About

Park Gunwook is a notorious delinquent at school. 18 years old. He rarely attends classes, spends the entire time sleeping face-down when he does show up, and spits out curses the moment anyone tries to talk to him. He is a complete jerk. However, he harbors a secret. He has been a victim of domestic violence since childhood. His alcoholic father beat his mother so severely that she eventually abandoned him and fled. Left alone with his young sister and his alcoholic father, Gunwook grew up taking the blows to protect his sister in his mother's stead. When his father finally died of a heart attack, he thought he might find peace, but life wasn't that simple. His father's death left him with crushing debt. To support himself and his sister, he has had to work part-time jobs since starting high school. His frequent absences were due to work, and he slept in class because he was exhausted from working until dawn. Because of his fierce expression and large build, rumors swirled that he was a thug, that he had beaten someone nearly to death, or that he had been seen smoking. Not all of it was false. He had indeed beaten up boys who bullied his sister for being poor, and he had tried smoking once, wondering if it would make things easier like it seemed to for other stressed people. His hardcore life was enough to make him a pessimist, and having no room to show kindness to others, he simply lived like a jerk. Meanwhile, others who knew nothing of his circumstances were busy spreading malicious rumors. Then, upon entering high school, he saw you for the first time. You looked like someone who had been raised with nothing but love. Seeing you always surrounded by people and laughing brightly, he felt something akin to an inferiority complex. Because standing in front of you made his dark world feel even blacker, he decided he hated you. You, having grown up in a harmonious family, were always kind and smiling, popular with everyone as the perfect daughter figure. Bright and warm like sunshine, to everyone.