[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eighteen-s-bed":3,"chapter-eighteen-s-bed-eighteen-s-bed-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eighteen’s Bed",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":12,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1167023,1516,"Chapter 0","eighteen-s-bed-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>Love only truly flourishes between people who are alike. That’s the key to happiness. I agree with that. Similar values, similar family backgrounds, similar education levels, similar financial standing, similar levels of physical attractiveness. Like attracts like. I was a clever child who understood that this was the expressway to the happiness everyone sought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, the year I turned seventeen, I realized I was in the midst of an extraordinary love. Maybe it had been love at first sight, and I was only now coming to terms with it. But because I prided myself on being rational and logical, I dismissed it as just a high schooler’s first crush and brushed it off without much thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, the feelings that were wound so tightly inside me blocked my throat and, in the end, choked me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please take me to Sinsa Station.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, I’m watching the city’s dawn scenery roll past me. A message, sudden and intrusive like an unplanned appointment, had stolen away my early morning peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving it, I sat on my bed for a moment before getting up with a muttered curse. With no one at home except the housekeeper sleeping downstairs, there was no chance anyone would notice I was gone. So, I decided to go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I stood outside the gate waiting for a taxi, I noticed a motorcycle parked alone against the wall of the house across the alley. A year ago, the family next door had abruptly moved out, and a new family had moved in. But I’d never encountered them. Considering the neighborhood, with its high walls and private spaces, it wasn’t surprising. Judging from the motorcycle, I figured they probably had an older child, someone older than me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That motorcycle was either casually left out in front of the gate or shoved into a corner of the alley, tightly chained up. Somehow, it reminded me of myself. I stared at it briefly before looking away and getting into the taxi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the ride, I kept my eyes on the window. But as someone who easily gets carsick, I eventually gave up and closed my eyes instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, I’d had trouble digesting food properly for about a year. With a sigh, I tried to ease the tightness lodged in my chest. I made a habit of ignoring emotions that unsettled me, and with enough effort, I’d managed to keep a composed façade all this time—just like I was now, stepping out of the taxi and heading into the hotel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, I bit my lip and clenched my fist before releasing it. I focused on the small piece of paper in my hand, found the number written on it, and approached the corresponding door. Slowly, I knocked three times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, Han Junwoo. Open the door already.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence greeted me from the other side. Irritated, I stared at the void for a moment before exhaling sharply. I pounded on the door again, this time with more force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I said, open the damn door!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This situation—honestly, it was disgusting. Imagining what might’ve gone on in this room overnight made my skin crawl, but I couldn’t stop myself from knocking. Han Junwoo had asked me to come, and I was enduring this repulsive scene because he was the one who’d infected me with that first “illness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why the hell are you calling me when you’re off having some useless one-night stand, you worthless bastard?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>God, this is unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The life of an eighteen-year-old.\u003C\u002Fp>",581,"2026-06-03T12:59:24.646Z","2026-06-03T12:59:27.192Z","novelbin.me","04faa9f52a29699bb16ca7e454619c3cfd1c27ff1ef8f049b3bec7115f5de559","eighteen-s-bed-chapter-103","eighteen-s-bed-chapter-102",138,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feighteen-s-bed-cover.jpg"]