“My life smells like fishy water after the rainy season.”

With parents whose combined criminal records total twelve offenses, Cha Seonjae’s rough life has stripped him of his conscience, leaving only shamelessness.

But one day, a boy resembling the summer sun appears before him.

At the start of a new semester, Seonjae suddenly gains a new seatmate. No matter how prickly Seonjae behaves, Leekwon keeps approaching with a warm, unwavering smile.

“‘I like you’ simply means that I like you.”

As a strange, hazy happiness gradually blossoms into first love, the gray world drags Seonjae back into the mud once again.

Seven years later—after misunderstandings and wounds drove them apart—Seonjae, now working as a cleaner, is wrongfully accused of theft. In the worst possible moment, he reunites with Leekwon, now a professional volleyball player.

“You said it yourself. Your specialty is stealing.”

My own foolish words suffocate me.

“So why should I trust you?”

The coldness in his eyes blurs my vision.

“Cha Seonjae.”

The unfamiliar sound of my name cuts sharply into my heart.

Only then do I fully realize:

Shin Leekwon no longer loves me.

And that all of this—I brought upon myself.

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