Thousands of kilometres away, Mandeok- dong, Busan, S K Country.
In a dimly lit room in a modest courtyard, a boy of merely over eight year old was lying on bed, his eyebrows furrowed, sweat beads adorning his small and pale forehead, seemingly enduring great agony.
Even in this state the boy looks endearing, a face so exquisite and adorable, it can be seen that the boy would grow up to be quite the handsome man.
Just that, right now there are quite a few people in the room, looking at the boy on the bed with heartache and distress in their eyes.
The young couple, the parents of the boy in the room, the woman is weeping her silent tears, the young man is trying to comfort his wife, a boy slightly older was standing with the couple looking worriedly at the boy. There was another person, a monk meditating and seemingly calculating something.
The monk opened his eyes: "Amitabha, the young benefactor has crossed a long path and it's a hard earn chance now. Failure or success depends on himself now, if he failed, he won't have other chances."
"Master, please tell us what has been bothering our youngest. Why is he having the same dream again and again? And now he even screams sometimes."
"I really can't bear to see him go through all this. Please, if you have any way please help our youngest," the woman, the boy's mother was pleading with tears and a hint of helplessness. The child used to be cheerful and mischievous, even though still the same but the mischievousness is not there anymore. The child has somewhat toned down during these couple of years.
"Amitabha! Benefactor has nothing to fear. It's the little benefactors karmic tie from past life, the occurrence of these dreams started when the karmic tie has overcome a major hurdle and has finally been granted a chance to be tied to each other."
While looking at the boy on the bed, the monk continued slowly:" the heaven has granted them a chance to fulfill their karmic tie, they are bound to meet in this life."
The three people present listened, somewhat incredulous.
"The dreams can't be stopped, but letting him know would calm him down. And remember..."
While saying this, the monk turned toward the young couple," before meeting with the female benefactor, the little benefactor shouldn't be involved in any other love karma. The female benefactor..." the monk looked in a certain direction and said in a whisper, loud enough for everyone to hear," she is from a different nation, thousands of kilometres away. Having changed her destiny, her future path is fraught with dangers."
What the monk didn't say is that if the two can't meet in the end, their lifespan will come to an premature end. He didn't even know himself the exact timeline, it's not the time yet, so he didn't want the family of the little benefactor to feel more burden.
Even though the monk didn't disclose everything, whatever is made known was enough to make all three to be left speechless. They thought simultaneously that: ' their son/ brother is already 'betrothed' while being so young, and the thing is they don't even know to whom. All they know is from now on he can't be having any affairs, should they be happy that he won't mess around when he grows up or that he might not be able to meet her at all. And they now had one ' additional family member ' in their family, a foreigner at that.'
"Sigh!..."
They all sighed together waiting for The One to show someday in the future.