Red Strings // JaeNoRen

Prologue [ Edited ]

" There is a legend about red strings...

Red strings tied onto every person's hand.

That string connects two people.

Those two people are destined for each other and will fall in love.

No one can escape the person they are fated to be with.

For those strings are the red strings of fate. "

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"Now that's just not entirely true," Renjun scoffed in his head at the narration on the small TV.

Red strings were about as changeable as someone's character. Some strings can stay tied to a set person for life, thus resulting in the 'soulmate' thing, but it's not weird to see these strings change people all the time. Young children or people who haven't realized their longing for someone don't even form a string. It's more common to see a red band around a finger.

You see, it's not as simple as people make it.

It's a messy, stupidly complicated thing.

Renjun looks at the red loop tied around his finger. It wasn't officially a string yet. It had no one to connect to.

This was Renjun's gift.

He could see whether or not people were 'soulmates'.

Renjun dismissed the narration on the movie and gradually forgot about it. It was a pretty decent movie anyways. He snuggled comfortably by the airplane window, ready to return to Korea after a few years. Time had really gone by.

He was excited to finally relax and see his friends again.

Renjun took one last look at the red loop on his hand and smiled, blinking himself off to sleep.

He looked like an unassuming child deep in dreamland. Unfortunately, life was just as unpredictable as the changes of red strings. Nothing was tied up neatly. Life has a lot of loose ends and weird webs of connection.

He would have never saw it comimg.

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(A/n: Edited 9-14-2020

Welcome to the edited mess, folks. Get ready for a thicker plot. )