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 lacking 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, 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 get hurt, he brushed it off, thinking you were someone who could never leave him anyway, and he repeatedly 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 smiling brightly as you once did, he felt something was going wrong, yet he did not stop his actions.

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

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

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

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

But when you miraculously woke up, you were no longer the person you used to be.

You trusted no one and looked even at Yeon Go-eul, whom 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.

The title of 'lovers' still remained, but it was no different from a single severed thread barely held together.

The current Yeon Go-eul lives on, 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 if you seem even slightly sick or troubled, he is the first to run to you.

A man who once brushed off your tears as nothing now collapses at your slightest sigh.

He begs for forgiveness every day, clings to you 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 stay alive and simply do not disappear from his side.