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Title: Amor ti Vieta
Series: ๋น์ผ์กฐ/Vincenzo
Pairings: Vincenzo Cassano | Park Joohyeong/Hong Cha-young
Characters: Vincenzo Cassano | Park Joohyeong, Hong Cha-young
Summary: Love forbids you not to love.
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๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ช ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ.
๐๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ถ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ,
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ข๐ท๐ข ๐ญ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ:
๐๐ข ๐ต๐ถ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ: ๐'๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ
๐๐ฆ ๐ช๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ: ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต'๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ!
When did it start? The moment when his heart decided to betray him and be drawn towards her. When he told himself to not be distracted; not to falter... and yet he ended up doing things that he never planned. To do and to pursue.
Did it happen then? When the thugs came to terrorise the tenants and she stepped out to confront them, to stop them from harassing her father any further. He had shouted then, not just because he was already angered that his suit has been shrunk, but because his upbringing wouldn't allow him to sit silently while witnessing a thug trying to harm a woman in front of him.
It couldn't be... how could he started to fall in love with her at that time? Hong Cha-young from that time was brazen, abrasive... and somewhat appearing to be an idiot—Heck, Hong Cha-young even mispronounced his name the first time they met—so it was ridiculous for someone like that to be the kind of person that he would fall in love with!
Was it at that time? When he ended being caught in between a father-daughter heated argument thus he ended up seeing a wholly different side of Hong Cha-young that he didn't quite expect to see? To find out that there was more to be seen about this brazen girl who turned out wasn't as stupid as he initially thought.
No, that can't be. At most, his feelings towards her would have been mostly sympathy. Because by then he came to a realization that both father and daughter really loved and cared about each other. And it was a shame that the two of them couldn't be quite honest with each other due to a past incident that neither of them wouldn't have been able to undo or change. And to be frank, rather than having any deep feelings towards Cha-young at that time... the person who gave him the most impression back then was Lawyer Hong Yu-chan. Because Lawyer Hong gave off this fatherly presence to him during a time when he hasn't quite realize that he needed it most.
Because it hasn't been that long yet since his Papa has passed... and it wasn't like he had any chance to properly mourn. And then, he ended up meeting Lawyer Hong and somehow finding comfort from the old man's presence.
So if ever he had any feelings towards Hong Cha-young, it was probably because of his feelings towards his new father figure. Because Lawyer Hong was a very good man and he wished that he could do something to make the old man happy. And getting the old man's daughter to reconcile their relationship with each other would've been the best gift.
Was it because he saw her cry? Was it because they've started to work closely with each other after Lawyer Hong's death that those feeling had started to grow? Because he only started to see Hong Cha-young in a new light from then on as she decided to change her ways and oppose Wusang and Babel with him. Hong Cha-young kept showing him a lot of surprising things about herself that he wouldn't have realized earlier that she was capable of having!
Or was it... that finger flick dare? Because he DID feel something at that time... when he was trying to flick his finger onto Hong Cha-young's forehead. Cha-young had closed her eyes at the time and he had been staring at her face very closely, which made him realize that Hong Cha-young was actually an attractive woman. When she wasn't excessively annoying and rude, she could actually be so charming. And pretty. His heart had beat faster too at that moment when he tried to look back on it.
There were many times... when he had acted without thinking and doing his best to make Cha-young happy. Even without him consciously thinking about it he kept trying to find ways to help Cha-young fulfil her quest for revenge against Babel Group. And looking back at the things he'd done so far, he could no longer tell if his own motivation had purely been driven by his urgency to reclaim the Geumga Plaza ownership to himself or because he wanted to help Cha-young.
This won't do! He shouldn't have allowed himself to be distracted! He shouldn't let himself fall in love! Because falling in love... for someone like him could be a BAD thing. Because having a loved one could become a weakness. And having a weakness could be fatal to oneself! Because your enemy could use that weakness to cause harm to you as well as control you. He knew that well. Even if he himself wouldn't stoop so low as to hurt women or children to achieve his goal, he was aware of how far others like him could go in order to gain an advantage over their enemies.
So yes, to people like him... falling in love could be a bad thing. Because the people you love may come into harm because of you. And he didn't want any harm to come to Cha-young because of him.
That was why, even as his own heart continued to yearn for Hong Cha-young; he shouldn't let her become aware he harboured such feelings towards her.
