After the years have passed

out of reach

only infinitely close

It's like you're standing across from me but separated by a whole mirage

Sitting on the bench, I was still in a state of excitement.

It's been less than 24 hours since last night.

But several unforeseen things happened.

It's like riding a super long roller coaster, scary and exciting but extremely exciting.

Maybe it's my greed that even God can't do anything about it.

Just let go and let Kim Taehyung fall into my trap.

The whole body is leaning back, with both hands behind the back, supporting the edge of the bench, raising his head high, his happy eyes narrowed into slits.

"Unnie, don't you find it strange?"

Xiang Lala bit the straw in the cold drink cup and looked up at me.

"Strange? Where is it strange?"

"It was the conversation between you and Kim Taehyung just now."

"It's normal, not surprising"

I turned my head to look at her.

"I'm not talking about the content, I'm talking about the language you speak, one speaks Korean and the other speaks Chinese, but you both seem to understand each other's words"

After speaking, Xiang Lala blew a few breaths into the straw, making a series of gurgling sounds.

"It seems so from what you say~ I don't know what's going on, I don't know Korean at first, at most I can understand a few sentences of everyday language, but today I can understand everything completely."

I lowered my head in wonder.

My heart tightened, could it be related to last night?

I was a little engrossed in my thoughts.

"Maybe... this is God's eye opening. Seeing that I am cute, he gave me a skill, which can unimpededly chat with my boyfriend who has never been married."

I was talking nonsense seriously.

"Just talk nonsense, why don't you say that you got through the two veins of Ren and Du, and suddenly you have the same brain as Kim Namjoon with an IQ of 148?"

Xiang Lala also responded to me with a serious nonsense face.

"Oh~ you're right, anyway, I don't know when I was pointed out by some expert, and then I became the male protagonist in the novel, ah~ no! It's the female protagonist! From then on, I have a unique skill, see Who teases who"

As I said that, I also shook my shawl-length hair by the way, with a proud face.

"Come~ open your mouth, take medicine..."

Xiang Lala took a pill out of her pocket and brought it to my mouth.

But I opened my mouth reflexively.

"Hey~ you have to take your medicine on time, this neurosis can be cured"

Satisfied, Xiang Lala reached out and touched my head.

"Hey! Little girl~ Don't you feel the chill around your waist?"

As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I put my hands around her waist and kept scratching.

"...Hahahaha~ Oni! I'm scared~ You are here~ Stop! Stop!"

Buried in my arms, Xiang Lala kept twisting her body to dodge.

After messing around for a long time, I was a little tired.

We sat back to back and closed our eyes.

Enjoy the solace that this city has to offer us.

……

I was soaking in the bathtub in my hotel room with my head half exposed.

Mouth submerged in the water and blowing bubbles.

Staring at the circles of ripples, he began to organize his thoughts.

As far as meeting Kim Taehyung suddenly today and being able to understand Korean inexplicably, the old man who claimed to be a dream woman last night should be real.

And what she said can be fulfilled as I wished, so it should have come true.

So I really lost 30 years of life like this?

Then you can only fall in love with Kim Taehyung for three years?What about after three years?

Kim Taehyung won't love me anymore?Did you break up with me then?

What about the three years?Did it start from the moment we met today?

But the problem is that they have been in love for three years!

Could it be that Kim Taehyung fell in love with me at first sight?

There are too many things in my head that I can't figure out and become a mess.

He simply sank his whole head under the water.

After a few seconds, it floated up, wiped off the remaining water droplets on the cheeks with both hands, and patted.

Do not want to continue to entangle.

Back on the bed, I looked at Xiang Lala who was already sleeping beside me.

He turned sideways, raised his hand, turned off the light and fell asleep peacefully.

A night without dreams.

……

Four in the morning.

A light suddenly flickered on in a room in the BTS dormitory.

"Taehyung~ what's wrong?"

Zheng Haoxi asked dimly to Kim Taehyung who was sleeping on his upper bunk.

He lay down again and closed his eyes.

"..."

Kim Taehyung didn't answer, just sat stiffly.

"Taehyung?"

Park Jimin was also frowned by the sudden light.

"What time is it, why aren't you asleep yet? Taehyung..."

Park Jimin blocked the light with the back of his hand.

"I just had a dream"

Kim Taehyung lifted the quilt and climbed down from the upper bunk.

He poured a glass of water and sat on the edge of Park Jimin's bed.

"Oh~ I had a nightmare"

Park Jimin heard the movement and raised his eyes to look at Kim Taehyung.

"It's not a nightmare, it's a dream about a woman"

Kim Taehyung picked up the cup and rubbed the rim against his lips.

"Is the boy thinking of spring?" Zheng Haoxi smiled lightly.

"Fuck you, it's a woman, and I just met this woman today"

Kim Taehyung kicked Jung Hoseok as he spoke.

