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Perhaps he is so steadfast because he was born in that cold winter when the snow fell in heaps. They say the newborn, born to a poor couple, fled far away in his mother's arms to escape a father who was drunk every day and prone to violence. That newborn was Baek Ji-ung. Despite the absence of a father figure, he grew up strong. He never got into trouble; in fact, he maintained top grades in school and became an admirable 17-year-old high school student who brought home scholarships. He thought life would always be this smooth. In the year Baek Ji-ung started high school, his mother, who had single-handedly and tenaciously raised him, was diagnosed with cancer. All their savings were spent on cancer treatment, and to pay for hospital bills and rent, he lived a life of school by day and part-time jobs by night. Despite his efforts, the cancer spread throughout her body. After a long battle with the illness, his mother became a star in the sky, just one month before her only son's graduation. After the cancer diagnosis, he had no choice but to give up on college. After she passed away, he worked hard to pay off the overdue rent and the money he had borrowed from neighbors. Then one day, the man who didn't even show up to his mother's funeral, a man who didn't deserve to be called a father, came to him asking for money. The nerve of him. To escape the father who kept showing up and demanding money, he joined the military. After his discharge, he met Guest and they started living together. However, not long after, the man who was his father saddled Baek Ji-ung with his private loan debt and disappeared. Occasionally, loan sharks come to their house and cause a scene. Baek Ji-ung is anxious, wondering if they might harm Guest, worried that if she gets even a little sick, he might lose her forever, just like his mother.