The soulmate serum was released to the public two years after Lily was born. So, she didn't really know of a life outside of the concept. Her parents often read her fairy tales growing up, and she would change the story a bit. The prince in the s...
Side characters that appear for the first time/mentioned for the first time in this chapter plus their pronunciations.
Mengrai
Min-grie
Park Taewoong
Park Tae-oong (the g sound is really soft at the end)
Ru Naehyeon
Roo Nae-yon
Kim Kwang-Min
The same as it sounds
Lee Chiwon
Lee Chee-wahn
Ri Hyonjun
Ri Hyahn-joon
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Published 4/22/22
October 18th
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I rip out another lyric filled page from my notebook, wad it up in my hand, and toss it over my shoulder, adding it to the sea of discarded ideas already littering the floor of my studio. I stretch my arms upward and sigh before leaning over and taking a sip of my Iced Americano only to crinkle my face in disgust when all I taste is water with only a hint of coffee flavor. Gross. I knew I should have had Pêe Mengrai pick up my coffee from the other place that makes their Iced Americanos with frozen coffee cubes instead. I glance at the time and frown once more. Oh yeah, they had already closed four hours before I even sat down here. He had to get this one from a convenience store instead since it was already 2am when I finally got the chance to sit down here and write. I push the clear plastic cup behind my computer monitor for now where I won't subconsciously pick it up again and try to drink from it once more. I'm already planning on dumping the liquid out the next time I get up for a bathroom break; if not when I leave.
I look up at the monitor of the computer. The original lyrics staring back at me. This particular song has plagued me for years, and I've tried to resubmit it for consideration three times already. The first version was perfect in my opinion, but it wasn't acceptedsimply due to the subject matter. The longing for my future soulmate barely hidden in between each line of lyric; each verse building the desire and need for this woman who would be my everything. The higher ups of our label, Essentials Music, claimed it was remarkably poetic, but they were absolutely against the idea of our group debuting with a B track song already broadcasting the desire for the other half of a soulmate bond.
Part of me understands. We were a brand new group debuting and the last thing they wanted was to broadcast the fact that we were already searching for our soulmates. It wouldn't have been smart for business to market ourselves ready to begin the next chapter of our lives so early like that. South Korea's numbers hadn't been as strongly reduced when velenoise wiped a good amount of the population through the world. We had a lot more female fans to address than most other countries in the world because of it.
