chapter 14

Chapter 14.

10 days later, at Vision University, SuA made an appointment to meet Professor Lee Dami at her office.

Dami handed SuA a document, which contained a lot of text and a few pictures.

- SuA, do you believe that witches are real in this world?

- What? - SuA was stunned.

- Lee Siyeon is most likely a witch, capable of making people lose their senses, and assigning diseases to others. The characteristics of witches are said to be abnormal eyes, appearance similar to ordinary people, so it is difficult to identify, they often mix in society. For example, if you meet a guard or a public toilet cleaner, it is also likely to be a witch.

- …………………… - SuA stared at the pictures, they were quite blurry, showing the witch with completely black eyes.

Very similar to Siyeon's eyes.

- There are witches with superhuman abilities, they can even control the weather, from rain to sunshine, from sun to storm, they can even make a person's heart stop, beating again.

- In that case….can witches make humans immortal? – SuA widened her eyes in shock.

- I don't know, but it seems that witches' abilities are limited, they can only cast spells a few times, not all the times. If they could do those special things continuously without stopping, this world would have been ruled a long time ago.

-That means……Siyeon is the one who made me lose my hearing, and decided to have a stroke to kill me, she won't be able to do that to other people right?

- It can also be considered so.

- But why did she do that? Does my family have any enmity with anyone?

- Has Siyeon been in contact with you lately?

SuA is quiet, she receives Siyeon's messages regularly every day, she knows how the other person is searching for her.

Siyeon simply knows that she will always go to the studio to work, then go to SBS in the evening to do radio shows. SuA told the people around her that if Siyeon came to ask, they would pretend to know nothing about her condition, they had never met Siyeon, but also knew through photos. She also talked to the owner of the studio, a girl named Kwon Eunbi, Eunbi meets Siyeon every month to get the rent, SuA asked Eunbi to hide the fact that she was living in the studio.

The studio is not very convenient to live in, because there is no kitchen or bed, SuA always has to order food at the delivery restaurant, sleep on the sofa, go to the public sauna at night to take a bath. Her life is suddenly deprived and simple after leaving Siyeon's house.

But she also adapted to it quickly, just as she adapted to living with Siyeon after parents Kim died.

The first few days sleeping at the studio she felt very struggling, she couldn't sleep most of the night, because she was used to sleeping next to Siyeon.....

Now she had to sleep alone, in a rather cramped room…

But she knew that she needed to quickly adapt to this harshness, so she gritted her teeth and tried to forget that feeling of loneliness.

In the past, she longed to sleep next to Siyeon, she always took advantage of her illness to ask to sleep with Siyeon. Until she knew Siyeon's true feelings, the two slept together every day, and she achieved her original goal, but now she denies it.

She is very close to Siyeon, only a few hundred meters away, every time she goes out she is covered from head to toe and hopes that she will not accidentally meet Siyeon on the street.

Her heart aches when things turn out like this, but she is not ready to face Siyeon. She didn't know what to do with this situation, she should just live through the day for now, just let things happen...

She’s going to die in a few years anyway, there's no need for her to even try to do anything….

She will be seeing her parents soon….

- SuA? - Professor Lee called, shaking the little girl beside her.

- Yes? – SuA is pulled back to reality.

- You look so tired, go home and rest.

- Yes.

- I want to tell you, you should talk to Siyeon, maybe there is some secret that makes her do this to you. When you were in school, you always told me that Siyeon is a very good person, she always raised and took care of you, right?

- ……………………..

- In the documents we have learned, the witches can create a curse to hit someone, but they can also break the curse, they can remove it.

- ……………………..

- Negotiate with Siyeon and ask her for help, how do you see?

- I don't need it - SuA coldly stood up and left Professor Lee's office.

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3 months passed.

Siyeon lazily left the bedroom, she needed to go to the supermarket to buy some things for her empty house.

From the moment SuA left here, the air in the house was indescribably cold, the temperature outside was extremely low in winter, and there was a heater in the house, but it was still not warm enough.

She has had a very harsh winter. When it came to her birthday, it started to get a little colder, after a month, the weather was lower, the time when she and SuA officially started dating. Every morning when she wakes up, she feels warm because there is a small body radiating heat right next to her. At that time, she just wished that, if only SuA had taken a day off work that day to be at home with her.

Then only a short time later, SuA automatically left her, the rest of the winter she endured, gnawing on her own.

She really wanted to cry after all.

In all her life, there had never been a moment so harsh. No matter how strong she was, she was defeated by this difficult situation.

There were nights when she cried alone in this lonely darkness.

She cried the first time when she was born, the second time when she almost drowned, the third time when she talked on the phone with SuA and confessed everything….

And the fourth time, the fifth time, the number of times she couldn't even remember, it was all because she couldn't find Kim SuA.

A person who cried less and was as strong as she was, now becoming extremely weak, her heart was so fragile that even a gentle winter wind would make her feel a sharp pain immediately.

Siyeon went to SBS to find SuA, they said she no longer works there.

Then Siyeon went to find Eunbi to ask about SuA, Eunbi said that she also sometimes comes to check the apartment but hasn't seen anyone in the studio for a long time. Eunbi asked Siyeon if the studio is no longer in use, will Siyeon continue to rent it.....?

Siyeon decided to keep SuA's studio, she still made a rental contract with Eunbi but switched to paying in 6 month installments, she would pay once every half a year, because she had no reason to go there often. Usually, at the beginning of every month, she goes to see Eunbi to pay the rent, then comes to the studio to give SuA something to eat, or buys SuA refreshments. Now that studio was no longer in use, so she didn't come. There's still hope in her that SuA will return, so she needs to keep SuA’s  workspace, right?

