★★ Tattooist Yoojeong Seo ★★
“Sister, it hurts.”
“Even if it hurts, endure it. That way, the color will come out beautifully.”
“Even so…it’s like scratching my spine with a knife…so painful.”
“Huhu, so you’re doing this even though you’re sick of it?”
“Ah, that’s true. Even though you might think, [why do this every time?], I can be proud if the color is pretty and I like it, you know? This is why I can’t stop tattooing.”
“That’s right.”
One was lying down and the other was sitting next to the other while moving the tattoo machine. Yoojeong talked while wiping the tattoo ink on the back as her finishing touch.
“I think it came out okay, do you like it?”
The customer who was checking his back in the mirror answered Yoojeong’s question.
“Yes, I like it. As expected of sister.”
“Huhu, thank you for the compliment.”
She tore off the wrap and put it on the back, securing it with masking tape so it wouldn’t fall off.
“Sister, this is a tape.”
“Yes, why?”
The customer smiled and said.
“I can’t do anything about the dirt on the tape so I’m doing a show of getting my hands on my back somehow.”
“Ah, haha.”
Yoojeong laughed out loud at the joke.
“Anyways, good work.”
“Thanks, be careful for the time being and when should we set up our next schedule?”
“Well, the next holiday is going to be difficult, so set it back two weeks.”
“Okay, then I’ll make a reservation.”
“I’ll go then. Thanks for your efforts!”
“Yes, be careful.”
After seeing off the customer, Yoojeong returned to her seat. She cleared the place, discarding the water she used to wash the ink. She removed the needles that had been inserted into the machine and all the vinyl that had been placed on the bed.
After arranging all the seats, Yoojeong closed the shop. It’s already been five years since she started doing tattoos by reservation. Recalling the reservation for tomorrow morning, Yoojeong moved her feet diligently.
She stopped at a mart on the way home. Today, she planned on eating pork belly for the first time in a while.
“It’s been a while since I had meat, right?”
She’d been busy lately, so she’d been eating casually, making her mouth water just looking at the red meat that the butcher wrapped. After buying other small items, she headed home with a heavy bag while humming.
Kiik.
“When the hell will I stop hearing this?”
Yoojeong grumbled as she went up to the rooftop room she obtained through the rental contract.
“Why do the stairs seem so narrow today?”
It was an old house, so the stairs were all different heights, Yoojeong sighed and exhaled white steam.
“Only here is frozen. It’s not the middle of winter yet, what does it mean when it’s already freezing?”
Standing in front of the house she finally arrived at, she dialed her password.
Titititi, tilolong.
“I’m home.”
She lives alone, but she always comes in with a greeting. It’s been almost ten years since she sent away her family first. Even so, the greeting always came out. Looking at the picture of her parents hanging in front of the entrance, she said hello.
“Euchya.”
Putting the groceries on her table, Yoojeong took off her coat and threw her bag across the sofa.
“Ah!”
She sprained her ankle because she accidentally stepped on the remote control that was left in her room.
“Ah, it’s really like this every time.”
She sat on the floor for a while and checked her ankles. Having survived a car accident on her own, she had many after effects besides her ankle.
“Egogo.”
Her knees weren’t very good either, so even though she’s not that old, she could feel a pain.
“As expected, pork belly eaten after work is the life!”
Humming, she took out the meat, mushrooms, and vegetables from the bag. She took out the very large electric grill she had bought the other day and put it on the table.
Wash the vegetables and mushrooms and put them aside. Take out the rice from the fridge and put it on the stove, and in the meantime, she went into the room and changed into comfortable clothes.
After roughly washing her hands and feet in the bathroom, she came out and put her hand lightly above the grill that had been turned on beforehand to check if the temperature was right.
“Not yet.”
It needs to be heated a little more so that the meat is cooked deliciously.
“Okay, this is it.”
Ten rows of thick pork belly were placed on the moderately hot grill.
Shik, shik, shik.
“I need to hear this.”
Along with the delicious sound, she heard the timer ran out.
Ting.
She took the rice from the rice cooker and put it on the table. She opened the hot lid and let the steam out.
“It’s hot.”
She quickly grabbed her earlobe to cool her fingers. She went straight to the bag she had thrown earlier and took out a book from the bag. It was one of Yoojeong’s favorite acts. Eating delicious food and reading a book.
Lately, she’d been obsessed with fantasy novels.
