"I made it up."
My life in the other world wasn't a work of art, ink and paper, pages that were flipped, and a public display for others to see either.
My life was just as it was. 'My' life and it belonged to me alone because I was the only one living in it.
An endless circle with me patting my head, patting my shoulder, patting my back, and telling myself I did well after a full day.
Sitting in my bed, in the library, on a bench in the park, reading novels to my heart's content... Living like I was the only one who existed in my world when I had my free time.
When I went to work, I was diligent. When I came back, I was diligent.
I was the boy who had cried over the death of my grandfather, and I was also the guy who smiled and giggled in my bed because of a novel with characters that didn't even exist.
Anyway, I would rather say that I made that story up than call all of that a novel.
"You made it up?" Seo-Jun asked and I nodded, my smile growing.