She was his bride because she refused to.
"You promised."
Somewhere along the way, the sword stopped aching. Not gone—just quieter. Like an old wound finally healing wrong but healing nonetheless. Download - Guardian The Lonely and Great God -...
"Excuse me."
He laughed—a rusty, forgotten sound. "I've tried. I've climbed every mountain, read every book, loved people until they aged and died. I'm tired, Jin-ah." She was his bride because she refused to
The sword trembled. For one breathless second, Seo-jun felt the weight of 937 years lift—not disappear, but become bearable. He looked at Jin-ah's determined, tear-streaked face and understood: she wasn't his bride because she could kill him.
"Is that... a sword?" she whispered.
"Then find a different ending." She slid a battered paperback across the table. The Hobbit . "Bilbo didn't want an adventure either. But he went anyway."