Chapter 1: At First Sight (Part 3)

Episode 288

Mine

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And as for me… it was her.

The still little girl resting in his embrace.

I couldn't see her face. I didn't dare. But what caught my eye was her hair—long, golden, and shining like strands of sunlight poured into silk. It was soft, radiant—like it didn't belong in this world. Like it came from somewhere far beyond all this grief and ruin.

And I froze.

My chest tightened. My breath left me.

I was only a boy, but in that moment, something in me broke open. I couldn't tear my eyes away. I couldn't think. I couldn't move.

That gold—her gold—lit something inside me I had never felt before.

Beautiful…

The word wasn't enough. It wasn't just how she looked. It was what she made me feel.

Like something sacred had touched me and left me trembling.

That was the moment I learned what beauty was.

Not the shallow kind. But the kind that haunts you.