Woozilucent
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- Parts 3
Not Quite Dead Yet
Synopsis
Little Keld is the kind of town where cats nap in bakery windows and nothing bad ever happens-
until Seungcheol Choi, the beloved high school teacher, vanishes without a trace.
Everyone grieved. Everyone moved on.
Everyone, except his husband.
Jeonghan Yoon didn't lose his mind when Seungcheol disappeared. He lost it long before that-probably somewhere between the first fight and the last kiss.
So when the police called it an accident, he nodded. When the neighbors sent casseroles, he smiled.
And when he buried Seungcheol under the peonies behind their house, he made sure they bloomed beautifully that year.
But then-
a year later, on a perfectly unremarkable evening, Seungcheol came home.
Same face. Same voice. Same wedding ring catching the porch light.
Except Jeonghan remembers breaking that hand when he buried him.
Little Keld calls it a miracle.
Jeonghan calls it what it is-a haunting in the shape of a man he couldn't stop loving, and couldn't quite keep dead.
And when that familiar hand slides over his again, warm, alive, impossible-he doesn't pull away. He just listens to the garden shifting outside, soil breathing, roots whispering, welcome back.
After all, who wants to be the only one in town insisting that their resurrected husband is an impostor?