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4: A Small Talk

"My name is Naily!"

Cale nodded.

"That's a good name."

"Really? Do you know what it means?"

Naily hold the table and leaned forward. Her eyes is sparkling with curiosity and excitement. Cale thinks for a moment.

"Brave, winner, love."

"Brave.. winner and love."

Her eyes sparkles even more. She grinned like a child.

"Hehe I like it. You really know many things, Roksoo."

She giggles. Cale opened his eyes widely.

Wh.. what did she just said?

"You.. you know about that?"

"Huh?"

Naily stopped her giggle when she remembered what she just said. She covered her mouth with her hand. Cale looked at her with shaking eyes.

'Does the novel also tell something like that?'

"Oh erm..yes. I know your previous name. I'm sorry because I casually say it. I just excited after knowing my name."

Hah. Seriously, she doesn't know she will say that name. She remembered that she will always say 'Kim Roksoo' name whenever her emotions take control.

When she read the novel, she will always say that name because every chapters excite her. Maybe it's already become a habit.

She truly likes the man named Kim Roksoo in the novel.

"Hah, how much do you know exactly?"

Cale sighed. Now he really wanted to know how much the novel described about him.

"Not much."

She smiled insincerely. Cale's sharp gaze gave her shivers.

'Ergh if a gaze can kill, I will be dead ten times now.'

He sighed again. This woman will not tells him anything about the novel. Hm, what must he do for her to tell him? He can't even touch her or threaten her because she is a ghost.

"I.. I will not call that name again. Er but.. maybe your name will slip out when I can't control my emotions. I.. I will try to not say it often."

Cale gives her a disbelief look.

'Does my name is kind of a reassuring spell for her or what? Weird woman.'

"Whatever. Do what you want. Is that the only thing you remember?"

"Huh, oh yes. I don't know why suddenly I remember my name. I think the voice calling my name belongs to my mother? But I'm glad I can remember my first name. Maybe it's triggered because I think of Korea?"

She clearly remembered two different women voices just now. Which one is her mother? Whose voice is the other one? Her aunt? Her sister? She doesn't know.

One voice is full of venom and rough meanwhile the other one feels soft and reassuring to hear.

Smile.

She remembered about it. Someone used to say to her to smile. It sounded like a sacred word in her life. She needs to smile.

Whenever, wherever and whatever happened to her. Smile , that's what she needs to do.

Cale looks at Naily that had lost in her own thought. Naily? Or it is Nai Lee. It's not sounded Korean to him. But, she said that she is Korean. Her appearance doesn't look Korean at all.