Chapter 24
"You agreed..." Looking at the silent K, Han Zhenzai shook his head helplessly... "Yes, that old man is really good at finding the key points. He grabbed what you care about the most, the dead Xiandao, the music son of you four... and the sister of Xiandao..."
"I have no choice..." K said softly, filling himself with drinks again, "But God saw a big joke... The old man didn't persevere from this blow. His health was getting worse and worse. When he realized that he could no longer solve this mess..."
"I'll give you that eight-year contract?" Han Zhenzai said for K, "How could you agree? You know, this contract is to make you die by Choi Wanfu's side like a dog..."
"Because Xianmei..." K said with a wry smile: "Before I joined the army, I personally arranged the residence of her and my aunt, which was far away from Seoul, but who would have thought that Choi Wanfu, who was scared by me, had not yet moved. The silly child Xianmei, who didn't know the truth, ran back by himself... When I received the contract, Xianmei had already lived with Choi Wanfu..."
Looking at the silent Han Zhenzai, K said bitterly: "It's ironic, right? Choi Wanfu is really very nice to Xianmei. Xianmei actually got along with him like this... I can't say anything... Choi Wanfu is at least a little human, he is good to Xianmei..."
"Then the money you said before..."
"It's obvious that's not? That guy is useless in other places except for his good looks..." Speaking of Choi Wanfu, K's face gradually became colder, "I signed the contract in dishearteningly, thinking that I might never have the chance to return to my own position again. Junshang and Xianwu both hated me, even I hated myself... But, the army is really a good place, and it can make you mature quickly... Later, I told myself that even for eight years, as long as I can persist, I will definitely return to my original position, and even go a little further..."
After a moment of pause, K spoke again, "When I finished serving in the military, the first thing I did was to find Xianmei. She cried and said that others said that I killed her brother, but she knew that it was impossible... She wanted to explain, but Choi Wanfu said that this kind of thing was not something she could clarify... After knowing that Choi Wanfu treats her well, I returned to the company. Choi Wanfu was afraid of seeing me, so she simply stopped going to the company. I ran into walls everywhere since the new beginning, but Choi Wanfu was even worse than me... He lost whatever he did, and in the end he had to sell the company to fill the gap... It was from then on that, Xianmei's life gradually became less good than before... Choi Wanfu could not make any money. If I hadn't been paying for Xianmei's living expenses, Xianmei would have to work to support that bastard..."
Smiling at Han Zhenzai, K said slowly: "Seeing the failed life of that beast Choi Wanfu, I suddenly realized that the difficulties I encountered were not that scary, so I waited patiently, waiting for the end of these eight years of contracts so that I could get out of this cursed life..."
"Don't worry..." Han Zhenzai gently patted the other party's shoulder, "I'm not Choi Wanfu, I won't do business that loses money. Starting tomorrow, your new life can begin..."
I don’t know how much wine I drank that day, but K, who has always had a good alcohol tolerance, was already confused. After watching his subordinates leave Han Zhenzai and Kwang Soo, he also got into the car. After he hesitating for a while, he asked the driver to take him to the vicinity of the Hanjiang Bridge.
Walking under the bridge along the familiar stone steps, he looked at the river water near him and dazed. Just as Han Zhenzai said, everything in the past can finally come to an end, but facing a completely unknown future, can he really realize his wish?
"Aren't you cold?" Hearing the familiar voice, K stared blankly at Jian Meiyan who was walking from not far away. The other party was wearing a thin windbreaker and slowly walked in front of him...
"Drunk?" Jian Meiyan, who walked closer, looked at K, who was covered in alcohol, and couldn't help frowning, "Aren't you quite able to drink? She's still here when she's drunk, so she's not afraid..."
Before she finished speaking, Jane Mei-yeon was hugged tightly by K. The other party seemed to have used all her strength, which made her breathing rapid...
"You're crazy!" After finally breaking away from the other party's arms, Jian Meiyan first nervously confirmed whether there were pedestrians around her before looking at K angrily and said, "What's wrong with you? Is this still the steady K now?"
"Meiyan..." K called out softly and hugged the other person in his arms again. Perhaps the call was too familiar, which made Jian Meiyan forget to struggle for a while. "Ten years... I... finally persevered... I can finally sing my own song... I can finally do the same K as before!"
K was not talking loudly, and his mouth gently approached Jian Meiyan's ears. The whispering sound from the heart and the breath that touched the ends of her hair came into Jian Meiyan's heart, making her originally stiff body slowly soften. She struggled and hesitated, and finally raised her arms and gently hugged K.