Since that's the only way for him to keep her safe.
xxx
"Miss Bening? Mr Anderson has prepared a surprise proposal for you..."
Oh, Heaven please give him mercy! He should've realised that something like this could have happened! Because why else would the seemingly good-looking couple would want to book the whole art gallery just for the two of them only? Mr Nam did mention that the two foreigners looked like a couple too, thus the reason why they tried to infiltrate the place as a couple!
So a surprise proposal. He could do that. It would be fine, wouldn't it? Because Cha-young would just think that this was all an act since they wouldn't want to bust their cover too soon. Not before getting what they wanted from this place first and foremost. Of course, he could pretend to propose to Cha-young in this romantic setting. It's no problem!
After bumbling for a few moments, he started to kneel at the prompt of the gallery's director. And he unthinkingly spoke in Korean before realising that it wouldn't have made sense for two supposedly American couple to be conversing in Korean for such an important occasion! He looked up towards Cha-young as he held the ring towards her.
"W-will you... marry me?"
Cha-young even had the nerve to act too coy about being proposed to before kneeling in front of him.
"Yes, I will."
And he thought it'll be over once he put the proposal ring on Cha-young's finger. But then everyone in the gallery started telling him to kiss Cha-young for accepting his 'proposal'. His heart immediately started beating harder than ever!
How could... he kiss her in front of everyone? And he knew that just kissing her on the cheeks wouldn't satisfy all these people who were watching them! Yet to kiss her on the lips—Without warning, Cha-young pulled him close as their lips touched.
What should he call these feelings... if not love?
He should pull away. Any longer he wouldn't be able to stop these feelings from coming out in the open! Yet he couldn't pull away since they were supposed to be acting as a pair of lovers—
๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฅ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด...
๐๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐บ: ๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.
๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐บ: ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ...
He shouldn't do this... yet it felt so right. So even as his head tried to remind him not to be defeated by his own desires and longing, Vincenzo reached up to cup Cha-young's face and pulled her closer...
And deepened his kiss.
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Notes:
Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1882 play Fédora by Victorien Sardou.
"Amor ti vieta" ("Love forbids you") is the most famous aria from the opera and is often sung by tenors in recitals, especially as an encore piece.
Series: ๋น์ผ์กฐ/Vincenzo
Pairings: Vincenzo Cassano | Park Joohyeong/Hong Cha-young
Characters: Vincenzo Cassano | Park Joohyeong, Hong Cha-young
Summary: Love forbids you not to love.
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๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ช ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ.
๐๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ถ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ,
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ข๐ท๐ข ๐ญ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ:
๐๐ข ๐ต๐ถ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ: ๐'๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ
๐๐ฆ ๐ช๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ: ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต'๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ!
When did it start? The moment when his heart decided to betray him and be drawn towards her. When he told himself to not be distracted; not to falter... and yet he ended up doing things that he never planned. To do and to pursue.
Did it happen then? When the thugs came to terrorise the tenants and she stepped out to confront them, to stop them from harassing her father any further. He had shouted then, not just because he was already angered that his suit has been shrunk, but because his upbringing wouldn't allow him to sit silently while witnessing a thug trying to harm a woman in front of him.
It couldn't be... how could he started to fall in love with her at that time? Hong Cha-young from that time was brazen, abrasive... and somewhat appearing to be an idiot—Heck, Hong Cha-young even mispronounced his name the first time they met—so it was ridiculous for someone like that to be the kind of person that he would fall in love with!
Was it at that time? When he ended being caught in between a father-daughter heated argument thus he ended up seeing a wholly different side of Hong Cha-young that he didn't quite expect to see? To find out that there was more to be seen about this brazen girl who turned out wasn't as stupid as he initially thought.
No, that can't be. At most, his feelings towards her would have been mostly sympathy. Because by then he came to a realization that both father and daughter really loved and cared about each other. And it was a shame that the two of them couldn't be quite honest with each other due to a past incident that neither of them wouldn't have been able to undo or change. And to be frank, rather than having any deep feelings towards Cha-young at that time... the person who gave him the most impression back then was Lawyer Hong Yu-chan. Because Lawyer Hong gave off this fatherly presence to him during a time when he hasn't quite realize that he needed it most.
Because it hasn't been that long yet since his Papa has passed... and it wasn't like he had any chance to properly mourn. And then, he ended up meeting Lawyer Hong and somehow finding comfort from the old man's presence.
