BOOK 1| Choi Hye Jin is just a normal human with an unhealthy obsession with K-dramas. One day when she boarded the bus she found herself in a different universe and what's weirder is that she was in the universe of her favourite drama, 'Tale Of The...
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3rd Person POV
Hye Jin and her sister Hyun Joo sat on the couch after calming themselves. Since they met they didn't move away from each other.
Hye Jin doesn't know how she's back but there is one thing that she's sure about and that is to never leave. Even if she doesn't belong in this universe, (the one she thought she was a part of) she has to stay to not mess with the lives of the people she cares about.
"Where were you, huh? I searched for you everywhere."
"I'm sorry, I didn't want it to happen."
"Gosh! Don't ever go off without telling your whereabouts." Hyun Joo said.
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Hye Jin's body temperature kept on dropping which concerned everyone. Shin Joo tried to find the cause, the root of her condition but the only conclusion he came up was that she was somehow stuck in her mind. Somehow the spirit of darkness sent Hye Jin to a place of her fears.
He suspects whatever that was happing, it was effecting her body rapidly.
It's been two days since Hye Jin fainted and the occurence of her cooling body.
They tried everything to keep her warm but those things are also not working as much as they did two days ago. Now, the only way her body temperature would come to it's normal state is only when she wakes up and till now it shows no sign she would wake up soon.
After checking up on her, Shin Joo left Rang's apartment for the night and went to check up on Yeon for the night.
On the bed where Hye Jin laid sat a very worried Rang. Since the day she had fainted he had stayed by her side all the time, hoping for her to open her eyes.
Rang being a stubborn fox, didn't agree to leave Hye Jin alone and rest. Only when Yoo Ri promised to look after her while he rested, he reluctantly agreed.
"I remember, I finally remember. I can't believe that I had forgotten about you...about us." Rang spoke as he took Hye Jin's freezing hand in his warm ones. "We both waited for many years, when we finally met, I didn't remember you and now this."
He squeezed her hand, hoping to give as much warmth as he can to her. "But let's stop waiting HyeJin. I won't let anything stop us from being together."
When he was stuck in his fears, when he encountered the projection of Byeol and Hye Jin. The memories rushed back to him as if the lock finally opened. There was a loophole in the Shaman's magic and so when he saw his fear of killing Byeol and not finding her and the fear of not fulfilling his promise of finding her reincarnated self, that is Hye Jin and then watching her die, unlocked the memories.
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Hye Jin caught up with her sister for all the months she was absent. They decided to hang out together. They planned to go shopping then have some dinner and then dessert. After hours of shopping the sisters decided to get dinner. After a lot of debate they settled on friend chicken. And then they went to get ice cream for dessert.
All the time she got flashes of the actors who played roles in her favorite drama. She thought that her imaginations were corrupting her brain and her fantasies looked like some memories which she was forgetting.
After a long day of shopping, the two women decided to watch a drama. Popcorn and drinks were within their arms reach. They settled in the couch and Hyun Joo turned the TV on.
"Oh how about we re-watch your all time favorite Tale of the Nine Tailed?" Hyun Joo suggested while typing in the title on the search bar.
She then started playing episode one of the drama. Hye Jin was of course excited to watch again as her favorite actors are cast on the show.
"You know, it feels as if I've lived the episodes." Hye Jin told her sister as her eyes were glued to the TV.
"That's because you watched this drama hundreds of times." Hyun Joo said chuckling.
"Yeah, well you recommended it to watch it now huh?"
"Yeah whatever let's just focus on the show."
"For someone making fun of me for watching this drama, you look really interested in it." Hye Jin teased.
"Whatever, now shush. Yeon is about to go save Rang from those demons!" Hyun Joo shushed her sister and stared at the screen intensely.
Hye Jin rolled her eyes at her sister's behaviour and turned to look back at the TV screen. As the episode progressed, Hye Jin continued to get a weird feeling. She tried to understand what it was but got interrupted by her sister. After that she ignored it thinking it was just her hormones.
What she didn't know was that she kept on slipping away from reality and was grasping her fantasies. She didn't realise that she forgot all about her adventures and the life, the real one. She doesn't even know that she had forgotten about Yeon and Ji Ah, Shin Joo, Yoo Ri, Soo Oh and Taluipa and most importantly Rang.
And when she started to blame herself for causing havoc in their lives and the wish for not having been born kept crossing her mind and when she started to forget about them altogether and her desire to be with her sister increased, she started to disappear from the real world.
The reason to not live, the reason to be away from the people she loved and the wish for meeting her sister one last time was the only thing in her mind since she entered the godforsaken place, it's all being granted to her.
She's slowly dying and the only thing that would save her will be her accepting and facing her fears, realising that not everything was and is in her control and that it's not her fault.
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POSTED: July 24, 2023 EDITED: August 06, 2023 WORDS: 1041
