'Yun Ki,

I'm writing this to you with a heavy heart. With a heart that pounds hard, with every syllable that struggles to find a place in this letter.

The past days were nothing short of a dream.

I don't remember smiling as much as I had in these past days.

The reason behind my smile was none other than you, Yun Ki.

It was you and your selfless heart, your caring side, your soft demeanour and your touch that had me feeling as though someone as pitiful as me could have a second go at life.

I won't forget how I felt when you held my hand and intertwined our digits so close that I felt as though I'd die.

I can still feel the hammering of my heart when you first touched me, with love.

I can still feel the butterflies that twirled in the pit of my stomach when you first grasped my chin and kissed me, with all the passion in your body.

I can still feel your warmth, the warmth of your body pressed next to mine as we laid in bed, as Man and Wife, for the very first time.

How can I ever repay you for all that you've done for me?

You saved me from the clutches of poverty and emaciating patriarchy.

You built a roof over my family's head and you accepted me.

Accepted me despite my flaws, despite the way I'd broken your trust, that once.

All my life, I'd believed that I was enough.

That I was enough for my own self and that maybe, I could face this harsh world, without a second thought.

I was wrong, Yun Ki.

I was wrong to think that no one else could make me happy, for all of that changed once you walked into my life.

You say I've changed you, that I've moulded you to a better person.

The fact is that we've both grown, together.

The obstacles, the trials and tribulations that life has thrown our way has only ever made us stronger.

It's held you and I in a cocoon.

How can I ever repay you, for you have done so much for me..

I can repay you now, Yun Ki.

I can repay all that you've done for me by walking away from you.

I can repay it all by going back to what was once my life.

I don't want to leave, Yun Ki but, it is the only choice I have.

The only choice that can allow us, two beings who were perhaps meant to be one, to survive.

To be able to see you smile, to be able to see you breathing, I will have to retreat from your life.

I don't want to abandon you.

Not after we'd vowed to live and succumb as one.

Especially not after we'd planned out a future, a brighter one.

A future where we'd find ourselves seated under The Cherry Blossom tree, watching our children prod along the Garden.

A future where we'd have our fingers intertwined, till the very end.

However, just as all good dreams, this too, had to end.

Yun Ki, I'd like to believe that you and I are the same.

We love the same and we hate the same.

The Universe has always stood to the testament of the fact that two like people can never be together, like poles would always repel one another.

Perhaps, something of the very same kind is happening to us.

It was beautiful while it lasted and perhaps, in a dream I'll come meet you again.

I'll walk you past the fireflies we'd marvelled over in Goryeo.

I'll cradle your face and kiss that gummy smile.

I'll run my lips over that scar and watch as your eyes fill with Galaxies.

Till then, forget me.

Forget me as a good dream.

Forget me as someone you'd met by-chance, someone you'd met eyes with in a crowded marketplace.

I wish I could erase the part of me that you hold in your memories and take it all with me.

I wish I could take away all your pain.

All the pain that keeps you up at night and has you stirring, constantly.

Dream of me, Yun Ki.

Dream of us, together and only see us as a dream.

We were never meant to be.

The Universe was always out to conspire against us.

I'd like to believe that you and I have a chance.

A chance in our next life.

A life where we're both commoners, away from the pomp and show and the political filth of a Kingdom.

A life that'd be simpler and a life that the two of us had a say on.

A time when there'd be no restrictions over love, our love.

A time when it'd be okay for us to sneak out, whenever we wanted.

Think of me as a fragment of your imagination.

Think of us as a beautiful dream and grab a hold of reality.

You hold immense power in the sword you wield, there's an ocean so deep in that heart of yours.

In the heart that I had the chance to gain a peek into.

You're a true born King and never let any one tell you otherwise.

It'll be difficult in the beginning but always remember, you were loved.

You were loved for the heart you possessed, for the warmth you exuded and for the way you made me feel safe and wanted.

Perhaps, the only regret I carry with me is that I wasn't able to embrace you, one last time.

That I wasn't able to kiss you to sleep and tell you that it'd all be okay, one last time.

I'll meet you in your dreams and I'll hold onto you, there..

For only in the land of Dreams can Yun Ki and Soojin be one.

My heart belongs to you, I'm leaving it with you, in your own chest.

Take care of it.

I've loved you and I will love you for as long as love stands true.

-- Soojin.'

Soojin wraps a neat letter and hides it under her pillow, before Areum can see.

Streams of tears are riding down her face as she jots down each and every word from the bottom of her heart.

She loved him and yet for her, his life was far more valuable.

Soojin hears a knock on her door at the crack of Dawn.

It was time.