A new life in an unexpected city, Yumi never imagined she would find herself here. It has been two months since she started living in Seoul, and life has proven to be quite challenging. She works while continuing her studies, determined not to give up on her education, especially now that she has escaped that difficult chapter of her life.

I can't give up! I have to be successful!

She lives in a small apartment that consists of just one room, along with a bathroom and a compact kitchen, which is enough for her needs. She managed to rent this place with the money she brought. Working as a waitress at a café, she earns enough to cover her living expenses and studies.

Yumi wakes up as the rays of the sun spill into the room. She wakes up and stretches her body as she goes towards the bathroom. Once she is ready for university she makes her way to the kitchen, she opens the fridge and realizes it's empty.

I'll go to the grocery store later. She thinks as she leaves the house with a sigh.

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𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮...

Yumi is in her classroom, drawing another dress design while sipping the mango juice brought from the canteen from time to time. It's lunch time and she is the only student left in class. She didn't feel like having lunch so she decided to stay in the class and continue her work for the semester.

Yumi always wanted to be a fashion designer, so she decided to study fashion. As one of the best students in the class, her art skills and creativity always impress the teachers.

Life in the university is far different than in high school or college. Here everyone is more into their own life and don't care about what others think. Here, people are more serious, when in high school or college everything seemed to depend on how rich you were, what kind of phone you had or which brand of clothes you wore.

Finishing her last classes, Yumi makes her way to the cafè where she works. The owner of the cafè is a very kind-hearted old lady, Youngja. As she enters the cafè, she is greeted by a warm smile from Youngja.

Yumi bows to Youngja with a small smile and starts walking towards the changing room but she stops as Youngja calls her "Yumi?"

She turns around and sees Youngja frowning "Yeah?"

"Are you okay, dear?"

"I am. Why?"

Youngja sighs "Did you skip breakfast and lunch again?"

Yumi looks down as Youngja goes towards her and tilts her head up "Dear, I told you not to skip meals. Didn't I? Why do you keep skipping them?"

"I... I don't feel like having them." She sighs and looks down.

"Go and change. When you come take a seat there, I'll give you something to eat."

Yumi shakes her head in denial "You don't have to, I am fine."

But Youngja doesn't listen to her "I have to. Now go and change." She says as she pushes Yumi towards the changing room.

The warmness Youngja provides for Yumi is something very different. No one has ever asked her if she had her meals or not except Youngja and Namjoon.

Namjoon. How are you love? Why is it so difficult to forget you? Why do I still love you when I know that you hate me from the core of your heart? Do you love someone else now? 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.

Yumi thinks as few drops of tears fall from her eyes, but she wipes them away and walk out of the room with a sigh.

"Let's see how many customers we have today."

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𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙣...

"Why did you do this? Why?" The boy says while looking at the picture in his hands.

"What kind of parents are you? How can you leave me in that hell?" He talks to the people in that picture with a broken heart and pure hatred for those people.

It's a picture of his parents, who left him in front of an orphanage along with this picture when he was only 3 months old. The life in orphanage was difficult, they were really cruel to those little babies.

He feels selfish to leave that orphanage alone and leaving those babies who are suffering what he suffered for years. They beated him, didn't give him food, didn't give him medicine when he was sick. Medicines were available only if things would go worse with his health.

Once when he was 7 years old, they made him wear thin clothes and stay outside the whole night while it was snowing because he broke one of the plates he had to wash. It was a terrible experience and there are plenty of other bad things they did to him. Sometimes, they would also punish him for no reason.

When he was 5 years old, one of the guards of the orphanage gave him this picture and told him they are probably his parents. And since that time, he always has this picture.

Where are they? Are they living happily after living me there?

He cries recalling everything those demons did to him.

I will find my parents and take revenge on those people once I am successful. Thinks 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐤 as he starts working.

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𝙄𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙖'𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢...

"You know you have to sleep now babe." Namjoon tells her from the other side of the call.

"But I don't want to." Lia whines.

"Babe, you have to wake up early tomorrow because it's a weekday if you remember." He says.

She sighs "But I wanna talk to you more."

"Me too babe. But we can't tonight. We'll go to cinema tomorrow evening since it's friday if you want. Okay?"

Lia's mood lights up at the mention of meeting him tomorrow "Okay, then I'm going to sleep now."

Namjoon chuckles at her cuteness "Goodnight babe and love you"

"Goodnight, love you too."

They cut the call as Lia closes her eyes to sleep but suddenly a thought comes in her mind...

Did Namjoon's ex Yumi really cheated on him? What if she comes back and wants Namjoon again? What if Namjoon still loves Yumi?

Bur she shakes her head to remove these thoughts I trust Namjoon. He is not gonna do this. Never.

And with a smile she falls asleep.

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𝙄𝙣 𝙉𝙖𝙢𝙟𝙤𝙤𝙣'𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢...

He is smiling looking at Lia's picture after cutting the call with her.

Why is she so cute? 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡.

Just then an old picture of Yumi shows up on his phone and he looks at it with a blank expression.

"Why do I still have this cheater's picture?"

Namjoon scoffs looking at Yumi smiling in that picture "Smiling huh? Hmm, you are probably living your happiest moments after cheating on me. Well, I found a better girl then you. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫."

He says as he deletes the picture and with a sigh he puts down the phone.

She cheated on me. But why does a part of my heart says she didn't? 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐞? But why do I care? I love Lia. 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐚. She is my everything.

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𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐥. 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐧. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭.

𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐤, 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.

𝐋𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐧. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢?

𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡? 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐘𝐮𝐦𝐢 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡? 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐤 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬?

𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞?

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