The Heartbreaking Reason for Goodbye
The saddest part about a breakup is that you end up saying the cruelest things to the person you loved more than your own life. “Let’s break up.” “W-woo….” The hand that Lee Ye-na had promised she would never let go of for the rest of her life suddenly clamped around my wrist, and without thinking, I shook it off. The impact knocked her straight back into her seat. She crumpled to the floor, sobbing bitterly, tears streaming down her face.
“Haa… I really can’t believe this is happening. Eun-woo, no matter what, this isn’t the answer. We have to end it here before Ye-na does something even bigger.”
“Yah… please, don’t say that…”
I was still the girl he had loved the most. She begged me not to leave, admitted it was her fault, and swore she would never do it again. But my heart, foolishly, softened again.
At first, I thought Ye-na’s obsession was cute. She was Korea’s idol, the famous S-rank hunter from Shinye Guild, and she couldn’t stop smiling because I liked her. Who wouldn’t fall for a man who could barely keep up with her fame? But the longer we dated, the more it stopped being love and became pure terror.
Five victims. Girls she had beaten up just for talking to me. Even then, they swore it would never happen again, that they would keep their promises. Yet Ye-na broke that promise every single time. The last victim ended up with six weeks of physical therapy after she was beaten so badly.
When I asked why, she answered coldly, “She said she liked you.” I told her, “No matter how you twist it, that’s not a reason to destroy someone’s life.”
It was only a matter of time before Ye-na decided someone had to die.
“YAAAAA!!! Lee Eun-woo!! Just go! I’m gonna bite my tongue and die right here!!!”
“If you die, I die with you.”
Even now, I hadn’t even been gone for five seconds, and already people changed. That’s why I had to leave. I had to disappear before she did something she could never take back.
So I ended a seven-year relationship that had started when I was twelve.