Phoenix

Author: (Korean) Choi In-ho
Translator: Xue Zhou, Xu Li-hong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The novel tells the "way of love" about how love redeems the soul. The protagonist, Kim Young-hu, comes from a humble background, and the discrimination of society constantly wounds his sensitive heart. But he refuses his lowly fate, and his innate wildness drives him to change everything! By chance, he meets the son of a wealthy family and develops a strange feeling for his fiancée, Hyun-joo. In the subsequent series of intricate and ruthless cycles of revenge and counter-revenge, Kim Young-hu and Hyun-joo are awakened by the magical and pure power of love. In the end, they defy the gaps of money, knowledge, and social status, and fall deeply in love. After intense conflicts between good and evil, love and hate, life and death, they are reborn like phoenixes, "reborn from the ashes."
The Devil's Smile Kim Young-hu enters a small inn in the suburbs of the city. At that moment, lukewarm raindrops fall with a pattering sound, and the hot air also cools slightly. Although he is thirty minutes late for the appointment, he doesn’t mind it. He hasn’t deliberately delayed, nor has he hurried because he was late. He wants to let the person waiting anxiously fully experience the taste of impatience. Seeing Young-hu, the man sitting behind the front desk, who was yawning, quickly stands up.
"Are you booking a room?" The man’s face flashes a crude smile. He assumes too much, thinking that anyone wandering around the hotel lobby in broad daylight must be booking a room. Young-hu doesn’t answer, just shakes his head.
"Then are you looking for someone?"
"Yes."
"Which room are you looking for?"
"I know." Young-hu enters the elevator next to the front desk.
"Would you like me to take you there?"