Prologue
Simply, yours.Living a simple life wasn’t that type of a simple life you saw on YouTube, produced with pretty looking human beings that had all it takes to lead a well-off life. Pretty looking faces, or sometimes not shown, were exchanged to the simplicity of the overpriced items purchased through companies who lived off well of few purchases of their customers.
In general, a Korean citizen would watch at least one “simple life” tagged video on social media and then share it on KakaoTalk mostly to their female friends.
Going to coffee shops? Oh, let me show you the tea.
Going to overpriced coffee shops (doesn’t matter how fancy or not), still proved how it was going against the entire idea of a simplistic life that these people so proudly exclaimed they were living.
Unfortunately, you could see the harsh difference. No, you could feel it. Coming from a village, a countryside, made you feel how different you can be in a massive city, and not in a pleasant way. Be it the clothing style, the skin colour, the wildness in the eyes, the accent, the shape of your mouth, the shape of your feet… It could be spotted in the slightest of ways possible, and for sure a city person at heart would notice right away.
Thankfully, the small apartment in the middle of Seoul, just close enough to Konkik University would suffice. You and BH were sti
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