Chapter 19: Your House, My House
How is this even possible?
Even after all the strange coincidences, what shocked Ha Giyeon the most was the sight of Son Suhyeon’s house.
This was the very place he had scraped together money like a madman to escape from the nightmare that was the goshiwon. His very first home—this house. And the one who had lived there before him... was Son Suhyeon?
From the school uniform to the cafeteria, the part-time job, the phone sale—and now the house. That made four times. Since the regression, the way things kept changing filled Giyeon with a subtle fear. Take Ha Dohoon, for example: the same guy who had pushed him away was now suddenly pretending to care about his “younger brother.”
He’d locked him out of the house. Now he wanted to eat lunch together.
All of it happened because Giyeon had shown indifference. That one small change had triggered such big reactions. What if, without realizing it, he’d done something that forged this connection with Son Suhyeon?
...To be honest, he liked it.
He didn’t know how Suhyeon felt, but for Giyeon, he was relieved it was him he’d become tied to. He’d helped him so many times already—and now, thanks to him, he was experiencing his first night sleeping away from home.
As he saw the familiar slate roof over the wall, memories from before the regression surged up. The house had always been old, but now he was truly curious—what kind of condition had it been in back then? He felt an urge to go in quickly, his feet twitching forward, when Suhyeon’s low voice stopped him.
“If you want to go back, you can still turn around.”
“...Huh?”
“You saw it. You’re really going to stay here after that?”