- Overview
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A memory hunter who can steal memories through eye contact struggles to recover the memory of his first love.
- Book Intro
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The First Love of a Memory Hunter
* Serendipitous Reunion *
Jihan, a 25-year-old man, is a memory hunter who erases his clients' memories. Ironically, he does not remember his own childhood prior to age 15 when he became a memory hunter himself. One day, he serendipitously makes eye contact with Youngsun who remembers Jihan's childhood. Curious about his own past, Jihan realizes that Youngsun's memories are partially lost. How did she lose them? Did she commission another memory hunter? Apprehensive, Jihan reaches out to his mentor who trained him into a memory hunter. Jihan seeks to recover his own memories from his childhood.
* Key to the Truth *
After meeting with his mentor, Jihan inadvertently steals the mentor's memory screen that holds the mentor's memories. Accessing the mentor's memory, Jihan learns that he himself erased Youngsun's memory. Jihan seeks to rectify his mistake. However, Youngsun becomes suspicious of Jihan, who wants to show her something that she would like to know, and responds with the perplexing remark, "I'd like to recover something I lost." Jihan realizes that the loss cannot be compensated for by anything else but her lost memory itself.
* Returned Memory Screen *
Jihan recovers Youngsun's lost memory screen at the elementary school they attended together. What Jihan erased was Youngsun's happy memories of her deceased father. Jihan becomes dejected that he cannot return Youngsun's precious memories. Meanwhile, Jihan learns that his mentor deceived him and stole his childhood memories. His ill motivation was related to a man named Chansoo who appeared in his mentor's memory screen. Chansoo was Youngsun's father and another memory hunter whom the mentor attempted to make his disciple before he approached Jihan.
* Lost Memory of First Love *
Chansoo, thought to be deceased, was found hospitalized in a hospice facility. Jihan brought Youngsun's father to her. However, Youngsun, who has already lost her memories, isn't able to fully process this. Soon, Jihan learns from Chansoo what wrongdoings his mentor has committed. Jihan seeks revenge on his mentor who ruined his life and Youngsun's family. He resolves to return Youngsun's memories of her father and reclaim his lost first love.
- About the Author
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GUK Seulki
(English) Guk Seulki launched her literary career in 2014 after she resolved to write novels that are entertaining like TV dramas. Guk writes serialized web-based novels and has published in both electronic and paper media. She participated in the SBA Hallyu Culture Contents Seeding Project as a creator in 2020 and wrote a screenplay based on a novel as part of a creative project in 2021. Guk earned a bachelor's degree in media creative writing.