“Hmm, the title is Black Dragon’s Descendant…alright, that’s meaningful.”
After checking the title of the book and putting it on the table, she took out the kimchi from the refrigerator.
“This is the last kimchi, should I make more?”
It wasn’t Kimjang season, so Yoojeong was troubled. Should she just make kimchi on a day without reservations?
The reason why she kept making kimchi even if it’s annoying was simple. Strangely, she wasn’t able to eat the kimchi she bought for a long time. Even if she thought, “it’s delicious when you take a bite”, she’d put it in the fridge and won’t take it out often. In the end, she would make kimchi stew by stir frying the soured kimchi as soon as it ripened.
“Oh, it’s now.”
Shik, shik, shik.
Ten rows of pork belly were turned over one after another.
“The rule of three is the truth.
Turn the meat only three times.
It was the core of the meat truth religion she devoutly believed in.
“Juiciness, you are surrounded. Give up and don’t come out.”
Muttering to herself, Yoojeong arranged the meat in a line and put cabbage kimchi on the side.
“Yes, grilled pork belly’s partner kimchi came up, right? Now, shake hands with each other.”
The kimchi on top of the dripping pork belly oil was glistening.
“Oh my, look at that color! Did you eat caramel?”
Yoojeong cheered as she saw the pork belly, which had been cooked to a golden brown and was shiny on the outside. Stirring the kimchi once so that the oil is evenly smeared, Yoojeong finally sat down on the chair.
“Oh, water.”
She got up quickly and took a bottle of water from the refrigerator.
“Corn water is the best.”
She liked the water made from boiled roasted corn sold in the market, And her next favorite was barley tea. Those who haven’t tasted water made from roasted barley cannot say that they drank real barley tea.
“Well, I’ll have to make barley tea next time.”
The taste was completely different from barley tea brewed with tea bags. She sighed for no reason, took out a cup and filled it with water.
Kuleog.
She only drank half a glass before putting the cup down.
“Uh, that’s cool.”
It’s not that she hate alcohol, but she tend not to drink it as accompaniments. She didn’t have the spirit to put alcohol on top of the food. That’s why she doesn’t drink a lot of water before eating. Of course, she also don’t drink water often while eating. If she eat all the food and drink cool water, it can’t be that delicious.
“The last one.”
She turned the pork belly over for the last time then started cutting it with scissors. Yoojeong, who likes meat that’s bigger rather than small, cut it enough to fit her mouth.
“Good.”
Only then did she place the mushroom beside the meat and pick up a piece of lettuce. Shake off the water adn place the grilled kimchi on top first.
“Ah, I didn’t bring out the steamed radish.”
Thinking that something was missing, she looked around the table and muttered.
“Look at my mind. I didn’t even break it.”
She must have been tired to forget the two most important things.
She put the lettuce that was in her hand on top of the rice and took out green onions from the bag she had been shopping with.
Add green onion to seasoning with soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, red pepper powder, and sesame oil then mix. Take out several packs of wrapped radish from the refrigerator and discard the broth. Squeeze out the water and cut it in half to make it easier to eat, then place it on a plate.
She was hungry so she only cared about grilling the meat, forgetting a lot. Only then did Yoojeong sit down again, put lettuce on top of her hand, put the radish on top of the kimchi that was on top, and put the seasonings on top.
“Alright, now we just need to bring in the meat.”
After putting a large piece of meat on top, she rolled up the piece of lettuce and put it in her mouth.
She chewed wildly, so excited she hummed a song and shoulder danced.
“Delish.”
Everyone will say so. Everyone makes short tongue sounds when eating delicious food.
She didn’t know if everyone goes back to being a child when eating delicious food. Yoojeong was absorbed in packing the second wrap. This time, she laid the radish first, spread rice on top, then put plenty of green onions and mushrooms on top.
At the end, she put the meat in and wrapped it in a big wrap and put it in her mouth.
“Yesh.”
Yoojeong mumbled and then opened the book she had been carrying next to her. Moisture from her fingers seeped into the book. Turning over the first chapter, making one leg cross, place the book on top and read with her head down.
Even though she knew it’s a bad habit, she can’t help it.
[There was a country of dragons. Humans had no choice but to migrate there, which occupied a large continet. As monsters invaded the place where humans lived, it has already ceased to be the home of humans.
A large scale migration began, and humans tried to live by paying tribute. Among them, a woman of unparalleled beauty, who was a princess, was offered as a tribute. The woman approached, trembling with fear.
