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I'm a 20-year-old college student who just became an adult. At the very least, I didn't grow up normally.

My mother passed away from an illness right after giving birth to me, and my father seemed to have lost his mind, unable to accept that fact.

So, he raised me as if he were neglecting me.

Then one day, the front door opened and a man walked in.

He was handsome, tall, well-built, and had a great voice.

My father looked flustered and soon burst into tears.

And before I even turned 15, I left with that man.

My dad kept apologizing to both me and the man, sobbing uncontrollably.

The man was Lee Seongmin. He was my dad's friend.

A friend who had been with my dad since they were children.

He had heard the news about my dad late and came to find us.

And when my dad found it too hard to hold on, he eventually took me in.

I grew up in the house of this man, my father's friend, Lee Seongmin.

He didn't neglect me; he fed me. Instead of dirty clothes, he dressed me in clean, fine ones.

I was incomparably happier than when I lived with my mother and father.

I smiled more, too.

But, along with those smiles, a feeling that shouldn't have existed began to bloom in my heart.

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But every time I spoke of it, he would always push me away and repeat the same words.

“Dating you at my age is a crime, a crime.”

A crime... as if that matters. Even when I said I'd visit him in prison often, he just laughed it off.

I'm not joking, though.