Chapter 336 (2/2)

However, when I finally woke up from my dream, all that remained of me was deep regret, longing and the cold reality.

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“Sis, don’t you want to see this? It’s a published book.”

I had a distant old memory of my peaceful times with my younger sister Jisu, whose face I can hardly recall now.

“Hey, I don’t want it. What is so funny about that? I’d rather sleep than read it.”

I quickly glanced at the book that Jisu showed me, then turned my head. I wondered what kind of book fascinated her today.

But she kept speaking to me while I was switching to other TV channels with a sullen expression.

“This book is really fun. Listen to me. An ordinary high school girl picked up a coin on the road one day, and at that moment, she picked it up, she suddenly flew somewhere. So, she fell into a gorgeous place, where she saw people with colored hair speaking a foreign language. Then, all of them looked at her and began to say she was the messenger sent by God and worshipped her.”

“What the heck is that?”

Well, I don’t see any interesting TV programs today. Let me watch the weekend entertainment special that I missed last week again. If Mom finds me, she will complain that I’m watching TV instead of studying as the senior student, but I want to take a break sometimes. She keeps telling me about studying to prepare for the college exam. Well, there are thousands of colleges here, so all I want is to enter a four-year college, right?

My mom still seems to think that I’m a genius, but I can not score a better grade than I have so far. I was dumbfounded whenever she preached to me about a top school. If she looks at my grades, she will know I can’t make it to a top school. I can’t understand why she still insists that I should go to a top school.

“Well, that girl moved into another dimension! Anyway, there is a handsome guy who is really cold-hearted, but he is the emperor! The emperor falls in love with Yoju and makes her the empress, but she is harassed by a bad woman trying to kill the emperor, and she finally confirms his love. That’s the end of the story. They lived happily ever after.”

Oh, that program, the Yuhan Challenge, seems interesting. Let me watch that program.

After squinting at Jisu holding the book with a hazy expression, I fixed my eyes on the TV screen. Without caring about me at all, she was already getting carried away with the story.

“Wow! I am envious. She doesn’t have to struggle to go to a top college like you. She is rich, she has power, and her husband is handsome. Don’t you agree, sis’?”

“Hey, don’t bother me. Okay?”

“Is it possible for us to move into another dimension?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Yeah, I agree. Dang it! I wish I moved into another dimension. Then…”

I turned up the remote control volume silently. I could not hear her voice anymore as I was focused on the seven men’s laughter and noisy chatting in the entertainment program.

So I passed over what Jisu said.

Why did I do so? If I had known it would be the last time I saw her, I would never have wasted my time watching the TV program. If I had known what Jisu told really would happen to me, I would have listened to her more carefully.

Then, I might not have been thrown into the cold reality as it is now…

***

“What did you do to me?”

It took only four years for our fake relationship to fall apart.

“If I had been sober, I wouldn’t have embraced you. Answer me. What did you do to me?”

When I looked into his contemptuous eyes, a smile came to my lips.

We only had four years of ‘happily ever after.’

When I first fell into this strange world, I thought maybe I could live like the protagonist in the story that Jisu told me about, but it wasn’t that easy for me. In the novel, the supporting actress was only a bad woman. In reality, she was a perfect bride with all the qualifications. But Cinderella, who thought she could live happily with the prince, hit a wall of reality and finally realized that she was a total wrack.

Yes, the fiction was so different from reality.

Four years can be short, but long. But during those four years I constantly reassured myself that I was happy, but in fact I was not happy at all. Cinderella, who thought she would live happily with the prince for a long time, was unhappy down to her bones.

“How come you fed me this medicine? Are you crazy? Let me forgive you this time, considering our relationship. But if you do it one again, I won’t overlook it anymore. Just behave yourself as the empress!”

“Yes, I will do so.”