45. Reminisce

Kai could only raise his head to the sky. He looked up at the stars that still faithfully accompanied the moon in the dark. He felt the tightness of his heart. The roar of breath that blows when the heartbeat is unstable. The impact of the past continued to haunt all his thoughts. He remembered everything, all the past he had been through with Hyomi, how he tried to get her out of her parents' clutches.

Little Hyomi was left with little time to play with her peers. She could only watch the other children play snowballs through the window of her room. Books were Hyomi's only friends. Her parents always placed great demands on her education. But it was all too much. Hyomi was always confined, like doggie, her pet dog. While Jong was the only person who took pity on Hyomi when the girl could only look at her other friends with a drawn smile.

Jong, now known as Kai, was also an ordinary boy. Even he also knew about the harshness of Hyomi's parents. There was no guts at all to defend Hyomi