Nunbi 16

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Lee Nunbi is a lodger at a mountain temple in Taebaek. He has lived there for twenty years, under the warm care of a kind monk and a bodhisattva devotee. His friend is a mischievous young novice monk, and his treasures are things like tree nuts and flower petals.

"I don't like the temple food here. Bad luck and all."

Into Nunbi's peaceful everyday life, a disagreeable young master came barging in. Dragged into the temple in the middle of the night after being kicked around by someone — that young master was Go Woonjeong. The youngest son of Assemblyman Go's household, the man whose generosity had allowed Nunbi to make a living.

"I think you're kind of not great."

There were the requests from the monks and the devotees, and there was the debt of gratitude he owed to Assemblyman Go. Nunbi tried his best to get along with Woonjeong — but whenever Woonjeong said something cruel, Nunbi never let it slide and always fired back.

That summer, Nunbi looked after Woonjeong's meals, and Woonjeong, trying to make Nunbi cry, ended up awakening him to something Nunbi hadn't yet known.

"You like me, Nunbi."

And then the two of them began doing the things that people who like each other do.

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