Flash!
"Huh...!"
He gasped and opened his eyes.
He saw the computer monitor in front of him.
Jo Sung hyun blinked and looked around.
He saw a man looking at him from the side.
It was a familiar face.
He had seen him somewhere, but he couldn't remember where.
He felt cold sweat running down his face, and he took a deep breath to calm himself.
"Hoo. Huk...."
He breathed heavily and tried to figure out the situation.
Meanwhile, the cold sweat kept flowing.
He remembered the blue water that came closer in an instant, and Chae-yoon who passed by his eyes.
It was too vivid.
"What is this...."
Jo Sung hyun muttered like a groan.
Before he could fully grasp the situation, he heard a familiar voice from behind.
"Hey, Jo Sung hyun. What are you doing?"
He flinched at the voice that pierced his ears and turned his head.
It was a familiar face, but at the same time, a bit strange.
The person who made him able to do music.
The person who almost took care of him at the company.
The person who quit the company a few years before he was abandoned by the company and started his own planning company.
It was Park Jung-won.
"Jung-won hyung...."
"Huh? Why are you acting like this today?"
"I don't know...."
Park Jung-won's reaction made Jo Sung hyun pause.
It was too weird.
He was sure he jumped from the bridge, but when he opened his eyes, he was here.
Was this a reasonable phenomenon?
He wondered if it was a dream, but it was too vivid for that.
He felt the warm air of the office on his skin, and the cold sweat on his back was slowly subsiding.
"Hey, Jo Sung hyun. Get up, let's go smoke for a while."
Park Jung-won said.
He got up from his seat with a bewildered face.
He still didn't know what was going on.
He rummaged through his pockets and took out his smartphone.
He looked at it and lost his words for a moment.
"......"
It was an old smartphone.
A phone that must have been out for 10 years.
What was this, he wondered, and Park Jung-won handed him a cigarette.
He took it awkwardly and looked up at Park Jung-won.
He was much younger than the Park Jung-won he remembered.
"Jung-won hyung...."
"No, what. I know I've been good to you, but don't call me hyung at work."
Park Jung-won said with a strange face.
He was confused by his behavior and words.
Click.
With the sound of a lighter, Park Jung-won lit his cigarette and looked at Jo Sung hyun, who was staring blankly.
He sighed softly and opened his mouth.
"Don't you have a lighter?"
"Ah."
"Tsk. What's wrong with you today? You look like you have no mind."
Park Jung-won lit Jo Sung hyun's cigarette with his lighter.
As the cigarette lit, Jo Sung hyun took a puff out of habit.
Swoosh.
"Hoo...."
He exhaled the smoke and made a sound.
He felt his head clear a bit as the nicotine entered.
"Jung-won hyung."
"Stop it. What's wrong with you today? Do you have any problems? Are you bored with your work? Call me Team Leader Park, you bastard."
Park Jung-won frowned and raised his hand.
He had a unique exaggerated gesture, and he felt a strange sense of familiarity.
"Team Leader Park."
He swallowed his saliva and called Park Jung-won again.
He nodded his head as if to tell him to speak.
"What's the date today?"
"It's the 30th. Why are you like this?"
"The 30th...?"
"2020, September 30th...oh, wait a minute."
Park Jung-won stopped talking and furrowed his brows.
But Jo Sung hyun didn't pay attention to Park Jung-won's expression.
2020, September 30th.
Is this crazy?
'10 years ago? This is a ridiculous situation.'
Did he really go back 10 years?
Is this possible?
He thought so and unconsciously took a puff of his cigarette, but he coughed.
"Cough. Cough!"
He coughed and felt it too vividly.
This was definitely real.
His head was complicated.
If this was real, then his life for the next 10 years, was that all a dream?
'No, wait a minute. September 30th?'
He stopped thinking and clenched his fist.
"Today is that day, right? I understand why you were out of it now. Tsk. You should leave early today and come back."
He heard Park Jung-won's voice.
Today was his wife's anniversary.
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Thanks for the chapter aRaion! Well, looks like he got his wish!
ReplyDeleteAuthors a bit of a douche to bring him back but not far enough to save his wife
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