Standing in front of the window, quietly watching the flow of people with umbrellas on the street below, Lee Jae-min felt a little cool, like the rain outside hitting his body.

After the rainy season in Seoul, there is often such a light rain weather, which is non-stop from morning to night, which makes people feel inexplicably restless. A gust of wind whipped in the rain, blurring the window pane, and then water droplets slid down with clear trails from above.

The rain gradually became heavier, and as far as the eye could see, it was foggy.

"Oppa, what flavor do you like to eat?"

A soft shout came from behind him, and Lee Jae-min scratched his finger on the glass water mist, trying to pull the corners of his mouth to reply, "Vanilla, mango." ”

"Only one!"

"Vanilla!" A smile finally appeared on the corner of Lee Jaemin's mouth, and then as the water droplets on the glass fell, he turned around and looked at the girl who was lying on the low table concentrating on painting, and asked in a calm tone, "It's just painting, the tastes are different, is there a big difference?" ”

"Of course." The girl raised her head and glanced at Lee Jae-min, then lowered her head again to sketch the unfinished painting and said, "Vanilla-flavored ice cream, sweeter, it will be sweet when you draw it, and you will feel sweet when you see it." ”

Before Lee Jae-min left the window, he came to sit cross-legged opposite the girl, looking at the white paper pressed under her hand, on which a big cup of ice cream was drawn, "The live stage of your "Popular Songs" this time is great, and there are many more messages from the fan club than last time." ”

"Did you go to see it?" Raising her eyes and seeing Li Zaimin nodding, the girl lowered her eyes and wiped off the wrong stroke, and said with a satisfied expression on her face, "For this scene, we often practice until eight or nine o'clock in the evening during this time, Yun'er and Xiaoyang, two big lazy worms." With a little rest in between, they can find time to sleep. ”

Hearing these words, Lee Jae-min didn't laugh, but felt more distressed, not to mention the two of them, the nine of them were also busy every day, and their rest time was seriously insufficient. He got up and asked, "Do you want something to drink?" ”

The girl replied with a smile without raising her head, "Coffee, more milk and less sugar!" ”

Lee Jaemin's rental house is not big, with a two-bedroom apartment with a kitchen and bathroom. The kitchen is open plan and connected to the dining room and living room, so he moved here to make it easier for him to go to work at S.M. nearby.

After the two cups of coffee were brewed, Lee Jae-min slowly stirred it with a spoon, and the hot air slowly blindfolded his eyes. He turned his head to look at the girl lying on the edge of the table and tapping the carpet with his two toes from time to time, and his heart swelled with a pang of pain. He couldn't play dumb anymore. This hurts both of them deeply.

"Taeyeon!" Lee Jae-min put down the spoon and held his hands on the ears of the coffee cup, his knuckles glowing white.

"It's wrong again. Ah, it's all about leaving zuihou to be done. Taeyeon fell on the blank paper, muttered, and then replied loudly. What the? ”

Lee Jae-min took a deep breath and almost used all his strength to spit out what he was about to say, "I'm ready to resign to S.M." ”

The brush pressed heavily on the white paper, and the tip of the pen was crisply broken. After a while. Taeyeon hung her head and asked, "Will you leave Seoul?" ”

"It's possible to go to the United States, or to Hong Kong." Lee Jae-min's hand trembled slightly, and the coffee cup clicked softly against the tray underneath.

"Yes, so suddenly. Yuna will definitely be very reluctant to give you up! Taeyeon chuckled lowly, she wiped her hand on the white paper, then crumpled it up and threw it into the paper basket and complained, "It's all you who bothered me, it's all wrong, and the ice cream can't be drawn today." ”

"I have an announcement in the afternoon, so I'll go back first." Taeyeon got up from the low table, went to the door to change her shoes, and bowed to Lee Jae-min again, "Save the coffee for next time." oppa，zaijian！ ”

Hearing the door close, Lee Jae-min came out of the kitchen with two cups of coffee, he put the coffee on the low table, and sat down where Taeyeon had just sittened, stunned as he watched the steaming coffee.

Suddenly, he pulled the paper basket over, pulled out the crumpled ball of drawing paper inside, and unfolded it. On the crumpled white paper, the ice cream drawn on it was smeared into pieces of color by the water marks, and the heart was crumpled in an instant.

Not caring to put on his shoes, he opened the door and rushed towards the half-open stairway, the cool breeze carrying the rain in and the water spreading a thin layer on the steps. Stepping on the splash of water stains, he ran quickly, and the moment he unfolded the drawing paper, he knew that he couldn't let go of it, and he couldn't let it go.

5th, 4th, 3rd floors......

On the stairs on the second floor, Lee Jae-min was holding on to the handrail and panting heavily, looking at Taeyeon standing in the rain by the side of the corridor, his eyes blurred even more.

Taeyeon turned around, her hair was wet and dripping, and her face was covered with water marks, she watched Lee Jae-min walk down step by step, and shouted backwards in resistance, "You go...... I don't want to see you......"

Lee Jae-min watched Taeyeon leaning against the half-height waterlogged corridor wall, and he stepped forward, took her cold hand, and pulled her into his arms.

