JI EUN-TAK- THE GOBLIN'S BRIDE
"I found you."
Kim Shin heard a familiar voice from his back. His heart pounds rapidly. Maybe it's just his imagination. As always in this past 30 years of longing for a single person he loved the most.
"Mister..."
Upon hearing the voice again, Kim Shin abruptly turned around and his soul seems to leave his body! As the young girl approach slowly towards him with a graceful smile, his tears began to fall.
Indeed! He is not dreaming!
Before the girl reaches Kim Shin, he stood up suddenly, and without a word, he walked fast to meet the girl in the middle. They are in the sacred place where his beloved are buried for a very long time. One of those is his wife, Ji Eun-tak, buried 30 years ago.
"Mister. You know who I am, right?"
Kim Shin cannot hold his tears as he nodded while answering, "Yes! You are my first... and last... Goblin's bride."
The young girl smiled widely, as bright as the sunshine above them. They hugged tightly.
Indeed!
The girl is...
The reincarnation of Ji Eun-tak! In her second lifetime. With the same face and looks just like in the past.
The Goblin's bride.
After 30 years of waiting, finally Kim Shin can smile again. The longing in his heart never fades as time goes by. But those longings are now changed into happiness after his wife came back to his life again just like what she promised when she left the world of the living. She promised to come back and will look for him.
And now is the beginning of their second happiness.
In this reincarnation, Ji Eun-tak is not her given name, but Lee Min-jong. A 16 years old Korean student with intact memory of her past life because of not drinking the "Tea of forgetfulness."
Kim Shin stays beside Lee Min-jong all the time without anyone noticing it. Anyway, being a Goblin, he can do many things including disappearance and teleportation. He supported her to have a normal life. He watches her growing as time goes by. But he didn't rush the time to claim her as his owned wife but she let her stay in her new parents, with her new school. Let her live the way how she was born in this lifetime.
Kim Shin and Lee Min-jong meet from time to time. Creating new memories that will last forever.
After Lee Min-jong graduated from college, Kim Shin decided to marry her once again. It's time to claim his wife. That's enough of waiting. And they live again in his Mansion.
"Ahhh. It's good to have you back my wife." Kim Shin stroke her hair while Lee Min-jong is lying in his arms.
"I love you Kim Shin, now and all of my lifetime."
"I love you Ji Eun-tak, Lee Min-jong, my Bride, my wife, then and forever."
It's the best days of their lives.
Kim Shin let his wife take over his company as the owner. Anyway, Daek-hwa is already old now at the age of 60. He married at the age of 25 and now he has two sons. Back then, Daek-hwa decided to take care of his master like his grandfather did with his whole life but Kim Shin his master and known uncle pushed him to have his own life. Have his own family. At first, Daek-hwa declined the petition of his uncle, but thinking and watching him not changing, not getting old, he decided to marry. The thought of leaving his master alone when he reaches the limit of living kills him. And so he didn't hide the identity of his master to his sons and taught them how to take care of his master and all of his assets, the Mansion, the companies, the countless monies, and all the pieces of jewelry of gold and all kind of treasures. Being the Goblin's servant is the best opportunity for living.
Lee Min-jong and Daek-hwa happily serve the best man of their lives. As a husband for Lee Min-jong and as the greatest uncle for Daek-hwa.
The rain stops on pouring and the people experienced the longest winter and fall in history. Because the Goblin is happy. The gloomy days ended.
Kim Sun and Wang Yeo become lovers in this lifetime. And Kim Shin didn't bother them anymore. Letting them live in their own space with their new identities. But their hearts know who are their master. However their identities change, their fated love didn't change at all. Their hearts still beat for each other.
Days and nights.
Winters and falls.
Months and years.
However long it is, this lifetime has to end.
In Goblin's heart, these are the longest and happiest days of his life. He will treasure it forever.
At the age of 98, Lee Min-jong reaches the peak of her life. However she takes care, a human has to end. A man holding her hands beside her, never aged and has the looks exactly how she knows him in her past life.
"Kim Shin my husband, I am sorry for being a human. Now I need to leave you again." A hoarse voice of an old woman speaks softly.
The clouds in the sky start to darken. After a very long time, the gloomy weather appears once again. The Goblin is lonely.
"You did very well my wife. You made me the happiest man on earth. Please do not worry about me." He tried his best to smile at this woman in front of him. Tried his best not to cry in this separation.
But the weather cannot hide it all. The rain starts to pour.
"I will come back once again, please wait for me. I wish in my next life, I can be with you forever."
Kim Shin smiled lovingly at his woman. Kissing her hands passionately he answered, "However long it takes, I will wait for you. We will marry again and will create new memories."
"I love you so much Kim Shin." The last cry of a fading life.
"I love you too so much my wife." And his tears fell when his wife shut her eyes. "Please rest in peace."
Kim Shin kissed his wife in the forehead and using his power, he put a mark in her soul.
Goblin's Bride (고블린의 신부)
A Goblin's mark.
A mark that signifies he owned her.
A grim reaper appeared to claim her soul, and Kim Shin did not allow her not to drink the tea of forgetfulness. She must forget the past to be able to have a new identity in her reincarnation.
"I will find you, my wife. Please don't worry."
And the rain pours heavily. The strong winds and thunder suddenly hit the sky.
The Goblin is crying.
For how long it will take for him to wait again, he never knows.
He was cursed.
He is a Goblin.
He is immortal and that is his punishment from divinity above.
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