𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗘 ⨾ vernon

05.3 | 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆

Upon the recent twenty-first-pathetic-century time, there live two troubled teens who fight for their places in the world and learn to find solace in themselves.

One of them, the woman of a golden heart (and hair), named Yeonhee Kim, is the leader of the Social Circle of her friend group. She is called an Ulzzang for her inhuman beauty. She meets all those Korean Beauty Standards (for the dead and old-fashioned, obviously, but who cares?) that people would go crazy for. Men want to date her, and women want to be like her.

But Yeonhee Kim wasn't always like how she is now. She is called Ulzzang for a reason.

Reason. Plastic. Surgery.

But plastic surgery isn't as bad as you think it is. Yeonhee is eighteen and has all the right over whatever she can do to her body. It doesn't matter if she plucks out a pair of her ribs or add Botox over her face to look better, for people. It really, never matters.

But she used to be desperate. She was never pretty enough for people before. She was known as the Ugly Bitch at her previous school. People would bully her, step on her and cheat her. All because she was a good person at heart. Much heard, right?

But goodness at heart isn't always what another person labels you at their own hearts. If you don't look good enough according to another person, you are ugly. And for Yeonhee, she was ugly for everyone in her family, friend circle, and the whole school, pretty much.

But Yeonhee's ugliness wasn't in her face, as she thought, neither was her ugliness at her waist. It was in her thinking. It was the thought that she really was ugly, as the people said. It was believing in the wrong. It was believing in the wrong even when you know what is right. But she was desperate. So desperate that she was never able to see her true beauty.

But she was a girl with a strong heart. Never did she really want to let down herself in front of the others. Never. All she wanted was for people to see her real self. And by looking better—according to how the others wanted her to look like—she shaped herself, and let the others see her for herself and her goodness for once. No harm in that, right?

Flashback to when she was seven. She met her present ex-best friend Sanghee Jeon and her ex-boyfriend, Wonwoo Jeon who became good friends with her at a summer camp. Yeonhee had gone to visit her grandmother at Chuncheon, where she met those two at the park for a scouting program and immediately hit it off. The flashbacks shown of this time are the best. They are filled with happiness, balloons, school games and a seven-year-old world. Wonwoo never mingled with the girls all that much, but he watched them from afar. Occasionally he'd come along to play with them.

Then Yeonhee's grandma passed away and that was when Sanghee came into a larger view. Yeonhee would find solace in her new best friend. Getting over her grandma's death was natural and easier with Sanghee by her side.

By the time Sanghee and Yeonhee could sign up as soulmates, Yeonhee had to move back to Seoul.

They never met each other again. Until one unfortunate day.

Moving on, the other one, Wonwoo Jeon, was a timid boy since his birth. His very birth killed his mother. And he considers himself a killer until now.

The guilt he survives with will never disappear. But he knew someone who just happened to fill in the void in his heart when he would feel like a murderer. His aunt, Sanghee's mother, whose nose he once bit because she didn't give him the last piece of the dumplings she was getting ready with. The guilt only grew, but it wasn't as much as killing his own mother.

Well, until one day, when Sanghee and Wonwoo were both fifteen years old, Sanghee's father had to leave their home. Sanghee's mother said her husband got the screws in his head loose. Wonwoo never questioned anything. Sanghee's mother moved Sanghee and Wonwoo to Seoul.