerely answered. Her round, blinking eyes were entirely focused on him.
“It’s not one day, but a month, a year, and when several years accumulate, you can’t control your body. You may collapse in situations you don’t want, or lose shortterm memory. I’ve been living like that since I was 10 years old.”
“Ah…..”
It was an unexpected story. Yeon Woo, who let out a light sigh, quietly chewed her lower lip.
“My younger sibling is a doctor. They come to check on me from time to time to see if I’m alive. They even prescribe IV fluids.”
“So were you sick that day? How about now? Are you okay?”
“That day, and even now, I’m fine. I was getting an IV and fell asleep, but I couldn’t wake up even when my sibling tried to wake me. As for the shirt, I probably untied it as much as I could because it was tight.”
During all this, why does his thick lower lip, which he was nibbling on, come into her view? She couldn’t take her eyes off even the serious look of Yeon Woo who was listening to the unpleasant story seriously.
Jun Hwi’s lips moved without a sound.
The realm of emotions that came regardless of will was no longer unfamiliar.
Ten years old. A too young age to accept someone’s death.
At that age, Jun Hwi lost two close people. The child had to accept their deaths in his own way.
However, he couldn’t shake off the vivid images of his father and brother slowly dying from a robber’s gun right in front of his eyes. The horrific scene stuck to his brain like an afterimage that a tenyearold couldn’t erase.
It was when the whole family was staying in LA for a trip, following their father’s business trip to America.
Local gangsters who had been watching Jun Hwi’s family from the day before pointed a gun at the rich man getting out of the car.
Bang! Bang!
The sound louder than thunder was heard, and his father and brother fell to the ground one after the other. The robbers searched the father’s body, took the wallet and watch, and ran away leisurely.
“Brother! Dad! Are you okay? Brother!”
“Jun Hwi….”
Jun Hwi. My name. That was my father’s last words.
After that, I only remember the hazy situations in fragments.
The sirens of the police who responded to the call. The hurried footsteps of adults rushing to the scene. My mother’s screams and howls.
The vivid red blood spreading across the gray floor. The blood that soaked Jun Hwi’s shoes as the lives of my brother and father slowly faded away.
The life of the child was completely changed after that day.
Jun Hwi, who thought he was born with a silver spoon and had a smooth and bright life, lost his ability to laugh and express emotions.
Years later, with his mother’s remarriage, the child’s unconscious mind was more desperate to suppress himself in order not to be abandoned.
Above all, he could not sleep.
“Dad. Brother….”
In the dark night, when he quietly closed his eyes and lay down, the vivid red bloodstains of his father and brother that had stuck to his shoes that day fell from the ceiling and seeped into his whole body.
“I’m scared….”
Instead of sleep, phantoms tortured Jun Hwi.
To forget the lingering images of that day that constantly surfaced, he immersed himself in whatever was given.
For the child, that was studying. He learned to survive, filled his head with new knowledge to forget, and tormented his body and mind to fall asleep, until he lost all his friends and even himself.
Choosing the profession of a prosecutor was for the same reason. Constantly inputting countless data from law books and precedents, judging according to the fixed guidelines of law, and deriving results were the best he could do.
At some point, cracks began to appear on his surface, which had been as hard as ice.
Blood, the damned vivid red blood, eroded Jun Hwi with childhood trauma.
His body hardened and the symptoms of tinnitus became more and more severe. It was a fatal flaw for a prosecutor who had to deal with serious crimes frequently.
That’s why he moved to Roan Yul. To put it more bluntly, to survive.
Fortunately, he didn’t have to deal with serious cases here, so his condition naturally improved. However, when stress built up, he was occasionally attacked by a piercing tinnitus.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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