One Year, One Day

At twenty-nine, an age when people rush to catch the last train to marriage, throwing themselves into romance, amidst those waiting for new connections, Jihan waited for the one who had vanished one day at the age of seventeen. Someone he hadn't heard from, whose very life or death was unknown, making him all the more mysterious. After a wait that was by no means short—twelve years—an ordinary day unfolded. "Jihan, hello." At the end of that day, that person appeared before Jihan's eyes. Seventeen, suddenly disappeared. Kang Wonwoo, whose name was still vivid. **EXCERPT** "Why are you in such a hurry?" "I'm afraid you'll disappear again." "Ah..." Why he had disappeared back then. Where...