“So I'm not the kind of person you think I am. Alright?” Jimin spat out, breathing heavily.
It was true. She wasn't. That was why she had been so against Yujin's concert, in the end, because she had been afraid of being attracted to him. Of being swept up by him. Afraid that if she let herself near him, exchanged just a few words with him, she might fool herself into thinking that she might be someone special to such an extraordinary person.
That after this was all over, she might be left like Cinderella at midnight, holding a single glass slipper in her hand, facing the cold world by herself once the spell was broken.
For there was no way that the silly desire to become such a special person's special someone could have a happy ending.
Gil Yuyeong writes everything from web novels to memoirs. She has worked as a screenwriter adapting novels for television, and as a writer for a traditional culture content database. Her novel Ribereutaenggo (리베르탱고 Libertango) was the winner of the STORYUM Novel Award.
2. Writing
Ribereutaenggo is the love story of Yujin, a world-famous cellist, and Jimin, a lowly civil servant. One day, at the quiet cultural center in the sleepy town where Jimin works, the phone rings with the incredible news that Yujin wants to hold a concert there. The center's employees wonder where Yujin could have gotten the idea to hold a concert in such an obscure location. The novel documents the journey of Yujin and Jimin as each of them confronts the scars of their past and comes out ahead of them. In Gil's work, the characters in love are shown to be blissfully happy yet vulnerable at the same time. Jimin is initially scared off by Yujin's love due to her past trauma of giving up the piano, which she loved but had to quit due to various reasons. Through Yujin and Jimin's story, Gil conveys the message that in order to love others, one must fist be brave enough to face down one's own demons.
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