"weishenme......" Taeyeon struggled with resistance, and suddenly, she opened her arms around Lee Jaemin's waist, hugged it tightly, and put her head against Lee Jaemin's chest and cried, "Are you going to take revenge on me!" You know it, you know it. Talking to you on the phone and making excuses to come to you to paint...... You know it, and you understand from the beginning that I weishenme will do this. You weishenme don't push me away, weishenme doesn't push me away. ”

"I don't want to like you. I don't want to like you. I do not like you! I don't like you at all...... It hurts......" Taeyeon cried hoarsely as she pressed her heart hard, and her whole body softened down.

"I ......" The voice seemed to be stuck in his throat, and Lee Jae-min opened his mouth wide but couldn't say anything, he grabbed Taeyeon's hand and held her tightly in his arms.

……

"I like you!" It was gray outside the window, and before dawn, Lee Jae-min slowly opened his eyes on the bed. Standing in front of her, but unable to say what she was thinking, it was just a dream.

He won't hesitate anymore, and he won't be entangled anymore, like is like, why bother to keep dwelling on the influence of dreams, he understands that he likes Taeyeon, and he likes it without any impurities, it's enough.

All kinds of past with Taeyeon flashed through Lee Jaemin's mind one by one, being alone, confessing on the phone, and holding her hand for the first time...... He decided to give her a special gift to convey his heart.

Lee Jae-min got up from the bed, washed up, took a bite of bread and ran into the recording studio, pulled out a blank piece of paper from the mixer, and quickly wrote on it.

"If I leave, I will leave step by step. What would I think, I can't muster up the courage.

If you leave, you leave me. I'm always scared of how I'm going to get you away.

Maybe I'm a fool. will just stare at you blankly, not knowing the shyness and your heart.

That's why it's getting farther and farther away, really like a fool, and I can't even say the words of love for you.

How painful the wait after the meeting was, perhaps because I was afraid that the days would become sad day by day.

If you come and get closer and closer, I really can't know what I'm going to do......"

When the lyrics were completed, Lee Jae-min threw down the pen and paper in his hand, and looked up to find Park Shin-jeong standing beside him.

Although Park Shenjing guessed something, she still asked unconvinced, "...... in Minoppa?"

"Well, it's for Taeyeon, how to send ......" Lee Jae-min nodded, he frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said, "You can be the OST of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong"!" ”

"You've figured it out?!" Looking at Lee Jaemin's clear expression, the surprise on Park Shinjing's face immediately turned into hesitation, "I went to the kitchen just now and saw your phone." ”

"Figured it out!" Lee Jae-min replied with a smile, "Yesterday when I called Taeyeon while cooking, my hand was splashed with oil, so I dropped my phone on the ground, and I have time today, so help me make up the phone." ”

"Ahh Are you okay with your hands? ”

"It's okay, just a few red marks!" Li Zaimin hurriedly raised the back of his hand, thought for a while, and said, "The phone is repaired, put it with you for the time being, and then return it to me when I concentrate on composing, and you can deal with the phone when you come over, just say that I am busy in the field." ”

"Good! I'll go to reissue the number first, and I'll come back at noon. Park Shin walked out of the studio in response.

What Lee Jae-min himself didn't expect was that he stayed in the recording studio to compose the lyrics for more than two days. For more than two days, he barely stepped out of the studio. Every time the composition came out, he auditioned it several times, and felt that it could be more perfect, so he smeared and revised it, and when he was sleepy at night, he went straight to sleep in the recording room, and after thinking of the place of revision, he immediately got up and worked hard.

In addition to ordering three meals, Park Shin-jeong also came over a few times in the middle, persuading Lee Jae-min to pay attention to the combination of work and rest and to rest more, and Zuihou was perfunctorily pushed out of the recording studio by him.

On the morning of the third day, Lee Jae-min looked at the finalized score and accompaniment sample in front of him, and he finally walked downstairs with a smile on his face and dialed a number from the phone in the living room, "Director Lee Jung-sub, hello, I'm Lee Jae-min." ”

"Hello! Ah, Lee Jae-min! Director Lee Jung-sub first answered flatly, and then when he heard the name reported later, he shouted, there are still a few days left before the 25th, and now the other party is calling, is it ...... His suppressed excited voice came out again, "Does OST have an idea?" ”

"The OST of this song "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" has been completed." Lee Jae-min leaned on the sofa, and the little sleep for more than two days made his head a little groggy, and when he heard Director Lee Jung-sub shouting excitedly on the phone, he smiled and said seriously, "This song, the contract needs to be changed." You don't need to pay 100 million won, my request is ......"

Hearing that Director Lee Jung-sub agreed to his conditions, Lee Jae-min nodded and hung up the call, and then called Park Shin-jung and asked her to come over and send the score and sample to Director Lee Jung-sub. After making this call, Lee Jaemin's sleepy eyes were almost unable to open, he lay directly on the sofa behind him, pulled a blanket over his body, and fell asleep in a few minutes. (To be continued......)