Ironically, the dragon fell in love with the human woman at first sight. He accepted her, a tribute, and fell in love with her. Accepting them as their companions, the dragon embraced the humans. In the land given by the dragon, humans lived in relief. And the princess had a dragon child.]
“Nom nom.”
While reading the book, Yoojeong naturally packed her next wrap. Then she read the book with her mouth open again.
[Nearly 2000 years have passed since then, and the woman the dragon loved died, but their descendants continued to carry the blood. In the meantime, humans grew older and forgot their gratitude, and the place that used to be the land of dragons was broken into pieces and reborn as different countries.
The Kingdom of Capitis, the Empire of Corpora, and the City of Caudatisium, among which there was a country ruled by a descendant of the woman the dragon loved. The dragon, who quietly coordinated the world’s monsters and continued to live his life by taking care of his successor’s country, came to know his end one day.
And his descendant, a boy, was born. So far, the child who inherited the thickest blood from his descendants was unstable.
He couldn’t handle his power properly, so he grew up with a sharper and more sensitive personality. Still, when his father and mother were alive, it was fine. The problem was after that.
The queen he loved died so the king went mad. Maybe even that was somewhat natural because they’re his descendant, the dragon thought for a moment. Didn’t he, too, never moved from the deepest part of this kingdom because of his lingering feelings after his partner died?
His body, hardened like a fossil, seemed to announce the nearing end. The king went mad, and eventually found a woman identical to the dead queen and brought her back. Even the child wept when he saw a woman just like his mother. But it was like the sound of a trumpet announcing the beginning of a tragedy. The stepmother…]
“Ei, I already ate it all.”
She diligently moved her hands while reading the book, and the ten strips of pork belly disappeared in no time. She turned the book over and put it on the table, then cut the leftover rice, kimchi, and mushrooms into small pieces and stir fried them.
Fried rice is delicious no matter what you put in, but the most delicious would be rice fried with kimchi after eating all the meat, Yoojeong thought.
She found seeweed and admired the savory smell, saliva spontaneously coming out. As a finishing touch, she sprinkled crushed seeweed powder and raised the spoon again. She lowered the temperature of the gril and began to eat the fried rice while blowing on it.
“Ah, it’s hot.”
Still, she didn’t eat less, and ate the rice on the grill as it is. This is similar to eating ramen as it is in a pot without transferring it to a bowl.
Would you say that somehow it tastes better?
Just like the meat, she ate it cleanly, scratching the bottom of the grill and leaving no grains of rice behind. She put the leftover wrap and radish back in the refrigerator, rinsed the rest with water and put it in the sink.
She wanted to continue reading the book.
After drinking corn water, Yoojeong brought the book and sat down on the sofa.
[The stepmother was very friendly and kind at first to take advantage of the child. However, it didn’t last long. The king died suddenly one day and the kingdom fell into chaos.
The nobles scrambled to bring their daughters over to the prince who was still a child. They made an absurd justification that it’s to create a successor, but everyone was thinking the same thing.
Regent.
The insidious intention to seize the real power of the palace by serving as the regent of the prince was firmly rooted in the hearts of all nobles. However, the queen who defeated all the nobles bewitched and took possession of the child with a kind smile.
The palace, where the queen’s convergence and purging began, was filled with blood every day. Still, the queen who had been kind to him until then, found that the child was blocking her path, and from then on, she began to poison the child’s food.]
“Waa, playing with the food? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many people go hungry because they have no food to eat? Aigo, the future for the next four years is clearly visible.”
Empathizing with the book, Yoojeong uttered swear words.
You work to eat.
That is her motto. As a habit, she’d say that she wants to eat everything and she hates missing a meal the most.
Perhaps it was a habit developed after her parents died.
It’s even more so when she thought of her mother who always said, ‘Have you eaten?’ Why did she have so much to do at that time?
She often forgot when her mother told her to come out to eat because she was always doing other things. Then she screamed at her mother when she came to her room.
She didn’t know if she missed those memories or if she still wanted to listen to her mother, but she wanted to take care of what she ate.
With her face close enough to bury her nose in the fast-paced book, Yoojeong fell in love with it. She didn’t notice the time passing until she finished the thick book. And when she flipped through the final chapter, she fell asleep with her head hanging down.
She forgot the existence of her cell phone, which she didn’t even take out of her bag, and fell into a sound sleep.