SuA worked so hard to have this studio, she can't close it.

Siyeon wondered, if SuA doesn't work at the studio, doesn't work at SBS, how does SuA make money, where does the money come from to support herself?

“Do you need money? If you’re not next to me, who will take care of you? I send you some money, how do you think?"

Siyeon has had such messages asking about SuA's finances, but of course she still hasn't received any response. She was worried that SuA would be short of money, so even though she asked, she actively deposited money into SuA’s bank account, once a week.

She texted SuA hundreds of times, stayed up late every night waiting for SuA to come home, she always turned on the app connected to SuA's Fitbit watch to check the health status.

And the result is still the same, SuA always disappears without a trace.

She knew that during the time SuA was away from her, SuA was never in a stable mood, always in a state of anxiety and sadness.

If leaving her is such an unstable mood, then why hide from her? Why is SuA still wearing that Fitbit watch, does SuA still want to inform her health status?

Then Siyeon made a decision, she won't text SuA anymore, she will return to her normal lifestyle before meeting SuA, she won't stay up all night waiting for SuA. She also deleted the other app, so that she wouldn't have to be curious about SuA's status.

Kim SuA clearly has enough wings, money is stable, doesn't need her presence by the side anymore, right?

She didn't even send money to SuA anymore.

Her calmness and expressionless face were her strong points, she needed to get those things back to herself.

She won't be touched again, ever again, with anyone.

That's enough suffering....

In her thoughts, Siyeon suddenly received a phone call from an unknown number, a long series, which seemed to be foreign numbers.

- Hello.

“Lee Siyeon, remember me?”

- Great-grandfather? - Siyeon was surprised.

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SuA woke up, her joints blistered from being too tired, she collapsed right on her desk last night, due to drinking too much and busy working.

Working while drinking is now her daily routine.

On the table there is a bowl of ramen that is half eaten, it stinks because it has been left there since last night, SuA grimaced and lazily got up, cleaning up a bit.

Her neat and clean personality suddenly disappeared, now she leaves things very messy, it's convenient to throw them there, even after eating and drinking, she doesn't even bother to clean it up, let it smell so bad til she can't stand it, then she cleaned

In order to optimally avoid Siyeon, SuA resigned from her job at SBS, now she only silently makes music to collaborate with singers, when the products are released to the public, her name is anonymized, she only takes royalties. The money she earns is fine, enough to cover her life, she knows that Siyeon has a period of time every week that sends her money because Siyeon thinks she won't have money to spend, Siyeon texted her regularly.

In the past, the conversation on kakaotalk was almost exclusively SuA's messages, because she always texted Siyeon good morning and good night, then wherever she went, she actively reported Siyeon via text message. Siyeon spends a lot of time at home, so Siyeon rarely texts back.

But now it's the opposite, Siyeon monologues in that conversation, because SuA doesn't dare to answer.

Although it was extremely hard, she had already adapted to the lifestyle without Lee Siyeon, she made the decision not to rely on Siyeon anymore. The only thing she still owes Siyeon is this small studio apartment, Siyeon still pays her rent very well. SuA thought, she will try hard, earn more money by herself so that she can rent another studio, so that she doesn't have to rely on Siyeon anymore.

After a few months, Siyeon stopped texting and sending her money, she sensed that Siyeon had given up.

Siyeon no longer wanted to find her….

SuA feels at peace, because this is what she wants, when there is no trace of Lee Siyeon in her life, she will forget Siyeon faster, right?

She really wants to forget Siyeon, she wants to live against her heart, she doesn't want to be touched by Siyeon anymore.

Thinking about Siyeon's completely black eyes, and the harsh fact that Siyeon herself made SuA deaf, SuA couldn't accept it.

How she suffered and struggled with this problem of hers, and the cause was Lee Siyeon.

She cannot forgive.

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Hawaii Island.

Siyeon took a long-haul flight to meet her great-grandfather, Lee Sungmin. Her whole family has only her parents in Korea, the rest of her parents and grandparents' siblings are overseas, and her great-grandfather is in Hawaii. Gahyeon's parents are also in Japan, Gahyeon is alone in Seoul in the same city as Siyeon.

Every year they gather in one place to meet and exchange. The community of witches is less than a thousand people, they agree that they will not stay close to each other to protect the community, if they gather in one place, they will be easily detected.

Siyeon was surprised because her great-grandfather took the initiative to call her first, she remembered her great-grandfather many times whenever she thought of breaking SuA's curse. She hadn't planned to meet her great-grandfather yet, but her great-grandfather had already made an appointment to meet her.

It was not until she stepped foot in Hawaii that Siyeon knew the reason, because her mother had contacted her great-grandfather first and explained the situation.

So he knew all about her, how she had to get rid of Kim SuA, how she fell in love with SuA and brought SuA home to raise SuA until now, and how she wanted to break the curse and save SuA’s life.

Siyeon secretly thanked her mother, although her mother opposed her decision, but still sympathized and created an opportunity to help her.

- Siyeon, did you know that our community a few centuries ago was only a few dozen people, now it's up to several hundred people, also due to the very good maintenance of the race - ancestor Lee took a sip of tea, sitting opposite Siyeon in a quiet room, surrounded by only trees, waves, and nature.

- Yes.

- The story of witches falling in love with ordinary people actually existed, but for the sake of the development of the race, it was always kept secret and silently opposed. If a witch were to breed with a human, there would be two cases, the baby being born would have magic, or the baby would just be a normal person.

- …………………….

- So of course I can't support your love story, Siyeon.

Siyeon listened attentively, she knew that her love for SuA was like a forbidden fruit, no one could empathize.

Really bad.

End chapter 14.