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  1. Rec *

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    "What do you want from me?" Aventurine snaps.

    What does Ratio want from him? Ratio recalls an earlier thought. He wants the man.

    "More than you're willing to give, it seems."

    Aventurine sends Ratio looking for a file in his desk. Ratio finds his will instead—and, inside it, himself listed as a beneficiary. The money is the least interesting thing Aventurine has left him.

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    30 Aug 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Calmest ratorine confession yet (it only includes accidental intrusion of privacy and last will)

    Mesmerising and sweet character study

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    Kim Hajin is a failure. There's no two ways to look at that objective truth. It's a truth that resonates through how others look at and ridicule him. It's a truth that echoes infinitely inside his head, compounding and doubling down on his inadequacies. It's a truth, despite the unconditional love of two parents that soothe but cannot dispel those haunting doubts.

    Kim Suho is simply perfection. The desperate vessel and ideal of Hajin's "ifs" and wishes. Because Kim Suho, the protagonist of Hajin's novel, is everything Hajin wants to be for his parents and more. But, that story falls apart at the seams the same way Hajin has lost faith in himself.

    Yet, as the common narrative dictates, everything begins anew with an innocuous email requesting to remake Hajin's novel.

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    Alternatively, the extremes of Korean culture break Kim Hajin into someone who feels much more acutely, and everything shifts to the left.

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    24 Oct 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Things that live in my head rent free