★★ Tattooist Yoojeong Seo ★★
“Sister, it hurts.”
“Even if it hurts, endure it. That way, the color will come out beautifully.”
“Even so…it’s like scratching my spine with a knife…so painful.”
“Huhu, so you’re doing this even though you’re sick of it?”
“Ah, that’s true. Even though you might think, [why do this every time?], I can be proud if the color is pretty and I like it, you know? This is why I can’t stop tattooing.”
“That’s right.”
One was lying down and the other was sitting next to the other while moving the tattoo machine. Yoojeong talked while wiping the tattoo ink on the back as her finishing touch.
“I think it came out okay, do you like it?”
The customer who was checking his back in the mirror answered Yoojeong’s question.
“Yes, I like it. As expected of sister.”
“Huhu, thank you for the compliment.”
She tore off the wrap and put it on the back, securing it with masking tape so it wouldn’t fall off.
“Sister, this is a tape.”
“Yes, why?”
The customer smiled and said.
“I can’t do anything about the dirt on the tape so I’m doing a show of getting my hands on my back somehow.”
“Ah, haha.”
Yoojeong laughed out loud at the joke.
“Anyways, good work.”
“Thanks, be careful for the time being and when should we set up our next schedule?”
“Well, the next holiday is going to be difficult, so set it back two weeks.”
“Okay, then I’ll make a reservation.”
“I’ll go then. Thanks for your efforts!”
“Yes, be careful.”
After seeing off the customer, Yoojeong returned to her seat. She cleared the place, discarding the water she used to wash the ink. She removed the needles that had been inserted into the machine and all the vinyl that had been placed on the bed.
After arranging all the seats, Yoojeong closed the shop. It’s already been five years since she started doing tattoos by reservation. Recalling the reservation for tomorrow morning, Yoojeong moved her feet diligently.
She stopped at a mart on the way home. Today, she planned on eating pork belly for the first time in a while.
“It’s been a while since I had meat, right?”
She’d been busy lately, so she’d been eating casually, making her mouth water just looking at the red meat that the butcher wrapped. After buying other small items, she headed home with a heavy bag while humming.
Kiik.
“When the hell will I stop hearing this?”
Yoojeong grumbled as she went up to the rooftop room she obtained through the rental contract.
“Why do the stairs seem so narrow today?”
It was an old house, so the stairs were all different heights, Yoojeong sighed and exhaled white steam.
“Only here is frozen. It’s not the middle of winter yet, what does it mean when it’s already freezing?”
Standing in front of the house she finally arrived at, she dialed her password.
Titititi, tilolong.
“I’m home.”
She lives alone, but she always comes in with a greeting. It’s been almost ten years since she sent away her family first. Even so, the greeting always came out. Looking at the picture of her parents hanging in front of the entrance, she said hello.
“Euchya.”
Putting the groceries on her table, Yoojeong took off her coat and threw her bag across the sofa.
“Ah!”
She sprained her ankle because she accidentally stepped on the remote control that was left in her room.
“Ah, it’s really like this every time.”
She sat on the floor for a while and checked her ankles. Having survived a car accident on her own, she had many after effects besides her ankle.
“Egogo.”
Her knees weren’t very good either, so even though she’s not that old, she could feel a pain.
“As expected, pork belly eaten after work is the life!”
Humming, she took out the meat, mushrooms, and vegetables from the bag. She took out the very large electric grill she had bought the other day and put it on the table.
Wash the vegetables and mushrooms and put them aside. Take out the rice from the fridge and put it on the stove, and in the meantime, she went into the room and changed into comfortable clothes.
After roughly washing her hands and feet in the bathroom, she came out and put her hand lightly above the grill that had been turned on beforehand to check if the temperature was right.
“Not yet.”
It needs to be heated a little more so that the meat is cooked deliciously.
“Okay, this is it.”
Ten rows of thick pork belly were placed on the moderately hot grill.
Shik, shik, shik.
“I need to hear this.”
Along with the delicious sound, she heard the timer ran out.
Ting.
She took the rice from the rice cooker and put it on the table. She opened the hot lid and let the steam out.
“It’s hot.”
She quickly grabbed her earlobe to cool her fingers. She went straight to the bag she had thrown earlier and took out a book from the bag. It was one of Yoojeong’s favorite acts. Eating delicious food and reading a book.
Lately, she’d been obsessed with fantasy novels.
