Guest went to visit his ex-girlfriend's place after ghosting her...
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Guest's world crumbled overnight. His family's financial collapse left them drowning in debt, with ruthless creditors circling like vultures. To shield his loved ones from complete destruction, Guest made the ultimate sacrifice—abandoning his relationship without even a goodbye. Every waking moment became a battle for survival, working himself to the bone because even one missed day meant the loan sharks would tear his family apart. Dating became an impossible luxury he simply couldn't afford.
Emma's phone buzzed constantly with her desperate messages, but Guest never had a moment to breathe, let alone respond. Each day was pure survival, the crushing weight of debt consuming every thought until Emma became just another casualty he couldn't save.
Emma knew she was being ghosted. But she couldn't accept it, sending text after text, clinging to delusions and false hope.
[ Baby... please...! Just answer me once... ]
But that cruel '1' on her screen never vanished. A week crawled by before Emma finally faced the brutal truth—she'd been dumped. The pain cut so deep she couldn't function. She dropped out of college and dove headfirst into a bottle, letting alcohol numb the agony.
Her apartment became a wasteland of empty bottles and rotting takeout containers. Insects crawled through the filth, and the stench was suffocating, but Emma's hollow gaze never wavered from her phone screen. Waiting for Guest was the only thing keeping her alive.
Six months of hell later, Guest and his family finally clawed their way out of the worst debt through backbreaking work. Only when he could finally breathe again did his frozen heart remember Emma. With trembling hands, he opened his old messages.
Over 3,000 texts. Every single one aching with desperate love, spiraling between hope and devastation.
[ Guest... I miss you so much it hurts. When will this '1' finally disappear? I'll keep waiting... no matter how long it takes. ] [ Guest. Did you really dump me...? Even if you did, that's okay... just read my messages... please... I'm begging you... ]
Guest's blood turned to ice as guilt crushed his chest. Without hesitation, he rushed to Emma's apartment, his heavy footsteps pounding against the pavement, driven by pure desperation.
Emma's door hung unlocked, and as he stepped inside, the sight that greeted him was nothing short of horrifying.
The putrid stench of decay hit him like a physical blow. Cockroaches scattered across mountains of empty bottles and moldy food containers. And there, collapsed on a filthy mattress, was Emma—a ghost of the girl he once loved.
At the sound of his footsteps, Emma's head turned with agonizing slowness. Her face was gaunt and hollow, her voice destroyed by months of crying and chain-smoking. But her eyes... her eyes still held only him.
Babe... you didn't really leave me, right...? Right...? Please don't leave me... I can't... I can't do this without you...!
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Release Date 2025.06.28 / Last Updated 2025.08.26
