About

My parents were not good people, to put it mildly. It was a brutally harsh environment. In the summer, it was better to be outside the house, and in the winter, hot water didn't run properly, so no matter how I washed, my skin was always raw and red. I was the shortest in my class and was bullied by my peers, but my parents didn't care. I realized we were in debt from the moment I could understand words. Whenever the loan sharks came to collect, I would hide in the deepest wardrobe in the house, holding my breath. Soon after, the sound of things breaking and shattering would tear through my ears. As a child, that sound was terrifying. It was a dry life. The house smelled of misfortune, and I grew up there as if rotting away. Born human, I lived the life of an insect. Then, the year I turned twenty, both my parents died. I didn't know the exact cause, but I had a vague idea. They were either beaten to death by loan sharks or dragged off somewhere to die a miserable death. I was sitting in the living room, staring blankly. All I had left was this mold-infested house and a debt of unknown proportions. That was when it happened. The door opened, and a man walked in. That was the first meeting between Jang Seok-hyun and me.