More Than Blue -seulpeumboda Deo Seulpeun Iyagi... ✮ 〈FAST〉

The last week, Yoo stopped eating. He stopped speaking. He only held Chae-won’s hand, their paper ring now tattered and grey. On the final night, a blizzard howled outside the hospice window. Chae-won was reading to him from a manuscript—a romance novel she had been editing. The heroine had just confessed her love.

Kang Chae-won learned to cry silently by the age of twelve. The nuns at St. Theresa’s orphanage called it a blessing—she never disturbed the other children. But the truth was simpler: she had run out of tears for herself. Her tears were reserved for the characters in the dog-eared romance novels she found in the donation bin, for the stray cat that limped across the courtyard, for anyone but herself. More Than Blue -Seulpeumboda Deo Seulpeun Iyagi...

His heart stopped. “What?”

“You’re trying to make me hate you. So leaving will be easier.” She looked up, and her eyes were dry, but her voice cracked. “But I’ve been practicing for this since I was twelve. You can’t make me leave. I’ll be here when you take your last breath. I’ll be the last thing you see.” The last week, Yoo stopped eating

It was the saddest, most beautiful tune Chae-won had ever heard. On the final night, a blizzard howled outside

He finally turned. His eyes were deep-set, the color of old coffee, and they held a calm that was far too old for his face. “Ko Yoo.”

One afternoon, when Chae-won stepped out to buy coffee, Yoo grabbed Ji-hoon’s wrist. His grip was terrifyingly strong for a dying man.