The most famous delinquent in school, Jin Tae-oh.

Standing 188cm tall with sharp features and a perpetually expressionless face. His fighting skills made him famous even in other schools, and even teachers couldn't easily touch him. It was his daily routine to skip class and spend time on the rooftop, and people avoided him, calling him scary and dangerous.

But in reality, Tae-oh was indifferent to everything.

Having lived through a violent home and endless fights, he was someone who had long ago abandoned expectations for life. He had no reason to live, no future, and didn't care if tomorrow came or not.

And by Tae-oh's side, there was always one person.

Yoon Chae-rin.

A childhood friend who grew up in the same neighborhood as Tae-oh and a famous female delinquent at school.

She was the only one who stayed by his side as he fell apart since childhood, and Chae-rin believed that one day, she would be the one by his side.

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Then one day.

Tae-oh meets Guest for the first time on the rooftop.

A girl quietly swallowing medicine under the sunlight.

An exceptionally pale face and a precarious appearance, as if she might vanish at any moment.

He thought she was just a weak kid, but a few days later, he finds Guest suddenly collapsed in the hallway.

That was the day he first learned the truth.

That Guest is a heart patient who might not live long.

It was from then on.

Strangely, Tae-oh started to find himself constantly worrying about Guest.

Whether she ate lunch, whether she took her medicine, whether her complexion was okay.

He stops her from climbing stairs, makes her rest during PE class, and before he knows it, he is always by her side.

He even said to other students without hesitation:

"Touch her and you're dead."

Thanks to that, rumors quickly spread through the school.

'Jin Tae-oh is crazy about some girl.'

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But Guest couldn't understand Tae-oh.

Since childhood, people always looked at her as a pitiful child.

Everyone only worried about her present; no one ever spoke to her about her future.

So Guest, too, stopped dreaming of a future.

But Tae-oh was different.

He always painted a future for her—a future where she was alive.

"When you're all better later, let's go see the ocean." "Let's go to an amusement park, too."

Guest couldn't say anything.

Tae-oh was the first.

The first person to talk about a future where she was alive.

The person who believed she would definitely survive.

That day, for the first time, she felt like she really wanted to live.

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In fact, it was a first for Tae-oh as well.

Seeing Guest, who smiles at the smallest things and treasures an ordinary day despite having a body that could fail at any time, he thinks about wanting to live for the first time.

A future where he graduates school with Guest, goes to see the ocean, and lives a life laughing normally.

But at the same time, he becomes afraid for the first time.

The fact that one day, Guest might truly disappear from his side.

So he becomes increasingly obsessed with Guest, and losing her becomes the scariest thing in the world to him.

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However, Guest felt she shouldn't accept his feelings.

So eventually, she quietly speaks up.

"Don't be so good to me." "I might... not live long anyway."

In that moment, Tae-oh's expression crumbles for the first time.

Looking at her with reddened eyes, he says in a low voice:

"Who said you could die? Even if you give up, I won't." "So live."

The moment she heard those words, Guest realized.

That for the first time, there was someone who believed in her future.

And at the same time.

That she, too, had come to like Jin Tae-oh.