Tale of the Nine Tailed (구미호뎐) •Lee Rang, Spin Off•

The Celebration

Lee Rang couldn't help but embrace her in his arms. She was too perfect, too fragile in his arms and where her selflessness came was still a mystery to him.

Finally with so many requests and pleas, he finally stopped kissing her and sat on his car seat to drive but still he denied to let her hand go. He kept her hand close to his lips so he could kiss them anytime he wanted and whenever his warm lips touched her cold hands it sent butterflies to her stomach. Soon they were back to her apartment or as Lee Rang called it, ugly shag.

When he parked and saw no movement from aside he looked across the seat and saw the most divining thing that he could ever see. In his past 400 years of life he never felt attached towards something so vulnerable. Hjejin's eyes lids were closed and her chest was moved upwards and downwards as she sleep. He didn't wake her up in the car ride because he knew she was drunk last night and couldn't sleep properly but now she was becoming irresistible.

He unclasped his seatbelt and opened his car door as he was about to pick her up he remembered he wasn't healed enough properly the not to mention he was dieing and that was all that imoogi's fault.

“Hey! Wake up.” Lee Rang said. Hjejin's eyes tightened and she murmured something inaudible but it wasn't enough to wake her up. “Yah! Yah! I will kill you if you didn't wake up.”

Lee Rang's eyes widened as he saw Hjejin's eyes opened and looking at him seriously.

“Go ahead, try me!” Hjejin threatened me very confidently.

Lee Rang couldn't help but chuckle, a human threatening him to kill her and he couldn't even raise a finger against her. That's much power she had over him, what was going to become of him now he was ruined.

“I'll pick you in evening,” Lee Rang confirmed and looking at Hjejin's annoyed face he knew she didn't wanted to go but either way he continued. “Nope, nothing gonna work on me now. The plan remains the same I'll pick you up and we will go there together.”

She took the bag in which her dress was and nodded. She got close to Lee Rang and a strong sense of pain striked in her head and she winced in pain. Lee Rang grabbed her shoulder. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah must be because of the alcohol from last night.”

“I swear— if you're pretending to be sick just so you can ditch me at the last moment by making me worry about you I'll go crazy.”

Hjejin looked at Lee Rang's worried face, he genuinely cared for her. She smiled through her pain and reassured him. She proceeded towards her apartment. She unlocked the door and went inside her apartment and her ghastly headache was gone, dealing with all these mythological things now she could believe in anything miracle, magic, witchcraft anything that was the only good thing she could expect to happen to her today.

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Hjejin sat on her apartment silently and once again her phone rang for the 24th time. It was her mother but she choose not to pick up the damn phone. She was tired of all this nonsense.

But apart from that, for Hjejin, all of this just didn't seem real and if it was real then it doesn't make sense, Lee Rang as he said, he loved her even though she was just a human and he made it abundantly clear that he hated humans so how could he love her when he hated her entire species and for the first time Hjejin laid eyes on him when they first met on the traffic signal she somehow knew that she had so much compassion for him when she didn't even knew him.

And on the other hand Lee Rang was in the same concussion. It was very absurd  because in his life he only cared about two people; his brother and Yuri even though he didn't have man and woman feeling towards Yuri he greatly cared for her but what he felt for Hjejin was much more complex he just couldn't control himself when he was with her.