"Isn't it just dreaming of a woman, why can't I fall asleep, hurry up and turn off the lights and go to sleep"

Zheng Haoxi turned over and turned his back to him.

"I don't know why, I keep thinking about the woman's appearance in my mind, and then I can't fall asleep."

"Ah Xi! Hurry up and go to sleep, kid, there's still an autograph session today."

Park Jimin pushed Kim Taehyung's back with his knee, urging him to go back to sleep on his bed.

Kim Taehyung put down the cup, climbed onto the bed, covered the quilt, turned off the light, and fell asleep.

But I still can't fall asleep, the more I control myself not to think about it.

The woman who was knocked down by the Han River came to mind more clearly.

No matter how you wave it, it won't dissipate.

……

September 9, sunny

The sky was slightly white, and Kim Taehyung got up.

He hardly slept, and his expression was a little dazed.

Spread out on the sofa in the living room, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

"Taehyung, why are you so early?"

Min Yoongi, who came out of the composition room, walked past Kim Taehyung to the bathroom.

After coming out, he asked the same question again and again.

"Well... I didn't sleep much in the second half of the night."

Kim Taehyung plugged the earphones into his ears, tapped on the phone screen and swiped twice, then leaned on the pillow and closed his eyes.

"What's wrong with this kid?"

Min Yoongi went back to the composition room while thinking about it.

Some recommended new songs are randomly placed in the music player.

When a Chinese song was played, Kim Taehyung suddenly jumped up from the sofa.

Shouting "I can understand Chinese? I can understand Chinese! What's going on?"

Kim Taehyung rushed into the bedroom and pushed Park Jimin.

"Wake up, wake up, I can understand Chinese now, hey~ get up"

"Axi!"

Park Jimin hit Kim Taehyung with a backhand, and pulled the quilt over his head.

"Brother Haoxi, I can understand Chinese, and all of them! Get up~ Brother Haoxi"

"Yeah... It's amazing, it's up to you to go to China for activities in the future, work hard"

Zheng Haoxi said perfunctorily without opening his eyes.

"Children~ wake up, get up quickly"

Jin Shuozhen stood at the door of the room and slammed the door twice.

"Brother Zhen, I can understand Chinese now!" Kim Taehyung did not give up.

"Okay, okay~ I see, you three hurry up and wash up, and there will be a new village autograph session later, so you are almost up."

Looking at the attitudes of the members, Kim Taehyung lowered his head in frustration, and obediently went to the bathroom to wash up.

……

Inside the Sinchon YHOTEL Hotel.

Since Xiang Lala and I lived in the same room, she canceled the room she originally reserved and focused on eating and drinking at my place.

Fiddle with hair in the bathroom.

I don't know what happened, but my hair fell out very badly after I came to Seoul.

I used to have thin and soft hair, but now it is cured, and I am almost bald.

Looking left and right in the mirror, I wonder if it is better to tie it up.

"Oni, what are you doing? Squatting in there for so long? Constipation?"

There was some anxiety in Xiang Lala's words.

"Come on, come on, just hurry up"

Fiddled with the broken hair hanging from the ears, and smiled narcissistically in the mirror, she was really a beauty.

Then hooked Xiang Lala's shoulders and walked out of the hotel.

"By the way, your boyfriend, who has never been married, loves the so-called Western Roujiamo in your mouth, but you hate it to death. Are you sure you don't want to change it?"

Xiang Lala gnawed on the Burger King in her hand and asked casually.

"Don't change it, what I love is his body, not the Roujiamo in his stomach"

"Pfft~haha, the body! Ernie, you really don't have to be too cute."

Xiang Lala smiled and almost sprayed me in the face.

We lived in Xincun for several days, and we didn't formally go shopping.

It's quite prosperous here, although it's a little bit worse than places like Hongdae, Myeongdong, and Samcheongdong.

However, many students and couples can be seen here.

The shops along the street are also decorated in pink and tender, full of the atmosphere of young people in love.

Looking at the pair of smiling faces on the side of the road facing me the happiest in the world, my mood brightened even more.

"We have to go back to China in two days. Should we buy some souvenirs to go back?"

Xiang pulled the shoulder bag strap on my back and stopped at the door of a small jewelry store.

"I'm free, why don't you go in and have a look?"

Just as Xiang Lala dragged me to the store.

Suddenly I heard a Korean girl passing by next to me seem to say something, BTS has an autograph session ahead, and it will start in about an hour, so I have to go there quickly...

I stopped immediately.

Patted Lala's arm.

"Hey, hey, let's go shopping here later, let's take a look at the front first."

"What's the matter? O'Neil, slow down, why do you want to look ahead first?"

Xiang Lala pouted a little aggrieved, and reluctantly looked back at the jewelry store behind her.

