Growing up in a small town means that gossip and rumors have always spread like wildfire. One of the most fascinating legends that has captured your imagination is about a coffee shop. According to local lore, visiting this place has the remarkable power to transport you back in time. From all the times you visited that place, you never embarked on a journey through time. However, from the first visit, one thing captivated you: the charming attendant. He had a captivating smile. His uniform badge revealed his name: Park Jisung.

Jisung and you were still teenagers when you met. He worked there to help his parents, while you went there every week and ordered the cheapest coffee. You did this just to look at him while you lost yourself in imagined scenarios in your head. Until the day he returned your gaze and gave you a more expensive coffee as a present, with that captivating smile.

As both of you reached the age of 22, plans for an engagement took shape. Jisung devoted himself to balancing college and work in order to finance the upcoming ceremony, while you diligently did the same, eagerly anticipating the joyous occasion. Tragically, just a few months before the wedding, the person you cherished so deeply was unexpectedly taken from you. Jisung died.

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Even after your loved one's passing, you continued to visit the coffee shop - the place where the two of you met and fell in love. This time, you ordered the most expensive coffee and stood there for hours, in hopes that your tears would ease some of the pain you were feeling. When your eyes were already swollen, you collapsed on the table in a sleep. When your peace was disturbed by a tap on the shoulder, an employee woke you up to tell you to leave; it was probably time for it to close.

But when you looked up, it was Jisung, with the same captivating smile as always, but his gaze was indifferent, as if he had never met you. He also looked younger.