Chapter 94 (1/2)

Chapter 94: Chapter 94

“I should leave before dawn.”

The god stood up. Shihuang knew this was really the end.

“Thank you,” he looked up and said what he hadn’t said in all those years. “For everything.”

The god looked relieved to hear this. Shihuang closed his eyes and said what he had wanted to say for a long time, “I never thought of you as bad.”

He heard a laughter. The god’s white hair flew in the wind. Shihuang didn’t apologize. It was for the god, not for himself. He didn’t open his eyes, and O Shin said his final goodbye to him.

“I cared a lot about you as well, so I have no regrets. Therefore, I will let you go now.”

Shihuang couldn’t open his eyes for some time, as he couldn’t accept his friend’s departure. He could still remember everything, from the moment they first met to what had happened only a minutes ago.

He felt somewhat sad, but then he felt someone coming to him and opened his eyes slowly.

“I wondered where you were going so late in night.”

Moonlight sat on his smooth cheeks. Shihuang had always thought he was a person of sunlight, but he didn’t look that bad under moonlight either. His long eyelashes had even longer shadows. Myohan crouched down and shrugged.

“Well, I had my guess.”

Instead of asking how much he had heard, Shihuang pulled him close. Myohan let him and kissed him softly. Their lips parted only after a long and deep kiss.

Myohan whispered, “One is a god and the other is a dragon, but you’re both so clumsy in my eyes.”

Then they kissed again. Myohan kept caressing him as if he wanted to comfort him. From his cheek, to his ear, to his neck, and to his black hair. His hand moved softly like touching a small animal. The longer it lasted, the more he calmed down.

Just like that, with the sky full of stars and the moon brighter than ever, Shihuang let go of his old friend.

It was spring and the campus was full of flowers. New couples were all holding hands and smiling happily.

Myohan was sitting on a bench. He yawned and looked up at the sky. It was clear without a single cloud.

“Hey, can I have your number?”

He was wondering if he should go and find a place to sleep then someone spoke to him. When he looked, there was a tall man who was wearing a jacket that looked just like Myohan’s.

“No,” He said bluntly. Then he got up with a huge yawn. He stretched his arms and back. The man watched him do it and asked again with a grin.

“Why?”

“It’s none of your business.”

“But you’ll regret it.”

“I don’t think so.”

He still sounded cold, but the man wasn’t offended at all. He chuckled and threw an arm around Myohan’s shoulder.

“You were supposed to say you are in a relationship.”

The man was Shihuang. He and Myohan had come to the same university. Myohan got quite high grades, but Shihuang managed to do as good as him. Myohan wondered how he managed to do it as he had never studied in Korea’s educational system, but when he asked him about it, he just smiled.

“Who taught you that?”

He entered the university for one reason only. He wanted to be with Myohan.

After he became a human, they lived together in Myohan’s apartment. They were always together in the same house, same school, and in the same class. Shihuang didn’t want to leave his side, so they ended up going to the same university.

“Because so many are trying to get my cat.”

“You’re the only one who’s trying to get me.”

“Know thyself, don’t you know that quote?”

After O Shin left, Myohan worried about money for a while, but it turned out he didn’t have to. Shihuang told him it was him who had been sending his living expenses. Myohan was relieved to know he didn’t have to work and earn money.

“You’re the one who should learn from that quote.”

As they walked around the campus, almost everyone on their way looked at them, both men and women. Myohan thought they were looking at Shihuang, but Shihuang thought they were all looking at Myohan.

“Oh! The two jewels of this department!”

The student representative of their department spoke to them. He was nice to everyone and wasn’t easily offended. Myohan thought of him as ‘Sinsul who was good at studying’.

“You’re coming to the department meeting today, right?”

“No.”

He really liked Myohan and Shihuang. He was always saying that although each of them was good-looking, they looked even better as they were always together. He thought having two such good-looking men in his department was something to be really proud of, so he wanted them to participate in every meeting, but they never went to any meetings.

“Hey, you two are freshmen. Being an outsider is a bad way to start your college life.”

He tried threatening them, but Myohan just crossed his arms and snorted. When he looked at Shihuang, he was looking away, not caring at all.

“Hey, you can’t say things like that these days.”

“I was just saying! Shihuang, say something! You are coming, right?”

He was just like Sinsul in many ways, including moving on to Shihuang when convincing Myohan was impossible. But the problem was that neither of them knew that convincing Shihuang was even harder than convincing Myohan.

“No.”

“…I really hate you both, but I’m asking just to be polite. Why?”

The two looked at each other and chuckled, thinking of the other kids. Myohan took out his cellphone. It was buzzing and the name showed on it was ‘Yuja’. He explained with a smile.

“We have a high school reunion this evening.”

They had turned eighteen, and they were going to gather for the first time after graduation.

“Well, cheers!”

“Cheers!”

“Hey, don’t let Sinsul have his way.”