“Hmm, the title is Black Dragon’s Descendant…alright, that’s meaningful.”
After checking the title of the book and putting it on the table, she took out the kimchi from the refrigerator.
“This is the last kimchi, should I make more?”
It wasn’t Kimjang season, so Yoojeong was troubled. Should she just make kimchi on a day without reservations?
The reason why she kept making kimchi even if it’s annoying was simple. Strangely, she wasn’t able to eat the kimchi she bought for a long time. Even if she thought, “it’s delicious when you take a bite”, she’d put it in the fridge and won’t take it out often. In the end, she would make kimchi stew by stir frying the soured kimchi as soon as it ripened.
“Oh, it’s now.”
Shik, shik, shik.
Ten rows of pork belly were turned over one after another.
“The rule of three is the truth.
Turn the meat only three times.
It was the core of the meat truth religion she devoutly believed in.
“Juiciness, you are surrounded. Give up and don’t come out.”
Muttering to herself, Yoojeong arranged the meat in a line and put cabbage kimchi on the side.
“Yes, grilled pork belly’s partner kimchi came up, right? Now, shake hands with each other.”
The kimchi on top of the dripping pork belly oil was glistening.
“Oh my, look at that color! Did you eat caramel?”
Yoojeong cheered as she saw the pork belly, which had been cooked to a golden brown and was shiny on the outside. Stirring the kimchi once so that the oil is evenly smeared, Yoojeong finally sat down on the chair.
“Oh, water.”
She got up quickly and took a bottle of water from the refrigerator.
“Corn water is the best.”
She liked the water made from boiled roasted corn sold in the market, And her next favorite was barley tea. Those who haven’t tasted water made from roasted barley cannot say that they drank real barley tea.
“Well, I’ll have to make barley tea next time.”
The taste was completely different from barley tea brewed with tea bags. She sighed for no reason, took out a cup and filled it with water.
Kuleog.
She only drank half a glass before putting the cup down.
“Uh, that’s cool.”
It’s not that she hate alcohol, but she tend not to drink it as accompaniments. She didn’t have the spirit to put alcohol on top of the food. That’s why she doesn’t drink a lot of water before eating. Of course, she also don’t drink water often while eating. If she eat all the food and drink cool water, it can’t be that delicious.
“The last one.”
She turned the pork belly over for the last time then started cutting it with scissors. Yoojeong, who likes meat that’s bigger rather than small, cut it enough to fit her mouth.
“Good.”
Only then did she place the mushroom beside the meat and pick up a piece of lettuce. Shake off the water adn place the grilled kimchi on top first.
“Ah, I didn’t bring out the steamed radish.”
Thinking that something was missing, she looked around the table and muttered.
“Look at my mind. I didn’t even break it.”
She must have been tired to forget the two most important things.
She put the lettuce that was in her hand on top of the rice and took out green onions from the bag she had been shopping with.
Add green onion to seasoning with soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, red pepper powder, and sesame oil then mix. Take out several packs of wrapped radish from the refrigerator and discard the broth. Squeeze out the water and cut it in half to make it easier to eat, then place it on a plate.
She was hungry so she only cared about grilling the meat, forgetting a lot. Only then did Yoojeong sit down again, put lettuce on top of her hand, put the radish on top of the kimchi that was on top, and put the seasonings on top.
“Alright, now we just need to bring in the meat.”
After putting a large piece of meat on top, she rolled up the piece of lettuce and put it in her mouth.
She chewed wildly, so excited she hummed a song and shoulder danced.
“Delish.”
Everyone will say so. Everyone makes short tongue sounds when eating delicious food.
She didn’t know if everyone goes back to being a child when eating delicious food. Yoojeong was absorbed in packing the second wrap. This time, she laid the radish first, spread rice on top, then put plenty of green onions and mushrooms on top.
At the end, she put the meat in and wrapped it in a big wrap and put it in her mouth.
“Yesh.”
Yoojeong mumbled and then opened the book she had been carrying next to her. Moisture from her fingers seeped into the book. Turning over the first chapter, making one leg cross, place the book on top and read with her head down.
Even though she knew it’s a bad habit, she can’t help it.
[There was a country of dragons. Humans had no choice but to migrate there, which occupied a large continet. As monsters invaded the place where humans lived, it has already ceased to be the home of humans.
A large scale migration began, and humans tried to live by paying tribute. Among them, a woman of unparalleled beauty, who was a princess, was offered as a tribute. The woman approached, trembling with fear.
