Meeting Mr. Serendipity

Chapter 1 Mr. Troublemaker

Seoul, the center of fashion and trends of Korea. Here, the word 'Beauty' is more heard than 'Hi'. Every woman has uncountable skin products, fancy make up, gorgeous heels, sparkling accessories, any type of fashionable attires and sometimes cute faces made by boundless plastic surgery.

In my memorable 16 years, I have been wondering about the reason for women to dress so ostentatiously and my first and final conclusion is that 'The reason for this is to feel good with themselves and attract attention'. They want to captivate the glances from men, but not any man. Someone whose walk attracts people's attention wherever he goes.

An extravagant one who emanates the lust and desire of every woman. A charismatic person whose cool expression and smile can convince the most stubborn woman to humiliate herself.

Somebody troublesome whose eyes can make you sink deep in an eternal pitfall.

A man who can switch my life in 180° just in an instant.

A man...who is just in front of me.

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–Min-hee ya, Why did you arrive so...late...at school?– The awareness of being watched by my classmates with amazed and frightened faces can be sensed without having to look , only my friends are showing me worried face –What's with that expression? What happened to your leg and your uniform?– I don't blame them. I bet my face is scary.

–Yah! Min-Hee-ya, Sooyoung has asked you a question!– Hyungoon's annoying words are only feeding my rage. I just glare at him in the angriest way possible before throwing my bag on the floor and sitting in my desk near them to mentally count from 1 to 10 slowly.

–Hey, want to tell us what happened? It's not normal for you to arrive so late...even though we have like 15 minutes before starting the class– Her soothing smile calms me a bit and prevented my anger to affect people who aren't even involved in my bad day.

–Well...

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"Life is like a masquerade. The main characteristic of a human being is the constantly attempt to hide the truth behind a mask of lies and appearances. Just look around you. Everyone have camouflages made of falsehood that contain their truth at the same time. Can't you see it?"

'I quite understand the main protagonist's feelings but isn't that too negative?' I said to myself.
I was willing to keep reading my short novel when suddenly someone pushed me in a hurry but keep dashing foward among the people. He was like escaping from someone. To my surprise, it was not long when another person pushed me more slightly than the other man. In that moment when our eyes met, I could notice the time stopping from all this hurries for the first time. It was a well-dressed man with a blonde fluffy hair looking at me. His sharp gaze showed intimidation but kindness at the same time. His face could be compared to an extravagant model in some fashion magazine from London.  That was exactly the man who every woman would wish to have. The troublesome type who can make lies become truth and truth become lies.

Without noticing, he swiftly took my book and suddenly hurled it to the other dude. 

–Yah! What are you fucking doing?!– I only let down my guard down for a moment and he took advantage of it. I admit it was a good aim as he hit the alleged thief and made him trip but, was it necessary to throw my book?! I just looked him dumbfounded.

–Sorry, I acted without thinking– I can't feel the 'sorry' in his words at all.

 Then I heard a woman running toward us who, I suppose, was the victim of the theft. While the blondy looked at her distracted, the bad guy got up to flee again. Since my book was sacrificed to catch that son of b**ch, it's foolish to think that I would let him get away that easily. I realize that all these years of practicing kung fu wasn't a waste of time after all.