Epoch [Taegyu] ✔️

ch.02

“before you start to read, please tap on the playlist link in ch.01 and listen to it whilst reading!” - bae

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"Yangban-nim, are you alright?"

The person said. Taehyun slowly opens his eyes, slowly rising up from his position. He blinks his eyes rapidly trying to adjust his pupils to the bright surroundings.

"Huening-ah, what time is it?"

He asks. However, “Huening” doesn't answer him. Taehyun stretches his whole body and he feels like his clothes is twice bigger than the ones he wore to sleep last night. Or is it the bed sheet that covered him whilst he's asleep? Shrugging it off, Taehyun still hasn't fully awake yet and was about to stand up when he falls to the ground with a loud thud. One of his gomusin (traditional Korean shoes) flies away from his left feet. The person who had been watching him gasps and rushes his way to the poor male.

"My nose.."

Taehyun whines, as he slowly got up with the support of his palms on the ground. He wipes the liquid that was oozing out from his nose as it scent was a metallic-like scent. His gaze falls on the blood on his fingers, he cusses under his breath.

"Young yangban, are you okay?"

Yangban?

Hearing the same soft voice from earlier, Taehyun looks up. His eyes went wide as he recognised who that was. He gets up fastly that his head collided with the person's chin making both of them fall on the ground, groaning in pain. Taehyun bites his lips, rubbing the top of his head gently hoping the pain would slowly go away. He glares at the familiar male in front of him. His hatred immediately risen up. The same male who bumped into him and didn't even bother to apologise to him yesterday. The same male who was said to be Choi Yi Hyun's little brother and is the youngest child of Principal Choi. The one whose name is Choi Beomgyu.

But there was one thing that had been bothering Taehyun. Ignoring Beomgyu who's still in pain, he scans his surroundings. The wine-colored shelter he's in, the cherry blossoms trees that are everywhere, and the air smells different too. The whole environment looks majestic. It makes Taehyun feels small. Then it hit him. It couldn't be-

His gaze once again falls on Beomgyu who'd seated himself properly in front of him. His legs on top of each other, his position sitting as straight as a wood as his eyes never leaving Taehyun's. Just then, Beomgyu reaches out for something inside the sleeve of his hanbok and handed out a lilac handkerchief.

"For your nose"

Taehyun hesitantly takes it and wipes the blood off his nostrils, then he keeps the handkerchief in his sleeves forgetting who the owner of the handkerchief was. However, it wasn't the handkerchief that caught Taehyun's attention, it was the purple made of silk material hanbok and the gat (traditional Korean hat) that had caught Taehyun's eyes. Taehyun rushes his way and climbs on top of Beomgyu, making the male's eyes widen. Both of them fell on the floor once again.

"Wh- what are you doing?! Get off me now!"

But Taehyun didn't listen. He keeps on touching Beomgyu's face, hanbok, and gat. His breath hitches. Beomgyu could see Taehyun's face from up close and it would be a fucking big lie if he says that his heart isn't beating like crazy at the moment. Amongst the chaos, he hears his own heartbeat beating so loud in his ears. All of a sudden, Taehyun halts his movements. He slowly moves his eyes to look at Beomgyu who was under him. They both stayed in that non-holy position until Taehyun realises what he was doing and climbs off.

He crawls his way backwards, away from Beomgyu and scans his own clothing. Beomgyu blinks in confusion. Taehyun looks at the pink-colored silk hanbok in awe then he noticed his long hair, hanging down to his chest. His fingers trail on the black strands that was the same as his chest level.