CHAPTER 7. I Waited for You (Video above ⬆️)

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Ji Ah tends Lee Yeon's knife wounds

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Ji Ah tends Lee Yeon's knife wounds. She knows he's hurt because of her. She didn't think he'd want a hospital, so she's tending him. She tells stories from her childhood, including her belief that her parents were killed by non-humans. That kept her in a mental facility until she spotted the doctor stealing drugs. She bartered her discharge for silence.

Flashback⚡...a young Ji Ah cries for her parents in front of their empty house. Two fireflies appear and hover over her hands. She smiles.

Ji Ah told herself her parents comforted that night.

Lee Yeon stares at Ji Ah remembers watching the young Ji Ah trying to catch the fireflies and smiling.

He's been her hero in hiding?

Ji Ah finishes tending Lee Yeon and puts him to bed

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Ji Ah finishes tending Lee Yeon and puts him to bed. She watches him sleep. She remembers him saying he waited for her.

The next morning, Lee Yeon watches Ji Ah sleep. He touches her face and smiles.

Holy smokes, there are talisman everywhere. A boy studies/skims math.

Lee Yeon peace is destroyed when Vet Gu Shin Joo burst in the room with worry

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Lee Yeon peace is destroyed when Vet Gu Shin Joo burst in the room with worry. Ji Ah recognizes him. Shin Joo hugs Lee Yeon in relief. He even cries. Shin Joo tells Ji Ah he's been by Lee Yeon's side since Lee Yeon was a mountain spirit and now acts as his doctor and housekeeper. Ji Ah can't believe that Shin Joo is a fox.

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