Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 42



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EP 2 – Other

Professor Hakjun Koo.

My teacher.

“If you want, you can audit classes at the university where you work. “Of course my classes are free, and I’ll make it easy for you to take other professors’ classes as well.”

He was essentially a good person. His noble character and morality came from his intelligence. He is a much wiser person than someone like me.

So, after listening to his words, I ended my relationship with my ex-lover of 6 years by agreement. And then I locked myself in a corner of my room and cut myself off from the world.

And I suffered for a long time, buried in the world of writing.

What did Professor Koo Hak-jun think of me?

“I don’t think you need much material support. They’ve already sold almost all 50,000 copies of the first printing, right? Then, based on your experience, you will probably receive a little less than 100 million won. He hasn’t seen your contract, so the exact number may be wrong, but if you feel like the company is paying you too little, feel free to contact me at any time. Anyway, now you don’t have to worry about tuition while attending middle school, high school, or college! Congratulations!”

Did he think of me as his favorite student?

Or did he think of me as a ragtag orphan trying to join a rich family without even knowing the subject?

During the long period of deliberation, the conclusion to that question changed from time to time. Generally, it was the former when alcohol was not added, and it was the latter when alcohol was added.

What was the real reason why Gu Hak-jun pushed me away?

As a wise intellectual, did he prevent the two young people from heading down a difficult and thorny path?

Or, as a father of a child, was he so bitter that he prevented his daughter from suffering poverty and contempt for the rest of her life because of an impulsive mistake she made when she was young?

These two guesses ended up being forever lost in the labyrinth. This is because Professor Hakjun Koo passed away not long after. It was a car accident.

I wandered around in front of the teacher’s funeral for a while, and when I saw the face of my former lover with swollen eyes from a distance, I ran away as if I had committed some crime.

That’s how our relationship ended.

“But honey. It would be a huge waste for you to go to a nearby liberal arts school and receive an ordinary education. I’m not saying that ordinary schools are wrong or of low quality. A special child like you needs a ‘plus alpha’. I don’t know if you need my letter of recommendation, but I will write a letter of recommendation to Baekhak Arts Middle School. I know the personalities of the teachers there very well, and if you go to that school, everyone will probably like you. And how about learning writing from famous novelists even after school? “All of your friends want to see you, too.”

But in the strange passage of time,

I ran through time and returned to the past.

The dead came back to life,

The broken relationship was connected in a new form.

But me?

What am I?

Are the 22 years of unhappy life that Moon In-seop experienced in my memory my ‘past’ or ‘past life’? Is 12-year-old genius writer Moonin an extension of my life or a reset?

What kind of expression should I look at Gu Hak-jun? resentment? longing? Regret? Nice to meet you? sadness? guilty?

I don’t know.