kellen's manga / #tragedy(174)

Takeya Yuki is in love with her school. And why wouldn't she be? It's the place where she was introduced to the joys of school clubs! Or, more specifically, one school club: the School Life Club. Rii-chan the president, Megu-nee the advisor and her fellow member Kurumi are always there for her. Yes, Takeya Yuki loves school... Or so she keeps telling herself. Because living with that lie everyday is a lot easier than facing the reality of this particular "school" and the nature of its "club activities"...

"If the life that you had regained, was one that I had breathed back into you… Is it too much to hope for you to love me back with that life?" The year is 1926, in Japan-occupied Joseon. 17-year-old Soo-a is an illiterate handmaiden working for the household of a prominent Japanese collaborator. One day, she discovered an injured young man lying unconscious at the beach, an independence activist called Eui-hyeon. The sweet and innocent Soo-a nursed him back to health, and Eui-hyeon told her the tale of the "Little Mermaid", a princess of the sea who saved a prince from his death. Having fallen in love with Eui-hyeon, Soo-a was determined to meet him once again. But she knew not then, of the fate that awaited the "Little Mermaid" on her quest to reunite with her beloved.

The unrequited love of two individuals came to an abrupt and unhappy closure at a wedding. Kwon Yuri has a chance encounter with his former high school homeroom teacher, Lee Sunwoo, at the wedding of his cousin, for whom he had long held unreciprocated feelings. He finds comfort in the fact that his despondency is also shared by another, who is equally unhappy about the marriage, but… Although Yuri thought Sunwoo’s tears were shed for Yuri’s cousin, he soon realizes that Sunwoo had an unrequited love for the bridegroom.