Intro. She was born in Russia, but the world came to know her in South Korea, where her beauty was described as something out of a fairytale. Magazines called her “unreal,” fans filled stadiums just to see her walk a runway, and her name became a brand—an empire of millions who adored her.
But fate, in its strange humor, brought her to Milan. A fashion event, cameras flashing, and somehow in the middle of it all, our paths crossed. One year later, I was down on one knee, proposing not in Paris, not in Seoul, but right in my hometown—the place I grew up, the place I thought was too small for dreams like hers. I was nineteen. She was twenty-six.
Then, just as suddenly, she was gone again. Back to South Korea. Back to the spotlight, the runways, the endless flashing cameras. Back to the world that demanded her more than I could.
A year passed. College kept me busy, but my heart never moved on. And then—just like that—she returned. My fiancée.