Year 2025
Wonyoung wakes up screaming. Her eyes wide open, she looks at her sisters and friends, who, like her, look devastated by the visions of their past lives. They pick themselves up from the floor, feeling lost.
The nineteen-year-old girl looks at Sunghoon's face with sad eyes, only now realizing how strong the love between them was, even though it was purely platonic since she was human and he was a vampire.
There's something emotional in their gaze. It's so strong and jarring that it disgusts Jay, who watches them, sipping blood from a tube.
Sullyoon jerks away from Niki, looking terrified. She still has visions of her death in her head. She was literally torn apart by the man she was madly in love with.
Her gaze finds Jake, and her eyes fill with tears as she remembers how much she fell in love with him, and how deeply she was hurt when she killed him on Jay's orders.
She sits against the wall, destroyed by her memories of her past life.
Niki breathes heavily, unable to get over what he did to the youngest sister. He brutally murdered her with his hands, tearing at her like a wild animal. He wanted to hurt Wonyoung as well, but was fortunately killed by his brother.
Yuna can't get over the fact that she was a Japanese bitch who hated and hurt her youngest sister out of jealousy, and Jake ... he still sees Sullyoon's sad eyes when he rejected her.
Now he understands why he has cared so much about her, since the beginning of their acquaintance, and has a strong desire to protect her.
Somi sits against the wall, trembling with fear, watching them with worried eyes.
"My friends, tell me now, how do you feel after what you've experienced?" Jay looks pleased as he slurps blood from the tube.
Wonyoung grabs Sunghoon's hand after these memories, feeling no embarrassment towards him.
"You showed us your past life to entirely ruin us? Do you want to destroy our relationship?" the nineteen-year-old girl asks, shooting Jay an angry look.
- Looking at you and Sunghoon, I think I made your relationship deepen. - He looks at the confused Sullyoon, who avoids the boys' eyes. - My favorite, what happened? Now you regret falling in love with the wrong man?
"Leave her alone," Jake attacks him, frowning. "It was clearly my fault."
- I'm not talking about you - Jay mutters, rolling his eyes. He focuses on the couple in love. - Sunghoon, did you remember where you hid the gold dust?
- I can guess where it might be - the boy replies, looking at him with distrust. - But promise me that if you get this, you'll leave us alone. Let's finally come to an agreement. We'll help you die so that in the future you can be reborn as a human. Let's bury the hatchet from your previous life.
Jay sighs deeply, thinking hard about this.
"I have to consider whether I want to bury the hatchet, but given what my past life memories have done, I'm satisfied," he says, glancing at Sullyoon. "Your bonds may be frayed."
- Are you having fun? - Wonyoung attacks him again. - My youngest sister looks shocked. Why did you do this to her if she didn't hurt you in any way? Didn't you say she was your favorite because she was obedient to you until the end? What did she get in return?
- The desired death. She wanted to die, she said it was her dream when I took her from the brothel.
Sullyoon can't take it anymore. She jumps to her feet and tries to run from the apartment, but Jay is faster and doesn't let her. He grabs her hand and pulls her to him, holding her in an embrace.
- Let me go - the girl says in a trembling voice. - Let me go, since I was obedient to you until the very end.
Smiling broadly, Jay kisses the top of her head before inhaling loudly.
- Alright, run, darling. I believe you're in enough pain right now.
The eighteen-year-old girl runs out of the apartment, followed by Somi, who uses this to escape from the trap.
Jay sighs heavily.
"That selfish bitch is annoying me. I'll get her anyway. She's getting on my nerves." He glances at the other people still in his apartment. "Let's make a deal," he says, focusing on Wonyoung and Sunghoon in particular. "You... have caused the most mischief, so you have to bring me the sword and gold dust at all costs. Let's just say I'll let you off the hook after this, but we definitely won't be friends anymore," he adds.
Wonyoung mutters under her breath, throwing him an angry look.
She hates him with all her heart, and seeing the details of her past life only makes her hostility intensify.
If she has the chance, she will kill him with her hands.
