After hearing her family's origin story, eight-year-old Aoi Mitsui's brain short-circuited. Wait, my family has always been evil, vicious, cruel, and rich. Isn't that the standard family background of the despicable, venomous, ugly man from the anime that just aired a few days ago? She scrambled into her grandmother's arms to hide her little face, wailing that it hurt. She didn't want any face-slapping, didn't want to end up loving what she hated, and definitely didn't want to grow up ugly!
But things didn't go as she wished. At sixteen, the young lady was still distracted by pretty weeds.
Kwon Ji-yong, who was so busy preparing to debut that he wished he could stretch every minute into two, stared at the Japanese textbook before him and the Japanese teacher whose name suited her perfectly, his feelings complicated. Was the company president going to burn the bridge after crossing it? No, he hadn't even set foot on the bridge yet. Thinking this, he kept his eyes forward and repeated the pronunciation after her, calmly accepted the encouraging rice ball she gave him, and let her fuss around him with a perfectly tranquil heart.
Much later, the young lady wailed in the middle of the night as she demanded to know about the note he'd received that day. Kwon Ji-yong had barely begun to grin when she followed up with a fierce threat: if he didn't hand it over, she'd quit the fandom and become an anti!
Kwon Ji-yong: ...Aoi Mitsui! A good kid whose character never changes, who never forgets her original intentions!
Whatever the case, much later, instead of agonizing over whether his half-idol, half-flirtatious girlfriend liked him better onstage or in private, Kwon Ji-yong finally came to appreciate her stubbornness as they talked about their cross-border relationship. It was nice. Even when she was a hundred, she probably still wouldn't change her mind. Oh, that meant they could be in love for a whole lifetime. How wonderful.
P.S. Is it okay for the heroine to be Japanese? I'm conflicted, considering her future career as a journalist.
It's so beautiful, more and more [sending my heart] [sending my heart]