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[CHAPTER 25]

"Second Life"

"What do you mean Cha Hakyeon died?" Wonshik asked.

"It's exactly like what it means," InGuk told him.

"Are you saying he got reincarnated or something?"

"No. He's still the same Cha Hakyeon but he was given a second chance in life. Or gave himself a second chance in life to be exact."

"Huh?"

"I was just as surprised when I first realized that the book Hongbin went into was Cha Hakyeon's. When I first saw the book after it was confiscated, even I got quite the shock. I never thought that something like this would be possible..."

Hakyeon was supposed to have died.

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His life should have ended that one summer day as he was reminiscing about his past.

After losing Taekwoon, he really had nowhere to go. Home reminded him of his lover and he had no motivation to continue with his studies either. He took a temporary withdrawal from university for a semester because he wasn't able to focus on anything at the time. He cried and cried, day after day. At that time, Hakyeon had no one by his side, even Sanghyuk was too young to be able to give him any warm advice. Maybe that's why, Hakyeon sunk in further into depression as he endured the pain all alone. He shut himself at home, refused to go anywhere and lived like a dead person. He knew that Taekwoon worked really hard for him to get a teacher's diploma but still, Hakyeon didn't have the will to continue.

"What's the point?" Hakyeon asked himself. "There's no one who could celebrate it with me anyways.... even you left me."

He held onto the picture he held so dearly of him and Taekwoon at the coast of Jeju island. It was a precious memory for him but it was only a memory that would not happen anymore.

That's why, he decided to do the most foolish thing ever.

Ending his own life.

At least, that's what he wanted to do.

He's tried all methods of suicide. He tried hanging himself in his apartment but the rope would cut off and his attempts would fail. He's tried cutting himself so that he would die of blood lost but that didn't work either. He's even tried running in front of a car in hopes of getting hit so that he could end his life once and for all.

That's why, he couldn't feel pain. He's tried all methods of ending his life yet something held him back. Eventually, his body started to accept the pain and he became numb to it. He wasn't even conscious about it himself, because the physical pain didn't hurt as much as what he felt inside.

Every method that he's attempted were recorded in his story. It was all in the books for those who have read it to know about including Hongbin and his friends. They all knew but they would never dare to mention it. But what wasn't written in the book was that there was actually one method that truly killed Cha Hakyeon.

During the second summer since Taekwoon passed away, Hakyeon went to Jeju island in which he once went on a vacation with Taekwoon before. He went there with Taekwoon after they have left his hometown in order to think about their future together. The two of them were looking for a place where no one would know about them so that they could leave everything behind and start fresh. Hakyeon was really happy at the time to be venturing out somewhere so beautiful and peaceful with the person he loves the most.