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"What the hell is wrong with this girl? I'm just joking, just like when I was a kid, there's no need to be so angry......

A teenager in a peaked cap sat by the window of the bus, looking at his phone with a puzzled expression.

He was hesitating to call a certain Lin Qilin.

Ever since Lin Yun'er asked that question about watching the first snow yesterday and was teased by herself, this girl has been throwing a face at him. Daddy and Yoon-jin were at home before, and he was embarrassed to speak, so he planned to call now to apologize.

But after thinking about it, he hesitated for a long time with his mobile phone, but the boy still sighed in distress and leaned back on the seat of the bus.

He couldn't open it. The apology is secondary, mainly because he knows that his sister can't be done with just a few words of sorry. For Lin Yun'er, a thousand words of apology are not worth a gentle soft word. But the problem is that it was okay when he was a child, but now that everyone is in his teens, he feels too embarrassed to let him say those very sensual words.

"Forget it...... Anyway, even if I apologize this time, my relationship with her will not be any better. ”

Thinking of the incident that caused him and his sister to suddenly change from the initial intimate state of being tired of being together all day long to being like strangers, the boy frowned fiercely, and his heart became more and more like a depression.

He simply sat up and turned his head to look at the sunny scenery outside the car window, intending to ease his mood.

"Guys, we'll be in the city of Jeonju in a little while. So take advantage of this time, I will give you a brief introduction to the history and culture of Jeonju here. As you can see now, Jeonju's suburbs are largely surrounded by steep cliffs, which is the main reason why it has been used as a strategic location throughout history......"

A female voice amplified by a megaphone came from the direction of the front of the car, and the boy glanced over unconsciously.

A young woman who looks like a tour guide is holding a megaphone and smiling and talking to a group of people around her.

This is a tour group that is going to Jeonju Hanok Village, and I heard that it was originally going to charter a bus, but the whole group did not fill the entire bus, so the teenager bought a ticket for the remaining seats in order to get to Jeonju as soon as possible.

"I don't know how my dad would have reacted if he knew that I didn't go to Gwangju for summer training at the gym and came here instead......

With a whisper to himself, the boy turned his gaze back to the window.

Outside the car window, on the edge of the staggered and regular fields, there are rows of high and low telephone poles, and at a glance, many birds and birds stand on them, and then with a long and low green hill in the distance as the background, the sun is infinitely good.

The signage on the side of the road was passing quickly, and the smaller and smaller distance numbers on it seemed to respond to the heartbeat that gradually increased in the boy's chest.

Silently announcing to him that he was approaching the hometown that he had always remembered in his dreams but had never been again......

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Jeonju has a history of about 1,300 years, and its rich history has made it one of the most traditional cities in Korea, and it is home to the art of Pansori, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jeonju in ancient times was the capital of Later Baekje and the birthplace of the Joseon Dynasty......"

The loudspeaker with a little cacophony in his ears was still ringing, and the boy put on his backpack and suitcase, and chose a direction completely opposite to the group of people in the same car as him, ready to find a nearby bus stop first.

It didn't take him long, the place where the bus stopped was already a convenient area, and he walked for less than a minute before he saw a bus stop.

The boy put his backpack on the bench at the bus stop first, and glanced up at the huge banner hanging above the bus stop.

[Congratulations to Lee Chang-ho for winning the TEDA Cup Three Kingdoms Super Championship!]

Lee Chang-ho ...... Ah, Jeonju's Go World Champion?"

The boy usually has a wide range of interests, and he also dabbles in Go, but now is obviously not the time for him to be proud of this as a half-fellow.

He stood in front of the bus stop sign, looked up and down for a long time, and finally raised his hand to touch his chin with a stiff stubble.

There is no impression, there is not a single place name on it that evokes his memory.

"I remember that I thought I had opened an optical store, but I don't remember the name. And after all these years, it's a question of whether the store is still open or not......"

Unable to come up with an effective search idea for the time being, the boy had to sit on the seat of the bus stop in despair, looking around boredly.

This morning, under the impulse, I am ready to take advantage of this last free time before I leave for the United States to look for the memories that I have almost forgotten in the corner all these years. In retrospect, the decision was too hasty.

I didn't think about anything, so I packed my bags and came here without telling my family, which is an act that can only be done by a moment of enthusiasm.

