A gentle trace of laughter mingled with his low voice.
“She lives without caring what other people think, so sometimes, from someone else’s point of view, she probably looks downright ridiculous. But to me, there’s nothing cooler than that.”
“…….”
“Dunno what you’re agonizing over so hard, but it doesn’t suit you. Quit it. Stop racking your brain and suffering for no reason, and live the way your heart tells you to, Gyeon Jioh. Not what your head says. What comes from your heart is the real thing. Everything else is fake.”
“…….”
“Don’t they say the words of your heart are your destiny? Destiny doesn’t come from outside. It flows out from inside you. And destiny—you can’t avoid the damn thing. If you can’t avoid it, might as well enjoy it. Ain’t that right?”
“……What if that destiny isn’t something that flowed out from inside me, but something I made?”
At that question, Hwanghon grinned.
“Well, then. That just makes it more interesting.”
He smiled as if asking what the problem was.
“…….”
Watching him, Jioh suddenly thought,
‘Was Hwanghon always capable of making such a mature face?’
Hwanghon was a…