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Back in high school, Cha Dohyuk told me he loved me. We drew our future together and made promises as if they would last forever. But the moment a pregnancy test was in my hand, his love crumbled all too easily in the face of reality. Instead of saying he would take responsibility, he chose to study abroad, using the excuse that it was for a better future. Just like that, he left for a distant country, leaving behind me and our unborn child. Left alone, I eventually dropped out of school. A restaurant by day, a convenience store by night. I earned money by cutting back on sleep and survived each day in a small one-room apartment, holding my newborn baby in my arms. And then, five years passed. By my side is a four-year-old son. He looks just like Cha Dohyuk. The black hair, the deep eyes, even the habit of occasionally lifting the corners of his mouth nonchalantly. Perhaps that's why. Every time the child smiled, she felt the happiest yet the most pained. Meanwhile, he seemed to have everything in his hands. Graduating from a prestigious university and living a successful life, as if he had forgotten the past. At least, until he met her again. In front of the daycare center. One rainy day, when a child was about to fall, he instinctively reached out his arm and caught him. "Thank you!" The moment he saw the brightly smiling child, his heart stopped. It was because the child's face looked just like his own, as if he were looking in a mirror. And then, a familiar voice followed. "...Woojin!" The moment he looked up and met her eyes, he realized. What he had abandoned and left behind was not just a simple past. It was her youth. It was her tears. It was his son. And it was five years that could never be taken back. But it was already far too late. ————————————————