So if ever he had any feelings towards Hong Cha-young, it was probably because of his feelings towards his new father figure. Because Lawyer Hong was a very good man and he wished that he could do something to make the old man happy. And getting the old man's daughter to reconcile their relationship with each other would've been the best gift.
Was it because he saw her cry? Was it because they've started to work closely with each other after Lawyer Hong's death that those feeling had started to grow? Because he only started to see Hong Cha-young in a new light from then on as she decided to change her ways and oppose Wusang and Babel with him. Hong Cha-young kept showing him a lot of surprising things about herself that he wouldn't have realized earlier that she was capable of having!
Or was it... that finger flick dare? Because he DID feel something at that time... when he was trying to flick his finger onto Hong Cha-young's forehead. Cha-young had closed her eyes at the time and he had been staring at her face very closely, which made him realize that Hong Cha-young was actually an attractive woman. When she wasn't excessively annoying and rude, she could actually be so charming. And pretty. His heart had beat faster too at that moment when he tried to look back on it.
There were many times... when he had acted without thinking and doing his best to make Cha-young happy. Even without him consciously thinking about it he kept trying to find ways to help Cha-young fulfil her quest for revenge against Babel Group. And looking back at the things he'd done so far, he could no longer tell if his own motivation had purely been driven by his urgency to reclaim the Geumga Plaza ownership to himself or because he wanted to help Cha-young.
This won't do! He shouldn't have allowed himself to be distracted! He shouldn't let himself fall in love! Because falling in love... for someone like him could be a BAD thing. Because having a loved one could become a weakness. And having a weakness could be fatal to oneself! Because your enemy could use that weakness to cause harm to you as well as control you. He knew that well. Even if he himself wouldn't stoop so low as to hurt women or children to achieve his goal, he was aware of how far others like him could go in order to gain an advantage over their enemies.
So yes, to people like him... falling in love could be a bad thing. Because the people you love may come into harm because of you. And he didn't want any harm to come to Cha-young because of him.
That was why, even as his own heart continued to yearn for Hong Cha-young; he shouldn't let her become aware he harboured such feelings towards her.
Since that's the only way for him to keep her safe.
xxx
"Miss Bening? Mr Anderson has prepared a surprise proposal for you..."
Oh, Heaven please give him mercy! He should've realised that something like this could have happened! Because why else would the seemingly good-looking couple would want to book the whole art gallery just for the two of them only? Mr Nam did mention that the two foreigners looked like a couple too, thus the reason why they tried to infiltrate the place as a couple!
So a surprise proposal. He could do that. It would be fine, wouldn't it? Because Cha-young would just think that this was all an act since they wouldn't want to bust their cover too soon. Not before getting what they wanted from this place first and foremost. Of course, he could pretend to propose to Cha-young in this romantic setting. It's no problem!
After bumbling for a few moments, he started to kneel at the prompt of the gallery's director. And he unthinkingly spoke in Korean before realising that it wouldn't have made sense for two supposedly American couple to be conversing in Korean for such an important occasion! He looked up towards Cha-young as he held the ring towards her.
"W-will you... marry me?"
Cha-young even had the nerve to act too coy about being proposed to before kneeling in front of him.
"Yes, I will."
And he thought it'll be over once he put the proposal ring on Cha-young's finger. But then everyone in the gallery started telling him to kiss Cha-young for accepting his 'proposal'. His heart immediately started beating harder than ever!
How could... he kiss her in front of everyone? And he knew that just kissing her on the cheeks wouldn't satisfy all these people who were watching them! Yet to kiss her on the lips—Without warning, Cha-young pulled him close as their lips touched.
What should he call these feelings... if not love?
He should pull away. Any longer he wouldn't be able to stop these feelings from coming out in the open! Yet he couldn't pull away since they were supposed to be acting as a pair of lovers—
๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฅ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด...
๐๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐บ: ๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.
๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐บ: ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ...
He shouldn't do this... yet it felt so right. So even as his head tried to remind him not to be defeated by his own desires and longing, Vincenzo reached up to cup Cha-young's face and pulled her closer...
And deepened his kiss.
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Notes:
Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1882 play Fédora by Victorien Sardou.
"Amor ti vieta" ("Love forbids you") is the most famous aria from the opera and is often sung by tenors in recitals, especially as an encore piece.
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