41 Desire is...a loser's game

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A leap of warmth came into Rona's heart as she saw Dean Cho again. 

"Dean Cho..." Rona wept the moment she saw him. 

He was older. He had more strands of white hair. 

Dean Cho caressed the poor girl's back gently, calming her down. 


Chanseok placed his duffle bag down and looked around the orphanage. 

"I couldn't believe I was once here. I had forgotten it all." He spoke as he saw the murals on the wall. Memories. 

Rona and Dean Cho broke off from the embrace. 

"Dean Cho, do you remember a boy named Chanseok?" Rona guided Chanseok near Dean Cho. "It's him. He's back." 

Dean Cho smiled brightly and took Chanseok into an embrace. "Dear child, thank you for your hard work, your sacrifices. Welcome back." 

Chanseok was touched. How could he have forgotten this place that had brought him up with love and care, unlike his life in Hera Palace. He could have another future if he had stayed. 

But no time to think of the past. 


"Rona..." Dean Cho settled the two down, before bringing a paper folder out. 

"It's here." 



Meanwhile at Hera Palace, 

Seokhoon had driven as fast as he could back to the premise, and ran his way back to the house he and Rona resided in. 

"RONA!" He called out. 

There was no reply. 

He ran upstairs, and looked around the rooms. Everything was as it was. Nothing had changed. 

Rona's clothes were still there, her jewellery, makeup...were all still there. 

A sense of relief came to Seokhoon's heart. 

"She didn't really leave me alone." He smiled. 


He dialled to Rona's number, hoping she would pick up. He was supposing that she must have really just been bored and went for a walk. 

Until he heard the buzzing sound of a phone after multiple dials to Rona's phone. 

He tracked the buzzing sound and realised the phone placed on the kitchen table downstairs. 

He went to the phone and as he looked in that direction, he finally found out the truth. 


The broken truth. 

The cruel truth. 


The ring. 

The wedding ring he had placed on Rona's hand. 

It was on the kitchen table. 


It shimmered. 

But the room was dull. 

The emotions were dull. 


Seokhoon took the ring in his hand and fell to the ground. 

"No,no,no,no,no,no..." He cried. "No....Rona..." He wept. 

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