[KO One] From the Depths of My Heart

While waiting at an intersection for the light to turn red, I saw him. A smear of bright red stained his lips. His already slender frame looked even more fragile as he sat leaning against the steps in a narrow alley, his face gloomy. If my eyesight had been a little better, perhaps I would have seen his reddened eyes and the unrepentant hatred in them.

Unfortunately, my eyesight was not that good. In that brief moment of distraction, I thought of the little boy who used to sit quietly under the shade of a tree, waiting while his friends laughed and played. An Qi told me he was the smartest child in their school. My uncle had praised his refinement and good manners more than once, too. But from the first time I saw him, I knew he wore a mask. He smiled faintly, hiding the longing in his eyes, as he called me Sister An Ning. He deliberately looked away whenever Wang Da Dong and An Qi ran across the grass.

Rex has grown up, and so have I. So I remind myself that he is no longer the little boy who could only wait beneath the shade of a tree. In the end, just as he had longed to be, he became a powerful and fearsome adult.

Theme: Older woman-younger man romance