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If I Meet You Again, (Will You Still Be Mine?)
Start: 9.2.25
End:
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Single father Choi Seungcheol already has a lot on his plate.
A dead husband, an energetic yet sick child, an awesome brother and an annoying employee.
Enter Yoon Jeonghan, the annoyingly cheerful new employee who seems determined to crack through his gruff exterior. He pries too much, smiles too easily.
After all, why does Seungcheol have to be so grumpy? And why does Jeonghan feel so drawn to him?
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Choi Seungcheol
You ever think about how love isn't what they say it is?
People make it sound like a cure, like something that mends you—but love can ruin just as much as it heals. It takes, it twists, it leaves you reaching for something that isn't there anymore.
I've seen love turn into silence. Watched it slip through my fingers, felt it linger in places it no longer belonged. Maybe I held on too tightly. Maybe I didn't hold on enough. Either way, it's gone.
And the thing about love? Once it leaves, it never comes back the same.
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Yoon Jeonghan
You ever get the feeling that something is missing, but you can't quite name it?
Like there's a space inside you where something used to be—something important—but no matter how hard you try, you just can't remember what it was.
People tell me who I was before, what my life used to be, but their words feel like stories about a stranger. I listen, I nod, I pretend to understand. But the truth is, I don't know if I want to remember. Because if it was something good, then I lost it. And if it wasn't, then maybe I'm better off without it.
Still, sometimes... in the quiet, in the in-between moments, I wonder. I wonder if the past is looking for me. If it's waiting for me to turn around. And I wonder if, when I finally do, I'll regret it.
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Chwe Hansol
Do people ever get used to being overlooked?
When people stop expecting things from you, stop listening, stop caring—it gets easy to disappear. Easy to let them believe whatever they want about you, because fighting back isn't worth the exhaustion.
I learned that young. Learned that in silence, in the spaces between words that never reached me. People see what they want to see. They take what they want to take. And me? I just learned to stay out of the way.
But he never looked at me like that. Never treated me like something small, something disposable. Maybe that's why I stayed. Maybe that's why I'm still here, making sure he doesn't lose himself to something that already broke him once. Because he saved me in a way no one else ever did. And if I have to be the bad guy to protect him now, so be it.
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Boo Seungkwan
Do you ever think you're doing the right thing, only to look back and realise you might've taken everything from someone instead?
I told him to leave. Told him he didn't belong here anymore. And he listened. I thought I was protecting what was left, stopping an old wound from reopening. But all I really did was carve out something that was never meant to be gone.
Because now, I see what's left behind. The emptiness, the restless searching for something that isn't there. The weight of something missing, something stolen. And I did that. I was so sure I was saving him, but all I did was leave him with a life that feels just a little too hollow.
I can't fix the past. But I can make sure it finds its way back. And this time, I won't be the reason it slips away again.
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Other Characters:
Choi Chan (Dino)
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Playlist
Jeongcheol -
The Night We Met – Lord Huron
Exile – Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver
The Scientist – Coldplay
Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
You Are the Reason – Calum Scott
Fix You – Coldplay
All I Want – Kodaline
Right Where You Left Me – Taylor Swift
Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
Say Something – A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera
Before You Go – Lewis Capaldi
If the World Was Ending – JP Saxe & Julia Michaels
Everglow – Coldplay
Hate That I Love You – Rihanna & Ne-Yo
Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
Verkwan -
Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush
Better Than Me – The Brobecks
I Bet My Life – Imagine Dragons
Half of My Heart – John Mayer
Wicked Game – Chris Isaak
Take Me to Church – Hozier
War of Hearts – Ruelle
Hardest to Love – The Weeknd
It’s You – Henry
The One That Got Away – Katy Perry
Lose You to Love Me – Selena Gomez
Lover, You Should’ve Come Over – Jeff Buckley
Like We Used To – A Rocket to the Moon
Rosyln – Bon Iver & St. Vincent
Who Are You – Laufey
Overall Book -
The Night We Met – Lord Huron
Exile – Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver
Everglow – Coldplay
Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
Fix You – Coldplay
Before You Go – Lewis Capaldi
Right Where You Left Me – Taylor Swift
All I Want – Kodaline
If the World Was Ending – JP Saxe & Julia Michaels
The Scientist – Coldplay
Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur
Only Love – Ben Howard
Hate That I Love You – Rihanna ft. Ne-Yo
Rosyln – Bon Iver & St. Vincent
Jealous – Labrinth
Who Are You – Laufey
Unconditionally – Katy Perry
No Time to Die – Billie Eilish
Iris – Goo Goo Dolls