"Well, I understand... Thank you for your hard work in the past ten years..." He gently patted the other person's back like comforting a child, and a smile slowly appeared on Jian Meiyan's face... "You must come back... You must... be back to the K..."
The weight leaning on his body slowly decreased, K slowly stood up straight, looking down at Jian Meiyan's somewhat panicked beautiful face. The familiar smile bloomed on his face again after more than ten years. Just like when he first met, Jian Meiyan seemed to have become that green girl again, and was gradually melted by this smile.
Just as she was immersed in the familiar feeling, K used his lips, which were slightly cool in the breeze on the summer night, to blur his already tired eyes in life...
Tears do not exist just for sadness...
The moon hangs on the top of the head, and the dream is intoxicating. On this same special day for K and Jane Mei-yeon, two hearts that were cooled by life were once again nestled together, melting the ice with the little bit of warmth, and their hearts beat again...
"Happy birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Literature..." Feeling the heartbeat of K from her back, Jane Mei-yan listened quietly to the other party's annoying nagging, but just held the big hand wrapped around her chest tightly, and she looked at the familiar river water at the time.
"I owe you so much, so I decided to start with the simplest..." K said with a gentle smile: "When I was forced to make a choice, the most guilty thing in my heart was that I didn't even have the chance to say goodbye to you... On the day I joined the army, I stood there like a wooden man, and I actually thought you were in the crowd..."
"I was in the crowd that day..." Unexpectedly, the other party actually saw her. Jian Meiyan said softly: "I have fulfilled my obligations and watched you walk into the recruit camp with your own eyes..."
"Really? I wasn't an illusion at that time?" K asked in surprise, then whispered: "If I had known this, I should have laughed..."
"Luckily you didn't laugh, otherwise I should have cried..." Jian Meiyan pretended to be angry and said, "Leave without saying a word. If you can laugh, my heart will be broken..."
"Ah... it's so good..." K took a breath with a smile, looking at the other person's coquettish look, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that it's too late, otherwise I should have gone to a few more places with you..."
"Well..." Jian Meiyan hesitated for a moment, lowered her head and said in a low voice: "Or...got to my house to have something to drink? Anyway, I'm also idle at home... It's good to have someone to chat..."
"Uh...really...can't?" He looked at Jian Meiyan through the moonlight. K didn't expect that he could still look so embarrassed when he was nearly thirty years old. He scratched his head nervously. He looked at Jian Meiyan and said in a low voice: "That...I don't have a car..."
"Drinking like this, do you think I dare to do it if I have a car?" Jian Meiyan glared at K, turned around and walked towards the road she left, and threw K alone. The latter looked at the other person's back at a loss, and was imagining that she was being thrown here...
"Don't you keep up? Are you waiting for me to drive off the bridge?" Looking back at K who was standing there stupidly, Jane Meiyan shouted angrily, but couldn't help but smile.
"Ah? Oh! Wait for me..." K finally reflected on it, and the embarrassment he had before was wiped out, and he followed the other party's footsteps with a smile...
Jian Meiyan's residence alone is not very big, but she looks more refined under her careful arrangement. She stood crampedly at the door. K watched Jian Meiyan take out her slippers and honestly put them in. Only after she walked into the living space of this single woman.
"Your home is so beautiful..." K, who had no words to say, made Jian Meiyan laugh. He also grinned embarrassedly and said embarrassedly: "If I had known that home could be so comfortable, I would have bought an apartment too..."
Listening to K's words, Jane Mi-yeon asked curiously: "Where have you lived in these years?"
"The company... it's still the old place more than ten years ago, with a duty room inside, so I live there... Anyway, there is no pursuit alone, and the house is empty and empty..." After taking the coffee handed by the other party, K chuckled and said, "There is a big difference between single men and single women..."
"I'm not embarrassed to live there for eight years..." Jian Meiyan, who took off her windbreaker, held a warm cup in her hands, curled up on the sofa like a lazy kitten. Looking at the curves highlighted by the thin velvet coat, K's eyes also became dull.
"This... I'm used to it... I've been living in a dormitory since I returned to Korea. Later, I went to the army and slept in a bed. For me, I just had a single bed to sleep... I was preparing for the day of freedom every day, and I didn't have the heart to think about these..."
K's words sounded plain, but they made Jian Meiyan feel distressed. She took a sip of coffee gently. She looked at the other person silently, and the other person also looked at her...
Chapter completed!