The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 269

Chapter 269: Chapter 269

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‘What?’ After a moment, the meaning of her words soon left me feeling absolutely shattered.

Both Choi Yuri and I didn’t say anything for a while. When she had finished speaking, she stood, fuming, while looking at me, whereas I just sat on my knees and dropped my gaze at the floor.

I saw that two members of the Four Symbols, who were standing near the warehouse door, were turning to look this way in the sudden silence.

Meanwhile, I just stared at Choi Yuri’s face for quite a while. She looked devastated; her heart was broken, and her pride was injured. Scowling at me with bloodshot eyes, she detached her lips again.

“Are you a god or what? If not, is the world a theater and you’re a scriptwriter? What the hell are people to you?”

I still couldn’t say anything. Choi Yuri continued to speak with her eyes fastened on me.

“Did you say Eun Jiho won’t listen to me? Even if he does listen to me, will it still be meaningless? Would I not mean anything to him forever? Is that what you’re trying to say to me?”

I didn’t put it that harshly, but it was true that those thoughts were in my mind. That was because Eun Jiho and Choi Yuri were… I bit my lips.

As far as I knew, love would never happen between Eun Jiho and Choi Yuri.

When I had that thought in my head, Choi Yuri poured out some questions hysterically.

“How do you know that? What makes you so confident about that? From what angle? Who the fu*k are you to say so?”

“I… I…”

I just wished that there were no more people who were hurt by hopeless love. I didn’t want anyone to walk along the thorny path in trust that there would be something at the end. Including myself, I just hoped that there was no one else like that in this world.

While I just left those words unspoken, Choi Yuri’s remark hailed down on me like bullets.

“Why are you looking at me like I’m incomprehensible when I’m trying so hard to get involved with him, influence each other, and squeeze myself in to take up space in his life? Why are you seeing me as someone defying the odds?”

Breathing shortly from exertion for a while, Choi Yuri kept on gushing.

“You aren’t even trying at all! You’ve given up everything from the beginning, but why are you always staring at me with disbelief? It feels like I’m still out of the spotlight when I’ve already gotten them.”

“That’s because…”

That’s because the only role I’m allowed to play is to watch from the sidelines; the part you’re playing is just different from mine.

I couldn’t say those words as well. When I, again, remained silent for quite a while, Choi Yuri showed a bitter sneer as if she knew I would react that way.

She then walked toward me and sat with her knees bent. Meeting my eye level, she continued to speak with a lowered voice as if she was telling me a secret.

“You know what? Actually, I don’t care about what others think of me. Whether they throw a miserable glance at me or not, and even if Eun Jiho or Ban Yeo Ryung deem me pathetic, I don’t give a shit. Those are nothing to me, but the look in your eyes… I hate your look of sympathy at me the most, get it?”

“…”

“Who the hell are you to behave that you know all the results? Why are you looking at me like a person who’s challenging the impossible? Who the fu*k do you think you are!?”

She then drove in a wedge with her last words.

“Are you a god or what?”

“…”

I couldn’t say anything as the deafening silence soon prevailed in the space.

Breaking out in a cold sweat, I cast my eyes down at the floor for a long time then lifted my head back.

There stood Choi Yuri, the girl with brown hair, brown eyes, and a run-of-the-mill appearance. Looking at her face that resembled mine, I once thought that she wouldn’t play more than a supporting role in this novel.

However, what had I been thinking of Choi Yuri?

Due to our similar appearance, I might have regarded her as my mirror. That was because, no matter how hard we try, we wouldn’t be able to play something more than our fixed roles.

Just like me, I wished she didn’t long for something that she couldn’t acquire. Although she put forth a great deal of effort, she would not gain anything, so I hoped she wasn’t in pain after doing such a thing.

I was sympathetic with Choi Yuri, who would get nothing just like me, and even felt pity that she was not aware of that fact.

That was why I advised her on Eun Jiho just now. No matter what she did, no amount of effort would make her existence create a speck in Eun Jiho’s mind.

That was just meant to be.

I raised my head to look at her again.

The shower of her scathing words shattered the world in my head that I had built solidly for years. Her remark made it easily collapse as if it was a sandcastle.

A world where everyone was made of words on paper… A world where people were trapped in chess pieces, unable to see themselves, and each could only move in a set direction…

With her hammer-like remark, Choi Yuri, just now, broke the world into pieces that might have been deceiving all the people.

I directed my eyes on her. She, who was putting her face closer towards me, looked like a giant shadow because of the warehouse’s backlight.

“Now, can you see?” she asked.

She then yelled out again, “Can you see me now?”

I nodded blankly. That was the only time something struck my mind.

Perhaps this was the first time I had faced a ‘person,’ at last, ever since I entered this world. A real person’s face… one that I had no right to judge on face value… No end was set yet. No one could know that and should not know such a thing.

The future was open; it wasn’t fixed. It was uncertain, but at the same time, it was the reason why people could dream of a better future. Dreaming of better tomorrow was a person’s greatest right and freedom.

I had a dream one day. In that dream, I walked endlessly on the single path drawn by light in the dark while being lost in thought.

Was a predetermined life a blessing or a misfortune?

What about the life of a person who already knew that? Was that life also a blessing or not?

When a person knew that there was only one path and nothing could be changed, no matter how hard he or she tried, was that knowledge a gift or a calamity?

Now, Choi Yuri was answering those questions right in front of me. Her voice sounded the brightest thing I had ever heard from her.

I murmured, ‘I was wrong about Choi Yuri.’

I thought she was doing wild things only because she was set to do so. It was the flow and the script that made her act like that. These were the thoughts that I had in mind until now.

However, I was utterly wrong. Choi Yuri, the smart and ambitious girl who easily drove me to the corner in the past while using the hands of others, didn’t lose her sound judgment because of such reasons.

It was merely because she wanted Eun Jiho. She desired him too much that she thought losing anything wouldn’t matter. It was her will to abandon everything and choose a faint possibility.

Looking at me with glaring eyes for a while, Choi Yuri uttered again.

“I’m gonna struggle to succeed whether you think I’m pathetic or not.”

I just nodded in a daze. That was the only thing I could do for now.

“I will continue to do so. You can’t trap me in your stereotype! Don’t you dare define me in your way. Get it?”

“Yes, I got it…”

Even though I tried to enunciate with all my heart, Choi Yuri didn’t seem to believe it. Shaking her head hysterically, she blurted out, “No, you don’t understand at all.”

“Why?”

“Have you ever fallen in love with someone?”

“…”

I was tongue-tied this time since that’s what I never did and even thought about.