The boy was reluctant to admit this, but looking at the current situation, he really couldn't escape the evaluation of "acting recklessly". He only remembered that at that time, there seemed to be a voice in his heart constantly urging him, so he raised his hand in a strange way when the ticket agent at the station shouted the phrase "Who else is going to Jeonju" in the lobby.

"Stupid ......"

He put his hand on his forehead, shielding himself from the sun above his head and the look of frustration on his face, and leaned back against the billboard at the bus stop.

This sentence is in harmony with Lin Yun'er's angry scolding yesterday, and he is talking about himself.

However, after a moment, he sat up thoughtfully, pursed his lips, and after taking a deep breath, chuckled in a low voice, "Well done." ”

This sudden compliment is also talking about himself.

If he hadn't raised his hand in public in the morning and stopped the ticket agent at the station, it would have been impossible to imagine how long it would have been since he had to return to this place sometime in the future.

Thinking about it like this, he couldn't help but feel an indescribable sense of happiness in his heart.

He knew he wanted to get back here.

This has nothing to do with the affairs of him and his adoptive father's family, perhaps it would be better to say that it is an obsession in his own heart.

As an adopted child, it is a very sad thing to still have the memories of the original family in my head.

Fortunately, over the years, he has lived very well in the Lin family, very, very good, so good that he feels that he no longer cares about the hatred that he once abandoned.

Because there is no sense of so-called relatives, it doesn't matter whether you hate or not.

He came here this time, in fact, to fulfill one of his wishes.

This is probably the same curiosity in the minds of most adopted children, right?

After he left, how did the family who abandoned him live.

He would love to see it for himself.

Of course, in the end, he didn't care much about his related father, and the person he really wanted to see was someone else......

"Sister ......"

Slowly chewing on this title that had special meaning for his life, the boy looked down at the ground of the bus stop, and a shallow smile seemed to be evoked on his green and handsome face.

He muttered to himself, "I don't know how you're doing." After all these years, OPPA still remembers you...... Taeyeon—"

"Yes...... Yes?"

Suddenly, a weak female voice that seemed to be a little stunned came into the young man's ears from the side.

He was stunned when he heard this, and turned his head to look at it in surprise.

As a result, his eyes widened in an instant......

In the sun, the baby fat girl was still wearing a lifeless school uniform during the holidays, she took a headphone from her ear, and under the bulky thick bangs, the big black and white eyes were looking at him in disbelief.

Her eyes, shining in the brilliant light of the afternoon, were like the most beautiful jewels in the world......

"Excuse me...... Did you just call me, weren't you calling me, eh! you ......."

Suddenly!

It's like the blood of the whole body rushes to the brain.

Without waiting for the girl to finish her words in confusion, she saw the boy wearing a peaked cap in front of her suddenly grab the backpack next to him, then dragged the suitcase, lowered his head and quickly ran away.

Didn't answer his own questions, and didn't pay attention to himself.

“…… What?"

Blinking her eyes, the girl frowned at her slightly sparse eyebrows, and her fleshy little face was full of stunned.

"This man...... Is there something wrong with me? But I just heard him call me by name...... Did you hear me wrong?"

Pursing her lips in bewilderment, the girl still stopped thinking about this little strange thing that suddenly happened in her life, tilted her head, and put the headphones back on.

Pulling the hair that fell to her shoulders behind her back, in the bright sunlight, the name tag on her chest was faintly reflected:

【Ansan Yangji High School - Kim Tae-yeon】

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"Whew, whew, whew...... Lose your marbles...... How could it be, how could it be so just?!"

About a few hundred meters away from the bus stop, next to a large tree, the boy held on to the trunk and gasped for breath, his heart pounding.

This is not only the sequelae of sudden movement, but also the impact of seeing the girl appear in front of his eyes without warning.

When he saw each other for the first time, it seemed like a bang in his mind......

Even after many years, even if he didn't take a good look at it a few more times, he still recognized her at a glance.

He hardly had to confirm anything, he could be sure in his heart...... That's her!

was caught off guard, coupled with the helplessness, this is the scene just now that almost rushed to the road......

After a few seconds of rest, the boy stood up, took a deep breath, and cautiously looked back in the direction of the bus stop.

Luckily, she's still there, and it looks like the car she's waiting for hasn't come yet.

The boy breathed a sigh of relief, and after that, he looked at the petite figure standing in front of the bus stop in the distance.

An indescribable faint bitter smile appeared on his lips.

"It's exactly the same as when I was a child, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips...... Nothing has changed. ”

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