Can love transcend time? Jeon Jung-kook asked this very question himself when he looked at himself in the mirror as a middle-aged man. His daughter was planning to elope with someone considered not "fit" for the Jeon household. Somehow he heard hims...
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1995, Present Day
Jung-kook closed his eyes, trying to erase the memory of Taehyung being beaten to a pulp all those many years ago. But he couldn't help it, as hot tears started to stream down his face.
He sobbed quietly in the comfort of his own room, with nary a sound since his daughter's departure. The silence consuming him like a thick fog constricting his throat; the same feeling he had when he witnessed his lover almost limp and lifeless, and he was unable to do anything else but watch.
Jung-kook had run towards the broken man, but two pairs of arms held him back.
"Noo...... noooo!!!!" Jung-kook shouted, more at his mother than at the bloody figure before him. "Please let him go. Please!"
"Not until you come with me," Mrs. Jeon threatened, "and promise you'll marry Min-A."
Amid the commotion, Jung-kook heard a faint murmur and looked at the direction of a familiar voice.
"Do.... don't Koo...." Taehyung barely managed to whisper.
Jung-kook's heart started to quiver. "Shh.... babe, don't talk. I'll take you to the hospital."
"You will do no such thing," Mrs. Jeon declared. "Be glad he's not dead.... yet."
"Please.... please kill me instead," Jung-kook implored while trying to shake off the men keeping him imprisoned.
"What is the use of a son who's dead to me?" Mrs. Jeon said as she saw the desperation in her son's eyes, their bond deeper than what she had expected.
Jung-kook bent his knees and dropped to the ground. "I beg you, Mother."
Mrs. Jeon scoffed, "And then what? If I let him go, you'll be running back to his arms in no time."
Jung-kook looked at his mother and then at Taehyung, who was visibly trying hard to move his head. He wasn't sure what Taehyung was attempting to say but seeing his lover almost at the end of his rope, Jung-kook knew that there was only one choice to make.