Ironically, the dragon fell in love with the human woman at first sight. He accepted her, a tribute, and fell in love with her. Accepting them as their companions, the dragon embraced the humans. In the land given by the dragon, humans lived in relief. And the princess had a dragon child.]
“Nom nom.”
While reading the book, Yoojeong naturally packed her next wrap. Then she read the book with her mouth open again.
[Nearly 2000 years have passed since then, and the woman the dragon loved died, but their descendants continued to carry the blood. In the meantime, humans grew older and forgot their gratitude, and the place that used to be the land of dragons was broken into pieces and reborn as different countries.
The Kingdom of Capitis, the Empire of Corpora, and the City of Caudatisium, among which there was a country ruled by a descendant of the woman the dragon loved. The dragon, who quietly coordinated the world’s monsters and continued to live his life by taking care of his successor’s country, came to know his end one day.
And his descendant, a boy, was born. So far, the child who inherited the thickest blood from his descendants was unstable.
He couldn’t handle his power properly, so he grew up with a sharper and more sensitive personality. Still, when his father and mother were alive, it was fine. The problem was after that.
The queen he loved died so the king went mad. Maybe even that was somewhat natural because they’re his descendant, the dragon thought for a moment. Didn’t he, too, never moved from the deepest part of this kingdom because of his lingering feelings after his partner died?
His body, hardened like a fossil, seemed to announce the nearing end. The king went mad, and eventually found a woman identical to the dead queen and brought her back. Even the child wept when he saw a woman just like his mother. But it was like the sound of a trumpet announcing the beginning of a tragedy. The stepmother…]
“Ei, I already ate it all.”
She diligently moved her hands while reading the book, and the ten strips of pork belly disappeared in no time. She turned the book over and put it on the table, then cut the leftover rice, kimchi, and mushrooms into small pieces and stir fried them.
Fried rice is delicious no matter what you put in, but the most delicious would be rice fried with kimchi after eating all the meat, Yoojeong thought.
She found seeweed and admired the savory smell, saliva spontaneously coming out. As a finishing touch, she sprinkled crushed seeweed powder and raised the spoon again. She lowered the temperature of the gril and began to eat the fried rice while blowing on it.
“Ah, it’s hot.”
Still, she didn’t eat less, and ate the rice on the grill as it is. This is similar to eating ramen as it is in a pot without transferring it to a bowl.
Would you say that somehow it tastes better?
Just like the meat, she ate it cleanly, scratching the bottom of the grill and leaving no grains of rice behind. She put the leftover wrap and radish back in the refrigerator, rinsed the rest with water and put it in the sink.
She wanted to continue reading the book.
After drinking corn water, Yoojeong brought the book and sat down on the sofa.
[The stepmother was very friendly and kind at first to take advantage of the child. However, it didn’t last long. The king died suddenly one day and the kingdom fell into chaos.
The nobles scrambled to bring their daughters over to the prince who was still a child. They made an absurd justification that it’s to create a successor, but everyone was thinking the same thing.
Regent.
The insidious intention to seize the real power of the palace by serving as the regent of the prince was firmly rooted in the hearts of all nobles. However, the queen who defeated all the nobles bewitched and took possession of the child with a kind smile.
The palace, where the queen’s convergence and purging began, was filled with blood every day. Still, the queen who had been kind to him until then, found that the child was blocking her path, and from then on, she began to poison the child’s food.]
“Waa, playing with the food? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many people go hungry because they have no food to eat? Aigo, the future for the next four years is clearly visible.”
Empathizing with the book, Yoojeong uttered swear words.
You work to eat.
That is her motto. As a habit, she’d say that she wants to eat everything and she hates missing a meal the most.
Perhaps it was a habit developed after her parents died.
It’s even more so when she thought of her mother who always said, ‘Have you eaten?’ Why did she have so much to do at that time?
She often forgot when her mother told her to come out to eat because she was always doing other things. Then she screamed at her mother when she came to her room.
She didn’t know if she missed those memories or if she still wanted to listen to her mother, but she wanted to take care of what she ate.
With her face close enough to bury her nose in the fast-paced book, Yoojeong fell in love with it. She didn’t notice the time passing until she finished the thick book. And when she flipped through the final chapter, she fell asleep with her head hanging down.
She forgot the existence of her cell phone, which she didn’t even take out of her bag, and fell into a sound sleep.