"You're wonderful, Wonyoung," Jay tells her. "Don't forget, I can read minds."
"Can we go home now? We're all a mess," the girl says sharply, ignoring his earlier words.
Jay shrugs.
- I think we've sorted everything out for now, so see you later - he says, heading towards the fridge with tubes filled with blood.
The 19-year-old girl helps Sunghoon up from the chair, and then orders his sister, and friends to go outside.
Still in a state of frenzy, everyone leaves the vampire's apartment in total confusion.
Jake and Yuna as breasts exit the building. They are followed by Wonyoung and Sunghoon, and at the very end comes Niki.
At one point, the twenty-year-old boy grabs the younger by the hand, and the surprised eighteen-year-old boy turns to face him.
- Can we talk for a moment?
Sunghoon nods, so Wonyoung leaves, heading with the others to the locked car.
"I'm still in deep shock and I don't know what to think about all of this. First, I'd like to apologize for my mean behavior," Niki says, not taking her eyes off Sunghoon's face. He looks at him carefully, only now noticing the distinctive features that belong to his younger brother. "I was really mean to you."
The eighteen-year-old boy forces a slight smile.
- It's weird, but I've felt a strange connection to you from the very beginning. Who would have thought that the man who hates me would turn out to be my older brother? I feel like a character in a fantasy book with a dramatic plot - he states in an amused voice.
It is shocking when Niki unexpectedly takes him into an embrace, closing her eyes.
- If I could turn back time, I would never have treated you like that. I missed you so much, you know?
Of the remaining three, Wonyoung seems the most sociable, as she smiles at the sight of the two guys finally coming to an understanding.
"Do you think we should take a DNA test to make sure this vampire jerk isn't screwing us over?" Sunghoon asks.
Niki steps away from the younger boy and looks at him with a surprised look.
- If that's what you want, we can do it, but... - he stops when the eighteen-year-old boy starts laughing.
- Because you know? It's hard for me to accept that we might be related. - He pats him on the shoulder, and with a wide smile on her face, heads towards the others. - You're not coming? It's your car, you have to take us home! - he adds.
***
They all look nervous as they look around for Sullyoon along the way, but there is no sign of her. She does not answer their calls, leaving them distressed.
The sisters keep trying to call her, but she doesn't answer.
Niki bites his lip, feeling awful as he thinks about the girl. As he drives, he hopes to see her somewhere. He worries about her since she ran out of the apartment completely devastated, and what's worse, that two-faced bitch they don't trust ran after her.
The twenty-year-old boy still has the scene of what he did to her in his past life before his eyes. The sight of her dead, tearful eyes won't leave his mind.
How could he? Little Sullyoon is the apple of his eye in this life. He constantly wants to protect her with his breast. If he could, he would give his life for her in care.
Is it because he feels remorse for what he did over eighty years ago?
- Goddamn it - Niki suddenly curses, nervously slamming his hand on the steering wheel. He attracts everyone's attention, especially Sunghoon sitting next to him. - Where could she have gone? Did she have any money on her?
Wonyoung nervously bites her lip, while Yuna struggles with her phone that is stuck on her screen.
- Give me a moment of patience, and I promise you I will find that little dumpling - she declares. - I will beat her ass so hard she won't get up for two days.
"What do you mean?" Wonyoung asks, glancing at her phone.
"I have a tracking app," she replies, forcing a smile as she looks at her younger sister. "I've been keeping an eye on you too since you disappeared with Sunghoon. As the oldest sister, I have to look out for you."
Wonyoung replies with indignation in her voice.
- The baby is practically an adult, too, and yet we all worry about her. This app is a good thing - Jake chimes in.
Yuna curses under her breath, but eventually manages to launch the app. It turns out that a new update has come in and is blocking her.
- So what? Do you see where she is? - asks Niki, glancing nervously at the girl in the mirror.
- Yes, she's traveling by car. She must have taken a taxi. Only... she's not going home.
"Tell me where to go. We'll catch her," Niki says, then swerves like a madman, making everyone lean to the side. Sunghoon's face hits the window.
