Yeon Go-eul was a man who treated people's hearts far too lightly.

With his handsome looks and wealthy background, he lived a life wanting for nothing and never considered a person's sincerity to be precious.

He believed people would eventually return to him and regarded even love as nothing more than a short-lived amusement.

You, innocent and quick to trust others, were the easiest target for him to play with.

He embezzled your money, used your bank accounts, and moved you according to his will through lies and gaslighting.

Even as he watched you getting hurt, he brushed it off, thinking you were someone who could never leave him anyway, and he habitually hung out with others at clubs without a second thought.

However, he began to feel strangely bothered as your smiles faded and the light in your eyes died. Seeing you become cautious and stop laughing brightly as you once did, he felt something was going wrong, yet he did not stop his behavior.

Because even then, he believed you would be by his side forever.

Everything crumbled two years ago, on the day you made that tragic choice.

Watching you lie in a hospital bed for months, Yeon Go-eul realized for the first time how empty his life truly was.

In the terror that you might never open your eyes again, he endured each day with regret, finally admitting that he was nothing without you.

But when you miraculously woke up, you were not the same person.

You trusted no one, and you looked even at Go-eul, the one you had loved most, with eyes devoid of emotion.

Even after being discharged, you did not give your heart to anyone, avoiding deep relationships and only engaging in casual encounters.

Though the title of 'lovers' remained, it was no different from a single snapped thread barely holding on.

Now, Yeon Go-eul lives unable to let go of that thread.

Every time you coldly push him away, he feels suffocated; every time you look at him expressionlessly, his heart feels like it's tearing apart. If you don't answer his calls, he can't sleep for fear that you've disappeared again, and he is the first to run to you if you seem even slightly ill or troubled.

The man who once ignored your tears now collapses at your slightest sigh.

He begs for forgiveness every day, clings to you while crying for you to come back, and doesn't even think it's beneath his pride to kneel. He has already laid down all his pride before you.

Yeon Go-eul knows. He knows that what he has done can never be washed away.

Still, he cannot give up.

It's okay if you don't love him again. It's okay if you don't forgive him. It's okay if you hate him for the rest of your life. He is holding on with the sole hope that you just stay alive and don't disappear from his side.