"Oh~ don't be too long-winded if you follow me, I guarantee you will never regret it"

I pulled Xiang Lala and followed those Korean girls.

Walked a short distance.

I really saw a lot of ARMYs with bomb lights and small fans with human heads, and the super conspicuous BTS poster on the stage.

This battle looks like an open-air autograph session!

Xiang Lala and I walked around on the spot, raised our small fists to our chests excitedly, and waved towards each other.

"Oh, my god~ this is fine! Ernie, I want to thank you on behalf of the moon!"

Xiang Lala hugged me and kept jumping.

"Okay, okay, my old bones are almost falling apart by you, can we be more reserved?"

"But I lost the bomb lamp in the room, what should I do?"

"What can we do? If you don't bring it, you don't bring it, and we don't have tickets for the autograph session, so we can't get in."

I spread my hands and pursed my mouth.

"No, O'Neill, I've been following their schedule every day. I didn't hear that there's an autograph session today."

"I don't know, maybe it's a schedule decided at zero hour."

I'm also wondering, isn't there usually an autograph session only during comebacks?

In September, only one Japanese album was released, so even if there is an autograph session, it must be held in Japan.

"Oni~ Then we don't have tickets, and we don't have support items, so we can only watch from the outside?"

Discouraged to Lala, squeezed my hand and muttered.

"Otherwise? Are you still trying to force your way in?"

"My fruit... um~ Nuna, is this going to miss you again? Nuna is in pain!"

Xiang Lala beat her chest and stamped her feet, looking pitifully at the big poster.

"Ouch~ that's fine, just take a look at it from a distance, I just ran into it by chance, what else do you want?"

I led Xiang Lala and squeezed in as much as I could.

……

The two of us just stood in the sun stupidly.

He watched helplessly as his sweetheart kept teasing her at the autograph session.

Listen to that one after another.

"Ouba! Salang hey~"

I feel so depressed...

Suddenly I had a flash of inspiration, and I smiled mysteriously at Xiang Lala.

"Lala~ let's go, I have a way to make them notice us"

"Really?"

Xiang Lala's eyes instantly brightened.

Quickly come to the small jewelry store just now.

When I rushed into the store, I saw a macaron-colored mini amplifier hanging in the upper left corner of the window.

He tore it off, paid the money, and ran back to the venue.

Out of breath, we found a step not far away and stood up.

Before I could catch my breath, I winked at Xiang Lala, motioning her to pick up the loudspeaker and shout to the stage.

"Come on! What are you still doing?"

"Oni~ Is this going to be too much? There are so many people, I dare not..."

Xiang Lala looked embarrassed.

"What's so embarrassing, if you don't call me, you can call me."

Take the megaphone from Xiang Lala.

He raised his head and chest, and took a big breath into his stomach.

His face blushed, and he spoke boldly towards the stage!

"Kim Taehyung!"

"I like you so much..."

"Come home with me!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone's heads turned towards me.

Of course, it also includes the seven little heads who are autographing.

With unparalleled confidence on his face, he stared straight at him.

When Kim Taehyung saw me, he seemed to pause for a moment.

Then he stood up and spoke to me in Korean with a microphone.

"So you're an ARMY too~ hello..."

Then he grinned and smiled into a very cute square shape with handsome crooked eyes.

"Yes~ I'm here to see you!"

I replied in Chinese.

Then he raised his right hand with an extremely bright smile, and made a big heart to Kim Taehyung above his head.

"Thank you for visiting me..."

Kim Taehyung followed my example and raised his arms high to his heart.

Feel very proud.

The interaction between me and him caused the group of girls in front to scream non-stop, wave after wave.

Kim Taehyung waved to me and sat down again.

He showed off to ARMY who was waiting for his signature.

"Ouba was just amazing, he can understand Chinese now"

"Nai~ Oppa is amazing"

ARMY covered her mouth lightly with a smile.

After signing the handwriting, Zheng Haoxi who was next to him approached.

Whispering softly in Kim Taehyung's ear.

"That Ami just now spoke Chinese, did you understand?"

"I told you this morning, I can understand Chinese, but you just ignore me"

The corner of Zheng Haoxi's mouth drooped, he glanced at Kim Taehyung and continued to sign another one with a smile.

Here, Xiang Lala looked at me with admiration for a long time, but she just didn't say a word.

"If you stare at my face again, you will wear it"

"Oni~ You really don't have to be too handsome, I'm about to be bent by you"

"Don't! My orientation can only be Kim Taehyung. Oh~ Do you want to try it too?"

I poked her twice with my elbow.

"I want to too~ but... I still don't dare"

Xiang Lala turned her head weakly to look at Tian Jungkook who was only talking to the ARMY in front of her on the stage.

Maybe it's my illusion.

Until the end of the autograph session, Kim Taehyung would look up to me from time to time.

Whenever I notice his gaze, I will respond to him with the sweetest smile.