Niki angry in any way , because he just smiles under his breath.
***
It's already turning gray outside when Niki stops the car in a place he doesn't recognize. The whole group looks around anxiously when they realize it's an abandoned square with many buildings.
They take one last look at the dot on Yuna's app, which indicates that Sullyoon is right here.
- Let's split up and look for her - Niki suggests. - We'll find her faster.
The others nod.
Sunghoon proposes he go with Wonyoung. She doesn't mind, and when the other guys look at Yuna, she lets them know she can handle it on her own.
There are four large buildings on the square that were not finished due to the bankruptcy of the investor. They have been deserted for many years, repelling with their bad reputation.
They say that this square is cursed, which is why when a second investor appeared, a tragedy occurred.
So why did Sullyoon flee to this place?
Wonyoung's heart beats like crazy as she and Sunghoon check each floor of the building, calling out for the girl.
It's scary here. This place gives me the creeps, especially now that it's dark outside.
Illuminating the corridors with her phone's flashlights, at one point Wonyoung screams in fear and falls into Sunghoon's arms. She looks into his eyes in his embrace, afraid to move her gaze to the cat that turned out to be the villain of the noise.
"It's okay, it's just a cute kitty," the boy says, patting her back.
- You didn't say it was black - the nineteen-year-old girl mutters as she looks at the animal. - Don't you know that these cats mean trouble?
- Believe me, the two of us mean bigger trouble - he answers her boldly.
In the building next door, Jake walks alone, looking for his younger friend. He's scared as hell, but the desire to find Sullyoon is stronger than his fear.
On the third floor, she stops mid-step when she hears someone crying. Where the balconies should be, a girl sits huddled together, unconcerned about the danger she's putting herself in.
The wind blows her long hair as she stares into the distance ahead, wiping the tears from her face with the back of her hand.
- Sullyoon.
She looks at the blond boy with terrified eyes as he carefully approaches her, and takes her in his arms.
- How did you find me, why are you here? - she asks in a tearful voice, sniffling.
- We were distressed about you, we were looking for you, Sull - he says, stroking her hair. - What are you doing here? Why are you in a place like this?
- You shouldn't have hugged me, Jake. I was the one who killed you.
"I don't care. You can kill me now, I'm just worried about you and I won't leave you here," he says. "And honestly? You had a reason to kill me since I broke your heart. I was a really heartless bastard to leave you to your fate after all I've done for you."
Jake pulls away from her, and as they look into each other's eyes, she suddenly presses her lips together.
- What's up? Why did you come to this place?
- This is where... - the eighteen-year-old girl begins, shifting her gaze to the dark landscape in front of her. - Eighty years ago, there were no buildings here, there was an empty square. This is where Niki cruelly murdered me, leaving my body in the garbage - she adds, bursting into more tears. - He did it out of revenge for you, not wanting to listen to my explanations. After that scene, something inside me broke, you know Jake? I started to be terribly afraid of him. While he was my safe haven before, now he causes panic in me. What if one day something happens, and he hurts me under the influence of emotions? I can still see his crazy gaze before my eyes...
Jake cups her face in his hands, and looks intently into her eyes.
" Sullyoon, that was a past life. Each of us was a different person than we are now. We were reborn as better people. None of us are the monsters of the past," he says, stroking her cheeks with his thumbs. "Believe me, Niki has such a strong desire to protect you that he would jump into fire for you. Each of us sees that you are his little pearl. He is the last person who could hurt you."
- I know that, but I still see those cruel scenes before my eyes. I can't look at him, Jake. I'm afraid to be around him.
- Then consider me to be your support. You can hide in my arms whenever you want. I won't let anything happen to you - he says, smiling at her serenely. - Do you trust me?
The eighteen-year-old girl nods.
- Do you trust me after what I did to you?
- What did you do to me? You sent me to a better place. You made me stop being a monster. Thanks to you, I was reborn and am I human, or not?
Jake is the best person in the world. Sullyoon is sure of that. Even though he's a suitor and a womanizer, he's gold to his friends.