Imagine you are Yoo Myeongwoo.
Imagine you are at the lowest point of your entire life. You are without a job, without money, with no usable skills or accomplishments. You are actively suicidal. However, even your suicide attempt ended as a failure (what did you even expect), you awakened. As F-rank. With none really usable skills. How pathetic.
"At least I'll get some money and eat well for once" - you think. How goddamn pathetic you are ...
So you go register. Not expecting anything, you can't afford shit anyway.
On your way back home you hear someone calling your name. There is this hyper guy, looking incredibly happy to see you. He knows you, you don't know him. Your visual memory is quite good you believe, but you can't remember him.
So this guy (stranger) starts chatting with you, asking about your current life. You entertain him, he happens to have quite a dongsaeng (goddamn you're jealous, but hey so was he). You tell him about your life (you think he's going to judge you), he tells you a bit about his own (he is trying to cheer you up).
Somehow, by the end of the day, you get to train at one of the top guilds in the country without asking, hell without actually being given a choice. Simply because this guy, Yoojin, says you deserve it (do you?). He even promises to lend you equipment worth more than everything you ever owned. Because you are someone of value (are you?). Somehow, you feel less pathetic now. You like that guy (still can't remember him though).
A few days later, when you are about to sign a slave contract, you see him again. Debts, him? Impossible. Going into dungeons? He can go anytime with the best bodyguards. What is he doing here? While talking about signing a contract himself (oh no, no no no) he takes yours in his hands. Rips it. The rest? Right out of a movie. He's like a hero, and he's your friend (apparently). He lends you A-rank item (who'd give one to a stranger?). You feel like crying. (You still don't remember him.)
You start the training, with the newest S-rank in the country. Yoojin's brother is there too. Scary people. Yoojin is scolding them like a mom would. They don't like you, no, the don't care about your existence at all. They are tolerating your presence because of Yoojin. And Yoojin is treating all of you the same (Why? Their worth and yours are completely different).
Yoojin is incredible too, he got a skill that made him priceless. Now, you are the only pathetic one around (he still treats you the same).
Your rank is too low to be hired as a hunter, so Yoojin lets you stay at his house as a servant. (He's too nice). You take care of the household, cook, sharpen knives, and search for the connection between the two of you. (He did so much for you, and you can't even remember him, gods you feel awful)
You can't find any. You ask your classmates and (ex-)friends, they don't remember him. You search the internet, you look into HIS life.
There is nothing. You were perfect strangers. You can't remember him, because that day at the Association was the first time you met him. He knew your name (how?). He treated you as a dear friend (why?). He told you that you were useful, valuable (he is surrounded by goddamn S-ranks). You are confused, why would he lie to you?
You continue cooking and sharpening knives. Yoojin looks as if what you made was the best food he ever ate. If nothing else, at least you are somehow useful. Seeing him enjoy what you made fills you with joy.
And then he gets kidnapped, and there is NOTHING you can do to help. They won't give you any information either. Because the only one who truly cares for you is Yoojin. (Why does he?)
Once he gets back, everything at home is the same. You cook and sharpen knives. Yoojin is busy. But still treats you like a dear friend. Sometimes he looks at you with a guilty expression, but he's not telling the truth (does it even matter?)
When you get the skill you can't help but cry. He is watching you, acting happy and surprised (he's a good actor, you know by now). You are not useless anymore. You can stand next to him with head held high. But, he is still not telling the truth.
The world continues and you learn how to make equipment (because getting the skill and knowing how to use it are different things) you hear him say
"when you leave-"
and the world stops. Leave? (NO) Where to? (NO) Does Yoojin no longer want you around (NO NO NO NO NO)
And then you realize that it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if this is all started as fake. Doesn't matter if he lied. Yoojin is the only one to ever care. He is the only one to ever truly like (the useless pathetic bum you used to be).
Whether Yoojin is a saint (he is) or he is a liar (he is) it doesn't matter.
What you are feeling right now is real, and you like this guy. This guy that found you on a sidewalk during your darkest hour and made you into what you are now. This guy who always knew that you were valuable (how? It does NOT matter)
... as long as you can stay.
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Rating: G
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo
Relationship(s): Han Yoojin/Yoo Myeongwoo
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Alternate Universe, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Major Character Death in Previous Timeline, but not this one
Summary: If Awakening was uncommon then having a soulmark was even rarer, and the studies behind it were still hidden behind miles of red tape that a guildless F-Rank like him would never have access to. His own mark, splashed between his stomach and hip like a scandalous tattoo, was the only thing he had to go on, and it was the key to his frustration.
What did the bird mean to his soulmate? What did it mean to him?
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UPDATE: The S-Ranks That I Raised (315)
“I think it’d be cool if you shot a commercial, Yoohyun-ah.”
“Come on, Han Yoo─ Guild Leader-nim can’t do shoots. Maybe if you were holding the camera and giving instructions and doing styling and everything, ahjussi.”
“I can film something if you want, hyung.”
Read Chapter 315: It’s A Holiday (2) now!
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