I Returned the Gentle Gong, and Now a Possessive Gong Showed Up?

“I’m taking back the mark. I never wanted to be Choi Geonwoo’s guide in the first place.”

After being possessed by the villainous sub-receiver in a BL novel, Jaehee upends the original plot by becoming the main character, Choi Geonwoo’s, lover—only for Geonwoo to die as a result. Consumed by grief, Jaehee is thrown back in time to before Geonwoo’s esper abilities even awaken. The moment he lays eyes on the past version of Geonwoo, he unthinkingly brands him with a one-sided mark.

To save Geonwoo, Jaehee knows he has to let the story play out as it originally did. But can he really erase that mark and keep Geonwoo safe?

[Preview]

“That… what are you saying? That can’t be—”

Geonwoo’s eyes locked onto Jaehee, desperate for him to take it back, to admit it was all a lie.

“I don’t appreciate that kind of joke.”

But Jaehee didn’t deny it. He just sat there in silence, as if waiting for Geonwoo to accept the truth. The longer the silence stretched, the tighter Geonwoo’s lips pressed together, his expression twisting into something raw and wounded. His face crumpled, betraying a heartbreaking vulnerability.

Jaehee, who had never seen him like this before, finally spoke again.

“That mark—right now, every emotion Choi Geonwoo feels as an esper, he’s bearing it alone. He’s the only one hurting, the only one struggling to hold on. And in the end, he’ll be the only one left in pain… Why should it be like that? What’s the point of protecting him if it only isolates him further?”

Stop.

Geonwoo didn’t want to hear another word. Jaehee was tearing apart the one thing he had fought so hard to protect.

“Just accept the guiding.”

Stop! Please… just stop… Guide-nim…

He wanted Jaehee to stop talking, to stop unraveling everything.

But then—

“I’m taking back the mark.”

Jaehee’s voice cut through, delivering the final, crushing blow.

“I never wanted to be Choi Geonwoo’s guide.”