The you in me, I will remember
Red is for love, black is for anger, pink is for happiness, yellow is for okayish, white is for satisfaction, and many like that.
The world in which Sunwoo is born is where people are born with rings around their left ring finger which depicts the mood that their soulmate is experiencing. Itâs a special kind of feeling knowing what a person whoâs exclusively yours is feeling right now.
Itâs a special kind of feeling knowing if your soulmate is the angry kind or a bubbly kind or something else.
Sunwoo, with a mostly pink ring around his finger, is always a bit skeptical.
How can a person always be happy? If he hadnât seen it happening with people around him, he wouldnât even have believed in it. And so, he waits. For the day he gets to know the name of his soulmate or sees her or meets her as the ring around their finger turns dual color. What he is feeling and what his sweet soulmate is feeling.
He waits for the day they will meet and find out if she really is that kind of person or if itâs just his connection to her thatâs broken
But then one day, out of nowhere his ring turns transparent.Â
Sunwoo is in the middle of watching a movie and he hates the fact that he didnât even notice the ring on his finger losing its color, dimming until it finally turns transparent so that people no one would even see a band on his finger.
Sunwoo is hurt and he mourns for a person he never met.
He mourns for the girl and hates that he might never know what happened to her.
Years later, Sunwoo is finally able to move on, with a girl he met in his office. They mesh well as he gets to know that her soulmate cheated on her again and again.
âAt least you got to know how he was, I didnât even meet her onceâ Sunwoo comments as their date comes to an end.
They keep meeting again and again, and one day, Sunwoo proposes, knowing she might not be his soulmate but they do have a connection of a kind.
The wedding preparations start and although itâs a small affair, (marriage to a non-soulmate is still frowned upon by many) it takes time.Â
By the time the wedding is done, Sunwoo can feel a deep pain in his heart, part of his soul weeping for his soulmate.
The girlâs parents come to congratulate him.
âThank you for making our Minah so happy. It was hard and at one point, we never thought we would be able to see her recover.â Sunwoo listened to his now father-in-law speak but in the middle of it, his ring finger tingled.
âYes, our poor girls. One lost her life and another is forever gonna live in the guilt that she might be the reason her sisterâŠâ but Sunwoo is only half listening because the ring on his finger finally turns to purple.
Purple for confusion and the color deepens as hard as he looks at the ring.
âThat girl, my Soyi, gave her all to save Minahâ Sunwoo turned the ring. It was still transparent.
âShe died while trying to save Minah from her abusive boyfriendâ
Cheon Soyi.
Born 14th October 2003.
Loving daughter, brave sister.
Sunwoo cries as he sees her tombstone. Itâs not clean, and it's not new, having been in this place for the past 7 years.
The tombstone of his wifeâs sister who died trying to save her.
The tombstone of his soulmate.
âSoyi, I have taken a lot of things from you in this lifeâ Sunwoo hears Minah speaking âFirst your clothes, then your makeup, your life, and now your soulmate. In the next life, please take everything you want from me. Or else I will forever be indebted to my little sister. I have been trying my best to take care of Mom and Dad as I promised. I will take care of Sunwoo too.â
Sunwoo wipes his tears.
âWe have never met Soyi ssi. But I think I have known a part of you, of who you were. And I am so glad we are soulmates. In our next lives, letâs definitely meet.â
Sunwoo takes Minahâs hands as they get up, both comforting each other and walk away with promise of living a life of pink.