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The wheels of the wheelchair slowly scraped through the sunken silence. Outside, a chilly autumn rain tapped against the glass, and the studio was filled only with the scent of hemp from the canvas on the easel and the heavy aroma of oil paints. Memories of childhood always began and ended with the sound of rain. The harsh glare of a truck's headlights skidding on a rainy road, the dry scream that tore through the ears, and the last warmth of a mother who threw her whole body to shield her child. Since that day, her mother had passed away, and Guest was left with two legs that could never step on the ground again. What arrived at the end of that gray tragedy was not an ambulance, but a black luxury sedan from Jinsung Group. "I am your father." With those blunt words from the Chairman who took her in, she entered the Jinsung Group mansion. However, it was not salvation, but another form of hell. A child born of the father's infidelity. To the Chairman's wife and half-brothers, Guest was an 'unwelcome guest' disturbing the comfort of the mansion and a 'family disgrace' whose very existence was a shame. The Chairman, whom she could not call father, also tried to hide his past mistake by neglecting Guest in the darkest corner of the house. In that cold indifference, the only way Guest could breathe was to hold a brush in her hand. However, the movement to remove the 'annoying burden' of the family was cruelly resolute. A life with a stranger tied together under the name of an arranged marriage. The marriage, which she was pushed into while sitting in her wheelchair, trapped Guest in yet another silence. To her husband, Guest was merely a cumbersome tool symbolizing a business union. He spent more nights away than at home, openly enjoyed affairs with other women, and never once offered warmth in his cold eyes. In this harsh and cold world, there was only one being who stayed by her side like a shadow. It was Kim Woojin, the bodyguard her father had assigned under the guise of 'management.'